Showing posts with label pop music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop music. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2015

Pop, R&B, Country, Classical, Jazz, Folk: More Billboard LP Charts, Week Ending 7 August 1965: Saturday Music Club on Monday (Part 2)

Part one here.
I'm 51 now, so it seemed fair to take a slice from the middle of the half-century-old chart.


















Pop Album Chart continued:
51. Chad and Jeremy Before and After

the album's title track

52. Joan Baez 5


53. Cal Tjader Soul Sauce


54. Nat King Cole Unforgettable


55. Bert Kaempfert Blue Midnight


56. Getz/Gilberto


57. The Ventures on Stage


























Classical Chart: Chamber Music:
1. Stern, Istomin, Rose  Schubert: Trio No. 1


2. Juilliard Quartet Bartok: Quartets


3. Julian Bream Consort An Evening of Elizabethan Music


4. Friedman, Prince-Joseph Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord


5. Kohon Quartet Ives: Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

And since the Kohon Quartet's recording isn't posted, here's the Emerson Quartet

Country Albums:
1. Connie Smith


2. Eddy Arnold The Easy Way


3. Buck Owens I've Got a Tiger by the Tail


4. The Return of Roger Miller


5. Sonny James I'll Keep Holding On


R&B Albums:
1. The Temptations Sing Smokey


2. Billy Stewart I Do Love You


3. Junior Walker and the All-Stars Play Shotgun


4. The Four Tops


5. Billy Preston The Most Exciting Organ Ever


6. Little Milton We're Gonna Make It


7. The Best of Sam Cooke, Volume 2


8. Aretha Franklin Yeah!!!


9. The Miracles Greatest Hits from the Beginning


10. Nancy Wilson Today--My Way



Saturday, February 2, 2013

Saturday Music Club: some pop music over the last century

Ruth Etting: "Love Me or Leave Me"


The Mills Brothers: "Caravan"


The Glenn Miller Orchestra: "Blues in the Night"


Blossom Dearie: "Someone to Watch Over Me"


The Seekers: "I'll Never Find Another You"

A studio version which can't be "embedded" in the US

Joni Mitchell: "Help Me"


Bangles: "The Real World"


Sade: "No Ordinary Love"


The Go! Team: "Ladyflash"


Anthony Benedetto and Stefani Germanotta: "The Lady is a Tramp"

Thursday, October 25, 2012

October's Underappreciated Music: the links and more


Patti Abbott: Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman 

Brian Arnold: Burger Chef Monster Records

Sean Coleman: Rod Delcourt and Wendell Wilson: Long Time Coming;   Joni Mitchell

Bill Crider: Billy Edd Wheeler;  tweating/FB

Jeff Gemmill: Neil Young: Americana

Lee Hartsfeld: Hallowe'en Music: Johnny Arcesi, Bop Hope, Mort Shuman, et al.

Jerry House: Brrrr...

Randy Johnson: Def Leppard

Jackie Kashian: Lindy West and Aham Oluo

George Kelley: Best of Bond...James Bond

Evan Lewis: "Sing Along with Zorro"

Todd Mason:  David Amram; new schools and offshoots of jazz (since ca. 1960); birthweek Billboard charts; For One Night Only (BBC Radio 4)--please see below.

Charlie Ricci: The Iguanas: Nuevo Boogaloo

The Iguanas
Richard Robinson: Walton: the Collector's Edition

Ron Scheer: The Carter Family; Hank Williams (the first) and Anita Carter 

The new season (or, as they put in the UK, series) of For One Night Only, the fine BBC Radio 4 documentary series about pivotal concerts, has begun (and ended, with only three episodes this time out), and the BBC has seen fit, as they have not in previous years, to secure rights to keep the episodes posted online for a considerable time (a year rather than, for example, last season's a week), giving us all a good opportunity to catch the episodes...the three this season are all about the Eric Clapton Unplugged concert/album, the Weavers reunion in 1955 in Carnegie Hall, and the Rolling Stones concert in NYC which was documented by the Get Yer Ya-Yas Out album, and while I like the Weavers' episode the most (the three surviving original Weavers still have a fair amount to say, and with good humor), they're all worth a listen. I'll be keeping up with this series, you can be sure, assuming there's another series...I won't be sorry to have sent you along in their direction, either.   
Sun Ra Arkestra & the Blues Project (!) 
David Amram, Percy Heath, Dizzy Gillespie: Thelonious Monk Memorial 1986

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Saturday Music Club: Billboard Top 10 US/UK Singles/US Albums, first week of August 1964

1. The Beatles, "A Hard Day's Night"

2. The Four Seasons, "Rag Doll"

3. Jan and Dean, "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena"


4. Dean Martin, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime"

5. The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go?"

6. Dusty Springfield, "Wishin' and Hopin'"

7. Roger Miller, "Dang Me"


8. The Beach Boys, "I Get Around"

9. Johnny Rivers, "Memphis"

10. Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, "The Girl from Ipanema"

List from Billboard.com

1. A Hard Day's Night Original Soundtrack

2. Hello, Dolly! Original Cast Recording

3. Louis Armstrong and the All Stars, Hello, Dolly! 

4. Stan Getz, Joao Gilbero, Astrud Gilberto, et al., Getz/Gilberto

5. Funny Girl Original Cast Recording

6. Al Hirt, Cotton Candy


7. The Dave Clark Five Return

8. Barbra Steisand, The Third Album

9. The Beatles' Second Album

10. Al Hirt, Honey in the Horn


List from 1 August 1964 Billboard, courtesy Google Books...also responsible for our Bonus Chart:

UK Top 10 Singles

1. "A Hard Day's Night"

2.  The Rolling Stones, "It's All Over Now"

3. The Animals, "House of the Rising Sun"

4. P J Proby, "Hold Me"

5. Dusty Springfield, "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"

6. Jim Reeves, "I Won't Forget You"

7. Cliff Richard and the Shadows, "On the Beach"

8. The Swinging Blue Jeans, "You're No Good"


9. The Tremoloes, "Someone"


10. Elvis Presley, "Kissin' Cousins"


and a bonus cut, the first recording of "You're No Good," Dee Dee Warwick (1963):