Showing posts with label soul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soul. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Elegies and Lamentations: Saturday Music Club on Tuesday


different songs, same title:
Shelley Fisher: "Big City Lights" 

Cleo Randle (aka Cleo Jackson): "Big City Lights"


Cleo Randle: "The Best Man I Ever Had"


Abbey Lincoln: "Retribution"


Abbey Lincoln: "Africa" 

Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Brubeck, Morello and Wright: "They Say I Look Like God"

Carmen McRae and Betty Carter: "But Beautiful"

Miriam Makeba: "Quit It"

Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Johannesburg"


Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Lady Day and John Coltrane"

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Some singers, mostly the songs of others (some more covers): Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Miriam Makeba: "Come to Glory"


Fontella Bass: "Talking About Freedom"























Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Jackie"


Monday Michiru: "Zanzibar"


Olivia Ong: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Melody Gardot: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: "Your Long Journey"


Boa: "Duvet"


The Go! Team: "Catch Me on the Rebound"


The Go! Team: "Grip Like a Vice"

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