myLot Discussions on Benny Goodman Box Sets| Don't Worry Be Happy! Gotta a happy song to share? | | Do you have a happy song? A song you can turn on and it just makes you happy, want to dance or makes you happy is some other way.Bob Marley's Don't Worry Be Happy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQcSxq0TvE
is one that many people think of on being happy.I'm trying to make a list of other HAPPY songs.
What is your Happy song????
Husbands happy song.[em]rolleyes[/em]
Jimmy Buffett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq69l32DCKs | |
| | Jazz drummer Louis Bellson died | | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29235367/[i]"LOS ANGELES - Big band and jazz drummer Louie Bellson, a master musician who performed with such greats as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and his late wife, Pearl Bailey, has died. He was 84.Bellson died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications of Parkinson's disease following a broken hip in November, according to his wife, Francine.Bellson's career spanned more than six decades, performing on more than 200 albums with jazz greats including Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong."[/i]another great loss in music.. rip | |
| | Songs Of The Century | | The list, in the order of votes received. Each song is followed by the name of an artist who made a recording of the song.Title Artist
1. "Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland
2. "White Christmas" Bing Crosby
3. "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
4. "Respect" Aretha Franklin
5. "American Pie" Don McLean
6. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters
7. West Side Story (Album) Original Cast
8. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Billy Murray
9. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" The Righteous Brothers
10. "The Entertainer" Scott Joplin
11. "In the Mood" Glenn Miller Orchestra
12. "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets
13. "When the Saints Go Marching In" Louis Armstrong
14. "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis
15. "Mack the Knife" Bobby Darin
16. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones
17. "Take the A Train" Duke Ellington Orchestra
18. "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino
19. "God Bless America " Kate Smith
20. "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa's Band
21. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
22. "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
23. "I Left My Heart In San Francisco " Tony Bennett
24. "Good Vibrations"... | |
| | Funeral music, what would you choose? Not being macabre, just curious. | | I was thinking back to my Dad's funeral and remembering the music we chose for him. Benny Goodman, a lively piece of good old style swing and the Goons*Ying Tong Song* to ensure there were some smiles amidst the tears. When I asked my partner what he would want played at his funeral he immediately chose Metallica*Nothing Else Matters* while I opted for Sisters of Mercy*Temple of Love* and Meatloaf*Bat out of Hell*So now I am asking you all, try not to be too serious or sombre, think about it, what would you like played at your funeral. | |
| | Why "Swing" is the BEST jazz line? | | - Nobody sings like Ella.
- Nobody plays the drums like Gene Kruppa
- Nobody conducts a big band like Benny Goodman
- Nobody is as happy and enterteining like Louis Prima.
- Nobody has the pitch of Cab Calloway.
- Nobody plays the violin like Django.
- Nobody is more vigorous than Duke.Right? | |
| | Music world lost Rawls, Pickett, others in 2006 | | LOU RAWLS
Velvet-voiced singer and longtime community activist
Lou Rawls, 72, January 6 in Los Angeles. His trademark song "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," was released in 1976 and exemplifies the classic "Philadelphia Sound." Rawls recorded 52 albums in a career that spanned nearly five decades and won Grammy Awards for hits "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," "Natural Man" and "Lady Love." He also played a major role in United Negro College Fund telethons in the '80s that raised more than $200 million and appeared in 18 movies and 16 TV series.
WILSON PICKETT
Soul/R&B legend Wilson Pickett, 64, January 19 in Virginia. In 1965, Pickett signed a solo deal with Atlantic, scoring a No. 21 pop hit with "In the Midnight Hour," which he co-wrote with legendary sessions musician Steve Cropper. A slew of late '60s R&B/soul hits followed, five of which reached No. 1 on The Billboard R&B charts. Pickett was a 1991 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His last studio album, "It's Harder Now," (1999) won W.C. Handy Awards for soul/blues album of the year and comeback album of the year, and Pickett himself was named soul/blues male artist of the year.
GENE... | |
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