baddessi: Wow,it's rare these days to find dancing softball players.I wonder if it was easy to hit while in motion

Jim Dandy: yep! My kids played softball and danced!

I never knew she did Ruby Tuesday
And I agree with you on the Brand New Key thing...
it gave her some exposure, I guess, but not really the good kind, imo

Nirvana: I wondered why there was so many versions of Melanie singing Ruby Tuesday on utube.Was it a big hit for her? Brand New Key was poison to her career in her opinion,it was overplayed and gave peope the impression she was a novelty act.

baddessi: and this one:

Melanie Safka - Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

baddessi: My first thought on hearing it was that it could easily be titled The Soccer Mom Song

Jim Dandy: OH Thank you! I hadn't heard her in years! I love her..this was always my favorite of her songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHF-iApfWis&mode=related&search=

Jim Dandy: oh thanks...I dunno about the royalties..I wondered about that too, but knowing her as I do, she got permission to put it in her song..whatever channels that takes.
Thanks- I think she's great too : )
She tells me that that song is based on my life with my kids and her other friends with kids..
I AM the Queen of the Highways!
Going to check out your link : )

baddessi: I checked out your cousin's music,she's good.I hope she doesn't have to pay royalties for the creative chorus in the Highway song.Here is one of the most talented and sadly ignored folk singers of the last 40 years,this song still gives me chills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxhqqr6LPVo

Jim Dandy: Hear! Hear! Well said!

TexasToest: I constantly try and maintain an objective point of view when it comes to different styles of music.It's so easy to label certain music as "crap" but I try and remember that it's an art form and regardless of it being pleasing to my ear it might be pleasing to others.In other words,there is no "bad" music,just different.I can appreciate those who are schooled in the finer points,but I was a self taught player and I think that also allows us to be less strict in what we can do,thus more creative at times.

Thank you, Eriisa.  I've already hugged my veteran today.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71a0XuGiGyU


Today in USA is Memorial Day. This video I think is really cool, and just wanted to share.

Jim Dandy:  Thanks for that little piece.  How do people get soooooo talented, I just want to know.  I had a little discussion with a man at lunch the other day about the word musician.  His idea was that only classical musicians were musicians, and everybody else is amateur.  I knew I was in trouble at that point, and I just let it drop.  He got no validation, and I knew I was right.  I happen to be both, or have been, and it's nice to know I have knowledge beyond the imagination of some people.  

Papa John Creech - isn't it funny how our parents, well my parents, I'm older than everybody here, thought rock 'n roll was such a screech genre.  And, here's Papa John, born 1917 (previous to THEIR own births) out there rockin' with the best.  Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Nirvana.

And then, there's John Fogerty.  That boy (little over a year older than me) is still rockin' today.  What I kept coming back to while watching that 1969 performance was your comment below, Jim Dandy, "Eddie Money is on the bill I see,he sure has got alot of milage out of one good album."  One might say the same of Fogerty, except he's done a lot of good stuff since.  But, he seems never to drop the great hits of the 60s.  I don't think he's changed one lick of "Down on the Bayou" since 1969. 

Two weeks after Woodstock was the Texas International Pop Festival.  It was an awesome event, especially seeing that it took place in the middle of redneckville.  There is a website put up by a guy who was there.  He has included this story about a festival we have every year here in the Dallas area.  It's pretty funny, but only us oldies can REALLY relate.  Hahaha!  Enjoy Wilting Wildflower for yourself.

Nirvana: How often do you see and hear a fiddle player playing the blues? His work on The Starship's Red Octopus album was a treat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4NJex5XIRw

Some of those born 28th May.................

1968, Kylie Minogue, Australian singer, actress, (1988 UK No.1 single 'I Should Be So Lucky' plus over 20 other UK Top 40 hit singles). Denial, with the Pet Shop Boys


1959, Steve Harrington (Steve Strange), vocals, Visage, 1980 UK No.8 single, 'Fade To Grey'.Fade To Grey (Live on German TV 2005)


1948, Ray Laidlan, Lindisfarne, (1972 UK No.3 single 'Lady Eleanor'). Live 1983 - Lady Eleanor

1945, John Fogerty, guitar, vocals, Creedence Clearwater Revival, (1969 UK No.1 and US No.2 single 'Bad Moon Rising', plus ten other US Top 30 hits, 1970 US & UK No.1 album 'Cosmo's Factory'). Solo and The Blue Ridge Rangers. Born On A Bayou-Live Woodstock

1944, Gladys Knight, singer, The Pips, (1973 US No.1 single 'Midnight Train To Georgia', 1975 UK No.4 single 'The Way We Were' plus 20 other UK Top 40 singles). "I'm Every Woman/A Song For You"

1943, Tony Mansfield, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, (1964 UK No.1 & US N0.7 single 'Little Children'). Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas-Little Children & From A Window

1917, Papa John Creech – violinist with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Died in 1994 aged 76.Hot Tuna " Uncle Sam Blues "

Thank you for that, Nirvana.  Interesting reading.

Tuesday: Eddie Money is on the bill I see,he sure has got alot of milage out of one good album.

Tuesday: did you go to that festival?

I watched that, Eriisa.  It was really funny!!!

Hey, I know him!!!

I stumbled across this video of Classical Gas just last week or two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX0eTp7SoNU

Haridaspal:  Bo!  That's some awesome flat pickin'.  We have a picker (well several, but he's my fav) named Bill Hearn.  There's nothing of his on You Tube, probably because no one has been able to film him.  But, he's blind, and he plays in the same style as Emmanuel.  It's amazing to me that he never misses a note.  His wife is also blind, and plays the piano and sings as well.  Someday, maybe I can get some information up about them.  Thanks for the flick.  I loved it.  It's obvious he loves performing too.

Just heard this amazing guitarist - Tommy Emmanuel, probably Austrlia's greatest guitarist. Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szd7r_Gib4c&mode=related&search=

Rose: End of October she will be here.

Mousetrap: No i doubt I will go in June to see her.
She is headed your way this summer I believe

Rose: Thats great! Are you going to see her?
I have seen her 4 times and been a fan for over 30 years.
It is her final tour, she is giving it up soon.

Mousetrap: Have you seen her life? I did in the early 80's.. Shes coming here in a few weeks actully!

1951, Paul Thompson, drums, Roxy Music, (1972 UK No.4 single 'Virginia Plain' plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles).Virginia Plain


1950, Danny Kirwan, Fleetwood Mac, (1969 UK No.1 single 'Albatross', left the band in 1972).
Albatross


1950, Stevie Wonder, singer, songwriter, multi- instrumentalist, joined Motown in 61, 1963 US No.1 single, 'Fingertips', plus over 40 other US & UK Top 40 singles. 1976 US No.1 double album 'Songs In The Key Of Life'.Lately


1947, Overend Watts, bass, Mott The Hoople, (1972 UK No.3 and US No. 37 single 'All The Young Dudes').Roll Away the Stone



1943, Mary Wells, US singer, (1964 US No.1 & UK No.5 single 'My Guy', written by Smokey Robinson). Wells died of cancer on 26th July 1992.The One Who Really Loves You (Live)


1941, Joe Brown, UK singer, actor, (1962 UK No.2 single 'A Picture Of You').
Joe Brown and the brothers.it only took a minute

1941, Ritchie Valens, US singer, (1958 US No.2 and 1959 UK No.29 single 'Oh Donna'). Valens died on 3rd February 1959.Oh Donna (live)

The following article appeared May 13, on Pueblo Chieftan.com under the name Zen Curmudgeon. Please, in the future, when using someone else's material credit the source.

Bob Wills dies:


Bob Wills, one of the most influential musicians in the history of country-western music, is born on a small farm near Kosse, Texas.

Born James Robert Wills in 1905, he was trained to be a musician from an early age. His father was a champion fiddle player, and he began giving Wills lessons as soon as the boy could hold the instrument. By the time he was 10, Wills was a skilled fiddler and a competent guitar and mandolin player.

Wills left home at 16 and worked various jobs, like picking cotton and preaching. He eventually joined a traveling medicine show, where he played fiddle and met Herman Arnspiger, a Texas farm boy who had learned to play guitar from a Sears catalog guitar book. The pair began playing at dances and parties around Fort Worth, and after adding a singer, won a regular radio gig performing as the Light Crust Doughboys.

In 1933, the group separated and Wills formed the band that would make him famous: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. With the Playboys, Wills perfected his hard-driving country-western sound, which drew heavily on the rhythms of the popular jazz-swing bands of the era. Wills' fiddle playing sounded nothing like the traditional folk music he had heard as a child. By using strong beats and syncopation, he produced a sound that seemed to cry out for dancing.

Wills eventually added drums, brass, and woodwinds to the Texas Playboys, making himself into a country-western bandleader in the style of Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw. Several of his bands were as large as 22 pieces, and Wills worked with more than 600 musicians in his long career. In 1940, Wills took some of the Playboys to Hollywood, where the band appeared in a number of western movies that won them a nationwide following. Among their many hits were highly danceable tunes like, "Take Me Back to Tulsa," "Bubbles in My Beer," and the ever popular "San Antonio Rose." All told, Wills has sold more than 20 million records to date

Many critics have argued Wills and the Texas Playboys had a greater influence on the sounds of country-western music than any other performer or group. In recognition of his achievements, Wills was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968. He believed his chances of winning were so slim he was backstage chatting with friends when the award was announced. When he was finally tracked down and brought on stage, he said, "I don't usually take my hat off to nobody. But I sure do to you folks."

Stricken by a series of severe strokes, he died seven years later at the age of 70.

The above article was sent to me via email, I had no idea of its original origin.

Tuesday: That's cool, I have been there and we went from one group to another listening to the good music. Glad your Mom went...bet she loved it!

Nirvana: Thanks Nirvana, I had to listen to more than one of the Four Seasons...love them.

Unlucky to Catherine Jenkins at the Classical Brit Awards last night, she missed out to Paul McCartney.

1951, Christopher Cross, singer, songwriter, (1981 US No.1 single 'Arthur's Theme', a No.7 UK hit in 1982).Arthur's Theme ~ with Dudley More


1950, Mary Hopkin, (1968 UK No.1 and US No.2 single 'Those Were The Days', released on The Beatles Apple label and produced by Paul McCartney, winner of TV Talent show 'Opportunity Knocks.Those Were the days


1948, John Richardson, The Rubettes, (1974 UK No.1 single 'Sugar Baby Love').Sugar Baby Love



1937, Frankie Valli, singer, The Four Seasons, (1976 UK & US No.1 single 'December, 1963, Oh What A Night', solo 1978 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Grease')Oh What a Night

1933, James Brown, 'Soul Brother No.1', (1966 US No.8 and UK No.13 single 'It's A Man's World', 1986 UK No.5 single 'Living In America', 1963 album 'Live At The Apollo'). Brown died on 25th Dec 2006 died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed with severe pneumonia.I Feel Good (Live8)

1962, Robert Reynolds, bass, The Mavericks, US country rock group, (1998 UK No.4 single 'Dance The Night Away').Here comes my baby, with Cat Stevens

1953, Merrill Osmond, The Osmonds, (1971 US No.1 single 'One Bad Apple', 1974 UKNo.1 single 'Love Me For A Reason' plus nine other US & UK top 40 singles).
Medley 2003

1951, Des Tong, bass, Sad Cafe, (1979 UK No.3 single 'Every Day Hurts').
Every day Hurts

1933, Willie Nelson, US country singer, actor, (1982 US No.5 single 'Always On My Mind', 1984 UK No.17 single 'To All The Girls I've Loved Before'). Wrote country classic 'Crazy' hit for Patsy Cline.Always n my Mind

1982, Jonathan Lee, vocals, S Club 7, (1999 UK No.1 single 'Bring It All Back'). 2000 UK No.1 album '7' spent over a year on the UK chart.Two in a Million


1981, Ms Dynamite, (Niomi McLean Daley), UK rapper, singer, (2002 UK No. 7 single 'It Takes More'). Dy-na-mi-tee


1938, Duane Eddy, guitarist, (1960 UK No.2 and US No.4 single 'Because They're Young', plus over 15 other UK & US Top 40 singles).Cannonball Rag(1975)

1955, Ray Burns, (Captain Sensible), The Damned, (1983 UK No.3 single 'Eloise') solo (1982 UK No.1 single 'Happy Talk').Happy Talk


1939, Ray Peterson, US singer, (1960 US No.7 single 'Tell Laura I Love Her').CORINA CORINA on Hollywood a Go Go

1936, Roy Orbison, singer, songwriter, who had a 1964 UK & US No.1 single with ‘Pretty Woman’ plus over 20 US & 30 UK Top 40 singles. With the Traveling Wilburys he had a 1988 UK No.21 single with ‘Handle With Care’. Orbison died on December 6th 1988.In Dreams

Tuesday: my parents did!!!

1963, Johnny McElhone, Altered Images, (1981 UK No.2 single 'Happy Birthday') then joined Texas, (1997 UK No.3 single 'Say What You Want', 1997 UK No.1 album 'White On Blonde')
Say What you Want

1959, Michael Timmins, guitar, Cowboy Junkies, (1989 album 'The Trinity Session').Sweet Jane

1947, James Osterberg, (Iggy Pop), The Stooges, solo, 1986 UK No.10 single 'Real Wild Child')Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes