Soul Providers
July 31, 2007
1967. The year of the pill. It was also the year that Soul went mainstream.
Do you like good music? That sweet soul music.
Spotlight on Sam, Dave and Arthur.
Soul Man – Sam and Dave
Youtube post by dudello
Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
youtube post from Director Chuck’s viddeo Collection (conkyjoe)
Flavoured Times
July 31, 2007
The video is poor quality but you sure gotta like the threads.
Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock – 1968
Youtube post by blurpnroll
May the Faith Be With You
July 29, 2007
In June of ’69 this short-lived “super-group” (Blind Faith) gave their first concert in London’s Hyde Park. It was free and attracted a few hundred thousand fans.
Above the controversial and famous cover of their only album, released shortly after the concert. (The girl who posed for this picture is now a therapist in London.)
Blind Faith Live Hyde Park 1969 – Under my Thumb
For interest’s sake only. The guys sounded like a community club band. They should have been playing this on a cruise ship somewhere in the Virgin Islands.
Youtube post by gliedo
Blind Faith was:
Steve Winwood (Traffic and the Spencer Davis Group) on key boards.
Rick Grech
Ginger Baker
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith – Can’t Find My Way Home – Acoustic
From their one and only album. They were obviously much better in the studio than on stage.
Youtube post by dmdeleted
Blind faith fan site
I Was So Much Older Then
July 28, 2007
George, Neil, Bob, Roger, Tom and some other notables on this classic version of Dylan’s (Byrds too) My Back Pages – commonly referred to as “I was So Much Older Then”.
Madison Square Garden 1992 – Zimmerman’s 30th anniversary concert
My Back Pages
posted to Youtube by: hue37
Everything was Alright
July 26, 2007
The great, raspy, rock voice of Paul Rodgers really comes through on this version of Alright Now by Free – 1970.
Posted by Reverend00Flasher
Free was:
Paul Rodgers — Lead Vocals
Paul Kossoff — Lead Guitar
Andy Fraser — Bass Guitar
Simon Kirke — Drums
Paul Rodgers was also a member of Bas Company and more recently, Queen + Paul Rodgers.
Cat Came Back
July 25, 2007
Ah, Mona Bone Jakon, Lady D’arbanville. I remember clearly: just before Christmas, grade 10, walking home from my high school John Rennie, cutting across St Thomas in the snow, sun low in the west, singing different songs from Mona Bone Jakon.
This rose will never die.
Songs I was singing:
“Lady d’Arbanville”
“Maybe You’re Right”
“Pop Star”
“I Think I See The Light”
“Trouble”
“Mona Bone Jakon”
“I Wish, I Wish”
“Katmandu”
“Time”
“Fill My Eyes”
“Lilywhite”
Lady d’Arbanville - Cat Stevens – 1970
post by neoBarnett
The Leaves Cover Hey Joe
July 24, 2007
post by mass65
Gotta Love the French
July 19, 2007
UntossedCoin twin spin.
French film producer, Philippe Garrel, made this short from Les Amants Reguliers to a favourite Kinks song. My take is that he is simply saying taht we pay too much attention to “sex, drugs and rock and roll” to bother with the ills of the planet – and our own species. Incroyable!
This Time Tomorrow ~ The Kinks
post by toldo
We All Screen the Big Screen
July 17, 2007
Very few bands can match the sly lyrical magic of Ray Davies and The Kinks. This version of Davies in a tux is from the seventies? Don’t really know. The song is from their album - Everybody’s in Show Biz released 1972.Celluloid Heroes – The Kinks 1972
posted by duh41
Lyrics:
Everybody’s a dreamer and everybody’s a star,
And everybody’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are.
There are stars in every city,
In every house and on every street,
And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Their names are written in concrete!
Don’t step on Greta Garbo as you walk down the Boulevard,
She looks so weak and fragile that’s why she tried to be so hard
But they turned her into a princess
And they sat her on a throne,
But she turned her back on stardom,
Because she wanted to be alone.
You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Rudolph Valentino, looks very much alive,
And he looks up ladies’ dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Avoid stepping on Bela Lugosi
‘Cos he’s liable to turn and bite,
But stand close by Bette Davis
Because hers was such a lonely life.
If you covered him with garbage,
George Sanders would still have style,
And if you stamped on Mickey Rooney
He would still turn round and smile,
But please don’t tread on dearest Marilyn
‘Cos she’s not very tough,
She should have been made of iron or steel,
But she was only made of flesh and blood.
You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of.
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Everybody’s a dreamer and everybody’s a star
And everybody’s in show biz, it doesn’t matter who you are.
And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard,
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along Hollywood Boulevard.
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
You can see all the stars as you walk along Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Oh celluloid heroes never feel any pain
Oh celluloid heroes never really die.
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
Bette Davis Eyes
July 14, 2007
The internet isn’t all sex and shite sites like this one. There is some work that’ll warm your heart.
Mascara Speed Painting – Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes – 1981
Post by EclecticAsylumArt
More on Bette Davis and the song and her eyes.
