Happy 76th birthday to John Densmore, drummer for The Doors. "Light My Fire" was from The Doors’ eponymous 1966 album and was released as a single in April 1967. It reached #1 on the Hot 100 and stayed there for three weeks, and #1 on the Cash Box singles chart for one week. It re-entered the Hot 100 the following year after José Feliciano’s cover hit the charts, and reached #87. This is a live version that was recorded at the Aquarius Theater in Los Angeles.
It’s that time again! Melanie asks us questions every week at this time, we answer them and out our answers in a blog post that we then pingback to hers. Click the link at the beginning of the paragraph andgo where she has all the rules and stuff. And awaaaaaay we go…
What would you enjoy if you could do so without someone getting annoyed with you for enjoying it? It MUST be something you aren’t supposed to enjoy because it is “bad for you”. Smoking.
(The penguin’s name is Willie.)
Is it okay for men to wear the color pink? Back in the days when I used to dress in a suit and tie for work, one of my favorite looks was a dark blue suit with a white shirt and a pink foulard tie. Or a dark blue or gray suit with a pink shirt and compatible dark tie. I have several pink golf shirts in my wardrobe, because Mary thinks I look good in them. Dodie Stevens has her favorite…
Dodie was 13 (maybe 12) when she recorded that song. Ten years later, using the name Geraldine Stevens, she recorded "Billy, I’ve Got To Go To Town," an answer song to Kenny Rogers’s "Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town."
Anyway, let’s move on…
Can you curl your tongue?
What, in your opinion, is the best room to put a fireplace? Ours is in the living room. In 33 years in this house, we’ve used fewer than ten times. It’s a real pain in the ass to clean, and we have to have the chimney sweep out every year if we use it.
I decided that I say it enough that I should create a graphic.
And now, a public service announcement: look up from your phone once in a while.
Okay, it’s not officially the end of the year, but next Monday we start this year’s Xmas Music Xtravaganza, so this is the last freebie of the year. So, I’ve put together an acrostic: the first letters all spell out "END OF THE YEAR."
"Electric Avenue," Eddy Grant: Electric Avenue is a street in the Brixton area of London, the first market street lit by electric lights. Eddy Grant wrote the song in 1983 in rememberance of the 1981 Brixton riots. The song reached #2 in the US and the UK.
"Nowhere To Run," Martha & The Vandellas: A Holland-Dozier-Holland creation, it’s one of their signature songs. It reached #8 on the Hot 100 and #5 on the R&B chart, as well as #26 in the UK in 1965.
"Daphne," Django Reinhardt: Django with La Quintette du Hot Club de France, recorded in 1947.
"One Fine Day," Carole King: Carole and her husband at the time, Gerry Goffin, wrote this for The Chiffons, who had a Top 5 hit with it in 1963. Carole recorded it herself in 1980 and reached #12. Is it just me, or does Carole remind you of Gilda Radner?
"Fancy," Bobbie Gentry: Title track from Ms. Gentry’s 1969 album. Bobbie only reached #26 on the Country chart in the US, but reached #1 on the Canadian Country chart. Reba McEntire’s 1990 cover got to #8 on the US and Canadian Country chart.
"Tenderly," Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: A standard by Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence from 1946. No one does the standards like Ella.
"Harbor Lights," Roy Fox & His Orchestra: A 1937 standard by Hugh Williams and Jimmy Kennedy. Fox is the first person who recorded it.
"Englishman In New York," Sting: From Sting’s …Nothing Like The Sun album, a song in honor of Quentin Crisp, who had moved from London to The Bowery in New York that year.
"You Belong To Me," Patsy Cline: A ballad from the early 1950’s by Chilton Price, Pee Wee King, and Redd Stewart that had been done by Patti Page, Jo Stafford, and Dean Martin. From Patsy’s 1962 album Sentimentally Yours.
"Easy Livin’," Uriah Heep: Only reached #39 on the Hot 100, which surprises me, because this was all over the radio in 1972.
"All I Wanna Do," Sheryl Crow: From her 1993 début album Tuesday Night Music Club, this was released in 1994 and was her breakout single, reaching #2 on the Hot 100, won two Grammys in 1995 for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for Song of the year.
"Red Hot," Marcia Ball: Marcia Ball is a blues pianist and singer from Texas who really deserves a lot more attention than she’s gotten over the years. "Red Hot" is from her 1989 album Gatorhythms.
And that’s Monday’s Music Moves Me for November 30, 2020.
Monday’s Music Moves Me is sponsored by X-Mas Dolly, Cathy, Alana, and Stacy, so be sure and visit them, where you can also find the Linky for the other participants.
Happy 83rd birthday to singer/yodeler/guitarist Frank Ifield. Born in England to Australian parents, they returned there in 1948, and Frank go his start there in the mid ’50’s. He was one of several British acts whose US distributor was Vee Jay Records, along with The Beatles. "I Remember You" was a song written by Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger in 1941; Frank’s recording reached #1 for seven weeks in the UK and #5 in the US in 1962.
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