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Post by The Cats on Feb 6, 2024 17:57:50 GMT -5
In honor of Toby Keith's passing today... one of my favorite Toby songs... 'Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"
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Post by The Cats on Feb 17, 2024 21:05:49 GMT -5
Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1971)
Joan Baez's version peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 on 2 October 1971; it did likewise on the Cashbox Top 100 chart. However, on the Record World Top Singles chart for the week of September 25, 1971, the Baez single hit #1 for one week.
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Post by tarcat on Feb 17, 2024 21:15:27 GMT -5
A serious question...can anyone post a favorite all-time song here? Just wondering. Not sure that I would do so, as I suspect my musical tastes run a bit heavier and metal-er than most may like. But I did think the opening guitar riff from Scorpions' song "Blackout" would have made a good team intro for today's basketball game.
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Post by The Cats on Feb 17, 2024 21:31:53 GMT -5
A serious question...can anyone post a favorite all-time song here? Just wondering. Not sure that I would do so, as I suspect my musical tastes run a bit heavier and metal-er than most may like. But I did think the opening guitar riff from Scorpions' song "Blackout" would have made a good team intro for today's basketball game. Of course you can, when I started this thread, I didn't realize I had so many favorite songs... I tend to like the 60s & 70s, but whatever you like feel free to share with us... As I listen to SiriusXM in my car, I try to remember the good ones... to post on here, my favorite channels:
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Post by The Cats on Feb 17, 2024 21:43:49 GMT -5
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
It was released as a single and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked number 478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, number 483 in 2010, and number 455 in 2021 and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
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Post by The Cats on Mar 13, 2024 22:31:37 GMT -5
"Precious And Few" by Climax (1972)
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Post by The Cats on Mar 16, 2024 10:57:33 GMT -5
GOOD VIBRATIONS by THE BEACH BOYS
It was released as a single on October 10, 1966 and was an immediate critical and commercial hit, topping record charts in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Post by The Cats on Apr 9, 2024 13:47:22 GMT -5
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
It's been 60 years since this legendary song came out. An interview with Eric Burdon revealed that he first heard the song in a club in Newcastle, England, where it was sung by the Northumbrian folk singer Johnny Handle. The Animals were on tour with Chuck Berry and chose it because they wanted something distinctive to sing. The Animals had begun featuring their arrangement of "The House of the Rising Sun" during a joint concert tour with Chuck Berry, using it as their closing number to differentiate themselves from acts that always closed with straight rockers. It got a tremendous reaction from the audience, convincing initially reluctant producer Mickie Most that it had hit potential, and between tour stops the group went to a small recording studio, De Lane Lea Studios on Kingsway in London to capture it.
The song was recorded in just one take on May 18, 1964, and it starts with a now-famous electric guitar A minor chord arpeggio by Hilton Valentine. According to Valentine, he simply took Dylan's chord sequence and played it as an arpeggio. The performance takes off with Burdon's lead vocal, which has been variously described as "howling", "soulful", and as "...deep and gravelly as the north-east English coal town of Newcastle that spawned him". Finally, Alan Price's pulsating organ part (played on a Vox Continental) completes the sound. Burdon later said, "We were looking for a song that would grab people's attention".
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Post by The Cats on Apr 18, 2024 10:41:49 GMT -5
Roy Orbison - "Crying" - "Crying" is a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson for Orbison's third studio album of the same name, released in 1961, it was a number 2 hit in the US for Orbison. The song was released as a 45-rpm single by Monument Records in mid-July 1961 and reached No. 1 on the United States Cashbox chart for a week on October 7, 1961. On the rival Billboard Hot 100 it peaked at No. 2, where "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles and his Orchestra kept it from No. 1. Despite not reaching the summit in the latter publication, Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1961.
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Post by The Cats on Apr 21, 2024 17:54:40 GMT -5
"What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. In April 1968, it topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom.
With an introduction by Armstrong, here is "What a Wonderful World"
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