Fri 17 May 2019
Music I’m Listening To: WAYNE HANCOCK – Cappuccino Boogie
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Some days you need a song like this just to get you up and going in the morning:
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Tue 14 May 2019
Music I’m Listening To, Selected by Jonathan Lewis: THE ICICLE WORKS “Understanding Jane.”
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The Icicle Works was a British rock band that produced five studio LPs in the late 1980s, and two compilation albums. Their name came from the 1960 short story “The Day the Icicle Works Closed” by SF writer Frederik Pohl.
“Understanding Jane” is a track from their third album If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song, released in 1987.
Thu 9 May 2019
Music I’m Listening To, Selected by Jonathan Lewis: DAVID SOUL “Bird on a Wire.”
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Tue 7 May 2019
Music I’m Listening To, Selected by Jonathan Lewis: VINEGAR JOE “Rusty Red Armour.”
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Vinegar Joe was a British R&B band, 1971-74, featuring as vocalists Robert Palmer & Elkie Brooks before they split up to pursue solo careers.
Fri 3 May 2019
Music I’m Listening To, Selected by Jonathan Lewis: DURAN DURAN “A View to a Kill.”
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Question: What is the only James Bond theme song to have reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart?
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Sat 23 Mar 2019
Music I’m Listening To: CHRISTIAN SCOTT QUINTET “The Walk.”
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Jazz trumpeter Christian Scott’s latest CD, Ancestral Recall, got a very favorable review earlier this week in the New York Times. Of several videos currently on YouTube, I liked this one best, but only by the narrowest of margins. Fans of Miles Davis’s music should enjoy Scott’s performance here as much as I do.
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Music I’m Listening To: HARRY NILSSON “Gotta Get Up.”
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The opening track on Harry Nilsson’s 1971 LP Nillson Schmillson:
Fri 15 Mar 2019
Music I’m Listening To: HAL BLAINE (1929-2019).
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Hal Blaine, who died last Monday, was the drummer for the group of Hollywood session musician informally known as The Wrecking Crew. The musicians themselves were largely anonymous, but no one listening to pop music in the 1960s and early 70s could have missed the songs they played on. Watch this and see if I’m not right:
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Music I’m Listening To: CHRIS HILLMAN “Ashes of Love.”
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A song from Desert Rose ((Sugar Hill, 1984), a solo LP from one of the founding member of The Byrds:
Sun 10 Mar 2019
Music I’m Listening To, Selected by Jonathan Lewis: THE SUNSET BOMBERS “I Can’t Control Myself.”
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Recently found in a local California record shop: The Sunset Bombers’ self-titled LP was a one-off album project for guitarist Doug Fieger before he formed the rock band The Knack. As a member of the latter group he co-wrote “My Sharona,” the biggest hit song in the US in 1979. “I Can’t Control Myself” is a cover of a song first performed by The Troggs.