Title: Sweet Soul Music (series) Artists: Various Format: CD Label: Bear Family Records Release Date: October 2009 Sweet Soul Music, a new series by Bear Family Records (after Peter Guralnick’s book by the same title), provides an overview of soul music spanning 10 years (1961-1970) over 10 individually issued CDs. Each volume consists of 20-30 “scorching classics” packaged in [...]...
(posted at Lounge Legends ) "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle" -- but it also includes the tasty track "Las Mananitas", plus the holiday favorites "Winter Wonderland", "Jingle Bells", "The Christmas Song", "Sleigh Ride", "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" and "Jingle Bell Rock" (posted at La Movida ) "Have Yourself...
“Fact or Fiction” is taken from the fourthcoming Voxhaul Broadcast EP Fact Fiction and Turquoise. so fact or fiction'? this track does lots of things right. like The Walkmen done right. in affect, Otis Redding done right. maybe even rock and roll done right? hmmma, TCB baby, tcb. Voxhaul Broadcast - Fact or Fiction myspace buy voxhaul [...]
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let Rhe Sunshine In Doris Troy - Just One Look Paul Maauriat - Love is Blue The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O Van Morrinson - Moondance Singing Nun - Dominique Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer - Chain of Fools Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made me So Very...
Stars such as Lady Ga Ga, Katie Price and, er, the Vatican, compile lists for relaunch of music-based social networking site For the launch of MySpace Music today, the site asked a selection of artists to create a playlist to share with their fans – with some eyebrow raising results. Few will be hugely surprised by Lady Gaga's choice of Tits On The Radio by the Scissor Sisters, although her...
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We were watching a DVD of the British comedy series The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer (1993) last night... husband's favourite comedians, and the Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye sketches came on. I had not remembered that the duo were doing their hilarious sketch in blackface. The two, who have Geordie accents, are in the dock of the bay watching "the ships coming in... and going out again"....
If you check only the Wikipedia post for the song Try a Little Tenderness , you'll find the listing dominated by references to Otis Redding. While he did perform the benchmark version in the mid-1960s, a live version of which you can watch here , the song has a much richer history. Here's a version of the song, written by "Irving King" (James Campbell and Reginald Connelly) and Harry M. Woods,...
On my way home from work a Bob Dylan track (The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll) came on my ipod. A few years ago I thought I would never tire of that song and used to listen to it a ridiculous amount of times a day! Although I enjoyed it tonight, it was lacking that certain something that made me love it the first time I heard it. This got me thinking which songs still thrill me the same as when...
Sam And Dave Premier Division champions Kingskerswell & Chelston were another team to comfortably make it through to round three – they thrashed Langdon 5-0, largely thanks to a hat-trick from Dan Brown. Nick Rudge and Sam Tanner completed the rout. see more. See also: soul man | sam moore | tom morello | soul man [...]
I am thankful to Otis Redding, for writing "(Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay," and for singing it. I am thankful that I have a job and that we have enough to eat. I would appreciate more time to take hot baths by myself, but hey, two out of three is not bad. I am thankful for my family: my mother, my father, my brothers, my wife and my daughters. They drive me nuts sometimes, so I'm sure...
The fourth Tenby Blues Festival, which took place over the weekend of 13-15 November, blew the lid off all expectations with unprecedented full house signs going up all over the town. Despite the stormy weather, most of the Saturday evening venues were bursting at the seams and all the daytime events in the town did [...]
Filed under: Around the World What a playlist! Some African folk songs mixed with the African-American R&B of Otis Redding , Aretha Franklin and James Brown . Sidney Bechet and Bollywood. Santana's 'Samba Pa Ti' and a South African lullaby. And it all works together perfectly. It would be tough to find a better mix on any hour of even the most eclectic radio or club DJ set. But it's on 'Oyo,'...
The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio for US release) is an ensemble comedy film, released in the UK on April 1st 2009 and currently scheduled for a US release on November 13th 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal