Today: Sam Cooke passed away in 1964 – 48 years ago
“I don’t even know why I do what I do,….when I do it, it just comes.” ~Sam Cooke (to Bobby Womack) You Send Me: Wikipedia: Birth name Samuel Cook Also known as Dale Cook Born January 22, 1931...
View ArticleMy 5 Best Christmas Songs….
Let’s roll… 1. John Lennon -Happy Christmas (War Is Over): 2. Elvis Presley – Blue Christmas: 3. The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New York: 4.Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The...
View ArticleToday: The Beatles recorded “Ticket To Ride” in 1965 – 48 years ago
The Beatles were such a prolific album act that it’s sometimes hard to abstract their later singles; here, they ride their roots as a bar band in Liverpool and Hamburg to a new kind of glory. ~Dave...
View ArticleToday: Bringing It All Back Home (48) & Please Please Me (50)
“Bringing It All Back Home” is not included in the “Music Calendar post” … It has a separate post (part of the “Bob Dylan Albums” series): Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home ..now let’s focus on...
View ArticleUnreleased – Watching Rainbows by The Beatles
The Unreleased series Our third entry in this series is a song that gets better and better and I really wonder what it could have been if they finished it. It is the song Watching Rainbows by The...
View ArticleToday: The late Stuart Sutcliffe was born in 1940 – 73 years ago
He wasn’t really a very good musician. In fact, he wasn’t a musician at all until we talked him into buying a bass. We taught him to play twelve-bars, like Thirty Days by Chuck Berry. That was the...
View ArticleToday: A Hard Days Night by The Beatles was released in 1964
“We were different. We were older. We knew each other on all kinds of levels that we didn’t when we were teenagers. The early stuff – the Hard Day’s Night period, I call it – was the sexual equivalent...
View ArticleThe Beatles – Profiles, albums, lists & other
This is a collection of published posts @ JV including videos, lists & other stuff related to The B. It will be updated along the way.. Albums: Please Please Me (1963) “Ticket To Ride” – Single...
View ArticleToday: The late Sara Carter was born in 1898 – 115 years ago
Sara Carter (with banjo) Sara Carter (July 21, 1898 – January 8, 1979) was an American Country music musician. Known for her deep and distinctive singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the...
View ArticleToday: The late Otis Redding was born in 1941, 72 years ago
Otis Redding was soul, but Otis Redding was country, too. That was a point on which he always insisted, and that was the way others saw him. His strength was his simplicity, even if the simplicity was...
View ArticleToday: John Lennon was born in 1940 73 years ago
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ― John Lennon “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked...
View ArticleToday: Happy Birthday Chuck Berry
“Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.” Keith Richards Inducts Chuck Berry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986): “Chuck was my man. He was the one who made me say ‘I want to play...
View ArticleToday: Steve Cropper is 72 Happy Birthday
Sure, I’ve always dug Steve Cropper… his guitar playing. Ever since the first Booker T. record. I heard that back in the Midwest. Yeah, everybody was playing like him. ~Bob Dylan (to Jann Wenner, 29...
View ArticleToday: The Beatles released Rubber Soul 3 December 1965
There are places I’ll remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places had their moments With lovers and friends, I still can...
View ArticleToday: John Lennon was murdered 33 years ago in 1980
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They … Continue...
View ArticleToday: John Lennon released “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band” in 1970, 43 years ago
… Lennon presents everything on the surface, and the song titles — “Mother,” “I Found Out,” “Working Class Hero,” “Isolation,” “God,” “My Mummy’s Dead” — illustrate what each song is about, and...
View ArticleThe Beatles 7 records of Christmas
From 1963 to 1969, the Beatles recorded and released seven special Christmas singles through their fan club. These were closer to “Monty Pythonesque”-comedy than their normal releases. The first ones...
View ArticleThe best christmas songs according to Egil and Hallgeir
Egil’s 5 choices: 1. John Lennon -Happy Christmas (War Is Over): 2. Elvis Presley – Blue Christmas: 3. The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New York: 4.Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The...
View ArticleToday: The Beatles recorded “Ticket To Ride” in 1965, 49 years ago
The Beatles were such a prolific album act that it’s sometimes hard to abstract their later singles; here, they ride their roots as a bar band in Liverpool and Hamburg to a new kind of glory. ~Dave...
View ArticleThe Beatles 40 best songs: at 30 “Julia”
Julia was written by John Lennon for his mother, she died in a traffic accident in 1958. It is also the only solo Lennon recording in The Beatles’ song catalogue. “The only solo Lennon recording in the...
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