What Are You Listening To? July 2021

[Zeeba Neighba]

Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (1984)

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Ink Spots - Greatest Hits

Does this comp include “If You Love Me (Really Love Me)”?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Does this comp include “If You Love Me (Really Love Me)”?

Hearing a deep bass voice sing-speaking “Darling...if you love me...really love me”

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Helms Alee - Noctiluca (2019)



This is good music, but all their albums kind of sound the same.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Sam Cooke - A Man and His Music

 

[axolotl]

Hearing a deep bass voice sing-speaking “Darling...if you love me...really love me”

I miss Barry White.

 

[axolotl]

Cake on Cake ~ I Guess I Was Daydreaming (2007)



Lappop


Hello Seahorse! ~ Hoy a las ocho (2008)



Tweepop

 

[axolotl]

Anouar Brahem ~ The Astounding Eyes of Rita (2009)



Chamber Jazz, Arabic Jazz

 

[Ojai Sam]

I miss Barry White.

Me too, but in this case it's Orville "Hoppy" Jones.

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Mike Sammes Singers - Music For Biscuits (Trunk Records 2006 comp.)

Love those old advertising jingles with peppy vocals? Here are nearly four dozen from the UK, pushing everything from Dulux Paint to Vespa motor scooters.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 38 in D (Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Ultimate Bobby Darin

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Prince - 1999 (1982)

 

[axolotl]

Vacuous Autists ~ Drive Time: Blue Ridge Parkway (2005)



Music by Copland, MacDowell, Gershwin, Hanson, Hovhaness, et al.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Today, listening to some Beatlesque 70s power pop/rock:

Just:
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record (1976)

Now:
Badfinger - No Dice (1970)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Gonna keep this 70s power pop party going!

The Raspberries - Greatest

Big Star - #1 Record (1972)

 

[axolotl]

Gonna keep this 70s power pop party going!

The Raspberries - Greatest


Big Star - #1 Record (1972)

Wow.

You're going all the way.

You're probably out in the street by now.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Various Artists - Les Plus Belles Valses Musette (rec. 1930-43, Fremeaux comp. 1994)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Various Artists - Country (Nashville-Dallas-Hollywood) (rec. 1927-42, Fremeaux comp. 1994)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Pixie Williams - For The Record: The Pixie Williams Collection (rec. 1949-51, comp. 2011)



Pixie was a charming, warm-voiced singer who was the first post-WWII recording star in New Zealand. Her style is straight ahead country with lap steel, quite reminiscent of Hank Snow's early recordings for RCA Victor in Canada.

Wiki sez:

Pikiteora Maude Emily Gertrude Edith "Pixie" Williams (married name Costello; 12 July 1928 – 2 August 2013) was a New Zealand singer best known for the song "Blue Smoke", recorded in 1949. In 2019, she was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. "Blue Smoke" was the first single to be locally recorded and manufactured in New Zealand.