Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[mickthemaverick]

While I can appreciate your family sentiment there Steve, I suspect my daughter would burst into tears too!!

[myglaren]

Dont want to bog the FCF Musical Advent Calendar currently on B with more than one selection for a selected band, but I just let Booker T and the MG s autoplay on today, and have made a new discovery....what an excellent catalogue of work, really enjoyed it.

Whats one of the most covered pieces of popular music ever "Summertime".....well imagine yourself in the deep south on a porch listening to this....it captures the mood more than any version singing the words I have heard..



Regards Neil

This was far better than I was expecting. I used to know someone who collected every version of Green Onions that he could find - Booker T being the definitive one.

I once heard a perfect version of Summertime on TOTP or similar, went and bought an LP the following day, took it back a couple of hours later and swapped for something else, the version on the LP was nothing like the live version - by Caroline Hester. Grieves me to this day - incidentally the Milk 'n Blues version is pretty good.

But what I really wanted to mention was Rita Coolidge, posted something with her int it somewhere but forget where, liked it and looked into her history, some of it quite tragic. Her sister was married to Booker T. Seems they parted and her new husband killed her and her daughter.
It was she and Rita that wrote the piano coda for 'Leila' and never got the credit for it.

[mickthemaverick]

I had these all ready for the Advent Calendar when Paul popped up with Flowers in the Rain so it would be a shame to waste my efforts in digging them out:

[myglaren]

Another miss for me.
Kent
Då Som Nu För Alltid


Den sista sången



A Swedish band I listened to a while back that just popped up in a randomlyfarious manner.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Open to challenge on the Advent calendar so I'll put Nils Lofgren here.

Hands up if you have heard of him. Played with Neil Young and a member of Bruce Springsteens E-Street band for many years. Did do a few solo albums in the 70's and this is a song from his first "Nils Lofgren". No doubt always a band player live and in recordings, but one of those for his "solo" stuff the band was him in name. Nils Lofgren celebrated 50 years of being "just a guy in a band" in a documentary in 2018.

One of my favourite tracks from that album was Keith Dont Go ( Ode to the Glimmer twin). Never knew what it was on about but the Keith in question was/is Keith Richard, a remarkable survivor as it has turned out.



Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

Happy 31st Birthday to Taylor Swift. Somewhat palindromic.



She has also released her ninth studio album today.

[myglaren]

Completely forgot that it was Luciadagen.

Light in the darkness | Swedish Lucia Tradition

[myglaren]

Lots of 'almosts' for the Advent list. I did try and shoehorn Orianthi into the O's.

One for today - nearly.



Sława Przybylska

Gdzie są kwiaty

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone", in Polish.
Best version ever!

From her 40 Piosenek album

[NewcastleFalcon]

For me a scary theme tune from Quincy Jones



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This is Eefjie de Visser, and when I was watching this starling murmuration video I though she sounds nice, don't know anything about her or what is her best track, but her soft vocals and the music certainly suited the video



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Not going to trouble the scorers on the advent calendar with this one. I'll safely put Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd and one of the tracks from their influencial 1962 album "Jazz Samba" on the Pickled Egg Jukebox.

This time of night just the sort of soothing laid back sound required.



Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

Tony Auton (who fronts The Tony Auton Band) has done some solo stuff as well. This song could be used at Remembrance Day;



Sorry about the video/sound quality.

[myglaren]

Uriah Heap
Come Away Melinda


Better by Tim Rose.
Oddly enough, I just watched Hanna, with Saoirse Ronan, where some of these scenes are taken from.
Remarkable made when she was 13.

[myglaren]

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well Sounds of the Seventies was on the car radio today with a couple of interesting tracks, although it was a sort of Christmas music special, but of course all the best christmas popular songs were from the 1970's.

One that perked my interest was not so much of a Christmas Song but "Winter Song" by Lindisfarne. Young Sam Fender has brought out a version of it this year and was talking to Johnnie Walker about it. Plenty seventies classics on the show. I do hope the Wombles make it to the advent calendar with Wombling Merrry Christmas.



Regards Neil