Tuesday, December 22, 2009

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY! 12-22-09

Happy Birthday Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees!! He truely has some of the oddest and greatest pipes in pop music. Here he is taking the lead with his brothers on "I Started A Joke" from 1968.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

VIDEO OF THE DAY! 12-17-09

Wow, check out this footage of the great Andrew Lood Oldham as he oversees recording by the fantastic Vashti Bunyun recording her "Winter is Blue" from the 1967 documentary Tonight Let's Make Love In London. Yes, that is the legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns working the board. What an embarrassment of riches!


Monday, December 14, 2009

MAVIS OF THE DAY! 12-14-09

More Mavis (with the Band and Staple Singers from the Last Waltz).


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

SLOW JAM OF THE DAY! 12-9-09

Here is Canadian soul band Skylark featuring Donny Gerrard of lead vocals playing their biggest hit, Wildflower on the Midnight Special in 1973.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Monday, December 7, 2009

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY! 12-4-09

Today is the birthday of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson who would have been 65 this year if not for his accidental drowning in 1983. Here is his beautiful "Barbara" recorded in 1971 but not released until after his death on the Beach Boys' rarities collection Endless Harmony. It's been said that this recording was unfinished; that one of the two piano parts was a guide track for strings to be later added.