Music I love

[ghost of moon goddess]

Val-de-ree, val-de-rah, my knapsack on my back!

Enjoy your weekend!

[Anotherkiwi]

 
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[ghost of moon goddess]

Happy birthday, Barbra!

[JohnDearGreen]

All in with KKKK4.  Scam or no scam?

[SANDRO43]

All in wita KKKK4.

What's KKK4? Anyway, that beguine accompaniment was popular in the mid 1950s, as in here:

[JohnDearGreen]

What's KKKK4?

[calmissile]

Sandro,
Remember the Diamond's very well.  Your right it was a very popular group.  Someone posted the same group doing "Lil Darlin" in again in recent years.  It was a riot to watch.

[SANDRO43]

Sorry JDG but your explanation is still obscure to me. I see a hand of four Ks and a 4 (poker?), and a video with a still photo offering no clues - to me . BTW, the accompaniment sounds in 2/4 rather than 4/4.   

[SANDRO43]

Remember the Diamond's very well.  Your right it was a very popular group.

IINM, they didn't do much else noteworthy, except maybe their version of:

[calmissile]

Here is their performance many years later.  They must have been taking that coconut oil Visalisa recommended.   

They were also famous with the dance/song "The Stroll" from the Dick Clark show.

[calmissile]

Another favorite of mine.  KISS!   Written by Prince but sung by Tom Jones.  One of my favorite Karaoke songs. 

[SANDRO43]

sung by Tom Jones.

You mean Welsh Sir Thomas John Woodward ? Curious that he should have chosen one of the 2 most common Welsh names - along with Evans - as his stage name.

[calmissile]

Sandro,

Yes, Tom Jones in his heyday was 'da man'.  The way women threw themselves at him you would think he was Elvis.   
I liked his voice and the energy he put into his singing and performances.  In those days, if you were a Tom Jones fan the ladies thought you were 'cool'.   

[calmissile]

Sandro,

My favorite song of all time.  Sung by many, many singers.  Great song to slow dance to, and the ladies love to listen to it while dancing.   Not yet brave enough to sing it at Karaoke, but maybe someday.     

[AmericanBoy]

my taste in music will be hated by most.... but I love it =D

[calmissile]

Do we have any Yani fans on the forum?

[ghost of moon goddess]

All in with KKKK4.  Scam or no scam?

I guess someone is taking advantage of the time difference  to get the cards pre-shuffled into a desirable order 
Or do you still believe it's a sleight-of-hand trick ? 

"Another" New Moon ... , by Connee Boswell, "an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. With her sisters, Martha and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell, she performed in the 1930s as The Boswell Sisters and became a highly influential singing group during this period via recordings and radio. Connee herself is widely considered one of the greatest jazz female vocalists and was a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald who said, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her»". 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connee_Boswell)

She was one of my granny's favorite American female singers.

[ghost of moon goddess]

my taste in music will be hated by most....

Yea, and it will likely cause further intensification of allegations against you

I promise I won't hate myself when reprimanded by most RWD music lovers for posting «I just wanna dance» by Max Barskih.
BTW, this singer/song failed to be chosen as the Ukrainian entry for the Eurovision song contest 2012.  Europe today is not in party mood 

[SANDRO43]

she performed in the 1930s as The Boswell Sisters

Some WWII favourites of British troops:

This one, too, despite its origin:

[Gator]

Anyway, that beguine accompaniment was popular in the mid 1950s, as in here:

TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

Sandro will  about what I am to reveal because  I have contrasted ad nauseum the pop music roots of our youth, his in white and mine in black. 
 
Lil Darling by the Diamonds (white group) was a Number One hit in 1957.  What is not widely known is that Maurice Williams (black singer) wrote the song and recorded it first.   One observer writes:

Maurice gave the song to the diamonds to record, at the time in the 50's white artist were played all the time on all radio stations but black artist were not. I'ts sad but true thats why the Diamonds recorded it.

Many other white artists recorded covers of songs first done by black musicians.   In the opinion of those of us surrounded by R & B music, almost always the covers fell short of the originals; nevertheless, in the case of Lil Darling the Diamonds made some small changes and the result was a better recording.   [How about that, Sandro!]

I moved to the Carolinas in the late 1950s and became familiar with Maurice, a local musician.  Here is Maurice singing his song Lil Darling at the South Carolina beach scene not long ago.  His dance moves have slowed at 70+  years old with some added weight.  However, he has not changed much.   In this version Maurice has not only incorporated the improvements made by the Diamonds over 50 years ago but added more enhancements.  Check out the clarinet solo that starts around the 2:00 mark.
 

 
Calmissile, did you notice the gals near our age dancing with Maurice?  They probably had already sprouted breasts when the song was released while I was a year or so away from puberty.  Maybe some people will now recognize why us old goats chase Russian skirts.
 

[Gator]

Maurice Williams' biggest  hit.
 

 

Somehow in Carolina this music is still popular with the older white people.  However, even some younger white people are fans.   
It is still played at dance pavilions along the beach as people dance the Carolina shag (a form of swing).
 


I know because I return each year to my fraternity reunion and it is still favored.   Even I recognize that the influence of the Brits in the 1970s and 1980s gave us much richer music.  And there is no comparison to salsa.

 

[Gator]

my taste in music will be hated by most.... but I love it =D

Hated?    Never.   Love it?   Hardly.
 
We are all different with disparate tastes in music.   I trust everyone accepts that fact.

[Kokopelli]

You mean Welsh Sir Thomas John Woodward ? Curious that he should have chosen one of the 2 most common Welsh names - along with Evans - as his stage name.

Following several hits in the UK, he became a Las Vegas, Nevada lounge singer and his image quickly changed. He was known for his overt sexuality in the 1960s, before this was as common as it became in subsequent years. Ladies would swoon and scream, and in 1968, starting at New York's Copacabana night club, some would throw their panties on stage. Soon after, in Las Vegas, they started throwing hotel room keys.
My mom loved him. 

Notice the woman he hugs at around 3:09. I guess she's a "caboose" gal. 

[Kokopelli]

Hated?    Never.   Love it?   Hardly.
 
We are all different with disparate tastes in music.   I trust everyone accepts that fact.

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It's dance music.
Back when they played instruments. 

[Gator]

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It's dance music.
Back when they played instruments.