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Showing posts with label Felix Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felix Music. Show all posts
Friday, July 9, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Ooooh Rob!
Back in January I did a post about my friends Rob Giles and his exquisite wife Caterina Scorsone. If you missed it you can see it here.
Well I've been listening to his stuff lately like a madman and thought I'd share a couple of favorites with you. The first is a studio cut from his album "This Is All In Your Mind"
John Lennon by Rob Giles from the album This Is All In Your Mind by felixinhollywood
The other is a live track from a performance here in Hollywood at The Hotel Cafe back in 2006. On this one, you get to hear all the music he gets out of just a six string acoustic and a porchboard.
Baby, Just Come To My House By Rob Giles-Live at The Hotel Cafe 7-27-06 by felixinhollywood
I hope you'll become a fan too.
Well I've been listening to his stuff lately like a madman and thought I'd share a couple of favorites with you. The first is a studio cut from his album "This Is All In Your Mind"
John Lennon by Rob Giles from the album This Is All In Your Mind by felixinhollywood
The other is a live track from a performance here in Hollywood at The Hotel Cafe back in 2006. On this one, you get to hear all the music he gets out of just a six string acoustic and a porchboard.
Baby, Just Come To My House By Rob Giles-Live at The Hotel Cafe 7-27-06 by felixinhollywood
I hope you'll become a fan too.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Swing Me Gate!
With humble apologies to Mr. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, whom because of my great affection for him, I call Artie Shaw, I'm offering slightly belated 100th birthday wishes. Artie's big day was actually the 23rd.
He swung onstage and he swung offstage, racking up an impressive 8 wives. He said of himself that he was 'a very difficult man', but when your matrimonial role call includes, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner and Evelyn Keyes, you've obviously got something goin' on!
I can't imagine any of those dames would've gotten him too mad at them considering that (amongst his other accomplishments) in 1962 he was the 4th ranked marksman in the United States.
I'm about to have to offer another apology here in a minute. In a 1994 New York Times interview, he summed up his anguished musical frustrations from so many years before: "I thought that because I was Artie Shaw I could do what I wanted, but all they wanted was 'Begin the Beguine.' "
Well Artie, for your birthday, that's all I want too. You wanna know why, I'll tell you. Because you took, musically speaking, one of the best damn popular songs ever written, stripped off it's inane, substandard lyrics, and let your clarinet do the singing. You turned it into something so special that swings, but also has notes of melancholy and is certainly an anthem of the big band era.
He swung onstage and he swung offstage, racking up an impressive 8 wives. He said of himself that he was 'a very difficult man', but when your matrimonial role call includes, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner and Evelyn Keyes, you've obviously got something goin' on!
I can't imagine any of those dames would've gotten him too mad at them considering that (amongst his other accomplishments) in 1962 he was the 4th ranked marksman in the United States.
I'm about to have to offer another apology here in a minute. In a 1994 New York Times interview, he summed up his anguished musical frustrations from so many years before: "I thought that because I was Artie Shaw I could do what I wanted, but all they wanted was 'Begin the Beguine.' "
Well Artie, for your birthday, that's all I want too. You wanna know why, I'll tell you. Because you took, musically speaking, one of the best damn popular songs ever written, stripped off it's inane, substandard lyrics, and let your clarinet do the singing. You turned it into something so special that swings, but also has notes of melancholy and is certainly an anthem of the big band era.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Back When AutoTune Meant A Song That Was Great To Drive To...
No lip syncing,
No AutoTune,
No vocal sample played underneath to 'fatten' the sound.
Just a perfect pop song, a kickass arrangement, great backing musicianship and vocals and a singer who often sounded, incredibly, better live than on studio tracks.
Ladies and Gentleman, MISS DONNA SUMMER!
No AutoTune,
No vocal sample played underneath to 'fatten' the sound.
Just a perfect pop song, a kickass arrangement, great backing musicianship and vocals and a singer who often sounded, incredibly, better live than on studio tracks.
Ladies and Gentleman, MISS DONNA SUMMER!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Happy Birthday Lady Day
If you're are more than a casual fan of Billie Holiday then you know the clip below very well and you probably know the story behind it too. If not.....
...this clip is from the 1957 ABC television special, "The Sound Of Jazz". Billie is singing "Billies Blues" and collaborating with her are the best of the best; you'll hear the roll call at the top of the clip.
Billie and Lester Young (who takes the second solo) had a relationship that endured a quarter century. Some think they were lovers, others say, that while they may have had physical relations in the beginning, theirs was more of a best friend-sole mate-brother-sister thing. He's the one who first came up with the name "Lady Day" (for her mother and Billie, being Billie, quickly co-opted it). She is the one who coined his nickname "The Prez". The had a spiritual and psychic connection that produced some of the finest jazz recordings ever made. And like all sensitive, artistic and addicted geniuses, they had had a bombastic falling out. This show was the first time they had seen or spoken to each other in years.
They were both sick (she, heroin and he, alcohol) and would both be dead within two years. It is almost embarrassing, and most certainly humbling to be privy to the intimate secrets, regrets, apologies and pledges that are exchanged between them over the course of his short solo.
Everyone in the control room (who of course knew their story) was in tears by the end of it.
...this clip is from the 1957 ABC television special, "The Sound Of Jazz". Billie is singing "Billies Blues" and collaborating with her are the best of the best; you'll hear the roll call at the top of the clip.
Billie and Lester Young (who takes the second solo) had a relationship that endured a quarter century. Some think they were lovers, others say, that while they may have had physical relations in the beginning, theirs was more of a best friend-sole mate-brother-sister thing. He's the one who first came up with the name "Lady Day" (for her mother and Billie, being Billie, quickly co-opted it). She is the one who coined his nickname "The Prez". The had a spiritual and psychic connection that produced some of the finest jazz recordings ever made. And like all sensitive, artistic and addicted geniuses, they had had a bombastic falling out. This show was the first time they had seen or spoken to each other in years.
They were both sick (she, heroin and he, alcohol) and would both be dead within two years. It is almost embarrassing, and most certainly humbling to be privy to the intimate secrets, regrets, apologies and pledges that are exchanged between them over the course of his short solo.
Everyone in the control room (who of course knew their story) was in tears by the end of it.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Lest We Forget...
There was once a time when his hair was brown not black, his moves were cute not annoying, and, really, the boy could swing.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tick Tock Sweetie.
Thanksgiving night of 1985 was the night I found out that Cyndi was a whole lot more than just some girl who wanted to have fun!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
She's So Fine, Hare Rama.
She seems to keep coming up lately. And it's fine with me.
I just came back from a refreshing visit to Chateau Thomeau where Our Thom has posted a glorious Nina Hagen clip. The best way I can think to say thank you is to follow suit. Please do enjoy:
I just came back from a refreshing visit to Chateau Thomeau where Our Thom has posted a glorious Nina Hagen clip. The best way I can think to say thank you is to follow suit. Please do enjoy:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
City Girls, Country Girls and Jazz Babies.
By 1979 The Pointer Sisters decided they wanted to have big bank accounts, nice houses and fancy cars like all the rest of their money making peers. And who, really, can blame them. But before that is when these honeys really cooked! As evidence, savor the three offerings below.
CITY GIRLS. Puttin' the fun in funky.
COUNTRY GIRLS. This self-penned ditty afforded them the honor of being the first black females to perform at the Grand Ol Opry.
JAZZ BABIES. Swingin', Basie style.
CITY GIRLS. Puttin' the fun in funky.
COUNTRY GIRLS. This self-penned ditty afforded them the honor of being the first black females to perform at the Grand Ol Opry.
JAZZ BABIES. Swingin', Basie style.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Drag Music
While this is really a test to see if I can bring you some favorite music on occasion, I do hope you'll enjoy this entry from 1976 by the late Yvonne Fair.
In the late '70s any drag queen could easily earn enough tips for the next gown by performing this one.
In the late '70s any drag queen could easily earn enough tips for the next gown by performing this one.
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