Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening posting for this week!
Our Suggested Listening postings focus on the music of the past, with a few new songs mixed in for good measure.
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Suggested Listening postings come out weekly, on Fridays, and the next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, October 30, 2020.
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Congeniality by Ornette Coleman (Genre: Jazz)
From Coleman’s classic album, The Shape of Jazz To Come (1960).
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Dreamsville by Henry Mancini (Genre: Soundtrack, Easy Listening, Piano)
From Mancini’s classic soundtrack album – Music from Peter Gunn (1959).
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Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione (Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening, Trumpet)
From Mangione’s smash album of the same name – Feels So Good (1977).
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Garden Song by Sally Anne Morgan (Genre: Folk, Americana)
Morgan, formerly a member of the Black Twig Pickers, makes her solo debut with this lovely folk album – Threads (2020).
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Little Red Rooster by Sam Cooke (Genre: R&B, Sixties R&B)
A terrific version of the blues classic, composed by Chester Burnett (aka Howlin’ Wolf) and Willie Dixon, from Cooke’s classic album Night Beat (1963).
And as a bonus, here is the original version by Howlin’ Wolf!
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Little Red Rooster by Howlin’ Wolf (Genre: Blues)
Also playing on the track is the songs’ co-writer, bassist Willie Dixon and blues guitar master Hubert Sumlin. The song is from Wolf’s second album Howlin’ Wolf (1962) (AKA The Rockin’ Chair album).
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One Minute You’re Here by Bruce Springsteen (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Rock)
From the the new Springsteen & The E Street Band album Letter To You (2020).
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Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (also known as Ike Turner & His King’s of Rhythm)
A hit for Sun Records and a classic fifties song, from the era when musicians were mixing swing with R&B to produce a new art form – Rock n’ Roll!
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Smiling Bill McCall by Johnny Cash (Genre: Country, Classic Country)
An upbeat song, musically, with interesting lyrics! From Cash’s classic concept album, Ride This Train (1960).
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Tijuana Taxi by Herb Alpert (Genre: Easy Listening, Trumpet)
From the group’s classic album !!Going Places!! (1965).
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Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200: II. Allegretto performed by the B’Rock Ensemble & conducted by René Jacobs (Genre: Classical)
A fresh and bright interpretation Schubert’s 1 & 2 symphonies can be found on the aptly titled new album, Schubert 2 & 3, by the Belgian group B’Rock.
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Hoopla Pick of the Week
A 16 song collection of previously unreleased songs by the introspective master of Americana music – Gillian Welch.
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Have a great weekend!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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REFERENCES:
Print References
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn
Online References
AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/
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Gillian Welch: Boots No 2: The Lost Songs, Vol 1 review – inspired outtakes from 2002. The Guardian., https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/09/gillian-welch-boots-no-2-the-lost-songs-vol-1-review-inspired-outtakes-from-2002
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Online Catalog Links:
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The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD, etc.
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The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.
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