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Listen to Maynard Ferguson's "Conquistador" album...I never thought I'd EVER heard any other trumpet that soared to the heavens like that--but I'm glad to say I'm mistaken...Paul Cacia has a jaw-dropping range...GREAT posting!!

Wow...!! Great little "head-bobber"...can't decide if it's jazz-blues or blues-jazz...doesn't really matter, it's one helluva good arrangement...thanks for posting!!

Great tune! The rueful humor was only something that Ruth Brown could truly deliver. I loved the "been with him for so long and I know he's a snake, but he's my man" fatality that few could ever match--I can only think of Billie Holiday in the same class...great post, thanks a BUNCH for the great...

Mr Pizzareli's C-Jam is what I refer to as an ultimate "tuchus twicher"!! He did one HELL of a great job with the old big-band standard. Thanks for the post--this one's been bookmarked!!

Sitting here in awe of Jack Bruce's fretless Hofner--VERY hard to play that smoothly!! After 40 years, the band hasn't lost a bit of its punch...and what truly amazes me is that after 40 years (including at least 20 years of booze and drugs), all three of these guys are still alive and still damn...

A real mean drvin' tune! The zest of the old Ventures with the great funkiness of bass and Hammond B3 organ...it's a win-win!! Would LOVE to see these guys live!!

I saw Jack on tour with Cream in 1968 at the old Spectrum in Philly...that 6-string bass of his through a combination of Marshall and Kustom amps blew the wind into my face--and I was sitting midway down in the audience!! "Rattling grates" or not, his bass work always fascinated me. Glad to see h...

Ah, memories! VERY big hit in central Jersey back in my teens! Thanks for the post!

there's another video on YouTube of Amy singing "Teach Me Tonight" on Jools Holland back in 2005. The difference between 2005 and 2011 was so tragically striking--Ms Winehouse turned from a lady of unbridled talent and stage presence to a walking warning of drug-and-alcohol abuse. If only SOMEONE...

Spike Jones-inspired! Made my day! Thanks!

Absolute showmen! Highly professional and exciting to listen to and watch...what a great post! Thanks!

When I first played this video, my wife in the next room swore that I listening to Pearl Bailey! Such a command of voice, inflection and phrasing---and it shows how much she tried to please the audience. When she sang this tune, one could see that she put her all into it. So damned tragic, what 6...

Wow!! Just try to get THAT name on a school jacket!! I myself graduated from the Single-Wide School of Matriculation---we just didn't have an expanded eddikashun!!

Cannibal & the Headhunters and Wilson Pickett both did a much better job than April and Nino---but hey, I'll stare at April Stevens all day long! Thanks for the "blast from the past" from my 60s days!

April Stevens did well with fellow singer Nino Tempo, but to me, her most expressive work was her solo career. Not the greatest at all, but her ability to wrap her voice around a song made listening to her VERY enjoyable. I spent a lot of teen fantasies in the early 60s with her!

I love listening to the Ames Brothers, although I confess I've never heard their version of "September Song" sung like this--I'm so used to hearing it as a Frank Sinatra-type ballad. This is a real swingin' alternative...thanks for posting!

Smoothest sounds that the fifties ever produced! My mother adored them, especially Ed Ames. When he played Mingo the Indian in the Daniel Boone Show on TV, she never missed an episode....

I can remember back in the early 60s when I saw the Ames Brothers on TV for the very first time. I took one look at Ed Ames and started bugging my father, "Why's Mingo the Indian singing with these guys?". Up to that time I'd only seen him on "The Daniel Boone Show" as Mingo and had no idea he co...

Put a bit of Hammond B3 organ in the middle of it---and you have Booker T & the MGs...!! This is the kind of hard-drivin' R&B "chuka-chuka" music that I grew up with. The new kind of music ain't got no soul, just gimme some of that old rock'n roll...!!!

Old age must be creepin' in--I had no idea that Asia had reunited past their "nostalgia" tour. Beautiful tunes on this album, wonderfully written. This is music for the thinkers and for those who simply want to...enjoy. Thanks a bunch, Amadeusirritation, for the great uploads--I've this whole alb...

Such a sweet voice--and the total control she takes over the song! Although sadly gone from us, she lives on in her wonderful recordings such as this. I could listen to that angel voice all day....

It really doesn't matter if both animals were domesticated or wild, a cat just doesn't abandon the hunting instinct even if it's domesticated--my cat "hunts" all the time with her cat-toys and the other cat, and she's been with us since she was 11 months old. I DO have one question, however---the...

I first saw Jerry Reed on "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour", and this guit-fiddle-pickin' fool just blew me away!! I remember the part of that show where Glen, Jerry, Larry McNeely and sometimes John Hartford would sit around and have some fun with some great pickin'--Jerry would put his feet up ...

@NJbakintheday -- I have a copy of it, one of my favorite jazz cuts...let me know if you still want it...

His daddy (Lloyd Bridges) was a fine actor in his own right--looks like the apple didn't fall too far from the tree!! When I first heard of the movie, I'd assumed that Jeff would have a "voice double", but when I heard the music from the movie I was stunned--there's NO mistaking that voice!! Way ...

AOL news had published a picture of her, taken not too long ago, for which it was severely criticized--Annette was lying on a gurney, being taken to a special vehicle to go somewhere...she had enough in her to smile and wave at the camera, but it was SO shocking to see what the ravages of MS had ...

There were a lot of "T.I.C." music back then (meaning, "tongue-in-cheek"); the Royal Guardsmen did a whole series about Snoopy, the Hollywood Argyles did "Alley Oop" (now I KNOW I'm old when I can remember THAT!), and of course the Kingsmen with "Jolly Green Giant". This was a fun time, and lyric...

Ain't NOTHIN' like that big old Hammond B3 organ layin' down that bluesy bottom! There aren't many of those old Hammonds left...(sigh)...

A group that sticks to its original format (in this case, "Louie Louie") would be an instant "one-hit wonder". The few groups that have lasted from then to now had the ability to adapt and re-sell themselves. Should the Beatles have stuck with "She Loves You" or the Stones with "Satisfaction"? Th...

@jjc032681 ....kudos to the guy behind the RC control-pad...for an RC plane to take off and land THAT smoothly is indeed a work of art! I'm just curious, though--I wonder if it's big enough for the local ATC (Air-Traffic Control) people to pick it up on radar...If they do, I'd have LOVED to see t...

Dammit, Bill---you are one BRAVE man!

He must've had a set of "brass ones" about 10 pounds in weight to put this on record! It's SO bad that's it actually quite good, at least by "William Shatner" standards. Sure, it's really "out there", but no less experimental than the Vanilla Fudge I was listening to (and playing) at the time--lo...

..weeelllll, he's nothing to write home about--but he's MILES ahead of William Shatner warbling "Wild Thing" or Leonard Nimoy doing "Bilbo Baggins"...at least the Hoff stays (somewhat) in tune..and least the Germans like him (which says a great deal about collective taste)...

It's a tribute to the Standells' creativity that they could make a pretty good rockin' instrumental out of a "nothing" tune. I still remember playing with my old rock band in the Atlantic City area, and the kids would look DOWN on the bands that couldn't do the "Batman" theme. It was the most BOR...