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@Skinhitta This is from a 1987 benefit concert for AIDS at the Kennedy Center. Most people who saw it caught it on Showtime - I know Dionne became heavily involved after doing That's What Friends are For.

@jamesforfuel I think you're thinking of Gentle on My Mind, which Hartford did write and Campbell recorded - but Jimmy Webb wrote Wichita Lineman.

@6061peb Most people under the age of 50 think of Phil Harris as the voice of Baloo in The Jungle Book (remember "The Bare Necessities")? He also did The Aristocats and Robin Hood, but he was huge in radio - first on Jack Benny, then with Alice Faye. I guess you would also consider him a B movie ...

@sweetfly66 I love Steve Gadd but I think you have to consider Ginger Baker as the first transitional drummer. Look at his set up - the two bass drum came from Louis Bellson. He's also heavily influenced by the British Jazz groups of the 1950s. In fact, Baker has always considered himself a jazz ...

@zootcarey I just want to thank you for your part in bringing this special event to light - it just shows what a drum set can sound like in the hands of masters. I'm also glad you mentioned Louis Bellson - probably the most overlooked drummer of all time. Everyone knows Buddy Rich's name but they...

@ocnoreen If you mean the theory about Professor Theodor Adorno being the actual author - well I'd like to know what your sources are to back this theory. I tried to send you a message but was unable to do so.

@Odor66 there's one big difference between the Monkees and Jonas Bros. - The Monkees had the Brill Building turning out some really good songs for them. Look at the roster of songwriters - Neil Diamond, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Harry Nilson, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weill, Boyce-Hart and Jack Kel...

@zackgreer Its a reflection of America at that time for Simon - We were still in Vietnam; Watergate (and Spiro Agnew's resignation) had embroiled the Nixon Administration; A lot of Americans felt very disolussioned - and the world's view of America was not favorable. The song was Simon's comment ...

@pooperscoopr69 I would also put Herbie Mann in that discussion

@MissRockOn20 Toby Keith has two movies: Broken Bridges, which he plays a washed up country musician (with Burt Reynolds and Kelly Preston), and Beer for my Horses, which he and Rodney Carrington play deputies. Toby is great in his videos but he can't act worth 5 cents in the movies.

@jennie12ish So do I. For me Shaw was the greatest choral conductor of his time - one who managed to push his groups to maximum effort to achieve that huge sound he wanted. I love the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and John Rutter is amazing with what he does with a small choir, but I always wanted to s...

@Xzerling Even Madonna's dancers called and said "Wow, that's so gay!" Seriously though, its a great performance from Jimmy Somerville (and I remember having a thing for the blonde girl in the video). Boy Clifton Davis knew how to write a song - whether it's the Jackson 5, Gloria Gaynor or this v...

@cbritton1876 You're right on the money as far as this being for a reality competition. The question isn't whether Marcella was ready to sing at the Met, it was could she break out of her comfort zone from pop to opera music. She was by far the best contestant on the show, about the only one who ...

By far one of the great voices in pop music history. One of the biggest injustices when Rolling Stones did their top 100 vocalists of all time, neither Johnny Maestro nor Gary Puckett made the list. No offense to the Justin Biebers and Lady Gagas of the world, but it's a shame that real talent te...

@dzcomposer The theme in the opening comes from Jerry Bock's original music in the play. Williams decided he needed additional music for the opening scenes and the credits, so he wrote an original cadenza and a set of variations. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether Issac Stern created some ...

Whatever you may think of the movie version of The Wiz (it's a mixed bag - the visual effects are definitely dated and a little low rent), or whether you think Diana Ross was too old to play Dorothy, there's no denying that this is one of the great vocal performances ever in a movie. Ross absolut...

@mominator822 According to Ed Turner the group is done for now. He wrote me that they had performed all of the Beatles albums, and they had performed for many years, so it was time to move on to something else. It's too bad because these guys were the best Beatles album cover band - no other grou...

@bikecopjoe There was still a lot of great rock and roll in the late 1970s and after: Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Metalica, Guns and Roses, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Pearl Jam, U2, Nirvana, Tom Petty, to just name a few. Heck consider the massive rock albums that came out not long after 1975: Frampton ...

@henryrodz America still tours today but without Dan Peek, who left the group in 1977 to pursue a career as a contemporary Christian singer. The group managed to have some success (this song hit the top 10 in 1982), but the group never achieved the same success they had when Peek was in the group...

@maninreno4 Well thats partly true about Wiki, but that isn't the only place I've heard that Paul considered it a

S&G song. I used to be a disc jockey at a radio station many years ago and we carried a syndicated Dick Clark show. One of the segments was Paul talking about this song, which he sai...

@TTmaniax Absolutely - Tatum set a standard that will unlikely ever be surpassed. In my mind only Oscar Peterson came close to matching Tatum, who had the greatest left hand of any pianist in history. However, I'm hoping that someday someone may surpass Tatum, because that would be pure bliss to ...

Probably my favorite of Tatum's group works (along with Hallelujah with Lionel Hampton). Tatum and DeFranco work very well together - two absolute masters of their instruments. I love Tatum (consider him the greatest jazz pianist of all time), but his strength was definitely as a soloist (in my ...

@lapps22 when i think of that west coast cool sound, the three names that come to mind on sax are Paul Desmond, Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan. I wish Konitz and Desmond would have recorded more together, but I read that Konitz wasn't a huge fan of Desmond (even though he was obviously an influen...

What year is this production from? I know Ted Ross played the Lion when the show opened in 1975 (he won the Tony and did the Lion in the roll). I see someone mentioned it was Greg Baker, so what year is this?

@hecbiz75 Man Charlie Haden is a force, probably the most distinctive bass player of all time. I'll listen to him and try to understand where he came up with those ideas. For some reason i've never caught him live, although I did hear his son Josh play with Spain. You're absolutely right about Br...