Over the years, Macca’s solo renditions of Beatles’ classics have gotten bigger — bloated really — for stadium shows.  All polish, no grit.

But here Paul straps on his guitar and gets after it with his 2009 touring band on the highly underrated Beatles tune “I’ve Got A Feeling.”  This performance has all the balls of the original and retains the feel of a barroom blisterer.  There’s no sense that this was performed by arena-ready hired guns.  It’s as if Paul was back on the roof with the lads.

I’m stunned at how good this rendition is.  There’s one major downside: Abe Laboriel, Jr. (badly) singing John’s middle eight.  Isn’t there a better singer in Paul’s band?

Ringo Starr sempre foi um cara de sorte. A passagem de Pete Best pelo Brasil mês passado só fez reforçar o fato. Musicalmente, Ringo tem o mérito de sempre reunir os ex-companheiros de banda e de ser o responsável pelo melhor disco solo de um ex-Beatle (Ringo, de 1973).

Nos últimos anos Ringo vem caindo na estrada com sua All Starr Band (grupo formado pelos amigos que estejam disponíveis na época e que já contou com Jack Bruce, Peter Frampton, Billy Preston, Levon Helm e Dr. John, entre outros astros. Ele também lança discos com uma certa frequência e um nível mediano de qualidade. Seu último grande disco foi Stop and Smell the Roses (1982), que contava com canções dos parceiros George Harrison e Paul McCartney.

Agora, Ringo anuncia mais um lançamento – Y Not – para janeiro de 2010. O CD será lançado pelo conhecidíssimo selo Hip-O Records/UMe e conta com participações de Joss Stone, Joe Walsh, Van Dyke Parks e Paul McCartney, entre outros.

Não tenho idéia de como será o disco, até porque é Ringo vai se auto produzir pela primeira vez. Afinal, Y Not – segundo Ringo – é outra maneira de dizer Yes, We Can! O primeiro single, Walk With You, é uma reflexão sobre o poder da amizade e parte dela é cantada em dueto com Sir Paul, que também toca baixo em Peace Dream.

Ringo parece ter sido picado pelo mesmo mosquito nostálgico que infectou seu outro companheiro de banda dos anos 60. No novo CD há uma canção chamada The Other Side Of Liverpool.

Y Not, mais um gasto marcado para 12 de janeiro.

Conheça a discografia de Ringo.

Harry Potter Fan Sean Buban writes another beautiful song about love.

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That feeling you get inside when you think about someone you loved but never found the chance to be with them, or the feelings about knowing that vibe a special person can make you feel. This video visually is to give that feeling and describe the lyrics. This is a love song.

Sean’s made an interesting video with clips from different movie characters to be a part of his music video.

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As we know this week was Rock week on X-Factor. The results show was a well good Emotional Roller coaster. Confirmed guests was “Bon Jovi” and “JLS”. Bon Jovi’s performance was okay, I’m not a rock music fan but the performance was okay. Bon Jovi’s are legends they have been around for a good while, So i’ve heard. Their performance isn’t on Youtube so can’t show Bon Jovi fans their Performance

The X-Factor’s finalist performed “Walk this way – Aerosmith”. This performance was VERY High School Musical-led. The costume the contestants was wearing and the routine seemed very high school musical”ed”. Not to mention JOHN & EDWARD was out of tune at the beginning of the song, but when are they ever in tune!? What iCan say is that Lloyd should probably take up a Rap Career? Maybe join Harmony Hood or feature on Miss Frank’s song or maybe join N-Dubz! because being a solo artist is not helping our Lloyd.

Next to perform was JLS, Performing their new single “Everybody In Love”. I never liked this song before because it was JLS! But iHave to say… After watching JLS perform this song on X-Factor iKind of dropped my stubbornness and just had to like this song and sing along! This song to me, is better than “Beat Again”. iWas upset when JLS brought out Beat Again, because iDidn’t think it was the kind of music they would/Should do. Now if the album is going to be more like “Everybody In Love” then iShall enjoy the album! Well Done JLS this performance was GOOD! I’m sorry to say it was kind of better than Alexandra Burke’s performance! Sorry Alexandra fans… but it kind of had to be said! HOWEVER Marvin let his nerves throw off his vocals, and Word on Twitter was “Marvin is wearing a woman’s top” … iDo wonder…

After JLS performed the bottom two was announced. As always my heart was BEATING for Rachel! And they was announced. John & Edward got through so the Bottom Two was : Rachel Adedeji & Lloyd Daniels. I was heart-broken, but this is the 3rd time Rachel being in the bottom Two. She should never be there because she is nothing Compared to John & Edward! That’s a FACT!

Rachel sang Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis, which was very heart-felt and soulful! It was good to see that Rachel was still smiling when she came out. That’s right Rachel keep ur head up and keep smiling!

Lloyd sang You Are So Beautiful by Billy Preston. This performance was SHIT! Sorry to say, it was nothing compared to Rachel’s, and I understand he had a sore throat, but Lloyd u sound like this every week! I really thought he was going home after this performance…

Here is who went home… Words just cannot Describe my feelings when this was announced!

iDo think what Simon did was right. It was Rachel’s 3rd time being in the bottom two… it’s quite obvious something isn’t hitting to the Public…? but was it the right decision the public made? Having John & Edward still in the competition! X-Factor is becoming a joke!

This Week Leona Lewis and Black Eyed Peas! Can’t wait for this

When someone sounds as good as Aretha did last Sunday, only one word seems to fit: more.

Aretha Franklin (joined on the second number by Billy Preston and Little Richard), “Surely God Is Able,” “Packin’ Up,” live (Tribute to Marion Williams), Washington, D.C., 1993

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My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left.—Aretha Franklin

I’ve been a DJ for most of my life, whether it was the imaginary radio station in my bedroom when I was 11, college radio, the years I spent getting a full-time paycheck, or the more recent years I’ve done my four and hit the door. Even during the nine years I was out of radio entirely from the mid 90s to the mid 00s, I couldn’t help talking over records in the car like my Top-40 heroes of old. So why did it take me until yesterday, after five-plus years at this blog, to shut up and play the hits?

This first one is one of the best autumn songs I know. On this live version (the song was originally on the radio this week in 1974), some famous folks show up at the end to provide backing vocals and rock some 70s fashions.

Billy Preston’s original “Nothing From Nothing” is one of the most economical records in pop history, streaking out of the gate and taking less than 2:30 to get to the fade, and I’ve always wished it went on longer. On this live performance from the 1980s, it does—about 6 1/2 minutes altogether, as Billy introduces his band.

The fall of 1975 may have marked the peak of Top 40 misogyny—on the chart at the same time you had Elton John’s “Island Girl,” a song about a prostitute that tries to take an admiring tone but misses (and is racist to boot), and Elton’s collaboration with Neil Sedaka on “Bad Blood,” in which Neil sings that “woman was born to lie” and “the bitch is in the smile.” And that fills this video with all sorts of contradictions. His backup singers both appear positively thrilled to be part of this smackdown of their gender, and Sedaka comes off as such a dweeb that it’s clear either one of them could kick his ass.

An alternate viewpoint—quite nearly an answer song—was on the radio at precisely the same time. It’s here. Meanwhile, back here on the show, the Brothers Johnson get on down in a video that seems to have been partly shot through a lens smeared with chocolate pudding.

Veteran TV director Louis J. Horvitz would have gotten away with it if the clip below didn’t include a credit roll from its original source, an episode of Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert broadcast in October 1975. But now we know he’s responsible for giving us as many shots of the Tavares brothers from the back as from the front, and we know how much he loves the circular wipe. LOUIE FOR CHRISSAKES STAY ON A SINGLE SHOT FOR MORE THAN FIVE SECONDS DAMMIT

Mighty good song, though.

“Little Sally Walker sitting in a saucer…Rise Sally Rise…” Who remembers wiping your weepin’ eyes, putting your hands on your hips and letting your backbone slip? At least this is the version of the Little Sally Walker game I remember from growing up in the 70s a pretty little Black girl in Arkansas-not a colored girl-that was the previous generation. Some versions said “Ride Sally Ride” but that must have been up north with the citified folks– if you know what I mean. Anyway, a “Sally” would be chosen and her best girlfriends would hold hands and form a circle around her until she did her little dance to their little singsong chant and landed face-to-face on the next “Sally” to take center stage. “Ah shake it to the east…Ah shake it to the west! Shake it to the one that you love the best!” I was reminded of this innocent little game recently when I saw it being performed by the lead character Pearl played by Tony-award winning, Broadway sensation, Tonya Pinkins, in the stage play Black Pearl Sings! Pearl added the necessary “flava” to the version of “Little Sally Walker” that her White counterpart, a rather conservative and stiff Susannah, had offered up which lacked the sway, shake, and swirl of soul-stirring, child-bearing hips filled with song and a yearning. Pearl tried her best to give Susannah a lesson and I do think she kind of caught on after a few tries but just kept falling short when it came time to shake it to the east!

Black Pearl Sings!, written by Frank Higgins and directed by Jennifer L. Nelson, reaches back in its depiction to the 1930s when the Library of Congress hired researchers, writers, and artists to travel the United States in search of unbeknownst folklore to collect and preserve for future generations. The character Susannah, played by the super talented Erika Rolfsrud, is a musicologist who takes the charge and sets out to discover little-known melodies in Texas that she hopes will bring her fame and a professorship at Harvard. It is just her luck when she encounters Pearl who has spent years in prison for chopping off her ex’s pecker. Pearl has inside of her countless songs shaped by both African and African-American traditions and ancestral roots that have been passed down to her from her family and community that date back to slavery times and some going all the way back to Africa before her people were stolen away and brought and enslaved on an island off of South Carolina called Hilton Head (before the lush golf courses). Pearl will gladly share her treasures with Susannah if she will do her a favor as well, that is, assist her in finding her daughter who has disappeared from her and, of course, get her a pardon from the Governor. A deal is made. And such begins the tension of the play-Susannah’s motivations for fame and recognition versus Pearl’s motivations for family and fortune, in that exact order. The two engage in an unlikely partnership that takes them to Harlem where Pearl becomes a recording sensation and the star of a one-woman show to the delight of Susannah and other seekers of folklore and a little bit of caricature thrown in for good measure. Although they celebrate their successes together, Pearl is quick to remind Susannah throughout the play that they aren’t friends-“just friend-ly”.

In the end, what does Pearl sacrifice and what does she hold sacred and not for sale? If you want to find out how the story ends, there are a few more show times left at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. Be prepared to be thoroughly entertained by Pinkin’s perfect comedic timing  but more importantly her powerful a capella delivery of joy and pain in some recognizable spirituals like “Do Lord, Oh Do Lord, Do Remember Me.” Pinkins brings boldness to her character as she portrays a dynamic woman who is self-assured, confident, and in control but she also brings the angst and desperation that lies just beneath Pearl’s surface until it at first seeps, then pours out in her rich, soulful renditions of songs that speak to her tribulations.

After experiencing Black Pearl Sings! and exploring the notion of how a people holds onto their collective traditions that at some point begin to symbolize the best and worst of times, it got me thinking about how we pass stories down from generation to generation. Our way of life will one day be characterized as folklore by future historians and anthropologists. What will they dig up? What will we leave behind? According to the Texas Folklore Society, “Folklore is the traditional knowledge of a culture.  Although it can be closely related to history at times, folklore concerns the things about a group that are not usually found in historical records.”  Well we all know what happens when we rely on others to document us—some major stuff gets left out-namely–us. There’s HisStory, HerStory, & TheirStory. What about your story?

Recently, I got the compliment of my life when my daughter told me that she enjoys it when I tell my stories and she told me this with a straight face and she didn’t follow her statement up with a request of any kind. SHOCKING! When I heard her say that, my backbone slipped, I broke into a wide smile, and jumped up and did a dance. Ah shake it to the east! Ah shake it to the west! Who loves mama’s stories the best? I had no idea she actually listened to them–let alone enjoyed them. That was never a requirement for me to tell them. I decided to test her by throwing out a couple of words to see if doing so would trigger her memory about the story relating to the words. For starters, I said “Uncle Lynn” and she said, “The Chicken Story” and I said “Yes” with pride! I asked her to expand and she didn’t quite have all the details so I chimed in and retold the story with all the nuances and proper inflections and climatic build-up and requisite chuckle at the end.  My job won’t be done until she knows the story word for word and can mock me just like I use to do with Uncle Lynn when he use to tell me the same story over and over again every time I saw him.

Now this is what concerns me. Somehow I don’t think we are passing down our stories with such deliberateness as before. Oral traditions have morphed into cyber traditions. I fear that with so many communications taking place on the computer, much is going to be lost in a hard drive meltdown or into cyberspace, the boundaries of which has got to be the last frontier. I started thinking about ways to preserve our stories for generations to come as we continue to become, for good or for bad, one with our computer. If creating a legacy, preserving your history, and leaving behind lessons of love and wisdom and stories that embody every emotion under the sun is important to you and I know it is, take a look at the list of ideas that follows on how to do so. Go ahead, try a couple and I will too. By the way, I bet you want to hear that chicken story, huh? The next time we meet up, either I or my daughter will tell you for some supper. OK, she probably won’t but I will.

Ten Ideas on How to Pass Down Stories in the Digital Age

1. Tell the same story over and over again to your intended audience until you see evidence that it has stuck. They will be annoyed and roll their eyes but don’t let that dissuade you. If they run from you, tie them up.
2. Keep a journal or a diary. If you do it online, print it out and place the pages in a binder.
3. Write an autobiography. Don’t worry about whether it will ever be published. Write is for your own release and to pass on the story of you.
4. Videotape elders and asks a lot of questions. And of course videotape you and your children telling your favorite stories or just experiencing life. Make a transcript of the tapes and store it away in a safe spot just in case.
5. Make a scrapbook of photographs and include notes to provide information regarding the occasion. Be sure to include the date, location and place. And while we are on photographs, be sure to print them out soon after you take them. Even if they don’t make it in the album or scrapbook right away, at least you are a step closer.
6. If you are an artist, make a list that includes your works and the date of creation. If you are a writer, try to gather your writings in one place. As a bonus, record how your art speaks to you, your motivation to create, and whatever else you want folks to know about your passion long after you are gone. As we all know, some artists are so forward thinking, that they are not fully appreciated until their death. I’m sure that’s the case with me now (clearing throat).
7. At the next family reunion, record all the activities, especially those times where your family is just sitting down reminiscing on the days of old or what embarrassing thing Uncle did last night at the family dinner. Also, another fun thing to do at the reunion is to create a scavenger hunt for the children by compiling a list of questions regarding interesting facts about the older folks and elders. Some sample questions could be, “Which cousin graduated from X college with a degree in X?” or “Which cousin’s favorite book is “Their Eyes Watching God?” or “Which elder grew up in X and witnessed X?” or “Find someone over 40 to give you some quick advice and write it down.” Whoever gets the most answers correct in a set amount of time wins a prize. This game was a hit at one of my previous reunions and everyone left with some more information about their relatives.
8. Write letters to your little ones or loved ones to be read at a later date. I know you just want to email them but you need to print them out for delivery. I’m sorry Mr. Trees but when is the last time someone discovered an old forgotten computer tucked away in an old dusty chest in the attic? Enough said-not too mention technology is changing rapidly but paper is paper.
9. Have everyone in your family make a list of their favorite things from foods to music to hobbies every year and store it away for safekeeping.
10. Start a blog that chronicles your life or records the progression of things and topics that hold your interest and are significant to you. Again, print out your entries and store them in a binder as back up.

BONUS

This one is for those of you on sites like Facebook and MySpace. On significant days in history, save and print out you and your friends’   reactions to the event for future generations. You never know, there may come a time when social media is a laughable relic of the past.

OK that’s all I can think of for now. If you think of any other ways to preserve your stories for your children, family, and all of posterity, please let me know. Now let me tell you a story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. Then one day…

Well you know the rest, right?

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Click below for Billy Preston’s Little Sally Walker from 1965

Click below for a 2008 version of Little Sally Walker done by a group of school kids.

And that’s a wrap!

Trust me … America has been it’s own worst enemy … it’s time for us to look in mirror, and stop all the finger pointing & LYING!  Check out the links below #1 is just me Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE!!! … #2 is a theme song worthy of the topic – Billy Preston’s – Nothing From Nothing !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjDCRZn5RzQ

#1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DV54ddNHE

#2

Oh! Darling

Oh! Darling, please believe me
I’ll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I’ll never do you no harm

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I’ll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don’t ever leave me alone

When you told me you didn’t need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn’t need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I’ll never make it alone
Believe me when I tell you
I’ll never do you no harm

When you told me you didn’t need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn’t need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died

Oh! Darling, please believe me
I’ll never let you down
Believe me when I tell you
I’ll never do you no harm

Party Down Pt. 1

Show #2… More technical difficulties. Headphone monitors were broken,  so you can’t really hear me at all, but then again it’s about the music, isn’t it? Also, apparently the stream host I’m using doesn’t work, so I’ll get those up and running soon. Tune in next week to see if all the kinks are worked out!

Also, a big shout-out to everyone currently participalting in the G20 protests and the UC Walkout, and a special thanks to everyone who supported me in the Student Senate election!

Playlist:

1. Soul Vaccination (Intro) – Tower of Power
2. For Once In My Life – Stevie Wonder
3. I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) – James Brown
4. Readings In Astrology (demo) – Curtis Mayfield
5. 25 Miles – Edwin Starr
6. Party Down Pt. 1 – Little Beaver
7. That’s The Way Of The World – Earth Wind & Fire
8. That’s The Way Of The World (Latin Expedition) – Earth Wind & Fire
9. Memphis, Tennessee – Chuck Berry
10. Snatching It Back – Clarence Carter (for Jake)
11. Baby Workout – Jackie Wilson
12. Feelin’ Alright – Lulu
13. Up For The Down Stroke – Parliament
14. Pygmy – Booker T. & The MG’s
15. The World Is A Ghetto – War (request from Cory)
16. Try A Little Tenderness – Otis Redding
17. I Want To Thank You – Billy Prestion
18. Backstrokin’ – Fatback Band (request from Paul)
19. Soul Vaccination (Outro) – Tower of Power

William Everett “Billy” Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Hammond organ on the Beatles’ Get Back sessions in 1969.

Preston along with Tony Sheridan are the only two non-Beatles to receive billing as an artist alongside the Beatles (as distinct from receiving credit as a session musician on album packaging) on an official Beatles record release. The label of the Get Back single credits the artists on the record as The Beatles with Billy Preston.

Signed to the Beatles’ Apple label, in 1969, Preston released the album That’s the Way God Planned It and a single of the same name (produced by George Harrison). His relationship with Harrison continued after the breakup of The Beatles; he was the first artist to record “My Sweet Lord”, in his album Encouraging Words (Harrison’s own version of the single hit number one in the U.S. and the UK and was the first number one by a former Beatle after they disbanded) and he was on several of Harrison’s 1970s solo albums. Preston also made notable contributions to The Concert for Bangladesh, the Harrison-organized charity concert, toured with Harrison on his 1974 tour of North America and, after Harrison’s death, The Concert for George. Preston also worked on solo recordings by two other ex-Beatles, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. Sadly, he passed away in 2006.

This video clip is a rousing rendition of That’s The Way God Planned It from the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. Take note of George Harrison’s white suit and stylish hairdo.

Valió la pena la espera? Totalmente. Aunque bien lejos de mi casa, estrenaron por fin Be Kind Rewind, la última peli de Michel Gondry. Peli que absurdamente fue estrenada el 25 de enero del 2008 en Sundance y que tan sólo después de veinte meses por fin los discapacitados distribuidores colombianos se atrevieron a traerla. Muchos amigos míos ya la habían visto en DVD, pero yo quise esperar a verla en salas aunque casi desespero y hace un par de semanas en la tienda de video de unos amigos casi la alquilo. Menos mal no. Recomendada para verse ciento por ciento en cine.

Es una peli romántica, amante del cine, amante de los nostálgicos así estos sean amantes del gran enemigo del cine: El VHS, siempre y cuando se le reconozca que gracias a estos videos caseros el cine se volcó hacia el usuario y le fue accesible la producción de pelis, que al final es la quintaesencia de esta peli: No hay mejores pelis que las que uno hace.

No se cuántos de los que fueron a ver la peli, antes ya habían visto el paquete de directores en DVD, donde aparecen Chris Cunningham, Spike Jonze y Michel Gondry pero fue allí donde me vine a enterar que Gondry era músico y mago. Una rara combinación que ilumina de alguna forma cómo es que Gondry resuelve sus retos y como es que su estética es un poco muy lúdica y pedagógica; como un mago de fiesta de cumpleaños de niños. Tal vez lo más bonito de esta peli es eso, descubrir que el man hizo una peli de cómo el hace una peli, de cómo el se imagina las narraciones, de cómo improvisa para meterle nuevos elementos a sus producciones y de cómo es un niño chiquito con una cámara de cine en su hombro.

Y es que sólo hasta que vi el DVD de los directores me vine a enterar que Gondry era músico y mago e iluminar de cierta forma cómo es que el resuelve los retos de cada producción pero también lo impresionante es que por esa misma calidad se siente esa escencia de lúdica y magia en cada cosa que el hace. Un mago de esos cumpleaños ochenteros donde hay un bajísimo prespuesto pero de alguna forma tiene encantado a su público. Ese es el resumen de esta encantadora y emotiva peli, un acto de magia de una genial recursividad y aunque de un presupuesto considerable con todas las características primordiales de una serie b.

No importa que Jack Black sea siempre Jack Black, no importa que los actores naturales sean muy malos actores, no importa que Mos Def, Danny Glover y Mia Farrow actúen como si estuvieran en un ensayo teatral. Tal vez la única que ligra una actuación medianamente regular es Sigourney Weaver pero hace el papel de mala, entonces una la odia, pero sólo la odia hasta la final de la peli, después uno la vuelve a querer por ser ella. Es una obra maestra. Debo decirlo, para ser honestos con ustedes yo salí detestando a Gondry y su La Science des Rêves y de alguna forma dije, Gondry es un genio para los videos de Björk o para los videos de Oui Oui, The Chemical Brothers, The White Stripes, pero para los largos, las pelis debía tener un socio como Charlie Kaufman, aquel Kaufman que le brindó esa sociedad magnífica para lograr Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind que en 2004 les valió un Oscar de La Academia como mejor guión original.

Esta peli, la historia de dos amigos, soñadores, bohemios y amantes de las historias que Elroy Fletcher el personaje que interpreta Danny Glover, estos dos personajes melomanos de Fats Weller, estos dos personajes llenos de ternura y gracia me hicieron reír mucho. Me atrevo a inventarme un nuevo género para esta peli, porque no es una simple comedia, tiene que ver con cine de autor, si, pero es más que eso es una Comedia Épica, una comedia de magnánimas proporciones. Una peli que devolvió a Gondry a un puesto que había perdido años atrás en mi escalafón personal.

Muy buena peli.

Muy recomendada para los amantes del cine.

De vez en cuando, hay notas para destacar para esta peli la genialidad es tan basta que no se por donde siquiera empezar con esas notas.

El término “sweded” se acotó popularmente después de la peli de Gondry a las parodias que se hacían de muchas pelis. En la peli se usa el término para explicar que las pelis eran traídas desde Suecia, que por eso se demoraban tanto y que por eso eran tan costosas en alquiler pero verdaderamente era una excusa para rehacerla y que no se notara su pérdida. Si uno revisa juicioso, se encuentra en YouTube.com muchos videos de este porte. Algunas son bastante entretenidas otras son basura. Gondry hizo una cosa maravillosa para el sitio promocional de la peli y es que montó todos sus swedes y se podían ver enLínea a continuación rescato dos de ellos:

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La otra nota divertida es la música de esta peli, ecléctica, sencilla pero con mucho sentimiento:

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01. “Your Feets Too Big” – Mos Def y Jean-Michel Bernard

02. “Nothing From Nothing” – Billy Preston

03. “I Ain’t Got Nobody” – Jean-Michel Bernard

04. “Jerry’s Sweded Ghost Song” – Jack Black

05. “Microwaves – Jean-Michel Bernard

06. “Train Station” – Jean-Michel Bernard

07. “I Ain’t Got Nobody” – Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn y Michel Gondry

08. “Keep Jerry Our“- Jean-Michel Bernard

09. “Little Mikey“- Jean-Michel Bernard

10. “I’m Bill“- Jean-Michel Bernard

11. “Lulu’s Back In Town” – Jean Michel Bernard y The Passaic High School Marching Band

12. “Chinese Bamboo“- Jean-Michel Bernard

13. “Magnetic“- Jean-Michel Bernard

14. “The Animated Lion“- Jean-Michel Bernard

15. “I Ain’t Got Nobody” – Mos Def, Jean-Michel Bernard y Michel Gondry

16. “Robot Karate“- Jean-Michel Bernard

17. “Daisy’s Drive“- Jean-Michel Bernard

18. “Plan“- Jean-Michel Bernard

19. “Blind Test“- Jean-Michel Bernard

20. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” – Fats Waller

21. “Mike Has An Idea“- Jean-Michel Bernard

22. “DVD Break In“- Jean-Michel Bernard

23. “Sunny Monday” – Booker T y the MGs

24. “Ain’t Misbehavin‘” – Mos Def y Jean-Michel Bernard

25. “Solitude” – Jean-Michel Bernard

26. “Lulu’s Back In Town” – Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn y Michel Gondry

27. “Your Feets Too Big” – Fats Waller

28. “Mr. Fletcher’s Song” – Jean-Michel Bernard y Moe Holmes

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I’ll be honest, I had no intention of writing a post today.  There, I said it.  However, I tell you that, dear reader, to underscore the importance of the following topic (and there is a hint of sarcasm on the “importance”). 

Over the past few weeks, I have been watching Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Now, I know what you’re thinking, “well, of course you are, there’s a ton of Beatles stuff everywhere right now.”  Left me tell you that the only thing the Beatles did to this was write the music.

No, this travesty of music, theatre, and musical theatre is just plain does not have a single Beatle in it (not even the 5th one).  Instead, it is a movie that is filled with lots of “stars” from 1978.  Who’s in this film you ask?

• Peter Frampton
• The Bee Gees
• Alice Cooper
• George Burns
• Aerosmith
• Earth, Wind, and Fire
• Steve Martin
• Billy Preston

I want you to stop for a second and think about the list above.  Read over it and digest the material.  That’s right, there are a ton of famous people from then and now.

I wish I could say it was great (or even good)…

Oh, who am I kidding, it’s horrible.  It is one of the worst films of all time!  It is so terrible that it made Jumper look like a Picture of the Year contender.  It was one horrible musician number after another, and it just didn’t stop.  It keep coming and coming, punishing both your ears and eyes.

If you like “bad” movies, this one is just about the worst.  Let’s face it, it was 1978, people liked the Beatles music and the Bee Gees were huge, but is this the best they could do?  I can hear the pitch for it now:  “We’ll take Peter Frampton, yeah the kids love him.  And we’ll mix in the Bee Gees, because those guys are man’s men.  Now, we need music…  What to use, what to use?  Hey, the Beatles broke up earlier this decade, people will really want to see their music in a new light.  Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket…”

The problem is that someone should have stopped them, and expressed how bad of an idea this movie was.  Because of this film, I have lost respect for Alice Cooper and even more for Aerosmith, who plays the “villain’s” band.  (Think Steve Vai in Crossroad.)  Of course, this is where/why Aerosmith recorded Come Together, which is a great version.  The problem is when you see the big finale, it’s hard to forgive them.

Here’s a couple of interesting things, apparently this was Steve Martin’s first role in a feature film.  That’s right, this is before The Jerk or even The Muppets.  Talk about a blemish on a great career.

So, my warning is this:  Stay away, unless you just can’t help but see the train wreck which is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Watch it but be warned…

What a beautiful tribute to their departed friend George Harrison. Here’s Billy Preston, the fifth Beatle (yep, look it up) with Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Tom Petty and George Harrison’s son. Billy Preston died probably not too long after this was performed.

By the mid-1970s, soul had by and large left behind its R&B roots and the influence of funk and what would become widely known as disco was beginning to manifest itself — many soul acts of the period crossed back and forth between soul, funk and disco.

A few notes on some of the featured acts:

The Impressions had soldiered on after Curtis Mayfield went solo in 1970 (you might want to revisit the Mayfield tracks posted here). By the time they had a trio of hits in 1974/75, Mayfield’s successor as lead singer, Leroy Hutson had departed as well, having been replaced by Reggie Torian and Ralph Johnson (the latter left in 1976). The song featured here was not a hit, but might be the best Impressions song of the period. The Natural Four, incidentally, were signed to Mayfield’s Curtom label and produced by Leroy Hutson at the time of Can This Be Real.

William DeVaughn sounds vaguely like Mayfield channelling Timmy Thomas. DeVaughn paid $900 to record Be Thankful For What You Got in 1972 in Philadelphia, with the MFSB band backing him. On its release in 1974 it became a massive hit. Yo La Tengo and Massive Attack fans will know the song from those groups’ covers. It’s a boss groove which Squeeze must have known when they conjured the chorus of 1987’s Hourglass. Everybody now: “Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin’ the scene with a gangsta lean.”

The Soul Children were formed in the late 1960s by Isaac Hayes and David Porter for Stax. The group included John Colbert (who would take the stagename J Blackfoot), who before becoming one of the four soul children had been serving a prison sentence with Johnny Bragg of The Prisonaires. After his release he met Otis Redding who invited him to travel on the plane that would kill Redding and most of the Bar-Keys. There was no room on the plane… I’ll Be The Other Woman, written by Homer Banks and Carl Hampton, belongs in the canon of great cheating songs. Here “the other woman” warns her adulterous lover not to cheat on her.

Sidney Joe Qualls was billed as “the new Al Green” when he appeared on the scene. He never reached the Reverend’s great heights, but his How Can You Say Goodbye To Someone, written by Sam Dees, might well be one of the best Al Green tracks Al never recorded.

The Moments, whose Sexy Mama is much better than the title would suggest, soon would have to change their name for contractual reasons, despite having recorded under that moniker for close to a decade, even scoring two UK Top 10 hits and a UK #3 hit with Girls, their collaboration with the Whatnauts. We will meet them again in this series as Ray Goodman Brown. Sexy Mama would be a great companion piece to Billy Paul’s Let’s Make A Baby (posted here as a bonus track).

Gene Page, whose instrumental All Our Dreams Are Coming True is this set’s most conspicuous nod to disco, was noted more as an arranger, having worked with artists as diverse as Buffalo Springfield, The Righteous Brothers, The Supremes, Elton John and Barbra Streisand.

Syreeta featured on the second ’60s soul mix as Rita Wright, and on the 1970/71 mix as a co-writer of Stevie Wonder’s If You Really Love Me. She was briefly married to Wonder, who continued to promote her career after they split, to the extent that the 1974 album on which the bluesy Black Maybe appears was titled Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta.

TRACKLISTING
1. Billy Preston – Nothing From Nothing
2. The Main Ingredient – Just Dont Want To Be Lonely
3. The Tymes – You Little Trustmaker
4. Blue Magic - What’s Come Over Me
5. William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got
6. Sydney Joe Qualls – How Can You Say Goodbye
7. Major Harris – Love Won’t Let Me Wait
8. Rufus & Chaka Khan – Sweet Thing
9. Minnie Riperton – Simple Things
10. Latimore - Let’s Straighten It Out
11. Soul Children – Ill Be The Other Woman
12. The Impressions - If It’s In You To Do Wrong
13. Aretha Franklin – I’m In Love
14. Syreeta - Black Maybe
15. Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes – Wake Up Everybody
16. The Moments – Sexy Mama
17. Gene Page - All Our Dreams Are Coming True
18. Natural Four - Can This Be Real
19. The Spinners – Mighty Love
20. Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s The Way Of The World (Latin Expedition)

DOWNLOAD

As always, the mix is timed to fit on a standard CD-R (and includes a front and back cover, if needed). And as always there were a few tracks left over which even at my most ruthless I just could not cull. Both Labi Siffre and Kool & the Gang’s songs were prominently sampled, the former on Eminem’s My Name Is, the latter on DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s Summertime. Both are seriously funky; the high notes on Summer Madness should get your dog dancing. If I had included them in the mix, I’d have cued them after the DeVaughn track.

Labi Siffre – I Got The….mp3
Kool & the Gang – Summer Madness.mp3
Billy Paul – Let’s Make A Baby.mp3
Gil Scott-Heron – Back Home.mp3

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More ’70s Soul
More mixes

Happy Birthday this week to:
Sep 06
1942 Dave Bargeron Blood, Sweat & Tears
1944 Roger Waters Pink Floyd

Sep 07
1920 Al Caiola TV themes – “Bonanza”
1929 Sonny Rollins Jazz saxophonist
1936 Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
1949 Gloria Gaynor (Fowles) “I Will Survive” (1979)
1951 Chrissie Hynde Pretenders

Sep 08
1932 Patsy Cline
1946 Rod “Pigpen” McKernan Grateful Dead
1946 Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski) The Cars
1947 David Steele Fine Young Cannibals

Sep 09
1941 Otis Redding
1946 Billy Preston
1946 Doug Ingle Iron Butterfly

Sep 10
1925 Roy Brown “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (1947)
1939 Cynthia Lennon Cynthia Lennon (first wife of John Lennon)
1940 Roy Ayres Roy Ayres Ubiquity
1945 Jose Feliciano
1949 Barriemore Barlow Jethro Tull
1950 Joe Perry Aerosmith

Sep 11
1940 Bernie Dwyer Freddie & the Dreamers
1943 Mickey Hart Grateful Dead
1944 Phil May Pretty Things
1945 Leo Kottke
1953 Tommy Shaw Styx
1967 Harry Connick, Jr.

Sep 12
1943 Maria Muldaur “Midnight at the Oasis” (1970)
1944 Barry White “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” (1974)
1945 Andrea Simpson The Caravelles
1952 Gerry Beckley America

TRACKLIST :

01. The Green Leaves of Summer - Nick Perito
02. The Verdict (Dopo La Condanna) – Ennio Morricone
03. White Lightning – Charles Bernstein
04. Slaughter (Album Version) – Billy Preston
05. The Surrender [La Resa] – Ennio Morricone
06. One Silver Dollar / Un Dollaro Bucato – The Film Studio Orchestra
07. Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter – Zarah Leander
08. The Man with the Big Sombrero – Samantha Shelton and Michael Andre
09. Ich Wollt Ich Waer Ein Huhn – Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch
10. Main Theme from Dark of the Sun – Jacques Loussier
11. Cat People (Putting Out the Fire) – David Bowie
12. Tiger Tank – Lalo Schifrin
13. Un Amico – Ennio Morricone
14. Rabbia E Tarantella – Ennio Morricone

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Short Fat Fannie  (Larry Williams)

Billy Preston (1946-2006)

I was slippin and slidin with a long tall Sally
Peekin’ and a hidin’,duck back in the alley
Don’t wanna rip it up,don’t wanna dance with Annie
I’ve got a brand new lover name is Short Fat Fannie

One day while I was visit’n at HeartBreak Hotel
Thats where I met Fannie and she sure looked swell
I told her that I loved her and I’d never leave
She put her arms around me, gave me fever

 She’s my tutti fruiti,I love the child so
She watch me like a hound dog everywhere I go
Whenever I’m around her I’m on my p’s and q’s
She might step on my blue suede shoes

Well at a honky tonk party just the other night
Fannie got jealous and she started a fight
At the club I was dancin with MaryLou
I had to call Jim Dandy to the rescue

Short Fat Fannie she’s my hearts desire
Short Fat Fannie sets my soul on fire
On Monday we were married on Blueberry Hill
Now we’re so happy and I love her still

Word

polestar [pohl-stahr] n. 1. polaris 2. something that serves as a guiding principle 3. something that is the center of attention or attraction

Birthday

William Somervile (1675), Roger Wolcott (1847), Albert Spalding (1850), Joseph Roth (1894), Horace Silver (1928), Glen Sather (1943), Billy Preston (1946), Dan White (1946), Walt Simonson (1946), Terry Bradshaw (1948), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Mark Harmon (1951), Michael Gray (1951), Jimmy Connors (1952), John Zorn (1953), John S. Hall (1960), Keanu Reeves (1964), Lennox Lewis (1965), Salma Hayek (1966), Katt Williams (1973), Brian Westbrook (1979), Aimee Osbourne (1983)

Standpoint

Here’s something I wonder about from time to time. If I was a character in a horror movie, would I be the funny guy who died right away? Or would I be the one who, once I realized what was going, became the voice of reason/whiny guy and be the last one slaughtered before the male and female lead made their triumphant stand and figured out how to beat the killer? Also, I wonder if my character would put up a good fight or if I’d be the victim of choosing the wrong hallway to walk down and get my head lopped off when I turned an unfortunate corner where some psycho was strategically waiting.

It may not seem important to think about such things, but I’m sure if you think about it for a short while, you’ll understand just how important it really is.

Quotation

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ◊ Lewis Mumford

Tune

In doing this blog, I learn several new things everyday. It’s one of the great parts of doing it, actually. For instance, while researching today’s post, I learned the name for Throw Me The Statue was originally the title of a mixtape made by Scott Reitherman who eventually turned it into the name for his musical endeavours. TMTS released a new album in August – Creaturesque – and I can say with confidence it’s pretty great. Go to Stereogum to download “Ancestors.” And then go get the whole frickin’ album.

Gallimaufry

• I know everyone’s talking about how print media is going the way of fax machines and MySpace but I gotta tell you – I still love reading music magazines in my hands instead of off a computer screen. One such periodical I’m enjoying very much in the last few months is The Fader. It has to do with the selection of topics and the quality of the articles. The album reviews are done in a cool and unique way, too. Peter Macia’s “Phoenix Remains a Band Apart – Inseparable” from the July/August 2009 issue was as much about an individual’s personal music experience as it was informative about the band.

• Twitter is huge but Facebook has the staying power in the social networking battle royale. Check out Erik Linask’s “I’m in a Facebook State of Mind” if you don’t believe me.

• Dear Hollywood, why are you trying to ruin everything ever? I just read you’re remaking Teen Wolf. Please. Stop. Now.