What music are you listening to?

[Logan]

Karen Carpenter solo Album
If we try

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Happy International Womens Day.

 

[Logan]

Our Eurovision entry

 

[Esther Knapicius]

how does one deal with those fingernails in certain places. No way.

 

[Logan]

Yes i know, i don't think that you could do anything with those on your hands.

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]

Fox, Tails of illusion

 

[youngalistairyoung@yahoo.]

Usual middle- aged bland soft rock

 

[Logan]

Original

Cover

 

[Sean Regan]

I'm always critical of old singers and groups who don't know when to call it a day and continue performing because of vanity, bad advice or sheer economics and do themselves no favours as they are so poor.


I watched last night the recording I made earlier on Sky Arts of the Hall & Oates 2014 concert in Dublin. Daryl Hall would have been 68 and John Oates 66.

Excerpts from this and an earlier concert in Dublin are on YouTube

"They could still cut it."

In some respects, particularly their performances of some of their seventies songs, they'd improved with age.

As a pop duo, I've always liked them since I heard their first appearance in the UK on BBC TV's "Old Grey Whistle Test," back in the mid-seventies, when they played and sung "Camellia." It prompted me to go out the following day and buy their "Silver Album" as it's known, which includes that track.

Over next ten years I bought, amongst other albums, several of theirs.
I guess they've always had a loyal fan base and must attract younger people through the decades. So much so that this album, of which I have a copy released in 1973,

became a million seller, but took 20 years to achieve it.
I've this single from it in one of my two jukeboxes. It's known as "The Stewardess Song."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When you've made your money, you can invite friends round to your house, to play just for fun.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


Tod Rundgren's voice hasn't worn as well.
This song comes from his double album "Something/Anything," on which Tod plays all the instruments (but not all at the same time) I bought this nearly fifty years ago. I've that single too, in the same jukebox.

 

[Sean Regan]

I'm watching the 1949 Bogart film Tokyo Joe on "Talking Pictures"

Whilst Bogart had "Rick's" and "As Time Goes By." in Casablanca.

He has Tokyo Joe's" and "These Foolish Things" in Japan. (actually sung by his co-star Florence Marly).

I like this version of that tune, played by one of the younger members of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.

 

[Sean Regan]

A new direction for the band?

Seems to be a bit of a reunion, as all the girls are there, on this as backing vocalists.

Little Carla soloing in a fifties pop style.

Magali lead vocal.

It would appear it's a track on a double CD they've made.

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]