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Dave's Song of the Day
Shotgun – Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Saturday song of the day: Today’s song was based on a dance.
Saxophone player and singer Autry Dewalt Mixon, Jr. was better known by the stage name Junior Walker. In 1965, he and his band Jr. Walker & The All Stars were recording a song he had written. The song was based on the dance “the Shotgun” and included references to other dances such as “the Jerk” and “the Twine.” Shotgun’s music was driven mostly by the sax and percussion.
It was released by Soul Records, which was a subsidiary of Motown Records. The producer for the recording was Berry Gordy, Jr., the owner of Motown. Shotgun was a hit, reaching #1 on the R&B Singles chart for four weeks, and topping out at #4 on the overall Billboard Hot 100 chart. Walker and the All Stars would go on to have several more Top 40 hits during the 1960s, but Shotgun will forever be the song with which they are most associated.
Tomorrow: I’ve got a story ain’t got no moral
Shotgun – Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Saturday song of the day: Today’s song was based on a dance.
Saxophone player and singer Autry Dewalt Mixon, Jr. was better known by the stage name Junior Walker. In 1965, he and his band Jr. Walker & The All Stars were recording a song he had written. The song was based on the dance “the Shotgun” and included references to other dances such as “the Jerk” and “the Twine.” Shotgun’s music was driven mostly by the sax and percussion.
It was released by Soul Records, which was a subsidiary of Motown Records. The producer for the recording was Berry Gordy, Jr., the owner of Motown. Shotgun was a hit, reaching #1 on the R&B Singles chart for four weeks, and topping out at #4 on the overall Billboard Hot 100 chart. Walker and the All Stars would go on to have several more Top 40 hits during the 1960s, but Shotgun will forever be the song with which they are most associated.
Tomorrow: I’ve got a story ain’t got no moral
Dave's Song of the Day
Will It Go Round in Circles – Billy Preston
Sunday song of the day: Today’s song started as a joke.
In the 1960s, keyboardist Billy Preston was mainly known as a session musician, most famously with The Beatles. He played on the hit Get Back as well as several other Beatles songs, and joined them for their famous rooftop concert in January 1969. He played keyboards for many other artists as well, including Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, and The Rolling Stones.
In addition to his session work, he also had a solo recording career. While working on what would be the 1972 album Music is My Life, he joked to his songwriting partner Bruce Fisher that he had a song but no melody. They then took that concept and wrote a song about it, which ended up being Will It Go Round in Circles. The song was released as a single in March 1973 and went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling. Preston would have another #1 the next year with Nothing From Nothing. (1969’s Get Back was also a #1, and was credited to “The Beatles With Billy Preston”.)
Preston continued to have a long music career, before passing away in 2006 at the age of 59.
Tomorrow: Out beyond the neon lights
Will It Go Round in Circles – Billy Preston
Sunday song of the day: Today’s song started as a joke.
In the 1960s, keyboardist Billy Preston was mainly known as a session musician, most famously with The Beatles. He played on the hit Get Back as well as several other Beatles songs, and joined them for their famous rooftop concert in January 1969. He played keyboards for many other artists as well, including Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, and The Rolling Stones.
In addition to his session work, he also had a solo recording career. While working on what would be the 1972 album Music is My Life, he joked to his songwriting partner Bruce Fisher that he had a song but no melody. They then took that concept and wrote a song about it, which ended up being Will It Go Round in Circles. The song was released as a single in March 1973 and went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling. Preston would have another #1 the next year with Nothing From Nothing. (1969’s Get Back was also a #1, and was credited to “The Beatles With Billy Preston”.)
Preston continued to have a long music career, before passing away in 2006 at the age of 59.
Tomorrow: Out beyond the neon lights
Romans 14:2 King James Version (KJV)
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmoxSrJmav8
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmoxSrJmav8
Probably a few people here who need to listen to this.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THpYFTzAX7Y&list=RD_bLgveCi8dM&index=27
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THpYFTzAX7Y&list=RD_bLgveCi8dM&index=27
Dave's Song of the Day
In the City – Joe Walsh
Monday song of the day: Today’s song originated on the soundtrack of a cult film.
In 1979, the movie The Warriors centered around gangs in New York City and was a financial failure that didn’t stay in theaters very long, partially due to gang violence that broke out in a few theaters. It has since become a cult favorite, however. The soundtrack featured a song written by the film’s music supervisor Barry De Vorzon and rock star Joe Walsh called In the City. Walsh performed the song as a solo artist, even though he had been a member of the popular band The Eagles since 1975.
In the City was a suitably bleak portrait of life in New York, although it left a glimmer of hope, much like the overall story of The Warriors. Walsh’s version appeared on the soundtrack album in April 1979 and was never released as a single in the United States. (The record label above is from a German promotional single given to radio stations, etc.)
Meanwhile, The Eagles were working on their album The Long Run and liked In the City. They recorded it for the album, with Joe Walsh once again providing vocals. The Eagles version was not released as a single either, but the song is fairly popular on classic rock radio.
Joe Walsh
The Eagles
Tomorrow: We all want something beautiful
In the City – Joe Walsh
Monday song of the day: Today’s song originated on the soundtrack of a cult film.
In 1979, the movie The Warriors centered around gangs in New York City and was a financial failure that didn’t stay in theaters very long, partially due to gang violence that broke out in a few theaters. It has since become a cult favorite, however. The soundtrack featured a song written by the film’s music supervisor Barry De Vorzon and rock star Joe Walsh called In the City. Walsh performed the song as a solo artist, even though he had been a member of the popular band The Eagles since 1975.
In the City was a suitably bleak portrait of life in New York, although it left a glimmer of hope, much like the overall story of The Warriors. Walsh’s version appeared on the soundtrack album in April 1979 and was never released as a single in the United States. (The record label above is from a German promotional single given to radio stations, etc.)
Meanwhile, The Eagles were working on their album The Long Run and liked In the City. They recorded it for the album, with Joe Walsh once again providing vocals. The Eagles version was not released as a single either, but the song is fairly popular on classic rock radio.
Joe Walsh
The Eagles
Tomorrow: We all want something beautiful
Dave's Song of the Day
Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song is not about the singer’s penis.
Counting Crows released their debut album, August and Everything After, in September 1993. The first single from the album was Mr. Jones, and it went to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since the song told the tale of the singer and Mr. Jones at a club checking out some girls, a story developed that “Mr. Jones” was a name for singer Adam Duritz’s penis.
In an interview a few years later, Duritz said this fan theory was nonsense. He explained the real meaning of Mr. Jones as “It’s really a song about my friend Marty and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Francisco in the mission playing with his old flamenco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco on Columbus and we got completely drunk. And Marty and I sat at the bar staring at these two girls, wishing there was some way we could go talk to them, but we were, we were too shy. And we thought, we kept joking with each other, that if we were big rock stars instead of such loser, low-budget musicians, we’d be able to, this would be easy. And I went home that night and I wrote a song about it.”
Tomorrow: A very strange, enchanted boy
Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song is not about the singer’s penis.
Counting Crows released their debut album, August and Everything After, in September 1993. The first single from the album was Mr. Jones, and it went to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since the song told the tale of the singer and Mr. Jones at a club checking out some girls, a story developed that “Mr. Jones” was a name for singer Adam Duritz’s penis.
In an interview a few years later, Duritz said this fan theory was nonsense. He explained the real meaning of Mr. Jones as “It’s really a song about my friend Marty and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Francisco in the mission playing with his old flamenco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco on Columbus and we got completely drunk. And Marty and I sat at the bar staring at these two girls, wishing there was some way we could go talk to them, but we were, we were too shy. And we thought, we kept joking with each other, that if we were big rock stars instead of such loser, low-budget musicians, we’d be able to, this would be easy. And I went home that night and I wrote a song about it.”
Tomorrow: A very strange, enchanted boy
I’ve been trying to get in the habit of finding the sample tracks for some of the hip hop beats/songs that I like.
RZA samples Donny Hathaway’s She is My Lady. Incredible song and artist. It’s a slow burner but damn good. 3:49 for the sample of you’re interested.
Biochemical Equation sent me down a Donny Hathaway rabbit hole. Another slow burner.
A lot of soul in that man’s voice.
R.I.P. Donny
RZA samples Donny Hathaway’s She is My Lady. Incredible song and artist. It’s a slow burner but damn good. 3:49 for the sample of you’re interested.
Biochemical Equation sent me down a Donny Hathaway rabbit hole. Another slow burner.
A lot of soul in that man’s voice.
R.I.P. Donny
Dave's Song of the Day
Nature Boy – King Cole
Wednesday song of the day: Today’s song was written by a proto-hippie.
In the 1940s, a guy named George Aberle became active in a “back-to-nature” movement based on the Lebensreform philosophy. The movement arose out of Germany and Switzerland, and espoused a simpler, more natural lifestyle. They were sort of like hippies twenty years before hippies existed. The particular group Aberle belonged to lived in the California desert and called themselves “Nature Boys.” As part of his lifestyle, Aberle changed his name to eden ahbez (insisting on no capital letters because “only God and Infinity” were worthy of capitalization.)
In 1947, he pitched a song he had written to the singer Nat “King” Cole. It was obviously based on himself, and titled Nature Boy. The song was declined, so he instead gave it to Cole’s valet, who in turn passed it to the singer. He liked the song and recorded a version in August 1947. Executives at the record company thought the song was not good enough to release, so it sat for a while. Then in 1948, the American Federation of Musicians labor union instituted a recording ban to try to get higher royalty pay for musicians. During the ban, the companies did not have new music to release, so they took things that had been languishing on the shelves and released that instead. In March 1948, this included Nat “King” Cole’s recording of Nature Boy.
Nature Boy proved popular and reached #1 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart (the precursor to the later Hot 100 chart) and sold over a million copies. The record was credited to “King Cole”. Earlier in his career, Cole was the leader of The King Cole Trio, and when he went solo in the late 1940s he was known as King Cole, and later began crediting himself as Nat “King” Cole or Nat King Cole. Nature Boy was the first of three solo #1 hits for Cole (he had earlier had a #1 hit with the King Cole Trio).
Tomorrow: I’ve seen babies dancing in the midnight sun
Nature Boy – King Cole
Wednesday song of the day: Today’s song was written by a proto-hippie.
In the 1940s, a guy named George Aberle became active in a “back-to-nature” movement based on the Lebensreform philosophy. The movement arose out of Germany and Switzerland, and espoused a simpler, more natural lifestyle. They were sort of like hippies twenty years before hippies existed. The particular group Aberle belonged to lived in the California desert and called themselves “Nature Boys.” As part of his lifestyle, Aberle changed his name to eden ahbez (insisting on no capital letters because “only God and Infinity” were worthy of capitalization.)
In 1947, he pitched a song he had written to the singer Nat “King” Cole. It was obviously based on himself, and titled Nature Boy. The song was declined, so he instead gave it to Cole’s valet, who in turn passed it to the singer. He liked the song and recorded a version in August 1947. Executives at the record company thought the song was not good enough to release, so it sat for a while. Then in 1948, the American Federation of Musicians labor union instituted a recording ban to try to get higher royalty pay for musicians. During the ban, the companies did not have new music to release, so they took things that had been languishing on the shelves and released that instead. In March 1948, this included Nat “King” Cole’s recording of Nature Boy.
Nature Boy proved popular and reached #1 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart (the precursor to the later Hot 100 chart) and sold over a million copies. The record was credited to “King Cole”. Earlier in his career, Cole was the leader of The King Cole Trio, and when he went solo in the late 1940s he was known as King Cole, and later began crediting himself as Nat “King” Cole or Nat King Cole. Nature Boy was the first of three solo #1 hits for Cole (he had earlier had a #1 hit with the King Cole Trio).
Tomorrow: I’ve seen babies dancing in the midnight sun
