This weekend, we invite you to reach back to songs you enjoyed when you were younger or songs from before you were born. Classical, jazz, blues, pop or rock, songs from the past that stay with you.
There are so many wonderful classical pieces I enjoy, I could fill up the whole post with them. Having to narrow them down is tough, I just picked one from Tchaikovsky and Mozart but there are so many others on my favorites list. Following them somewhat chronologically are an eclectic mix of oldies but goodies:
Waltz from Swan Lake – Tchaikovsky
The Marriage of Figaro – Mozart
Limehouse Blues – Django Reinhardt
Stardust – Louie Armstrong
Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
That’ll Be The Day – Buddy Holly
Shout – Isley Brothers
You Really Got Me – The Kinks
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
I better stop now or this post will go on for pages. Your turn!
The Young Rascals. Groovin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgozdtsh_g&feature=related
Sing it Stevie. Overjoyed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-_nePbPhek&feature=related
Debussy Claire de Lune
The Very Thought of You – Billie Holiday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJuFxl0bxY
Think – Aretha Franklin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
Pledge drive on the local PBS station, they’re showing a 1969 TV special about these two, IMO the best duo ever:
Cab Calloway–Reefer Man;
John Hartford–Gentle On My Mind;
Willie Nelson
You Were Always on my Mind
https://youtu.be/5u5LZ-DN3iA
Gentle on My Mind
Glenn Campbell ( He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s)
https://youtu.be/cFIRTtn_ZSE
The Orlons
Don’t Hang Up
https://youtu.be/rIPFaDMnl-s
South Street
https://youtu.be/22Wk98IH2fU
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Shop Around
https://youtu.be/RVX9RCPdOk8
Who’s Sorry Now
Connie Francis
https://youtu.be/TjHJ_snG3RI
Crazy
Patsy Cline
https://youtu.be/2OVtpnpCOKM
One of my favorite songs. This version done to a video of Bush’s war the original version is below.
One Tin Soldier
https://youtu.be/8xR8rnUmtGU
https://youtu.be/wxQUH7EVqH4
Johnny Rivers
Summer Rain
https://youtu.be/HSLGneuOqxk
I bet not many have heard this one by the (now) Rev Al Wilson
The Snake
It was played quite often in Northern CA
https://youtu.be/Ib3_eXiTd00
Cab Calloway–Minnie The Moocher;
Before my time, but a good one, the Glenn Miller orchestra, “In The Mood”. Before MTV there were “Soundies”, juke boxes that would play 16MM films of songs, not sure, but this could be one.
I heard a lot of Glenn Miller while growing up. My parents were big fans. Woody Herman and Tommy Dorsey too. And of course, Frank Sinatra.