This weekend’s music theme is about celebrating the music we grew up with, the music that surrounded us as children and that we rocked out to as teens. Your first favorite song, your first favorite band, your first live concert or even the theme song of your prom dance.
Jump in the time machine and re-visit yourself in the past with the songs that were the soundtrack to your life.
Turn the record player on and drop the needle!
And one other favorite of the time: Johnny Hartman singing with John Coltrane on sax (the first and only time Coltrane would play with any “singer”:
LUSH LIFE
Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens by one (very talented) Louis Jordan…
That’s Leon Russell playing piano. He wrote this song, but George really makes it beautiful.
Superb. Leon is way too under-acknowledged for his incredible music.