Oldies

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EskkrIS9pTs]‪Funny Way of Laughing---Burl Ives‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU]‪Carpenters Close To You‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFypAB7nYGA]‪three dog night‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSep7QJXKlE]‪Carole King "It's Too Late"‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaVXfHZv50Y]‪Bill Withers - Lean On Me‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCB9P_XT4KY]‪BEVERLY BREMERS - "Don't Say You Don't Remember" (1971)‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
From the days when I used to do a late-night Jazz show.....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rw0KeodoY4]‪The John Buzon Trio - Blues In My Heart‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

Oh YEAH! I knew I had the old theme piece around somewhere......

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CYQ6YZHMEE]‪Erskine Hawkins After Hours‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

Now talk nice or I'll post a bunch of Edith Piaf!
 
I'm talkin' the REAL oldies, 50s, 60s, 70s...the stuff I grew up listening to...the best music ever!

Post your favs or make a request and I'll find it for you!


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‪Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant‬‏ - YouTube

Remember this one? (1951 - in a movie with the same name in 1957)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caWN1nHF2hA]‪Jeri Southern - Fire Down Below‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Or this one - 1957. A lot of very special memories for me here: Mammoth Lakes, High Sierras - Marilyn, if you are out there . . . .

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_i_5sZfwM]‪Debbie Reynolds - Tammy (1957)‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
I have always felt that this song was the start of the folk song craze that began in the mid-1950's and, to some extent, is still going on:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-DShN82mc]‪Harry Belafonte. Matilda‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
Note the reference to the "new land" of Israel:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5v651bQ1o]‪Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - The Weavers - (Lyrics)‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
9 minutes long - but a masterpiece. Stick around for one of the best endings Brubeck and Desmond ever did. How High the Moon:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZS2OT4ZrTo]‪Dave Brubeck Quartet Live At Oberlin College 1953 ~ How High The Moon‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5teZM7Im2As]‪Skip A Rope---Henson Cargill‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
 

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