Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's,90's Music (2023)

[jvs]

Here em roar by.

 

[xtrnuno41]

Long time ago came in touch with this band, never knew them.

However you have to like it, but somehow i did.

To go on in rough section

 

 

 

Awake now?

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[jvs]

RIP Jane.

 

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[STALINGRAD]

https://youtu.be/uX9k9aoX6gk

 

[STALINGRAD]

https://youtu.be/VZvzvLiGUtw

 

[STALINGRAD]

https://youtu.be/t1Jm5epJr10

 

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[jvs]

 

[jvs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e70oln-7evM

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[Tippaporn]

Rock 'n' Roll roots.  An iconic American folksong, The Midnight Special.

 

"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South.  The song refers to the passenger train Midnight Special and its "ever-loving light" (sometimes "ever-living light").

The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the prisoner and has been performed by many artists.

Leadbelly was one of the first to record the song:

 

The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs is an album by Lead Belly and the Golden Gate Quartet, recorded for Victor Records in 1940 and released a few months later.

In 1939, Lead Belly was back in jail for assault after stabbing a man in a fight in Manhattan. The ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, who had started to make field recordings of folk music for the Library of Congress, helped raise money for Lead Belly's legal expenses.  It was Lomax's original intent to record songs in prison, but instead a recording studio was used.  To create a "prison" feel Lomax suggested that the Golden Gate Quartet back Lead Belly. However, the Golden Gate Quartet was a polished, professional group, and Lead Belly had to teach them how to sing as a group of prisoners would sing the selected songs.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

Cisco Houston had teamed up with Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie to record the song in '46.  This version is Cisco's solo off of his '58 Cisco Sings LP.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

Perhaps The Spencer Davis Group were the first rock band to record a quality cover.  Off of their Autumn '66 album.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

Another fine cover was recorded by Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group with Chris Barber in '55 off of the '56 Backstairs Session LP.

 

 

Edited July 26, 2023 by Tippaporn

[Tippaporn]

Harry Belafonte's '61 recording of Midnight Special is historic in that it was the first recording of Bob Dylan, who played harp as a session musician.  Off of the '62 album of same name.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

Creedance Clearwater Revival's live performance of Midnight Special in '70.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

And one more cover which I found delightful by Billy Bragg & Joe Henry from their 2016 new album Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

In my travels digging into the Midnight Special I saw that Lonnie Donegan And His Skiffle Group did a cover of another iconic American blues folk song, The House Of The Riding Sun.  Now that's gotta be good, I said to myself.  And right I was.  Off of his '59 Lonnie Rides Again album.

 

 

[Tippaporn]

The Animal's rendition by well be the best, though.
 

Experience The Animals House Of The Rising Sun Music Video like never before in stunning 4K HD! We've restored, upscaled, and enhanced the original footage from 1964 using artificial intelligence. Let us know what classic songs and videos you'd like to see restored next!

 

 

[jvs]

Rip.

 

[Mutt Daeng]

5 hours ago, jvs said:

Rip.

 

Tragic loss.