In praise of standards

[threebikesmcginty]

Buck Owen's classic - Crying Time a duet with Ray Charles here...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQiUqs7MHUA


Hank Williams - I Can't Help it if I'm Still Love


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVQ8xj4lZU&feature=related


Harlan Howard's I Fall to Pieces, this version by Faron Young


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fERXnIqEQo4


Pam Tillis singing a song her daddy, Mel Tillis, wrote - Detroit City


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0zNVWABsc


As you'll all agree the best songwriting (and singing/playing) is in country music, all these have been recorded by dozens of first rate artists. I could go on forever but this is enough to convince anyone...surely!

 

[Aperitif]

Teef - I'm going to have to eat (some of) my words! I just Wikied the song, and found this:

The song was recorded by Rosemary Clooney and also in 1969 by The Bachelors, a popular Irish band. The song When the Deal Goes Down by Bob Dylan is based on the melody of this song, although performed as a waltz.

...I didn't like to say..I worship you too much...

Slice off the sugary intro from this clip and there is a neat interlude of pianology - just missing the smoky atmosphere, an odd laugh, conversation and beery pub ambiance that evokes the Lord Palmerston, Acton, circa 1962...
(It's not so much an age thing - it's a memory thing you understand )

Oh, and Russ Columbo (Actor, violinist, singer? and possibly cyclist too, also had a crack at this 'choon') It's a bit murder at the microphone for me - but he did it, despite getting his pants tweaked at the end!

Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith group is still on musical death row - awaiting execution for advanced murder.

 

[Aperitif]

Teef - I'm going to have to eat (some of) my words! I just Wikied the song, and found this:

The song was recorded by Rosemary Clooney and also in 1969 by The Bachelors, a popular Irish band. The song When the Deal Goes Down by Bob Dylan is based on the melody of this song, although performed as a waltz.

...I didn't like to say..I worship you too much...

Slice off the sugary intro from this clip and there is a neat interlude of pianology - just missing the smoky atmosphere, an odd laugh, conversation and beery pub ambiance that evokes the Lord Palmerston, Acton, circa 1962...
(It's not so much an age thing - it's a memory thing you understand )

Oh, and Russ Columbo (Actor, violinist, singer? and possibly cyclist too, also had a crack at this 'choon') It's a bit murder at the microphone for me - but he did it, despite getting his pants tweaked at the end!

Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith group is still on musical death row - awaiting execution for advanced murder.

 

[Aperitif]

Buck Owen's classic - Crying Time a duet with Ray Charles here...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQiUqs7MHUA


Hank Williams - I Can't Help it if I'm Still Love


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVQ8xj4lZU&feature=related


Harlan Howard's I Fall to Pieces, this version by Faron Young


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fERXnIqEQo4


Pam Tillis singing a song her daddy, Mel Tillis, wrote - Detroit City


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0zNVWABsc


As you'll all agree the best songwriting (and singing/playing) is in country music, all these have been recorded by dozens of first rate artists. I could go on forever but this is enough to convince anyone...surely!

OK Agreed-ish (not a greedo )

One of my ultra-favourite pieces of country is indeed a Standard. Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn blah blah - they are all on youtube and all good. Hank Williams Jr is a nice B+W watch. "Your Cheatin' Heart" - brilliant.
This one is different - you can do the instrumantal bit rather than sing-a-long for a change!

I am now going to waste time with Hanky Panky...

I can't even press the right edit button! Here. Deano adding to the blend of crooners.

 

[Aperitif]

Buck Owen's classic - Crying Time a duet with Ray Charles here...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQiUqs7MHUA


Hank Williams - I Can't Help it if I'm Still Love


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVQ8xj4lZU&feature=related


Harlan Howard's I Fall to Pieces, this version by Faron Young


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fERXnIqEQo4


Pam Tillis singing a song her daddy, Mel Tillis, wrote - Detroit City


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0zNVWABsc


As you'll all agree the best songwriting (and singing/playing) is in country music, all these have been recorded by dozens of first rate artists. I could go on forever but this is enough to convince anyone...surely!

OK Agreed-ish (not a greedo )

One of my ultra-favourite pieces of country is indeed a Standard. Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn blah blah - they are all on youtube and all good. Hank Williams Jr is a nice B+W watch. "Your Cheatin' Heart" - brilliant.
This one is different - you can do the instrumantal bit rather than sing-a-long for a change!

I am now going to waste time with Hanky Panky...

I can't even press the right edit button! Here. Deano adding to the blend of crooners.

 

[TVC]

All the best Standards are British.

And on a similar note:

Not all Cliff songs are rubbish
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7i7ajweZXw

 

[TVC]

All the best Standards are British.

And on a similar note:

Not all Cliff songs are rubbish
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7i7ajweZXw

 

[Aperitif]

Riff Pilchard looks older in that vid than he does now!

 

[Aperitif]

Riff Pilchard looks older in that vid than he does now!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I am now going to waste time with Hanky Panky...

The The!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I am now going to waste time with Hanky Panky...

The The!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

How about 'The Knoxville Girl' as done by the Wilburn Brothers on this occasion although I prefer the Louvin version I can't find good footage of it. A lovely murder ballad, it's derived from the 19th century Irish ballad The Wexford Girl, itself derived from the earlier English ballad The Oxford Girl. It was re-written, IIRC, to include some retribution as the original saw him go free! So a couple of hundred years old is a standard methinks.

'she never spoke another word, I only beat her more' - lovely stuff!!!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXa1owy58o

 

[threebikesmcginty]

How about 'The Knoxville Girl' as done by the Wilburn Brothers on this occasion although I prefer the Louvin version I can't find good footage of it. A lovely murder ballad, it's derived from the 19th century Irish ballad The Wexford Girl, itself derived from the earlier English ballad The Oxford Girl. It was re-written, IIRC, to include some retribution as the original saw him go free! So a couple of hundred years old is a standard methinks.

'she never spoke another word, I only beat her more' - lovely stuff!!!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXa1owy58o

 

[Baggy]

Alison Moyet, giving That Ole Devil the diva treatment.

 

[Baggy]

Alison Moyet, giving That Ole Devil the diva treatment.