Posted on 10/10/2017 8:12:45 PM PDT by Kevin in California
My Wife’s mother was engaged to my wife’s uncle who’s B-17, the Sharon Belle, was shot down in 1943. Her mother wound up marrying my wife’s father, who was the brother of the airman killed. My wife’s mother was a Wave, or something, and spent the war organizing USO functions. I am fuzzy on exactly what the functions were, but she had autographs from many prominent big name entertainers of that era. We took her to see Glenn Miller’s band in the mid 80’s or so. At least we were told it was his band. My kids love that music because it reminds them of their grandmother.
Buddy Holly~Peggy Sue
Roy Orbison~Corinna Corinna
Chuck Willis~C C Rider
Tommy Edwards~It's All In The Game
Hugo Winterhalter~Canadian Sunset
Jack Scott~My True Love
....and many, many more. :)
I always got a kick out of the Coasters. Little Egypt, Along Came Jones, Yakkety-Yack, etc.
What about the Ink Spots?
The Drifters
Up on the Roof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM1k-S86nE
Brook Benton
Rainy Night in Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU
Gladys Knight
Midnight Train to Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78-ftcqpNw&list=RDv78-ftcqpNw&t=47
30’s and 40’s for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5c
One of his works ‘Dark was the night’ “has the distinction of being one of 27 samples of music included on the Voyager Golden Record, launched into space in 1977 to represent the diversity of life on Earth.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Was_the_Night,_Cold_Was_the_Ground
Grab hold of something before you take flight. There actually used to be something called instrumentals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBotlTI4BUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW21rcHiVU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFL0x2ur71E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IS3YnvAkDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59m-WU_P6d8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgftmOeK_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHdU5sHigYQ
The piece de resistance:
My all-time number one instrumental that came out my senior year in high school, 1961:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW21rcHiVU0
I love most music from the late 30’s as when Benny Goodman put the “swing” to it and also the big bands of the 1940’s such as Kay Kyser, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Esquivel, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and many others.
I grew up on 60’s and 70’s rock. One of my specialties is obscure rock from that period. Great bands that never got much if any airplay.
To name a few, that a whole lot of folks have never heard I’d start with Audience, Horslips, Fruupp, Cressida, Beggar’s Banquet, Colosseum, Flash, Gentle Giant, Arabesque, Stackridge, Clear Light, Tomorrow, Stray, Curved Air, Warhorse, The Open Mind...I could name maybe hundreds more.
Some of those bands are some of the greatest bands out there and a pity they weren’t given more airtime on the FM rock stations back then. I was one of those long haired FM types (as Rush calls them) and I would often play these unknown bands on the graveyard shift.
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