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Posted on 09/13/2018 4:53:26 PM PDT by fatima
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“Raindrops” - Dee Clark
“When you walk through a storm”
“Who’ll Stop the Rain” - CCR
“Let the Four Winds Blow” - The Fat Man
“Stormy” - Classics IV
“It Might As Well Rain Until September” - Carole King
“I Wish It Would Rain” - The Temptations
“Kentucky Rain” - Elvis
“Rainy Night in Georgia” - the incredible Brook Benton
“Have You Ever Seen the Rain” - CCR
“I Can’t Stand the Rain” - Ann Peebles
Says the proud Aunt!!! Glad his debut went well.
Are those fires anywhere near you?
A lovely song. A sad song too.
Paul’s voice is so clear and well trained.
Little Anthony (& The Imperials) also sang with great annunciation and clarity. That singer, Jermone Anthony Gourdine, said he wanted to learn how to sing as clearly and precisely as Johnny Mathis used to do.
I always thought, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, is fun.
Thanks. I found it earlier and listened to it. Great song sung by an amazing artist, huh? Think I’ll buy it on iTunes.
Rush - “The Fountain of Lamenth” (from their Caress of Steel album).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mC7j-fxqfs
5:30 minutes in:
“The sky is pitching violently
Drawn by shrieking winds
Seaspray blurs my vision
Waves roll by so fast
Save my ship of freedom
I’m lashed helpless to the mast”
Glad you enjoyed it, and enough to buy it.
Above is the live version of Wreckers, with the orchestra.
Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie ~ When the Levee Breaks ~ Famous 1927 Mississippi River Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U
I just bought as well as versions by Doc and Richard Watson and by Johnny Rivers.
These threads are always fun as we get to hear what others like. Somehow, because of our common love of American and conservatism, a lot of the favorite music posted by FReepers is really enjoyable. Always lots of good Americana.
I still enjoy buying tunes to add to my own music collection. I moved everything to iTunes shortly after the iPod and iTunes were released. About five years ago, I bought a home music server and copied all my music to it. really enjoy having all my music at my fingertips no matter where I am.
"Charlie and his Orchestra (also referred to as the "Templin band" and "Bruno and His Swinging Tigers") were a Nazi-sponsored German propaganda swing band. Jazz music styles were seen by Nazi authorities as rebellious but, ironically, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels conceived of using the style in shortwave radio broadcasts aimed at the United States and (particularly) the United Kingdom.What an interesting bit of history!British listeners heard the band every Wednesday and Saturday at about 9 pm. The importance of the band in the propaganda war was underscored by a BBC survey released after World War II, which indicated that 26.5 percent of all British listeners had at some point heard programmes from Germany. The German Propaganda Ministry also distributed their music on 78 rpm records to POW camps and occupied countries.
After the war the musicians reorganized under Fritz Brocksieper with the name Freddie Brocksieper, but were still recognized as "Goebbels' band". They played at US Armed Forces clubs in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. Conductor Lutz Templin became one of the founders of the ARD broadcast network. Schwedler (in varying accounts) either emigrated to the US in 1960, or became a businessman who retired at Tegernsee.
The purposes of the band were to encourage pro-Nazi sympathies, draw attention to World War II Allied losses, convince listeners that Great Britain was a pawn for American (and Jewish) interests and convey German dictator Adolf Hitler's messages in an entertaining form. The songs stressed how badly the war was going for the target audience, and how it would be only a matter of time until they would be defeated.
American swing and popular British songs were initially performed true to the originals until the second or third stanza, when pro-German lyrics and monologues would be introduced."
Soft thunder from across the meadow
Rain buckets on the kitchen floor
No letter and the coffer is empty
But all these storms I know we'll weather
All these storms we'll ride togetherI never dreamed it would be so hard girl
Never saved up for a rainy day
Never thought that we
Might howl and shiver
But all these storms I know we'll weather
All these storms we'll ride togetherPick up your heart my love
Pick up your branch and dove
Canon in the name of the lord
We got a hole to mend
We got a fire to tend
We won't let these troubles grind us
We got friends and prayers to mind us
We got seven years behind us
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