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[p.tigerlily]

Here's a great obscure novelty song, not sure it did anything outside of NYC, Murray the K played it a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0b5MVLiI4

duuuuuudeeeeee

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Billie Holiday singing 'My Yiddishe Momme" followed by Harlan Howard country tearjerker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dowy5Jdb-Yg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNc7-Co6tk

[Seth]

Here's a live performance from my duo with Dom Lash from Saturday's Extraction Music event in Cardiff: https://youtu.be/AVUoKwsx_nA

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

So tonight I did the singing call to Side By Side. Kudos to Karen K for alerting me a while ago to fine lines in the song I was leaving out.

As you look into this song, it turns out to be one of those little bits of the world that unfolds into unexpected bouquets!

The original song is from 1927, but the definitive and most popular version was Kay Starr's 1953 rendition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcF3eVnVdw

Music written by the ubiquitous Gus Kahn, a Tin Pan Alley and American Songbook stalwart.

Lyrics are by Harry Woods, a lesser known name but a fascinating story in himself. Harry was born with no fingers on his left hand but encouraged in music by his mother, who was a concert singer. Woods graduated Harvard with a music degree and set up shop as a songwriter in Manhattan. First hit was Paddlin' Maddlin Home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAhE0UBuqE

When The Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bobbin' Along, was a smash for Harry, rendered here in a later version by one of the all-time greatest (albeit underrated) jazz singers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_HThbCF7_Q

This was the most popular version of Woods' classic I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-_8XOrvTs

Woods also wrote Try A Little Tenderness in 1932, although the definitive version came 34 years later when Otis Redding and Booker T and The MGs joined forces for the sublime soulful 1966 rendition of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXmLjbTBcdU


Although Woods' lyrics were unflaggingly upbeat and sweetly sentimental, Woods himself was a "dangerous and volatile alcoholic." He died at 73 in 1970, hit by a car in front of his house in Glendale, AZ.

I'm just a kid again doin' what I did again,
Steve

[Wombatz]

had this on one of my first self-compiled mixtapes when i was 10 or so. i hate big bands but such perfect harmonies.

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

That's a good one, Wombatz!

I've a had a huge response from the club I sent the above post to, my high level advanced and challenge club, about Side By Side. A half dozen remembered it as a song they had sung with their mothers, one telling me her mother remembered the song well enough to sing it long after she had forgotten the names of her children who were singing along with her.

Here's Slam Stewart and Major Holley doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTVPRg5jGDY

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Jon Rose playing wire fences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-BAqDGtQPY

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Some of the current plays on my weekly club DJ list, the tunes I play in between the squares, rounds and lines, for free dancing or listening.

A couple for The Fourth:

Josh Turner -- Firecracker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPOTQBEe2eA

Pitbull ft John Ryan -- Fireball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqgVXSvwGo

plus

Johnny Cash -- Flushed From The Bathroom of Your Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZGxbrzEO4

Sara Bareiolles -- I Choose You (wasn't a big hit, but is making its mark as a wedding song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGkIqu-mpc

Lana Del Ray -- Salvatore (Neo-Italian Dada bubblegum): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5z0xhg98zo

Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs -- Stay (absolutely perfect 128 bpm chacha): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9hSgs0ITI0

George Strait -- Easy Come, Easy Go (I do a singing call this one, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPW7Ds4 ... s4NcP8#t=5

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Was is that tune at the beginning?

Estoy Aqui -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJHH026X0c

the one we were thinking of -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOy7TPjfkE

another one -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpmj059JFA

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Current hits, new additions to the playlist from Justine Timberlake and The Chainsmokers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru0K8uYEZWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0fBr1XBUA

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKV6MY5H-Jg

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Late summer additions to the playlist

Sigala Feat. John Newman & Nile Rodgers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze6H75NCUs8

Maren Morris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouWQ25O-Mcg

Sia Feat. Sean Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31crA53Dgu0

Grace Feat. G-Eazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SeRU_ZPDkE

Kent Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n49qi-dU9IE

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

Toussaint McCall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6I4fUnICdI


Ketty Lester

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaHpk-dNVQ

[Hayao Yamaneko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pSNJr83qyU

Agog from the first moment.

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

The original of my newest singing call, Your Mind Is On Vacation and Your Mouth Is Working Overtime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxZ-scE9mDk

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnqrqRGyFQo

[Steve Minkin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCirfRU1dWw

[Steve Minkin]

John Scofield's new album is his interpretations of country songs, this by Merle Haggard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STWGP1 ... zPbh2fTUir

[Wombatz]

John Scofield's new album is his interpretations of country songs

what a lame 'concept'. he sounds as great as ever though (not at all like on his awful ray charles tribute).

[walto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wkA_XFus78

Incredible documentary of Momente. Not just the music, Stockhausen and Martina Arroyo. But those 60s duds!!