Tony Bennett's reluctantly-recorded and instantly disowned 1970 album with modish sleeve art and a few Beatles covers is often put down but I still want to listen to it at some point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sings_the_Great_Hits_of_Today!
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:09 (one month ago) link
"chequered"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:39 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Plus this Hendrix/Sly-inspired cut from a few years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQDNVeLXC8
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:13 (one month ago) link
40s/50s singers actors attempts to stay hip but mostly failing, sometimes gloriouslyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94-_w9ARX0
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:14 (one month ago) link
which in turn inspired a strange response record - one of the only full-on comedy sketches to chart in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5VwDOdSA8
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:16 (one month ago) link
love this album mainly for the cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyHjc6Pif8
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:22 (one month ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Howlin%27_Wolf_-_The_Howlin%27_Wolf_Album.jpg
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:30 (one month ago) link
on a smaller timescale, I'm kind of fascinated by the mid to late 60s career of Duane Eddy. by this point the hits had dried up, so he and producer Lee Hazlewood were grasping at straws to try and reconnect him with "the youth"so they made an album of Dylan covers in 65, a collection of soft pop hippy hits like Monday Monday and A Groovy Kind Of Love in 66, and a 1920s themed album called The Roaring Twangies in 67. and when that didn't work he made a Japanese only album.
anyway here's Duane & Lee with a crap rewrite of Boots on the hippy album called This Guitar was Made For Twangin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsKxy9MK8A
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link
Wow at the Pat Boone cover! Loving the suggestions.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:30 (one month ago) link
There’s Link Wray’s very cool and Stones-y ‘70s record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TddkJKg5PNw
― President Keyes, Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
Paul Anka, ladies and gents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Swings
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:46 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0lalWijN_Y
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:49 (one month ago) link
Paul Anka doing It's a Sin wow
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:32 (one month ago) link
Not real, but still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwSaO2SnHQ
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:37 (one month ago) link
There’s Link Wray’s very cool and Stones-y ‘70s record― President Keyes
― President Keyes
wray was genuinely awesome in the '70s, though... like, he wasn't trying, he just _was_ hip
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:42 (one month ago) link
Not a singer, and I think I posted this in another thread recently, but
https://i.discogs.com/6bLZnoynzsnsiqXBUSJf3cVaA9NShNV7-KiX90gYxHc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMDE1/MjEtMTQ4NzYzMDk1/Mi0yMzAyLnBuZw.jpeg
Al Hirt Now!
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 4 April 2024 03:20 (one month ago) link
Jack Jones is still alive! He’s 86. My first radio job at a small town mostly-easy listening station I used to play his cover of Little Feat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34OsZs4NHs
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 April 2024 03:26 (one month ago) link
Psychedelic Bo Diddley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M6uAZl7XjU
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 4 April 2024 03:58 (one month ago) link