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#27616 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:01 pm
Subject: MIDI: Time May Change 1948
james_pittpayne
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 Time May Change 1948
from The Leigh Stafford Revue "Maid To Measure"
starring Jessie Matthews, Tommy Fields & Lew Parker
Music by Huw Wade
Lyrics by Leigh Stafford
© MCMXLVIII by Campbell Connelly & Co.Ltd.  London WC2
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 14 April 2012 at 17.47
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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James Pitt-Payne

#27617 From: kosmas mamadopoulos <kosmas1212@...>
Date: Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:16 pm
Subject: RE: NEED HELP WITH IMAC APPLE PROGRAM (Vambasco) for j j
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thank you very much kos

http://www.damav.com/seq/Kosmas/
Kosmas Website of songs



To: midkar@yahoogroups.com
CC: kosmas1212@...
From: 1jazzguy@...
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:24:38 -0500
Subject: Re: [midkar] NEED HELP WITH IMAC APPLE PROGRAM (Vambasco) for j j

 
Kos,

Try this as to HOW, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLet_dq4fJQ

and this for DOWNLOAD  http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10240368-12.html

That was just a quick search in Google. There may be better sites. ??

Bob

kosmas mamadopoulos wrote:
where to i find it? and where to buy it ? please Let me know i thank you kosmas

http://www.damav.com/seq/Kosmas/
Kosmas Website of songs



To: midkar@yahoogroups.com
From: bajhista@...
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:32:47 +0800
Subject: Re: [midkar] NEED HELP WITH IMAC APPLE PROGRAM (Vambasco) for j j

 

Yes... you must have the window disc installer.
JJ
 
Note: 
Remember the three R's: 
Respect for self; Respect for others; 
and Responsibility for all actions.
 


From: kosmas mamadopoulos <kosmas1212@...>
To: MIDCAR <midkar@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 1:48 AM
Subject: RE: [midkar] NEED HELP WITH IMAC APPLE PROGRAM (Vambasco) for j j

 
thank you very much J J. but how you install windows? is a disc? can i download for the internet?
please advice me if you have time.. thank you kosmas

http://www.damav.com/seq/Kosmas/
Kosmas Website of songs



To: midkar@yahoogroups.com
From: bajhista@...
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:36:45 +0800
Subject: Re: [midkar] NEED HELP WITH IMAC APPLE PROGRAM (Vambasco)

 

There is no VanBasco for Mac OS.
What you can is install windows in you Mac and you can use VanBasco in windows.
I am sure your Mac have Cross Over application.
JJ
 
Note: 
Remember the three R's: 
Respect for self; Respect for others; 
and Responsibility for all actions.
 


From: kosmas mamadopoulos <kosmas1212@...>
To: MIDCAR <midkar@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:43 PM
Subject: RE: [midkar] NEED HELP WITH IMAC APPLE PROGRAM (Vambasco)

 
Hi to all of you i am in Athens greece  and i just got from USA an APPLE IMAC 21.5.
i have a hard time to find and download (Vanbasco karioki player )
is anybody  know how? and where to go to get it? and how ?
is vanbasco made for imac?or another similar program made for apple IMAC?please let me know if you know.
i thank you very much kosmas


http://www.damav.com/seq/Kosmas/
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#27618 From: "Gary Rogers" <garyrog@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:46 am
Subject: The Trouble With Girls - Scotty McCreery (Seq. Gary Rogers)
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The Trouble With Girls
Written by:
Phillip White and Chris Tompkins
Recorded by:
Scotty McCreery (2011)
 

"The Trouble with Girls" is the title of a song written by Chris Tompkins and Philip White, and recorded by American recording artist and American Idol 's

season 10 winner, Scotty McCreery. It was released in August 2011 as the second single from his debut album Clear as Day.

Critical reception

Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song mixed reviews, saying that the "heavy handed production almost sabotages a fine performance." He later said "vulnerable

and memorable." He gave the song three stars out of five. Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave it favorable reviews noting "you’ll be hearing this song quite a bit on your

local country radio stations as it’s everything that “I Love You This Big” isn’t and proves that America got it right by voting Scotty as the next American Idol last spring.

" He gave the song four stars out of five.

Commercial performance

As of March 21 2012, the song has sold 621,000 copies in the United States.[


#27619 From: Jillianne Jones <jillianne.blues@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:25 am
Subject: Annie Laurie
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This sequence is a little out of the ordinary for us.
We usually work only with "Hammers and Strings"

The music we have of this song is a full orchestration of Norrie Paramor's
version .It was written for 16 instruments.
We based our arrangement on this and included the instruments we normally dont use.
Jilli


Annie Laurie


Annie Laurie is an old Scottish song based on poem by William Douglas (1672?-1748) of Dumfries and Galloway. The words were modified and the tune was added by Alicia Scott in 1834/5. The song is also known as Maxwelton Braes.


William Douglas

William Douglas became a soldier in the Royal Scots and fought in Germany and Spain and rose to the rank of captain. He also fought at least two duels. He returned to his estate at Fingland in 1694. Traditionally it is said that Douglas had a romance with Anna/Anne Laurie (16 December 1682, Barjarg Tower, in Keir, near Auldgirth, Scotland 5 May 1764, Friars' Carse, Dumfries-shire, Scotland). Anna was the youngest daughter of Robert Laurie, who became first baronet of Maxwellton in 1685. The legend says that her father opposed a marriage. This may have been because Anna was very young; she was only in her mid-teens when her father died. It may also have been because of Douglas's aggressive temperament or more likely because of his Jacobite allegiances. It is known for certain that they knew of each because in a later letter by Anna she says in reply to news about Douglas, "I trust that he has forsaken his treasonable opinions, and that he is content."

Douglas recovered from this romance and eloped with a Lanarkshire heiress, Elizabeth Clerk of Glenboig. They married in Edinburgh in 1706. Douglas's political beliefs forced him into exile. He became a mercenary soldier and sold his estate at Fingland in the 1720s, though eventually he received a pardon.

Anna Laurie's later life

In Edinburgh in 29 August 1709 Anna married Alexander Fergusson, 14th Laird of Craigdarroch. (Early editions of Brewer's are in error claiming her husband was James Ferguson, who was in fact her son.) She lived at Craigdarroch for 33 years. Under her directions the present mansion of Craigdarroch was built, and a relic of her taste is still preserved in the formal Georgian gardens at the rear of the house. She was born on 16 December 1682, about 6 o'clock in the morning at Barjarg Tower, near Auldgirth, Scotland. Annie Laurie died on a Saturday, 5 April 1764, and some sources say she was buried at Craigdarroch. Portraits of her exist at Maxwelton and at Mansfield, the seat of the Stuart-Monteiths. The portraits show that she had blue eyes.

Doubts about authorship

There has been some doubt that Douglas composed the poem. The words of the second verse of the song may be based on an old version of John Anderson My Jo, to the tune of which song Annie Laurie was sometimes sung. The words were first recorded in 1823 in Sharpe's "Ballad Book", quite a long time after 1700. The song therefore may have been written by Allan Cunningham, who invented contributions to Sharpe's book. However Douglas is known to have written other verses and he also knew an Anna Laurie of Maxwelton. This seems to indicate he was the originator of some of the first verse at least.

Lady John Scott's additions

In February 1890 Lady John Scott (1810-1900) (ne Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) wrote to the editor of the Dumfries Standard, claiming that she had composed the tune and wrote the most of the modern words. She said that around 1834-5 she encountered the words in collection of the Songs of Scotland (1825) by Allan Cunningham in a library. She adapted the music she had composed for another old Scottish poem, Kempye Kaye. She also amended the first verse slightly, the second verse greatly, which she thought was unsuitable, and wrote a new third verse. In the 1850s Lady John published the song with some other songs of hers for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers killed in the Crimean War. The song became popular and was closely associated with Jenny Lind.

Lady John Scott version
The earliest known version by Lady John was published by James Lindsay of Glasgow and is:

Maxwelton's braes are bonnie,
Where early fa's the dew,
'Twas there that Annie Laurie
Gi'ed me her promise true.
Gi'ed me her promise true -
Which ne'er forgot will be,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

Her brow is like the snaw-drift,
Her neck is like the swan,
Her face it is the fairest,
That 'er the sun shone on.
That 'er the sun shone on -
And dark blue is her e'e,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

Like dew on gowans lying,
Is the fa' o' her fairy feet,
And like winds, in simmer sighing,
Her voice is low and sweet.
Her voice is low and sweet -
And she's a' the world to me;
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

Notes:

  • braes (a brae is a sloping bank of a river or sea-shore; a hill-slope)[1]
  • bonnie means pretty
  • fa's means falls
  • gi'ed means gave
  • dee means die
  • snaw means snow
  • e'e means eyes
  • gowans are daisies
  • o is of
  • simmer means summer
  • a is all

Original

The earliest known version, one that may be closest to what Douglas wrote, follows:

Maxwelton braes are bonnie, where early fa's the dew
Where me and Annie Laurie made up the promise true
Made up the promise true, and ne'er forget will I
And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay doun my head and die
She's backit like the peacock, she's breistit like the swan
She's jimp aboot the middle, her waist ye weel may span
Her waist ye weel may span, and she has a rolling eye
And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay doun my head and die.

Notes:

  • She's backit means "She's endowed with a back(side)"
  • She's breistit means "She's endowed with a breast"
  • jimp means elegant or slender
  • ye weel may span means that you could encompass her waist with the span of two hands
  • a rolling eye is a 'come hither' look

The song "Annie Laurie" also is mentioned in a poem, The Song of the Camp, by Bayard Taylor (1825-1878).



#27620 From: "Baz" <unlimitesjazz@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:11 am
Subject: At Last
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Etta James came up in a conversation today and this
 was the only sheet music we have at home of her work.
Everyone has done a version of this so we tried to be a little different.
Baz


Etta James

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Etta James

James in 2006 in Lansing, Michigan
Background information
Birth name Jamesetta Hawkins
Also known as Miss Peaches,
The Matriarch of R&B
Born January 25, 1938
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died January 20, 2012 (aged 73)
Riverside, California, U.S.
Genres Blues, R&B, rock and roll, jazz, soul, gospel
Occupations Singer
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 1954–2012
Labels Modern, Chess/MCA Records, Argo, Crown, Cadet, Island/PolyGram Records, Private Music/RCA, RCA Victor Records, Elektra, Virgin/EMI Records, Verve Forecast/Universal Records
Associated acts Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Otis, Sugar Pie DeSanto

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer. Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics.[1] She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.[2]

James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and is the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008.[3] Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists.[4][5]

 

Early life and career: 1938–1959

Jamesetta Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Hawkins, an African-American girl who was only 14 at the time. Her father has never been identified, but was rumored to be Caucasian.[6] James speculated that her father was the pool player, Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, and met him briefly in 1987.[7] Due to her mother being often absent from their Watts apartment, conducting relationships with various men, James lived with a series of foster parents, most notably "Sarge" and "Mama" Lu. James referred to her mother as "the Mystery Lady".[6]

James received her first professional vocal training at the age of five from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir, at the St. Paul Baptist Church in south central Los Angeles. She became a popular singing attraction at the church, and Sarge tried to pressure the church into paying him money for her singing, but they refused. During drunken poker games at home, he would often wake James up in the early hours of the morning and force her through beatings to sing for his friends. As she was a bed-wetter, and often soaked with her own urine on these occasions, the trauma of being forced to sing meant she had a life-long reluctance to sing on demand.[8]

In 1950 Mama Lu died, and James' real mother took her to the Fillmore district in San Francisco.[9] Within a couple of years, James began listening to doo-wop and was inspired to form a girl group, called the Creolettes (due to the members' light skinned complexions). The 14-year-old girl met musician Johnny Otis. Stories on how they met vary including Otis' version in which James had come to his hotel after one of his performances in the city and persuaded him to audition her. Another story came that Otis spotted the group performing at a Los Angeles nightclub and sought them to record his "answer song" to Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie". Nonetheless, Otis took the group under his wing, helping them sign to Modern Records and changing their name from the Creolettes to the Peaches and gave the singer her stage name reversing Jamesetta into Etta James. James recorded the version, which she was allowed to co-author, in 1954, and the song was released in early 1955 as "Dance with Me, Henry". Originally the name of the song was "Roll With Me, Henry" but was changed to avoid censorship due to the subtle title. In February of that year, the song reached number one on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Tracks chart.[10] Its success gave the group an opening spot on Little Richard's national tour.[11]

While on tour with Richard, pop singer Georgia Gibbs recorded her version of James' song, which was released under the title "The Wallflower", and became a crossover hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which angered James. After leaving the Peaches, James had another R&B hit with "Good Rockin' Daddy", but struggled with follow-ups. When her contract with Modern came up in 1960, she decided to sign with Leonard Chess' namesake label, Chess Records, and shortly afterwards got involved in a relationship with singer Harvey Fuqua, founder of the doo-wop group, The Moonglows.

Bobby Murray, aka "Taters", toured with Etta James for 20 years. He wrote that James had her first hit single when she was 15 years of age and went steady with B.B. King when she was 16. Etta James believed the hit single "Sweet Sixteen" by B.B. King was about her.[12]

Chess years: 1960–1978

James was recorded for the Chess subsidiary label Argo (later Cadet) and had her first hit singles under duets with Fuqua including "If I Can't Have You" and "Spoonful". Her first solo hit was the doo-wop styled rhythm and blues number, "All I Could Do Was Cry", becoming a number two R&B hit.[13] Leonard Chess had envisioned James as a classic ballad stylist who had potential to cross over to the pop charts and soon surrounded the singer with violins and other string instruments.[13] The first string-laden ballad James recorded was "My Dearest Darling", which peaked in the top five of the R&B chart. James sang background vocals on label mate Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA".[14]

Vinyl recording of "At Last"/"I Just Want to Make Love"

Her debut album, At Last!, was released in late 1960 and was noted for its varied choice in music from jazz standards to blues numbers to doo-wop and rhythm and blues (R&B).[15] The album also included James' future classic, "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "A Sunday Kind of Love". In early 1961, James released what was to become her signature song, "At Last", which reached number two on the R&B chart and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. Though the song was not as successful as expected, it has become the most remembered version of the song.[14] James followed that up with "Trust in Me", which also included string instruments.[13] Later that same year, James released a second studio album, The Second Time Around. The album took the same direction as her previous album, covering many jazz and pop standards, and using strings on many of the songs spawning two hit singles, "The Fool That I Am" and "Don't Cry Baby".[16]

James started adding gospel elements in her music the following year releasing "Something's Got a Hold on Me", which peaked at number four on the R&B chart and was also a top 40 pop hit.[17] That success was quickly followed by "Stop the Wedding", which reached number six on the R&B charts and also had gospel elements.[14] In 1963, she had another major hit with "Pushover" and released the live album Etta James Rocks the House, which was recorded at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee.[13] After a couple years scoring minor hits, James' career started to suffer after 1965. After a period of isolation, James returned to recording in 1967 and reemerged with more ballsy R&B numbers thanks to her recording at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama releasing her comeback hit "Tell Mama", which was co-written by Clarence Carter and reached number ten R&B and number twenty three pop. An album of the same name was also released that year and included her take of Otis Redding's "Security".[18] The B-side of "Tell Mama" was "I'd Rather Go Blind", which became a blues classic in its own right and was recorded by many other artists. She wrote in her autobiography Rage To Survive that she heard the song outlined by her friend Ellington "Fugi" Jordan when she visited him in prison.[19] According to her account, she wrote the rest of the song with Jordan, but for tax reasons gave her songwriting credit to her partner at the time, Billy Foster.

Following this success, James became an on-demand concert performer though she never again reached the heyday of her early-to-mid 1960s success. She continued to chart in the R&B Top 40 in the early 1970s with singles such as "Losers Weepers" (1970) and "I Found a Love" (1972). Though James continued to record for Chess, she was devastated by the death of Chess founder Leonard Chess in 1969. James ventured into rock and funk with the release of her self-titled album in 1973 with production from famed rock producer Gabriel Mekler, who had worked with Steppenwolf and Janis Joplin, who had admired James and had covered "Tell Mama" in concert. The album, known for its mixtures of musical styles, was nominated for a Grammy Award.[18] The album did not produce any major hits, neither did the follow-up, Out On the Street Again, in 1974, though like Etta James before it, the album was also critically acclaimed. James continued to record for Chess releasing two more albums in 1978, Etta Is Betta Than Evah and Deep in the Night, which saw the singer incorporating more rock-based music in her repertoire.[13] That same year, James was the opening act for The Rolling Stones and also performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Following this brief success, however, she left Chess Records and did not record for another ten years as she struggled with drug addiction and alcoholism for the better part of a decade.

Later career: 1988–2012

Etta James in 1990

Though she continued to perform, little was heard of Etta James until 1987 when she was seen performing "Rock & Roll Music" with Chuck Berry on his "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" documentary. In 1989, James signed with Island Records and released the album Seven Year Itch. The album was produced by Barry Beckett. She released a second album, also produced by Barry Beckett, in 1989 titled Stickin' to My Guns. Both albums were recorded at FAME Studios.[18] Also in 1989 James filmed a live concert from the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles with Joe Walsh and Albert Collins. 'Jazzvisions: Jump The Blues Away'. Backing musicians consisted of many top-flight players from LA: Rick Rosas (bass); Michael Huey (drums); Ed Sanford (B3); Kip Noble (piano); and Etta's longtime guitar player Josh Sklar (guitar). James participated in rap singer Def Jef for the song "Droppin' Rhymes on Drums", which mixed James' jazz vocals with hip-hop. In 1992, James released The Right Time produced by Jerry Wexler on Elektra Records and the following year, James was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[10] James signed with Private Music Records in 1993 and recorded the Billie Holiday tribute album Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday.[17] The album later set a trend for James' music to incorporate more jazz elements.[13] The album won James her first Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance in 1994. In 1995, she released the David Ritz-co authored autobiography, A Rage to Survive, and recorded the album Time After Time. Three years later she issued the Christmas album Etta James Christmas in 1998.[13]

By the mid-1990s, James' earlier classic music was included in commercials including, most notably, "I Just Wanna Make Love to You". Due to exposure of the song in a UK commercial, the song reached the top ten of the UK charts in 1996.[10] Continuing to record for Private Music, she released the blues album Matriarch of the Blues in 2000, which had James returning to her R&B roots with Rolling Stone hailing it as a "solid return to roots", further stating that the album found the singer "reclaiming her throne — and defying anyone to knock her off it."[17] In 2001, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the latter for her contributions to the developments of both rock and roll music and rockabilly. In 2003, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Her 2004 release, Blue Gardenia, returned James to a jazz music style. James' final album for Private Music, Let's Roll, was released in 2005 and won James a Grammy for best contemporary blues album.[20]

Etta James performing in San Jose, California, in 2000.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her No. 62 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[21] James has performed at the top world jazz festivals in the world, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977, 1989, 1990 and 1993,[22] performed nine times at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival five times. James also often performed at free city outdoor summer arts festivals throughout the United States.

In 2008, James was portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the film, Cadillac Records, loosely based on the rise and fall of James' label of 18 years, Chess Records, and how label founder and producer Leonard Chess helped the career of James and other label mates, though it was noted that James was successful prior to her signing with Chess Records.[23] In the film, Etta James' character is in constant search to seek the recognition as well as love from an professional pool player named Minnesota Fats, whom she believed to be her white biological father.[24] The film also portrayed "At Last" as a huge pop hit, but the single only charted briefly when it was initially released and James had bigger hits. It also indicated that James and Chess, who were 21 years apart in age, were lovers but that was also inaccurate. Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, "At Last", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama. James claimed she "can't stand Beyoncé" and that Knowles would "get her ass whipped". James later said that her remarks about Knowles were a joke but admitted she was hurt that she was not invited to sing her song and that she could've performed it better.[25]

In April 2009, the 71-year-old James made her final television appearance performing "At Last" during an appearance on Dancing with the Stars. In May 2009, James received the Soul/Blues Female Artist of the Year award from the Blues Foundation, the ninth time James had won the award. James carried on touring but by 2010 had to cancel concert dates due to her gradually failing health after it was revealed that she was suffering from dementia and leukemia. In November 2011, James released her final album, The Dreamer, which was critically acclaimed upon its release. James announced via her manager's statement that this would be her final album. James's continuing relevance was affirmed in 2011 when the Swedish DJ Avicii achieved substantial chart success with the song "Levels", which samples her 1962 song, "Something's Got a Hold On Me". "Levels" was then used by rapper Flo Rida in his hit 2011 single "Good Feeling." Both artists issued statements of condolence on James's death.[26]

Style and influence

James's musical style changed during the course of her career. When beginning her recording career in the mid-50s, James was marketed as an R&B and doo wop singer.[13] After signing with Chess Records in 1960, James broke through as a traditional pop-styled singer, covering jazz and pop music standards on her debut album, At Last!.[27] James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.[13]

Etta James had once been considered one of the most overlooked blues and R&B musicians in American music history. It was not until the early 1990s when James began receiving major industry awards from the Grammys and the Blues Foundation that she began to receive wide recognition. In recent years, James was seen as bridging the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. James has influenced a wide variety of American musicians including Diana Ross, Christina Aguilera, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland,[17] and Hayley Williams of Paramore[28] as well as British artists The Rolling Stones,[29] Rod Stewart,[30] Elkie Brooks,[31] Amy Winehouse,[30] Paloma Faith,[32] Joss Stone[33] and Adele.[34]

Personal life

James encountered a string of legal problems during the early 1970s due to her heroin addiction. She was continuously in and out of rehabilitation centers, including the Tarzana Rehabilitation Center, in Los Angeles, California. Her husband Artis Mills, whom she married in 1969, accepted responsibility when they were both arrested for heroin possession and served a 10-year prison sentence.[35] He was released from prison in 1982 and was still married to James at her death.[17] She was also arrested around the same time for her drug addiction, accused of cashing bad checks, forgery and possession of heroin.[36]

In 1974, James was sentenced to drug treatment instead of serving time in prison. She was in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital for 17 months, at age 36, and went through a great struggle at the start of treatment. In her autobiography, she said that the time she spent in the hospital changed her life. However, after leaving treatment, her substance abuse continued after she developed a relationship with a man who was also using drugs. In 1988, at the age of 50, she entered the Betty Ford Center, in Palm Springs, California, for treatment.[17] In 2010, she received treatment for a dependency on painkillers.[37]

James had two sons, Donto and Sametto. Both started performing with their mother in 2003—Donto on drums and Sametto on bass guitar.[38]

Illness and death

James was hospitalized in January 2010 to treat an infection caused by MRSA, a bacterium that is resistant to most antibiotic treatment. During her hospitalization, her son Donto revealed that James had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008, and attributed her previous comments about Beyoncé Knowles to "drug induced dementia".[39]

She was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2011. The illness became terminal and she died on January 20, 2012, just five days before her 74th birthday, at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, California.[40] Her death came three days after that of Johnny Otis, the man who discovered her in the 1950s. Additionally, just 36 days after her death, her sideman Red Holloway also died.

The funeral, presided by Reverend Al Sharpton, took place in Gardena, California eight days after her death. Singers Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera each gave a musical tribute.[41][42]

Awards

From 1989, James received over 30 awards and recognitions from eight different organizations, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which organizes the Grammys.

In 1989, the newly formed Rhythm and Blues Foundation included James in their first Pioneer Awards for artists whose "lifelong contributions have been instrumental in the development of Rhythm & Blues music".[43] The following year, 1990, she received an NAACP Image Award, which is given for "outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts";[44] an award she cherished as it "was coming from my own people".[45]

Grammys

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. James has received six Grammy Awards. Her first was in 1994, when she was awarded Best Jazz Vocal Performance for the album Mystery Lady, which consisted of covers of Billie Holiday songs.[48] Two other albums have also won awards, Let's Roll (Best Contemporary Blues Album) in 2003, and Blues to the Bone (Best Traditional Blues Album) in 2004. Two of her early songs have been given Grammy Hall of Fame Awards for "qualitative or historical significance": "At Last", in 1999,[49] and "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" in 2008.[50] In 2003, she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[51]





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#27621 From: "Baz" <unlimitesjazz@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:16 am
Subject: At Last
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Etta James

James in 2006 in Lansing, Michigan
Background information
Birth name Jamesetta Hawkins
Also known as Miss Peaches,
The Matriarch of R&B
Born January 25, 1938
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died January 20, 2012 (aged 73)
Riverside, California, U.S.
Genres Blues, R&B, rock and roll, jazz, soul, gospel
Occupations Singer
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 1954–2012
Labels Modern, Chess/MCA Records, Argo, Crown, Cadet, Island/PolyGram Records, Private Music/RCA, RCA Victor Records, Elektra, Virgin/EMI Records, Verve Forecast/Universal Records
Associated acts Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Otis, Sugar Pie DeSanto

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer. Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics.[1] She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.[2]

James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and is the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008.[3] Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists.[4][5]

Contents

Early life and career: 1938–1959

Jamesetta Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Hawkins, an African-American girl who was only 14 at the time. Her father has never been identified, but was rumored to be Caucasian.[6] James speculated that her father was the pool player, Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, and met him briefly in 1987.[7] Due to her mother being often absent from their Watts apartment, conducting relationships with various men, James lived with a series of foster parents, most notably "Sarge" and "Mama" Lu. James referred to her mother as "the Mystery Lady".[6]

James received her first professional vocal training at the age of five from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir, at the St. Paul Baptist Church in south central Los Angeles. She became a popular singing attraction at the church, and Sarge tried to pressure the church into paying him money for her singing, but they refused. During drunken poker games at home, he would often wake James up in the early hours of the morning and force her through beatings to sing for his friends. As she was a bed-wetter, and often soaked with her own urine on these occasions, the trauma of being forced to sing meant she had a life-long reluctance to sing on demand.[8]

In 1950 Mama Lu died, and James' real mother took her to the Fillmore district in San Francisco.[9] Within a couple of years, James began listening to doo-wop and was inspired to form a girl group, called the Creolettes (due to the members' light skinned complexions). The 14-year-old girl met musician Johnny Otis. Stories on how they met vary including Otis' version in which James had come to his hotel after one of his performances in the city and persuaded him to audition her. Another story came that Otis spotted the group performing at a Los Angeles nightclub and sought them to record his "answer song" to Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie". Nonetheless, Otis took the group under his wing, helping them sign to Modern Records and changing their name from the Creolettes to the Peaches and gave the singer her stage name reversing Jamesetta into Etta James. James recorded the version, which she was allowed to co-author, in 1954, and the song was released in early 1955 as "Dance with Me, Henry". Originally the name of the song was "Roll With Me, Henry" but was changed to avoid censorship due to the subtle title. In February of that year, the song reached number one on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Tracks chart.[10] Its success gave the group an opening spot on Little Richard's national tour.[11]

While on tour with Richard, pop singer Georgia Gibbs recorded her version of James' song, which was released under the title "The Wallflower", and became a crossover hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which angered James. After leaving the Peaches, James had another R&B hit with "Good Rockin' Daddy", but struggled with follow-ups. When her contract with Modern came up in 1960, she decided to sign with Leonard Chess' namesake label, Chess Records, and shortly afterwards got involved in a relationship with singer Harvey Fuqua, founder of the doo-wop group, The Moonglows.

Bobby Murray, aka "Taters", toured with Etta James for 20 years. He wrote that James had her first hit single when she was 15 years of age and went steady with B.B. King when she was 16. Etta James believed the hit single "Sweet Sixteen" by B.B. King was about her.[12]

Chess years: 1960–1978

James was recorded for the Chess subsidiary label Argo (later Cadet) and had her first hit singles under duets with Fuqua including "If I Can't Have You" and "Spoonful". Her first solo hit was the doo-wop styled rhythm and blues number, "All I Could Do Was Cry", becoming a number two R&B hit.[13] Leonard Chess had envisioned James as a classic ballad stylist who had potential to cross over to the pop charts and soon surrounded the singer with violins and other string instruments.[13] The first string-laden ballad James recorded was "My Dearest Darling", which peaked in the top five of the R&B chart. James sang background vocals on label mate Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA".[14]

Vinyl recording of "At Last"/"I Just Want to Make Love"

Her debut album, At Last!, was released in late 1960 and was noted for its varied choice in music from jazz standards to blues numbers to doo-wop and rhythm and blues (R&B).[15] The album also included James' future classic, "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "A Sunday Kind of Love". In early 1961, James released what was to become her signature song, "At Last", which reached number two on the R&B chart and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. Though the song was not as successful as expected, it has become the most remembered version of the song.[14] James followed that up with "Trust in Me", which also included string instruments.[13] Later that same year, James released a second studio album, The Second Time Around. The album took the same direction as her previous album, covering many jazz and pop standards, and using strings on many of the songs spawning two hit singles, "The Fool That I Am" and "Don't Cry Baby".[16]

James started adding gospel elements in her music the following year releasing "Something's Got a Hold on Me", which peaked at number four on the R&B chart and was also a top 40 pop hit.[17] That success was quickly followed by "Stop the Wedding", which reached number six on the R&B charts and also had gospel elements.[14] In 1963, she had another major hit with "Pushover" and released the live album Etta James Rocks the House, which was recorded at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee.[13] After a couple years scoring minor hits, James' career started to suffer after 1965. After a period of isolation, James returned to recording in 1967 and reemerged with more ballsy R&B numbers thanks to her recording at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama releasing her comeback hit "Tell Mama", which was co-written by Clarence Carter and reached number ten R&B and number twenty three pop. An album of the same name was also released that year and included her take of Otis Redding's "Security".[18] The B-side of "Tell Mama" was "I'd Rather Go Blind", which became a blues classic in its own right and was recorded by many other artists. She wrote in her autobiography Rage To Survive that she heard the song outlined by her friend Ellington "Fugi" Jordan when she visited him in prison.[19] According to her account, she wrote the rest of the song with Jordan, but for tax reasons gave her songwriting credit to her partner at the time, Billy Foster.

Following this success, James became an on-demand concert performer though she never again reached the heyday of her early-to-mid 1960s success. She continued to chart in the R&B Top 40 in the early 1970s with singles such as "Losers Weepers" (1970) and "I Found a Love" (1972). Though James continued to record for Chess, she was devastated by the death of Chess founder Leonard Chess in 1969. James ventured into rock and funk with the release of her self-titled album in 1973 with production from famed rock producer Gabriel Mekler, who had worked with Steppenwolf and Janis Joplin, who had admired James and had covered "Tell Mama" in concert. The album, known for its mixtures of musical styles, was nominated for a Grammy Award.[18] The album did not produce any major hits, neither did the follow-up, Out On the Street Again, in 1974, though like Etta James before it, the album was also critically acclaimed. James continued to record for Chess releasing two more albums in 1978, Etta Is Betta Than Evah and Deep in the Night, which saw the singer incorporating more rock-based music in her repertoire.[13] That same year, James was the opening act for The Rolling Stones and also performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Following this brief success, however, she left Chess Records and did not record for another ten years as she struggled with drug addiction and alcoholism for the better part of a decade.

Later career: 1988–2012

Etta James in 1990

Though she continued to perform, little was heard of Etta James until 1987 when she was seen performing "Rock & Roll Music" with Chuck Berry on his "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" documentary. In 1989, James signed with Island Records and released the album Seven Year Itch. The album was produced by Barry Beckett. She released a second album, also produced by Barry Beckett, in 1989 titled Stickin' to My Guns. Both albums were recorded at FAME Studios.[18] Also in 1989 James filmed a live concert from the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles with Joe Walsh and Albert Collins. 'Jazzvisions: Jump The Blues Away'. Backing musicians consisted of many top-flight players from LA: Rick Rosas (bass); Michael Huey (drums); Ed Sanford (B3); Kip Noble (piano); and Etta's longtime guitar player Josh Sklar (guitar). James participated in rap singer Def Jef for the song "Droppin' Rhymes on Drums", which mixed James' jazz vocals with hip-hop. In 1992, James released The Right Time produced by Jerry Wexler on Elektra Records and the following year, James was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[10] James signed with Private Music Records in 1993 and recorded the Billie Holiday tribute album Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday.[17] The album later set a trend for James' music to incorporate more jazz elements.[13] The album won James her first Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance in 1994. In 1995, she released the David Ritz-co authored autobiography, A Rage to Survive, and recorded the album Time After Time. Three years later she issued the Christmas album Etta James Christmas in 1998.[13]

By the mid-1990s, James' earlier classic music was included in commercials including, most notably, "I Just Wanna Make Love to You". Due to exposure of the song in a UK commercial, the song reached the top ten of the UK charts in 1996.[10] Continuing to record for Private Music, she released the blues album Matriarch of the Blues in 2000, which had James returning to her R&B roots with Rolling Stone hailing it as a "solid return to roots", further stating that the album found the singer "reclaiming her throne — and defying anyone to knock her off it."[17] In 2001, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the latter for her contributions to the developments of both rock and roll music and rockabilly. In 2003, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Her 2004 release, Blue Gardenia, returned James to a jazz music style. James' final album for Private Music, Let's Roll, was released in 2005 and won James a Grammy for best contemporary blues album.[20]

Etta James performing in San Jose, California, in 2000.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her No. 62 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[21] James has performed at the top world jazz festivals in the world, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977, 1989, 1990 and 1993,[22] performed nine times at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival five times. James also often performed at free city outdoor summer arts festivals throughout the United States.

In 2008, James was portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the film, Cadillac Records, loosely based on the rise and fall of James' label of 18 years, Chess Records, and how label founder and producer Leonard Chess helped the career of James and other label mates, though it was noted that James was successful prior to her signing with Chess Records.[23] In the film, Etta James' character is in constant search to seek the recognition as well as love from an professional pool player named Minnesota Fats, whom she believed to be her white biological father.[24] The film also portrayed "At Last" as a huge pop hit, but the single only charted briefly when it was initially released and James had bigger hits. It also indicated that James and Chess, who were 21 years apart in age, were lovers but that was also inaccurate. Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, "At Last", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama. James claimed she "can't stand Beyoncé" and that Knowles would "get her ass whipped". James later said that her remarks about Knowles were a joke but admitted she was hurt that she was not invited to sing her song and that she could've performed it better.[25]

In April 2009, the 71-year-old James made her final television appearance performing "At Last" during an appearance on Dancing with the Stars. In May 2009, James received the Soul/Blues Female Artist of the Year award from the Blues Foundation, the ninth time James had won the award. James carried on touring but by 2010 had to cancel concert dates due to her gradually failing health after it was revealed that she was suffering from dementia and leukemia. In November 2011, James released her final album, The Dreamer, which was critically acclaimed upon its release. James announced via her manager's statement that this would be her final album. James's continuing relevance was affirmed in 2011 when the Swedish DJ Avicii achieved substantial chart success with the song "Levels", which samples her 1962 song, "Something's Got a Hold On Me". "Levels" was then used by rapper Flo Rida in his hit 2011 single "Good Feeling." Both artists issued statements of condolence on James's death.[26]

Style and influence

James's musical style changed during the course of her career. When beginning her recording career in the mid-50s, James was marketed as an R&B and doo wop singer.[13] After signing with Chess Records in 1960, James broke through as a traditional pop-styled singer, covering jazz and pop music standards on her debut album, At Last!.[27] James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.[13]

Etta James had once been considered one of the most overlooked blues and R&B musicians in American music history. It was not until the early 1990s when James began receiving major industry awards from the Grammys and the Blues Foundation that she began to receive wide recognition. In recent years, James was seen as bridging the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. James has influenced a wide variety of American musicians including Diana Ross, Christina Aguilera, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland,[17] and Hayley Williams of Paramore[28] as well as British artists The Rolling Stones,[29] Rod Stewart,[30] Elkie Brooks,[31] Amy Winehouse,[30] Paloma Faith,[32] Joss Stone[33] and Adele.[34]

Personal life

James encountered a string of legal problems during the early 1970s due to her heroin addiction. She was continuously in and out of rehabilitation centers, including the Tarzana Rehabilitation Center, in Los Angeles, California. Her husband Artis Mills, whom she married in 1969, accepted responsibility when they were both arrested for heroin possession and served a 10-year prison sentence.[35] He was released from prison in 1982 and was still married to James at her death.[17] She was also arrested around the same time for her drug addiction, accused of cashing bad checks, forgery and possession of heroin.[36]

In 1974, James was sentenced to drug treatment instead of serving time in prison. She was in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital for 17 months, at age 36, and went through a great struggle at the start of treatment. In her autobiography, she said that the time she spent in the hospital changed her life. However, after leaving treatment, her substance abuse continued after she developed a relationship with a man who was also using drugs. In 1988, at the age of 50, she entered the Betty Ford Center, in Palm Springs, California, for treatment.[17] In 2010, she received treatment for a dependency on painkillers.[37]

James had two sons, Donto and Sametto. Both started performing with their mother in 2003—Donto on drums and Sametto on bass guitar.[38]

Illness and death

James was hospitalized in January 2010 to treat an infection caused by MRSA, a bacterium that is resistant to most antibiotic treatment. During her hospitalization, her son Donto revealed that James had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008, and attributed her previous comments about Beyoncé Knowles to "drug induced dementia".[39]

She was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2011. The illness became terminal and she died on January 20, 2012, just five days before her 74th birthday, at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, California.[40] Her death came three days after that of Johnny Otis, the man who discovered her in the 1950s. Additionally, just 36 days after her death, her sideman Red Holloway also died.

The funeral, presided by Reverend Al Sharpton, took place in Gardena, California eight days after her death. Singers Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera each gave a musical tribute.[41][42]

Awards

From 1989, James received over 30 awards and recognitions from eight different organizations, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which organizes the Grammys.

In 1989, the newly formed Rhythm and Blues Foundation included James in their first Pioneer Awards for artists whose "lifelong contributions have been instrumental in the development of Rhythm & Blues music".[43] The following year, 1990, she received an NAACP Image Award, which is given for "outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts";[44] an award she cherished as it "was coming from my own people".[45]

Grammys

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. James has received six Grammy Awards. Her first was in 1994, when she was awarded Best Jazz Vocal Performance for the album Mystery Lady, which consisted of covers of Billie Holiday songs.[48] Two other albums have also won awards, Let's Roll (Best Contemporary Blues Album) in 2003, and Blues to the Bone (Best Traditional Blues Album) in 2004. Two of her early songs have been given Grammy Hall of Fame Awards for "qualitative or historical significance": "At Last", in 1999,[49] and "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" in 2008.[50] In 2003, she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[51]




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#27622 From: Bobeld <bobeld@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:25 am
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Holy Santos and Johnny!  At Last ......"Sleepwalk" :-)   Well done!  Just got home from my gig and I performed this one tonight. One of the customers requested it.
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Etta James came up in a conversation today and this
 was the only sheet music we have at home of her work.
Everyone has done a version of this so we tried to be a little different.
Baz




Etta James
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James in 2006 in Lansing, Michigan
Background information
Birth name Jamesetta Hawkins
Also known as Miss Peaches,
The Matriarch of R&B
Born January 25, 1938
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died January 20, 2012 (aged 73)
Riverside, California, U.S.
Genres Blues, R&B, rock and roll, jazz, soul, gospel
Occupations Singer
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 1954–2012
Labels Modern, Chess/MCA Records, Argo, Crown, Cadet, Island/PolyGram Records, Private Music/RCA, RCA Victor Records, Elektra, Virgin/EMI Records, Verve Forecast/Universal Records
Associated acts Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Otis, Sugar Pie DeSanto

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer. Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics.[1] She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.[2]

James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and is the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008.[3] Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists.[4][5]

Contents

Early life and career: 1938–1959

Jamesetta Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Hawkins, an African-American girl who was only 14 at the time. Her father has never been identified, but was rumored to be Caucasian.[6] James speculated that her father was the pool player, Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, and met him briefly in 1987.[7] Due to her mother being often absent from their Watts apartment, conducting relationships with various men, James lived with a series of foster parents, most notably "Sarge" and "Mama" Lu. James referred to her mother as "the Mystery Lady".[6]

James received her first professional vocal training at the age of five from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir, at the St. Paul Baptist Church in south central Los Angeles. She became a popular singing attraction at the church, and Sarge tried to pressure the church into paying him money for her singing, but they refused. During drunken poker games at home, he would often wake James up in the early hours of the morning and force her through beatings to sing for his friends. As she was a bed-wetter, and often soaked with her own urine on these occasions, the trauma of being forced to sing meant she had a life-long reluctance to sing on demand.[8]

In 1950 Mama Lu died, and James' real mother took her to the Fillmore district in San Francisco.[9] Within a couple of years, James began listening to doo-wop and was inspired to form a girl group, called the Creolettes (due to the members' light skinned complexions). The 14-year-old girl met musician Johnny Otis. Stories on how they met vary including Otis' version in which James had come to his hotel after one of his performances in the city and persuaded him to audition her. Another story came that Otis spotted the group performing at a Los Angeles nightclub and sought them to record his "answer song" to Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie". Nonetheless, Otis took the group under his wing, helping them sign to Modern Records and changing their name from the Creolettes to the Peaches and gave the singer her stage name reversing Jamesetta into Etta James. James recorded the version, which she was allowed to co-author, in 1954, and the song was released in early 1955 as "Dance with Me, Henry". Originally the name of the song was "Roll With Me, Henry" but was changed to avoid censorship due to the subtle title. In February of that year, the song reached number one on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Tracks chart.[10] Its success gave the group an opening spot on Little Richard's national tour.[11]

While on tour with Richard, pop singer Georgia Gibbs recorded her version of James' song, which was released under the title "The Wallflower", and became a crossover hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which angered James. After leaving the Peaches, James had another R&B hit with "Good Rockin' Daddy", but struggled with follow-ups. When her contract with Modern came up in 1960, she decided to sign with Leonard Chess' namesake label, Chess Records, and shortly afterwards got involved in a relationship with singer Harvey Fuqua, founder of the doo-wop group, The Moonglows.

Bobby Murray, aka "Taters", toured with Etta James for 20 years. He wrote that James had her first hit single when she was 15 years of age and went steady with B.B. King when she was 16. Etta James believed the hit single "Sweet Sixteen" by B.B. King was about her.[12]

Chess years: 1960–1978

James was recorded for the Chess subsidiary label Argo (later Cadet) and had her first hit singles under duets with Fuqua including "If I Can't Have You" and "Spoonful". Her first solo hit was the doo-wop styled rhythm and blues number, "All I Could Do Was Cry", becoming a number two R&B hit.[13] Leonard Chess had envisioned James as a classic ballad stylist who had potential to cross over to the pop charts and soon surrounded the singer with violins and other string instruments.[13] The first string-laden ballad James recorded was "My Dearest Darling", which peaked in the top five of the R&B chart. James sang background vocals on label mate Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA".[14]

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Vinyl recording of "At Last"/"I Just Want to Make Love"

Her debut album, At Last!, was released in late 1960 and was noted for its varied choice in music from jazz standards to blues numbers to doo-wop and rhythm and blues (R&B).[15] The album also included James' future classic, "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "A Sunday Kind of Love". In early 1961, James released what was to become her signature song, "At Last", which reached number two on the R&B chart and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. Though the song was not as successful as expected, it has become the most remembered version of the song.[14] James followed that up with "Trust in Me", which also included string instruments.[13] Later that same year, James released a second studio album, The Second Time Around. The album took the same direction as her previous album, covering many jazz and pop standards, and using strings on many of the songs spawning two hit singles, "The Fool That I Am" and "Don't Cry Baby".[16]

James started adding gospel elements in her music the following year releasing "Something's Got a Hold on Me", which peaked at number four on the R&B chart and was also a top 40 pop hit.[17] That success was quickly followed by "Stop the Wedding", which reached number six on the R&B charts and also had gospel elements.[14] In 1963, she had another major hit with "Pushover" and released the live album Etta James Rocks the House, which was recorded at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee.[13] After a couple years scoring minor hits, James' career started to suffer after 1965. After a period of isolation, James returned to recording in 1967 and reemerged with more ballsy R&B numbers thanks to her recording at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama releasing her comeback hit "Tell Mama", which was co-written by Clarence Carter and reached number ten R&B and number twenty three pop. An album of the same name was also released that year and included her take of Otis Redding's "Security".[18] The B-side of "Tell Mama" was "I'd Rather Go Blind", which became a blues classic in its own right and was recorded by many other artists. She wrote in her autobiography Rage To Survive that she heard the song outlined by her friend Ellington "Fugi" Jordan when she visited him in prison.[19] According to her account, she wrote the rest of the song with Jordan, but for tax reasons gave her songwriting credit to her partner at the time, Billy Foster.

Following this success, James became an on-demand concert performer though she never again reached the heyday of her early-to-mid 1960s success. She continued to chart in the R&B Top 40 in the early 1970s with singles such as "Losers Weepers" (1970) and "I Found a Love" (1972). Though James continued to record for Chess, she was devastated by the death of Chess founder Leonard Chess in 1969. James ventured into rock and funk with the release of her self-titled album in 1973 with production from famed rock producer Gabriel Mekler, who had worked with Steppenwolf and Janis Joplin, who had admired James and had covered "Tell Mama" in concert. The album, known for its mixtures of musical styles, was nominated for a Grammy Award.[18] The album did not produce any major hits, neither did the follow-up, Out On the Street Again, in 1974, though like Etta James before it, the album was also critically acclaimed. James continued to record for Chess releasing two more albums in 1978, Etta Is Betta Than Evah and Deep in the Night, which saw the singer incorporating more rock-based music in her repertoire.[13] That same year, James was the opening act for The Rolling Stones and also performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Following this brief success, however, she left Chess Records and did not record for another ten years as she struggled with drug addiction and alcoholism for the better part of a decade.

Later career: 1988–2012

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Etta James in 1990

Though she continued to perform, little was heard of Etta James until 1987 when she was seen performing "Rock & Roll Music" with Chuck Berry on his "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" documentary. In 1989, James signed with Island Records and released the album Seven Year Itch. The album was produced by Barry Beckett. She released a second album, also produced by Barry Beckett, in 1989 titled Stickin' to My Guns. Both albums were recorded at FAME Studios.[18] Also in 1989 James filmed a live concert from the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles with Joe Walsh and Albert Collins. 'Jazzvisions: Jump The Blues Away'. Backing musicians consisted of many top-flight players from LA: Rick Rosas (bass); Michael Huey (drums); Ed Sanford (B3); Kip Noble (piano); and Etta's longtime guitar player Josh Sklar (guitar). James participated in rap singer Def Jef for the song "Droppin' Rhymes on Drums", which mixed James' jazz vocals with hip-hop. In 1992, James released The Right Time produced by Jerry Wexler on Elektra Records and the following year, James was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[10] James signed with Private Music Records in 1993 and recorded the Billie Holiday tribute album Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday.[17] The album later set a trend for James' music to incorporate more jazz elements.[13] The album won James her first Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance in 1994. In 1995, she released the David Ritz-co authored autobiography, A Rage to Survive, and recorded the album Time After Time. Three years later she issued the Christmas album Etta James Christmas in 1998.[13]

By the mid-1990s, James' earlier classic music was included in commercials including, most notably, "I Just Wanna Make Love to You". Due to exposure of the song in a UK commercial, the song reached the top ten of the UK charts in 1996.[10] Continuing to record for Private Music, she released the blues album Matriarch of the Blues in 2000, which had James returning to her R&B roots with Rolling Stone hailing it as a "solid return to roots", further stating that the album found the singer "reclaiming her throne — and defying anyone to knock her off it."[17] In 2001, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the latter for her contributions to the developments of both rock and roll music and rockabilly. In 2003, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Her 2004 release, Blue Gardenia, returned James to a jazz music style. James' final album for Private Music, Let's Roll, was released in 2005 and won James a Grammy for best contemporary blues album.[20]

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Etta James performing in San Jose, California, in 2000.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her No. 62 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[21] James has performed at the top world jazz festivals in the world, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977, 1989, 1990 and 1993,[22] performed nine times at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival five times. James also often performed at free city outdoor summer arts festivals throughout the United States.

In 2008, James was portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the film, Cadillac Records, loosely based on the rise and fall of James' label of 18 years, Chess Records, and how label founder and producer Leonard Chess helped the career of James and other label mates, though it was noted that James was successful prior to her signing with Chess Records.[23] In the film, Etta James' character is in constant search to seek the recognition as well as love from an professional pool player named Minnesota Fats, whom she believed to be her white biological father.[24] The film also portrayed "At Last" as a huge pop hit, but the single only charted briefly when it was initially released and James had bigger hits. It also indicated that James and Chess, who were 21 years apart in age, were lovers but that was also inaccurate. Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, "At Last", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama. James claimed she "can't stand Beyoncé" and that Knowles would "get her ass whipped". James later said that her remarks about Knowles were a joke but admitted she was hurt that she was not invited to sing her song and that she could've performed it better.[25]

In April 2009, the 71-year-old James made her final television appearance performing "At Last" during an appearance on Dancing with the Stars. In May 2009, James received the Soul/Blues Female Artist of the Year award from the Blues Foundation, the ninth time James had won the award. James carried on touring but by 2010 had to cancel concert dates due to her gradually failing health after it was revealed that she was suffering from dementia and leukemia. In November 2011, James released her final album, The Dreamer, which was critically acclaimed upon its release. James announced via her manager's statement that this would be her final album. James's continuing relevance was affirmed in 2011 when the Swedish DJ Avicii achieved substantial chart success with the song "Levels", which samples her 1962 song, "Something's Got a Hold On Me". "Levels" was then used by rapper Flo Rida in his hit 2011 single "Good Feeling." Both artists issued statements of condolence on James's death.[26]

Style and influence

James's musical style changed during the course of her career. When beginning her recording career in the mid-50s, James was marketed as an R&B and doo wop singer.[13] After signing with Chess Records in 1960, James broke through as a traditional pop-styled singer, covering jazz and pop music standards on her debut album, At Last!.[27] James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.[13]

Etta James had once been considered one of the most overlooked blues and R&B musicians in American music history. It was not until the early 1990s when James began receiving major industry awards from the Grammys and the Blues Foundation that she began to receive wide recognition. In recent years, James was seen as bridging the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. James has influenced a wide variety of American musicians including Diana Ross, Christina Aguilera, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland,[17] and Hayley Williams of Paramore[28] as well as British artists The Rolling Stones,[29] Rod Stewart,[30] Elkie Brooks,[31] Amy Winehouse,[30] Paloma Faith,[32] Joss Stone[33] and Adele.[34]

Personal life

James encountered a string of legal problems during the early 1970s due to her heroin addiction. She was continuously in and out of rehabilitation centers, including the Tarzana Rehabilitation Center, in Los Angeles, California. Her husband Artis Mills, whom she married in 1969, accepted responsibility when they were both arrested for heroin possession and served a 10-year prison sentence.[35] He was released from prison in 1982 and was still married to James at her death.[17] She was also arrested around the same time for her drug addiction, accused of cashing bad checks, forgery and possession of heroin.[36]

In 1974, James was sentenced to drug treatment instead of serving time in prison. She was in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital for 17 months, at age 36, and went through a great struggle at the start of treatment. In her autobiography, she said that the time she spent in the hospital changed her life. However, after leaving treatment, her substance abuse continued after she developed a relationship with a man who was also using drugs. In 1988, at the age of 50, she entered the Betty Ford Center, in Palm Springs, California, for treatment.[17] In 2010, she received treatment for a dependency on painkillers.[37]

James had two sons, Donto and Sametto. Both started performing with their mother in 2003—Donto on drums and Sametto on bass guitar.[38]

Illness and death

James was hospitalized in January 2010 to treat an infection caused by MRSA, a bacterium that is resistant to most antibiotic treatment. During her hospitalization, her son Donto revealed that James had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008, and attributed her previous comments about Beyoncé Knowles to "drug induced dementia".[39]

She was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2011. The illness became terminal and she died on January 20, 2012, just five days before her 74th birthday, at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, California.[40] Her death came three days after that of Johnny Otis, the man who discovered her in the 1950s. Additionally, just 36 days after her death, her sideman Red Holloway also died.

The funeral, presided by Reverend Al Sharpton, took place in Gardena, California eight days after her death. Singers Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera each gave a musical tribute.[41][42]

Awards

From 1989, James received over 30 awards and recognitions from eight different organizations, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which organizes the Grammys.

In 1989, the newly formed Rhythm and Blues Foundation included James in their first Pioneer Awards for artists whose "lifelong contributions have been instrumental in the development of Rhythm & Blues music".[43] The following year, 1990, she received an NAACP Image Award, which is given for "outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts";[44] an award she cherished as it "was coming from my own people".[45]

Grammys

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. James has received six Grammy Awards. Her first was in 1994, when she was awarded Best Jazz Vocal Performance for the album Mystery Lady, which consisted of covers of Billie Holiday songs.[48] Two other albums have also won awards, Let's Roll (Best Contemporary Blues Album) in 2003, and Blues to the Bone (Best Traditional Blues Album) in 2004. Two of her early songs have been given Grammy Hall of Fame Awards for "qualitative or historical significance": "At Last", in 1999,[49] and "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" in 2008.[50] In 2003, she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[51]




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#27623 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:19 pm
Subject: MIDI: While The Music Plays On 1939
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 While The Music Plays On 1939
Music by Emery H. Heim
Lyrics by Lupin Fien & Irving Mills
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#27624 From: "Gary Rogers" <garyrog@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:56 pm
Subject: Can You Guess This Song And Artist(s) - Seq Gary Rogers
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Can You Guess This Song And Artist?
 
I think most of us have heard a song on the radio that we know, but can't remember the title or artist who recorded it. These
songs usually drive me crazy until I remember what it is and who recorded it. I'm not trying to drive you crazy with this posting.
I'm just trying to let everyone have a little fun with it. I can't offer any prizes for properly guessing it, but you can have the
distinction of being the first one to guess it correctly. I am looking for the title of the song and who originally recorded it.
The song won't sound exactly like it was recorded, but hopefully it is close enough to be recognized.
 
Good luck and have fun!!!!
 
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#27625 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:43 pm
Subject: MIDI: Last Night 1945
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 Last Night 1945
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#27626 From: Dan West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:45 pm
Subject: This Week In Rock n Roll History: April 15th to April 21st
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1955 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
Elvis Presley was the headliner on The Big D Jamboree, a live radio show on KRLD in Dallas, Texas. An in-studio audience was admitted for 60 cents apiece.

April 17
Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame", which Billboard erroneously lists for months as "Ain't It a Shame", is released on Commodore Records. It will rise to the top of the Billboard R&B chart and #10 on the Pop chart, becoming the first of 37 Top 40 hits The Fat Man will have over the next eight years.

1956 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Mitch Miller, music director of Columbia Records, engages in a spirited debate with Allan Freed over the "potentially negative effects of Rock 'n' Roll on teenagers" on Eric Sevareid's news program on CBS-TV. Two psychiatrists also joined the discussion.

April 16
Buddy Holly's first single "Blue Days, Black Nights", was released by Decca Records. The up-tempo, Country flavored tune proved to be a poor seller.

1957 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
Buddy Knox, whose "Party Doll" was a recent number one, is called up for six months of active duty with the US Army Reserve. Roulette Records rushed Knox to the studio to cut over 20 songs to ensure his career does not stall while he's in uniform. It will anyway.

April 20
Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up" starts an eight week stay at the top of the US record charts. Songwriter Otis Blackwell would later say that he wrote the tune at the suggestion of an associate who was shaking a bottle of Pepsi. The song went on to be the biggest single of 1957, selling over 2 million copies.

1958 - ClassicBands.com

April 19
A 13 year old British teen named Laurie London had the best selling song in the US with an up-tempo version of the Gospel song "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands". Although the record was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, none of London's follow-up releases cracked the US Top 100, nor made much of a splash in the UK. By 1966, he would leave the music business to run a hotel called The Angel, in Petworth, West Sussex.

1959 - ClassicBands.com

April 20
Goldband Records releases "Puppy Love" by Dolly Parton, a song that was recorded two years earlier when she was just eleven years old. The record will flop and Dolly would have to wait until 1968 to make her first Billboard chart appearance with a Porter Wagoner duet called "The Last Thing On My Mind".

1960 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Rock and Roll pioneer Eddie Cochran was just 21 years old when he was killed after the taxi in which he was riding blew a tire, then hit a lamp post. Cochran enjoyed hits with "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Sittin' in the Balcony". Gene Vincent, who recorded "Be Bop A Lula" in 1956, and Cochran's fiancée, Sharon Sheeley survived the crash. Their touring mate, Freddy Cannon, was supposed to be with them, but was running late and took another cab.

April 21
Dick Clark testifies before a Congressional committee investigating the payola scandal. He admits he had a financial interest in 27 percent of the records he played on the show over a two year period, but is cleared of all charges.

1961 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Paul Revere and the Raiders' first US chart hit, "Like Long Hair" tops out at #38 on the Billboard chart.

1963 - ClassicBands.com

April 20
Rick Nelson married Kris Harmon, daughter of Tom Harmon, the 1940 Heisman Trophy Winner from the University of Michigan. Six months later, on October 25th, Tracy Kristine Nelson was born at St. John's Hospital near Santa Monica. The couple began having troubles in 1977 and went through a nasty and expensive divorce in December, 1982.

April 21
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones meet for the first time during a Stones performance at the Crawdaddy Club. 'We got all nervous', said Bill Wyman, 'but then we had a chat with them afterwards and stayed up all night rapping and became really good mates.'

1964 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
The Rolling Stones' first album was released. It sold over 200,000 copies and hit number one in the UK two weeks later and was the first non-Beatles album to reach the top in over a year.

April 16
The Beatles filmed some chase sequences for their upcoming movie, A Hard Days Night in the Notting Hill Gate area of London. The policemen in the scenes were actors.

1965 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
The Hollies began their first US tour in New York. It wasn't until the following year that the group cracked the US Top Ten with "Bus Stop".

April 17
The Beach Boys' "Help Me Rhonda" is released, featuring rhythm guitarist Al Jardine on lead vocal. The song will become the group's second Billboard #1.

April 17
Cannibal And The Headhunters entered the Billboard chart with "Land Of 1000 Dances", which would climb to #30. Wilson Pickett's version of the same song would reach #6 the following year.

April 17
RCA and LearJet Corporation announce the development of the combination 8 track tape player and car radio that become available in next Fall's new cars.

April 19
The film T.A.M.I. (Teen-Age Music International) Show featuring The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, The Four Tops, James Brown, The Beach Boys and Smokey Robinson And The Miracles opened in London under the title Teenage Command Performance.

April 21
The Beach Boys appear on ABC-TV's Shindig!, performing their current hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?", which will reach #12 in the US.

1966 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Buffalo Springfield perform for the first time, opening for The Byrds at a concert in San Bernardino, California.

April 15
The Rolling Stones release "Aftermath", their first LP to feature all original material.

April 15
The Spencer Davis Group scored their second UK #1 single with "Somebody Help Me", a song that failed to crack the Top 40 in the US.

April 15
UK music fans were treated to a concert by Jimi Hendrix, The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Englebert Humperdinck when they appeared live at the Blackpool Odeon. Tickets cost 5 and 10 shillings, ($0.70 and $1.40).

April 17
"Wild Thing" by The Troggs is released. Adults hate it, the UK music trade paper Record Retailer dubbed it "A most curious record..." but by June, it will be number one in the US and number two in the UK.

1967 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Nancy and Frank Sinatra had the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, The Cashbox Best Sellers List and Britain's New Musical Express record chart with "Something Stupid". To this day, they are the only father and daughter team to have a US chart topping single. ("Unforgettable" by Natalie Cole and Nat "King" Cole reached #14 in 1991)

1968 - ClassicBands.com

April 19
John Lennon and George Harrison leave the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, India two weeks before their study is complete. Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney have already left. All four Beatles will later renounce their association with the Maharishi.

April 20
The Rolling Stones record "Jumpin' Jack Flash", which will reach #1 in the UK and #3 in the US by next July.

1969 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
Elektra Records drops Detroit's MC5 from their label after the band takes out an ad in a local paper that includes the company logo and reads "Fuck Hudsons." The band was protesting the Michigan department store's refusal to carry their albums.

April 17
Bob Dylan's former backing group, simply known as The Band, make their first stand alone appearance at the Fillmore West in San Francisco.

April 21
Janis Joplin makes her first London concert appearance at Royal Albert Hall, a performance considered by many to be one of the best of her career.

1970 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Paul McCartney releases his first solo album, officially ending his days with The Beatles, just as the group's single "Let It Be" reached #1 in America.

April 17
While performing at the White House at the invitation of President Richard Nixon, Johnny Cash is asked to perform "Okie From Muskogee". Cash declined because it was not his song, but had been a hit for Merle Haggard. Instead, Cash sang his number one hit, "A Boy Named Sue". It is not known if Nixon recorded the concert.

April 20
The New York Times reports Catholic and Protestant youth groups have adopted the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" as a religious symbol.

April 21
Elton John makes his solo concert debut, opening for T. Rex in London, England.

1971 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" hit the top of the US singles chart for a six week stay. It made #24 in the UK. The record became the best selling song of the year in the US, beating out Rod Stewart's "Maggie May". Hoyt Axton, son of "Heartbreak Hotel" author, Mae Axton, wrote the song.

April 17
All four former Beatles have solo singles on the UK chart: Paul McCartney: "Another Day", Ringo Starr: "It Don't Come Easy", John Lennon, "Power To The People" and George Harrison: "My Sweet Lord".

April 17
The Doors' "Love Her Madly" is released. It would become the band's 7th Billboard Top 40 single, reaching #11.

April 18
The Jackson 5 and Bill Cosby guest on Diana Ross' solo TV special, diana.

1972 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" became an unlikely number one hit after it was featured in the Clint Eastwood film Play Misty For Me. It had been originally released as an album cut three years earlier. After Eastwood included it in his film, Atlantic Records rush released it as a single. The song reached #14 in the UK.

April 15
Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen entered the Billboard Top 40 for the first and only time with "Hot Rod Lincoln", a re-worked version of "Hot Rod Race", a #29 hit for Tiny Hill in 1951.

April 16
The Electric Light Orchestra played its first live show, promoting their debut album, "No Answer". The concert didn't get very good reviews and founding member Roy Wood split several months later, leaving Jeff Lynne to write and produce most of the band's material.

1973 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
Paul McCartney's first television special, James Paul McCartney, airs in America on the ABC network. The show, which includes performances by McCartney and Wings, would be broadcast in the UK on May 10th.

April 17
Pink Floyd receives a Gold Record for "The Dark Side of the Moon", one of Rock's landmark albums. The LP remained on the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history and has sold an estimated 45 million copies.

April 21
Alice Cooper had the #1 album in the US with "Billion Dollar Babies". The LP also topped the chart in the UK.

April 21
Tony Orlando And Dawn topped both the US and the UK singles chart with "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree". It became the biggest hit of the year, selling over 6 million copies. The song was based on a true story of a prisoner who wrote to his wife asking her to tie a yellow ribbon around an oak tree in the town square in White Oak, Georgia, if she still loved him.

1974 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Vinnie Taylor, guitarist with the Rock 'n Roll revival band Sha Na Na, died from a drug overdose.

April 18
James Brown received a Gold record for the single "The Payback", which had topped the Billboard R&B chart.

April 20
The theme song from the TV show Soul Train called TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) topped the Billboard Hot 100. It made #22 in the UK.

1975 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
Four Bay City Rollers fans were taken to hospital and 35 others required treatment after they attempted to swim across a lake to meet their heroes during an appearance at a BBC Radio 1 fun day at Mallory park.

April 18
Alice Cooper's first TV special, Welcome To My Nightmare: The Making Of A Record Album airs on US television.

1976 - ClassicBands.com

April 21
Former Raspberries lead singer Eric Carmen enters the US Pop chart with his first and biggest solo hit, "All by Myself". The record would reach #2 on Billboard's Hot 100, #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 and #12 in the UK.

1977 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
While riding high on the success of his hit TV show Starsky and Hutch, David Soul reached Billboard's top spot with "Don't Give Up On Us". The record had already topped the UK chart the previous January.

1978 - ClassicBands.com

April 21
British Folk-Rock singer Sandy Denny died of a brain hemorrhage after falling down the stairs at a friend's home in London. She was just 31 years old. Denny was one of Britain's most popular singer-songwriters in the early 1970's and was voted top female vocalist in the '70 and '71 Melody Maker polls.

1979 - ClassicBands.com

April 21
Amii Stewart went to #1 on the US singles chart with a remake of Eddie Floyd's 1966 hit, "Knock On Wood". It made #6 in the UK the same year and #7 when re-issued in 1985.

1980 - ClassicBands.com

April 19
Blondie scores their second Billboard number one hit with "Call Me", a song featured in the Richard Gere movie American Gigolo. The track was also a #1 in the UK.

April 20
84 year old George Burns, who starred in the movie Oh God with John Denver, becomes the oldest person to have a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when "I Wish I Was 18 Again" peaked at number forty-nine. When asked if he wished he were 18 again, Burns replied "I wish I was 80 again." Before this, his most recent charting record had been a spoken word comedy routine with his wife and partner Gracie Allen in the summer of 1933.

1981 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
Yes temporarily split up when bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White left the group to rehearse with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame. The intended super group never got off the ground and Yes would reform 2½ years later, releasing "90125", which contained the number 1 single, "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

April 20
John Phillips, the former leader of the Mamas And The Papas, is jailed in Los Angeles after pleading guilty to drug possession charges. His five year sentence will be suspended after thirty days in exchange for 250 hours worth of community service.

1982 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Billy Joel suffered a broken wrist when the motorcycle he was driving was hit by a car. The Piano Man was in the hospital for over a month.

April 19
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a European tour after the success of their New York Central Park concert the year before. Tensions between the pair cause them to split again before they can tour the US and by the time the album they were working on came out 18 months later, all traces of Garfunkel's contributions had been electronically removed.

1983 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Felix Pappalardi, bassist for the group Mountain, who had a hit in 1970 with "Mississippi Queen", was shot and killed by his wife Gail Collins when they argued over his long-standing affair with a younger woman. She was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to four years in prison. Felix was 43.

1984 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
Michael Jackson underwent surgery in Los Angeles to repair damage done after his hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial on January 27th. Jackson was hospitalized and recuperated for months before he could return to work.

April 21
Phil Collins started a three week stay at #1 on the US singles chart with "Against All Odds". It was Phil's first US chart topper and also a #2 hit in the UK.

April 21
The sound track LP from the movie Footloose begins a ten week run at the top of the Billboard album chart on the strength of the title track by Kenny Loggins and "Let's Hear It For The Boy" by Deniece Williams.

1985 - ClassicBands.com

April 20
Wham! became the first group to release cassettes in the People's Republic of China.

1987 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Queen is presented with an award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the 32nd annual Ivor Novello Awards in London.

April 17
Carlton Barrett, drummer for Bob Marley And The Wailers, was shot and killed outside his home in Kingston, Jamaica. Barrett's widow, her lover and an accomplice were charged with murder two weeks later.

April 18
When her newest release reached the top of the Billboard chart, Aretha Franklin set a record for the artist with the longest gap between US #1 singles. It had been 19 years, 10 months from "Respect" (June 1967) to "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" (With George Michael).

April 20
A record store in Callaway, Florida is shut down and a part-time clerk is arrested for selling a copy of "2 Live Is What We Are" by 2 Live Crew to a 14 year old boy. Officials have deemed the recording "obscene" because of its pornographic lyrics.

1988 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
The Motown song writing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

1989 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Roy Orbison had his final Top 10 single on the US chart with "You Got It", four months after he passed away. The song was written by Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty and appeared on Orbison's "Mystery Girl" album that was released posthumously.

1990 - ClassicBands.com

April 21
A record setting crowd of 184,000 jammed a soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro to see Paul McCartney's final show of his 33-city tour. The previous record was held by Frank Sinatra, who attracted 175,000 to the same stadium in 1980.

1991 - ClassicBands.com

April 20
44 year old Steve Marriott, who found success in The Small Faces and Humble Pie, died when a fire thought to have been caused by a cigarette swept through his 16th-century home in Arkesden, Essex. He and Peter Frampton were in the process of re-forming and had written and recorded several new songs at the time of his death. Rod Stewart had been his replacement in the Small Faces.

April 20
Wendy and Carnie Wilson, daughters of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, along with Chynna Phillips, daughter of The Mamas And Papas' John Phillips, combined their talents to hit #1 on the Billboard singles chart for the third time with "You're In Love". It was a #29 hit in the UK.

1992 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
The three surviving members of Queen raised over $15 million at a charity concert in memory of the late Freddie Mercury, who died in November, 1991. They were joined by David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Guns N' Roses, Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Paul Young and others.

1993 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
Paul McCartney headlines a concert at the Hollywood Bowl to celebrate Earth Day. Other performers at the concert include Ringo Starr, Steve Miller and Don Henley.

April 17
David Bowie went to the top of the UK album chart with "Black Tie, White Noise", his eighth UK #1 LP.

1996 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
The rest of Jerry Garcia's ashes were scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. A small portion had been placed into the Ganges River in India 11 days earlier. The Grateful Dead leader had died on August 9th, 1995.

April 16
KISS appear in full make-up at the 38th Grammy Awards, where they announce a reunion tour. It will mark the first time all four members have appeared together in fifteen years.

1997 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
Elton John is given an honorary membership to his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school.

April 18
Bernard Edwards, bass guitarist for Chic, died of pneumonia in a Tokyo Hotel room while touring Japan. He had also worked with Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis, Debbie Harry, Air Supply, Rod Stewart and many others.

1998 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Linda Eastman McCartney, wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, died while vacationing with her family near Tucson, Arizona. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. Paul was at her bedside, speaking to her when she passed away.

April 20
Michael Jackson attended an unveiling of a wax statue of himself at the Grevin Museum of Wax in Paris. Jackson provided one of his own outfits to dress the figure.

1999 - ClassicBands.com

April 16
Skip Spence, an original member of Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape, died of lung cancer in a San Francisco hospital at the age of 52. He had battled schizophrenia and alcoholism and had been on a ventilator for 11 days before his death.

April 20
Billy Joel performs what he says is his last Rock music concert at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. He planed on devoting his efforts to Classical music, but later returned to touring and singing his hits.

2000 - ClassicBands.com

April 19
Phil Collins wins a royalties lawsuit against Louis Satterfield and Rahmlee Michael Davis. The two members of Earth, Wind and Fire's horn section were overpaid $390,000 in royalties when they backed Collins on his 1990 tour. Five songs on which the pair performed were later included on the "Serious Hits... Live!" album, but royalties were paid based on all fifteen tracks.

2001 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
Joey Ramone of the '70s punk band The Ramones died of lymphatic cancer at the age of 49 . His real name was Jeff Hyman.

2002 - ClassicBands.com

April 20
Alan Dale, who reached Billboard's #14 spot with "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" and #10 with "Sweet And Gentle", died of heart failure at the age of 76. Both of his 1955 hits sold over a million copies.

2003 - ClassicBands.com

April 19
The oldest working musician in Britain, Conrad Leonard, died at the age of 104. Had worked with Cole Porter, Petula Clark and the BBC.

2005 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
John Fred Gourrier, who led John Fred And His Playboy Band to Billboard's #1 spot in December 1967 with "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)", died after a long bout with kidney disease. He was 63.

April 19
Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. announced that two 30-second TV commercials designed to attract vacationing families to Graceland to experience the "real" Elvis Presley would air nationally in the US starting in April 2006. It was the first time that the company has used television advertising to promote Graceland tourism.

2006 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
A sale of clothing owned by Elton John raised more than $700,000 (£395,000) for the singer's AIDS charity. Over 10,000 pieces were sold during a five-day sale in New York City at the specially-created shop, Elton's Closet, at New York's Rockefeller Centre.

2007 - ClassicBands.com
April 15
Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained Hawaiian tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing his catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles", died of heart failure. He was 76.

2008 - ClassicBands.com

April 17
Danny Federici, the longtime keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen, whose stylish work helped define the E Street Band's sound on hits from "Hungry Heart" through "The Rising", died of cancer at the age of 58.

April 21
Al Wilson, Soul singer and songwriter who had a number of US hits, including "The Snake" in 1968 and the Billboard #1 smash "Show and Tell" in 1974, died of kidney failure at the age of 68.

2009 - ClassicBands.com

April 21
Don Henley filed a lawsuit against Republican politician Charles DeVore for using two of his songs, "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" in campaign ads that appeared on YouTube.

April 21
Bob Seger was named in a negligence lawsuit filed by a man who says he suffered injuries when his motorcycle was struck by the rocker's 2004 Lexus driven by Seger's bass player Christopher Campbell. Campbell was ticketed for failure to stop after the accident, which happened about 30 miles northwest of Detroit.

2010 - ClassicBands.com

April 15
After receiving some bad reviews and even enduring some boos during her performance, Whitney Houston brushed off criticism of her first show in the U.K. in over eleven years by insisting she was playing to a "tough crowd". She had been recently been hospitalized with chronic rhinopharyngitis, which is a swelling of the membranes in the nose and throat.

April 19
A week after Catholic Church officials published an article in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper that said they forgive John Lennon's remarks about The Beatles being "bigger than Jesus", Ringo Starr rejected their forgiveness. The newspaper's editors had written, "The Beatles said they were bigger than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even Satanic... (but) what would Pop music be like without the Beatles?" Ringo was unimpressed and replied "Didn't the Vatican say we were Satanic or possibly Satanic? And they've still forgiven us? I think the Vatican, they've got more to talk about than the Beatles."

April 21
Elton John made an appearance on "American Idol's Idol Gives Back where he seemed to struggle vocally to get through his 1970 composition "Your Song". Also appearing were Jeff Beck, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys and Carrie Underwood.

2011 - ClassicBands.com

April 18
Elton John announced that he'll return to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with his "Million Dollar Piano" show starting in September. His first stay at Caesars Palace ended in April 2009, but was extended to a five-year run because of audience demand.

April 19
After 18 months of legal wrangling, Michael Jackson's estate settled its dispute with the Heal the World Foundation. The deal came just as a trial was set to begin to decide ownership of lucrative trademarks.

April 21
Los Angeles Judge Michael Pastor agreed to allow prosecutors to show autopsy photos of Michael Jackson to the jury in Dr Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial. Dr Murray's defense lawyers had objected, saying the photographs would enflame jurors' passions.











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April 15th - ClassicBands.com

1918 - Eddie Arnold
("Make The World Go Away")
1933 - Roy Clark
("Yesterday When I Was Young")
1937 - Bob Luman
("Let's Think About Living")
1940 - Clarence Satchell
- guitar and sax for The Ohio Players ("Fire")
1944 - Dave Edmunds
("I Hear You Knockin'")

April 16th - ClassicBands.com

1924 - Henry Mancini
("Moon River")
1924 - Rudy Pompilli
- tenor saxophone for Bill Haley and his Comets ("Rock Around The Clock")
1929 - Roy Hamilton
("You Can Have Her")
1935 - Bobby Vinton
("Blue Velvet")
1939 - Dusty Springfield
("I Only Want To Be With You")
1947 - Gerry Rafferty
("Baker Street")
1963 - Jimmy Osmond
("Long Haired Lover From Liverpool")

April 17th - ClassicBands.com

1932 - Don Kirshner
- Rock concert promoter
1941 - Billy Fury
("Halfway To Paradise"")
1944 - Bobby Curtola
("Take Good Care Of My Baby")
1948 - Jan Hammer
("Miami Vice Theme")

April 18th - ClassicBands.com

1936 - Lenny Baker
- saxophonist for Sha Na Na
1942 - Mike Vickers
- guitarist for Manfred Mann ("Blinded By The Light"
1944 - Skip Spence
- drummer for Jefferson Airplane ("Somebody To Love")
1946 - Hayley Mills
("Let's Get Together")
1947 - Polly Brown
("Up In A Puff Of Smoke")

April 19th - ClassicBands.com

1941 - Bobby Russell
("Saturday Morning Confusion")
1942 - Alan Price
- keyboard player for The Animals ("House Of The Rising Sun")
1942 - Larry Ramos, Jr.
- guitarist for The Association ("Along Comes Mary")
1944 - Bernie Worrell
- keyboard player for Parliament / Funkadelic ("On Nation Under A Groove")
1947 - Mark Volman
- vocalist for The Turtles ("She'd Rather Be With Me")

April 20th - ClassicBands.com

1939 - Johnny Tillotson
("Poetry In Motion")
1948 - Craig Frost
- keyboardist for Grand Funk Railroad ("Bad Time")
1951 - Luther Vandross
("How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye")

April 21st - ClassicBands.com

1939 - Ernie Maresca
("Shout! Shout! Knock Yourself Out")
1947 - Alan Warner
- lead guitar for The Foundations ("Baby Now That I've Found You")
1949 - Paul Davis
("65 Love Affair")






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This Week's Best Selling Singles

  In The USA  
April 15th to April 21st

Year Song Artist
1956 Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
1957 All Shook Up Elvis Presley
1958 He's Got The Whole World In His Hands Laurie London
1959 Come Softly To Me The Fleetwoods
1960 The Theme From A Summer Place Percy Faith And His Orchestra
1961 Blue Moon The Marcels
1962 Johnny Angel Shelley Fabares
1963 He's So Fine The Chiffons
1964 Can't Buy Me Love The Beatles
1965 I'm Telling You Now Freddie And The Dreamers
1966 (You're My) Soul And Inspiration The Righteous Brothers
1967 Something Stupid Nancy Sinatra And Frank Sinatra
1968 Honey Bobby Goldsboro
1969 Aquarius / Let The Sun Shine In The Fifth Dimension
1970 Let It Be The Beatles
1971 Joy To The World Three Dog Night
1972 Rockin' Robin Michael Jackson
1973 The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Vicki Lawrence
1974 TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) MFSB (Mother, Father, Sister, Brother)
1975 Philadelphia Freedom Elton John
1976 Disco Lady Johnnie Taylor
1977 Don't Give Up On Us David Soul
1978 Night Fever The Bee Gees
1979 Knock On Wood Ami Stewart
1980 Call Me Blondie
1981 Morning Train (9 To 5) Sheena Easton
1982 I Love Rock 'n' Roll Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
1983 Billie Jean Michael Jackson
1984 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) Phil Collins
1985 We Are The World USA For Africa


  In The United Kingdom  

April 15th to April 21st

1956 Poor People Of Paris Winifred Atwell
1957 Cumberland Gap Lonnie Donegan
1958 Magic Moments Perry Como
1959 Side Saddle Russ Conway
1960 My Old Man's A Dustman Lonnie Donegan
1961 Wooden Heart Elvis Presley
1962 Wonderful Land The Shadows
1963 How Do You Do It Jerry And The Pacemakers
1964 Can't Buy Me Love The Beatles
1965 The Minute You're Gone Cliff Richard
1966 Somebody Help Me The Spencer Davis Group
1967 Something Stupid Nancy Sinatra And Frank Sinatra
1968 Congratulations Cliff Richard
1969 The Israelites Desmond Dekker And The Aces
1970 All Kinds Of Everything Dana
1971 Hot Love T-Rex
1972 Amazing Grace The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
1973 Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree Tony Orlando And Dawn
1974 Seasons In The Sun Terry Jacks
1975 Bye Bye Baby The Bay City Rollers
1976 Save Your Kisses For Me Brotherhood Of Man
1977 Knowing Me Knowing You ABBA
1978 Matchstick Men And Matchstick Cats And Dogs Brian And Michael
1979 Bright Eyes Art Garfunkel
1980 Working My Way Back To You The Detroit Spinners
1981 Making Your Mind Up Bucks Fizz
1982 My Camera Never Lies Bucks Fizz
1983 Let's Dance David Bowie
1984 Hello Lionel Richie
1985 We Are The World USA For Africa


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#27627 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:39 pm
Subject: MIDI: Jealous Heart 1944
james_pittpayne
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 Jealous Heart 1944
by Jenny Lou Carson
© 1944 by Acuff-Rose Pubs., Tennessee, U.S.A.
*
sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 15 April 2012 at 20.13
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
*
James Pitt-Payne

#27629 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:50 pm
Subject: MIDI: The Request Waltz 1943
james_pittpayne
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 The Request Waltz 1943
founded on "Pomone Waltz" by Emile Waldteufel
Lyrics arranged by "Petronius"
© 1943 by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crewe Ltd.
*
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on Sunday 15 April 2012 at 21.24
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This is a nice waltz so I did one repeat... JP-P
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James Pitt-Payne

#27630 From: Joe Greg <blueeyes7208@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:12 pm
Subject: Fwd: Take a look at this...
blueeyes7208
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#27631 From: "Roly Wright" <wrighton@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:53 pm
Subject: Re: Can You Guess This Song And Artist(s) - Seq Gary Rogers
roly_w
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Is it A B C by the Jackson Five???
Roly


On 15 Apr 2012 at 10:56, Gary Rogers wrote:

Please send all responses to my private email. Gary Rogers
mailto:garyrog@...


The first guess with the earliest timestamp will be posted to the group along
with your
name, & the song title, & original artist. Since everyone are on the Internet
at different times, I
will post all of the correct responses that I receive.


Can You Guess This Song And Artist?

I think most of us have heard a song on the radio that we know, but can't
remember the title or artist who recorded it. These
songs usually drive me crazy until I remember what it is and who recorded
it. I'm not trying to drive you crazy with this posting.
I'm just trying to let everyone have a little fun with it. I can't offer any
prizes
for properly guessing it, but you can have the
distinction of being the first one to guess it correctly. I am looking for the
title
of the song and who originally recorded it.
The song won't sound exactly like it was recorded, but hopefully it is close
enough to be recognized.

Good luck and have fun!!!!

Gary

#27632 From: Bobeld <bobeld@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:52 am
Subject: Re: Can You Guess This Song And Artist(s) - Seq Gary Rogers
bobeld
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Give me 'gravy with my mashed potatoes'. Oh, that's a different song.  But this is Mashed Potato Time - by Dee Dee Sharp.  I think I'm right. 
Regards,
Bobeld
 
 
On 04/15/12, Gary Rogers<garyrog@...> wrote:
 
 

Please send all responses to my private email. Gary Rogers mailto:garyrog@...
 
The first guess with the earliest timestamp will be posted to the group along with your
name, & the song title, & original artist. Since everyone are on the Internet at different times, I
will post all of the correct responses that I receive.
 
 
Can You Guess This Song And Artist?
 
I think most of us have heard a song on the radio that we know, but can't remember the title or artist who recorded it. These
songs usually drive me crazy until I remember what it is and who recorded it. I'm not trying to drive you crazy with this posting.
I'm just trying to let everyone have a little fun with it. I can't offer any prizes for properly guessing it, but you can have the
distinction of being the first one to guess it correctly. I am looking for the title of the song and who originally recorded it.
The song won't sound exactly like it was recorded, but hopefully it is close enough to be recognized.
 
Good luck and have fun!!!!
 
Gary

#27633 From: Bobeld <bobeld@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:54 am
Subject: Re: Re: Can You Guess This Song And Artist(s) - Seq Gary Rogers
bobeld
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Sorry Gary - It thought you had sent it from your private email so I replied without thinking. 
 
 
On 04/15/12, Bobeld<bobeld@...> wrote:
 
 

Give me 'gravy with my mashed potatoes'. Oh, that's a different song.  But this is Mashed Potato Time - by Dee Dee Sharp.  I think I'm right. 
Regards,
Bobeld
 
 
On 04/15/12, Gary Rogers<garyrog@...> wrote:
 
 

Please send all responses to my private email. Gary Rogers mailto:garyrog@...
 
The first guess with the earliest timestamp will be posted to the group along with your
name, & the song title, & original artist. Since everyone are on the Internet at different times, I
will post all of the correct responses that I receive.
 
 
Can You Guess This Song And Artist?
 
I think most of us have heard a song on the radio that we know, but can't remember the title or artist who recorded it. These
songs usually drive me crazy until I remember what it is and who recorded it. I'm not trying to drive you crazy with this posting.
I'm just trying to let everyone have a little fun with it. I can't offer any prizes for properly guessing it, but you can have the
distinction of being the first one to guess it correctly. I am looking for the title of the song and who originally recorded it.
The song won't sound exactly like it was recorded, but hopefully it is close enough to be recognized.
 
Good luck and have fun!!!!
 
Gary

#27634 From: "KevinKienlein.com" <krash@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:40 am
Subject: FW: Can You Name The Song And The Artist?
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Did anyone ever figure out what the name of this was? kk

 


From: midkar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midkar@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan West
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:45 PM
To: Midkar
Subject: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?

 

 

I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  

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#27635 From: "Baz" <unlimitesjazz@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:16 am
Subject: Re: FW: Can You Name The Song And The Artist?
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I am not aware anyone ever came up with a name.

It does remind me a bit of that old Paul Anka song
"Puppy Love" (and they call it puppy love).

I think I could make Puppy Love  sound a bit like Dale Astons midi by
slowing it down a bit, changing the rhythm and using a lot of
pitch bending.

Not really my kind of music so I doubt I will ever try.

A good one for the county sequencers to have a go at.

Baz


 

----- Original Message -----

From: KevinKienlein.com

Sent: 04/16/12 02:40 PM

To: midkar@yahoogroups.com

Subject: FW: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?


 

 

Did anyone ever figure out what the name of this was? kk

 


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Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:45 PM
To: Midkar
Subject: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?

 

 

I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  

 
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#27636 From: Robert <1jazzguy@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:15 pm
Subject: Re: FW: Can You Name The Song And The Artist?
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Hi Kevin,

I found a file in Dale's folder with a mid titled "Atlantis" by The Shadows(attached)
Don't recall where I got it, and the title is not in the info.
The time stamp was 01/12/2012
________________________________________________________________________
Here is the original Midkar message (
26254) dated Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:04 pm :

Sounds like "Atlantis" by The Shadows.
Bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VycZVyApqew

Dan West wrote:
I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  
-- Best regards,
Dan West


Bob

KevinKienlein.com wrote:

Did anyone ever figure out what the name of this was? kk

 


From: midkar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midkar@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan West
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:45 PM
To: Midkar
Subject: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?

 

 

I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  

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#27637 From: "Gary Rogers" <garyrog@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:54 pm
Subject: Results of "Can You Guess This Song"
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The Title and Artist for “Can You Guess This Song” this past week were:
 
Mashed Potato Time by Dee Dee Sharp
 
 
"Mashed Potato Time" by Dee Dee Sharp
Billboard Hot R&B Singles number-one single
April 28, 1962 – May 19, 1962 (four weeks)
 
The Mashed Potato is a dance move which was a popular dance craze of 1962. It was danced to songs such as Dee Dee Sharp's
"Mashed Potato Time". Also referred to as "mash potato" or "mashed potatoes", the move vaguely resembles that of the Twist,
by Sharp's fellow Philadelphian, Chubby Checker.
 
 
I received 12 responses to this song. I am including the Moderators because they have no idea in advance
what song I am posting.
 
This song and artist were named correctly by the following people. They are listed in the order I received their email.
 
1. Jesse Jocson
2. Bob Silvestri
3. Joe Assalti
4. Bob Eldridge
5. Derek
 
Thanks to all that participated.
 
I sincerely hope you have fun with "Guess This Song".
 
Gary

#27638 From: jesse jocson <bajhista@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:28 pm
Subject: Re: FW: Can You Name The Song And The Artist?
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Hi,
I like the Shadows. The UK answer to USA The Ventures.
Yes the YouTube URL definitely is ATLANTIS number by Hank Marvin and the Shadows.
The one with AX title Dan West was asking, I listened to it but I am not familiar with the piece.
JJ
Note: 
Remember the three R's: 
Respect for self; Respect for others; 
and Responsibility for all actions.
 


From: Robert <1jazzguy@...>
To: midkar@yahoogroups.com
Cc: KevinKienlein.com <krash@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: FW: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?

 
Hi Kevin,

I found a file in Dale's folder with a mid titled "Atlantis" by The Shadows(attached)
Don't recall where I got it, and the title is not in the info.
The time stamp was 01/12/2012
________________________________________________________________________
Here is the original Midkar message (
26254) dated Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:04 pm :

Sounds like "Atlantis" by The Shadows.
Bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VycZVyApqew

Dan West wrote:
I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  
-- Best regards,
Dan West


Bob

KevinKienlein.com wrote:
Did anyone ever figure out what the name of this was? kk
 

From: midkar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midkar@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Dan West
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:45 PM
To: Midkar
Subject: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?
 
 
I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  
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#27639 From: "KevinKienlein.com" <krash@...>
Date: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:29 pm
Subject: RE: FW: Can You Name The Song And The Artist?
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Doesn’t sound like puppy love to me… sounds more like a shadows or ventures type tune… any other guesses?

kk

 


From: midkar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midkar@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Baz
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:16 PM
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Subject: Re: FW: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?

 

 

I am not aware anyone ever came up with a name.

It does remind me a bit of that old Paul Anka song
"Puppy Love" (and they call it puppy love).

I think I could make Puppy Love  sound a bit like Dale Astons midi by
slowing it down a bit, changing the rhythm and using a lot of
pitch bending.

Not really my kind of music so I doubt I will ever try.

A good one for the county sequencers to have a go at.

Baz

 

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Subject: FW: [midkar] Can You Name The Song And The Artist?

 

 

 

Did anyone ever figure out what the name of this was? kk

 


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I am currently working off my sequencer Dale Aston folder where I came across a file named ax.  Dale Aston never put any info in the file as to name and artist.  The song sounds really familiar but what the song is well........escapes me at the moment.  Any help would be appreciated.  

 
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#27640 From: Joshua Neuman <theraiding.party@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:00 am
Subject: Mashed Potato Time
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This was one of the first Midi's Max and I ever put together.

We are a lot better sequencers these days but we all have to start somewhere.

We still play it professionally on occasions,depending on the age of the crowd.

Josh


It's Mashed Potato Time


It's Mashed Potato Time
Studio album by Dee Dee Sharp
Released 1962
Genre Soul
Length 28:26
Label Cameo Records
Dee Dee Sharp chronology

It's Mashed Potato Time
(1962)
Songs Of Faith
(1962)
It's Mashed Potato Time is the first studio album by Dee Dee Sharp.[1][2]

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Gravy For My Mashed Potatoes"   2:05
2. "Slow Twistin"   2:30
3. "Gee"   2:15
4. "Two Loves"   2:38
5. "One Hundred Pounds Of Clay"   2:15
6. "Eddie, My Love"   2:25
7. "Mashed Potato Time"   2:27
8. "Dee Dee, Be My Girl"   2:18
9. "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman"   2:21
10. "Remember You're Mine"   2:47
11. "Hurry On Down"   1:58
12. "Splish Splash"  
 

#27641 From: "Gary Rogers" <garyrog@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:17 am
Subject: Re: Mashed Potato Time
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Hi Josh,
 
Great job with this MIDI. You even had the sax solo, which is something I didn’t have in my version.
 
Gary
 
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Subject: [midkar] Mashed Potato Time
 
 

This was one of the first Midi's Max and I ever put together.

We are a lot better sequencers these days but we all have to start somewhere.
 
We still play it professionally on occasions,depending on the age of the crowd.
 
Josh


It's Mashed Potato Time


It's Mashed Potato Time
Studio album by Dee Dee Sharp
Released 1962
Genre Soul
Length 28:26
Label Cameo Records
Dee Dee Sharp chronology

It's Mashed Potato Time
(1962)
Songs Of Faith
(1962)
It's Mashed Potato Time is the first studio album by Dee Dee Sharp.[1][2]

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Gravy For My Mashed Potatoes"  2:05
2. "Slow Twistin 2:30
3. "Gee"  2:15
4. "Two Loves"  2:38
5. "One Hundred Pounds Of Clay"  2:15
6. "Eddie, My Love"  2:25
7. "Mashed Potato Time"  2:27
8. "Dee Dee, Be My Girl"  2:18
9. "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman 2:21
10. "Remember You're Mine"  2:47
11. "Hurry On Down"  1:58
12. "Splish Splash" 
 

#27642 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:23 am
Subject: MIDI: Walkin' To Missouri 1952
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 Walkin' To Missouri 1952
by Bob Merrill
© 1952 by Hawthorne Music Corp. New York  U.S.A.
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on Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 12.00
© 1952 by Hawthorne Music Corp., New York, U.S.A.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tusday 17 April 2012 at 12.01
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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James Pitt-Payne

#27643 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:01 pm
Subject: MIDI: The Roving Kind 1950
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 The Roving Kind 1950
by Jessie Cavanaugh & Arnold Stanton
© 1950 by Hollis Music Inc. New York, U.S.A.
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on Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 17.36
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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Featured and Broadcast in U.K. by Billy Cotton and His Band
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James Pitt-Payne

#27644 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:35 pm
Subject: MIDI: Room Full Of Roses 1949
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 Room Full Of Roses 1949
by Tim Spencer
© MCMXLIX by Hill & Range Songs Inc.
& Tim Spencer Music Inc. Beverley Hills, California
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on Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 19.15
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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James Pitt-Payne

#27645 From: "drjames" <drjames@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:57 pm
Subject: MIDI: Confidentially 1949 Reg Dixon
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 Confidentially 1949 Reg Dixon
by Reg Dixon
© MCMXLIX by Chappell & Co.Ltd.  London W1
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on Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 20.40
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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James Pitt-Payne

#27646 From: Bobeld <bobeld@...>
Date: Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:04 am
Subject: You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt seq by (see message)
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 Sequenced by Callgirl  Last time I posted a song by this sequencer (last week - Puttin' on the Ritz), it ended up in my spam folder probably due to email program flagging her name.  May have happened to some of you too. 


Betty Everett 1963  (of Shoop Shoop song fame [Is it in his kiss?])


Linda Ronstadt 1975


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