What Are You Listening To Right Now? #25

Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon...

(turn it up)

 

Michael Martin Murphey & the Rio Grande Band

 

^ holy smokes that's good even when I'm sober

 

a criminally underrated band given its talent and even worse, a very poorly managed band that could have been as big or bigger of some of the bands that came out of that area at the same time (Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead)

 

Let's have a warm welcome for Moby Grape folks. Let's really hear it for them.

 

I just saw a FUN VIDEO--
Dinosaur Jr., covering the Cure's "Just Like Heaven."

 

all members were writers and did lead vocals at some point

 

Recorded live in the seventies so you could experience it now.

 

Just don't eat the brown acid, kids!

 

Glen Campbell thanks you in advance for liking this song. Enjoy!

 

I think this work of Prine is one of the greatest songs in that genre ever

 

Toto, silly name for a band but they didn't ask me.

 

Early Grateful Dead-back when Pig Pen's organ was a dominant part of the band and Phil Lesh was the top vocalist/ very different sound -really neat though
the first one became a staple of concerts, usually paired with China cat Sunflower



this one i never heard when I started seeing the GD in the late seventies Phil lost his voice a few years before I saw them first though



another one I never heard them play live

 

A Mellow Vibe (but you can dance to it).
"Since I Don't Have You."
Original (1958 )-- The Skyliners
Guns 'n Roses
Art Garfunkel
Johnny Mathis
Ronny Milsap

















Anyone care to vote for a favorite, or two?

 

The last one, "Cream Puff War," is pretty good-- cool guitar jammin'!

 

I like them all-there are about 5 dozen versions of I know you rider floating around and all of them are good-the Europe 72 one (China/Rider) is awesome but the Only time is now is a real gem-that I never could find a post 70 version

 

It's been a long time, since I've heard that one; and never with such a lovely opening.

 

Classic jam! I just checked out some more of the Young Rascals' stuff, and I hadn't realized how many good songs they have-- and a decent variety as well. I had to laugh at one of the songs I hadn't known was theirs-- "How Can I Be Sure?"-- just because I'd always thought the singer had been Frankie Valli! Not a song I'm particularly fond of, btw.

But here's a piece I really like, called "More." It has a sweet, Bossa Nova flow, with these very cool, contrasting breaks.




This one is also interesting, with a good groove, provided you dig its distinctive flavor-- "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out, My Heart Anymore:"





I'll leave everyone with one they know, and which is easy to enjoy-- "It's A Beautiful Morning:"

 

This is just type of music mid 1960s teenagers got the stink-eye from their parents for listening to on the radio or buying their 45rpm records.

 

What a long strange trip it's been. Sorry for any bother.

 

I've been listening to acapella stuff for a while.