It was 50 years ago today (near enough)

[Pies4shaw]

Well, last week - but who's counting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Ladyland

The album containing Jimi's only (yes, really!!!) US top 40 single.

In 2013, Rolling Stone conducted a readers' poll to select the 10 "best" Hendrix songs. The top 10 included two songs from this record - that single at number 3 (recorded about 15 minutes after the original was released on John Wesley Harding and - to be fair - taking a good lyric to a whole other place) and the most distinctive piece of guitar-playing ever committed to disc - the Slight Return. Shortly after he died, the Slight Return was released as a single in the UK and the US. Naturally, it reached number 1 in the UK - but it sank without a trace in the US. Then again, as Rolling Stone says "it's since been played on classic rock radio roughly 10 billion times." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... rn-216531/

Out of the mouth of one of the Universe's most technically adept players, young Joe is quoted as saying: "It's just the greatest piece of electric guitar work ever recorded. In fact, the whole song could be considered the holy grail of guitar expression and technique. It is a beacon of humanity." https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars ... cks-178350

There's a 50th anniversary box set coming out on 9 November: https://www.jimihendrix.com/news/the-ji ... ember-9th/

In the meantime, here's a Dylan cover and the Slight Return:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

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

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

Zep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k

Peter Green's version of Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE4HGlmtOcg

The Beach Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqyx4TW4Ptw

CCR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrMvblpZFq0

And the "A" side of that single": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM

Graham Nash with The Hollies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaN3VxRDbA

And Graham Nash a little that year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69L2mO9y-4

And again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGtFRsCXRcc

Mike Nesmith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AweItvbPmBQ

Grace and the gang (with the perfection of Nicky Hopkins on the ivories): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboRijhWFDU

And another lovely song from that album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWX2-l788A

A less-known song from CCR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEJMuMly6ak and the "B" side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv_gXt1cCI8

And another one from CCR in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6iRNVwslM4

And another - the title track from "Green River": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5V9nK7-OkM

Cream's last ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGyQIgvSV0

And what Eric and Ginger did next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlLBs6YawM

And what Eric did (with Leon) on his holidays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxrujF6Rj3c

And Leon with Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYmKWXawC1c

And Leon with Bobby and Nicky (and some other English blokes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdDcX5gmuw

And the other English blokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0iLSCgMjvE

And them also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os

And their greatest (and least politically acceptable) moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1SvYwkVtk

Bowie at his least annoying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo

The Who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM

Sly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWQzOzK3kw

Some other English blokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNqsfFUwhY

And those loud English guys again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmtJ6-EY1E

Closer to home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBVJFGx ... dio=1&t=31

And something religious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F3Cjr32QyI

Number 1 in the UK on 21 April 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtfdH3-TQ4

And in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

Dusty in Memphis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlSIsU9fjuU

Nick Drake channelling Bert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4y8WGOJu_c

Sandy channelling Sandy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb43-Q70olM

The greatest story of adultery and appalling domestic violence ever committed to record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI

And an ode to the making of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id-uy--H8tQ

The coolest sound of 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvl9fE_4qxA

Bert channelling Bert, while Jacqui duets with Jacqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QoWdrY7zQg

And Jacqui sings in tune while Bert transcends tonality in the second best song about adultery and domestic violence ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5DktgussYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY

The original recording by The Beatles wasn't released until the following year but Joe released this cover in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzf5EBY8gCQ

And Joe performing his signature cover at Woodstock with the Grease Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLyK2DVVUU

Canned Heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJ-WcDhba8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWDyA4S-geg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbn6a0AFfnM

Bert being Bert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpRup9xI9QY
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJzYCHC8vEs

Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8wV2ON9K5w

John channelling Howling Wolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT51FwsFtE0

Roger Chapman and the Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCUQ81vJYw

Lou and the Velvets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh-GNnCwHj4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisHhIRihMY

Leonard at his happiest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34cVkL6zCE

And another song from his room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fT7rnRotY

Chicago - does anybody know what tune it is?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJpyYu_NMk

Trout Mask Replica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mzoso95-Q

So Stui doesn't accuse me of being biased: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ-r0bilzhU

Really, I love Elvis but Heartbreak Hotel that isn't.

Sandy, again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEOYWpc_Q4o
and again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrGtFxtWXU

Delaney & Bonnie allowed to sing (with Joe Cocker) on "Accept No Substitute" provided they leave Leon's rollicking Easter piano right out front: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdQ7OG-zjaA

"I crawled up to the railroad track, let the 4.19 scratch my back": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecau3Zf0C20

"Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJRnlfNAiU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1zk1Ktvcy0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spFBcMDhRAg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt0IXkIVvo4

Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprYyWMcUGY

I wish I could post a link but alas, I can only give you Wiki's entry for Fripp's first masterpiece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Co ... imson_King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Z7uQ4j-t0

Something shocking from Holland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqK3cSOldis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJYl9Irayk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-L9Pu-iul4 and Bob's favourite protest song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4G_SgwLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLp0AsKXMEs

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

[PyreneesPie]

What a great list of musical tracks P4S. So many brilliant artists and musicians!
I've just done a quick run through and feel like I've gone back in time, to a place where music had melody and throbbing beat!! Okay, sometimes the lyrics weren't always profound.
"The Israelites". Didn't think anyone else would ever recall that one, but I loved it!!!
Going to go back through all the videos and play each of them in full.

[Pies4shaw]

Did you get to the end of the videos yet, PyreneesPie?

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.goldminemag.com/news/the-be ... y-releases

All coming out 27 September, apparently.

[thesoretoothsayer]

https://www.goldminemag.com/news/the-beatles-revisit-abbey-road-with-special-anniversary-releases

All coming out 27 September, apparently.

This is going to be like the White Album Esher Demos release. You buy it, listen to the demos once, go "meh" and then you're stuck with a CD that you already own a copy of. The sad thing is I'll definitely be buying it.

[Pies4shaw]

Can't Find My Way Home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJnA6zEcGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlLBs6YawM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaBE_Yw5tlo

[Pies4shaw]

And, so, we come to this - my favourite album of all time, released in 1969. It's listed in "1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", so you can do that, here, now and tick it off.

Many of you know, I expect, that I am (a) obsessed by the sound of a grand piano and (b) frequently annoyed by music that Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Debussy or Ligeti didn't write. I always liked rock music, though, and came to this album because Donovan Leitch (he of "Mellow Yellow", "Sunshine Superman", "Season of the Witch" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" fame) used to play a beautiful, but obscure song called "House of Jansch" and another called "Bert's Blues", each named for the amazing guitarist who was one of the musicians in this remarkable group. When I heard this album, I stopped going to classes at school, stopped playing piano for about a decade, taught myself to play finger-style acoustic guitar, started folk bands and began playing obscure British and American folk songs, all sung in 4-part harmony. So, all in all, it was a very bad influence on me.

What can I say about the record? This album features the five best musicians ever assembled in one place playing some of the most inventive, hypnotic and subtle music ever committed to vinyl (although, sadly, not a piano in sight). I suppose my favourite songs on it are the remarkable re-imaginings of the ancient folk songs "Once I Had a Sweetheart" (really, bowed double-bass and sitar anchoring a traditional English ballad?) and "House Carpenter" (Bert's plaintive, foreboding banjo, his vocal personification of Satan, Jacqui's magnificent unaccompanied stanza at the most dramatic moment of the tale, John's evil presence on sitar and the whole underpinned by the most insane rhythm section ever committed to disc) but I am aware that the album contains many songs that other people consider to be their "all-time" favourite song (especially the opener "Light Flight", the cover of "Sally Go Round the Roses" and Bert's two vocal masterpieces, "Springtime Promises" and "Train Song (Basket of Light)". For 50 years, this record has made people weep at the beauty of the sounds it contains.

As Jacqui sings, "I'll set sail of silver and steer toward the sun...."

Light Flight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlmxT9iNgs

Once I Had a Sweetheart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQsEKZ_qYw

Springtime Promises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWypH92vMEw

Lyke-Wake Dirge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7CMAc ... ew&index=1

Train Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441AWNahxqg

Hunting Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqlh6WmAxQ

Sally Go Round the Roses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrXmEbgFzo

The Cuckoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614L6q88pAM

House Carpenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mSk64BETU8

"But here I am in the raging sea and my soul is bound for hell."

[Pies4shaw]

Bridge Over Troubled Water was released on 26 January 1970.

If you don't know Bridge Over Troubled Water, Keep the Customer Satsified, Cecilia, El Condor Pasa, Baby Driver and the Boxer by heart, you should.

[stui magpie]

Bridge over troubled water is on song I DO know.

Elvis version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbOBoa8vD8

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5YpqIhvnlY

Some kid called Johhny Farnum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7scTuXSYT4

Aretha Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-yfeA2JZs

Oh, and Simon and Garfunkel do it OK too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrcwRt6J32o

And just for P4S, here's the Album with all those songs mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-YQA_ ... Kkr72nuLH8

[Pies4shaw]

I'll see your Elvis and raise you a John Legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnCHCqYRQFs

and a Roberta Flack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k49yMJE8jyg

and because it's Australia Day, here's an Australian who can sing it, more or less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sphoskiu9K4

and here's Paul's own version without Art from "Live Rhymin'": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqcP5sgnReY

And here's a version by Johnny Cash that might be best described as a bit of an over-reach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxAjFFnrLk

[stui magpie]

OK, John legend, that was a joker in the pack I didn't know was there.

The rest were all a bit Meh, but while I've corrupted your thread to Simon and Garfunkel covers, has there ever been a better version of Sound of Silence than this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

[Pies4shaw]

He sings well but I don’t really like Sounds of Silence as a big production number. I actually prefer the first release (from the S & G album Wednesday Morning, 3 AM), with just the two voices and the acoustic guitar before the full band was added, to the famous one.

I’ve seen John Legend sing Bridge in concert. He’s not my thing but he is a brilliant singer.

[stui magpie]

I'd never heard of the guy, but damn he can sing