Remember the Alamo (1955)

Written by Jane Bowers
O: Tex Ritter on Capitol

From Wikipedia


"Remember the Alamo" is a song written by Texan folk singer and songwriter Jane Bowers.

Bowers details the last days of 180 soldiers at the Alamo and names several famous figures who fought at the Alamo, including Mexican general Santa Anna and Texans: Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett. It champions the Texans' efforts against Mexico to establish an independent republic.

Tex Ritter first released the song as the b-side of "Gunsmoke" in 1955. It was the first song in the catalogue of his and Johnny Bond's music company Vidor Publications. Ritter's recording was used in the film "Down Liberty Road" the following year. While the song was never a hit single and did not initially make a big impact on the folk community, it has since been covered by many important folk and country artists.




The Kingston Trio's recording

The Kingston Trio met Jane Bowers while playing shows in Austin, Texas in the late 1950s. They went on to record several of her songs, including "Remember the Alamo". The song was released with slightly different lyrics on their 1959 album At Large, which subsequently reached #1 on the Billboard pop album charts in the United States.

Johnny Cash's recording

In the early 1960s Johnny Cash recorded "Remember the Alamo" with Tex Ritter's original lyrics. He also utilized different instrumentation from the Kingston Trio's version by adding a military drumbeat and lush backing vocals. The song was included on his 1963 compilation Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash which also reached #1 in the United States.

Donovan's recording

British singer-songwriter Donovan recorded "Remember the Alamo" with a mix of both Kingston Trio revised lyrics and Tex Ritter's original lyrics in early 1965 for inclusion on his debut album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid:

Although he had never visited the United States, Donovan was deeply interested in the American folk tradition. He stripped away all backing vocals, military drumbeats and militant guitar strumming and simply sang the song with an acoustic guitar as accompaniment. In early 1966, Donovan was still suffering from the legal battles between his original record label Pye Records and his new label Epic Records. During the dispute, Pye Records released "Josie" without Donovan's approval and the single failed to chart. Not long after, Pye Records culled "Remember the Alamo" from What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid and prepared it for single release in the United Kingdom. The song was backed with "The Ballad of a Crystal Man" and released in April 1966 (Pye 7N 17088). The single was quickly withdrawn from the market not long after its release, ostensibly due to the ongoing contractual battles, and never charted.

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett's recording

British musicians John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett recorded the song on their 1978 album Deep & Meaningless. The album was re-released in 2007. The version is a colourful one, with strangled singing, pounding drums and the sound of cannon. Unlike in other versions, the courier referred to in the third verse is a woman.
Asleep at the Wheel's recording

Texas Swing band Asleep at the Wheel released its version of the song in 2003 on Asleep At The Wheel Remembers The Alamo. Since the early 1970s this group has performed big band Western swing in the style of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, and has a devoted following in the US and the UK as well. The song is part of a theme album about the Battle of The Alamo, and includes traditional tunes (Deguello, The Yellow Rose of Texas) and more recent whimsical songs (The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Don't Go There). "Remember the Alamo" is sung by longtime frontman Ray Benson, and the band performs the song in the traditional free and flowing Texas Swing style.



You can get them if you really want


Sorry i had to remove Johnny Cash

The French Trot/El Manisero/Peanut Vendor

Is "The French Trott" the original music of  "El Manisero"?
I can't hear it.

Spagnola, La (1909)

Written by Vincenzo Di Chiara. It. (1864—1937) in 1906.
Original recording: Francesco Daddi 1909 on Edison Amberol
C:  Gina Ardito & Eugenio Torre - La Spagnola on Victor. recorded 30-08-1910
C: I.O. Kamionsky (Russian) on Concert Record. recorded 12-09-1910 (No recording found)
C: Alexander Davydov on on Concert Record. recorded 03-10-1910 ( recording found)


Read "the Originals" about this song

la spagnola tenore eugenio torre - ardito
Don't really trust this video, because in the YouTube video is written: recorded 01-06-1910. The online Victor recordings site doesn't give this recording date.

Also recorded by:

03-10-1910 - Alexander Davydov - La Spagnola
1911 - Guido Deiro - La Spagnola
1923 - Rosa Ponselle - La Spagnola
1939 - Beniamino Gigli - La Spagnola
1950 - Willy Alberti - La Spagnola
1952 - Mario Lanza - La Spagnola
1954 - Tony Romano - La Spagnola
1956 - Gina Lollobrigida - 'a Frangesa - La Spagnola - Pourquoi Ne Pas M'aimer
1957 - Gaylords - La Spagnola
1959 - Nat King Cole - Buon Natale (Means Merry Christmas to you) (La Spagnola)
1961 - Sarita Montiel - La Spagnola
1963 - Joni James - La Spagnola (Maid of Spain)
1966 - Tony Dallara - La Spagnola
1973 - Gigliola Cinquett - La Spagnola
1977 - Miranda Martino - La Spagnola
1992 - Castellina Pasi - La Spagnola
1997 - Bzn - La Spagnola
2001 - Rosanna Fratello - La Spagnola
2005 - Richard Abel - La Spagnola.
2009 - Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws - La Spagnola


and others

Take the 'A' Train (1941)

Written by Billy Strayhorn
O: Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra    15 febr 1941 on Victor

From Wikipedia

"Take the 'A' Train" is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. It is arguably the most famous of the many compositions to emerge from the collaboration of Ellington and Strayhorn.
The use of the Strayhorn composition as the signature tune was made necessary by a ruling in 1940 by the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP). When ASCAP raised its licensing fees for broadcast use, many ASCAP members, including Ellington, could no longer play their compositions over radio, as most music was played live on radio in those days. Ellington turned to Billy Strayhorn and son Mercer Ellington, who were registered with ASCAP competitor BMI to "write a whole new book for the band," Mercer recalled." 'A' Train" was one of many songs written by Strayhorn, and was picked to replace "Sepia Panorama" as the band's signature song. Mercer recalled that he found the song in a trash can after Strayhorn discarded a draft of it because it sounded too much like a Fletcher Henderson arrangement.[1] The song was first recorded on January 15, 1941 as a standard transcription for radio broadcast. The first (and most famous) commercial recording was made on February 15, 1941.

The title refers to the then relatively new A subway service that runs through New York City, going at that time from eastern Brooklyn (opened in 1936) up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using an express track section (opened in 1932) in Manhattan.

"Take the 'A' Train" was composed in 1939, after Ellington offered Strayhorn a job in his organization and gave him money to travel from Pittsburgh to New York City. Ellington wrote directions for Strayhorn to get to his house by subway, directions that began, "Take the A Train". Strayhorn was a great fan of Fletcher Henderson's arrangements. "One day, I was thinking about his style, the way he wrote for trumpets, trombones and saxophones, and I thought I would try something like that," Strayhorn recalled in Stanley Dance's The World Of Duke Ellington.

Although Strayhorn said he wrote lyrics for it, the recorded first lyrics were composed by, or for, the Delta Rhythm Boys. The lyrics used by the Ellington band were added by Joya Sherrill, who was 20 at the time (1944). She made up the words at her home in Detroit, while the song played on the radio. Her father, a noted Detroit Black activist, set up a meeting with Ellington. Owing to Joya's remarkable poise and singing ability and her unique take on the song, Ellington hired her as a vocalist and adopted her lyrics. The vocalist who most often performed the song with the Ellington band was trumpeter Ray Nance, who enhanced the lyrics with numerous choruses of scat singing. Nance is also responsible for the trumpet solo on the first recording, which was so well suited for the song that it has often been duplicated note for note by others.

Based loosely on the chordal structure of "Exactly Like You", the song combines the propulsive swing of the 1940s-era Ellington band with the confident sophistication of Ellington and the black elite who inhabited Sugar Hill in Harlem. The tune is in AABA form, in the key of C, with each section being a lyric couplet. (The Ellington band's version begins in C and rises to the key of Eb after the second chorus.)

Ella Fitzgerald sang and recorded this song many times from 1957 onwards; for a live version with Ella scatting, see her 1961 Verve release Ella in Hollywood. Midwestern Rockers, Chicago added their version in 1995 on their back-to-the-roots-disc, Night & Day Big Band. Jo Stafford recorded an intentionally inept interpretation of the song under the pseudonym, Darlene Edwards.


The Rolling Stones used the song as the introductory track on their 1982 live album "Still Life" (American Concert 1981).

The improvisational rock band Phish often performed the song early in their career. The last known performance by them was on April 13, 1994 at the Beacon Theatre.

In the 1984 film, Moscow on the Hudson, Robin Williams plays saxophone with a Russian circus, but wants to be a jazz musician. He is seen in the film playing "Take the 'A' Train."

In 1999, National Public Radio included this song in the "NPR 100", in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the one hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century.

The Voice of America Jazz Hour, hosted by Willis Conover, used this song as its theme.

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies used the song's opening piano lick (albeit in a different key) to open their song 'Ding-Dong Daddy of the D Car Line'.

The opening number to the musical In The Heights includes a brief homage to this song when Usnavi sings, "You must take the 'A' Train / Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain / Get off at 181st and take the escalator / I hope you're writing this down, I'm gonna test ya later."

In 2009, the PBS series History Detectives aired an episode [1] revealing that an original set of publishing plates for the song were in the possession by Garfield Gillings of Brooklyn, NY. Gillings stated that he found the plates at least twenty years earlier in a dumpster. Reporter Tukufu Zuberi brought the plates to the Smithsonian Institution, where curator John Hasse, who oversees the Duke Ellington collection, certified that the plates were most likely used for the first publications for Ellington's Tempo Publishing Company. Archived copies of the published sheet music were nearly identical to prints that had been made from the publishing plates.

A 2012 episode of the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie is titled "Take the A-Train.. I Think?", where much of the cast gets lost on the A train.


Read here another story about the song on JazzStandards.com


Here Duke Ellington and his band in 1943

The Delta Rhythm Boys 1941

Diana Krall

The Original from 1941 and some others.



And here a list with recordings. (most from Second Hand Songs.)
 

Take the 'A' Train	Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra	1941
Take the "A" Train	Glenn Miller and His Orchestra	1941
Take the "A" Train	The Delta Rhythm Boys	1941
Take the "A" Train	Cab Calloway	1941
Take the "A" Train	Ike Carpenter and His Orchestra	1947
Take the "A" Train	Harry Carney With Strings	1955
Take the "A" Train	Clifford Brown and Max Roach	1955
Take the "A" Train	Les Elgart and His Orchestra	1955
Take the "A" Train	Milt Buckner	1955
Take the "A" Train	Johnny Hodges & The Ellington All-Stars Without Duke	1957
Take the "A" Train	Betty Roché	1957
Take the "A" Train	Candido & Orchestra Conducted by Ernie Wilkins	1957
Take the "A" Train	Jackie Gleason	1957
Take the "A" Train	Morty Craft and His Orchestra	1958
Take the "A" Train	Hazy Osterwald	1958
Take the "A" Train	Lem Winchester	1958
Take the "A" Train	Anita O'Day	1958
Take the "A" Train	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1958
Take the "A" Train	George Williams and His Orchestra	1959
Take the "A" Train	Morgana King, Ernie Wilkins and His Orchestra	1959
Take the "A" Train	The Brothers Candoli Sextet	1959
Take the "A" Train	Ray Bryant	1960
Take the "A" Train	Esquivel and His Orchestra	1960
Take the "A" Train	The Bobby Hackett Quartet	1960
Take the "A" Train	Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band	1960
Take the "A" Train	Stuff Smith	1960
Take the "A" Train	Phineas Newborn Jr.	1960
Take the "A" Train	Maurice Vander, Kenny Clarke, Pierre Michelot	1961
Take the "A" Train	Billy Strayhorn	1961
Take the "A" Train	Dorothy Donegan	1961
Take the "A" Train	Dick Morgan	1961
Take the "A" Train	Erskine Hawkins	1962
Take the "A" Train	Eddie Jefferson	1962
Take the "A" Train	Count Basie and His Orchestra, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra	1962
Take the "A" Train	Maynard Ferguson	1963
Take the A Train	Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra	1963
Take the "A" Train	Tito Rodriguez, featuring Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, Bobbie Brookmeyer, Al Cohen, Bernie Leighton	1963
Take the "A" Train	The Stuff Smith Quartet	1965
Take the "A" Train	Pat Riccio Quartet Featuring Teddy Wilson	1966
Take the "A" Train	Sarah Vaughan	1967
Take the "A" Train	George Wein and His All-Stars	1967
Take the A Train	Booker Ervin	1968
Take the "A" Train	Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues Band	1968
Take the "A" Train	Ray Nance	May 1969
Take the "A" Train	Steve Allen	1971
Take the "A" Train	Dwike Mitchell, Willie Ruff	1972
Take the "A" Train	Johnny Meyer	1973
Take the "A" Train	The Anita Kerr Singers	1974
Take the "A" Train	Clark Terry's Big Bad Band	1974
A Train	Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Butch Robins, Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, Dave Holland, Jethro Burns	1975
Take the "A" Train	Chris Barber with Ray Nance	1975
Take the "A" Train	Kenny Burrell	1975
Take the "A" Train	Roland Hanna	1975
Take the A Train	Sun Ra and His Arkestra	1976
Take the "A" Train	Carol Sloane	1977
Take the "A" Train	Frankie Capp / Nat Pierce	1977
Take the "A" Train	Joe Venuti and Dave McKenna	1977
Take the "A" Train	Tommy Turk	1977
Take the "A" Train	James Newton	1978
Take the "A" Train	Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass	1978
Take the "A" Train	Jimmy Takeuchi & Teddy Wilson	1978
Take the "A" Train	Toshiko Akiyoshi	1978
Take the "A" Train	Concord Super Band	1979
Take the "A" Train	Richard Tee	1979
Take the "A" Train	Toots Thielemans	1979
Take the "A" Train	Eddie Higgins	1980
Take the Coltrane	Ricky Ford	1980
Take the "A" Train	Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker, Joe Pass	1980
Take the "A" Train	Duck Baker	1980
Take the A-Train	The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band	1981
Take the "A" Train	Yasuko Agawa	1982
Take the A Train	Chaka Khan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson,  Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White	1982
Take the "A" Train	Jimmy Forrest With Shirley Scott	1982
Take the "A" Train	Toshiyuki Miyama & New Herd	1982
Take the "A" Train	Jonathan and Darlene Edwards	1982
Take the "A" Train	Acker Bilk	1983
Take the "A" Train	Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass	1983
Take the "A" Train	The Ray Brown Trio featuring Gene Harris	1984
Take the "A" Train	Panama Francis and the Savoy Sultans	1984
Take the "A" Train	Hilton Ruiz	1985
Take the "A" Train	Ronny Whyte Trio	1985
Take the "A" Train	The Don Lusher Big Band	1986
Take the "A" Train	World Saxophone Quartet	1986
Take the "A" Train	Cedar Walton, David Williams [1], Billy Higgins	1987
Take the "A" Train	Marian McPartland	1987
Take the "A" Train	Doc Severinsen & The Tonight Show Band	1987
Take the "A" Train	Max Neissendorfer Trio	1988
Take the "A" Train	Jimmy and Stacy Rowles	1988
Take the "A" Train	Paul Bley Trio	1989
Take the Coltrane	Bill Perkins-James Clay Quintet	1989
Take the "A" Train	The Cedar Walton Trio	1989
Take the A Train	Joe Henderson	1991
Take the "A" Train	Peter Appleyard	1991
Take the "A" Train	Gerry Wiggins	1991
Take the "A" Train	Spanky Wilson	1991
Take the "A" Train	Terrence Farrell	1992
Take the "A" Train	Laszlo Gardony	1993
Take the "A" Train	Claude Williams	1993
Take the "A" Train	The Gene Harris Quartet	1993
Take the "A" Train	James Carter Quartet	1994
Take the "A" Train	Rex Allen's Swing Express	1994
Take the "A" Train	Franz Jackson, Marcus Belgrave	1994
Take the "A" Train	The Harry Allen-Keith Ingham Quintet	1994
Take the Coltrane	John McLaughlin With Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco	1995
Take the "A" Train	Brian Melvin Quartet	1995
Take the "A" Train	Dave Rasmussen Jazz Orchestra	1995
Take the A Train	Floyd McDaniel & Erwin Helfer	1995
Take the "A" Train	Clarence Gatemouth Brown	July 15, 1997
Take the "A" Train	Herb Pomeroy	1997
Take the "A" Train	Heinz v. Hermann Jazz Ahead	1999
Take The A-train	Herman Brood	1999
Take the A-Train	Coco Schumann Quartett	1999
Take the A Train	Joscho Stephan	January 31, 2000
Take the "A" Train	Joe Newman, Ove Lind Quintet Featuring Lars Estrand	2000
Take the "A" Train	The Demagogue Reacts!	2000
Take the A-Train	Westwind Brass	2000
Take the "A" Train	Tommy Newsom	August 7, 2001
Strayhorn Medley	Emilie-Claire Barlow	2001
Take the 'A' Train	Darius de Haas	June 4, 2002
Take the "A" Train	The Danny Moss Quartet Plus Roy Williams	2002
Take the "A" train	Manuel Rocheman	2003
Take the A Train	Bobby Zee & Zoe	2003
Take the A Train	Guymon Ensely Quintet	2003
Take the "A" Train	Joan Stiles with Clark Terry, Frank Wess	April 6, 2004
Take the "A" Train	Swing Girls	August 21, 2004
Take the "A" Train	Charlie Watts and The Tenet	August 24, 2004
Take the A-Train	Jim Lammers	2004
Take the "A" Train	Farrell/Nicolls	2005
Take the A Train	Ed Neumeister Quartet	2005
Take the "A" Train	Eldar	May 30, 2006
Take the "A" Train	Giancarlo Mazzù, Luciano Troja	2006
Take the A Train	Bill Carrothers and Marc Copland	2006
A Train	Warren Battiste	2008
Take the "A" Train	The Dana Legg Stage Band	September 8, 2009
Take the "A" Train	Nikki Yanofsky	April 20, 2010
Take the "A" Train	Robi Botos Quintet	2010
Take the A Train	Cynthia Felton	2010
Take the "A" Train	Bernie Worrell	June 7, 2011
Take the "A" Train	Ira Sullivan & Stu Katz	September 20, 2011
I'm Beginning to See the Light  / Take the 'A' Train / Cotton Tail	Joe Jackson with Christian McBride & Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson	June 21, 2012

Tamp 'em up Solid (1933)

Traditional

O: Rochelle Harris 1933 recorded bij A. Lomax in the State penitentiary in Nashville
C: Sam (Old Dad) Ballard 1933 also recorded by A. Lomax  in Nashville, New Iberia

Didn't find much about the song.

Recordings i found
1933 - Sam old Dad Ballard - Tamp 'em Up Solid
1940 - Henry Truvillion - Tamping Ties
1974 - Ry Cooder - Tamp 'Em up Solid
1988 - Chris Farlowe,Miller Anderson, Spencer Davis & Friends - Tamp 'Em Up Solid
1991 - Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Tamp 'em Up Solid
2006 - Joe Bonamassa - Tamp Em Up Solid





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Times Getting Tougher Than Tough (1960)

Written by Jimmy Witherspoon O: Jimmy Witherspoon on Vogue

Jimmy Witherspoon in 1962

Them 1965

Reg Dwight/Elton John with Bluesology 1965

Long John Baldry 1964

Charlie Musselwhite 1978
Video is 2009










Jimmy Witherspoon 1960

Driva Man (1960)

Written by Max Roach and Oscar Brown

O: Max Roach on Candid Records. The Album: We Insist! Subtitle: Max Roach's Freedom Suite

From Wikipedia:

We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960. It contains a suite which composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959, with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.The cover references the sit-in movement of the Civil Rights Movement. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades, in addition to featuring it as part of its Core Collection.

The music consists of five selections concerning the Emancipation Proclamation and the growing African independence movements of the 1950s. Only Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln perform on all five tracks, and one track features a guest appearance by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.

"Driva' Man"

Written by Max Roach and Oscar Brown, "Driva Man" tells the explicit story of slavery through its lyrics and accompaniment. Nat Hentoff, who was present at the recording sessions of the album, writes that the Driva' Man "is a personification of the white overseer in slavery times who often forced women under his jurisdiction into sexual relations."  Also in the lyrics are “pater ollers.” In Hentoff’s liner notes he includes a description of the patrollers by a former slave who says they are men “who would catch you from home and wear you out and send you back to your master...Most of them there patrollers was poor white folks...Poor white folks had to hustle round to make a living, so they hired out theirselves to slaveowners and rode the roads at night and whipped you if they catched you off their plantation without a pass.”

This track uses several tactics to evoke its images of slavery. Alisa White describes how the 5/4 time signature of the track adds an intense percussive hit, played either by a tambourine or as a rimshot, on the first beat of each measure. The track does not deviate from this pattern, which White writes, “conjures up images of forced labor,” specifically a cracked whip. Additionally, the track is played in a blues form that is only six bars long, however this is found in pairs, so that each chorus is actually twelve bars long.  Abbey Lincoln is the first to enter the tune, singing the melody a cappella and accompanying herself with tambourine. Coleman Hawkins then enters with the tenor saxophone melody, along with the three horns supporting him. After a chorus of instrumental melody, Hawkins takes a 4 chorus solo. All the while, Roach maintains the unusual 5/4 time signature with the punching hit on the first beat of each measure. Melodically, Driva Man is the simplest tune on the album, based in a C minor pentatonic scale.

Coleman Hawkins makes an appearance here and “plays the male counterpart to Abbey Lincoln,” as Hentoff notes in his liner notes. Hawkins would stay far past his part in the recording, and he would turn to Max Roach in astonishment, asking, ‘“did you really write this, Max?”’In his liner notes, Hentoff writes of an interaction between Hawkins and Abbey Lincoln after a squeak in Abbey’s opening solo in Driva Man: “No, don’t splice,” said Hawkins. When it’s all perfect, especially in a piece like this, there’s something very wrong.”


Max Roach 1960

Manfred Mann 1965

Alabama Shakes 2013

In movie 12 Years a slave

Come Tomorrow (1962)

Written by: Bob Elgin, Dolores Phillips and Frank Augustus

O: Marie Knight  on OKEH 

Coverd by Manfred Mann 1965

Land of Dreams (2012)

Rosanne Cash schreef dit nummer met haar man John Leventhal voor "Discover America" Tourism Campaign. Het werd een aardig succes in de VS. Uitgebracht op Capitol?

Helene Fischer is heel groot in de Duitstalige landen en bracht in oktober 2014 het album "Farbenspiel" uit. Van dit album werd "Atemlos durch die nacht" als single uitgebracht. Het nummer werd geschreven door Kristina Bach, zo staat bij de info.
Het nummer is in Duitsland een gigantische hit. Het wordt bij optredens van Helene Fischer zelfs zo luid meegezongen, dat dit voorjaar een politicus voor een verbod pleitte. (Stutgarter Fruhjahrsfest).
Uiteraard was ie kansloos.

"Atemlos..." is echter een beetje en een beetje veel gepikt. Een beetje van Jürgen Marcus oooooh oooh (Ein festival der Liebe).  Ook lijkt er te zijn geleend bij "Summertime Sadness" van Lana del Rey.
En het meeste natuurlijk bij Land of Dreams.

Op het net vond ik dan nog dat er ook elementen van O-Zone (Dragosta)  en Donna Summer (Hot Stuff)  in zitten. Die Kristina Bach lijkt wel een "Girl Rock" :-) 

Beale Street Blues (1917)

Written by W.C. Handy
O: Prince's Band 1917 - 24 - 05  Columbia

From JAZZ RHYTHM


The STORY of BEALE St. BLUES

Beginning around 1909, William Christopher Handy lived in Memphis, TN for about a decade.  By then he had traveled widely and was a pretty well established musician and bandleader.  There he quickly became a popular celebrity and flourished, launching a company for publishing his own music, due partly to the huge success of his “Memphis Blues,” which was originally conceived as a ditty for the mayoral campaign of the infamous political boss, E.H. Crump.
  
Among his favorite venues was the wildest and rowdiest section of the Beale Street district.  The original ‘Beale Avenue’ district of Memphis arose after the Civil War as a respectable, predominantly black neighborhood of churches, homes and a grand opera house.  But by the early 1900s, as Memphis became an important crossroads, it sprouted the notorious “Beale Street” section.

By 1910, around the time Handy arrived, it was a rough, sleazy, lawless collection of taverns, splendid dance halls and entertainments, brothels and dives filled with hustlers, pickpockets, lowlifes, pimps & prostitutes -- along with workingmen spending their pay, and rubes out for thrills.

And it was that Beale Street scene that seems to have oddly fascinated Mr. Handy.  When not working there, he loved to hang out, jam with other musicians or just watch the action.  In his autobiography he recounts hair-raising, appalling tales brutality, cruelty, criminality and mayhem that he fittingly memorialized in his classic “Beale St. Blues”:

    You'll see pretty browns in beautiful gowns,
    You'll see tailor-mades and hand-me-downs,
    You'll meet honest men, and pick-pockets skilled,
    You'll find that business never ceases 'til somebody gets killed!

    If Beale Street could talk, if Beale Street could talk,
    Married men would have to take their beds and walk,
    Except one or two who never drink booze,
    And the blind man on the corner singing "Beale Street Blues!"

    I'd rather be there than any place I know,
    I'd rather be there than any place I know,
    It's gonna take a sergeant for to make me go!

Some recordings:

1917 - 24 - 05 - Prince's Band - Beale Street
1917 - 08 - 13 - Earl Fuller - Beale Street Blues
1919 - W.C. Handy - Beale Street Blues
1921 - Marion Harris - Beale Street Blues
1924 - George Olsen and His Music - Beale Street Blues
1926 - Jelly Roll Morton - Beale Street Blues
1927 - Thomas fats Waller - Beale Street Blues
1931 - Eddie Lang-Joe Venuti and Their All Star Orchestra - Beale Street Blues
1939 - Jack Teagarden - Beale Street Blues
1940 - Big Joe Turner - Beale Street Blues
1940 - Guy Lombardo - Beale Street Blues
1941 - Lena Horne & Henry Levine's Dixieland Jazz Group - Beale Street Blues
1946 - Duke Ellington - Beale Street Blues
1954 - Louis Armstrong - Beale Street Blues
1988 - Peggy Lee - Beale Street
1992 - Alberta Hunter - Beale Street Blues
1999 - Red Nichols & Charleston Chasers - Beale Street Blues
2001 - Eartha Kitt - Beale Street Blues
2001 - Woody Herman - Beale Street Blues
2003 - Ella Fitzgerald - Beale Street Blues
2006 - Nat 'King' Cole - Beale Street Blues
2006 - Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra - Beale Street Blues
2008 - California Ramblers - Beale Street Blues
2008 - Eric Bibb - New Beale Street Blues
2009 - Stephen Bennett - Beale Street Blues





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The Lord is my Shepherd (23rd Psalm) 1901

Words: Scot­tish Psal­ter, 1650
Music: Cri­mond, Jessie Irvine 1872
O: William F. Hooley on Victor  Recitation
O: Florence Hayward Harry  Macdonough  on Berliner

Dit is een moeilijke. Psalmen en andere kerkelijke zaken zijn mij vreemd, dus het is een beetje vreemdland voor mij. In wikipedia staan zaken over "Psalm 23" geschreven, maar bij het rijtje songs dat er wordt genoemd, heb ik zo mijn vraagtekens. De songs met de intentie van "Psalm 23" noemt men ook allemaal en schrijft men toe aan "Psalm 23". Dat is een beetje moeilijk voor "The Originals"
Ik heb daarom de songs genomen waarin een redelijk deel van de tekst van "Psalm 23" voorkomen.
De melodieën zijn soms verschillend, maar dat is gezien het onderstaande ook niet vreemd.
Ook de tekst is in de loop der jaren natuurlijk veranderd.
Helaas heb ik de oudste opname niet kunnen vinden.

In de onderstaande lijst staat met een afwijkende titel (en natuurlijk afwijkende melodie) Patti Smith, maar zij gebruikt 2 coupletten uit "Psalm 23".
Aan klassieke uitvoeringen heb ik me nog maar niet gewaagd.


Al­ter­nate tunes:
    * Bel­mont, Will­iam Gar­din­er, 1812 )
    * Evan, Wil­liam H. Hav­er­gal, 1847; ar­ranged by Low­ell Ma­son, 1850
    * Mar­tyr­dom, Hugh Wil­son, 1800; ar­ranged by Ralph E. Hud­son, cir­ca 1885
    * Or­ling­ton, John Camp­bell (1807-1860)  (re­peats third line of each verse)
    * Wilt­shire, George T. Smart, 1795

The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want.
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; He leadeth me
The quiet waters by.
My soul He doth restore again;
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of righteousness,
Even for His own Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale,
Yet will I fear no ill;
For Thou art with me; and Thy rod
And staff my comfort still.
My table Thou hast furnishèd
In presence of my foes;
My head Thou dost with oil anoint,
And my cup overflows.
Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me;
And in God’s house forevermore
My dwelling place shall be.

Songs i found:

1900 - 07-06 William F. Hooley - Twenty-third Psalm and the Lord's Prayer    6/7/1900
1901 - 16-01 - Florence Hayward Harry Macdonough - The Lord is my Shepherd  Berliner
1902 - Len Spencer - 23rd Psalm and Lord's Prayer   Recitation  Edison
1902 - Miss Spencer and Mr. Macdonough - The Lord is my shepherd
1911 - Charlotte Kirwan & Kathryn Hall Staats - Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
1911 - Reed Miller & Frank Croxton - Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
1927 - Blind Connie Rosemond - The Lord is my Shepherd.
1941 - Heavenly Gospel Singers - The Lord God is my Sheperd
1943 - Sister Ernestine Washington - The Lord is my Sheperd
1951 - Alfred Newman - The 23rd Psalm
1951 - Kathleen Ferrier - Psalm 23 the Lord is my Sheperd
1953 - Les Baxter - The Lord is my Shepherd
1958 - Duke Ellington Featuring Mahalia Jackson - Part VI (23rd Psalm)
1958 - Joseph Spence - The Lord is my Shepherd
1963 - Jo Stafford - The Lord is my Shepherd
1967 - Cliff Richard - 23rd Psalm (Crimond)
1968 - Pastor John Rydgren - Hippy Version of the 23rd Psalm
1973 - O'neal Twins With Davis Sisters - The Lord is my Shepherd
1978 - Patti Smith - Privilege (Set Me Free)
1983 - Mantovani - The Lord is my Shepherd
1983 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - 23rd Psalm  Movie (Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence)
1985 - Dennis Brown - The Lord is my Shepherd
1985 - Judy Collins - The Lord is my Shepherd
1987 - Al Green - 23rd Psalm.mp3
1988 - Keith Green - The Lord Is My Shepherd (23Rd Psalm)
1989 - Phil Coulter - The Lord is my Shepherd3
1990 - Rick Wakeman - The 23rd Psalm
1992 - The Soul Stirrers - The Lord is My Shepherd
1994 - The Choirboys - Psalm 23
1996 - Cissy Houston - The Lord is my Shepherd  Movie (The Preacher's Wife)
1998 - Charlotte Church - Psalm 23
2000 - Sister Ernestine Washington - The Lord Is My Shepherd
2001 - Bobby McFerrin - The 23rd Psalm.
2002 - Blind Boys of Alabama - You and Your Folks23rd Psalm.
2002 - Donna Marie - The Lord is my Shepherd
2002 - E Nomine - Psalm 23
2005 - Charlie Daniels - The 23rd Psalm (Recitation)
2005 - Christian Death - Psalm (Maggots Lair)
2008 - Dan Gibson's Solitudes - The Lord's my Shepherd
2008 - Dionne Warwick - The Lord Is My Shepherd
2009 - Mosby Family Singers - The Lord is my Shepherd
2011 - George Hamilton IV & Michael Lonstar - The Lord is my Shepherd (But Am I His Sheep)






Here is the Wikipedia Story





Songs met de intentie van "Psalm 23".

In "Alabama Getaway" is er een verwijzing naar "Psalm 23" en in "Sheep" hoor je het op de achtergrond vanaf 6.23.

1977 - Dennis Brown - Here I Come
1977 - Peter Tosh - Jah Guide
1977 - Pink Floyd - Sheep
1980 - Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway
1981 - Venom - Welcome to Hell
1983 - Marillion - Forgotten Sons
1988 - U2 - Love Rescue Me
1992 - Alice in Chains - Sickman
1995 - Coolio & L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise
1995 - Tupac - Shed so Many Tears
1997 - Notorious Big - You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills you) (Acapella)
2000 - Marilyn Manson - In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death
2004 - Kanye West - Jesus Walks
2004 - Megadeth - Shadow of Deth
2007 - Good Charlotte - The River
2009 - India Arie - Psalms 23 feat. MC Lyte
2009 - Rick Ross - Valley Of Death
2013 - JAY Z - Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)

Here a good story about the songs


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It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' (1923)

Traditional
O: Will Lyle 1889 on Edison
C: Wendel Hall 1923 on Edison

I found this about the Will Lyle recording. I don't have the book so this print from Google:

America's Best Loved Country Songs: An Encyclopedia of ...
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Dorothy Horstman, ‎Fritzi Horstman - 2010 - ‎Music
An Encyclopedia of More Than 3,000 Classics Through the 1980s Dorothy ... Recording Found: Will Lyle (Edison) 1889 (as “Ain't Going to Rain No More”).

From Wikipedia: 

"It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" is the title of a song that is entirely the creation of the "Red-Headed Music Maker", guitarist and vocalist Wendell Woods Hall (1896–1969).. Hall's 1923 recording of the song was popular in Britain and sold in excess of two million copies.[1] Additionally, it scored 20 weeks on the U.S. charts, six at number one.[2]

Many antecedents exist from the 19th century. By the 1920s many variants were already extant in popular culture. Carl Sandburg suggests that the song goes back at least to the 1870s and includes verses in his "American Songbag (published 1927). This song is an excellent example of the folk tradition of transmission with local variants. Mr. Hall most likely codified what already existed and added original verses.




Apparently this was written without the knowledge of the Will Lyle recording.

We are most familiar with the Victor recording, but Wendell Halle recorded it also on 4 oktober 1923 for Edison as part of a recording of "I'm a Red Headed Music Maker".
This recording sounds a little bit like a part of the Wendell Hall Show. Everything is in the dl file.

                                                                                                                   
1923 12 Okt - Wendell Hall - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1923 4 Okt - Wendell Hall - I'm a Red Headed Music Maker.
1923 4 Okt - Wendell Hall - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1924 - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1924 - Billy Murray & Ed Smalle - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1925 - DeFord Bailey - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1925 - Savoy Orpheans - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1929 - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1929 - Zydeco Skillet Lickers - 1t Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo.
1934 - Ain't Gonna Rain No More - Eight Unidentified Girls.
1939 - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys
1947 - Vera Hall - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1951 - Ewan Maccoll - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1951 - Nappy Lamare and His Strawhat Strutters - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
1957 - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & Earl Scruggs - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1962 - Gus Cannon - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1965 - The Kentucky Colonels - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1977 - Disneyland Children's Sing-Along Chorus & Larry Groce - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
1977 - John Snipes - Ain't Gonna Rain No More
1978 - Tom Waits - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1979 - Jamie Alson - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1999 - Mance Lipscomb - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2003 - Doug Van Gundy & Paul Gartner - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2005 - Clint Howard, Fred Price & Their Sons - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2007 - Arthur Kuykendall - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2008 - Tom Turner - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.mp3







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