old music

[jp1]

Always love me some Johnny Cash. Heard this on the radio this afternoon while working and looked up the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

[littlebittybobby]

okay----I may've told you kids about Melle, the Canadian you-tuber who likes to sing & play her guitar; many times just the good parts of well-known rock songs. One, that she sings purtnear the whole thing is a cover of one by Green Day, and they played that Green Day song on the radio a disturbing number of times & back then, I did not like it. But, Melle took the good and left out the bad, and because she has a MUCCCCCCCH better voice than the singer in Green Day, who reminds me o' Dylan. Melle has a VERY good voice, and though she's versatile, not every song is a good fit. But yeah--her rendition of "Good Riddance"(Green Day) is pretty good. Yup.

[littlebittybobby]

okay----what I been listening to lately is a genre of recorded music I now call: "Roller Rink Music." Yup. Basically, dance tracks or "disco". See? Examples: Boogie-Ooogie by Taste of Honey, or "Get Down Tonight" by KC and The Sunshine Band. But, there's lots more; even "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum sounds very skate-y. But yeah---while you kids sit-n-watch tee-veeee footbal or Downtown Alley, I watch rollerskaters w/good background tunes. Yup. Hope that helps you some.

[Rogar]

Perhaps you are familiar with the ABBA song, "dancing queen". A favorite version of mine is the end of the movie, "Dick" where Kirstan Dunst roller skates around the oval office under a disco ball to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmoBR16Zrs

[catherine]

Thanks, Rogar. Fun watch.

[littlebittybobby]

okay-----ABBA. Of course. Also, Pat Hernandez' "Born To Be Alive". Not one of my favorites, but you have to include it. "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson, as well. Thing is, these all are essentially instrumentals involving numerous musicians in the recording process, but the vocalist gets the credit. To me, they're just the identifier. Hope that helps you some. ETA: Tell ya somethin' else: The song: "Rock Your Baby" ?(singer: George McRae") was written and produced by K C and his Sunshine Band. Not only that, but later that year, John Lennon, former member of the mop-topped foursome wrote one greatly influenced by it(Whatever Get's You Through The Night), and later declared his admiration for "Rock Your Baby". Yup.

[littlebittybobby]

okay--more skating music: Kool and the Gang. I did not pay much attention to their music back in the day; I figured it was easy listening soul music or whatever. Plus, you've got to disregard the lyrical content, and focus on the sound. But yeah---they were actually pretty good, and commercially successful. So yeah---also great skating music. Yup. OTOH: John Prine; BAD skating music. Really awful. Yup.

[Rogar]

. Yup. OTOH: John Prine; BAD skating music. Really awful. Yup.

A good friend went to a Prine concert and said she cried all the way through it, which seems like a poor allocation of money and time. Some of his music used to lead me to consume too much alcohol. I still like him a lot, but drink less or nothing. Not all music is skating music.

[Alan]

A good friend went to a Prine concert and said she cried all the way through it, which seems like a poor allocation of money and time. Some of his music used to lead me to consume too much alcohol. I still like him a lot, but drink less or nothing. Not all music is skating music.

John Prine was a story teller, some were sad and some were happy and some were just silly stories, but they were all wonderful.

[littlebittybobby]

okay-----Alan, you are 100% right, as usual; There is ab-so-lute-ly nothing wrong with John Prine music, in the right place and time; such as nursing homes & funeral parlors & bluegrass festivals & county fairs throughout Appalachia & the Ohio Valley and of course, Southernmost Zurra. But yeah---one of THE finest skating songs ever is by a band from Ohio/WV coal country---out of Mingo Junction, Ohio--"Play That Funky Music....." by Wild Cherry. Now, THATS some skating music. Yup.