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George Harrison-Woman Dont You Cry For Me-1976

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:53:01 -0800

George Harrison - "Woman Don't You Cry For Me" (1976)
This is the opening track off of George's "Thirty Three & 1/3" album which was released in 1976. This track proves just how funky George could get! Check out the bass work by Willie Weeks! The album also features the hits "This Song" and "Crackerbox Palace."

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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:48:26 -0800

And yet another great musician has been sent to Rock N' Roll Heaven. Rest in peace, Mitch. I loved your drumming. Say hi to Jimi and Noel for me.

SwampDaWamp::Home

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:12:50 -0700

Just when you thought the Rock music of the New Millenium had no heart and soul, along comes SwampDaWamp. They sound like they were around in the 1970s (maybe as kids) and they sure wear their influences on their sleeves, but in this case, that's a good thing. Their first album was released just last year. I learned about them about half an hour ago. I've still got a lot more to learn about 'em. Check out their site for more about the band and their music.

Camel - Lady Fantasy

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:40:12 -0700

I bought the Camel 'Mirage' CD a few weeks ago and it has virtually stayed in my CD player ever since. This band deserves a lot more recognition in America than they've received! I hope this review helps to spread the word about this great band.

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Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:21:10 -0800

'Daydream Believer' Songwriter, 68, Dies

By JOHN ROGERS - 2 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Stewart recorded some of pop music's most acclaimed solo albums, helping create a style that came to be called Americana, but he was always best known for writing the Monkees' enduring hit "Daydream Believer."

Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of folk music's Kingston Trio, died Saturday at a San Diego hospital after suffering a brain aneurism. He was 68.

"He was a lovely man and a very gentle soul and I guess the only thing you can say today is that the world is less one great songwriter," the Monkees' Mickey Dolenz told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Stewart left the Kingston Trio shortly before the Monkees released "Daydream Believer" in 1967, then went on to record nearly four dozen solo albums, including the critically acclaimed "California Bloodlines" and "Bombs Away Dream Babies." The latter included the hit single "Gold," in which he dueted with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks.

Still, as with "Daydream Believer," he was likely best known for writing songs for others, including Joan Baez, Nanci Griffith, Roseanne Cash and Anne Murray.

"He was a cult hero, he never made it super huge," said his manager, Dean Swett. "He was one of those outlaw rebels, one of the people who refused to conform to what the record labels expected him to be."

A husky-voiced singer and accomplished guitarist who delivered his lyrics in a poignant, often longing voice, his music was hard to classify. It fell somewhere between rock, country and folk and eventually came to be called Americana.

He wrote "Runaway Train," a country hit for Roseanne Cash, and "Strange Rivers," which Joan Baez included on her 1992 "Play Me Backwards" album. Nanci Griffith dueted with him on "Sweet Dreams" and Murray, like the Monkees before her, had a hit with "Daydream Believer."

"There are certain songs that you just go in humming. It was one of those," Dolenz said of "Daydream Believer," which also was Stewart's best-known recording. Although he sang background to Davy Jones' lead on the Monkees' version, Dolenz performs the song himself at his solo shows.

"To this day it is one of the biggest songs that I do in concert," he said.

Stewart joined the Kingston Trio in 1961, replacing Dave Guard in the group that had helped usher in an American folk music revival in the late 1950s.

"John truly was the right fit. A first rate entertainer and gifted songwriter," the group said in a statement on its Web site.

He recorded more than a dozen albums with the trio before going on to a solo career in 1967. A year later he released "California Bloodlines," which included the minor hit "July You're a Woman." "Bombs Away Dream Babies" came out in 1979.

He eventually recorded more than 40 solo albums. Others included "The Lonesome Picker Rides Again, "Airdream Believer" and "Rough Sketches," the latter a collection of songs about the iconic American highway "Route 66."

Stewart was said to be at work on still another album at the time of his death.

Stewart's wife, Buffy, and children were at his side when he died, according to a statement on the Kingston Trio's Web site. There was no immediate word on funeral arrangements.

Whatever175s favorite websites - StumbleUpon

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:02:23 -0800

I'm hoping more SU friends will visit my friend Sly here. He's getting used to this site so let's do our best to make him feel at home. Here's to you, Sly! And like your namesake and The Family Stone once sang, "Everybody Is A Star." And you're gonna be a star here at SU, Sly!

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Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:40:32 -0800

"Suzanne Pleshette Dies"

LOS ANGELES - Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.

Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said Finkelstein, who is also a family friend.

"The Bob Newhart Show", a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.

Four years after the show ended in 1978, Newhart went on to the equally successful "Newhart" series in which he was the proprietor of a New England inn populated by more eccentrics. When that show ended in 1990, Pleshette reprised her role -- from the first show -- in one of the most clever final episodes in TV history.

It had Newhart waking up in the bedroom of his "The Bob Newhart Show" home with Pleshette at his side. He went on to tell her of the crazy dream he'd just had of running an inn filled with eccentrics.

"If I'm in Timbuktu, I'll fly home to do that," Pleshette said of her reaction when Newhart told her how he was thinking of ending the show.

Born Jan. 31, 1937, in New York City, Pleshette began her career as a stage actress after attending the city's High School of the Performing Arts and studying at its Neighborhood Playhouse. She was often picked for roles because of her beauty and her throaty voice.

"When I was 4," she told an interviewer in 1994, "I was answering the phone, and (the callers) thought I was my father. So I often got quirky roles because I was never the conventional ingenue."

She met her future husband, Tom Poston, when they appeared together in the 1959 Broadway comedy "The Golden Fleecing," but didn't marry him until more than 40 years later.

Although the two had a brief fling, they went on to marry others. By 2000 both were widowed and they got back together, marrying the following year.

"He was such a wonderful man. He had fun every day of his life," Pleshette said after Poston died in April 2007.

Among her other Broadway roles was replacing Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker," the 1959 drama about Helen Keller, in New York and on the road.

Meanwhile, she had launched her film career with Jerry Lewis in 1958 in "The Geisha Boy." She went on to appear in numerous television shows, including "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Playhouse 90" and "Naked City."

By the early 1960s, Pleshette attracted a teenage following with her youthful roles in such films as "Rome Adventure," "Fate Is the Hunter," "Youngblood Hawke" and "A Distant Trumpet."

She married fellow teen favorite Troy Donahue, her co-star in "Rome Adventure," in 1964 but the union lasted less than a year. She was married to Texas oilman Tim Gallagher from 1968 until his death in 2000.

Pleshette matured in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the Disney comedies "The Ugly Dachshund," "Blackbeard's Ghost" and "The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin." Over the years, she also had a busy career in TV movies, including playing the title role in 1990's "Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean."

More recently, she appeared in several episodes of the TV sitcoms "Will & Grace" and "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter."

In a 1999 interview, Pleshette observed that being an actress was more important than being a star.

"I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here," she said. "Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves."

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Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:28:04 -0800

The best of Homer Simpson, on YouTube.

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Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:42:16 -0800

From the page: "Fender B-Dec 30 Bass Guitar Amplifier Digital Entertainment Center"

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Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:23:16 -0800

The Beatles - "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"---
Originally released as a Beatles Fan Club Christmas record, "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" was re-released on CD as an accompanying song to the newly recorded "Free As A Bird," which reunited Paul, George & Ringo and the disembodied voice of John Lennon, in 1995.