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Babs
Queen "B"
^ Currently. Yep, we are hoppin' around with different genres, big time. I did a little homework on this one.
Elegant Laid-Back/Mellow Lush Poignant Smooth Sophisticated Wistful...
The Dells...
Oh What a Night! The Great Ballads...
A wonderful collection of 15 ballads the Dells recorded for Chess Records between 1967 and 1974. Among the songs included are the hits "Stay in My Corner," "Oh, What a Night!," "Always Together," "The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)" and "Open Up My Heart," which is available for the first time on CD in its original long version; "Since I Fell for You" and "Soul Strollin'" also make their CD debut on this disc. Since it concentrates on ballads, Oh, What a Night! can't be considered a definitive retrospective, but anyone looking for a fine selection of the group's romantic material will find this the perfect choice.
1
Oh, What a Night
Johnny Funches / Marvin Junior
The Dells
2
Close Your Eyes
Chuck Willis
The Dells
3
The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)
Terry Callier / Larry Wade
The Dells
4
Soul Strollin'
Terry Callier / Larry Wade
The Dells
5
Always Together
Bobby Miller
The Dells
6
O-O I Love You
Bobby Miller
The Dells
3:22 Rdio
7
My Pretending Days Are Over
Don Davis / James Dean / Herb Ross
The Dells
8
I Miss You
Tony Hester
The DElla
9
Does Anybody Know I'm Here?
Bobby Miller
The Dells
10
I Can't Do Enough
Bobby Miller
The Dells
11
I Can Sing a Rainbow/Love Is Blue
Arthur Hamilton
12
Love Is So Simple
Bobby Miller
The Dells
13
Open up My Heart
Bobby Miller
The Dells
14
Since I Fell for You
Buddy Johnson
The Dells
15
Stay in My Corner
Wade Flemons / Bobby Miller / Barrett Strong
The Dells
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Today's work truck music...
How Sweet It is -- CD
Joan Osborne
2002 Compendia Records
Amazon.com
With the proliferation of earthy rock chicks such as Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch, it might seem like an opportune time for Joan Osborne, who gathered Grammy nominations for her triple-platinum 1995 debut Relish and its breakthrough single "One of Us," to revive her flowing blues-and-folk roots. Rather than take the anticipated path, however, he New York singer offers a twist. Taking a page from Ally McBeal's resident torch singer Vonda Shepard, Osborne turns in an album of stylish covers of contemporary R&B classics. She wraps her husky voice around a supper-club version of Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine," underscores the message behind Edwin Starr's "War" at a funeral pace, and gives James Taylor a shudder with her lush, Eastern-tinged take on Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is." Most unexpected. --Aidin Vaziri
Track listing
1. I'll Be Around
2. Think
3. How Sweet It Is
4. Smiling Faces Sometimes
5. Love's in Need of Love Today
6. These Arms of Mine
7. Only You Know and I Know
8. War
9. Why Can't We Live Together
10. Axis: Bold as Love
11. Weight, The
12. Everybody Is a Star
How Sweet It is -- CD
Joan Osborne
2002 Compendia Records
Amazon.com
With the proliferation of earthy rock chicks such as Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch, it might seem like an opportune time for Joan Osborne, who gathered Grammy nominations for her triple-platinum 1995 debut Relish and its breakthrough single "One of Us," to revive her flowing blues-and-folk roots. Rather than take the anticipated path, however, he New York singer offers a twist. Taking a page from Ally McBeal's resident torch singer Vonda Shepard, Osborne turns in an album of stylish covers of contemporary R&B classics. She wraps her husky voice around a supper-club version of Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine," underscores the message behind Edwin Starr's "War" at a funeral pace, and gives James Taylor a shudder with her lush, Eastern-tinged take on Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is." Most unexpected. --Aidin Vaziri
Track listing
1. I'll Be Around
2. Think
3. How Sweet It Is
4. Smiling Faces Sometimes
5. Love's in Need of Love Today
6. These Arms of Mine
7. Only You Know and I Know
8. War
9. Why Can't We Live Together
10. Axis: Bold as Love
11. Weight, The
12. Everybody Is a Star
Dennie
Well-Known Member
In Concert (1948) featuring Chano Pozo -- CD
Dizzy Gillespie and his Big Band
1948/1993 GNP/ Crescendo Records
Recorded live at the Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California on July 19, 1948. Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather and Gene Norman.The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band was the most innovative jazz orchestra of 1946-1949, proof that bebop was not exclusively a small-group music. All of its recordings are well worth acquiring and this particular CD gives one a well-rounded picture of the orchestra at a concert before an enthusiastic crowd. With prominence given to James Moody's tenor, Cecil Payne on baritone, and Chano Pozo on congas (he was killed a short time after this performance) in addition to the remarkable leader/trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie & His Big Band are heard at their absolute prime. Versions of "Good Bait," "One Bass Hit," and "Manteca" are among the highlights of this recommended CD. ~ Scott Yanow
Track Listing
1. Emanon
2. Ool-Ya-Koo
3. Good Bait
4. Round About Midnight
5. Stay on It
6. One Bass Hit
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Manteca
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Personnel: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Ernie Henry, John Brown (alto saxophone); James Moody, Joe Gayles (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Dave Burns, Elmon Wright, Willie Cook (trumpet); Jesse Tarrant, Bill Sheperd (trombone); James Foreman (piano); Nelson Boyd (bass); Teddy Stewart (drums); Chano Pozo (congas).
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Today's work truck music....
Shaft - Soundtrack -- CD
Isaac Hayes
1971/1991 Stax Records
Amazon.com
The "Theme from Shaft" is now so ingrained in popular consciousness as the blaxploitation-movie track that it's hard to listen to it without a faint smirk. ("Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"!!) But if you can get past the inadvertent humor, it's still a devilishly exciting piece of music--all hi-hat 16ths, wah-wah guitar, strings, and woodwind, like a Norman Whitfield Motown production taken to a baroque extreme. The rest of the album consists mainly of incidental mood music of no great worth: "Walk from Regio's," "Ellie's Love Theme"--you know the sort of thing. Only two other tracks feature the Black Moses pipes, while the endless "Do Your Thing" takes its place in the catalog of Hayes epics that began with Hot Buttered Soul. --Barney Hoskyns
Side one
"Theme from Shaft" (Vocal Version) – 4:39
"Bumpy's Lament" – 1:51
"Walk from Regio's" – 2:24
"Ellie's Love Theme" – 3:18
"Shaft's Cab Ride" – 1:10
Side two
"Cafe Regio's" – 6:10
"Early Sunday Morning" – 3:49
"Be Yourself" – 4:30
"A Friend's Place" – 3:24
Side three
"Soulsville" (Vocal Version) – 3:48
"No Name Bar" – 6:11
"Bumpy's Blues" – 4:04
"Shaft Strikes Again" – 3:04
Side four
"Do Your Thing" (Vocal Version) – 19:30
"The End Theme" – 1:56
Shaft - Soundtrack -- CD
Isaac Hayes
1971/1991 Stax Records
Amazon.com
The "Theme from Shaft" is now so ingrained in popular consciousness as the blaxploitation-movie track that it's hard to listen to it without a faint smirk. ("Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"!!) But if you can get past the inadvertent humor, it's still a devilishly exciting piece of music--all hi-hat 16ths, wah-wah guitar, strings, and woodwind, like a Norman Whitfield Motown production taken to a baroque extreme. The rest of the album consists mainly of incidental mood music of no great worth: "Walk from Regio's," "Ellie's Love Theme"--you know the sort of thing. Only two other tracks feature the Black Moses pipes, while the endless "Do Your Thing" takes its place in the catalog of Hayes epics that began with Hot Buttered Soul. --Barney Hoskyns
Side one
"Theme from Shaft" (Vocal Version) – 4:39
"Bumpy's Lament" – 1:51
"Walk from Regio's" – 2:24
"Ellie's Love Theme" – 3:18
"Shaft's Cab Ride" – 1:10
Side two
"Cafe Regio's" – 6:10
"Early Sunday Morning" – 3:49
"Be Yourself" – 4:30
"A Friend's Place" – 3:24
Side three
"Soulsville" (Vocal Version) – 3:48
"No Name Bar" – 6:11
"Bumpy's Blues" – 4:04
"Shaft Strikes Again" – 3:04
Side four
"Do Your Thing" (Vocal Version) – 19:30
"The End Theme" – 1:56
Deacon
Humble Servant
Babs said:
^ Currently. Yep, we are hoppin' around with different genres, big time. I did a little homework on this one.
Elegant Laid-Back/Mellow Lush Poignant Smooth Sophisticated Wistful...
The Dells...
Oh What a Night! The Great Ballads...
A wonderful collection of 15 ballads the Dells recorded for Chess Records between 1967 and 1974. Among the songs included are the hits "Stay in My Corner," "Oh, What a Night!," "Always Together," "The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)" and "Open Up My Heart," which is available for the first time on CD in its original long version; "Since I Fell for You" and "Soul Strollin'" also make their CD debut on this disc. Since it concentrates on ballads, Oh, What a Night! can't be considered a definitive retrospective, but anyone looking for a fine selection of the group's romantic material will find this the perfect choice.
Babs, if you really liked the Dells I would suggest you listen to the Stylistics. One of my all time favorites and along the same line. Not so much of ballads but really emotional relationship songs.
Babs
Queen "B"
^ Thank you, Deacon. 
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Luv this CD, a lot do not, I simply enjoy every song.
Another one I enjoy that most do not...
Pretty sure I shared these in another thread. Guilty Pleasures, maybe?? Enjoying music and my kitchen too much to search it out. Prepping for a girls party this Saturday! :dance:
Currently listening to...
Luv this CD, a lot do not, I simply enjoy every song.
Another one I enjoy that most do not...
Pretty sure I shared these in another thread. Guilty Pleasures, maybe?? Enjoying music and my kitchen too much to search it out. Prepping for a girls party this Saturday! :dance:
