Songs I Like

[Steve G.]

  Canadiana

  September 24, 1965, We Five , reached #3 on the Billboard 100 with Canadian Sylvia Tyson’s original “You Were on my Mind”.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtM7rkJVno&pp=ygUHd2UgZml2ZQ%3D%3D

[Steve G.]

  Canadiana

  September 24, 2003, Gordon Lightfoot was inducted into the Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame.

 Here he sings live on the Midnight Special “If You Could Read my Mind”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK--A-IaZnA&pp=ygUqZ29yZG9uIGxpZ2h0Zm9vdCBpZiB5b3UgY291bGQgcmVhZCBteSBtaW5k

 

[Steve G.]

September 25, 1968,  Mary Hopkin achieved #1 on the UK Singles Chart with “Those Were The Days”.
  Here’s a live performance on the Ed Sullivan Show:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnxTT7XXMPA&pp=ygUMbWFyeSBob3BraW5z

[Steve G.]

September 30, 1971, Isaac Hayes released the single "Theme From Shaft". It won an Academy Award, for best Score, Went #1 on Billboard.

   Here's his 2002 Performance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction:

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

[hardrockminer]

Back from a fishing trip to northern saskatchewan.

I liked this trucking song when it first came out in the early 60's, but I liked it even more when this group covered it.  I think it's even better than the original.


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

[hardrockminer]

Celebrating his 72nd birthday today.  My how the years pass!  Seems like only yesterday he burst on the music scene.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A

[hardrockminer]

This is a fairly new song, sung in an old style.  I think it will eventually be a classic, like Dock of the Bay.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBex8zbDRs

[hardrockminer]

Speaking of classics...here is another one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GCNDw4X_0

[hardrockminer]

This group just released a new album.  But this song is from their early days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bar7SzNLnY0

[hardrockminer]

Some people say the Rolling Stones are the best rock band ever.  I think the Beatles were best ever, but I also think the two bands are in different categories.  After their first couple of years Beatles were a studio group, but to their credit Rolling Stones have always been a live touring band. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ

[hardrockminer]

This group appeared in the mid 1970's and was thought to be the Beatles reincarnated.  They weren't, but the thought made them more popular than they maybe should have been.  I bought this album and enjoyed this song from it.  Catchy song title.


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

[hardrockminer]

There have been numerous lawauits over music copyright over the decades.  One of the more famous ones was George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", which used a melody that was very similar to "He's so Fine" by the Chiffons.  It cost Harrison around $1.5 milliion in penalties.  A more recent case involved this song by an equally famous group, but the court ruled in favour of the group.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhCPt6PZIU

[hardrockminer]

This group appeared in the sixties and had a few nice hits.  A couple of members kept going after the group broke up.  This was in my view one of the group's two most popular songs.


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

[hardrockminer]

This was also their song.  I remember dancing to the beat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxA3atHD2QM

[hardrockminer]

This group was part of the British invasion that followed the Beatles.  Not sure what happened to them, as they made some good music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2hXBf1DakE