The All New Music Tag Reboot!

If we're doing Al Green, let's hit my favorite - Take Me to The River
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrXi5Dwk2I

 

Al totally, thoroughly and for all times makes this Bee Gees song his own personal anthem!

An absolute vocal tour de force!

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart- Al Green

 

Not so serious and wish I could find a better video (or any at all really).
Tia Carrere - Why You Want To Break My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaZc62AB1hM&playnext=1&list=PL6A39A0D89354F7B8

 

Sweet Caroline - One of Neil Diamonds best!

 

Smokin' Jam with Dizzy, Stitt, Cannonball, Milt Jackson, NHOP, Tommy Flanigan, D.Humair just killin'
"Sweet Georgia Brown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4AoRVAoRL8

 

Michael Buble - Georgia on my mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoT-XPt-xFU

 

One of my favorite jazz men originally hailing from Tippo Mississippi!

Mose Allison - Lost Mind

 

I'm not a huge Elvis fan, but this is one of a couple I can get into.
Elvis - Suspicious Minds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-NDXtDUcGQ&ob=av2n

 

Another wonderful original artist...
Gordon Lightfoot " If You Could Read My Mind"

 

Mavis & Jeff--Only the Lord Knows

 

Andrea Bocelli and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - The Lords Prayer

 

1950's Statesmen TV Show Ending - May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You



I'll throw in the intro as well.



On a side note, during their early years with RCA Victor, Chet Atkins produced and played lead guitar for The Statesmen's records and the backing tracks for some of their shows.

 

Dale Evans & Roy Rogers - Happy Trails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYsO890YJY

 

Maze - Happy Feelings



By any measure, one of the most talented but criminally underappreciated self-contained bands of the past three decades has been Frankie Beverly and Maze. Their ability to fuse soul and jazz with an irresistible groove and intelligent lyrical content has gained for them an extremely loyal following among Soul music fans and great respect among their performing peers, but little attention in the pop music world.

Group founder and leader Frankie Beverly was born and raised in the musical city of Philadelphia, and began singing as a child in church. As an early teen he hooked up with 50s soul group the Silhouettes (who sang the doo-wop number "Get a Job," which influenced Smokey Robinson's first hit composition, "Got a Job"). By the early 60s, Beverly founded a doo-wop group called the Butlers and worked with future legendary Philly record executive and producer Kenny Gamble. The Butlers had significant local success, but never broke out nationally.

While clearly talented, Beverly and his various bands were not the prototypical Philly soul acts, and in the early 70s he moved with his new group to San Francisco, where he met Marvin Gaye, who took a liking to the group and helped them land a contract with Capitol Records under the new name Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly.

The group's Capitol debut was a Soul smash, yielding the hit "While I'm Alone" and hitting the Soul top 10. As with the act's future albums, the subtle jazz stylings and smooth grooves were extremely appealing to Soul music fans, but had almost zero pop crossover. Over the next decade, Maze released a series of well crafted, well received albums that uniformly hit top 10 Soul and pulled onto the Top 100 pop charts based on sales among black audiences. The group also released a number of memorable singles, including "Joy and Pain," "Southern Girl," "Love Is The Key," "Back In Stride" (a #1 Soul hit) and "Can't Get Over You" (another #1).

After a string of gold and platinum albums, Maze left Capitol in 1989 and released the album Silky Soul on Warner Brothers, another fine disc highlighted by the wonderful Marvin Gaye tribute title cut. Soon afterward, the group performed a series of critically acclaimed performances in connection with Nelson Mandela's first tour of the U.S. following his release from a South African prison.
Maze followed in 1993 with Back to Basics, another hit album that confounded critics who felt that the group's best days were behind it. Inexplicably, it became the band's final release of the decade, despite hitting the Soul top 5 and the Pop top 40. Since then, Maze, now consisting of Beverly, keyboardist Carl Wheeler, bass guitarist Robin Duhe, and percussionists McKinley "Bug" Williams and Roame, has been silent on record, while continuing to tour regularly. However, pushed by Frankie Beverly's son Anthony, the silence was broken during 2009, as the group participated in an All-Star tribute to Maze, featuring an A-List of contemporary R&B artists. The disc, Silky Soul Music...An All Star Tribute to Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, was released to uniform critical praise.

As we sit in the second decade of the new millennium, the influence of Maze continues to shine, as dozens of young acts acknowledge the influence of these R&B pioneers. And the group's enviable catalog is still the soundtrack for family parties throughout America.

By Chris Rizik SoulTracks - Soul Music Biographies, News and Reviews

 

Wicked - What's This Feeling



Two BIG thumbs up for WICKED!

 

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

 

Good to Stevie made a showing again Bill. Opus is cool but SRV is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7a35GnfPTc

 

The Spinners - Sweet Thing




In 1972, The Spinners signed with Atlantic Records and teamed up with producer Thom Bell, setting into motion an amazing recording career. A partial list of their hit singles on Atlantic include “Mighty Love,” “Then Came You,” “I’ll Be Around,” “One Of A Kind (Love Affair),” “Games People Play,” and “Could It Be.” In 1979, The Spinners completed their first collaboration with producer Michael Zager, and by early 1980, the single, “Working My Way Back to You,” was topping Pop and R&B charts giving the group its 12th gold record. The Love Trippin’ album’s release included “The Cupid Medley,” one of the fastest selling records in The Spinners’ career. The follow-up album, Labor of Love, featured such stand- out tunes as “Yesterday Once More,” and “Long Live Soul Music.” With the release of “Can’t Shake This Feeling,” their fourth LP in just over two years, the quintet entered a brand new phase of their remarkable career as they joined the award winning producing/ writing/playing team of James Mtume and Reggie Lucas. Other past releases include songs on the motion picture soundtracks of “Twins” and “Spaceballs,” and a single on Arista Records, a duet with Dionne Warwick entitled “Then Came You.”

The mighty Spinners have six Grammy nominations and have performed twice during the awards ceremony. They received a Black Gold Award from Dick Clark for their many achievements in the recording industry, and they have been awarded the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Award for their contribution to R & B. The group has performed for presidents, received a star on the Hollywood “Walk of Fame,” and has appeared in numerous network and cable television specials paying tribute to the music of the 70’s.

http://www.spinnersmusic.com/the-spinners-biography.html

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5C0rrncXE