The All New Music Tag Reboot!

I GET MY GROOVE FROM YOU-BOBBY PATTERSON



b. 13th March 1944, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

Bobby Patterson is similar to many other Dallas-based blues musicians, he is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who continued the soul-blues tradition of people like Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. However, unlike some of these other singers, Patterson has worked in all aspects of the blues record business. Patterson is a songwriter, a producer, a promotion man, and a label owner.

Bobby Patterson began performing when he was 10, playing guitar and drums. While still in his early teens, he formed a band called the Royal Rockers, who won talent contests in and around Dallas.
In 1957, one of the talent contests led to a trip to California to track a single for Liberty Records, which was never released. Patterson then went on to nearby Arlington College, where one of his classmates was the son of a local record company owner. In 1962, Patterson recorded 'You Just Got To Understand' for Abnak Records. The single wasn't terribly successful, but it convinced the label's owner, John Abnak, to start a soul division, called Jetstar Records. Patterson recorded for Jetstar for the next six years, becoming a songwriter, producer and promotion man in the process. Bobby's regional hits, all self-penned, on the Jetstar label included 'Let Them Talk' (also popularized by Little Willie John) and, with his Mustangs, 'I'm Leroy, I'll Take Her,' 'Broadway Ain't Funky No More,' 'T.C.B. Or T.Y.A.,' 'My Thing Is Your Thing,' 'The Good Old Days' and 'I'm In Love With You.' In 1969, after a string of regional hits, Abnak Records folded and Patterson recorded his own self-produced album. Shortly after that, he quit recording under his own name to produce and promote records made by other artists.

As a producer, Patterson has worked with Fontella Bass, Chuck Jackson, Ted Taylor, Shay Holiday, Roscoe Robinson, The Montclairs, Tommie Young and Little Johnny Taylor. Patterson's songs have been recorded by Albert King ('That's What The Blues Is All About') and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, who recorded and had success with his 'How Do You Spell Love?'.

More recently, Patterson has been back on the comeback trail, recording and releasing an album, 'Second Coming', in 1996 on his own Dallas-based Proud Records. 'Second Coming' is a good introduction to Patterson's music,however, for a greater portfolio overview of Pattersons recorded output, you'll have to search out his 45 rpm singles.

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/bobby patterson.html

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNRUVMboq4

 

Let's try the right one. Far better to view!

Diana Krall -Boulevard of broken dreams

 

Heart - These Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE&ob=av2e

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6VojYGrnpg

 

Vera Lynn: When I Grow too Old to Dream



A salute to the few who defended Great Britain in its finest hour.

 

Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a Little Dream of Me

 

Ella Fitzgerald : One note Samba (scat singing) 1969

 

Astrud Gilberto - One Note Samba

 

Notes? Nah, I'm going for a full on letter:

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss - Please Read The Letter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Xi5gvZ7Kk

 

Old School Reading Rainbow Theme




Sorry, I just HAD to

 

Schoolhouse Rock- How a Bill Becomes a Law

 

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNIsKOwzv08

 

Prisoner Of Love - Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra



Although best known as a popular balladeer, Billy Eckstine, an early supporter of the new music, led the first bebop band. He was born William Clarence Eckstein on July 8, 1914, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and, until he suffered a broken collar bone as a teenager, had considered a career in sports. After winning an amateur singing contest while in college at Howard University, he entered a full-time vocal career and changed the spelling of his last name.

In 1939 he joined Earl Hines’ band and learned to play trumpet. It was during this time that he met Sarah Vaughan and many of the young beboppers, among them Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie who came through the Hines band. While with Hines he had a hit with his own “Jelly, Jelly.”

In 1944 he formed his own band to back his vocals, but in hiring such personnel as Parker, Gillespie, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, and others, the group became known for its bebop-laced instrumentals and fine arrangements. Eckstine’s popular vocal recordings--hits such as “Prisoner of Love” and “Cottage for Sale”--helped to support the band, but it wasn’t enough, and in 1947 he disbanded the group.

Throughout the forties Eckstine charted with songs like “Everything I Have Is Yours,” “Blue Moon,” and “Caravan,” and in 1950 his deep, romantic baritone took “I Apologize” to number seven on the charts. He was MGM’s top selling vocalist in 1950, often referred to as “The Sepia Sinatra,” and took top vocal honors in both Metronome and Down Beat magazines. Eckstine’s suave good looks led to TV and movie appearances, and in the ‘60s he recorded with Sarah Vaughan and with Count Basie. His 1986 recording Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter was nominated for a Grammy. He died of a heart attack on March 8, 1993.

--Sandra Burlingame

http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=2041

 

Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage

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

 

If you want a good laugh about a musical group, politics, all out confusion, drivers license burning, and an on stage fight, this is the song for you!
Johnny Cash - The One On The Right Is On The Left

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFN9C9PVpg

 

Mojo Nixon - Elvis is everywhere