Right so when was there a Top 40 with so many Top songs -

 

very very few and far between

 

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Not one of John Lennon's best songs to be honest, but a very touching cover version from Glen.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UGmWbixR

Thanks for a life time of music Glen...Your love and devotion to one another has touched millions.



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

One you don't hear much of these days?:-

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TT8T_-AIvQ



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

I've been looking at other versions of that song and some of them I found awful. I think the version by S & C might have become imprinted as the version I know well but I always thought it would have been even better if Cher had done it alone as I thought Sonny's voice sounded harsh and he "rasped" his part. What do you think?

 

I didn't know that the music was inspired by Ravel's Bolero, another piece of music I like very much as it builds up in to a crescendo.

 

Some of the versions of What Now My Love sound very staccato and I much prefer the smooth flow of the words.

 

What's your favourite version of that song?



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

"What Now My Love" Performed by Frank Sinatra I take no credit for the music.

Happy Birthday Radio 1

 

opened with this 

 

Hi Al, yes, that's one of the versions I don't care for. It sounds as if he's "just singing the song", there doesn't seem to be any feeling in it.



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

Singing Her latest single, Live

 

 

She is one of the best singers around at the moment,

 

She doesn't need all the stupid stage shows

 

 

 

Heres a stripped down version from BBC Live Lounge, as well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 Minutes long:-

 

 



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

My first ever 12" single,

 

I won it in a competition

 

R.I.P. Tom

 

 

Back story to this song ----- Tom, Dave Stewart & Stevie Nicks were to Do a song/songs about Alice - At a party the night before going into studio, Tom introduced Stewart and Stevie, they hit it off and after went back to Her mansion - Stevie was in a bad place at the time and when She woke up, as She frequently did at that time 'lost it' and chucked Stewart out - as he went out her gate he heard her screaming 'Don't come around here No more' - Petty and Stewart sat waiting in studio for her to turn up, but after a while started mucking about with tunes, during one rift from Tom, Stewart sang 'Don't come around here no more' and they expanded it into this song - In late afternoon Stevie entered and heard them doing this song, took the huff and stormed off, never to return. She later made up with Tom Petty and even duetted on stage doing this song. This story came from Tom Petty himself

Well, there's only Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne left now?

 

A bit of dodgy editing in this song?

 



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

I bought the first Tom Petty album, a lot of the tracks still get regular airplay in the States 40 years later. This and Breakdown were my fave tracks off the album.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXkblbJqwn0

American Girl by Tom Petty, illustrated with photographs of beautiful, yet unfortunately dead, American actresses: Ethel Barrymore, Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Norma Talmage, Louise Brooks, Mary Astor, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, Jean Arthur, Helen Hayes, Gene ...

Interesting listening to one of the painted barbie doll 'Talking head'  presenters on Sky News

 

She thought 'Tom Petty, old rocker, doesn't really mean anything to Me'

 

Then She heard song after song of His, that had marked her whole life

 

Xmas, Birthdays, holidays, driving in the summer with Her Dad

 

He was that kind of artist - always there with Classic tunes, that sat inside your head

 

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Used to play this driving -

This is a version He did for a film

 

 

 

 

 

Jose Gonzales | Stay Alive from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Soundtrack available now http://smarturl.it/WalterMittySndtrkiT Film in Theaters Christmas 2013 Music video by Jose Gonzalez performing Stay Alive. ©: Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Great view of the Harvest  Moon outside right now

 

Here's an old one:-

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkHM6SuntQ



It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.