Brother Jesse's Morning Music

[Dave]

Those are great! Had never seen that particular video of Legs. Redeemed by the fuzzy guitars!

[Dave]

Juice Newton



Here's a singer who didn't get the best songs, but she has a good voice and should have had better management, possibly.

WIKI: Judith Kay "Juice" Newton (born February 18, 1952, Lakehurst, New Jersey[1]) is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983), as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively). She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including Juice, Quiet Lies and her first Greatest Hits album. During the 1980s, Newton charted 14 Top-10 hits across the Billboard Country, AC, and Hot 100 charts, with many of the recordings achieving crossover success and six of the songs hitting the #1 position.

Queen of Hearts





Angel of the Morning (I've come to hate this song!)





Break It To Me Gently (Nice song from the past.)





Love's Been A Little Hard On Me (goofy, as usual)





I've tried to find a photo of Juice where she doen't look like someone's sister. The bangs don't help. Here ... this is better. All grown up and looking like a woman.

[keith]

Some thoughts from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

"Rock Stars" weren't always as disconnected from the 99% as they seem.
Buddy Holly's grey performance suit was there. Described as "Designed by J C Penney."
Elvis paid about $100K for Graceland. He had to make mortgage payments.

Later in his career he made a short trip to a car dealership. One trip, $140K cash for Cadillacs for other people including a stranger who was window shopping.

Dove commented earlier on some of the changes in popular music brought about bu the Beatles. While watching a retrospective on their career, I realized that not only did they grow musically album by album in a short time but they forced the rest of us to do so as well.

[Dave]

When you mentioned Cleveland, I wondered if you'd find your way to the Museum. I've never been there.

Yes, thank goodness for the Beatles. Else we'd still be listening to C, Am, F, G7. Shoo wop. And I, IV, V.

But they did it even better than some originals:

[keith]

We joined some friends and started Saturday morning in the Hall of Fame. Around 2 PM I looked at my watch & realized that not only had we not eaten lunch yet but we were still in the basement.

The featured exhibit now is "Women Who Rock" with displays on women from the early 20's through Lady Gaga. Sorry to report that Juice Newton did not make the cut.

[Dave]

Aw Shucks! Can't imagine the judges weren't impresses with Queen of Hearts - you know that really smarts! I'll bet Mick Jagger wishes he recorded that song!

[Dave]

I don't think Cindy Lauper is in the R&R Hall of Fame either.

Here's my 6 year old granddaughter, a tiny blonde Irish Lass with big eyes and big ideas, thirty or so years from now.

[keith]

I don't think she's an inductee but I know Cindy Laupner got a spot in the "Women Who Rock" exhibit.

[keith]

This might be worth checking out. Nov 18th, 9PM.

[Dave]

Looks good! A Friday night! Hope we have cable hooked up by then. Service could be a little slow here. Do you know which service your (family) has here? Choice for me was Time Warner or Horry Telephone something, HTC. I chose the latter, having had enough of TW these past few years.

[keith]

I think my daughter & son-in-law have a satellite service. Perhaps because he works for a TV station, they don't seem to watch much TV.

[Dave]

Little Richard


Tutti Frutti


From Songfacts: "Little Richard wrote this song in 1955 when he was working as a dishwasher at a Greyhound bus station in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. Explaining how he came up with the song, he told Rolling Stone: "I couldn't talk back to my boss man. He would bring all these pots back for me to wash, and one day I said, 'I've got to do something to stop this man bringing back all these pots to me to wash,' and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!' and that's what I meant at the time. And so I wrote 'Tutti Frutti' in the kitchen, I wrote 'Good Golly Miss Molly' in the kitchen, I wrote 'Long Tall Sally' in that kitchen."
Long before Richard recorded this, he performed it at his shows as "Tutti Frutti, Loose Booty." It was a very raucous and sexual song and was considered too suggestive for white audiences, so it was cleaned up considerably when he recorded it. The chorus was changed to "Tutti Frutti, aw Rudi," and the lyrics "A good Goddamn" were altered to "a wop bam boom."

Continued at:

www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1843

Don't miss the comments.

[Dave]

Diane Birch


I usually don't like girls with bangs and I'd never thought about whether I like girls whose headwear is Pilgrim-esque. But Diane Birch's talents surpass any misgivings I might have about her personal style.

I'd never heard of her until I tuned into "Live From Daryl's House" this afternoon. She has quite a voice and she has written a great range of songs.


Here's the preview of her afternoon at Daryl's house. (The url for the show is below.)




Here's Diane with Fools, LIVE:




Forgiveness and Promo:





And here's her appearance on Letterman:





Here's the url for her date at Daryl's House:

www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=21




And here's her entry on Wiki:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Birch

[keith]

One from Brother Jesse:



And one from me because the Dixie Chicks triggered the memory of a melody:



Sometimes I think we all look for the promised land

[Dave]

Promised Land is a great song! I have a couple of different recordings of it by James Taylor and a UTube download from Elvis.

Here's Welsh retro rocker Dave Edmunds.





Here's Johnnie Allan, who also recorded that sentimental favorite, "Let's Go Get Drunk."




Here's Elvis in one of many performances available on youtube.




James Taylor in concert.