Amy's Listen to this with me

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Great song, shitty video.

 

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This is an unique song, combining opera, rock, Canadian folk, classical, other music forms and dance, in a way that seems to make perfect sense.

I don't know a lot about Centrifugal Force. They might not even have had a album; I know only of the 4 song CD EP a fellow at an Independent record store, since closed, tracked down for me. They were from Montreal, the song is from about 1995, and the lead singer is the brother of a guy who was in Men Without Hats.

I met the original line up of Men Without Hats. Around 1978-79, I attended a party at their rehearsal studio, before they had a recording contract. They hosted, and provided live entertainment. I didn't know them, I was just a guy who was friends with a guy who was friends with one of their Friends. That's how you get invited to parties in Montreal, back then, at least.

 

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Chrissy Hynde - I Wish You Love

https://youtu.be/Z7u4AGgzf78

 

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Chrissy Hynde - I Wish You Love

https://youtu.be/Z7u4AGgzf78

 

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Shawne Jackson - Just As Bad As You, (1974)



Page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H6aS0PQitw

Shawne Jackson is a African-Canadian singer, still active. She did mainly session work and backing vocals.

Just As Bad As You was her only hit single, making the top 10 in Canada, and earning her a Juno nomination. The song was written by her, (then), future husband, Domenic Troiano, (The Guess Who, The James Gang, solo).

Listening to the beginning of this 1974 track, I can't help but think that David Bowie used some 'artistic license' for the intro to Young Americans.

Just sayin'.

I dedicate this platter to Reverse, (whom I've never met), but Ladies, you should be listening to this, to wake you up first thing in the afternoon, instead of having a cup of coffee.

I love the strings and horns arrangements on so many of the early 70's soul hits.


More about Shawne: https://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/J/Jackson_Shawne.html

192 kbs .mp3, (listen and/or download):

 

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Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You, (Larry Levan remix)



Dan Hartman was the lead singer of The Edgar Winter Group in the 1970's, and was a prolific song writer. As a solo artists, he's best known for I Can Dream About You, included in the 1984 film Streets of Fire. A video of the song, with Dan's vocal's lip synched by the fictional band The Sorels, was very popular in the early days of MTV.

This is the longer remix version of the song. Dan died of AIDS related illness in 1994.

 

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Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose



I Can't Turn You Loose was originally released as the B side of Otis Redding's 1965 45 RPM single Just One More Day, which peaked at #85 in the US pop charts, and at #15 on the US R&B chart. It was a staple of his live performances. It's best known as the 'Intro' performed by The Blues Brothers prior to Sam and Dave's Soul Man. Every US college band plays this song at basketball games. No song ever recorded has a funkier bass line.

This version was recorded live in Alabama in 1967, the year in which Otis first achieved fame to 'white audiences' at The Monterrey Pop Festival, and also the year in which he died in a small airplane crash, at age 26. It's included in the bootleg album A Soupcan of Soul.

 

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G Love and Special Sauce - The Pussy Song



I saw G Love and Special Sauce in concert twice, both times at The Opera House, near Queen and Broadview in Toronto, around 1996 & 2000. They were/ are a three piece band, with guitar, drums, and upright bass. Their music is usually an eclectic mix of hip hop, traditional blues, and Philadelphia Soul, all mixed into one. Their live performances seem like one cohesive performance, not a sequence of unrelated songs. I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to see them live twice, during their creative peak, and their youth.

This is from a great collection called
Cameron's 2004 7-disk G Love and Special Sauce live and rare compilation.

You can listen online, or download the entire collection, here:

https://archive.org/details/Glove_and_special_sauce-Camerons_2004_7disk_live_and_rare_compilation

There are tons of G Love and Special Sauce live recordings at archive.org, all in the public domain, with the artist's consent.

 

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Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (live at International Hotel, Las Vegas August 3, 1969)



Elvis Presley began performing 57 shows in four weeks at the new International Hotel in Las Vegas on July 31, 1969. This recording was made four days later.

Suspicious Minds, recorded in January, 1969, would become his last #1 hit in September, but had yet to be released to the public, when this extended performance was recorded.

Backing vocals are provided by The Sweet Inspirations, who included Emily "Cissy" Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, aunt of Dionne Warwick, and cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price.

 

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Bettie Serveert - Stephanie Says (live)



Bettie Serveert are a Dutch Indy rock group, active since 1990. The lead singer is Carol Van Dijk.

Stephanie Says was written by Lou Reed in 1968, and performed live frquently by Lou, while with The Velvet Underground. It was not released commercially until 1985. It's about a sad dominatrix.

I saw Bettie Serveert, (it means "Betty the Waitress" in Dutch), at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, almost ten years ago. They played a good set, but unfortunately did not perform any of the songs that I knew, from some .mp3 downloads I got on WinMX, including this one.

 

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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill, (a deal with God) - 'Karaoke version'



This song is the instrumental track of Running Up That Hill, with backing vocals, but without lead vocals. It was originally included on the cassette tape release, and as the B side of the 12" single.