sobota, 24 listopada 2018

Listening List for November 29, 2018

 Here are the lyrics for this week!

Long listening list for this week, just check out one or two in each section. If there are dead links then please let me know

EARLY YEARS 1960-63)

Money (That's what I want)
Barret Strong (1960)

***Shop around
The Miracles (1961)

***Please Mr. Postman
The Marvelettes (1961)

Beechwood 4-5789
The Marvelettes (1962)

***Fingertips (Part 2)
Little Stevie Wonder (1963)

Heat wave
Martha and the Vandellas (1963)

GLORY YEARS 1964-1970)

My Guy
Mary Wells (1964)

My Girl (1964)
The Temptations

***Where did our love go?
The Supremes (1964)

How sweet it is (to be loved by you)
Marvin Gaye (1964)

Dancing in the streets
Martha and the Vandellas (1964)

Baby, I need your loving
The Four Tops (1964)

Baby love
The Supremes (1964)

***I can't help myself (Sugar pie honey bunch)
The Four Tops (1965)

Stop! In the name of love
The Supremes (1965)

Ain't too proud to beg
The Temptations (1966)

What becomes of the brokenhearted?
Jimmy Ruffin (1966)

You keep me hangin' on
The Supremes (1966)

Reach out! I'll be there
The Four Tops (1966)

***I heard it through the grapevine
Gladys Knight and the Pips (1967)

***Ain't no mountain high enough
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (1967)

Cloud Nine
The Temptations (1968)

Love Child
Diana Ross and the Supremes (1968)

***I heard it through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye (1968)

I can't get next to you
The Temptations (1969)

Someday we'll be together
Diana Ross and the Supremes (1969)

Ball of Confusion
The Temptations (1970)

If I were your woman
Gladys Knight and the Pips (1970)

The tears of a clown
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1970)

***I want you back
The Jackson 5 (1970)

RELATED VIDEOS

***James Jamerson isolated bass (I can't help myself)

***Funk brothers instrumental track (Love is like an itching in my heart)

Funk brothers with the Andantes (Just ask the lonely)

Supremes a capella track (Come see about me)

Temptations a capella track (Just my imagination)

Somewhere (cover by the Supremes)

sobota, 17 listopada 2018

Listening List for November 22, 2018


Here's the listening list for this week, please let me know if there are any dead links.

Enjoy!



Boogie Woogie

Boogie Woogie
Cleo Brown (1935)

Jukebox Boogie
Gene Rodgers (194?)

Ain't Misbehavin'
Fats Waller (1943)

Early Rock and Roll? Rhythm and Blues and Beyond

Move to Alabama (first listen at normal speed and then listen at 1.25 normal speed)
Charley Patton (1929)

Keep on Churnin' (till the butter comes)
Wynonie Harris (1952)

Further on up the Road
Bobby Bland (1957)

Vocal group history

Explanation of Barbershop harmony

Let me call you sweetheart
Shannon Quartet (1926)

Sincere
Buffalo Bills (from the movie The Music Man) 1962

I get around
Proper Sound Barbshop Quartet (2014)

Crazy People
Boswell Sisters (1932)

My Prayer
The Ink Spots (1939)

Paper Doll
The Mills Brothers (1943)

Platters
Smoke gets in your eyes (1958)

Doo Wop

Sixty Minute Man
The Dominos (1951)

Little Darlin'
The Gladiolas (1957)

The Wah Watusi
The Orlons (1962)

Cover Versions

Ain't That a Shame?
Fats Domino

Pat Boone

Tutti Frutti
Little Richard

Pat Boone



piątek, 9 listopada 2018

Listening List for November 15, 2108

Here's a listening list for the coming week, note that the final two links need to be watched rather than just listened to.
Let me know if any of the links aren't working.



History of Scat Singing

Gene Greene
King of the Bungalows (1911) starting

Cliff Edward
Homesick (1922)

Louis Armstrong
Heebie Jeebies (1926)

Duke Ellington / Adelaide Hall
Creole Love Call (1927)

Ella Fitzgerald
How High the Moon (1960)


Evolution from Pop to Jazz singing

song: More than you know (1929)
(In class we'll just listen to a short section)

Helen Morgan (1929) Torch Singer

Ruth Etting (1929) Pop Singer

Mildred Bailey (1936) Pop-jazz singer

Billie Holiday (1939) Jazz singer


Big Bands and into Bebop

Count Basie and his Orchestra
Lousiana (1940)

Duke Ellington
Satin Doll (1952)

Lionel Hampton
Flying Home (1942)

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Salt Peanuts (1942)

Charlie Parker
Confirmation (1946)

Dance

Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
Jumpin' Jive (1943)

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (must watch instead of just listen!)
from Hellzapoppin (1941)