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RockRoll360 #171 - GOOD FORTUNE ( Part 1 )

 

Welcome to Good Fortune (Part 1).
An older compilation I conceived back in 2001.
10 Years flew by, because it seems like yesterday I put this together.
Great tuneage continues here on # 171 on RR360.
Gems include some oldies with Joe Tex, The Hollies,
The Music Explosion and The Bangles.
Alt. Rock with Weezer. Soft Metal Rock with Metallica.
The Blues with R.L. Burnside and Folk Rock with
Shawn Mullins. ONE BIG MP3 for your listening enjoyment.
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Stay tune for Part 2 next week.

Music includes ::: 

SHOW ME     /       JOE TEX
LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW     /       THE HOLLIES
GOOD FORTUNE     /       PJ HARVEY
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN     /      THE BANGLES
LITTLE BIT O’SOUL      /      THE MUSIC EXPLOSION
DUKES OF HAZZARD (Acoustic)     /     WEEZER
UNDONE ( THE SWEATER SONG )      /      WEEZER
WELCOME HOME ( SANITARIUM )   / METALLICA
I’M GONNA BE ( 500 MILES )    /      THE PROCLAIMERS
CATFISH BLUES      /      R.L. BURNSIDE
BALLAD OF BILLY JO MACAY       /     SHAWN MULLINS

Sound bites include :::

WBZ     ( Serving all New England ) / Old WBZ Radio Jingle 
The 3 Tenors vs. The Three Stooges  / Sound bite comedy from WBCN Radio

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RockRoll360 #161 - It Hurts So Bad (Part 2)

 

Ok, by the looks of the above
photo maybe it doesn’t hurt that much.
 
RockRoll360 continues with this one I compiled
back in 2005, called It Hurts So Bad, 
with part 2 of the show.  
Enjoy the gems by Cat Stevens, The Hollies,
Raydio, Ray Charles & Betty Carter, and a great
tune by The Undisputed Truth. Also a couple of
parodies by Travis Mayer & Bob Rivers.

Music includes :::  

ITS BEEN AWHILE  /  STAIND
ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT   /  CAT STEVENS
BABYLON   /   DAVID GREY
STOP STOP STOP   /   THE HOLLIES
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO JAMAICA   /   TRAVIS MEYER
GOOD RIDDANCE ( TIME OF YOUR LIFE )   /   GREEN DAY
YOU CAN’T CHANGE THAT   /   RAYDIO
SEE THE LIGHT     /   SUPERGRASS
WHITE, DISCUSSION   /  LIVE
BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE  
                             /  RAY CHARLES  AND BETTY CARTER
BE MY BABY   /   THE RONETTES
DIRTY DEEDS DONE WITH SHEEP    /     BOB RIVERS
SMILING FACES    /   UNDISPUTED TRUTH

Sound bites include :::::

And now for something completely different  
                                                 /    Monty Python
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ROCKOLLECTIONS: MUSIC FOR MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS PT.6

I am dedicating almost this entire episode to Gold.
It seems that when people lose confidence in their paper currency they turn to it.
While I can understand that, the problem with buying Gold is that it does nothing to help the economy, except for the seller.
People hoard it, an unproductive asset- while even leaving your cash in the bank spurs economic activity, as banks lend against your deposit.
But it is an ancient store of value, and at over $1200 an ounce a tempting one.
There are quite a few songs about Gold, and I just touched the surface here.
In fact, I wanted to play Midas Man by Renaissance, but time constraints worked against it.
Presumably you know that story- everything King Midas touched turned to Gold.
But as a morality tale, that seeming blessing turned into a curse.
So if you know the song, play it in your head, lol!
However I was able to play a related song by the Hollies that should have your memory in overdrive upon hearing it.
One of those forgotten gems from the FM 60’s!
And here’s something you may not have known. I didn’t.
In 1933, during the Depression and soon after Franklin Roosevelt became President, he confiscated almost all privately owned gold, including gold coins.
If you did not turn in your gold, you were subject to jail time- up to 10 years!
Roosevelt did this without Congressional approval, simply issuing an Executive Order.
Without question his actions were unconstitutional, and hey, those Executive Orders…sound familiar?
The next-to-last song in this chapter makes me laugh, and I chose it deliberately as it pertains to my own lack of Money OR Gold.
And here I am trying to warn you as if I were some financial genius, lol!
But I am attempting to do just that, as I believe some real hard times are coming.
Ending the show with a Beatle song…but not by the Beatles.
We’ll wrap things up next week, and I have two separate endings planned.
I hope you join me for the final two parts.

Mike

Tags: 1933, Executive Order, Franklin Roosevelt, Gold, King Midas, Midas Man, President, Renaissance, The Beatles, The Depression, The FM 60's, The Hollies

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FEBRUARY 3, 1959- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PT.6 CONCLUSION!

 

Alright, gonna bring this all home with a Grand Finale.
I’ll open with one of those marvels of technology, like Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole singing together, long after Nat’s death.
This is from a 1996 tribute album, and it is Buddy Holly singing with the Hollies- who liked him so much they took their NAME from him!
Buddy Holly & The Crickets were a self-contained group- they wrote, recorded and battled with producers over what the final results of their songs should sound like.
They also used very different instruments and rhythms, far ahead of their time.
Buddy Holly simply was a visionary!
They have found what are known as “The Apartment Tapes”, recorded at Buddy’s residence in Greenwhich Village in New York.
He had purchased an Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder, and made many demos, as well as experimenting with different speeds on the recorder- just as any of us who had one did, lol.
There is an amazing amount of magical material on these tapes, and I highly recommend them to anyone who is interested in hearing a great artist in development.
Plus I will have the FINAL tape recording Buddy Holly ever made.
And what do you think it was for?
Finally, we will begin the end with a song about something we have to learn the hard way, another one that seems to me has some strange sort of Latin rhythms to it, another one that had already been done by Elvis, then an additional favorite of mine that has some rather sexy lyrics for the time.
And closing it all out, a posthumous hit for Holly- a beautiful song with some bittersweet lyrics.
To all who took the entire ride with me throughout this series, you have my immense appreciation and gratitude!
Now it is off to another series…

Mike

Tags: Buddy Holly, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, The Apartment Tapes, The Crickets, The Hollies