31-05-2014

Land of Dreams (2012)







Rosanne Cash schreef dit nummer met haar man John Leventhal voor "Discover America" Tourism Campaign. Het werd een aardig succes in de VS. Uitgebracht op Capitol?

Helene Fischer is heel groot in de Duitstalige landen en bracht in oktober 2014 het album "Farbenspiel" uit. Van dit album werd "Atemlos durch die nacht" als single uitgebracht. Het nummer werd geschreven door Kristina Bach, zo staat bij de info.
Het nummer is in Duitsland een gigantische hit. Het wordt bij optredens van Helene Fischer zelfs zo luid meegezongen, dat dit voorjaar een politicus voor een verbod pleitte. (Stutgarter Fruhjahrsfest).
Uiteraard was ie kansloos.

"Atemlos..." is echter een beetje en een beetje veel gepikt. Een beetje van Jürgen Marcus oooooh oooh (Ein festival der Liebe).  Ook lijkt er te zijn geleend bij "Summertime Sadness" van Lana del Rey.
En het meeste natuurlijk bij Land of Dreams.

Op het net vond ik dan nog dat er ook elementen van O-Zone (Dragosta)  en Donna Summer (Hot Stuff)  in zitten. Die Kristina Bach lijkt wel een "Girl Rock" :-) 


16-05-2014

Beale Street Blues (1917)

Written by W.C. Handy
O: Prince's Band 1917 - 24 - 05  Columbia







From JAZZ RHYTHM


The STORY of BEALE St. BLUES

Beginning around 1909, William Christopher Handy lived in Memphis, TN for about a decade.  By then he had traveled widely and was a pretty well established musician and bandleader.  There he quickly became a popular celebrity and flourished, launching a company for publishing his own music, due partly to the huge success of his “Memphis Blues,” which was originally conceived as a ditty for the mayoral campaign of the infamous political boss, E.H. Crump.
  
Among his favorite venues was the wildest and rowdiest section of the Beale Street district.  The original ‘Beale Avenue’ district of Memphis arose after the Civil War as a respectable, predominantly black neighborhood of churches, homes and a grand opera house.  But by the early 1900s, as Memphis became an important crossroads, it sprouted the notorious “Beale Street” section.

By 1910, around the time Handy arrived, it was a rough, sleazy, lawless collection of taverns, splendid dance halls and entertainments, brothels and dives filled with hustlers, pickpockets, lowlifes, pimps & prostitutes -- along with workingmen spending their pay, and rubes out for thrills.

And it was that Beale Street scene that seems to have oddly fascinated Mr. Handy.  When not working there, he loved to hang out, jam with other musicians or just watch the action.  In his autobiography he recounts hair-raising, appalling tales brutality, cruelty, criminality and mayhem that he fittingly memorialized in his classic “Beale St. Blues”:

    You'll see pretty browns in beautiful gowns,
    You'll see tailor-mades and hand-me-downs,
    You'll meet honest men, and pick-pockets skilled,
    You'll find that business never ceases 'til somebody gets killed!

    If Beale Street could talk, if Beale Street could talk,
    Married men would have to take their beds and walk,
    Except one or two who never drink booze,
    And the blind man on the corner singing "Beale Street Blues!"

    I'd rather be there than any place I know,
    I'd rather be there than any place I know,
    It's gonna take a sergeant for to make me go!







Some recordings:

1917 - 24 - 05 - Prince's Band - Beale Street
1917 - 08 - 13 - Earl Fuller - Beale Street Blues
1919 - W.C. Handy - Beale Street Blues
1921 - Marion Harris - Beale Street Blues
1924 - George Olsen and His Music - Beale Street Blues
1926 - Jelly Roll Morton - Beale Street Blues
1927 - Thomas fats Waller - Beale Street Blues
1931 - Eddie Lang-Joe Venuti and Their All Star Orchestra - Beale Street Blues
1939 - Jack Teagarden - Beale Street Blues
1940 - Big Joe Turner - Beale Street Blues
1940 - Guy Lombardo - Beale Street Blues
1941 - Lena Horne & Henry Levine's Dixieland Jazz Group - Beale Street Blues
1946 - Duke Ellington - Beale Street Blues
1954 - Louis Armstrong - Beale Street Blues
1988 - Peggy Lee - Beale Street
1992 - Alberta Hunter - Beale Street Blues
1999 - Red Nichols & Charleston Chasers - Beale Street Blues
2001 - Eartha Kitt - Beale Street Blues
2001 - Woody Herman - Beale Street Blues
2003 - Ella Fitzgerald - Beale Street Blues
2006 - Nat 'King' Cole - Beale Street Blues
2006 - Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra - Beale Street Blues
2008 - California Ramblers - Beale Street Blues
2008 - Eric Bibb - New Beale Street Blues
2009 - Stephen Bennett - Beale Street Blues





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13-05-2014

The Lord is my Shepherd (23rd Psalm) 1901

Words: Scot­tish Psal­ter, 1650
Music: Cri­mond, Jessie Irvine 1872
O: William F. Hooley on Victor  Recitation
O: Florence Hayward Harry  Macdonough  on Berliner

Dit is een moeilijke. Psalmen en andere kerkelijke zaken zijn mij vreemd, dus het is een beetje vreemdland voor mij. In wikipedia staan zaken over "Psalm 23" geschreven, maar bij het rijtje songs dat er wordt genoemd, heb ik zo mijn vraagtekens. De songs met de intentie van "Psalm 23" noemt men ook allemaal en schrijft men toe aan "Psalm 23". Dat is een beetje moeilijk voor "The Originals"
Ik heb daarom de songs genomen waarin een redelijk deel van de tekst van "Psalm 23" voorkomen.
De melodieën zijn soms verschillend, maar dat is gezien het onderstaande ook niet vreemd.
Ook de tekst is in de loop der jaren natuurlijk veranderd.
Helaas heb ik de oudste opname niet kunnen vinden.

In de onderstaande lijst staat met een afwijkende titel (en natuurlijk afwijkende melodie) Patti Smith, maar zij gebruikt 2 coupletten uit "Psalm 23".
Aan klassieke uitvoeringen heb ik me nog maar niet gewaagd.


Al­ter­nate tunes:
    * Bel­mont, Will­iam Gar­din­er, 1812 )
    * Evan, Wil­liam H. Hav­er­gal, 1847; ar­ranged by Low­ell Ma­son, 1850
    * Mar­tyr­dom, Hugh Wil­son, 1800; ar­ranged by Ralph E. Hud­son, cir­ca 1885
    * Or­ling­ton, John Camp­bell (1807-1860)  (re­peats third line of each verse)
    * Wilt­shire, George T. Smart, 1795

The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want.
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; He leadeth me
The quiet waters by.
My soul He doth restore again;
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of righteousness,
Even for His own Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale,
Yet will I fear no ill;
For Thou art with me; and Thy rod
And staff my comfort still.
My table Thou hast furnishèd
In presence of my foes;
My head Thou dost with oil anoint,
And my cup overflows.
Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me;
And in God’s house forevermore
My dwelling place shall be.

Songs i found:



1900 - 07-06 William F. Hooley - Twenty-third Psalm and the Lord's Prayer    6/7/1900
1901 - 16-01 - Florence Hayward Harry Macdonough - The Lord is my Shepherd  Berliner
1902 - Len Spencer - 23rd Psalm and Lord's Prayer   Recitation  Edison
1902 - Miss Spencer and Mr. Macdonough - The Lord is my shepherd
1911 - Charlotte Kirwan & Kathryn Hall Staats - Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
1911 - Reed Miller & Frank Croxton - Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
1927 - Blind Connie Rosemond - The Lord is my Shepherd.
1941 - Heavenly Gospel Singers - The Lord God is my Sheperd
1943 - Sister Ernestine Washington - The Lord is my Sheperd
1951 - Alfred Newman - The 23rd Psalm
1951 - Kathleen Ferrier - Psalm 23 the Lord is my Sheperd
1953 - Les Baxter - The Lord is my Shepherd
1958 - Duke Ellington Featuring Mahalia Jackson - Part VI (23rd Psalm)
1958 - Joseph Spence - The Lord is my Shepherd
1963 - Jo Stafford - The Lord is my Shepherd
1967 - Cliff Richard - 23rd Psalm (Crimond)
1968 - Pastor John Rydgren - Hippy Version of the 23rd Psalm
1973 - O'neal Twins With Davis Sisters - The Lord is my Shepherd
1978 - Patti Smith - Privilege (Set Me Free)
1983 - Mantovani - The Lord is my Shepherd
1983 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - 23rd Psalm  Movie (Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence)
1985 - Dennis Brown - The Lord is my Shepherd
1985 - Judy Collins - The Lord is my Shepherd
1987 - Al Green - 23rd Psalm.mp3
1988 - Keith Green - The Lord Is My Shepherd (23Rd Psalm)
1989 - Phil Coulter - The Lord is my Shepherd3
1990 - Rick Wakeman - The 23rd Psalm
1992 - The Soul Stirrers - The Lord is My Shepherd
1994 - The Choirboys - Psalm 23
1996 - Cissy Houston - The Lord is my Shepherd  Movie (The Preacher's Wife)
1998 - Charlotte Church - Psalm 23
2000 - Sister Ernestine Washington - The Lord Is My Shepherd
2001 - Bobby McFerrin - The 23rd Psalm.
2002 - Blind Boys of Alabama - You and Your Folks23rd Psalm.
2002 - Donna Marie - The Lord is my Shepherd
2002 - E Nomine - Psalm 23
2005 - Charlie Daniels - The 23rd Psalm (Recitation)
2005 - Christian Death - Psalm (Maggots Lair)
2008 - Dan Gibson's Solitudes - The Lord's my Shepherd
2008 - Dionne Warwick - The Lord Is My Shepherd
2009 - Mosby Family Singers - The Lord is my Shepherd
2011 - George Hamilton IV & Michael Lonstar - The Lord is my Shepherd (But Am I His Sheep)






Here is the Wikipedia Story





Songs met de intentie van "Psalm 23".

In "Alabama Getaway" is er een verwijzing naar "Psalm 23" en in "Sheep" hoor je het op de achtergrond vanaf 6.23.

1977 - Dennis Brown - Here I Come
1977 - Peter Tosh - Jah Guide
1977 - Pink Floyd - Sheep
1980 - Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway
1981 - Venom - Welcome to Hell
1983 - Marillion - Forgotten Sons
1988 - U2 - Love Rescue Me
1992 - Alice in Chains - Sickman
1995 - Coolio & L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise
1995 - Tupac - Shed so Many Tears
1997 - Notorious Big - You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills you) (Acapella)
2000 - Marilyn Manson - In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death
2004 - Kanye West - Jesus Walks
2004 - Megadeth - Shadow of Deth
2007 - Good Charlotte - The River
2009 - India Arie - Psalms 23 feat. MC Lyte
2009 - Rick Ross - Valley Of Death
2013 - JAY Z - Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)

Here a good story about the songs


Je kunt ze allemaal beluisteren
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12-05-2014

It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' (1923)

Traditional
O: Will Lyle 1889 on Edison
C: Wendel Hall 1923 on Edison







I found this about the Will Lyle recording. I don't have the book so this print from Google:

America's Best Loved Country Songs: An Encyclopedia of ...
books.google.nl/books?isbn=0786449942 - Vertaal deze pagina
Dorothy Horstman, ‎Fritzi Horstman - 2010 - ‎Music
An Encyclopedia of More Than 3,000 Classics Through the 1980s Dorothy ... Recording Found: Will Lyle (Edison) 1889 (as “Ain't Going to Rain No More”).


From Wikipedia: 

"It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" is the title of a song that is entirely the creation of the "Red-Headed Music Maker", guitarist and vocalist Wendell Woods Hall (1896–1969).. Hall's 1923 recording of the song was popular in Britain and sold in excess of two million copies.[1] Additionally, it scored 20 weeks on the U.S. charts, six at number one.[2]

Many antecedents exist from the 19th century. By the 1920s many variants were already extant in popular culture. Carl Sandburg suggests that the song goes back at least to the 1870s and includes verses in his "American Songbag (published 1927). This song is an excellent example of the folk tradition of transmission with local variants. Mr. Hall most likely codified what already existed and added original verses.





Apparently this was written without the knowledge of the Will Lyle recording.

We are most familiar with the Victor recording, but Wendell Halle recorded it also on 4 oktober 1923 for Edison as part of a recording of "I'm a Red Headed Music Maker".
This recording sounds a little bit like a part of the Wendell Hall Show. Everything is in the dl file.

                                                                                                                   
1923 12 Okt - Wendell Hall - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1923 4 Okt - Wendell Hall - I'm a Red Headed Music Maker.
1923 4 Okt - Wendell Hall - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1924 - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1924 - Billy Murray & Ed Smalle - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1925 - DeFord Bailey - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1925 - Savoy Orpheans - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.
1929 - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1929 - Zydeco Skillet Lickers - 1t Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo.
1934 - Ain't Gonna Rain No More - Eight Unidentified Girls.
1939 - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys
1947 - Vera Hall - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1951 - Ewan Maccoll - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1951 - Nappy Lamare and His Strawhat Strutters - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
1957 - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & Earl Scruggs - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1962 - Gus Cannon - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1965 - The Kentucky Colonels - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1977 - Disneyland Children's Sing-Along Chorus & Larry Groce - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
1977 - John Snipes - Ain't Gonna Rain No More
1978 - Tom Waits - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1979 - Jamie Alson - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
1999 - Mance Lipscomb - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2003 - Doug Van Gundy & Paul Gartner - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2005 - Clint Howard, Fred Price & Their Sons - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2007 - Arthur Kuykendall - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
2008 - Tom Turner - Ain't Gonna Rain No More.mp3







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09-05-2014

The Alcoholic Blues (1919)

Written by: Albert Von Tilzer / Edward Laska
O: Billy Murray on Columbia (op 24-01-1919)






Three days later he recorded it for Victor.

In the 1920's severeal artists recorded the song. In the 1930's the tune of te song was used for the song "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues".
In 1939 "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues"was collected by William Wolff at the School for Southern Women Workers. Wolff didn't know the songwriter.

In 1948 Leadbelly recorded, as is written on "Leabelly's Last Sessions", "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues". But that is a mistake on the Smithsonian Record label because Leadbelly played "The Alcoholic Blues". 

In 1946/1947 (others say 1948) Pete Seeger recorded already "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues".
On the record of Pete Seeger however "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues"is credited to Leadbelly/Traditional/Jim Garland. (see AMG and Discogs)

So they didn't know that the tune was from 1919 en that there was a song named "The Alcoholic Blues".


It is possible that Jim Garland wrote the words for "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues"
Because Seeger recorded the song as B-side of "The Death of Harry Simms"on Charter records

From Wikipedia
Jim Garland (April 8, 1905 – September 6, 1978) was a songwriter from the coal mining country of eastern Kentucky, where he was involved with the communist-led National Miners Union (NMU) during the violent labor conflicts of the early 1930s called the Harlan County War.

Garland came to New York City in 1931 with his older half-sister Aunt Molly Jackson and later followed by sister Sarah Ogan where he participated in the Greenwich Village folk music scene.  Two of his best-known songs are "The Death of Harry Simms" and "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister."

During World War II he moved, together with Sarah's family, to Vancouver, Washington, to work in the shipyard. In 1944 he founded a broom factory which he ran for many years.  Garland sang at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and his sister Sarah Ogan Gunning sang there in 1964.





Some recordings


1919-24-01 - Billy Murray - The Alcoholic Blues (Prohibition Song)
1919-27-01 - Billy Murray - The Alcoholic Blues (Prohibition Song)
1919 - Emerson Military Band - Alcoholic Blues
1919 - Irving Kaufman - Alcoholic Blues
1919 - Louisiana Five - Alcoholic Blues
1927 - DeFord Bailey - The Alcoholic Blues
1929 - Doc Daugherty - Alcoholic blues
1948 - Leadbelly - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues [#]
1948 - Pete Seeger - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
1956 - Pete Seeger - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
1957 - Bobby Hackett - Alcoholic Blues
1964 - Chris Hillman - Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues
1975 - Frederic Rzewski - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
1975 - Peter Yarrow - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
1983 - Rent Party Revellers - Alcoholic Blues
1986 - Doc Watson & Taj Mahal - Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues




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