FReeper Canteen - Tunes For The Troops - 18 Oct 2014

Our Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

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Tunes For The Troops
 

 

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops!


All music is removed on Monday.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

 

 

Benny Goodman - Sometimes I'm Happy	Big Kenny - Happy People
Blood Sweat And Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy	Bobby Mcferrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
Buddy Guy - All that makes me happy is the Blues	Celtic Thunder - Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
Colt Ford - Happy In Hell (featuring Boyz II Men)	Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
Edwin McCain - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)	Emily West - That Kind Of Happy
Journey - Happy To Give	Lady Gaga - So Happy I Could Die
Lee Brice - Happy Endings	Leona Lewis - Happy
Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues	Jennifer Nettles - Thank You
Mary J Blige - Be Happy	Mudvayne - Happy
Natasha Bedingfield - Happy	Norah Jones - Happy Pills
Pink - Long Way To Happy	Sarah Vaughn - Sometimes I´m Happy
Snow Patrol - You Could Be Happy	Steve Vai - So Happy
Sugarland - Happy Ending	The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
The Mahavishnu Project - Be Happy	The Turtles - Happy Together

[ConorMacNessa]

I remember this well - I had not heard the music from the "party." I didn't care that much for the song - I'm not really into Country.

1958 - "Poor Little Fool" was the first 45 I ever purchased. "B" side was, IIRC, "I'm Walkin" which had been released a year earlier. My memory is a little fuzzy on that last.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

This was from earlier in 1972 and was also about a drug OD, but this time it was about Janis Joplin's OD.

Joan Baez: "In the Quiet Morning"

[Fiji Hill]

Another of my favorites from '72:

Beautiful Girl--Tony Marshall

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!



"Poor Little Fool"
Ricky Nelson
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"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

From January 1972. One of my favorite Paul Williams song. A real heartbreaker. That saxophone solo at the end is beautiful.

Paul Williams: "Waking Up Alone"

[Fiji Hill]

I never heard that one before. It didn’t make the playlist at Armed Forces Network Kaiserslautern, probably because it only reached #69 on the Billboard Hot 100. A song normally had to crash the Top 40 to make the station’s playlist.

[Publius]

Here's one from the spring of 1972 that should have been a hit. The identity of the group killed it. That's a shame.

The Archies: "Strangers in the Morning"

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: OCTOBER 18, 1972

#54 – The Temptations: “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”

When I did the songbook of Norman Whitfield, I gave special attention to this number. It’s his masterpiece. The sense of atmosphere and the use of the instruments is incredibly imaginative. It was butchered for the single, but this is the 12 minute album version. You don’t cut a Picasso to fit the frame!

The Temptations: “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”

[Fiji Hill]

This is another that I liked in 1972. It was a hit in Britain in early May, and it got airplay on Radio Luxembourg, Western Europe's English-language rock blaster, but I don't think it made any noise whatsoever in the US. It also seems to have become a favorite "oldie" in Britain.

Don't Let Him Touch You--The Angelettes

[Publius]

You may have heard this one because it got some action in the UK. It didn't break here, unfortunately. I loved this song from early 1972.

The New Seekers: "Circles"

[Fiji Hill]

That should have been a hit, but I don’t think “Strangers in the Morning” even charted.

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: OCTOBER 18, 1972

#7 – Mac Davis: “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me”

Mac was one of the fathers of Hot Country, and I dedicated a night to his songbook. He was critical, along with producer Chips Moman, in bringing Elvis’ career back from the grave. This was his first solo hit, a successful crossover from Country. This song gives a look into how Hot Country was going to handle the Sexual Revolution.

Mac Davis: “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me”

[Fiji Hill]

I never heard "Circles" until tonight. In the spring of '72, the New Seekers scored in Britain and Europe with Beg, Steal or Borrow. It only reached #81 on the Hot 100.

There were also German-language version by the New Seekers and also Ellen Caron, whose native language is obviously not German.

[Drumbo]

I know that some of you saw the thread this week announcing Glen Campbell's last recording. It's called I'm Not Gonna Miss You and it's devastatingly beautiful, dealing with his decline into Alzheimer's disease. He has been suffering from it for at least 5 years and did his farewell tour in 2012. Mr. Campbell's contributions to music are epic. Words like titan, superstar and living legend all come to mind, but fall short. His career started long before his fame. The son of an Arkansas sharecropper, he got his first guitar at age 4 and went on to play with his uncle's bands, dropping out of school in the seventh grade. He couldn't read a note of music, but his talent propelled him to be the most in-demand session guitarist in the world and in the 50's and 60's he played with almost everyone.

Not long after his 18th birthday he found himself in Los Angeles, having joined the Champs (Tequila) he was playing and touring and was also the primary studio guitarist for The Hondells and The Rip Chords, both strictly vocal groups who hired sidemen to record and tour. Those gigs led to a stint with the Delltones, Dick Dale's band, and work with Gene Vincent, Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, The Green River Boys and a host of others which eventually led to a recording contract of his own in 1961. His first solo recordings made the charts, but seldom broke the top 50, but as his reputation spread it led to his seat with Hal Blaine's legendary Wrecking Crew, Hollywood's premier recording session icons. That exposure led to other sessions, and bigger artist, including Dean Martin, Lou Rawls, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. By 1965 Glenn was playing on over 500 recording sessions each year.

Following Brian Wilson's breakdown and retirement from the road in 1965, Campbell became a touring member of the Beach Boys for several months, having already played on many of their hits and the entire "Pet Sounds" album. At the end of his tenure as the group's temporary bassist, the Beach Boys offered him a permanent spot in the band, but he turned them down when they wouldn't allow him to have an equal cut of the group's royalties. A few months after rejecting their offer, the Beach Boys' record label, Capitol, offered Campbell a full-fledged contract. His first release under his new long-term Capitol contract was a version of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "The Universal Soldier," which peaked at number 45. For much of 1966, he continued to pursue studio work, but he released "Burning Bridges" toward the end of the year, and it climbed to number 18 on the country charts early in 1967.

During 1967, Capitol pushed Campbell as a country recording artist, and their breakthrough arrived in the late summer when his folky country-pop rendition of John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind" became a Top 40 hit on both the country and pop charts. By the end of the year, he had released a cover of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," which reached number two on the country charts, and number 26 on the pop charts. Early in 1968, "Gentle on My Mind" won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording of 1967. Campbell's success continued in 1968, as "I Wanna Live" became his first number one hit and "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" reached number three. The Smother's Brothers tapped Glenn to host their summer replacement "Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour" variety show and the following year, CBS television hired him to host the variety show The Glen Campbell Good Time Hour, which became quite popular and helped establish him as not only a country star, but a pop music superstar. That show lasted 4 years.

He had number one hits with "Wichita Lineman" (1968) and "Galveston" (1969) and went on from his TV shows to his co-starring role with pal John Wayne in the movie "True Grit" in 1969.

There's a lot more to Glen's story, and maybe I'll get around to it, but first I want to share his music. Glen is now in 24 hour hospice care, but before he went away he helped raise millions for Alzheimer's research, after he was in the throws of the disease himself. It took courage and hard work to put himself through that final tour and album "Ghost on the Canvas". Later this month a documentary about his Alzheimer's called "I'll Be Me" will be released. I urge you to see it. I lost both of my parents to Alzheimer's and spent two years as their primary caregiver. Glen's life was a labor of love and his career shines like a super nova, he was the first "crossover" artist in history; let's not forget him, even though he's forgotten us.



Galveston
~ Glen Campbell ~

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[Publius]

Here's one from the spring of 1972. It was the beginning of a great career, and it got some FM airplay. Unfortunately, it didn't happen on AM.

Nils Lofgren: "White Lies"

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I was celebrating my twentieth birthday as a newlywed.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good Friday evening, Kathy1

*HUGS*

We made it to the weekend! Party time!

"Celebrate"
Three Dog Night
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America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

I was about to turn 24 as a second lieutenant.

[Fiji Hill]

That one got to #60 on the Hot 100 but should have done better.

One of my favorite Paul Williams songs

Hucklebuck (1949)

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: OCTOBER 18, 1972

#51 – Jim Croce: “Operator”

There were rumors in the music business that this song was about the breakup of a homosexual relationship. Jim isn’t around to tell us whether it was, or was something more innocent. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

Jim Croce: “Operator”