Your Secret Favorite Music...

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Monkees tune is Daily, Nightly (1967)

[JoeProBono]

Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA

[Fiji Hill]

I don't care what the purists say. These discs rock!

• Tutti Frutti--Pat Boone (1956)

• Roll Over Beethoven--The Four Chaps (1956)

• Rock Around the Clock--Jack Richards (1955)

• Hound Dog--Freddy Bell & the Bell Boys (1955)

• Earth Angel--The Crew Cuts (1955)

• Hearts of Stone--The Goofers (1955)

[KevinB]

Just a slight correction. America didn’t do “Muskrat Love”...it was Captain and Tenille.

America did it also. From Wikipedia:

America recorded "Muskrat Love" for their 1973 album Hat Trick, marking the second time the band had recorded a song not written by a member of America.

[JoeProBono]

[Fiji Hill]

What? No one else besides me likes Hillbilly music?

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys? Western swing? County Music from the 30’s and 40’?

That’s good stuff, ya hear?

Some of my favorite hillbilly songs:

• The Old Arapahoe Trail--The Beverly Hillbillies (1930)

• Moonlight on the Colorado--The Four Aces (1930)

• Wah Hoo--Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers (1936)

• Swing Blues #1--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1936)

• Dusty Skies--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (`1941)

• Kangaroo Blues--Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers (1938)

• Rainbow at Midnight--Texas Jim Robertson (1947)

[JoeProBono]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvX_5ym_ajI

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Oh! That was excellent! Was the second guitarist playing a Dano Baritone? I’ve got one in Seafoam Green.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4KIoz_g0V0

[JoeProBono]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtWnDnlaaI0

[GSWarrior]

[Darksheare]

Morphine "The Night"
Evans Blue "My Damsel: A Confession To An Adversary"

[Fiji Hill]

America's "A Horse With No Name" was arguably the biggest hit of 1972, but I've never understood its appeal. The melody consists of about five notes, and the lyrics make no sense.

Speaking of 1972, here are some of my favorite songs from that year:

• On the Day Conny Kramer Died--Juliane Werding

• Don't Let Him Touch You--The Angelettes

• Amarillo--Tony Christie

• Beautiful Girl--Tony Marshall

[CSM]

Michael Bolton and Richard Marx! Honestly, I am an 80’s pop freak.

[mass55th]

Zydeco/Cajun: BeauSoleil band

WWII era Big Band music: Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby, the Andrew Sisters, etc.

Also Civil War era music. My favorite band is the 97th Regimental String Band.

[Liberty Valance]

I do believe you’re right about the Danelectro baritone.
It is a great video ... Just 2 days old.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

My respect for Lawrence Welk just went up a bit. I noticed the guitarist in his band is wielding a Strat.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“America’s “A Horse With No Name” was arguably the biggest hit of 1972, but I’ve never understood its appeal. The melody consists of about five notes, and the lyrics make no sense.”

Yeah, no kidding! Nine days in the desert would be more than enough time for me to come up with a name for the horse.

[GSWarrior]

That would be Buddy Merrill. He's quite good.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Sent it to my old bandmates! Think I’ma gonna go watch it again!