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FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 7 March 2015
Our Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Canteen DJ's

Posted on 03/06/2015 6:00:16 PM PST by AZamericonnie


 

 

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Tunes For The Troops
 


 


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

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To: AZamericonnie; All
Hokum is a particular type of American blues music, a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendos. This goes back to the days of minstrel shows, some early blues recordings and is still seen from time to time in modern American blues and blues rock. Reaching a heyday after the First World War it crossed over into early country music. Noted Hokum Blues practitioners included Lil Johnson, Bo Carter, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Boy Fuller, Bull Moose Jackson and even Robert Johnson. Some Hokum songs are more suggestive than others, and modesty prevents me from including the more explicit examples, but it was (and is) an established tradition even in pop music (for example, Dave Bartholomew's "My Ding-a-Ling" was famously covered by Chuck Berry in 1972).

According to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, the term "Jelly Roll" can be traced to a composition named "Original Jelly Roll Blues", usually shortened to and known as "Jelly Roll Blues", an early jazz fox-trot composed by Jelly Roll Morton. Copyrighted and published by Ferd "Jelly Roll" Morton as sheet music in 1915, "Original Jelly-Roll Blues" is referenced by name in the 1917 Shelton Brooks composition "Darktown Strutters' Ball". First recorded by Morton as a piano solo in 1924, he rerecorded it with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago two years later, but, being an instrumental it was not Hokum.

However, three years later, Lil Johnson's song, "You'll Never Miss Your Jelly Until Your Jelly Roller Is Gone" was recorded by Lil Johnson, known as a bawdy blues and hokum singer and composer in the 1920s and 1930s. She first recorded the suggestive "Jelly Roll" in Chicago in 1929, accompanied by pianists Montana Taylor and Charles Avery. That session resulted in five songs including "Rock That Thing". She did not return to the recording studio until 1935, when her more risqué songs included "Get 'Em from the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)", "Anybody Want to Buy My Cabbage?", and "Press My Button (Ring My Bell)" with lyrics that include "Come on baby, let's have some fun. Just put your hot dog in my bun". She also recorded a version of "Keep A-Knockin'", a song that later became a hit for Little Richard in the 1950s.

From her second session onwards, she hit up a striking partnership with the ragtime influenced pianist "Black Bob" Hudson, who provided ebullient support to Johnson's increasingly suggestive lyrics. In 1936 and 1937, she recorded over 40 songs, mostly on the Vocalion label, some featuring Big Bill Broonzy on guitar and Lee Collins on trumpet. Her other songs included "Was I Drunk", "My Stove's in Good Condition", "Take Your Hand Off It" and "Buck Naked Blues". Although Morton's instrumental "Jelly Roll Blues" is the origin of the term, it was Lil Johnson's explicit lyrics that gave "Jelly Roll" it's unmistakable bawdy reputation. All her songs were sung in a vigorous and sometimes abrasive way, and have been anthologized on many later blues collections. There is no record of what became of Johnson after her recording career ended in 1937, but her legacy lived on with numerous songs by diverse performers in the "Jelly Roll" tradition.

In 1925, guitarist Lonnie Johnson entered and won a blues contest at the Booker T. Washington Theatre in St. Louis. The prize was a recording contract with Okeh Records. To his regret, he was then typed as a blues artist, and later found it difficult to be regarded as anything else. He later said, "I guess I would have done anything to get recorded – it just happened to be a blues contest, so I sang the blues." Between 1925 and 1932 he made about 130 recordings for the Okeh label (many were good sellers). He was called to New York to record with the leading blues singers of the day including Victoria Spivey and country blues singer Alger "Texas" Alexander. He also toured with Bessie Smith's show.

In December 1927, Johnson recorded in Chicago as a guest artist with Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, paired with banjoist Johnny St. Cyr. He played on the sides "I'm Not Rough", "Savoy Blues", and "Hotter Than That." In 1928 he recorded "Hot and Bothered", "Move Over", and "The Mooche" with Duke Ellington on Okeh Records and he also recorded with a group called The Chocolate Dandies (aka McKinney's Cotton Pickers). He pioneered the guitar solo on the 1927 track "6/88 Glide" and many of his early recordings showed him playing 12-string guitar solos in a style that influenced such future jazz guitarists as Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, and gave the instrument new meaning as a jazz voice. He excelled in purely instrumental pieces, some of which he recorded with the white jazz guitarist Eddie Lang, whom he teamed up with in 1929. These recordings were among the first in history to feature black and white musicians performing together, but Lang was credited as Blind Willie Dunn to disguise the fact.

Beginning in 1939, during sessions for the Bluebird label with pianist Joshua Altheimer, Roosevelt Sykes and Blind John Davis among others, Lonnie Johnson recorded 34 tracks for Bluebird, including "He's a Jelly Roll Baker," which topped the "race music" chart in 1940.

After World War II, Johnson made the transition to rhythm and blues, recording for King Records in Cincinnati, and having a major hit in 1948 with "Tomorrow Night", written by Sam Coslow and Will Grosz. This topped the Billboard "Race Records" chart for 7 weeks, also made # 19 on the pop charts, and had reported sales of three million copies. A blues ballad with piano accompaniment and background singers, the song bore little resemblance to much of Johnson's earlier blues and jazz material. The follow-ups "Pleasing You", "So Tired" and "Confused" were also major R&B hits.

In 1952 Johnson toured England. Tony Donegan, a British musician who played on the same bill, paid tribute to Johnson by changing his name to Lonnie Donegan. After returning to the U.S., Johnson moved to Philadelphia. His career had been a roller coaster ride that sometimes took him away from music. In between great musical accomplishments, he had found it necessary to take menial jobs that ranged from working in a steel foundry to mopping floors as a janitor. He was working at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel in 1959 when WHAT-FM disc jockey Chris Albertson happened upon him and produced a comeback album, for the Prestige Bluesville Records label, titled "Blues by Lonnie Johnson". This was followed by other Prestige albums, including "Blues & Ballads" with former Duke Ellington boss, Elmer Snowden. There followed a Chicago engagement for Johnson at the Playboy Club and this succession of events placed him back on the music scene at a fortuitous time as young audiences were embracing folk music and many veteran performers were stepping out of obscurity. In short order, Lonnie Johnson found himself reunited with Duke Ellington and his orchestra and appearing as special guest at an all-star folk concert, at Town Hall, New York City.

In 1961, Johnson was reunited with his old Okeh recording partner, Victoria Spivey, for another Prestige album, "Idle Hours". In 1963 he toured Europe as part of the American Folk Blues Festival show, with Muddy Waters and others, and recorded an album with Otis Spann.

In May 1965, he performed at a club in Toronto before an audience of four people. Two weeks later, his shows at a different club attracted a larger audience and Johnson, also encouraged by Toronto's relative racial harmony, decided to move to the city. He opened his own club, 'Home of the Blues', on Toronto's Yorkville Avenue in 1966, but it was a business failure and Johnson was ultimately fired by the man who became owner. Throughout the rest of the decade he recorded and played local clubs in Canada as well as embarking on several regional tours.

In March 1969, he was hit by a car while walking on a sidewalk in Toronto. Johnson was seriously injured, suffering a broken hip and kidney injuries. A benefit concert was held on May 4, 1969, featuring two dozen acts, including Ian and Sylvia, John Lee Hooker and Hagood Hardy. Johnson never fully recovered from his injuries and suffered what was described as a stroke in August. He was able to return to the stage for one performance at Massey Hall on February 23, 1970, walking with the aid of a cane to sing a couple of songs with Buddy Guy and receiving a standing ovation. He died on June 16, 1970 and although a funeral was held for him at Mount Hope Cemetery in Toronto by his friends and fellow musicians, his family members insisted on transferring the body to Philadelphia where he was buried. At the time, Johnson was reported to have been "virtually broke."

In 1993, Smithsonian Folkways released "The Complete Folkways Recordings", Johnson's anthology of music on Folkways Records. He had been featured on several compilation blues albums, on Folkways, beginning in the 1960s. Johnson was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1997.

His "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" is one of the more tame and often covered examples of the Hokum Jelly Roll theme and is a good representation of his enduring skill as a composer, singer and instrumentalist.


Mr. Jelly Roll Baker
~ Lonnie Johnson ~


Mr. Jelly Roll Baker
~ Leon Redbone ~


Mr. Jelly Roll Baker
~ Joe Bonamassa ~







141 posted on 03/06/2015 9:12:21 PM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Get your shoes off, your shorts on, your feet up and the music cranked!

Glad to be here for our troops...and for the Canteeners who listen!

Thank YOU for all you do for them AND for us! (((hugs)))


142 posted on 03/06/2015 9:22:30 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Here are two examples of Lil Johnson's tamer Hokem songs.

You Stole My Cherry
~ Lil Johnson ~


(Hot Nuts) Get 'Em From The Peanut Man
~ Georgia White ~







143 posted on 03/06/2015 9:23:27 PM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Jorma Kaukonen of The Jefferson Airplane has been quoted as saying that the name of the Airplane spinoff band 'Hot Tuna' is an answer to a question posed in their song “Keep on Truckin'”, as adapted from Blind Boy Fuller's 1938 song, “What's That Smells Like Fish?” Here's Blind Boy Fuller as Kansas Joe doing that Hokem song.

What's That Smells Like Fish
~ Kansas Joe ~







144 posted on 03/06/2015 9:33:30 PM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Publius

Good evening, Publius, and thanks for this week’s Rockumentary for March 7, 1986. ((HUGS))


145 posted on 03/06/2015 9:47:06 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))
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To: AZamericonnie; All
The trio Saffire (The Uppity Blues Women) consisted of Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis. Founded in 1987 and disbanded in 2009, these mature ladies carried on the long Hoken tradition with this humorous song from their "Hot Flash" album.



(Mr. Insurance Man) Take Out That Thing
~ Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women ~







146 posted on 03/06/2015 9:57:03 PM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; armyavonlady; austingirl; ...
Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

Thanks, unique.

Parents, you are responsible for previewing.

Marshall Tucker Band ~ Texas On My Mind

*To support the artists you hear in the Canteen,
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147 posted on 03/06/2015 10:26:02 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))
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To: Drumbo

Good evening/morning, Drumbo...thanks for spinning tunes for the troops. ((HUGS))


148 posted on 03/06/2015 10:33:14 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))
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To: 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; armyavonlady; austingirl; ...
Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

Thanks, unique.

Parents, you are responsible for previewing.

Booker T & The MGs ~ Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

*To support the artists you hear in the Canteen,
please click the links at the top of the thread.*

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149 posted on 03/06/2015 10:35:49 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))
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A very pleasant good Saturday morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

Welcome, everyone to this weekend's edition of the Canteen Music Dedication. The music in this thread is provided for the enjoyment of the troops and their families.

Please support the artists in this thread. Buy their music and attend their concerts when they come to your area.

Our thanks go out to the Canteen DJ's for all their hard work in posting the music to today's thread.

150 posted on 03/07/2015 12:45:24 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Kathy in Alaska

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How’s it going?


151 posted on 03/07/2015 12:46:08 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Thanks for the tunes!


152 posted on 03/07/2015 6:11:15 AM PST by Soaring Feather (This time the poetry does not write itself.)
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To: Drumbo

Mister Jolly Roll Baker!!!!

I like Leon Redbone

Thanks much.


153 posted on 03/07/2015 6:51:24 AM PST by Soaring Feather (This time the poetry does not write itself.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Still nice weather, but it is getting warmer!

Plans for the next recital in underway.


154 posted on 03/07/2015 7:07:23 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: AZamericonnie; All


Stormy Weather
~ Billie Holiday ~


Stormy Weather
~ Frank Sinatra with Harry James ~


Stormy Weather
~ Lena Horne ~


Stormy Weather
~ Lou Rawls ~


Stormy Weather
~ Etta James ~


Stormy Weather
~ Willie Nelson & Leon Russell ~







155 posted on 03/07/2015 7:13:16 AM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Publius

The movie “White Nights” starring Gregory Hines and Michael Baryshnikov, used this song (Say You, Say Me) over the credits at the end.


156 posted on 03/07/2015 7:27:52 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: AZamericonnie; All
"I Cover the Waterfront" is a 1933 pop song and jazz standard composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman. The song was inspired by Max Miller's 1932 best-selling novel, I Cover the Waterfront. The song became instantly popular and many artists have covered it since 1933 including Sarah Vaughan, Annette Hanshaw, Connee Boswell, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald. The 1933 motion picture, also inspired by Miller's book, was re-scored at the last minute to include an instrumental version of the tune. Sheet music publishers used the film's success claiming that the song was, "inspired by the United Artist Picture of the same name".

In 1945 Billie Holiday revived the song and it instantly entered the Blues genre, so much so that John Lee Hooker recorded several uncharacteristic tender covers. Hooker's versions make such great changes from the original melody and lyrics that his Chess Records label credits him as the songwriter. By contrast, the 1944 version by the Buddy Rich Big Band illustrates the original Hit Parade swing dance melody popular during the war years, but the song remains forever in the Blues genre due to the Holiday and Hooker versions.


I Cover The Waterfront
~ Billie Holiday ~


I Cover The Waterfront
~ John Lee Hooker ~


I Cover The Waterfront
~ Buddy Rich ~







157 posted on 03/07/2015 7:56:58 AM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: ConorMacNessa; AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; All
Connie: More Classical Music
 
Welcome to the Salsa Addiction Emergency Room!

We are all in critical condition here!

The music page will open in a new window. There is the option of clicking on individual songs or clicking the Jukebox link. If you choose the Jukebox link then the page can be minimized while you continue surfing:

Saturday Afternoon Salsa for 03-07-2015 for the TROOPS and their supporters everywhere!

http://www.computerwhizguru.com/El_Gran_Salseron/Music/03-07-2015SaturdayAfternoon/03-07-2015SaturdayAfternoon.html

Here is a list of the songs in the Jukebox:

Artist/s - Song Names:

Andrea Immer Presents Mozart - Minute Waltz

Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff - Moonlight Sonata

Beethovens Symphony No 9 ( Scherzo )

Boston Pop - Samson And Delilah Bacchanale

Boston Pops - The Sleeping Beauty Waltz

Boston Symphony - Bolero

Boston Symphony - Brandenburg Concerto No 2

Canadian Brass - Prince Of Denmarks March

Concerto A Due Cori No 2 In F Major - Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Adagio

Concerto En Ut Majeur Rv 425 - I Allegro

Concerto En Ut Majeur Rv 425 - Ii Largo

Concerto En Ut Majeur Rv 425 - Iii Allegro

Debussy - Clair De Lune ( Van Cliburn )

Dvorak - Symphony No 9 - ( From the New World )

Festival Strings Lucerne - Brandenburg Concerto No 6

Johann Sebastian Bach - Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach - Intermezzo - Adagio

Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude

Ludwig Von Beethoven - Violin Romance

Mikhail Glinka - The Lark

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - The Great Gate Of Kiev

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Ballet Des Poussins Dans Leur Coque

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Bydlo ( Polish Ox Cart )

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Catacombae

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Con Martuis In Lingua Mortua

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Gnomus ( Toy Nutcracker )

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Il Vecchio Castello ( Old Castle )

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Les Tuileres

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Limoges Marche

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Promenade

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - Samuel Goldenberg Et Schmuyle

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - The Hut On Fowls Legs

New World Symphony - 1st

Piano Concerto 1 Allegro Conbrio

Piano Concerto 1 Largo

Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin - Etude In E Op 10 No 3 ( Tristesse )

Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin - Etude in E, Op. 10 No. 3 'Tristesse'

Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin's Nocturne In G Minor

Vladimir Horowitz - Clair De Lune

Wladyslaw Szpilman - Cordoba ( Cantos De Espana, No 4 Op 232)

Wladyslaw Szpilman - Mazurka In A Flat Op 17

Wladyslaw Szpilman - Nocturne No 20

Wladyslaw Szpilman - Paraphrase On Theme From Johann Strauss

Wladyslaw Szpilman - Prelude In G Sharp Minor Op 32

Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Girl With The Flaxen Hair


158 posted on 03/07/2015 11:35:14 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Dude...

More of the good stuff! :)


159 posted on 03/07/2015 12:00:49 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: LUV W

Dudess, we aims to please! ;-)


160 posted on 03/07/2015 12:06:04 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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