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  • Musical Interlude topic for September 2024

    09/01/2024 5:23:44 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 83 replies
    YouTube etc ^ | March 17, 2007 etcetera | Don Ross et al
    [snip] Posted With Permission of Don Ross. Recorded at Trinity United Church in Cannington (Ontario, Canada) on Saturday, September 15, 2001. Tuning: DADFCE [/snip]Wall of Glass (Don Ross) | 6:54Bruce Head | 553 subscribers | 19,596 views | March 17, 2007
  • Musical Interlude topic for September 2025

    08/31/2025 9:04:11 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 81 replies
    YouTube etcetera ^ | August 29, 2025 etcetera | Cory Wong etcetera
    Cory Wong - guitar Yohannes Tona - bass Kevin Gastonguay - keys Petar Janjic - drums Alex Bone - alto sax, soprano sax Kenni Holmen - tenor sax, soprano sax, flute Jake Botts - bari sax, bass clarinet, tambo Jay Webb - trumpet, flugelhorn Michael Nelson - tromboneCory Wong - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival | 1:01:55 Cory Wong | 353K subscribers | 44,286 views | August 29, 20250:00 Assassin 3:49 Welcome 2 Minneapolis 8:28 Bluebird 11:46 Team Sports 21:12 Let's Go 25:39 Meditation 37:24 St. Paul 42:38 Brooklyn Bop 52:35 Flyers Direct 55:39 Lunchtime
  • Sonny Curtis, Crickets Frontman Behind ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Theme, Dies at 88

    09/20/2025 1:28:13 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | September 20, 2025 | Mike Barnes
    In addition to “Love Is All Around,” the Texan wrote “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and “More Than I Can Say,” hits for The Clash, The Everly Brothers and Leo Sayer, respectively.Sonny Curtis, the singer and guitarist who played with Buddy Holly, fronted The Crickets and wrote and performed “Love Is All Around,” the indelible theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday after a “sudden illness,” his daughter, Sarah, announced on Facebook. Curtis also wrote the rebellious “I Fought the Law” in 1958 and recorded it with The Crickets...
  • Breaking Rocks: The Short Life And Strange Death Of Bobby Fuller

    10/23/2024 5:45:22 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 35 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | October 22, 2024 | Paul Sexton
    Fuller and his group’s version of ‘I Fought The Law’ is a classic rock’n’roll record, but always risks being upstaged by the macabre circumstances of his death.No matter how memorable was Bobby Fuller’s signature hit – and his version of “I Fought The Law” is inarguably a classic rock’n’roll record of any era – it always risks being upstaged by the macabre and never-explained circumstances of his death. Born on October 22, 1942 in Baytown, Texas, Fuller became a noted performer in the El Paso, Texas area to which he and his family relocated. His first appeared on disc...