Anybody know great songs that may be somewhat forgotten?
 

I accidently found a song that I think is great in every way. It's Johnny Tillotson's Talk Back Trembling Lips. I can appreciate music from all time periods and categories but I am surprised at the great things I stumble upon on youtube. I love to see the original videos. The video of Johnny singing this song is very cute to me with a most basic but classy set, camera shots and the swithing the director is doing from camera to camera.

i rememeber that one and the country version by ernie ashworth.the 60s had the best music by far!very diverse and everything was happening.

Heard one on Sirius Fifties on Five that I remember from way, way, way back when I was a baby- "She Say (Ooby Doob)"

i still like novelty records."down came the rain",anything by mrs miller,etc.british invasion,doo wop,stax,some motown,flower power,early garage.the sonics,seeds,leaves,13th floor elevators.have a bodyman friend who was in the sunny and the sunglows.they had "talk to me"in the early 60s.

I love that early garage too. Check out the Nuggets series of records if you haven't already :music:
How about some old school Mario Lanza ? I'll take this over American Idol any day

Kenny Parchman's 1950's Rockabilly "I feel like rocking" Never released back in the day .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgDTCf-91A

The Sparkles - The Hip
(or, if you want to hear it in French: Liz Brady - Palladium)

Dale Hawkins - Susie Q

Chuck Willis - Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes

Paul Gayten - The Music Goes Round & Round

Rodge Martin died before his career grew

If I never hear American Pie, PianoMan or Brown Eyed Girl again it'll be too soon. Six stations in the southeast Wisconsin area are owned by Clear Channel and they all seem to use the same play list. There has been so many hit records made in the last 75 years that they dont have to play the same rubbish over and over.

It's funny that you mention Johnny Tillotson because my mom was a big fan of his and actually met him and talked to him several times back when she was a teenager. I can remember laying in bed at night and hearing my mom playing one of his records in the living room, which is a record that I've since taken up with ever since I got into vinyl. Here's a couple treasures from that record that I'll never forget...

Please Don't Go Away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzMaaE3Eiw

Your Mem'ry Comes Along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuS0pyZYPgU

One I discovered recently while recording some 78's is Frankie Laine and Jimmy Boyd's duet of "The Little Boy and the Old Man".

It was the B side of the Novelty song "Tell me a Story" and is way superior IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-Bc...eature=related

how about melinda marx?grouchos daughter.she had a couple decent records in the 60s.i like surf,early garage,british invasion,etc.many.many songs in my minds repotiere!

I was not aware of these two great artists or their music. I think The Little Boy and the Old Man is an incredible song in every aspect.

Please Don't Go Away is a great song by Johnny Tilotson.
I watched the youtube of Melinda Marx and I liked it. It is funny how almost every big star's kid in the '60's got to be a pop artist as long as they cared to do it. Art Carney's son had a band shown on I've Got A Secret. Such performances make me certain anybody with time and money can put on a good show.
I found a great performance by Marthe Fleurant performing Pense a Notre Amour and I think it is great. The video to it gets pulled every time somebody posts it. They let the audio from a record of the song stay but the video gets pulled. The video just shows Marthe alone performing the song. Does anybody know why it gets pulled off and who would order such?
Thanks,
John

Here's another one for you-"Chanson D'Amour" by Art & Dotty Todd from 1958.

Thanks Sandy! I have been trying to find that song for years. I could remember hearing a bit of it a time or two and used to think it was just a goofy old folks song but I now recognize it is a great one. Part of it was in my head and when I tried to sing that part I suspect friends just thought I was making it up to try to be funny.
I am so glad I finally realized how incredible people and entertainment from the past actually are.
The story of the married couple that sing this is touching. They moved to Hawaii in 1980 and opened a dinner theatre. I hope my life ends up that beautiful.

Here's a few more:
Moritat-Dick Hyman Trio 1956
Portugese Washerwomen- Joe "Fingers" Carr 1956
The Happy Wanderer-Frank Weir 1954
Meet Mr Callaghan-Les Paul 1952
Blue Tango-Leroy Anderson 1952
April In Portugal-Les Baxter 1953
Delaware-Perry Como 1960
Honey-Babe-Art Mooney 1955
Poor People of Paris-Les Baxter 1956
Theme from A Summer place-Percy Faith 1960
Up a Lazy River-Si Zentner 1961
Wheels-The String-Alongs 1960
That oughta get you started....(grin)

Couple more by Art Mooney, from '48...Babyface, & I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. Another one by Marlene Dietrich, "Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind" from 1963. "Lolita Ya-Ya" by Nelson Riddle also from '62 is a good 'un, IMHO. I know you know the Marlene song...You just don't REALISE you do, yet...(grin)

She Say (Oom Dooby Doom) is by the Diamonds. Great doowop tune not usually played even here in the Philly region. I have a 45rpm WLP copy of it on Mercury somewhere.

Some more good ones:

Morning Side of the Mountain - Tommy Edwards
For Your Love - Ed Townsend
I Need Someone - Lenny Welch
Voo Vee Ah Bee - Platters
Bop Bop Bu - Dappers

Groups and artists, The Remains with their one original album, the 13th Floor Elevators, Buddy Morrow with "Tom Tom" backed by "Rock and Roll", one weird 1959 release by Mac Perrin (Lester Laundree) "Chopstick Cha Cha", Ric Gary doing "Pimples and Braces", just for a few.

Frankie Laine also toyed with rock and roll with

"You know how it is"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7mQGDnjdn8

Here's one most haven't heard of-
Skip Stanley "Satellite Baby"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAO77QLxRVw

Even Andy Griffith took on rock-n-roll!

Here's a clip from the 1957 Elia Kazan film "A face in the crowd"
Featuring Andy as "lonesome Rhodes" playing his hit record "Mama guitar"!

(Lee Remick is one of the baton twirlers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLtNdXg5rEA

Capitol put out two versions of this song by Andy Griffith.
The version released as a 45 rpm single and 78 rpm have a smaller studio group and different arrangement,while the Capitol lp soundtrack contains this version which in my opinion is far superior.

This is a great movie by the way,it also stars Patricia Neal and a young Walter Matthau.
Lots of good music,and Andy Griffith really shows the depths of his acting skills.
If you've never seen this movie before and only know Andy as Sheriff Taylor you'll be shocked.
It is available on DVD with commentary by Andy.

Xavier Cugat- Watermelon Man
Johnny Tillotson- It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'
Ferlin Husky-Gone
Tennessee Ernie Ford- Sixteen Tons
Les Paul & Mary Ford- How High The Moon
Billy Vaughn- Sail Along Silvery Moon
Pat Boone- Love Letters In The Sand
Chris Montez- The More I See You

Hunt these jewels and spin them on your vintage radiogram. I love nice music and vintage gear. Love better old console radiograms and may soon be the proud owner of a very nice UK made Dynatron with a Garrard with Shure M 91E.

Chris Montez....Used to have a wacky dream involving him...I dreamed it was fall '66, & I was cruising in a brand-new white '67 Lincoln convertible sedan on I-75 going across the Ohio river into Cincinnati, w/the top down, & he was on the radio singin' "Call Me', another song on that album...Nothing really happened, just me in that car on a glorious fall day, ridin' along, takin' it all in...Weird, huh ?!? (grin)

I can't help but think of Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put a Spell On You". Sure, CCR did a decient cover of it but it doesn't scream like Jay! :D

An extremely obscure Doo Wop group I found on a 45,
The Don Clairs, "I Lost my Job"

"I'm walking down the street
boy I'm scared from head to feet
of what my big fat wife might say
when she finds out, I lost my job today." :D

My training in psychology allows me to accurately interpret exactly what your dream actually tells about your deepest thoughts and desires...
1. You genuinely desire to own and operate a brand-new white 1967 Lincoln Continental convertable in the fall of 1966.
2. You know something that I did not know in that apparently Chris Montez is another one of those men that not only was desired to be with by women but also desired to be by men.
3. You love yourself so very much that you need no other actual in person human contact to enjoy your life completely.
In conclusion I must ad that you are perfectly normal by our society's standards. Also, I think Chris' song "Call Me" is a great song with a classy and cool sound that makes me imagine being at some swanky party at the Playboy mansion in Chicago after the video taping of "Playboy After Dark" in the fall of 1966.

Please accept this evaluation for absolutely no charge :)

Totally agree here. You almost never hear the screamin' Jay version.I have it on 78 rpm.:thmbsp:

I love that song, Jay shrieks and snorts like a Hog on it!

Ok, I'll buy that...And freely admit that I'm basically a narcisstic bastard who's in love w/himself, & has an odd fondness for cars w/unusual door arraingements...But where does the Cincy business fit in ?!? I finally fulfilled the '67 Lincoln part of it, as I actually HAVE a white '67 convertible w/black leather seats...Maybe someday I'll tool up to Cincy in it & check THAT off the "To Do" list...But I'll bring my wife along, too.

At this time we are not able to be 100% sure about exactly what every detail of a dream means. However, considering that Chris Montez was rumored to have a secret hideaway in Cincy during that time one could safely assume that while you may not consciously remember knowing that fact, your mind believed you could simply drop in on him for all sorts of reasons or desires that you may not wish to know about or admit to yourself. Keeping in mind that your dream did not include your wife and now you write that you would bring her could indicate much more that perhaps should not be written about for everybody to wonder about. It could be as simple and innocent as you wanted to let him know that you appreciate his song.

Ahh, yeah, maybe so, but I hadn't even met my wife back in the '80s when I had those bizarre dreams...My dad used to go to Cincy on business trips back in the Sixties when I was a kid, he'd bring back wonderments we couldn't get at home... I thought it must have been some magickal place like you saw on TV, unlike hardscrabble NE Tenn...And I've just always liked the song. As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

Had you givin that info I would have thought that inspite of the impression many things you write give me, the cigar you seem to seek is likely merely a cigar.
I never heard of the word: "hardscrabble" but I looked it up and it brings me to imagine it must of been what I would think of as a horrible beginning in terms of preparing you for the world we live in today. I expect you would not see it that way and that is a good thing. When I have visited such places like Chattanooga I feel I am in Selma, Alabama in the early '60's because of the behaviors and words of those I met from a poor black boy at a convieniant store that seemed afraid to say anything in response to my "Hi" as I passed him to the very wealthy, oil company executive "friend" who lives on Signal Mountain. That trip was in recent times and I hope I never see Tennessee again
I hope your dad is still there for you. I bet he is a great man.

I recently found a 10 LP set of fabulous 50's recordings from Columbia. Believe it or not, I only bought it for "Tell Me A Story," which was a favorite when I was growing up waay back when...

The Little Boy and The Old Man is excellent in its own rite, but is not included in this set.

Screamin' Jay is great!

Personally "Little Demon" from 1956 blows "I put a spell on you" away,you want to get some weird looks drive down the street with you windows rolled down blasting that song!

"The whammy" is another great Screamin' Jay song.


Jay made some of the most utterly bizzare music...his Album "At home with Screamin Jay" contains such odditys as "I love Paris" and "Take me back to my boots and saddle" with the Ray Charles singers in the background.(No not THAT Ray Charles!)

He supposedly was drunk when he recorded "I put a spell on you" and didnt remember even doing it when it was played back for him later.

You can find what you want anywhere if you look hard enough. Condemning the entire State of Tennessee is going a bit far. So is the inference to Selma.

Your words suggest u are just as quick to judge without getting the facts or questioning what you think u understand as those that give tenn and places allover the earth a bad name. i am sure u mean well. i know u are a good man.
So, do we ignore the bad and hope it goes away? Do we pretend bad does not exist? When we are hurt by others do we shut our mouth lest we say somthin somebody does not like or want to hear? Selma of the '60's was not a good reference to make a respectful point?
You are sorely mistaken to read into my words that I was condeming the whole state of Tenn. Although very fattening, the food was good. Sandy is a wonderful man. A couple friends that were entertaing me on new money , snooty Signal Mountain are wonderful people. They were born and raised there but now live in Florida... go figure :)

Oh, well... Enuff w/the psychoanalysin' of me & condemnation of the Great State of Tennessee...I AM quite probably insane, as well as exhibiting dangerous latent sadomasochistic/latent homosexual tendencies...I'll plead guilty, even if I don't really know-Or particularly CARE-what most o' them $400 words are talkin' about...All I know is I generally like music that is from the postwar era up til the late Sixties-Lush instrumental tunes, by guys such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Henry Mancini, Leroy Anderson, etc. I think some of it could be called "Lounge Music", but that's maybe a bit harsh to lump ALL of it in w/"Lounge", & the very term "Lounge" has some certain less-than-savoury connotations. I prefer the term "Empire Music", an era when Ike or a handsome young man from Beantown was president, your dad worked, Mom was in the kitchen, TV was B/W, & America was unquestionally the best place in the whole wide world on Earth. OK, it was a bit naive, but what have we gained from the last 40-45 years worth of listening to our self-appointed critics ? Music was confident, self-assured, strong then...And it was made by real, live humans playing INSTRUMENTS, not some narrow-glasses wearing geek programming a feckin' Autotuner gizmo. Go to YouTube & watch "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith from 1960-There is a B/W kinescope of his orchestra playing it-and then name me ANY modern pop song that comes close.

Sandy man I agree with you on most everything. It is a shame so many here don't recognize I am actually completely in line with the popular mindsets here. It seems there are extremely rigid unspoken guidelines for wording expected or I should go to he--. I knew I shoulda not dropped outta church school :( Such obvious hatred towards me at the drop of a dime. Maybe someday I will "get it". I hope so cause I sure don't wanna go to he--.

It is also a shame that it seems clear that most of "today's" people who are inheriting all that great people like you, your father, others from Tenn and everywhere else are leaving us do not properly appreciate you while you are still here. I appreciate all of you and yet no matter how hard I try to interact in a good way I feel I am essentially spit on. Just a real shame all the way around.