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Al Green, Betty Everett, Boz Scaggs, Carole King, Cyndi Lauper, Dianna Krall, Don Henley, Gene Pitney, Jackie De Shannon, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Lou Reed, music, Oleta Adams, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Rick Price, Ry Cooder, Stevie Nicks, The Supremes, Tom Petty, Tony Bennett, Tracy Chapman, Warrigal, youtube
A Change of Heart
Digital Mischief and Playlist by Warrigal Mirriyuula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp1F16_7lO0
Jackie De Shannon What The World Needs Now Is Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKvhxapM5zo&feature=fvwrel
Ray Charles Hit The Road Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S1VmqyTUBk
Betty Everett You’re No Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6zVW3V1hc
Tony Bennett The Good Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sDCmaUKgts
Ry Cooder The Tattler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Enc8KEzdYY
Kate & Anna McGarrigle Heart Like A Wheel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dael4sb42nI
Otis Redding Try A Little Tenderness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sr-3VwUWS0
Al Green How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8tVcgxh990
Oleta Adams Everything Must Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSep7QJXKlE
Carole King It’s Too Late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxK8ghb9PU
Dianna Krall Walk On By
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUIVJ6eb8tk
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6yilkU1LI
Tracy Chapman Fast Car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCnVC2C8As
Boz Scaggs Breakdown Dead Ahead (Tempo’s too slow but the feel is there.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y
Lou Reed Perfect Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xezg3z5IE8I
Don Henley The Heart Of The Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiu2CWAGmNg
Rick Price Walk Away Renee (Fabulous big Aussie pub mix for this Four Tops classic.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbZDjnWtK1A
Cyndi Lauper True Colours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7uXX9K7Sk
The Supremes You Can’t Hurry Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBijZqQ6KMU
Gene Pitney True Love Never Runs Smooth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OT1jdGp8M&feature=related
Gene Pitney Half Heaven Half Heartache (Listen out for the Cello solo.)
Keywords: Jackie De Shannon, Ray Charles, Betty Everett, Tony Bennett, Ry Cooder, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Otis Redding, Al Green, Oleta Adams, Carole King, Dianna Krall, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Tracy Chapman, Boz Scaggs, Lou Reed, Don Henley, Rick Price, Cyndi Lauper, The Supremes, Gene Pitney
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Crikey, Warrigal, love that Betty Everett version and also Ray Charles. Tony Bennet really knew how to use his voice; something you don’t hear so much.
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Link for you Warrigal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13574197
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Great list Waz, took a while to work through it. Great music for a cool Sunday afternoon.
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Yes, I’ve had my feet up today. Tomorrow the horror starts again.
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Coincidence, I heard a song of hers on th radio today: “Silver threads and golden Needles”. I remarked to myself, that I couldn’t remember the last time that I had heard it.
She had a lusty voice–and went on her own after that, or maybe Dusty and The Springfields, I cannot remember.
I wasn’t familiar with Oleta Adams, but her name rang a bell. The genre of this song, probably disguised my memory of her. I played it and thought what a voice. then on checking the WIKoracle, discovered the reason for my slight recognition. She had been part of Teras for Fears for a while and had a hit. Phil Collins played with her, and them at odd times.
The others are all excellent, even though I didn’t get around to actually listen to Diana Krall. I just watched…..
‘Al Green’ was a great favourite of Rod Stewart. Whenever Rod came in my shop, he would buy anything that I had–on cassette of course. He loved soul and black music. Sometimes he would drop in and leave his car on the pavement with the engine running and just grab a handful of the latest stuff.
Rick Price was a local boy.I remember there was a fanfare: triumphant: about him. What happened? I had forgotten about him; but liked him.
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The roughest pub ever was the Bognor Hotel in Pitt Str. A paddy wagon and St John’s ambulance were part of the decor, well before the evening started.
The three Bells in Woolloomoolooo was also high on the list of dangerous place to drink. Later on the Cricketer’s Arm, (Now The Monkey Bar) in Balmain was dangerous and strictly for footballers in shorts who used to shine in the dark with misogynous intend.
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‘shine in the dark with misogynous intent’. Love it (not the intent, the phrase)!!
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Big M, I love the gentlemanly correction of ‘intend’, armed with charm 🙂
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Maybe they just wanted love. Or to discuss poetry, or talk about Don Batman?
But if they didn’t gerad, who could blame them; they were the sons of immigrants, who were probably toilers in their home climes.
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Of course Don Henley’s tenor is an instantly recognisable tenor. he always seems, to me anyway, slightly anguished. But I like that about him.
I am surprised at Otis Redding’s inclusion here. Only because ‘Try a little tenderness”, is one of my all time favourites I love the sort of bolero like build up…..And that voice. Probably the only one to match its timbre is one off last weeks list Sam Cooke….Both dead, of course…unfortunately.
Got a CD in JB HiFi the other day for $12, with Redding’s hits. Must dig it out.
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I’m only surprised in that Aussies often only seem to know ‘Dock of the bay’!
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Your surprise smacks of post colonial ennui. “Try A Little Tenderness” I suspect would be identified by many as a more substantial piece than “Dock of The Bay” which was merely a hit.
We’re not all ignorant convicts these days. There’s even been a few of us received Nobel Prizes, Booker Prizes, not to mention Grammy’s, Oscars, indeed the entire panoply of award and approbation has descended on Australians from all walks of life.
The sad truth is that as Blighty has declined, we’ve come into our own, if we did but know it. Since the earliest days of the colony we’ve punched well above our weight division intellectually and in spite of the neglect and partisan bullshit over education of the past decades, we continue to.
Indeed it was an Australian, Lillian Roxon, who first determined exactly what Rock was, as opposed to Rock n Roll. In her seminal 1968 work, “The Encyclopaedia of Rock” she correctly identifies “Tenderness” as a pivotal release that irrevocably changed soul music.
Her niece is Nicola Roxon the current health minister.
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Gee, WM, you’re a wealth of info today, what did you have on your weeties?
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When I realised Nicola was Lillian’s niece, I thought wow, how good is that! Thanks Warrigal for socking it back to VL.
Another cool list. Are you a Pitney fan? When I was in high school our music class was mainly singing and we had to learn and sing (endlessly, it seemed) The Man who shot Liberty Vallance. No Beatles though. Never could figure that out.
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My mum, from whom I got every single beat and vibration, every harmony and a life long obsession with the popular song, was a big Gene Pitney fan.
You know what they say, “Give me the boy and I’ll give you the man.”
(I know it was my mother because dad had a tin ear and had lost the middle finger of his right hand in the war. Scales were difficult and a fast arpeggio was a call too far for him. He valiantly soldiered on though, with our little single console Hammond. He’d play things like “Remember The Red River Valley” and hymns he’d learned as a boy from his lay preacher father. He was an appalling player with no sense of rhythm, he also had idiosyncratic bad taste that stretched to include Nana Mouskouri and Val Doonican amongst others. So you see it couldn’t have been him could it?)
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And another quick memory. When Sche and I were first going out we went out to Orange to visit dad, and as post Sunday lunch wound its way into the lounge, dad mangled a few quick hymns with the usual scatological lyrics.
Sche recalled when as a student she’d gone to a church in North Sydney to play their organ. Dad jumped on this. Up until then he’d been non committal about my new romance. Typical!
He challenged Sche to play a fondly remembered piece from his days in the merchant navy. He made great play of remembering the name, umming and ahhing, until, snapping his fingers, he said, “That’s it! The Abide With Me Cha Cha!”
Sche called his bluff and knocked out Abide With Me as a very twisted cha cha; then showing a facet of herself I have grown to love over the years, she played a few more of dad’s favourites ending with Jerusalem. She had remembered one of our earliest conversations in which I was scorning dad’s taste in music, mentioning the songs she played and remarking that about the only tune dad and I both liked was Jerusalem.
She won both our hearts that afternoon and i suspect that any uncertainty my father may have expressed in our relationship after that, had more to do with his perceiving failings in me rather than her.
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Don’t forget Paul keating. he was an International pop manager, or singer, or something.
I mean pleeease don’t stint yourself Warrigal.
You’ve got a lot to boast about. Don Bradman?
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I am also I died in the wool Pitney tragic BTW.
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Make that dyed. Apologies, voice.
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Big list.
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Hi,
Just finished a long post to the pizza blog that needs a look from you Warrigal. I’ve’ also just had a sensory attack from digesting atomou’s gods, so I thought that Id’ get that off my chest before I even look at your list. I’ve just spotted “Love”.
So talk soon.
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Damn ! I was working on a compendium of the many- and delightful versions of Walk Away Renee. Hard to go past the original.
Good choices, though Waz !
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The Four Tops original remains the best version, but I just love the way this one’s been produced. Rick’s voice is a little whiny for my taste but I love the rhythm heavy arrangement and fat in the bottom end with really nice jangle from the guitar.
Puts me in mind of the Manly Vale Hotel somewhen about 1978. The only thing missing is the slapback from the rear wall.
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Oh, and your feet sticking to the rancid carpet.
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Funnily enough, I never drank at the Manlyvale Hotel, not when there was such establishments as the oxymoronic ‘Brookvale Rex’. Anyway, used to like Rick Price, I think his concert in Newie was the first that Mrs M and I attended when we were ‘courting’.
As ever, thanks for the inclusion of Diana Krall. Time for a cold shower!
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The Brooky Rex was one of my mum’s second husband’s favourite watering holes, along with the Time & Time and the Ivanhoe.
Many a Saturday afternoon I was taken along to all afternoon pub crawling gambling and drinking sessions. Introduced as Mavis’ boy and treated to a shandy, I learned Pontoon, Poker and a variation called HiLo Screw Ya Buddy. It came in very handy at Uni. Cards paid for most of my books.
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When I was about 16 or 17 we hit on the idea of dressing up, and drinking at the Businessman’s Bar at the Rex. We thought we’d pulled it off, as the cops only raided the Main Bar for under-aged drinkers. In retrospect, the staff all knew, but elected to leave us alone. Plus, it was the only pub that Dad and my uncles didn’t frequent!
Some pubs had pretty poor reputations; the Timo or ‘Slimo’, and the Harbord Hotel or ‘The Bricklayer’s Arms’, although, the only places where anyone got seriously injured were the hotels in Manly. Brings back memories, but, it’s all changed now, ‘yuppified’.
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We used to sit on the balcony at Headlands Hotel and get the big kids to get the drinks, 13 cents a schoey
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Geez, Hung, you must be old! 13c a schooner? I think they were about 60c when I started drinking, or perhaps you started much earlier than me??
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I was born old 🙂
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Big M – you must have been a late starter!
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Late starter with most things, Viv!
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