Some days, the travelin’ music selects itself
This is a great version of a great song by a great singer. The man swings.
(and for those who didn’t notice, it’s because the girl in the G-8 photo was Brazilian)
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Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
4:12 pm
I can swing with that Jay…
Mrs. Godzilla
July 10th, 2009
4:18 pm
Pat Metheny Group…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avwXET5ippQ
DB, Gwinnettian
July 10th, 2009
4:27 pm
The man’s voice is pretty amazing.
Furthermore, his signature, monster hit (You’re gonna miss my lovin’), inspired countless song stylists to even greater cover versions.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 10th, 2009
4:29 pm
ABM, give yer ABD a big hug from me. Off to see mine…
(later, all.)
Brad Steel
July 10th, 2009
4:33 pm
Great funky cover.
But I have to insist that the way under-recognized Antonio Carlos Jobim, father of the bossa nova, gets mentioned with Stan Getz. I do not know if the actual girl from Ipamena is the mother of the bossa nova. She may have been both inspirational and fertile. Besides the bossa nova is likely a love-child.
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
4:36 pm
okay, crew, get to posting. The music choices y’all make is the highlight of my week.
Redneck Convert
July 10th, 2009
4:39 pm
Well, I reckon this is another Bookman swing at that poor SC guvner. Only Ipanema is in Brazil, not Argentina.
You can’t hardly do nothing these days without being called out for it. You wake up one day and decide you need some time off and maybe hike the Appalachian Trail. Then you change your mind and decide maybe you need to spend a week in South America. You’re already almost late for your plane so you forget to tell anybody you’re leaving and where you’re really going. While you’re gone the newspapers are all over it.
Anyhow, that’s how I see things. We ain’t never going to get the White House back if people like Bookman keep teeing off on our best canadates.
And oh yeah, this Rawls guy is a mighty good singer for one of Those People.
Have a good weekend everybody.
Jay
July 10th, 2009
4:41 pm
Right you are, Brad. My dad’s a big Getz fan and I heard that version all the time growing up. Still love it, but the only version I could find on Youtube with a decent sound/video was in Portuguese.
GayGrayGeek
July 10th, 2009
4:41 pm
Hmmm, based on Brad’s 4:33, how’s about this?.
DebbieDoRight
July 10th, 2009
4:42 pm
Talk about classics!!!…………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpg-KIKD5gU&feature=related
Jay
July 10th, 2009
4:48 pm
I gotta say though, I just listened again to Lou’s version. If that don’t get you moving, somebody better call the coroner.
ByteMe
July 10th, 2009
4:51 pm
Been rockin’ to this most of today.
Tennessee Plates
Jay
July 10th, 2009
4:51 pm
And I almost posted this as the travelin’ music, but took pity on you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdDK5psRwo
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
4:52 pm
this one’s for you redneck convert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3iVHxP8FQ
RW-(the original)
July 10th, 2009
4:58 pm
I’d never noticed how close crooner and coroner are until I reread Jay B’s 4:48 after misreading it the first time.
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
4:58 pm
Time to go pick up the ABD. This is what we’ll ride to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPn_XUKTPxo
jt
July 10th, 2009
4:59 pm
I think of DebbieDoRight
and how she do me wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SunrKwykK_Y
Brad Steel
July 10th, 2009
5:00 pm
“Girl” is unassailable base material with myriad sweet covers. thanks for introducing Rawls cover to me.
My favorite version, pimped from Napster many years ago, feels like an impromptu living-room test-track sung in both English and Portuguese. Possibly, it is the track off of the 1964 Grammy winning album – back when a Grammy was actually significant and not the modern Milli-Vanilli joke.
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
5:00 pm
RW
Depending on the singing, sometimes they’re interchangable. Will check in on everyone this evening if I get time.
jt
July 10th, 2009
5:00 pm
ABM-
There is no black dude that listens to Mettalica.
wet wiccan
July 10th, 2009
5:02 pm
Happy weekend everyone! I like your music choice tonight Jay. So, as long as we are talking about beautiful bodies in motion, or whether it is okay to look … here is my suggestion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58AH3R-6ry4&feature=related
HAHAHAHAHA
Kamchak
July 10th, 2009
5:05 pm
If the theme is oustanding covers of outstanding songs….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?V=KjL_-GWTwWw
DebbieDoRight
July 10th, 2009
5:06 pm
Oh come on Jay!!! Play something from the 80’s at least!!! It’s Friday!!! Let’s play some happy music!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONhto0x_nI&feature=related
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 10th, 2009
5:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwYEGdKto8
~~~~~~
Justice Ginsburg Says She Originally Thought Roe v. Wade Was Designed to Limit ‘Populations That We Don’t Want to Have Too Many Of’…
eewwww!
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
5:08 pm
make ‘em talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYpboTjtoQ
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
5:09 pm
jt, I’m not the average black dude. Been a drummer since 12. My collection ranges from Mozart to Metallica and all in-between
DebbieDoRight
July 10th, 2009
5:10 pm
jt: LOVED IT!!! Too funny!!! If you don’t mind, I’m gonna send that link to some of my friends, they’re gonna holler!!!
Kamchak
July 10th, 2009
5:16 pm
One more time….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuRS9iM9IZQ
jt
July 10th, 2009
5:19 pm
moonbat betty -
About two years ago, I saw a Marquee sign advertising Dr. Hook in front of a honky tonk 40 miles north of Panama City.
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
5:20 pm
jt, if that had you scratching your head, this one is even better,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsDa9_HSlA
Born and raised in the great state of Alabama.
and I used to see the lead singer and bassist of this group quite often growing up. They used to visit the hospital where my aunts worked. They were all on first name basis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYtJIFVxQXY
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
5:21 pm
Now I’m really out, can’t have the ABD throwing a fit. See y’all later.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
5:22 pm
Jay, I’m dedicating this one to you. If I had to play blog referee I’m sure this is how I’d feel some days. (R-rated language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKrpaFw_CsA
DebbieDoRight
July 10th, 2009
5:25 pm
It’s Friday!! It’s the weekend BABY!!!! And It’s payday!!! Let’s have some fun!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTtelwOgscM
Jay
July 10th, 2009
5:25 pm
I appreciate the thought, Hillbilly. I get a kick out of Junior, but his daddy was better.
jt
July 10th, 2009
5:28 pm
ABM = Darius Rucker
Jay
July 10th, 2009
5:34 pm
Now JT, no personal attacks! :>)
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
5:34 pm
Jay, I agree about Daddy being much better. This one is for all those straying politicians out there.
You fellers never seem to learn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgpRvYCm6Oc
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
5:35 pm
Ah! Now this restores my faith in humanity…just when you think you may have “pegged” the regulars hereabouts, comes Friday night and you get to see who they REALLY are…Let’s be honest now, shall we and no hyperole ,Jay, my hat’s off to you for this feature…
@@
July 10th, 2009
5:35 pm
I don’t like this guy’s version. There’s a tall, dark latino guy that sings a version but when I look, all his videos have thong-clad, topless latina women str-o-o-o-lling down the beach.
Dang!
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 10th, 2009
5:35 pm
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –7 (see trends).
For the second straight month, voters are more likely to trust Republicans than Democrats on the economy. A Rasmussen video report notes that most Americans say the efforts of the G-8 leaders are not likely to help the economy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqA2WINPF4
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
5:39 pm
By request:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O53wg24FAT0
TUESDAY VANDY GIRL
July 10th, 2009
5:40 pm
Long And Lean And ears so floppy, the obama from Illinois goes gawkin and each rear end that he gawks by sarkozy gives a big high 5.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
5:43 pm
Another for the Lothario type politicians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4Fg5Me-z0
Scooter
July 10th, 2009
5:45 pm
Whiner @ 5:35,
Please don’t post something like that again. My beer came out my nose! Whew!
DebbieDoRight
July 10th, 2009
5:45 pm
C&W for the younger generation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlpzrN8OmhA
wet wiccan
July 10th, 2009
5:46 pm
Hillbilly – LOVED your choice at 5:34!!
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 10th, 2009
5:52 pm
This New Journalism, if you can call it that, exhibited in 2008 was epitomized by an eradication of the lines between fact and opinion – and, even more troubling, between reporting and propaganda. Some journalists were content to repeat Democratic Party talking points or bloggers’ rumors as though they were established fact, interspersing them with ideological commentary in a kind of toxic stew.
huh
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/08/sarah-barracuda-palin-and-the-piranhas-of-the-press/
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
5:56 pm
Since somebody posted Johnny Russell, did y’all know he wrote this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg67-CIasMg
DebbieDoRight
July 10th, 2009
6:00 pm
Happy Friday Music for the over 30 somethings……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
6:08 pm
A list of all the blues, country, and rock pickers who haven’t lifted licks from Chuck Berry:
The End
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
6:15 pm
The studio version of this song is a classis but I actually prefer this stripped down acoustic version. Great voice, a flawless vocal, and he wrote it when he was about 13. Some folks are just born with the gift.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7-cysfE2c
jt
July 10th, 2009
6:16 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe -
I beleive that would be Buck Owens. Bakersfeild.
As far as Hank 1 and Hank 2. Hank 3 ain’t too bad either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U86QUJwnyCs
jt
July 10th, 2009
6:19 pm
For some reason I think of Jay Bookman and Josef Nix when I hear this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZp4VEopcE
Normal
July 10th, 2009
6:23 pm
Whiner, This your theme song? ;>)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L3T4tFNxOo&feature=related
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
6:24 pm
Hey jt, Darius has nothing on me. But I do receive that as a compliment.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
6:26 pm
jt
Buck cut “Act Naturally” first but it was written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison.
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
6:31 pm
if anyone likes Clapton, check out the From the Cradle album. here is a taste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djRAF_ph3TQ
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
6:34 pm
First time I’ve tried this…so if it doesn’t work…sorry
Angry Black Man–was thinking of you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRDwZtKcjc
When jt had to do that 6:19!
Normal
July 10th, 2009
6:34 pm
Here’s some real travelin’ music…
Ready AmVet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JrV86EKCs – 108k
jt
July 10th, 2009
6:35 pm
ABM-
It was a compliment. I feel like I grew up with that dude.
Here’s to Booty and the Ho Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlI29PVBP1w&feature=related
Even though I think he stole some lyrics from Dylin or the Dead.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
6:42 pm
With the way things have started off, this may be the best collection of Travelin’ Music since I’ve been coming here. A tip of the hat to one and all. How ’bout a little Leon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZIi188Cakk
getalife
July 10th, 2009
6:49 pm
For the” leaders” in Italy, Nevada and South Carolina:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He82NBjJqf8
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
6:55 pm
oh hell ya.
Buck Owens. turn it up. Ruby…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae7PAqfcPsM
getalife
July 10th, 2009
7:03 pm
Ensign has disgraced my home State asking his parents to pay off his mistress.
This goes out to Ensign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
7:04 pm
A lesser known song by Buck but a good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCt6Ws8ivBw
Jay
July 10th, 2009
7:17 pm
JT, ABM, I’ve always thought of Rucker as someone with a great voice who chose inferior material.
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
7:23 pm
hey getalife, check this one out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_NNKyUwEE
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 10th, 2009
7:26 pm
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), chair of a key intelligence subcommittee, called for an investigation Friday to determine if the CIA lied to the Congress, citing “systematic deception by the CIA.”
Well, we once and for all time answered the question of whether the democrats care more about national security or……themselves.
Absolutely disgraceful.
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
7:44 pm
NORMAL…thinkin’ of ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n1W6_L1ZOg
DB, Gwinnettian
July 10th, 2009
7:51 pm
HD @ 5.56, that Fab Four clip was a nice treat.
Always thought the C&W influence in their music was underappreciated.
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
7:52 pm
jt @ 6:19
jt
July 10th, 2009
7:53 pm
Jay, I’m with ya with Rucker. I partied with Darious a few times during my first year of college. USC Columbia. He could do some magneficant acoustic covers. From what I remember. Kinda like the lead singer for Tin Lizzy.
What happened to him.?
Josef- sorry dude. I’m alittle rough around the edges. That frowny cut to the bone.
As far as Bakersfeild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9f85yWgHlM
Normal
July 10th, 2009
7:57 pm
Thanks, Josef…I love that song!!!
getalife
July 10th, 2009
7:57 pm
Thanks moonbat but that song is about a male prostitute and crack.
“Oh, come on and kick me.
Oh, come on and kick me.
(Oh.) Come on and kick me.
(Oh.) You’ve got your problems;
(Oh.) I’ve got my as-s wide.
(Oh.) You’ve got your big G’s;
I’ve got my hash pipe.
I’ve got my hash pipe.
I’ve got my hash pipe.
I’ve got my hash pipe”
Weezer are very into hard drugs and very good live.
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
7:58 pm
jt–see above! Don’t man, I’m still cleaning the “Red Red Wine” from the screen! I thought it was great! The frowny was just that, there I was, back in Mississippi out in the cotton patch, all navel contemplative when, bam! Another side of me!
So, let’s put them both together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHpkYI5_FY
Third of June is my birthday and this came out the same year I did!
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
8:06 pm
jt–as for Bobby Gentry, she’s from up around my home stomping grounds and one of my brother’s wives (we long ago quit counting how many he’s had. It was five the last time I checked) is from that family
Normal
July 10th, 2009
8:06 pm
This is my last entry for the night. Granddaughter wants to read..
Friends, this is for y’all, enjoy…It ain’t Dusty. but it’s good
Normal
July 10th, 2009
8:07 pm
Sorry forgot the song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVMqtOUipXY – 109k -
Redneck Convert
July 10th, 2009
8:16 pm
Well, ain’t nobody mentioned Webb Pierce. Old Webb couldn’t carry a tune too good and he stole every song he could, but “There Stands the Glass” is a classic and sung with alot of feeling. His fancy neighbors hated him. He even got sued by them a couple times. One of them was Ray Stevens, the guy that sung “Ahab the Arab”. Webb drove around in a big Caddy with bull horns welded to the front and had a swimming pool shaped like a guitar.
Have a good night everybody. I’m headed up to Billy Bob’s for a spell.
jt
July 10th, 2009
8:18 pm
Darius Rucker= Thin Lizzy= Vampire Lestat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK_TXfKfyag
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
8:20 pm
ewww, getalife.
and they play that on the radio every day.
and you thought rush was nasty…
this is cool too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZWEEm6xZvU
and no, i’m not Dusty.
jt
July 10th, 2009
8:22 pm
Redneck Convert -
When you lived in the Governor’s Mansion, did you get to pick out the maids?
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 10th, 2009
8:31 pm
Obozo likes the way she walks-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxaA-bJ35s
josef nix
July 10th, 2009
8:33 pm
moonbat betty @8:20
I wanted to post that one myself, but didn’t know who to dedicate it to!
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
8:46 pm
JT @ 7:53
Don’t get no better than that.
getalife
July 10th, 2009
8:50 pm
For the ones lusting after the 16 year old from Rio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shGVuDt_B74
jt
July 10th, 2009
8:52 pm
And in closing tonight, this is pretty much all I remember of one Grandfather. He would spin some Jimmie after a few of those gin and juices. I don’t think he ever had hash pipes.
It’s also my earliest taste of music.
My, have times have changed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miy4io-rGo0
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 10th, 2009
8:53 pm
This is just cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw&feature=related
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 10th, 2009
9:19 pm
Did Obozo see the 16 year old chick and want to get it on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEhDrJzM8E
TGT
July 10th, 2009
9:27 pm
Since the Brazillian GIRL was in a dress that appeared to (almost) “rasberry“…(maybe she has a beret to go with it)
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
9:27 pm
My last contributions for the evening. This is for Sanford, Ensign, Clinton, and all the monagamy challenged men. I don’t condone your actions, but I do understand. Especially for Mark Sanford, if only you guys could see what comes off those South American flights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLiC5hf-DJc
This one is not really traveling music for most people, but this is what I did in high school and freshman year in college. This is my Alma Mater, Alabama State University’s Drumline performing for a TBS Football Commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1cEdUjmb4&feature=PlayList&p=6E0BECD7E8BE40B0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=49
TGT
July 10th, 2009
9:36 pm
excuse me: that’s “raspberry” and “to be”
BTW, my three-year-old was just watching the video and asked, “Daddy, why is that man wearing pajamas?”
moonbat betty
July 10th, 2009
9:44 pm
magic carpet ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDa5dMmfZ4
Angry Black Man
July 10th, 2009
9:45 pm
Hee hee hee… pajamas. G’nite all, gotta be bright eyed and bushy tailed at 0530. If it’s not too busy, I’ll drop in for a few over the weekend.
godless heathen
July 10th, 2009
9:54 pm
Debbie,
In the “Girls just want to have fun” video, doesn’t it look funny to see the girls talking on phones with cords?
@@
July 11th, 2009
12:43 am
Hillbilly Deluxe:
Just got home. I’ll check out all the music early in the morning.
Thanks for “Evangelina”.. (ISH)
Just a poor man’s daughter
That’s me!!! Never felt poor growin’ up though.
TnGelding
July 11th, 2009
6:14 am
@@
July 11th, 2009
12:43 am
I think most of us that hang out here did. But we were rich in life experiences.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 11th, 2009
6:49 am
In a surprise move, the pontiff gave Obama a booklet explaining Vatican opposition to practices such as abortion and embryonic stem cell research, which Obama supports.
A preloaded TelePrompter probably would have been better, but hey, it’s a start.
TnGelding
July 11th, 2009
7:29 am
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 11th, 2009
6:49 am
The Vatican wants to keep ‘em sick and poor so they can minister to the wretched souls.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 11th, 2009
7:33 am
The choices, TN, and remember, death is not an option, er, yes it is-
“Sick and poor” or snatched out of your mother’s womb and thrown in the garbage.
I’m down wit duh church, dude.