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* In 2001, this artist had pretty much done it all...but this album pretty much blended all of those styles in extraordinary fashion. He had help combining blues and pop coming in the form of Billy Preston and The Impressions with their excellent contributions. Name the artist...extra credit for the name of the album...
*Do you know the names of all three members of the band America? One member in particular was born in Panama City, Florida, had a short stint in Pakistan before ending up in London where he met the other two members and formed the band. He was the major influence in the group (although they all played key roles) with his singing and songwriting skills. He passed at the age of 60 just about 10 years ago. Name the artist...extra credit for the names of the other 2 as well... *Very cool fact...one of our regular listeners was hitchhiking in a freezing blizzard in Pennsylvania and finally got a lift...on the tour bus of America...name revealed later today... *The last track on this band's first album in 1969 is a searing song about a man who has been betrayed by his woman to the point where he feels like he's helpless...even awaiting more punishment. The bandmember writer of the track, wrote it on an ironing board using burnt matches as he couldn't find a pen in the middle of the night when he got the inspiration. Name the band and the song...extra credit for the songwriter's name... *We'll play a track about a very seductive woman with expensive tastes that she uses men to satisfy. Much like the line, "Her mind is Tiffany twisted" in the Eagles son, 'Hotel California', the lyrics to this song use a luxury brand to develop the character as she is described as "a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar". referring to the high-end automobile. This 1982 track spent 4 weeks at #1 in America and was the biggest hit of the '80's to feature a saxophone solo... Name the band and the song... Battle Of The Bands! Spill The Wine by War vs Dance to the Music by Sly and The Family Stone Answers: 1. Eric Clapton, Reptile 2. Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell 3. The Allman Brothers Band, Whipping Post, Gregg Allman 4. Hall and Oates, Maneater Sly and The Family Stone track was the winner with 53% of the votes
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No quiz this week, but here is recap of segments *Then And Later... Last Sunday was a classic Hall & Oates track from 1982 (One On One) with a later track from Daryl Hall's solo album (Crash And Burn) in 2011...very nice! This week we go back to a band's 1973 eponymous album and follow it up with a great track from an album of theirs in 2018. Nicely done. *Battle Of The Bands... 2 songs that could have easily been Sing-Alongs last Sunday pitted The Beach Boys (Help Me Rhonda) vs. Jan & Dean (The Little Old Lady From Pasadena) and it was hotly contested. The Beach Boys jumped out to a big lead, only to have Jan & Dean come back and take the lead 2/3's of the way through. The Beach Boys, however, closed strong for the narrow victory. Later today, we'll go back to California for a battle between bands from the North and the South from the late 60's. *Cover Me Up... In a unique move this cover was combined with the Sing-Along segment as The Doors, Light My Fire served as the original last Sunday with a quite unique cover by Manfred Mann. This week a classic California group and song from 1966 gets a refresh from an unlikely source 48 years later... *Sing Along... Jim Morrison and The Doors Light My Fire could be heard throughout all tuned in households in one of our longest sing-alongs that yielded some singing breaks with great instrumental parts. This week, another classic from 1966 is on the docket. Get those voices ready! * This artist's first band, The Monarchs, formed when he was just 15. By the age of 19, he was already a vastly experienced performer and recording artist, playing guitar, keyboards, sax and singing. With his father's vast collection of jazz, blues and R&B, his band released a cover of the Delta Blues classic, Baby, Please Don't Go, inspired by John Lee Hooker's 1949 version. The 'B' side turned out to be even more popular. Name the artist and extra credit for the song title.
*A couple of folk singers in Los Angeles were performing one night in a coffee house in 1970 and in the dressing room, had some time, so they just started jamming, entertaining themselves. They got together the next day to some picking and started back with what they were messing with the previous night. An hour later, they had this song, considered their only hit. They had no idea it would become a big hit or released as a single, but it did. Name the duo (after their last names) and extra credit for the name of the track. *This famous artist recorded a track that was influenced by art classes he was taking with a popular teacher, Norman Raeben in New York. It made him look at things from a 'nonlinear' perspective, something reflected in his songs. The artist introduces this track on stage by saying it took 'Ten years to live and two years to write.' Name the artist and extra credit for the name of the song... *This artist grew up in London, where open spaces were rare..children got little exposure to open air. In 1970 he read a story about how green spaces were vanishing in towns and it prompted him to write this song as a reminder that progress shouldn't come at the expense of nature. Name the artist and of course, extra credit for the name of the song... Battle Of The Bands! Mainstreet by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band vs Small Town by John Mellencamp Answers: 1. Van Morrison with Them, Gloria 2. Brewer & Shipley, One Toke Over The Line 3. Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue 4. Cat Stevens, Where Do the Children Play? Bob Seger’s track was the winner with 52% of the votes *This track tells of an argument between two men (one blind) on 'an East Virginia farm'. After a while, their argument leads to death because the two men did not follow the golden rule as stated in the lyrics (but in different words). it is the only track off this this great 1970 album where there have been no known live performances and there have been plenty of opportunities. Name the artist and extra credit for the name of the song and the album...
*The subject of this great 1979 track is about a guy who thinks he's really cool, but it seems that he is the only one who thinks that. This implies that the hero avoids ever coming off the road so he has more moments of being alone with his dreams...where he is a superstar. It's really a plea to change the route home. Name the band and the song... *We'll play a track that is one of this band's lesser-known songs, but a favorite among their hard-core fans. The leader of this popular band also produced albums for an elite cast of artists and also recorded with some of them in a Supergroup. A one-word title, promoting color in flight that is seen fairly regularly here in Big Canoe...Name the band, the artist and extra credit for the name of the track... *This track was written by the performer that provided him his biggest hit as a solo artist. He wrote it though, for Kim Carnes and there is so much more to this story that will be shared later today... Due to these (to be mentioned) circumstances, he recorded and released this classic in 1981. The only reason this #2 smash did not rise to #1...first class irony...Name the artist, the song and all kinds of extra credit... Battle Of The Bands! Call Me The Breeze by Lynyrd Skynyrd vs Heard It in a Love Song by Marshall Tucker Band Answers: 1. Elton John, Son of your Father, Tumbleweed Connection 2. Supertramp, Take The Long Way Home 3. Electric Light Orchestra, Bluebird 4. Smokey Robinson, Being with You, Never mad #1 because Kim Carnes run of #1 hit Betty Davis Eyes Marshall Tucker Band, who played 2nd, was the winner with 55% of the votes The roots of sitar blended into rock started in late 1964 when Brian Auger engineered the first recording of this classic song for this group. An authentic Indian sitar player was brought into the studio in addition to a tabla player. Unable to take them on the road for tours, the original version could not be played at concerts of this group...they did, however, improvise. Name the group and extra credit for the name of the track...
*We'll dip into a track from an album that perhaps demonstrated the best longevity and continued appeal of all the politically and socially charged music to arise from the late 60's. Just as pertinent today as it was back then, there are strong themes of environmentalism, generational divides and personal change and growth. The song explores the artist's own debate with his father as to whether a person should seek to change the world around them or try to carve out a place within it and live comfortably. Name the artist, extra credit for the name of the album and the song... *This band's front man wrote this song after the group's 1965 tour of the U.S., one that was plagued with infighting, fatigue and a big musician's union conflict that kept them performing in the U.S. for another 4 years. The track describes a pretentious gentleman born to good fortune and was the first 'word-oriented' song he ever wrote. Name the song, the songwriter and the band... *This artist cites composer Stephen Foster who wrote Oh Susanna and My Old Kentucky Home as his biggest musical influence. Born in Northern California, he was discharged from the Army Reserves in 1967 and celebrated by doing cartwheels in his front yard. After that, he embarked on an incredible career of music that continues today...Name the artist... Battle Of The Bands! Eight Miles High by The Byrds vs Up On Cripple Creek by The Band Answers: 1. Yardbirds, Heart Full of Soul 2. Cat Stevens, Tea For The Tillerman, Father And Son 3. A Well Respected Man, Ray Davies, The Kinks 4. John Fogerty The Band was the winner with 56% of the votes *This outstanding band lost its leader in 1979 with his unfortunate passing and was able to carry on a few more years before breaking up. And then in 1987, several long-time bandmembers decided to reconvene with a brand-new line-up. They cut an album that put them back on the map the next year...Name the leader and band...
*This British band's guitarist wrote the song that tells the story about a lovelorn guy stuck in his lonely room. The track is one of a handful of their hits and their highest charting song in America. The story turned tragic when in 1975, after a dispute with their record label over missing money, the guitarist committed suicide...Name the band and the artist... *Don Cornelius was the host of Soul Train...but then you all knew that. He pretty much controlled which groups got on the show. In 1975 a groundbreaking event...Cornelius chose the first white artist ever to appear on the show...Name the artist... *This artist who was born in New Jersey in 1943 is a former child actor who appeared on Broadway in a production of Fanny, had a huge hit in 1976. He had bands all through High School before turning his attention to psychology, completing his studies at Frei University in Berlin, Germany. A stint with a name band that temporarily disbanded in 1970 led to his dream solo career. Name the artist... Battle Of The Bands! American Woman by Guess Who vs Riders on the Storm by The Doors Answers: 1. Lowell George, Little Feat 2. Badfinger, Pete Ham 3. Gino Vannelli 4. Gary Wright Guess Who was the winner by a single vote *In this 1968 song, there are secrets the singer simply will not reveal to the girl he loves. He's obsessed with her, thinks about her all the time and tormented because he can't have her. This L.A. band charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. Name the band and extra credit for the name of the song (one with a time reference in the title)...
*This single released in 1967 from a great album is considered one of the monumental cuts of this great band. The songwriter wrote the music after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert, developing a bass riff afterward, with an assist from one of his famous bandmates. A great song, Hendrix thought and even played it at some of his concerts, while expressing his highest praise for each of the bandmates of this famous group. Name the band and the song... *This band formed in Springfield, Missouri in 1972. Moderate success on their 1st album, motivated them to album #2 that yielded this notable track about a woman who is in pursuit of happiness but never gives anything a long enough time to make her happy. Bored, flighty or indifferent...it's just not going to happen. The name of the song is the female subject of the track, and was released in 1974. Name the band and extra credit for the name of the song... *This lazy, laid-back celebration of love on a summer's day originated when the writer attempted to rewrite The Supremes' Baby Love...though it turned into something quite different. The song was released with short term expectations of at least a Top Ten showing on the charts, but the track actually had a very long and prosperous run for years, even decades. Name the NYC band formed in 1965 lasted 4 years...with 2 later reunions...one of which carries on even today...Extra credit for the name of the song... Battle Of The Bands! Wild World by Cat Stevens vs Come Monday by Jimmy Buffett Answers: 1. The Grass Roots, Midnight Confessions 2. Cream, Sunshine of Your Love 3. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Jackie Blue 4. The Lovin’ Spoonful, Daydream Cat Stevens was the winner with 52% of the votes *This Northen European group's guitarist wrote a track we'll share today. Not originally written in English, when the song got translated, the writer wrote down the first line incorrectly and that error made it all through the recording process as the singer sang the incorrect line. No problem though as the song became a #1 hit. The word in question in the first line? Goddess was the correct word...Goddness was actually sung. Name the band and extra credit for the name of the song...
*This song from 1973 is one of this band's most famous. It was inspired by the events leading up to the final date of their U.S. tour...one fraught with problems. Most of the band flew to Memphis to do the gig, but the guitarist decided to drive while his guitar with all the other equipment went on the plane. The airline lost the guitar. That wasn't the only thing that went wrong, but they got it all together and put on a great concert that included a bit of a jam segment with Joe Walsh. Name the band and extra credit for the name of the song... *In 1960 this artist formed his first band, The Cavaliers with 3 friends. He played the drums and harmonica in the band, but it wasn't until the band's breakup a year later that he embarked on a singing career. He developed some famous performing antics as a singer...because he was no longer bound by playing a guitar or piano. Name the artist... *This artist's career received a huge boost when Roy Orbison chose to record a duet together. It won a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989. The song was also used in the Jon Cryer film, Hiding Out. Name the artist and again...extra credit for the song title... Battle Of The Bands! Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp vs Eye in the Sky by Alan Parsons Project Answers: 1. Shocking Blue, Venus 2. Mott the Hoople, All The Way From Memphis 3. Joe Cocker 4. KD Lang, Crying Alan Parsons Project was the winner with 52% of the votes *This artist spent the first 45 years of his life hiding, sheltering everything about his personal life from just about everyone. Something happened...the result was a brand-new album in 1988.
And we know quite a bit more about that life of his through music. A brilliant track from an equally brilliant album. Name the artist and the album name... *Musical courtesy...this show's favorite oxymoron for today at least. The music industry can be cutthroat, but sometimes things turned out good or even better than that though. This artist was a warm-up act for Three Dog Night who recorded this song as part of their 1970 album. When the warm-up dude looked like he was going to be a success...Three Dog Night chose not to release it as a single...so as not to conflict with the start of a promising career... Name the artist and extra credit for the song... *Toughie here...the track we'll play had many interpretations...one example...it was a repudiation of Christianity....pretty heavy. The artist sees fit not to even render his opinion of what it means. "I used to get letters back in the day, letters from English classes and different science classes telling me about the deeper interpretations that they had come up with...the meaning of life, you name it. That was always entertaining, and they caused the artist to advise that these are all way more interesting than my original impetus." A 1971 vintage hit....a 1-word song title... Name the artist and the title of the track... *This band started out as The Creators, a Los Angles club band. First black band booked on the Sunset Strip, the band evolved into 'Nite Shift' aptly named as a member worked at a steel yard at night. They had trouble keeping the band together because members kept getting drafted to Vietnam. They eventually turned down an offer to become Otis Redding’s backup band and had to turn it down for a very unique reason. Name the band... severe extra credit if you know the reason... Battle Of The Bands! Bluebird by Buffalo Springfield vs Crazy Love by Poco Answers: 1. Randy Newman, Land of Dreams 2. Elton John, Your Song 3. Jonathan Edwards, Sunshine 4. War, Keyboard player was too young (age 15) to go on the road "No Sing Along For Me"
BY MIKE PODSEDLY I enjoy the great music of my generation that is played nonstop on Inside The Gates Radio. I experience the emotion and memory produced by the music that has been documented in earlier articles. One thing that is missing is my ability to sing along in a pleasant voice that the music deserves. I elicit groans and pleas to stop when in the company of others. This condition has been consistent throughout my life and has led me to be a closet car and shower singer. I can trace this lack of ability to sing to an event that occurred back in the fifth grade. My class was to perform a choral presentation at a school function. We had a tiered platform, robes and the works. After the music was selected it became imperative to rehearse for the upcoming show. I had memorized the words and was ready to go. After a few practice sessions I was pulled aside and directed to pantomime instead of singing. This evaluation was to plant the idea that singing was something I should avoid at all costs. This feeling has persisted into my senior years. While helping launch ITG Radio I began to listen to music more often. I heard many different vocal styles that I had not paid attention to before. I wondered why my voice did not come close to being within this rather wide range of recorded musicians. So, I put on my research hat to determine the cause of my seemingly outlier of a singing voice. I first came upon a test for being tone deaf on musical-u.com. I put on my best noise cancelling headphones and began the test. It was divided into three sections, all comparing two tones. First was responding whether the tones were the same or different, second consisted if the sequence of tones went up or down and lastly if the tones were higher or lower. I was surprised by my score of 83% correct. I could eliminate being tone deaf as a reason for my poor singing voice. On the musical-u website they offer training to improve your musical ability. They state that there are two aspects to singing in tune, voice control and hearing the notes. Voice control is about 20% of what it takes to sing while the ability to hear the note you should sing compared to note you are singing makes up the other 80%. As in most activities, the brain must be trained to recognize pitch and tuning. I found another article that supported the assessment that that pitch accuracy is primary cause of bad singing. There is an interview with Sean Hutchins, while he was at BRAMS (International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research), studying the neuroscience of music. “Hutchins says that even though nearly all of us are equipped with the biological hardware to produce a wide range of notes, bad singing is rampant. ‘Singing is a complex expression,’ he explains. ‘The majority of people, around 60 percent, have a difficult time’ with it. (Discover Magazine, Can't Sing? Blame Your Brain, James Dziezynski, June 22, 2014). The problem was not the perception of a note but the ability to reproduce the sound with their voices. Hutchins’ conclusion: “Our brains have the ability to signal the voice to produce the correct note, but have mapped out the wrong output to match a perceived note. ‘Our brains are quite good at perception, which is why so many of us enjoy listening to music without being great musicians,’ he says. But those same brains give our vocal cords faulty instructions.” There are many articles debating whether musicality is an innate or acquired skill. Aside from those rare individuals who are born with perfect pitch, I believe it is a skill that requires both an aptitude and practice. People born with physical assets such as height, speed, stamina, etc. are drawn to sports activities if they wish to exploit their advantages. The same holds true for people that test well may focus on academics. I have heard comments from musicians about the need to practice regularly or they see deterioration in their skill level in a relatively short time. This complaint is often repeated by participants in sports such as golf, tennis and many others. After several interruptions to my golf game, I would remark that it felt like I was starting over when I got back to the course. It appears that for me to improve my singing voice it would take a vigorous and sustained effort to train my brain to match the notes in my head to those coming from my vocal cords. Given my age and a myriad of other interests, this will not happen for me. I will proudly continue in the company of the 60% of the population that are considered “bad singers”. I will continue to experience the music on Inside The Gates Radio library, the greatest music of our lifetime! Please visit our website insidethegatesradio.com for information about connecting options, download apps, live show schedules and station news. Send us an email to ITGRadio@bigcanoepoa.org to express your questions, comments or suggestions. |
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