Wednesday, May 23, 2012: Davy Jones - Road To Love

RIP: David Thomas "Davy" Jones - 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012

Here's one that cut hard through many generations.  Whether you grew up listening to the Monkees, or knew of Davy Jones from watching the Brady Bunch, or from the various revivals of the TV show (MTV started airing reruns of the Monkees show in 1986), Davy Jones was a part of your life.  One of the brighter, more beautiful parts, you'll admit.

People don't write about love like they used to.  At least, not with as much hope as he sings here.

You can't help but feel that we've not only lost a great artist, but we're also losing a bit of that vision of peace and love and brotherhood that is so easy to mock - and impossibly difficult to turn into reality.

Here to travels on the real Road To Love.  I know you've made it there, Davy.

Saturday, December 24, 2011: Quincy Jones featuring the All Star Chorus - Handel's Hallelujah! Chorus

And when Quincy Jones says "All Star", you know he don't get anything but the brightest of the bright stars:

Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Patti Austin, Bernie K., Daryl Coley, Commissioned, Andrae Crouch, Sandra Crouch, Clifton Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Kim Fields, Larnelle Harris, Edwin Hawkins, Tramaine Hawkins, Linda Hopkins, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Lizz Lee, Dawnn Lewis, Babbie Mason, Johnny Mathis, Marilyn McCoo, Mike E., Stephanie Mills, Jeffrey Osborne, David Pack, Phylicia Rashād, Joe Sample, Richard Smallwood, Sounds of Blackness, Take 6, Darryl Tookes, Mervyn Warren, Thomas Whitfield, Vanessa Williams and Chris Willis. Arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.

Off of Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration, may this coolest of cool tracks take you into a most joyous Christmas day.

Have yourself a very Merry Christmas, gentle reader.

And God bless us, every one.

Monday, October 17, 2011: Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual

It's not unusual to hate Mondays.

What is unusual is that we have such a sure fire cure for the beginning of the week blues

Hello, Tom. What's new, pussycat?

Friday, May 27, 2011: Booker T Jones - Everything Is Everything

Booker T. Jones performs Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything"

Yes, THAT Booker T.