What are you listening to?

[Fletch]

Last year we saw an amazing German band Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester. I meant to post a link last year and forgot. Some of you, may have enjoyed one of their concerts, especially New Yorkers, they have played Carnegie Hall no less than four times. You will adore their dress style and you will love that Max not only sings in the same way as stars of the era, he also refrains from using any hand or arm gestures. Instead he sings just like those matinee idols, with his hands by his sides.

I was lucky enough to hear Max and the band in Minneapolis in April. He really has what it takes to sell this music - which is a single, compelling, unique personality. A seamless, pleasantly stereotyped character who can embody the era. Someone approachable, yet otherworldly. Because the music of the dance orchestra IS otherworldly today - best presented and understood as theater.

The band is incredibly good, and shows enough talent at jazz, novelty acts and group singing to carry a show by itself. But you know what? Without Max there, leaning languidly on the piano Not Conducting between vocals, no one would give a good gosh darn. It's the times we're living in. There's no bringing a band like the Palast-Orchester into today's world. You have to create a space where it makes sense. That is Max's genius.

Max Raabe understands what a lot of my fellow musicians don't - that this music does NOT have a life of its own today. That's a hard thing to deal with for a musician like me, but for an entertainer like Max, that's a space for him to shine in. He is about the music and makes the music about him. And everybody's happy.

 

[Sam_Spade_31]

Bobby "Blue" Bland: Lead Me On Short but superb song. This song is timeless to me.[video=youtube;cjvHC9VNthc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjvHC9VNthc[/video]

 

[GHT]

Max Raabe understands what a lot of my fellow musicians don't - that this music does NOT have a life of its own today. That's a hard thing to deal with for a musician like me, but for an entertainer like Max, that's a space for him to shine in. He is about the music and makes the music about him. And everybody's happy.

Your description, was accurate, succinct and generous, my compliments to you.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

[video=youtube;JU1IMXe8EkI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1IMXe8EkI[/video]

 

[HoosierDaddy]

[video=youtube;IGR-K6tzKTA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGR-K6tzKTA[/video]

 

[nick123]

Not everyone's cup of tea, but a fabulous 60s song. Apologies; the video is a bit cheeky.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PHZBp5JRCd4

 

[Touchofevil]

Justin Hinds and the Dominoes

 

[ToucanSam23]

I don't believe anyone has posted this here before...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwTL2rSFes[/video]

T'is quite interesting to see Eddie Condon singing. I'm also lead to believe that Benny Goodman is in fact the clarinetist here.


Edit: Why isn't the BBCode working?

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube_share;zfBIzbo0PrE]http://youtu.be/zfBIzbo0PrE[/video]

 

[TackCollector]

[video=youtube_share;GktfC_1V29U]http://youtu.be/GktfC_1V29U[/video]

 

[TackCollector]

[video=youtube_share;94QoB5xivSc]http://youtu.be/94QoB5xivSc[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Rosita Serrano -- Der Onkel Jonathan
(Uncle Jonathan)

[video=youtube;U0XtCzblMx8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0XtCzblMx8[/video]

 

[Stray Cat]

Starting up with my summer-mood:

Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"

[video=youtube;ge9Ou3-YyqU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9Ou3-YyqU[/video]

..this one NEVER gets old. :thumb:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ondrej Havelka and his Melody Makers -- Margie
vocal by Ondrej Havelka

[video=youtube;dl377DdqRqE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl377DdqRqE[/video]

 

[Touchofevil]

Some Mark Lanegan and a little bit of Tom Waits.

 

[GHT]

Perhaps it's because I am old, but I had never heard of The New York Dolls, yet when I heard their lead singer, one David Johanson, in the guise of Buster Poindexter, singing that Trinidad calypso song by Arrows, namely: Hot, Hot, Hot. It blew me away. So I did a little research and found that The Andrews Sisters had their famous hit: "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," covered by Christina Aguilera, retitled to: "Candyman." And a lady that I had never heard, name of "Eliza Doolittle," sings: "Pack Up," which is a re-mix if the WW1 song: "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag."
The list is endless, the more I delve, the more I find.
The videos that are made to accompany these remixed songs are very good indeed, but how do the producers get around the copyright?
And given the originality of the said videos, why aren't their talents used to write something original.
I've enjoyed listening to them but I can't make my mind up if the new versions are a tribute, or just blatant plagiarism.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

[video=youtube;Us-TVg40ExM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM[/video]

 

[majormajor]

Perhaps it's because I am old, but I had never heard of The New York Dolls.

I can understand folks not having heard of them, but it can't be because you are "old". They started over 40 years ago

 

[nick123]

Funny-I threw in a picture of them yesterday in the outerwear forum. Love them.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Tito Schipa -- Vivere (1937)


[video=youtube;YC63wUJl8gw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC63wUJl8gw[/video]