Music Acquisitions, Old and New

[mshray]

This seems as likely a thread as any to post this.

If you go to http://www.1800goguard.com/warriorchallenge/form.php?questions
you can score 50 free downloads. I have already downloaded 36 of my 50. It was easy to do but it is the Guard so email spam might come one day. I didn't have to give too much info. It's worth it if you want freebies. The tunes load right into my iTunes. If you have multiple email addys, you can get more tunes.

Have fun!

I'm doing this right now.  It took less than 5 minutes to get my first code, after which I was redirected to the Nat'l Guard page at amplify.com & had to spend another minute setting up an account there.  After you enter your code it will say that you have 50 credits, and right next to that is a button for Add a code.  It took me less than 10 minutes to get an additional 150 credits using email addresses of my wife & kids.  No idea how long the site for getting a code will be up, but once you have your credits it tells you that you have until Aug 31 to redeem them.  I haven't done too much searching, but they seem to have all the current pop stuff.  A search for Beatles only turned up 7 songs from the In The Beginning album, but a search for the Stones turned up seemingly every album ever.

Pretty sweet deal no matter how much spam I get.

[mshray]

since I mentioned this on the 10@10 thread, figured I'd bump it back up.

Seriously though, this is a pretty hard deal to beat.  There's a lot of stuff the DL site doesn't have, but they do have pretty much everything by Hendrix, Marley, Stones, Who & U2, just to get you started.

[Gazoo]

It's not an acquisition yet, but I found this collection via AMG and am thinking it's a fascinating mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9fuxqwdldte

I Love Music 1970-1974: Teenage Rampage

1         Teenage Rampage    Sweet    3:34
2         Devil Gate Drive    Suzi Quatro    3:48
3         Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)    Gary Glitter    3:18
4         Dyna-Mite    Mud    2:57
5         See My Baby Jive    Wizzard    4:59
6         Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)    Leo Sayer    3:02
7         Baby Jump    Mungo Jerry    4:00
8         Dancing on a Saturday Night    Barry Blue    3:05
9         Beach Baby    First Class    4:51
10         Band of Gold    Freda Payne    2:53
11         He's Gonna Step on You Again    John Kongos    4:16
12         Sad Sweet Dreamer    Sweet Sensation    3:25
13         Rock Your Baby    George McCrae    3:14
14         Donna    Ten CC    2:56
15         Everything I Own    Ken Boothe    3:22
16         Popcorn    Hot Butter    3:19
17         Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress    Hollies    3:18
18         Let's Work Together    Canned Heat    3:15
19         In My Chair    Status Quo    3:14
20         Cotton Fields    Beach Boys    3:02
21         I Hear You Knockin'    Dave Edmunds    2:47
22         Nutbush City Limits    Turner, Ike & Tina    2:57
23         Dance with the Devil    Cozy Powell    3:34
24         Rock & Roll (Part 1)    Gary Glitter    2:58
25         The Show Must Go On    Leo Sayer    2:51
26         The Bump    Kenny    2:35
27         Who Do You Think You Are    Candlewick Green    3:04
28         Black Night    Deep Purple    3:25
29         The Laughing Gnome    David Bowie    3:00
30         Indian Reservation    Don Fardon    3:25
31         The Streak    Ray Stevens    3:16
32         When I'm Dead and Gone    McGuinness Flint    3:39
33         Years May Come, Years May Go    Herman's Hermits    3:38
34         Emma    Hot Chocolate    3:53
35         Help Me Make It Through the Night    John Holt    3:06
36         Summer (The First Time)    Bobby Goldsboro    4:37
37         Brother Louie    Hot Chocolate    4:57
38         Showdown    Electric Light Orchestra    4:06
39         Streets of London    Ralph McTell    4:07
40         Angie Baby    Helen Reddy    3:27
41         In the Summer Time    Mungo Jerry    3:31
42         Seasons in the Sun    Terry Jacks    3:26
43         The Wall Street Shuffle    Ten CC    3:52
44         Shang-A-Lang    Bay City Rollers    3:06
45         Magic    Pilot    3:04
46         Knock Three Times    Dawn    3:01
47         Silver Machine    Hawkwind    4:40
48         Who Do You Love?    Juicy Lucy    3:03
49         Love Like a Man    Ten Years After    3:05
50         Roll Over Beethoven    Electric Light Orchestra    4:33
51         Strange Kind of Woman    Deep Purple    3:52
52         The House of the Rising Sun    Frijid Pink    4:43
53         Proud Mary    Turner, Ike & Tina    4:57
54         Rubber Bullets    Ten CC    5:19
55         Having My Baby    Paul Anka    2:33
56         Judy Teen    Harley, Steve & Coc ...    3:42Harley, Steve & Cockney Rebel
57         Gonna Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse    Jimmy Helms    3:38
58         One Man Band    Leo Sayer    3:34
59         Sugar Me    Lynsey DePaul    3:53
60         Lady Eleanor    Lindisfarne    4:15

[mshray]

That's an amazing comp...

...but the concept of hearing track 47 bookended by tracks 46 & 48 nearly made my head explode!

[urth]

That's an amazing comp...

...but the concept of hearing track 47 bookended by tracks 46 & 48 nearly made my head explode!

Yep, I'd love to know who put that together. Is it a British import? I'm guessing it is, as I don't think a fair number of those songs got much airplay here in the states.

[RGMike]

It's not an acquisition yet, but I found this collection via AMG and am thinking it's a fascinating mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9fuxqwdldte

I Love Music 1970-1974: Teenage Rampage

49         Love Like a Man    Ten Years After    3:05

obviously a UK collection, and loads of stuff there that never cosssed over, like Cockney Rebel. But that Ten Years After track is truly a lost gem: it was a staple of NYC prog-FM in the early '70s, from their LP Cricklewood Green, which came out on the heels of their Woodstock appearance. Tho' we still hear "I'd Love to Change the World" all too often, I have not heard "LLAM" on the radio in decades, certainly not once since I moved to SF.  Seems like something Rob on The Peak should remember.

[Gazoo]

Bought a fantastic Philly Soul compilation while on vaca in Minnesota.  See today's blog entry for details.  (Mike, you'll especially love it - particularly what I chose for tune #10, a song you've touted many a time.)

[RGMike]

Bought a fantastic Philly Soul compilation while on vaca in Minnesota.  See today's blog entry for details.  (Mike, you'll especially love it - particularly what I chose for tune #10, a song you've touted many a time.)

had you been to MN before? The most blond people I'd ever seen in one place.

ETA: glad you liked Ms Sharp-Gamble (yeah, she was married to Kenny Gamble at the time) and her fab take on 10cc. And that Delfonics song is also a fave of mine  - I just got a Delfs best-of recently. Their obscurities beat a lot of other people's chart-toppers.

[Gazoo]

Bought a fantastic Philly Soul compilation while on vaca in Minnesota.  See today's blog entry for details.  (Mike, you'll especially love it - particularly what I chose for tune #10, a song you've touted many a time.)

had you been to MN before? The most blond people I'd ever seen in one place.

No first time.  You're right about that - heavy Scandinavian population, including my friend Andy's half-Swedish family.  A highlight was eating fried walleye at a restaurant co-owned by Garrison Keillor.

[RGMike]

Bought a fantastic Philly Soul compilation while on vaca in Minnesota.  See today's blog entry for details.  (Mike, you'll especially love it - particularly what I chose for tune #10, a song you've touted many a time.)

had you been to MN before? The most blond people I'd ever seen in one place.

No first time.  You're right about that - heavy Scandinavian population, including my friend Andy's half-Swedish family.  A highlight was eating fried walleye at a restaurant co-owned by Garrison Keillor.

Cool! Spent a weekend in St Paul in '84 on ABC's dime during the Presidential race.  Had BBQ at a place called ... Valentino's? Memory hazy.

Just looked at the track listing on that Philly box -- great stuff. But what's Dusty's "Brand New Me" doing there -- isn't that from her Memphis sessions?  And too bad it doesn't include Billy Paul's terrific disco remake of "Only the Strong Survive", a UK hit that never did anything over here.

[Gazoo]

Just looked at the track listing on that Philly box -- great stuff. But what's Dusty's "Brand New Me" doing there -- isn't that from her Memphis sessions?  And too bad it doesn't include Billy Paul's terrific disco remake of "Only the Strong Survive", a UK hit that never did anything over here.

Dusty's there b/c it was a Gamble/Huff composition, and the box set heavily serves as a mash note to those two.

I lamented the absence of "Let's Clean Up the Ghetto."

[RGMike]

Just looked at the track listing on that Philly box -- great stuff. But what's Dusty's "Brand New Me" doing there -- isn't that from her Memphis sessions?  And too bad it doesn't include Billy Paul's terrific disco remake of "Only the Strong Survive", a UK hit that never did anything over here.

Dusty's there b/c it was a Gamble/Huff composition

Damn! why did I not know that? Live'n'learn!

[RGMike]

ETA: glad you liked Ms Sharp-Gamble (yeah, she was married to Kenny Gamble at the time) and her fab take on 10cc.

TANC: JJ played it last nite on KPOO.

[Gazoo]

Tonight's iTunes purchases - some of which I've been looking for in their store for quite a long time:

Billy Joel, "Leave a Tender Moment Alone"
The Flirtations, "Nothing But a Heartache"
David Ruffin, "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)"
Lesley Gore, "California Nights"
Marty Balin, "Hearts"
Pete Doherty, "Broken Love Song"
Saint Etienne, "Who Do You Think You Are" (no dice on the versions by Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, Jigsaw, or Candlewick Green)
Paul Revere & the Raiders, "Let Me"
B.J. Thomas, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
The Turtles, "We Ain't Gonna Party No More"

For the B.J. Thomas, it was difficult to find a version that wasn't a re-recording.  Vigilance is important when buying oldies.

[Gazoo]

Another round of iTunes single purchases:

Aliotta, Haynes, Jeremiah, "Lake Shore Drive"
Roachford, "Cuddly Toy (Feel for Me)"
Electric Indian, "Keem-O-Sabe" (Mike, did you know Len Barry recorded a vocal version of this?)
Godspell cast, "Day by Day"
Gladys Knight & the Pips, "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)"
The Dells, "I Can Sing a Rainbow / Love Is Blue"
Cass Elliot, "Easy Come, Easy Go"
Jigsaw, "Who Do You Think You Are?"  (The Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods' hit version isn't on iTunes, argh.)