Remember to go to GROOVESHARK.COM for a free musical library...no cost and no sign in...just click the hourglass icon to start a search using name, song, or album....
1) Amy Winehouse's "rehab"....
....the first version coming up at GROOVESHARK is a bogus dance mix version, and not the best original "cut down" song that you saw on Letterman...so....uh....to avoid about 60 seconds of banal, repetitive dance mix stupidity...find the youtube version of "rehab"....
2) "The Girl From Ipanema" by Trini Lopez or Olivia Ong
........a little Bossa Nova along the lines of a very "lazy cat" type of cha cha near the border of Sambaland....anyway, a new sound for you.......you can search for that song, and see about 40 different versions of the song from Frank Sinatra to Ella Fitzgerald?...when it comes to Bossa Nova, you "always start with this song first"...no?
[Usually I start my mornings with either Joni Mitchel's "Morgantown" (not at Grooveshark.com from The "Ladies of The Canyon" album) or The Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" but hey man....this song is "good start the morning right" tune for toons...and, hey..."We are all Toons in the movie Roger Rabbit"]....
3) Tom Petty's "Listen to her Heart"...........
....you'll hear lyrics like, "...you think your gonna take her away, with your money and your cocaine...she's gonna listen to her heart, because she's my girl...".
4) Toni Price's "Chain of Love"...<.....
...a slow blues song from South Austin, Texas' Hippie Live Music Capital of The World...(incidentally, Hollywood and Los Angeles ruined Austin, Texas, but Toni Price still sings every Tuesday Night at The Continental Club).... "Hippie Tuesday" is on and is back once Toni moved back from San Diego...
What is "Hippie Tuesday"?: a pot smoking celebration that brought a lot of people together in the back alley at half time (intermission), where, The Austin PD did "not bust us...because "they did not want to" and APD felt, "Hey man, this is South Austin, Texas, LIVE MUSIC AND LIVE HIPPIE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD".....
5) Janis Joplin "Down on Me":....
....One of Janis' most intense songs...and every bit as perfect as Bobby McGee, yet...this song is rarely played on the radio...I don't think I've ever heard it played on the air?...ONE GRIPE WITH THE HACKS OF TOP 40 OLDIES ROCK AND ROLL RADIO: the dip shits really don't study or love the great, rich, history of 60-70's Top 40/Rock and Roll (and you can tell a station sucks when you gag on the banality of another, yes,...another BOB SEGER SONG, OR, EVEN WORSE.... HUEY LEWIS AND NEWS?????)....
6) Warren Zevon "Werewolves of London":....
.....a song that even Jesse Ventura (Minnesota Governor surprise hero) had to take a crack at singing to....one of the most memorable opening piano, bass guitar, fusion foundations.....Kid Rock ripped it off real well with his 2008 hit "All Summer Long" (which also steals from a Lynard Skynard song)....
7) Toni Price "Just to Hear Your Voice":...
....another display of Toni's ineffable "spirit and voice sound device"...a sad, soft ballad about missing love with the usual perfect violins from Champ Hood...Toni likes singing "blues with lots of acoustic strings", which hardly anyone tried doing successfully?
Incidentally, Champ Hood's son, WARREN HOOD, is now DEVELOPING A REPUTATION as a FRIGGING STRING INSTRUMENT GENIUS who loves playing the "Gypsy G string" much to the amazement of his father (who taught him all he knew about playing and music)....[THERE IS A BIG, CROWNING WAVE OF FANTASTIC AMUSEMENT SURROUNDING THE musical aura OF THIS YOUNG FELLOW NAMED WARREN HOOD of Austin, Texas.]
8) Carly Simon's "Your so Vain":...<...
.....Still a great song...and that voice...a unique voice from long ago...amazing how no two voices seem to be the same? You really have to go to Youtube.com to get her other famous songs from a 1972 concert when she's wearing the slit red dress...on stage bare foot....a beautiful young girl tan, long legged, and oozing sex appeal.
Copy and paste this URL into google to see her when she was at her best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI&feature=related (Carly sings "Anticipation")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7HgO9QhAc&feature=related (Carly sings "That's just the way I always heard it should be
9) Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"...
...the version at Grooveshark is about 7 minutes long...and, frankly, you could easily cut this song to 3 minutes and I'm guessing it would have charted higher...
10) Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Tombstone Shadow"....
....very Kansas City Blues from Fogerty....
11) Traffic's "Mr. Fantasy"......
...another Traffic song that made them an alternative "almost famous band" from the sixties....
12) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Wrote a song for everyone" ....
....bluesy and slow...with towers of echoing growel coming from Fogerty's unique vocals...
13) Tom Waits' "Hold On" from The "Mule Variations" album....
......lyrics like, "....go ahead and call the cops, ...you don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...".....this song totally sold me on Tom Waits (a guy who does not crack Top 40 radio)....in Austin, Texas, at KGSR RADIO AUSTIN, this song...was worn out much to the appreciation of South Austin's Hipster community of pot smoking Kerouac Figures of dubious distinction.....
14) Traffic's "Feelin' Alright"...this is the best TRAFFIC song and, the song was so good, Joe Cocker stole along with Ray Charles and so many others...but, this original version is so much better and far more subtle...with soft saxophone...
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