Picking up where I left off, I'd first like to say that I gave this music project some thought last night and came to the conclusion that it's really not just for "my" amusement. The lists might just have some long, lost artists that you'd like to add to your own collection.
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can pretty much Google the artists' names with "discography" after it and come up with ALL kinds of good stuff. When I was building my iTunes collection outside of the couple of thousand CDs I had to choose from at home, I also Googled categories such as "One Hit Wonders" for the '60s, '70s and '80s (my heaviest years for listening to the radio), "movie music," "surf guitar," "easy listening," "novelty songs," etc.
Pulling the results of those searches, I was amazed at how many songs came up from my childhood and high school days that I'd completely forgotten about, but had loved.
What a long, strange (musical) trip it's been...
And now... the C, D, E and F artists:
CAB CALLOWAY
C.W. McCALL (Ya'll remember "Convoy," right? Heh.)
CANNED HEAT
CARL DOUGLAS (And the ever-popular "Kung Fu Fighting." Heh heh.)
CARLY SIMON
CAROLE KING
CARPENTERS
CARS
CAT STEVENS
CELINE DION ("River Deep, Mountain High" only... because iTunes hadn't yet offered Tina Turner's original.)
CHAD & JEREMY
CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
CHER
CHICAGO
CHUCK BERRY
CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (That one'll keep you guessing awhile. Heh.)
CLEFTONES
CLIMAX
CLINT HOLMES (Before becoming a Vegas showroom regular, he recorded "Playground In My Mind"... "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new...")
CLOVERS
COASTERS
COMMITMENTS
COMMODORES
COUNT FIVE
COWSILLS
CRESTS
CRYSTALS
CYRKLE (This group was managed by Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager. Biggest hit - "Red Rubber Ball.")
DADDY DEWDROP
DALE HAWKINS
DANNY ELFMAN
DAVE "BABY" CORTEZ
DAVID BOWIE
DAVID ESSEX
DAVID LEE ROTH
DAVID TOMLINSON & DICK VAN DYKE ("Let's Go Fly a Kite" from the movie, "Mary Poppins.")
DEE CLARK
DEEP PURPLE
DEL AMITRI
DEL VIKINGS
DENNIS COFFEY & THE DETROIT GUITAR BAND
DEREK & THE DOMINOES
DESMOND DEKKER
DIAMONDS
DIANA ROSS (with and without THE SUPREMES)
DICK BRAVE & THE BACKBEATS
DICK DALE
DIONNE WARWICK
DOLLY PARTON
DON HENLEY
DONNA SUMMER
DOOBIE BROTHERS
DOORS (Lots of their stuff... Wanna dance nasty? "Roadhouse Blues" baby.)
DR. HOOK
DRIFTERS
DUANE EDDY
DUBS
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
EAGLES
EARTH, WIND & FIRE (Including THE best cover of the Beatles - "Got to Get You Into My Life.")
EDDIE RABBITT
EDISON LIGHTHOUSE
EDWIN STARR
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (ELO)
ELMER BERNSTEIN ("The Magnificent Seven" theme... It was my high school fight song. Go Cowboys!)
ELTON JOHN (Including the duet with KIKI DEE on "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
ELVIN BISHOP
ELVIS PRESLEY (A bunch of his, too... Listened like crazy as a toddler - before the Beatles took over.)
ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY
ENNIO MORRICONE (Theme from "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" - Thanks for Clint Eastwood, Dad!)
ERIC CLAPTON
ERIC WEISSBERG
EURYTHMICS (Yeah, I know I've got Annie up there in the As, but they deserve individual mentions.)
EVERLY BROTHERS
EXILE
FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS
FATS DOMINO
FIREFALL
FIVE AMERICANS
FIVE SATINS
FIVE STAIRSTEPS
FLAMINGOS
FLASH CADILLAC & THE CONTINENTAL KIDS
FLEETWOOD MAC
FLEETWOODS (No relation... Heh.)
FOCUS (Remember "Hocus Pocus" by Focus? Yeah... One Hit Wonder.)
FOGHAT
FOLKSMEN (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer in the marvelous spoof, "A Mighty Wind")
FOUNDATIONS
FRANK SINATRA
FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS
FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS
FREE
As I peruse the first few lists, I'm thinking of a possible name for my "genre" and it is "Eclectic White Bread" *LOL* ... I love a big, ol' mix of stuff, but it (glaringly for some of you readers, I'm sure) omits most of the heavier artists. You won't find any Rap, very little Metal and very little, if any Alternative music on my iPod. What you will find is a lot of Rock, Pop, Blues, Easy Listening and early Rhythm & Blues, with a bit of cross-over Country (I'm really not a fan, but like some individual tunes) and some other stuff tossed in.
Most of the songs hold wonderful nostalgic value for me... I can remember the "where and when" moments I heard so many of them - an awful lot of them while driving or riding in a car, most definitely!
And I make no apologies for my selections... I have a great passion for the music I love. I'm flexible too, and will keep adding tunes as they capture my ears, my sense of fun, and often... my soul.
To be continued...
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can pretty much Google the artists' names with "discography" after it and come up with ALL kinds of good stuff. When I was building my iTunes collection outside of the couple of thousand CDs I had to choose from at home, I also Googled categories such as "One Hit Wonders" for the '60s, '70s and '80s (my heaviest years for listening to the radio), "movie music," "surf guitar," "easy listening," "novelty songs," etc.
Pulling the results of those searches, I was amazed at how many songs came up from my childhood and high school days that I'd completely forgotten about, but had loved.
What a long, strange (musical) trip it's been...
And now... the C, D, E and F artists:
CAB CALLOWAY
C.W. McCALL (Ya'll remember "Convoy," right? Heh.)
CANNED HEAT
CARL DOUGLAS (And the ever-popular "Kung Fu Fighting." Heh heh.)
CARLY SIMON
CAROLE KING
CARPENTERS
CARS
CAT STEVENS
CELINE DION ("River Deep, Mountain High" only... because iTunes hadn't yet offered Tina Turner's original.)
CHAD & JEREMY
CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
CHER
CHICAGO
CHUCK BERRY
CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (That one'll keep you guessing awhile. Heh.)
CLEFTONES
CLIMAX
CLINT HOLMES (Before becoming a Vegas showroom regular, he recorded "Playground In My Mind"... "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new...")
CLOVERS
COASTERS
COMMITMENTS
COMMODORES
COUNT FIVE
COWSILLS
CRESTS
CRYSTALS
CYRKLE (This group was managed by Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager. Biggest hit - "Red Rubber Ball.")
DADDY DEWDROP
DALE HAWKINS
DANNY ELFMAN
DAVE "BABY" CORTEZ
DAVID BOWIE
DAVID ESSEX
DAVID LEE ROTH
DAVID TOMLINSON & DICK VAN DYKE ("Let's Go Fly a Kite" from the movie, "Mary Poppins.")
DEE CLARK
DEEP PURPLE
DEL AMITRI
DEL VIKINGS
DENNIS COFFEY & THE DETROIT GUITAR BAND
DEREK & THE DOMINOES
DESMOND DEKKER
DIAMONDS
DIANA ROSS (with and without THE SUPREMES)
DICK BRAVE & THE BACKBEATS
DICK DALE
DIONNE WARWICK
DOLLY PARTON
DON HENLEY
DONNA SUMMER
DOOBIE BROTHERS
DOORS (Lots of their stuff... Wanna dance nasty? "Roadhouse Blues" baby.)
DR. HOOK
DRIFTERS
DUANE EDDY
DUBS
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
EAGLES
EARTH, WIND & FIRE (Including THE best cover of the Beatles - "Got to Get You Into My Life.")
EDDIE RABBITT
EDISON LIGHTHOUSE
EDWIN STARR
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (ELO)
ELMER BERNSTEIN ("The Magnificent Seven" theme... It was my high school fight song. Go Cowboys!)
ELTON JOHN (Including the duet with KIKI DEE on "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
ELVIN BISHOP
ELVIS PRESLEY (A bunch of his, too... Listened like crazy as a toddler - before the Beatles took over.)
ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY
ENNIO MORRICONE (Theme from "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" - Thanks for Clint Eastwood, Dad!)
ERIC CLAPTON
ERIC WEISSBERG
EURYTHMICS (Yeah, I know I've got Annie up there in the As, but they deserve individual mentions.)
EVERLY BROTHERS
EXILE
FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS
FATS DOMINO
FIREFALL
FIVE AMERICANS
FIVE SATINS
FIVE STAIRSTEPS
FLAMINGOS
FLASH CADILLAC & THE CONTINENTAL KIDS
FLEETWOOD MAC
FLEETWOODS (No relation... Heh.)
FOCUS (Remember "Hocus Pocus" by Focus? Yeah... One Hit Wonder.)
FOGHAT
FOLKSMEN (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer in the marvelous spoof, "A Mighty Wind")
FOUNDATIONS
FRANK SINATRA
FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS
FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS
FREE
As I peruse the first few lists, I'm thinking of a possible name for my "genre" and it is "Eclectic White Bread" *LOL* ... I love a big, ol' mix of stuff, but it (glaringly for some of you readers, I'm sure) omits most of the heavier artists. You won't find any Rap, very little Metal and very little, if any Alternative music on my iPod. What you will find is a lot of Rock, Pop, Blues, Easy Listening and early Rhythm & Blues, with a bit of cross-over Country (I'm really not a fan, but like some individual tunes) and some other stuff tossed in.
Most of the songs hold wonderful nostalgic value for me... I can remember the "where and when" moments I heard so many of them - an awful lot of them while driving or riding in a car, most definitely!
And I make no apologies for my selections... I have a great passion for the music I love. I'm flexible too, and will keep adding tunes as they capture my ears, my sense of fun, and often... my soul.
To be continued...
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