Saturday, December 20, 2025

Weekend tunes ...

Anything goes on this thread. So post whatever y'all want. But I'll try to stay with media theme songs (emphasis on "try"). The cited link is A Swingin' Safari by Bert Kaempfert (1962). A theme of the TV show, The Match Game back in the day.

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Comments

OK, here's another, more recent ...

Keb' Mo' - I See Love (2012)
www.youtube.com


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 09:54 PM

Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain (Clockwork Orange 1972 film)
www.youtube.com


Such an upbeat tune from such a, I'll be kind, disturbing movie.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 10:28 PM


A fav, albeit obscure, movie that I enjoyed back in the 1980's ...

Together In Electric Dreams / From "Electric Dreams" Original Motion Picture (1984)
www.youtube.com


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 10:37 PM

OK, the song is from 1935, but the show (PBS' This Old House) was not as old ...

Fats Waller - Louisiana Fairy Tale (1935)
www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 10:48 PM

OK, from the popular TV series Roswell ...

Dido - Here With Me (1999)
www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:01 PM

Frank Sinatra Jr - The Gumby Heart Song (1989)
www.youtube.com


:)

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:11 PM

... and a fav of mine ...

Overture (Merrie Melodies Main Title Music)
www.youtube.com

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:14 PM

@#7

Wow, the link seems not to work anymore, or maybe I mis-copied it..

Try this one ...

www.youtube.com


Apologies.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:18 PM

The full version of this Cheers theme song, complete with the verse that is usually omitted ...

Gary Portnoy - Everybody Knows Your Name
www.youtube.com



#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:30 PM

W.G. Snuffy Walden - West Wing Suite
www.youtube.com

Yeah, I often watch the West Wing DVDs that I have to assuage me that Pres Trump's reign of terror upon the Constitution is only a temporary thing.


That aside,from what I've heard, the producers of The West Wing decided that a more classical music oriented music background would be better for the show than the original rock-oriented music background that had originally proposed.

imo, good decision.


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:54 PM

A fun one ...

The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs (1962)
www.youtube.com

:)




#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-21 12:01 AM

OK, I'm at the end of the "soundtrack" playlist here.

So, I guess, on to other things ...

That aside, what's on your playlist this evening?

As I mentioned... no specific musical topic on this thread ...


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-21 12:05 AM

Ten Wheel Drive - Morning Much Better (1970)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
How many times have I told you, baby
That I'd do anything you say
But listen here, daddy
I got a new feeling
That you can't do me this way

Ain't said no to your love
And never did and never never plan to do
But if you want to keep me happy, baby
Better hear what I'm saying to you

Coming to night I might dig being up
For floating around on a cloud
Watching people walking past my window
Playing my music out loud

Coming to noon I can't think about nothing
But the daylight blazing through
And the afternoon is a no count time
'Cause I got my business to do

Well I could probably function
For a little conjunction, yeah
But I usually like it
In the morning much better, yeah

Most people think that the midnight trip
Is the proper kind of scene
But I come on feeling very foggy
And I never can cut it too clean

People think they're at the top of their form
After staying up half of the night
But I know after a good night's sleep
Well I can get it on all right

I ain't never resisted, lord
When you have insisted, no
But I usually like it
In the morning much better, yeah

Early in the morning with the sun just up
And the air so fresh and sweet
Folks just getting their boots pulled on
And they're straggling out to the street

Taken their time while before they start
In to cutting on their wood
I can't say just what it is sugar
But I know it sure feels good

Pull the curtain behind me, yeah
You better come find me
'Cause I usually like it
In the morning much better
...



#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-21 12:14 AM

Either Way - Wilco (Kami Maltz ft. Josh Turner)

www.youtube.com

Think I'm drawn to these kind of covers because it's what we did in college many evenings; sit around and play music with our friends. (not even the real artists had auto tune and stuff)

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-21 12:24 PM

Jimmy Reed, "Going to New York":

www.youtube.com

#15 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-21 06:53 PM

Erasure - Tenderest Moments - great version, I covered this in 1997 for a tribute album.

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-21 09:01 PM

#16

Beautiful song.

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-21 09:09 PM

Mavis Staples covers Sparklehorse.

Sad and Beautiful World

www.youtube.com

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-21 10:06 PM

We doing all covers again? Well, OK.

Frank Zappa, "Whipping Post":

www.youtube.com

I saw him do this as an encore at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta way back around this time and thought it was just something for the locals. Didn't realize it was part of his usual set.

#19 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-21 11:21 PM

[I'm gonna predict that if AngryDad shows up, he's going to say he was at that show.]

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-21 11:24 PM

Well.... I never even knew he covered that. Also the outro visuals flashed me back to a 1974 acid trip.

Thanks!

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-21 11:37 PM

Just for fun:

www.youtube.com

Only song that ever came with Money Back Guarantee if it doesn't get you laid:

www.youtube.com

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-21 11:50 PM

Old and in the Way, "Wild Horses":

www.youtube.com

And another, even better Stones cover:

The Folksmen, "Start Me Up":

www.youtube.com

#23 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-21 11:54 PM

22. Spirit was 100 percent off my radar. An album of theirs popped up via an algorithm, and my wife started singing along with every word. I was like, "Who the hell is this? And why do you know all the lyrics?"

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-21 11:57 PM

One more.

Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, "Positively 4th Street":

www.youtube.com

#25 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-22 12:03 AM

24 lol!

Monterey

www.youtube.com

#26 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 12:04 AM

26. At least Ravi Shankar looks clearheaded. That's a great collection of shots of those folks. Thanks.

I used to play music with a guy who had played guitar professionally for decades and was an all-around freak (yet a Trumper, in the early days anyway). We once saw someone walk by with a mock-vintage Woodstock T-shirt listing all the performers, and I asked if there were any he hadn't seen. There were two (I think Melanie and one other), but he mentioned, "We did open for Canned Heat one time." I was impressed enough.

#27 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-22 12:20 AM

#27

The only band I saw 3 times in the 70's was Tull... I went out and bought a flute right away. Ian was a really good guitarist, but he said after he saw Clapton and some others play he figured he should get a new lead instrument.

When I was 16 though, I had just gotten my drivers license and some girl wanted me to take her to see Herman's Hermits at Market Hall in Dallas. OK... so, their opening act was The Who.

They played My Generation, Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles, some others... then they started smashing their instruments on stage.... in f'n Dallas, TX. No one had seen anything like it.

I still don't even remember the Hermits playing at all, but my music life had changed. Next thing I knew I was in someone's black light poster room smoking pot and listening to Paint it Black.

Have great Holiday!

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 12:34 AM

#27

The only band I saw 3 times in the 70's was Tull... I went out and bought a flute right away. Ian was a really good guitarist, but he said after he saw Clapton and some others play he figured he should get a new lead instrument.

When I was 16 though, I had just gotten my drivers license and some girl wanted me to take her to see Herman's Hermits at Market Hall in Dallas. OK... so, their opening act was The Who.

They played My Generation, Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles, some others... then they started smashing their instruments on stage.... in f'n Dallas, TX. No one had seen anything like it.

I still don't even remember the Hermits playing at all, but my music life had changed. Next thing I knew I was in someone's black light poster room smoking pot and listening to Paint it Black.

Have great Holiday!

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 12:34 AM

"I still don't even remember the Hermits playing at all"
No worry, because as Peter Noone warbled, "Second verse, same as the first."
Good holidays to you.

#30 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-22 08:00 AM

To you too, Doc!

I assume the weather is peachy down there; we have a high of 78 all week and clear weather, so fine by me. My daughter is in West Palm now, a Prof there, but she'll be in Naples this week.

This new vid dropped an hour ago, perhaps it's for you, although somehow I doubt you have a twang:

www.youtube.com

#31 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 12:12 PM

A song that I can feel with (understatement ...)

Cascades - Rhythm of the Rain (1963)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
A one hit wonder (1963) that kept the band and the songwriter's (John Claude Gummoe) well known 50+ more years.

Per Gummoe "

the lyrics began while I was serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Jason AR8. I was standing a mid watch on the bridge while we were underway to Japan. We were sailing up in the north pacific and it was raining heavily and the seas were tossing.

[Verse 1]
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again

[Verse 2]
The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand-new start
But little does she know that when she left that day
Along with her, she took my heart

[Chorus]
Rain, please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don't care?
I can't love another when my heart's somewhere far away
she took my heart
...



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