OT - What Song (s) You Listening To Today?

[Andy_Faber]

Currently recovering from

Blizzard Of Ozz - ‘Crazy Train’.

Give Ozzy credit this song really is at ball-breaking high pitch, still working on my rendition as part of my vocal ‘exercises’. Croak. I met Ozzy, or rather I was in his company, a couple of times when I helped deliver some equipment to his ‘farm’. Thelma his then wife was lovely but Ozzy was so wrecked I gave him less than a year. That was 1978 so I’m currently wrong by 39 years.

[Andy_Faber]

Here's another piece of Otis trivia....... The night before the crash he had recorded Dock of the Bay. We all know the song and all know the whistling at the end. It is said that he intended to add one more verse to the song. A verse that had not yet been written and he added the whistle in at the end, intending to replace it with the new verse, when written.

......and Otis never heard the seagulls, or the waves.....

What a loss, the only positive fifty years down the line is that he left a fantastic body of work untainted by the pressures of commercialism further down the line

[MadAmster]

......and Otis never heard the seagulls, or the waves.....

What a loss, the only positive fifty years down the line is that he left a fantastic body of work untainted by the pressures of commercialism further down the line

I have always thought that, had he not been in that plane crash, he would have dwarfed anything that Elvis, Micky J, Prince et al managed. He was a consummate performer, equally at home with ballads, mid tempo and 100 mph blasters. A presence on stage. I have a DVD of some of his live performances. Magical. I also believe that he would not have been ruined by being forced into over acting in a series of damned awful and cheesy films............

[Andy_Faber]

I have always thought that, had he not been in that plane crash, he would have dwarfed anything that Elvis, Micky J, Prince et al managed. He was a consummate performer, equally at home with ballads, mid tempo and 100 mph blasters. A presence on stage. I have a DVD of some of his live performances. Magical. I also believe that he would not have been ruined by being forced into over acting in a series of damned awful and cheesy films............

I have a dvd which includes footage of the 67 Stax Volt tour. Simply fantastic.

[roger_ramjet]

When I worked at the Allied Breweries Computer Centre in Burton in the 70s, one of the security guards was a John Martindale. Obvious what he was known as.

Want to listen live....... www.nederland.fm/radio2/

John?

[AdiSalisbury]

Currently listening to the album Rising Force, Yngwie Malmsteem, classic 80's shred music, love it!

[MadAmster]

John?

No Roger...... as you already will have guessed he was known as Wink.

[Andy_Faber]

Currently listening to the album Rising Force, Yngwie Malmsteem, classic 80's shred music, love it!

I like the odd bit of shredding, maybe more of a Steve Morse/Joe Satriani fan me

[Romanis]

MadAmster, here's another 'recital kind of a song' although accompanied by music. Highly funny, it's none other than Allan Sherman's 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh' or is the correct title 'Camp Granada?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3_xiUYMnXA

All the same it goes to No 3 of my top songs for the day.

Taking inspiration from Adi, No 2 is an 80's hit by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts:

I love Rock n Roll

And the Top Song of the Day is:



Can't remember if it No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but pretty certain it did reach No 2 at the very least.

[MadAmster]

There is another recital type of hit but I will refrain from posting the awful "shaddapa you face"