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It's the Joe Vig Top 40 for May 2023
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1)The Lost Weekend: May Pang / John Lennon
2)It Ain't Over Yogi Berra Biopic
3)Picard, the Last Season
4) Jourdan
5)The Philosophy of Modern Song, a book by Bob Dylan
(Lillian Roxon returns!)
1)The Lost Weekend, A Love Story
https://www.maypang.com/the-lost-weekend
2)It Ain't Over Yogi Berra Biopic
3) Picard the Last Season
4)Jourdan
Was just playing Frankie Lyman's "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" on the piano when Jamaican agent supreme, Racquel Reynolds, sent Jourdan's Way Too Long ft. Liacay which is filled with Lyman flavors but is its own original, majestic song that is just so ....comfortable and wonderful to listen to. And then it just stops. Wow. Three minutes and twenty six seconds that you will want to play over and over and over again. It's Pop, it's Reggae, highly commercial and smooth as smooth can get
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7xQo5G1QU
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One--and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan's unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work's transcendence.
In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.
https://wdwnt.com/2023/03/disney-releases-official-poster-for-the-little-mermaid-movie-official-trailer-to-debut-during-the-oscars/
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/402357077?deferredFl=1
YouTube
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=noei22ClgGk&list=OLAK5uy_kBELVq1WEgMYxumeYtOjniEg8AaAMsKFg
You can play repeatedly every track on Vintage Reggae presented by JONFX (if you don't believe me, click on the Deezer link where you can hear samples,) a composition like "Miracle" draws you in with precisely played memorable sound. There is so much reggae coming from all around the world, but JONFX and his authoritative understanding of how to entertain, tell a story, and make it work from track to track is a pure delight in this day and age of repetitive copying. "Work It Out" pleasantly is an instantly good-feeling tone that builds an atmosphere around you. Saturate yourself with this disc and the melodies will stay in your mind and follow you around in a good way.
https://www.amazon.com/Redeemer-Matthew-Modine/dp/B000087F5R
REDEEMER - DVD Movie
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When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Charles Henderson (Obba Babatunde), is sentenced to life in prison. Bestselling author Paul Freeman (Modine) offers a creative-writing class in Henderson's prison, initially looking for a story for his next book; but when Henderson becomes his student, Freeman starts to investigate Henderson's case and becomes convinced that, after 20 years, Henderson deserves to be released--but the next step is convincing the sister of the man whose death Henderson is responsible for. Redeemer is a bit obvious, but the script does tackle its subject from a variety of perspectives, the direction is clean and straightforward, and the performances have commitment and energy--Babatunde is particularly compelling. --Bret Fetzer
12)Staying Alive: Ozzy and Dweezil Zappa
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17)Stephen Bishop ("On and On" https://youtu.be/ljuJnUYozUg ) sends us a Demo that Got the Deal Saturday night, 5/20/23 via Twitter
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19) Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius One Foot in the Next World (Live at ProgStock) https://youtu.be/riBWgHo3MgE
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A & M Records single #1737 is a haunting four minutes and forty-four seconds of music from Joan Baez which stands as a classic epic translating a love affair by two legends into equal parts paean/spiritual revenge. Calling her ex the "unwashed phenomenon" and someone good at keeping things "vague", she tells Bob Dylan and the world she needs "some of that vagueness now." "Now" is the end of 1975 and urban legend has it that this Top 35 hit (not nearly as big as her Top 3 "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" from 1971) was the product of some record company ultimatum to deliver a chart song or else. Much like the alleged demands put on Garland Jeffries which resulted in "Wild In The Streets" on Atlantic (and the "or else" anyways, or else being termination of residence at that particular label). If the myth is true, this is a pure pearl from the oyster's irritation, recorded between January 21-24 1975, it would gain momentum in October and November of that year. A truly magical excursion into the relationship between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, the songstress has to deliver words on par with her stunning voice, and she does, matching her famous ex-lover and capturing a "Hollywood" relationship brilliantly. Bernie Gelb's liner notes shed some light on the creation of "Diamonds & Rust", noting it was the first track cut at the sessions. Baez equates gems and tarnish with thinking about the past, and concludes the ode/attack with the notation that she's already purchased that luxury, paid in full. Reading between the lines is half the fun, and Dylan's friend Buzzy Linhart says he can go on and on about the significance in these grooves, as can most fans of Dylan...and Baez. A classic in the truest form of the word, produced by Joan and David Kershenbaum with the singer on guitar as well as Moog and Arp Synthesizers. Exquisite, and the title of a superb and important album from this artist. For more insight into the workings of this great moment, one only has to go four more cuts into the record as Joan concludes side 1 with a parody of Bob Dylan's voice on his own "A Simple Twist Of Fate", which could be Baez reflecting on what she's just done - turned the tables. https://www.allmusic.com/song/diamonds-rust-mt0010683866
Song Review by Joe Viglione [-]
Three Times in Love
Tommy James
"Three Times In Love" is as exquisite a pop confection as you'll find, a #1 Adult Contemporary hit for Tommy James which should have ushered in a whole new career for the singer/songwriter in the 1980's, one that could have had him giving Olivia, Elton, Helen and Barry a good run for their money on the pop charts. Millennium Records single #11785 came at the dawn of that new decade going Top 20 on the singles charts in February of 1980. The guitar strums are even lighter than Nick Lowe's hit, "Cruel To Be Kind" from the year before, the sentiment a lot more positive than Lowe, a song about falling in love head over heels, not once, not twice, but three times. It's survival of the fittest from the first love of teen years being a game and and ultimately fading away to the second time around finding the person in question older and wiser, The lyrics take a back seat to the gorgeous hook, a gliding vocal of "three times in love" over cascading acoustic guitars with a stunningly sweet lead right before the bridge. Tommy James made some good records for Fantasy in the '70's, including a wonderful re-make of "Tighter, Tighter", the hit he wrote and produced for Alive 'n Kickin'. The label change to Millennium Entertainment allowed this title track the opportunity to reach an audience, and it deserved to. Sophisticated adult pop by a craftsman who has the voice and intuitive charm, this number drives politely, swimming in pretty sounds and is a far cry from the garage rock of "Hanky Panky" which launched James' storied career. Of the 19 chart songs he wrote or performed, there's something extra special about this one. Co-written by Tommy James and guitarist/bassist Ronnie Serota, the song clocks in at four minutes and nine seconds. A Spanish version was also released, which has become something of a collectors item.
https://www.allmusic.com/song/three-times-in-love-mt0004334491
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The Tomorrow War's Time Travel Rules Explained (Is There A Paradox?)
What are The Tomorrow War's time travel rules - and do these time travel rules serve to explain the paradox Amazon's sci-fi film may contain?
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Did Paul McCartney write new?
- " New " is a song written by Paul McCartney. It was originally recorded by McCartney and produced by English musician Mark Ronson for McCartney's sixteenth studio album New, and appears as the sixth track on the album.
"New" was greeted positively by critics and the musical press. As well as being selected as BBC Radio 2's Record of the Week[4][5] and placed on their A-list,[6] the track was greeted as the "Track of the Day" by Mojo which praised its "doe-eyed optimism, irresistible melody" and "orchestrated pop arrangements".[7] Rolling Stone's Will Hermes, praised its "bouncy harpsichord-laden melody", giving it a four-star rating and drawing comparisons to the Beatles' "Got to Get You into My Life",[8] a view shared by The Daily Telegraph which described it as a "jaunty, Beatles-esque stomp".[9]
Paul McCartney is peeling back the curtain on his last conversation with his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon.
In his new book “The Lyrics,” the musician writes how he and Lennon spoke about baking bread the final time they spoke.
“It was very special to me that we reached that point, actually, because you had the whole horrible thing of the group breaking up,” he told “The Howard Stern Show.” “I think we just realized, ‘Come on, guys. We love each other. What are we doing? We’re messing around.’”
https://www.today.com/popculture/paul-mccartney-talks-his-final-conversation-john-lennon-t238607
McCartney performed the song live on late night shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as well as at the iHeartRadio Music Festival where he premiered it as well as several other songs off the new album.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
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This self-titled album from singer P.J. Colt gets into the history books as the first album recorded at Electric Lady Studio, and the participation of Jeff Baxter, who performed with Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and many others. Some reference guides list this album's year of release as 1970, others as 1976. There is no copyright on the disc, making 1970 seem like the release date; it certainly looks and sounds like a project from the early '70s. There are two standout tracks, "Grave Down by the River" and "Growing Old," although the record is pretty consistent and listenable all the way through. Colt originally released the song "Growing Old" on a single and an album by Boston band Dirty John's Hot Dog Stand on Amsterdam Records in 1970. The track has a spacy opening, while Colt's vocal sounds hauntingly like early Michael McDonald. "Growing Old" follows "Blues Train," a competent cross between Wilson Pickett's "Mustang Sally" and the Velvet Underground's "Train Comin' Round the Bend." The musicianship shines throughout; guitarist Baxter emerged a star after his involvement with "the Bosstown Sound" of producer Alan Lorber on the third Ultimate Spinach album, which is a testament to talent winning out. Ray Paret did the production here, listed in the smallest of type. He certainly did not get in the way of the band, musicians who cook on Bonnie Bramlett's "Someday," "Black Jesus" -- actually, on every track. Ed Costa's keyboards and the plethora of backing vocalists are all tastefully combined in the straightforward production and mix. There's a significant cover of Van Morrison's "Crazy Love," a song suited to Colt's vocal style, while the rendition of "Honky Tonk Women" -- try though it may -- does not achieve what it seeks: the drunken barroom Leon Russell atmosphere and attitude. Colt's originals are listenable blues-rock, from the funky opening track "Once in the Morning" to the blues-drenched "I'm Tired Now." Drummer Jim Wilkins, pianist Costa, and guitarist Baxter collaborated to pen the tune "Leave Me Alone," one of the album's more rocking and commercial numbers.
