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 dance mix with about 60 seconds of banal, repetitive dance mix which ruins this song...so...find the youtube version, it gets the song out quicker....
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 lines of samba....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?
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 for "Hippie Tuesday" (a pot smoking celebration that brought a lot of people together in the back alley, where, The Austin PD did "not bust us"?????.....
5) Janis Joplin "Down on Me":....
....One of Janis' most intense emotional 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 played on the air?
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 quitar 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 violin from Champ Hood...Toni likes singing "blues with lots of acoustic strings", which hardly anyone tried doing successfully in this way?
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 song was written by Dave Mason for Traffic back in 1968...and it is a better version than all the covers.
