Music for 2020
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thrulookingglass
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Re: Music for 2020
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stickdog99
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Re: Music for 2020
19 minutes.
Ray Charles, vocals and piano
Aretha Franklin, vocals
King Curtis (who was stabbed to death just 6 months later), sax
Bernard Perdie, drums
Billy Preston, organ
Cornell Dupree, guitar
Pancho Morales, congas
Jerry Jemmott, bass
Truman Thomas, piano
Memphis Horns
Brenda Bryant, Margaret Branch (Aretha's cousins) and Pat Smith - backing vocals
"That live recording by Aretha Franklin that I joined in on recently? It was a true accident. I just happened to be in a club in San Francisco, and somebody said to me: 'Hey, Ray, Aretha's working at Basin Street West' or wherever it was, and I said: 'I didn't know that. So why don't we go by and catch her?' So we all went by, and I was sitting out there. Evidently somebody told her, and before I knew it she'd left the stage and come up and snatched me. I mean, I can't argue with a woman - it's very difficult for me! She said: 'Come on up and do something'. but I didn't know what to do. I'm sure, if you listen to the song we did, the Spirit In The Dark, you could tell I don't even know the thing. I'd heard her sing it, but I think when Aretha sings something, after that everybody else should forget about it. You know nothing else can be done to it. So I didn't know it, but I figured: okay, since I'm here we might as well fake it the best we can. And the thing wound up selling over a million records."
Ray Charles, vocals and piano
Aretha Franklin, vocals
King Curtis (who was stabbed to death just 6 months later), sax
Bernard Perdie, drums
Billy Preston, organ
Cornell Dupree, guitar
Pancho Morales, congas
Jerry Jemmott, bass
Truman Thomas, piano
Memphis Horns
Brenda Bryant, Margaret Branch (Aretha's cousins) and Pat Smith - backing vocals
"That live recording by Aretha Franklin that I joined in on recently? It was a true accident. I just happened to be in a club in San Francisco, and somebody said to me: 'Hey, Ray, Aretha's working at Basin Street West' or wherever it was, and I said: 'I didn't know that. So why don't we go by and catch her?' So we all went by, and I was sitting out there. Evidently somebody told her, and before I knew it she'd left the stage and come up and snatched me. I mean, I can't argue with a woman - it's very difficult for me! She said: 'Come on up and do something'. but I didn't know what to do. I'm sure, if you listen to the song we did, the Spirit In The Dark, you could tell I don't even know the thing. I'd heard her sing it, but I think when Aretha sings something, after that everybody else should forget about it. You know nothing else can be done to it. So I didn't know it, but I figured: okay, since I'm here we might as well fake it the best we can. And the thing wound up selling over a million records."
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liminalOyster
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Re: Music for 2020
"It's not rocket surgery." - Elvis
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Cordelia
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Re: Music for 2020
The greatest sin is to be unconscious. ~ Carl Jung
We may not choose the parameters of our destiny. But we give it its content. ~ Dag Hammarskjold 'Waymarks'
We may not choose the parameters of our destiny. But we give it its content. ~ Dag Hammarskjold 'Waymarks'
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