Seattle Times Ray Charles and Quincy Jones were teenagers when they met in a Seattle nightclub, one of dozens clustered around Jackson Street in the 1940s. They were both aspiring jazz musicians, Charles a pianist, Jones a trumpeter. They were among many now- familiar names who got their start in Se ...
Sesame Street turns 40! Wow. USA Today has a nice piece celebrating the show. I could (and probably should) spend all day looking at old clips. Here are a handful that a cursory YouTube search turned up. Let me know what other treasures I overlooked. My personal favorite, coolest man on planet Herbi ...
Sam Cooke Se un cantante non canta dall’anima, non voglio nemmeno ascoltarlo – non fa per me. Sam Cooke era immerso profondamente in puro soul. Aveva l’abilità rara di fare gospel nel modo in cui si suppone che venga fatto – lo rendeva chiaro, pulito, diretto. Il gospel ha portato Sam Cooke attraver ...
Vanity Fair magazine has a long tradition that's being made into a book. I suspect it'll be a movie before too long! There's just something wonderful and inspiring about getting to know other people better, whether it be stars, friends...
Fonte: “ lasicilia.it“ Giuseppe Attardi Quanto è lunga la strada che da Catania porta ai vertici delle classifiche di mezzo mondo? Lunga, lunghissima. Lo sa bene Mario Ranno, in arte Biondi, in omaggio al nome d’arte del padre Stefano, anche lui cantante. «Mi ha trasmesso la passione per il blues e ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML8IL77gQ3k]Wow…Sesame Street is 40! I don’t remember the last time I watched the show but it does bring back some memories. They had some good celebrities on there…Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles! Anyways I was digging through the archives of YouTube ...
I went digging in the crates at the antique mall again today at lunch time and found some more 45's for the jukebox . Most are hits from the mid-1960's, but I was happy to find the three Ray Charles singles on Atlantic. The first two singles are taken from the album What'd I Say (Atlantic, 1959). I ...
Isn’t it Ray Charles that sung ‘Georgia on my Mind’? Well I know why. Georgia is a beautiful state. Gorgeous green rolling hills dense pine forests, fertile farms and of course the Peach Trees. As a kid we would go to Georgia every other summer to visit my aunt and cousins there. In alternate years ...
