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Booker T. & The MGs - Green Onions
Happy Birthday to American guitarist Steve Cropper, who is turning 82 today. As guitarist in Booker T. & The MGs and from numerous other things, his name is written in stone in the history of modern popular music. To celebrate Steve Cropper’s birthday, here’s Booker T. & The MGs with Green Onions.
I know I’ve posted this song before, but in another version. And it still is one of the grooviest songs ever
Wow, that’s cool, I just had a compilaton LP that’s disappeared somewhere down the line. What a great and underappreciated singer he is! Let’s not forget this one.
Chris Farlowe - Handbags and Gladrags
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Wow, I took that spare hour and listened to the whole thing. I am often a little skeptical when the “oldies” are trying to make a comeback, but it is actually a pretty good album. Respect!
yes!
The best album from the stones in ages!
Let us celebrate the memory of the American singer and songwriter Lee Clayton, who would have turned 81 today, if he hadn’t passed away in June earlier this year. This great songwriter was the man behind Waylon Jennings’ country hit Ladies Love Outlaws, which became sort of an anthem on the outlaw country scene in the 1970’s. The Highwaymen also had a hit with one of Lee Clayton’s songs.
Unfortunately Lee Clayton is mostly forgotten today. Although he released six albums between 1973 and 1994, he never really pursued his own musical career. The most success he had, was in Norway, Germany and Ireland from the late 1970’s and through the 80’s. In the US he remained unknown. Which I think is a shame, because Lee Clayton was brilliant songwriter. Three of his albums are classics.
To celebrate Lee Clayton’s memory, here is the song 10,000 Years/Sexual Moon, taken from his best album Naked C___d from 1979.
I did see Lee Clayton live once in 1988, backed by a band of Norwegian musicians. The gig was at a small club in Oslo, and it was a great thirill to see this remarkable songwriter up close.
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Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat
Happy Birthday to American singer and songwriter Lyle Lovett, who is turning 66 today. He’s a fine tunesmith, with lots of good songs in his discograpy. To celebrate his birthday, here is a song from his 1987 album Pontiac, one of his best albums.
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The Beatles’ new song…
release: today
I don’t have the feel that more words are necessary
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Lulu - Dirty Old Man
Happy Birthday to Scottish singer Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, better known as Lulu, who is turning 75 today. To celebrate Lulu’s birthday, here’s Dirty Old Man, featutring the late great Duane Allman on guitar.
Come to think of it, this song couldn’t possibly be about the average VHTV forum member…no, of course not 
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@JonR already posted the Beatles’ “new” song as audio yesterday.
Today I’m sending the Official Music Video afterwards.
The Beatles - Now and Then
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This song is pretty bad.The video on the other hand is excellent should win some awards for sure
Well, I really like the song.
But that’s just a matter of taste.
And considering that it is probably the last song by the Beatles and that we had to wait 53 years for it, I will add it to my Beatles archive as a final note. 
Tommy Emmanuel & Molly Tuttle - White Freightliner Blues
This is some serious guitar picking! He is a wizard on the guitar, but she sure knows her way on the fretboard too!
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did not know them untill now, i like them!
Glad to hear you like it. The guitar playing is amazing. They are actually pretty new to me too, I just dicoverd them earlier this week 
Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollypop (1956)
Allow me some music history again. No - the worldwide smash hit by Millie from 1964 is not the original version of this song. Yes - the spelling in the version recorded eight years prior to Mille’s was Lollypop, not Lollipop.
Barbie Gaye was 14, when she cut school one day, went down to the studio and recorded the song in one take. Allegedly she was paid 200 dollars, probably a substantial sum for a 14 year old girl in 1956.
The song did not become a huge hit, but it actually had some local success in the New York area. DJ Alan Freed played it frequently, and Barbie opened at gigs with artists like Little Richard and Fats Domino. Chris Blackwell, who later founded Island Records, made the the song known in Jamaica, where it also became quite popular for a while.
As for Barbie Gaye, she faded away into obscurity. Even the mighty INTERNET is not able to come up with any information about what happened to her.
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