Christmas

Bing Crosby
White Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPfOjAw5Z0

Bing Crosby
Do You Hear What I Hear?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWVU7ZbbVps

Brenda Lee
Rockin Around the Christmas Tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzyOSAJg94

Enya
Silent Night (Irish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTfL6_eiWo

Elmo & Patsy
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0kg7sJAGtI

Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Wizards in Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLmAPW39uE

The Kinks
Father Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaPXihbORk

Summertime Blues

The original 1959 version
Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWC59FJqGc

Blue Cheer
Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM

Van Halen
Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceFNjynCCc

The Who
Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iem5TUVxpQI

Victory at Sea

Richard Rogers classic masterpiece was the musical score for the first, great television documentary: Victory at Sea.

Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmxmhxtckFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnBHdjIKwyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Qfw5W_sKk

Midway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XxXkeO96bw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_Kz086Aks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5il0_Y4F36E

The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXo5HA88RQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSNwNLdDLE

U.S. Marines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nY9ayN2KmY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2R8BAmOcdc

MacArthur Returns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJd071BcLVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_tukYwPieQ

The Battle for Leyte Gulf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXGh8utVdRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDtJFc7ywN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPEZLyNpWg

Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle ever fought on planet earth. For four years after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had chased the Imperial Japanese Navy across the Pacific Ocean and finally cornered them in the Philippines at Leyte Gulf. A friend of mine appears in this episode, as his ship, the "Jeep carrier" U.S.S. Gambier Bay http://www.ussgambierbay-vc10.com/ was sunk by the gigantic Japanese battleship Yamato with it's 18 inch guns. It was the second ship that was sunk from under him during the war...

Some Great Live Music

When I was a boy, I went to the record store with only a dollar in my pocket. You couldn't buy much for a dollar, so I went to the discount table and bought nine 10-cent, 45-RPM singles. They all turned out to be junk except this one...

Johnny Guitar Watson
Gangster of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk31242CnkU

He was unknown then and little known now, but I'm still a fan. He died on stage in Yokohama, Japan in 1996.
Johnny Guitar Watson
I Wanna Ta Ta You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0tF8LxpAKA

One of the greatest live acts of all-time was this band from Boston. It featured lead singer Peter Wolf, (a former disc jockey), lead guitar player J. Geils, and harmonica soloist Magic Dick.

J. Geils Band
Looking For a Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRezwP_znTc

Magic Dick
Whammer Jammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WwB4bLwbWE

I saw them four times. Here they are back home at the Boston Garden.
J. Geils Band
I Could Hurt You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anE-MyrAXwk

They turned sleeze into an artform:
"I don't care if she waddles like a duck,
or talks with a lisp;
I'll still think
she's a good lover,
if those dollar bills are crisp."
J. Geils Band
First I Look at the Purse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gt2LgWIXBg

One of a Kind

His music was unique. Over a period of decades, his tunes reached the top of every chart: rock chart, pop chart, country music chart, blues chart, jazz chart...all of them. He was the one performer who appealed to everyone...

Ray Charles
Hit the Road Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I

Blind since the age of seven, he concentrated everything on his music.
Ray Charles
Georgia On My Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IumnmhnPJKQ

Ray Charles
I Got A Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IQBKWdXnqU

Ray Charles
What'd I Say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULr3ouMEog

Thanks to Ray Charles' performance, we now have two national anthems...
Ray Charles
America the Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgBg

Evolution of Two Bands

This 60's band featured one of the greatest rockers ever: Steve Marriott. No member of the band stood taller than 5'5".

Small Faces
Itchycoo Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVThzJppeRk

Marriott left the Small Faces to form one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all-time...
Humble Pie
Thunderbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp4J8aWkcTo

Humble Pie
Don't Need No Doctor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw

The Small Faces regrouped after Marriott left and became one of the biggest rock&roll acts ever, with Rod Stewart (from the Jeff Beck Group) taking over as lead singer and Ronnie Wood (future Rolling Stones) on lead guitar, with Kenney Jones (Keith Moon's replacement in The Who) on drums.
Faces
Stay With Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXQARDNjR4

Many original Small Faces came to a bad end. Steve Marriott died when his house accidently burned down in 1991. Bassist Ronnie Laine died of multiple sclerosis in 1997, but they had left a huge legacy.

Faces
I'm Losing You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PXMCCTMwM

Irish Rock

Four guys from Dublin, Ireland who take themselves way too seriously...

U2
Sunday Bloody Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1CCMqm1EBg

U2
With or Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdlPjAJFIrw

U2
Where the Streets Have No Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkBzkA9L4s

U2
Bad (Live Aid Concert 1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnXOSxka1Q

Encore!
U2
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1XXs7e7ac

Are You Ready For Freddie?

I first saw Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) when he was a solo singer. He was the opening act for a band called Mountain featuring Leslie West. He was so different from anything else going at that time, that the audience didn't quite know what to make of him. All they knew was, "That guy sure can sing!" The breakthrough came when he joined lead guitarist Brian May and changed the name of their group to...

Queen
Live at Wembley Stadium, London 1986.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdGcX-s99Rg

Weeks before their sold-out, mid 70's concerts, bumper stickers would appear on LA freeways that said, "Are you ready for Freddie?"

Queen
Under Pressure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-xVb1qsPCw

Queen
Live Aid Concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDckgX3oU_w

Freddie eventually died of Aids. It was no coincidence that many of the songs that he wrote were anticipating death...

Queen
Hammer to Fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfYcKNqQoJo

Queen
We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUJztI884M

Queen
I Want to Break Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xmH-Amt2k

He was the queen of rock&roll.
Their classic masterpiece...
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI

Encore!
Queen
Brian May solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KN1BkOmovc

Cream

By 1968, British musicians knew that they had conquered the world. Three of these young men felt that they were MUCH better musicians than anyone else; the cream of the crop. So they decided to form their own band and play their own psychedelic form of rythm & blues...

Cream
Deserted Cities of the Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzDj65HGPXo

They were just a three-man group:
Drums: Ginger Baker
Bass/lead vocals: Jack Bruce
Lead guitar: Eric Clapton

Cream
Swlabr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngIxuGOVGeQ

Cream
Pressed Rat and Warthog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnE_H3Et_s8

Drug use finally broke up the band: especially the heroin addiction of Ginger Baker
Cream
Tales of Brave Ulysses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAViUGVYTVk

Cream
Sunshine of Your Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P26tQ3bj5R4

The Kinks

Led by uber-talented Ray Davies, who was the lead singer and composer, this group is almost forgotten now, but they were one of the leaders of the British Invasion. Drummer Mick Avory landed with these guys after being fired by Brian Jones and replaced with Charlie Watts in the Rolling Stones in 1963. Lead guitar Dave Davies was weird, but he was also the brother of Ray, which kept him in the group for decades.

The Kinks
Got Love If You Want It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkB5_AJ747M

The Kinks
You Really Got Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXAKVOnWkU

We used to turn this one up loud as we drove around town in 1966.
The Kinks
Till the End of the Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIc-RnqjwWA

The Kinks
All Day and All of the Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4DV-5d6a5g

"Father Christmas,
Give us your money!
We'll beat you up,
if you make us annoyed"

Come on! Everybody sing!
The Kinks
Father Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKTj02cmHI

Eric Burdon

The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOMuvTQg3U

The Animals
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpNWSW49IBM

Eric Burdon and the Animals
Roadrunner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawHkg87fa8

Eric Burdon and the Animals
When I Was Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryeqvr_qCfY

Eric Burdon and War
Spill the Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_U-zj2gfE

Female Pop Stars

Maybe the greatest female pop singer of all time...
Dusty Springfield (Mary O'Brien)
I Only Want To Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5LS---oX7Y

Dusty Springfield
Spooky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fola80rQop4

Dusty Springfield
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwSN0Yw5l0

The Seekers (Judith Durham) The first great Australian pop stars
I'll Never Find Another You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY

The Seekers
Georgy Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVfLNCW4Fs

Here is the greatest selling female singer ever to come out of Great Britain. She was a child star in British films beginning in 1944 and her singing career includes Top 20 hits from 1954 to 2009.
Petula Clark
Downtown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVE7lRZuFM

Petula Clark
Don't Sleep In the Subway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6iz2Otd2M

Petula Clark
I Know a Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K9e5rVxJ20

The British Invasion

From the "Day the Music Died" in 1959 to early 1964, real rock&roll nearly died out. It was replaced by formula music, which was favored by the large music companies as safer investments. No one even suspected that a musical revolution was brewing in Great Britain and other English speaking countries as teenagers created their own versions of American rock&roll and blues tunes. These new "beat groups" exploded onto the scene at the same time and astonished the world for the next 30 years...

The Beatles
I Want to Hold Your Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52e7bClngW4

The Beatles
Yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eU

The Beatles (George Harrison sings lead on this one.)
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNM1_3Tx9A

The Beatles
She Loves You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF-7VMMihA

The Animals
Boom Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PUYkaS3CY

The Animals
Talkin About You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7TmMtyzZwY

Six foot five inch, red-haired, Paul Jones was offered the job of lead singer of the Rolling Stones by Brian Jones, but he turned it down. Don't feel too badly for him. His son became one of the richest businessmen in the world...
Manfred Mann
Hubble Bubble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2mbtPmN98M

These lads don't look too enthusiastic about having to lip-synch their anthem of teenage rebellion. Its a good thing those ducks and boaters don't get too close to Keith Moon...
The Who
The Kids Are Alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmowtt9vhLY

This one is more like it...
The Who
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMB88gxCTE

The teenage band that eventually became The Who were originally known as...
The High Numbers
I'm the Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-RssjhpRg


The Rolling Stones
Pain in My Heart/Around and Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLy6y70zj74

Hep Cat

Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE

Cab Calloway
Hi-De-Ho 1934
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hovtGsLPYeA

Cab Calloway
Jumpin Jive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Who
Baba O'Rielly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNeVHv3Mlg

The greatest guitarist that I ever saw was Peter Townsend and the greatest drummer was Keith Moon: both of them were in this band. When their first hit records came out, the oldest member of the band, bassist John Entwhistle, was 19 and the youngest member of the band, Moon, was only 16.
The Who
Substitute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2X_Ek2bms

Most of their songs were a continous battle between light melodies and harmonic vocals against a background of violent drumming with explosive guitar work.
The Who
Happy Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0EArPvTAsg

The Who
Won't Get Fooled Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbGLVvfB7Y

The masters of angry teenage music...
The Who
Behind Blue Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaekgRtsTiQ

The Birth of Rock & Roll

Here is the very first rock & roll tune from 1954.
The term "rock & roll" hadn't even been invented yet.
The Crew Cuts
Sh-Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YloXEViFNUE

Here is the tune that conquered the world.
In 1956, this band caused riots wherever they went.
Bill Haley and His Comets
Rock Around the Clock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqYctXgM

The first rock & roll superstar was a 21 year-old truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi.
Elvis Presley
You Ain't Nothin', but a Hound Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JALwwaASg

Forced to wear tuxedos for TV, (so they wouldn't scare the parents) these motorcycle toughs from Texas were led by a 20 year-old who was killed two years later on "the day the music died."
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Peggy Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

The greatest teen idols of their time, these guys are seen here on American Bandstand: the first weekly rock & roll TV show, which was broadcast live from Philadelphia.
Dion and the Belmonts
A Teenager in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYdcwunG7g

Here they are 50 years later. Modern equipment makes a big difference!
Dion and the Belmonts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGktPaDAPM

This was filmed live just four days after "the day the music died" in February, 1959, when Buddy Holly (22), Richie Valens (17) and the Big Bopper (28) were killed in a plane crash. One year after this was filmed, Eddie was also killed in a taxi cab crash in London, England. He was 21.
Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SYHNKJguo

Eddie wrote his own material and he was a local kid from Bell Gardens, California.
Eddie Cochran
C'mon Everybody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRjlZ8x2uQM

White radio stations in the south wouldn't play black rockers on the air, but they were huge stars everywhere else in the world. Here Chuck Berry is introduced by the man who invented the phrase "rock & roll", Alan Freed.
Chuck Berry
You Can't Catch Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfx1nZTAuM

Watch the teenagers react to Chuck Berry more than half a century ago...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYUIZq3Rv4


Johnny B. Goode (Live 1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofD9t_sULM

The wildest of them all was this guy.
Little Richard
Lucille
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wiPch6n-vU

Long Tall Sally (1956)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55_T0Dh01c

Whole Lotta Shakin Goin on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwsS1IQfTrc

Swing Time

Glenn Miller Orchestra
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFv_PoZ2iP0

In the Mood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw

Moonlight Serenade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjq1aTLjrOE

Chattanooga Choo Choo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQybKMXL-k

Benny Goodman Orchestra (Gene Krupa on drums)
Sing! Sing! Sing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ZSQUyU00s

War version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS08KOOR928

Benny Goodman's orchestra was an all-star band.
Check out Gene Krupa on drums, Harry James on lead trumpet and Lionel Hampton on vibes.
(Medley 1937)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh93540ymaY

Benny Goodman (The King of Swing)
Roll Em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX8bca6pIaA

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Song of India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDWIg4FGJs

Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra lead singer)
Imagination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUn8avFkwM

Andrews Sisters
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY

Lionel Hampton
Flying Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rTICMVXQQ

Duke Ellington
Take the "A" Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaj9e4ZxFgQ

Chicago Blues

Hound Dog Taylor and Little Walter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnJM8iUy38

Little Walter's Fast Boogie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu_oiHAZNiQ

Jimmy Reed: Bright Lights, Big City (I used to have this record.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giGGK3Fk9co

Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters and Little Walter: My Babe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BNz_B1PNg

Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Born in Chicago
Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar. (I had this record too.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5UZsVlaGGk

Muddy Waters: Got My Mojo Working
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V25iA2XPzuA

John Lee Hooker; with Carlos Santana: Chill Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43yvS6bPZDs

The Blues in the 60's

Little Red Rooster- Brian Jones on slide guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUwIaVvuqT0

The Spider and the Fly (This is wicked stuff.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVgaP1B1zw

Elmore James (Brian Jones hero)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo80b-QfK0

Elmore James: King of the Slide Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNBk1faWI-k

Howlin Wolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow

All Down the Line
(Mick Taylor on slide guitar after the death of Brian Jones.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9oYZNltRQ

Jimi Hendrix

Purple Haze (Live 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSW67ySCio

Wild Thing (Live) (with guitar sacrifice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPgj4bviKY

Foxy Lady (Live 1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqQOaA2LPRo

Jimi on Night Train (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaIxswG7d84

Rolling Stones

London 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S3R_UVXCWs

French TV 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDUoOZwv5QU


Jumping Jack Flash 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcisnVHtA0

Let's Spend the Night Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcPrzN-g-FQ

Gimme Shelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMnES7WoT4

Brown Sugar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx07A9LWBJA

Ruby Tuesday (Ed Sullivan Show)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QJjA2Gje-c

Sympathy for the Devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xti-RwBLyfU