RUSSIANS

Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsHkkm0vpNE

Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2dLb9m7bw

1812 Overture
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vQKZFF-9s

Sleeping Beauty
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sU4mgkGtrs

Firebird
Igor Stravinsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk0I4XRc92k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO7o2f_wOOQ

Romeo and Juliet
Sergei Prokofiev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3sd2BAxys

Symphony #10
Dmitri Shostakovich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5vTycfZTk

Marx Brothers

I'm Against It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7cry-4pyy8



Hello, I Must Be Going

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCvz8y_DUSY



Lydia the Tattooed Lady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8



The Mirror Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo

1950's Early Rock&Rollers Were Kids

Danny and the Juniors
At the Hop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpqWpifOALY
Lead singer Danny Rapp was an Irish kid from Philadelphia. He committed suicide in 1983 at age 31.



Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I
Frankie's career declined after he left the group and he died of a heroin overdose at his grandmother's house at age 25.

Ritchie Vallens (Richard Valenzuela)
La Bama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74C_gVCT2wU

He died in an airpane crash at the age of 17.
Ritchie Vallens
Come On Let's Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozr-EItKGu8

The plane crash that took the life of Ritchie Vallens also killed one of the biggest of the early rock stars: Buddy Holly. Here he is on December 29, 1957.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Peggy Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

Buddy Holly and the Crickets
True Love Ways
Recorded in New York about 4 months before his death at age 22.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x9PPtPmoy4

Megan Callen

Here is the recruiting tape for my granddaughter Megan Callen. Please note: I did NOT choose the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0mpStuiAs

Teen Idols

Whenever I think of the teen idols of the 1950's I think of these guys.
Dion and the Belmonts
I Wonder Why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE

Dion and the Belmonts
A Teenager in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYdcwunG7g

Dion...50 years later
I Wonder Why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGktPaDAPM

I was a boy in the 1950's, but whenever I hear this song, I think of the teenagers back then. They were our heroes.
Dion and the Belmonts
Where or When
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c64s6m10XOg

By Popular Request

System of a Down
Chop Suey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvFpBOe8eY

System of a Down
Toxicity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywaBOMvYLI

System of a Down
Hypnotize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc

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