Reverse Post - Reelin' in the Years

So I am noodling around on Youtube, looking for a Hank Marvin clip (Apache) and I stumble on this gem.  Remember, if you click on any particular post title - you will be directed to a Youtube clip of a song from the featured album.  This is too awesome.  It's Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years - Live 1973, from the Midnight Special.  So after watching the clip a few times, I just had to post Can't Buy a Thrill.  A Youtube poster tells us, "David Palmer is on vocals, Jim Hodder is on drums, and Denny Dias is on the Fender Telecaster and beard."  The liner notes say, Lead Guitar is by Elliot Randall."   And as Bill Cosby tells us at the beginning - Do it Again is also on this album.  Listen to the oft-missed chestnut on this record, Midnight Cruiser.  Here is the inner cover.

Neil Diamond - Shiloh: Connect the Dots

Neil Diamond - Shilo. Connect the dots - what the heck?  Here are the covers of the the two copies I own of these record.  Shilo is a compilation album of songs by Neil Diamond, which was released on September 12, 1970 by Bang Records.  Bang released this - a remixed version of the single "Shilo" in 1970 which became a hit and inspired this compilation of songs that he recorded for Bang in 1966 and 1967, before moving over to Uni Records.  It reached number 52 on the U.S. pop albums chart, and was the best-selling of his records on the Bang label.  The Bang Records label was created by Bert Berns in 1965 together with his partners from Atlantic Records: Ahmet Ertegün, Nesuhi Ertegün and Jerry (Gerald) Wexler.  The first letters of their names formed the label's name: BANG.  So - perhaps a first anywhere on the Internal - here is how the record cover looks with just the numbered dots along side of the same cover with the drawing completed - and signed! - by the artist.  I bought the record that way - used, so I have no idea who "connected the dots."  But the best version of this title song is on his classic "double live" Hot August Night album.  It has a flamenco guitar or mandolin sound underlayment.

Jimmy Buffett - "You Had to be There"

Jimmy Buffett - "You Had to be There"  Disclaimer: I am not a huge Buffett fan.  Don't get me wrong, his songs are great and are exactly right for the CD mixes I bring on tropical dive trips.  But I have not bought into his Corporte Conglomerate, branding efforts to own or co-op all things sun, surf, and sailing.  But on a stay-at-home snow day like today in Chicago - I did want to get something up here as a distraction from the 4 foot snow drifts out my back door.  To me, if JB had stopped making new songs after this record - he still would remain awesome.  The liner notes begin with JB writing, "There's nothing to this show business gig.  After twelve years and ten albums I enjoy remembering some of the moments in the history of the Coral Reefer madness that still make it fun."  This period (pre-1978) is/was his best.  His new stuff...not so much.  This is a full and excellent double-live album.  I love the show opening with Son of Son.  Bigger JB fans and experts, Parrot Heads like my pal Bill C. - are the songs he made after this record as good or better than his classics on this album?

Snow Bound - Geneis - And Then There Three...

This is a repeat record album - but with different view.  This is the inner cover, opened - of the Genesis album called, ...And Then There Were Three...I am reposting it because it contains a song on side one, track 4 - called Snow Bound.  And we are getting a huge winter storm this evening...And Then There Were Three... is the ninth studio album by the British band Genesis and was released in 1978. It is the band's first album without guitarist Steve Hackett, and the third with Phil Collins on lead vocals, having replaced Peter Gabriel after his departure in 1975.  I forgot how great this song is.  The writing credits for Snow Bound are to Mike Rutherford.

Hawaii Five-O; The Ventures

I may have posted this record before - but what they hey - it's worth it.  Hawaii Five-O, The Ventures.  For a cold, snowy day - this does not look too bad.  I've watched the new Hawaii Five-O show on TV and like it.  The NFL Pro Bowl was just played there too again recently.  According to a youtube comment, the old TV show's theme was NOT the Ventures version.  It's an excellent, highly orchestrated cover version.  The original theme song was composed by Morton Stevens, and released an album with a full vesion on it. He was also the series compser (backgroud music).  The Ventures version was never featured on the show, but was the bigger pop hit.  Click on this post's title for  view and listen of the Ventures doing it - with two hot drummers.

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life.  Perfect for a cloudy Sunday - this is the inner cover.  I was a freshman in high school back in 1976 when this record came out.  And in a prescient way I might add - I knew it was going to remain an all-time classic album, even back then.  Hard to believe it is Stevie's 18th eighteenth studio album, on Motown's Tamla label.   From a loose series of five consecutive albums he made during an era that could be called his "classic period" - the others being Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale.  In the Keith Richards autob. book I am reading, we learn Stevie and his great band was the Stones' opening act on their 1972 tour, nicknamed the Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise Tour or the STP, for Stones Touring Party.  KR tells us how Stevie would always stay in a Four Seasons hotel and that he memorized the common floor plans and walked around as if he could see.  In a somewhat rare format for the time, a 2-record studio album, [Exile on Main St. is one too], Songs in the Key of Life is his best album in my book - and is ranked number 56 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.  Knocks me Off my Feet is the song you will hear if you click on this post's title.