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All Alone Am I ◀
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CW: My mind wanders back to my youth, pretty much the same time as The Goldbergs, and I hear "my" version of Bill Baley. Much more upbeat than grandpa's version, but who sang that..? Brenda Lee? Oh wait, no: Connie Francis! Turned out, everybody and their mother has ...
Just saw a bit of The Goldbergs, a scene where grandpa tries to sell music as a hobby to his son in law, by singing Bill Bailey while accompanying himself on the banjo.
My mind wanders back to my youth, pretty much the same time as The Goldbergs, and I hear "my" version of Bill Baley. Much more upbeat than grandpa's version, but who sang that..?
Brenda Lee? Oh wait, no: Connie Francis!
Turned out, everybody and their mother has performed Bill Bailey, and the version I remembered was indeed sung by Brenda Lee...
...who I remembered for a different song: Dynamite 😍
#^https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=29Puat6MwpcBrenda Lee, performing "Dynamite" (1957)
(Give Gandalf a bit of time, and try one of the other backends if the video doesn't load. I'm not sending you directly to Google. If you want that, replace "invidious.nerdvpn.de" with "youtube.com".)
I have never paid much attention to lyrics in music, and in the mid and late eighties my English wasn't good enough to properly translate it to Dutch anyway, but I did understand the gist of it. Hot and naughty... 😏
Now that I am much, much older and my English is good enough to pick up subtleties like innuendo, puns and slang, and now that I know first hand what naughty things can happen on an evening together with someone hot, I wonder how much Brenda Lee understood of what she was singing... 🤔
She was only 13 when she performed Dynamite (which earned her the nickname Little Miss Dynamite)... 🤔
Great voice though: full, round and sharp, crystal clear and at times very raw 😍
That's what made me think of Connie Francis: same type of voice, same era, same music.
#^https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=izoPQUSnnEMConnie Francis, performing "Stupid Cupid" (1958)
And no, that was not the music of the day in the mid/late eighties, in case you were wondering 😄
It wasn't the music that my parents had brought me up with either, there was "only" classical music in our house. Only between quotes, because what is colloquially known as "classical" is in fact a very broad spectrum, spanning centuries of music.
Most records in my mother's old singles collection were mid/late sixties and mostly British and French.
I had discovered this fifties rock 'n roll as a fundamentally different type of music than what I was used to, and found it very exciting, bursting with energy. Even if a bit simple and superficial...
When my class mates bought Michael Jackson, U2, New Kids on the Block and Dire Straits, I got myself Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, the aforementioned ladies and quite a few more.
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Alte Radiowerbung: 5 LP/5 MC/4 CD-Compilation "Heartbreaker" mit Oldie-Kuschelhits von Dominion (K-tel); Frühjahr 1994
Sprecher: Werner Reinke#hearbreaker #compilation #oldies #oldiesmusic #oldiessongs #tearjerker #lovesongs #brendalee #platters #percysledge #royorbison #neilsedaka #deanmartin #paulanka #raypeterson #50s #60s #60er #50smusic #60smusic #dominion #ktel #karben #1994 #radiowerbung #radio #radioads #wernerreinke #flashback #throwback #nostalgie
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"Always on My Mind" is a #ballad written by #WayneCarson, #JohnnyChristopher, and #MarkJames, first recorded by #BrendaLee and first released by #GwenMcCrae (as "You Were #AlwaysOnMyMind") in March 1972. Lee's version was released three months later in June 1972. The song has been a crossover hit, charting in both the #countryAndWestern and #pop categories. #ElvisPresley's recording was the first commercially successful version of the song.
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Shadowland
April 26, 1988 ~ k.d. lang teams with legendary Nashville producer Owen Bradley and releases her debut album -- an homage to her idol Patsy Cline. For many, Shadowland isn't just one of the best country albums of the 80's, it's one of the best country albums of all-time. #kdlang #shadowland #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #80scountry #brendalee #buddyemmons #kittywells #lorettalynn #owenbradley #petewade
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Sweet Nothin's 🍯
#BrendaLee
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All Alone Am I 🆙
#BrendaLee
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All Alone Am I 🎳
#BrendaLee
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I Want to Be Wanted 🙋
#BrendaLee
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All Alone Am I 👯
#BrendaLee
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Brenda Lee:
🎵 Rockin' Around The Christmas Treehttps://open.spotify.com/track/6Ht4xZRxThAWHoo1mF8TB3
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"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a #ChristmasSong written by #JohnnyMarks and recorded by #BrendaLee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 15 million copies around the world with the 4th most digital downloads sold of any Christmas single. In 2019, Lee's recording of the song was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. In November 2023.
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#OnThisDay in 1944, #BrendaLee [Brenda Mae Tarpley], American pop and country singer ("I'm Sorry"; "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"), born in Atlanta, Georgia.
#HappyBirthday #81 🎉🎂🎀💗🥳 -
🎄 Seasonal trivia for you from #Nashville.
In the summer of 1958, Brenda Lee went into a studio here and recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."
She was 13 years old.
Look out for her new Christmas book now available.
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Jingle Bell Rock 🪨
#BrendaLee
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"Help Me Make It Through the Night" is a #country #ballad written and composed by #KrisKristofferson and released on his 1970 album Kristofferson. It was covered later in 1970 by #SammiSmith, on the album #HelpMeMakeItThroughTheNight. In 1982, Kris did a re-recording with #BrendaLee for the compilation album #TheWinningHand. It has been covered since by many other artists from #TammyWynette and #JohnnyCash to #ElvisPresley, #JoanBaez, #BryanFerry, #MarkEitzel.
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All Alone Am I
#BrendaLee
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Sweet Nothin's 🍬
#BrendaLee
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Brenda Lee's "I Want to Be Wanted" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 24, 1960.
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Sweet Nothin's 🍮
#BrendaLee
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"I Want to Be Wanted" is a #popularSong performed by #BrendaLee.
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Sweet Nothin's 🌽
#BrendaLee
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Shadowland
April 26, 1988 ~ k.d. lang teams with legendary Nashville producer Owen Bradley and releases her debut album -- an homage to her idol Patsy Cline. For many, Shadowland isn't just one of the best country albums of the 80's, it's one of the best country albums of all-time. Listen to Shadowland by k.d. lang on Amazon Music ... #kdlang #shadowland #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #80scountry #brendalee #buddyemmons #kittywells #lorettalynn #owenbradley…
