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  1. Here's a belated #TuneTuesday entry. My dad had a record with western songs, this was my favorite: Green Back Dollar, by the Kingston Trio.
    We have this song in our repertoire 🙂

    song.link/i/73447825

    #MyGoldenOldie #KingstonTrio #folk #western

  2. @tc_morekindness That's an interesting question!

    Traditional murder ballads (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_b) used to be popular material for the folk and country singers, and quite a few of them were recorded even in the 1950s. I was actually thinking about mentioning "Knoxville Girl", which goes even farther back in time, but I couldn't quite decide whether to pick one of the 1950s recordings - the Wilburn Brothers or the Louvin Brothers - or an earlier 1930s version by the Blue Sky Boys. So I ended up with "Down In the Willow Garden" instead.

    Don and Phil Everly recorded the classic concept album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" in August, 1958. They had started out as part of a family group with their parents, performing country & western music. The idea of the album was to record traditional folk songs that had been introduced to them by their father, Ike Everly, who was a relatively well-known and influential guitar picker.

    This was clearly something that they wanted to do, not something that was done because of commercial motivations. The brothers were probably aware that there was a folk music boom going on among the college students, and that may explain why they got the go-ahead to do the album from their record company, Cadence Records. The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley", another murder ballad (although a much more up-beat performance), was about to hit the top of the charts, but that was only later in the fall.

    The new Everly Brothers biography by Barry Mazor, "Blood Harmony. The Everly Brothers Story" (2025), points out that their approach differs from the way the artists that were part of the commercial folk boom interpreted these songs:

    "In the Everly's hands they're performed charmingly and involvingly, without the sing-along distancing or irony commonplace in the era's commercial 'frat house' folk."

    However, Mazor goes on to note that the brothers were actually aware of the incongruities of trying to match these songs for their own audience:

    "By about the twelfth take on 'Willow Garden,' the brothers and [the bass player] Lightnin' [Chance] broke the tension with some revealing joking. Don, apparently pondering the lyric that they've been singing over and over for the first time, with both a knifing and a poisoning in it, wonders, 'It hardly makes sense ... I killed her _twice_? Now, friends - we bring you a killing song. In two easy lessons you can slay your pregnant girlfriend. Well ... that's what the story's about!' And Phil adds a final folk-album style explanatory intro, not to be included on the actual record: 'Music to kill by, for all you teenagers.'"

    #music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #murderballads #everlybrothers #doneverly #phileverly #folkmusic #roseconnelly #knoxvillegirl #tomdooley #ikeeverly

  3. @tc_morekindness That's an interesting question!

    Traditional murder ballads (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_b) used to be popular material for the folk and country singers, and quite a few of them were recorded even in the 1950s. I was actually thinking about mentioning "Knoxville Girl", which goes even farther back in time, but I couldn't quite decide whether to pick one of the 1950s recordings - the Wilburn Brothers or the Louvin Brothers - or an earlier 1930s version by the Blue Sky Boys. So I ended up with "Down In the Willow Garden" instead.

    Don and Phil Everly recorded the classic concept album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" in August, 1958. They had started out as part of a family group with their parents, performing country & western music. The idea of the album was to record traditional folk songs that had been introduced to them by their father, Ike Everly, who was a relatively well-known and influential guitar picker.

    This was clearly something that they wanted to do, not something that was done because of commercial motivations. The brothers were probably aware that there was a folk music boom going on among the college students, and that may explain why they got the go-ahead to do the album from their record company, Cadence Records. The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley", another murder ballad (although a much more up-beat performance), was about to hit the top of the charts, but that was only later in the fall.

    The new Everly Brothers biography by Barry Mazor, "Blood Harmony. The Everly Brothers Story" (2025), points out that their approach differs from the way the artists that were part of the commercial folk boom interpreted these songs:

    "In the Everly's hands they're performed charmingly and involvingly, without the sing-along distancing or irony commonplace in the era's commercial 'frat house' folk."

    However, Mazor goes on to note that the brothers were actually aware of the incongruities of trying to match these songs for their own audience:

    "By about the twelfth take on 'Willow Garden,' the brothers and [the bass player] Lightnin' [Chance] broke the tension with some revealing joking. Don, apparently pondering the lyric that they've been singing over and over for the first time, with both a knifing and a poisoning in it, wonders, 'It hardly makes sense ... I killed her _twice_? Now, friends - we bring you a killing song. In two easy lessons you can slay your pregnant girlfriend. Well ... that's what the story's about!' And Phil adds a final folk-album style explanatory intro, not to be included on the actual record: 'Music to kill by, for all you teenagers.'"

    #music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #murderballads #everlybrothers #doneverly #phileverly #folkmusic #roseconnelly #knoxvillegirl #tomdooley #ikeeverly

  4. @tc_morekindness That's an interesting question!

    Traditional murder ballads (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_b) used to be popular material for the folk and country singers, and quite a few of them were recorded even in the 1950s. I was actually thinking about mentioning "Knoxville Girl", which goes even farther back in time, but I couldn't quite decide whether to pick one of the 1950s recordings - the Wilburn Brothers or the Louvin Brothers - or an earlier 1930s version by the Blue Sky Boys. So I ended up with "Down In the Willow Garden" instead.

    Don and Phil Everly recorded the classic concept album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" in August, 1958. They had started out as part of a family group with their parents, performing country & western music. The idea of the album was to record traditional folk songs that had been introduced to them by their father, Ike Everly, who was a relatively well-known and influential guitar picker.

    This was clearly something that they wanted to do, not something that was done because of commercial motivations. The brothers were probably aware that there was a folk music boom going on among the college students, and that may explain why they got the go-ahead to do the album from their record company, Cadence Records. The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley", another murder ballad (although a much more up-beat performance), was about to hit the top of the charts, but that was only later in the fall.

    The new Everly Brothers biography by Barry Mazor, "Blood Harmony. The Everly Brothers Story" (2025), points out that their approach differs from the way the artists that were part of the commercial folk boom interpreted these songs:

    "In the Everly's hands they're performed charmingly and involvingly, without the sing-along distancing or irony commonplace in the era's commercial 'frat house' folk."

    However, Mazor goes on to note that the brothers were actually aware of the incongruities of trying to match these songs for their own audience:

    "By about the twelfth take on 'Willow Garden,' the brothers and [the bass player] Lightnin' [Chance] broke the tension with some revealing joking. Don, apparently pondering the lyric that they've been singing over and over for the first time, with both a knifing and a poisoning in it, wonders, 'It hardly makes sense ... I killed her _twice_? Now, friends - we bring you a killing song. In two easy lessons you can slay your pregnant girlfriend. Well ... that's what the story's about!' And Phil adds a final folk-album style explanatory intro, not to be included on the actual record: 'Music to kill by, for all you teenagers.'"

    #music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #murderballads #everlybrothers #doneverly #phileverly #folkmusic #roseconnelly #knoxvillegirl #tomdooley #ikeeverly

  5. @tc_morekindness That's an interesting question!

    Traditional murder ballads (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_b) used to be popular material for the folk and country singers, and quite a few of them were recorded even in the 1950s. I was actually thinking about mentioning "Knoxville Girl", which goes even farther back in time, but I couldn't quite decide whether to pick one of the 1950s recordings - the Wilburn Brothers or the Louvin Brothers - or an earlier 1930s version by the Blue Sky Boys. So I ended up with "Down In the Willow Garden" instead.

    Don and Phil Everly recorded the classic concept album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" in August, 1958. They had started out as part of a family group with their parents, performing country & western music. The idea of the album was to record traditional folk songs that had been introduced to them by their father, Ike Everly, who was a relatively well-known and influential guitar picker.

    This was clearly something that they wanted to do, not something that was done because of commercial motivations. The brothers were probably aware that there was a folk music boom going on among the college students, and that may explain why they got the go-ahead to do the album from their record company, Cadence Records. The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley", another murder ballad (although a much more up-beat performance), was about to hit the top of the charts, but that was only later in the fall.

    The new Everly Brothers biography by Barry Mazor, "Blood Harmony. The Everly Brothers Story" (2025), points out that their approach differs from the way the artists that were part of the commercial folk boom interpreted these songs:

    "In the Everly's hands they're performed charmingly and involvingly, without the sing-along distancing or irony commonplace in the era's commercial 'frat house' folk."

    However, Mazor goes on to note that the brothers were actually aware of the incongruities of trying to match these songs for their own audience:

    "By about the twelfth take on 'Willow Garden,' the brothers and [the bass player] Lightnin' [Chance] broke the tension with some revealing joking. Don, apparently pondering the lyric that they've been singing over and over for the first time, with both a knifing and a poisoning in it, wonders, 'It hardly makes sense ... I killed her _twice_? Now, friends - we bring you a killing song. In two easy lessons you can slay your pregnant girlfriend. Well ... that's what the story's about!' And Phil adds a final folk-album style explanatory intro, not to be included on the actual record: 'Music to kill by, for all you teenagers.'"

    #music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #murderballads #everlybrothers #doneverly #phileverly #folkmusic #roseconnelly #knoxvillegirl #tomdooley #ikeeverly

  6. @tc_morekindness That's an interesting question!

    Traditional murder ballads (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_b) used to be popular material for the folk and country singers, and quite a few of them were recorded even in the 1950s. I was actually thinking about mentioning "Knoxville Girl", which goes even farther back in time, but I couldn't quite decide whether to pick one of the 1950s recordings - the Wilburn Brothers or the Louvin Brothers - or an earlier 1930s version by the Blue Sky Boys. So I ended up with "Down In the Willow Garden" instead.

    Don and Phil Everly recorded the classic concept album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" in August, 1958. They had started out as part of a family group with their parents, performing country & western music. The idea of the album was to record traditional folk songs that had been introduced to them by their father, Ike Everly, who was a relatively well-known and influential guitar picker.

    This was clearly something that they wanted to do, not something that was done because of commercial motivations. The brothers were probably aware that there was a folk music boom going on among the college students, and that may explain why they got the go-ahead to do the album from their record company, Cadence Records. The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley", another murder ballad (although a much more up-beat performance), was about to hit the top of the charts, but that was only later in the fall.

    The new Everly Brothers biography by Barry Mazor, "Blood Harmony. The Everly Brothers Story" (2025), points out that their approach differs from the way the artists that were part of the commercial folk boom interpreted these songs:

    "In the Everly's hands they're performed charmingly and involvingly, without the sing-along distancing or irony commonplace in the era's commercial 'frat house' folk."

    However, Mazor goes on to note that the brothers were actually aware of the incongruities of trying to match these songs for their own audience:

    "By about the twelfth take on 'Willow Garden,' the brothers and [the bass player] Lightnin' [Chance] broke the tension with some revealing joking. Don, apparently pondering the lyric that they've been singing over and over for the first time, with both a knifing and a poisoning in it, wonders, 'It hardly makes sense ... I killed her _twice_? Now, friends - we bring you a killing song. In two easy lessons you can slay your pregnant girlfriend. Well ... that's what the story's about!' And Phil adds a final folk-album style explanatory intro, not to be included on the actual record: 'Music to kill by, for all you teenagers.'"

    #music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #murderballads #everlybrothers #doneverly #phileverly #folkmusic #roseconnelly #knoxvillegirl #tomdooley #ikeeverly

  7. Late #TuneTuesday for the theme of #MyGoldenOldie, or the oldest song you know and like. Mine is "Midnight Special" by Lead Belly. He recorded this in 1934.

    youtu.be/CrdioqIMtpY

    #blues #LeadBelly #30s #1930s

  8. I can't stop. Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, with a 15-year old Beryl Davis singing. I believe these are from the late 1930s.

    Don't Worry 'Bout Me
    youtube.com/watch?v=jFAzsusZyu

    Undecided
    youtube.com/watch?v=qBvlkDxo7K

    #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

  9. A vous, douce debonnaire (Rondeau) -- Jehannot de l'Escurel -- David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
    youtu.be/Gzvxxy1jG-c?si=QIpK8m

    #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

    The piece dates from around the first decade of the 14th century.

    I first heard this recording when I was about fifteen and have loved it ever since.

    David Munrow did so much for early music before his untimely death.

    #DavidMunrow #EarlyMusic

  10. A vous, douce debonnaire (Rondeau) -- Jehannot de l'Escurel -- David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
    youtu.be/Gzvxxy1jG-c?si=QIpK8m

    #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

    The piece dates from around the first decade of the 14th century.

    I first heard this recording when I was about fifteen and have loved it ever since.

    David Munrow did so much for early music before his untimely death.

    #DavidMunrow #EarlyMusic

  11. A vous, douce debonnaire (Rondeau) -- Jehannot de l'Escurel -- David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
    youtu.be/Gzvxxy1jG-c?si=QIpK8m

    #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

    The piece dates from around the first decade of the 14th century.

    I first heard this recording when I was about fifteen and have loved it ever since.

    David Munrow did so much for early music before his untimely death.

    #DavidMunrow #EarlyMusic

  12. A vous, douce debonnaire (Rondeau) -- Jehannot de l'Escurel -- David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
    youtu.be/Gzvxxy1jG-c?si=QIpK8m

    #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

    The piece dates from around the first decade of the 14th century.

    I first heard this recording when I was about fifteen and have loved it ever since.

    David Munrow did so much for early music before his untimely death.

    #DavidMunrow #EarlyMusic

  13. A vous, douce debonnaire (Rondeau) -- Jehannot de l'Escurel -- David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
    youtu.be/Gzvxxy1jG-c?si=QIpK8m

    #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

    The piece dates from around the first decade of the 14th century.

    I first heard this recording when I was about fifteen and have loved it ever since.

    David Munrow did so much for early music before his untimely death.

    #DavidMunrow #EarlyMusic

  14. In Kitty's #TuneTuesday, #MyGoldenOldie, or the oldest song I know and like:

    #Rush: La Villa Strangiato

    song.link/i/1440764229

    I almost feel young.

  15. #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie

    This is the oldest record in my collection - at least, it's the oldest one that Discogs has a date for, and I don't have many undated ones that feel like they're from a similar era.

    The record is of the Welsh Quartette singing "Sospan Fach" (usually "Sosban Fach" these days, but that's what it says on the label!). It's an acoustic record - the sound was picked up by a large horn that directly vibrated the cutter on the wax disc. You can tell that partly from how it sounds, but also because it's over a decade older than the earliest records made with a microphone - according to Discogs, it was recorded in 1912. The gramophone I'm playing it on is a comparative youngster, made in the 1940s.

    The record is pretty well worn, but I don't think it sounds too bad considering it's 113 years old!

    discogs.com/release/15548815-W

  16. #TuneTuesday this week is #MyGoldenOldie: the oldest song I know and like

    The one from 1580, naturally

  17. Lots of great #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie tracks today. I’ve enjoyed going through them all. I just wanted to post this an honourable mention.

    This is Cliff Townsend (without the ‘h’) - Pete Townshend’s father. Pete talked about this record in his autobiography and seeing his father’s photo in the local record shop. Who knows what influence this had on his long career. I managed to locate a copy for the collection a few years back.

    This is from 1956.

    youtu.be/hFaeuqsLteg

  18. #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie , well this is quite old and I like it so this'll do nicely for now.
    Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave youtu.be/5poSw7tFLB4

  19. For my second pick I debated going with Louis Armstrong's 1928 version of St. James Infirmary Blues, but I like Cab Calloway's version recorded a couple years later a little better. And the Betty Boop cartoon that features it is slightly bonkers.

    I swear if it wasn't for my childhood self devouring old cartoons - especially MGM and Bugs Bunny - it would've been *years* before I discovered a lot of music. 😆

    youtube.com/watch?v=4sZFk52reLQ

    #CabCalloway #MyGoldenOldie #TuneTuesday

  20. Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #MyGoldenOldie - the oldest song you know and like.

    Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - When the Levee Breaks (1929).

    song.link/i/274405494

  21. #TuneTuesday is #MyGoldenOldie What's the oldest song you know and like.

    1st came to mind:
    Rita Hayworth - Put The Blame On Mame (from the movie Gilda, which is from 1946)
    song.link/y/hllEi7bJ4os

    2nd thought, fuck, Minnie The Moocher is way older:
    Cab Calloway 1932
    song.link/y/SdBedVCBuPY

    3rd thought: merde, I also like folk so:
    Pentangle - Are you going to Scarborough Fair
    The song goes back to at least 1650 but probably even older. hundreds of versions exist.
    song.link/y/Qyi7OBXU-BI

  22. So the #TuneTuesday theme this week is #MyGoldenOldie - the oldest song you know and like.

    I should pick something from the Bing Crosby Christmas album (1945) which is a staple in our home during the holidays.
    Instead I'm going to go with Dean Martin's Ain't That a Kick in the Head (1960) which is just a fun song about being madly in love.

    song.link/i/1440825134

    #DeanMartin #BingCrosby

  23. #MyGoldenOldie the oldest song you know and like?

    Although - and because I am of the music explorer type - I do listen sometime to very old music, I will understand this hashtag as to means the oldest song I listen to on a regular basis.

    And I may be wrong but I think is Maggot Brain released in 1971.

    Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [HQ]

    Links:

    And as I write this I think of King Crimson and Frank Zappa that are from the 60`s but I'll keep my entry anyway as it's a great song!! :-)

    #TuneTuesday

  24. Okay, so Tune Tuesday's theme is "My Golden Oldie" - your oldest favorite song.

    So, I am not sure if this is fav oldest recorded song or just your oldest favorite song...so, I'm going to give you both.

    Oldest song that is a favorite, "How Great Thou Art." This classic hymn was written in 1885 by Carl Boberg and translated to English by Stuart K. Hine in 1949. Here's a recorded version from Elvis Presley song.link/i/402051946

    Oldest favorite recorded song? As silly as it is...Johnny Cash doing the Shel Silversteen classic "A Boy Named Sue" (1969). song.link/us/i/251002659

    #Music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #JohnnyCash #ElvisPresley #CarlBoberg #Hymn #StuartHine #ShelSilverstein

  25. Okay, so Tune Tuesday's theme is "My Golden Oldie" - your oldest favorite song.

    So, I am not sure if this is fav oldest recorded song or just your oldest favorite song...so, I'm going to give you both.

    Oldest song that is a favorite, "How Great Thou Art." This classic hymn was written in 1885 by Carl Boberg and translated to English by Stuart K. Hine in 1949. Here's a recorded version from Elvis Presley song.link/i/402051946

    Oldest favorite recorded song? As silly as it is...Johnny Cash doing the Shel Silversteen classic "A Boy Named Sue" (1969). song.link/us/i/251002659

    #Music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #JohnnyCash #ElvisPresley #CarlBoberg #Hymn #StuartHine #ShelSilverstein

  26. Okay, so Tune Tuesday's theme is "My Golden Oldie" - your oldest favorite song.

    So, I am not sure if this is fav oldest recorded song or just your oldest favorite song...so, I'm going to give you both.

    Oldest song that is a favorite, "How Great Thou Art." This classic hymn was written in 1885 by Carl Boberg and translated to English by Stuart K. Hine in 1949. Here's a recorded version from Elvis Presley song.link/i/402051946

    Oldest favorite recorded song? As silly as it is...Johnny Cash doing the Shel Silversteen classic "A Boy Named Sue" (1969). song.link/us/i/251002659

    #Music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #JohnnyCash #ElvisPresley #CarlBoberg #Hymn #StuartHine #ShelSilverstein

  27. Okay, so Tune Tuesday's theme is "My Golden Oldie" - your oldest favorite song.

    So, I am not sure if this is fav oldest recorded song or just your oldest favorite song...so, I'm going to give you both.

    Oldest song that is a favorite, "How Great Thou Art." This classic hymn was written in 1885 by Carl Boberg and translated to English by Stuart K. Hine in 1949. Here's a recorded version from Elvis Presley song.link/i/402051946

    Oldest favorite recorded song? As silly as it is...Johnny Cash doing the Shel Silversteen classic "A Boy Named Sue" (1969). song.link/us/i/251002659

    #Music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #JohnnyCash #ElvisPresley #CarlBoberg #Hymn #StuartHine #ShelSilverstein

  28. Okay, so Tune Tuesday's theme is "My Golden Oldie" - your oldest favorite song.

    So, I am not sure if this is fav oldest recorded song or just your oldest favorite song...so, I'm going to give you both.

    Oldest song that is a favorite, "How Great Thou Art." This classic hymn was written in 1885 by Carl Boberg and translated to English by Stuart K. Hine in 1949. Here's a recorded version from Elvis Presley song.link/i/402051946

    Oldest favorite recorded song? As silly as it is...Johnny Cash doing the Shel Silversteen classic "A Boy Named Sue" (1969). song.link/us/i/251002659

    #Music #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie #JohnnyCash #ElvisPresley #CarlBoberg #Hymn #StuartHine #ShelSilverstein

  29. This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #MyGoldenOldie. I just played the "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" album a couple of days ago, and while this may not quite be the oldest song that I like, I feel this is still close enough, going back to the early 19th century:

    The Everly Brothers: Down In the Willow Garden (1958)
    song.link/i/758191581

    #music #everlybrothers #roseconnelly

  30. I could be obnoxious and cite Mozart or Vivaldi or Grieg for #TuneTuesday #MyGoldenOldie (oldest favorite song)... but I think I may have to go with Louis Prima and Benny Goodman

    Benny Goodman Band - SING SING SING youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A
    (audio only, originally written by Louis Prima)

    What can I say, I spent a lot of my childhood with my grandparents, who were Greatest Gen Homefront and audiophiles on top of that.

    #Music #Jazz #BigBand #BennyGoodman

  31. We often talk about our favourite newest music releases, but what about the oldest?
    Today's #TuneTuesday is #MyGoldenOldie
    What's the oldest song you know and like? 🎶 asked Kit-T

    A while ago I learned that the 'Black Betty' song was not composed by #RamJam (which I genuinely thought he actually created), but comes from #Leadbelly ! 🤯
    The same songwriter who came up with the 'My Girl, Where Did You Sleep Last Night' song. Utterly blew my mind. What else is out there? 😅

    youtu.be/Fii6PX0-VXs/

  32. Happy #TuneTuesday .. the theme is #MyGoldenOldie and I can interpret this is multiple ways. So, I'm going with my favourite 'old' kpop (adjacent) song, and that would have to be from Jaurim - released in 1998. Complete with grungy guitars, flat-ironed hair and blue eyeshadow. So Stylish!

    자우림 (Jaurim) - 미안해 널 미워해 (Sorry I Hate You)
    youtube.com/watch?v=l1vyFOcP36c

    #Jaurim #KPop #KRock

  33. What a fun #TuneTuesday theme this week: #MyGoldenOldie, the oldest song you know and love. It's tough too, because there's so many! Gotta start somewhere though, so I'll start with Jelly Roll Morton's tribute to jazz pioneer (some say the originator of it, though Morton is said to have claimed that title himself) Buddy Bolden, recorded in 1939.

    I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (also known as Buddy Bolden's Blues, and/or Funky Butt)

    song.link/i/302055903

    #Music #TradJazz