***A HUGE thank you to all the lovely, talented women who were part of todays Crystal Cavern & to those gorgeous men Vegas W Randolph & their new fabulous track about a lady. I just loved it all. A very special thank you to Gene Pierro & Hamilton Radio for announcing this, for believing in me & for asking me to do this over a year ago, what an incredible honour. To Steve Jarrott for running it on his station Q Star Radio, thank you. Todays playlist*** 1. Dennis Holseybrook Go For A Ride intro... 2. Curvy Jane This Is Me The influence track was hard to pick. My first love and introduction to wanting to make music was James Taylor. I have always claimed Jim Croce as my biggest influence, however, because he defined songwriting to me. I used to make up songs when I was a kid but he gave what I did a name - Songwriting. I think thats why Im so partial to I Got A Name. My greatest songwriting influences are all men, oddly enough. Jim Croce, James Taylor, Bob Segar and John (Cougar) Mellencamp. Ray Charles taught me all about soul. Yep - This is my Boys Club. :o) reverbnation/curvyjane 3. James Croce I Got A Name 4. Vegas With Randolph The Girl Holding Out For Me Deb, Here you go. Thanks so much for playing this Vegas With Randolph tune. It was fun to write and record and we hope you enjoy it. The song started out as an idea of a feeling - the feeling of being wanted by someone you want - and all that youthful angst that comes from waiting and searching for that match to occur. While the central character could be any teenage girl, this young lady has a thing for poetry and romanticizes her feelings linking them to the love letters of the Brownings and specifically to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous poem. We pretty much built up the chorus on a train ride up to NYC to hear and meet David Myhr and built the rest of the song around it. We put it to a rhythm background that is inspired by bands like Fastball. The influencing track is Fire Escape. We wanted the song to continue to build all the way through and we could not resist a throwback to The Who when we got to the instrumental bridge/solo. Eric, John, Brock, Dan and Andy vegaswithrandolph/ 5. Fastball Fire Escape 6. Mary Edwards Take The Time Through all their incarnations, Steely Dan has been one of my favorite bands. What I love most is their lyrics, heavy with male-centric symbolism, yet, with a sensitive, poetic vulnerability that prevails through their catalogue. As a fellow New Yorker, this is my interpretation of their L.A. Soft Rock sound. maryedwardsmusic/ reverbnation/maryedwards 7. Steely Dan Hey Nineteen 8. Janice Zummo (with Vinnie Zummo) Sunday Supper written by Jemi Blue I wrote Sunday Supper after having a conversation with a friend about things we each remember and cherish from our childhood. She told me about her Italian familys tradition of having supper together every Sunday and how much she loves thinking about it now that her parents have passed away. Something about the story resonated with me, and I thought the story would make a good song. Vinnie Zummo and I had discussed collaborating on a song, and after I sent him the song we decided it would be cool for his wife, Janice, to do the vocal. Vinnie and Janice both did a great job, and I appreciated the opportunity to work with such talented musicians. https://soundcloud/jemi-blue 9. Dan Fogelberg Leader Of The Band 10. Sylkay Covered In Time I wrote: > Thanks so much...give me an influence track, please...She wrote > Tori Amos Winter reverbnation/1sylkay sylkay.bandcamp/ 11. Tori Amos Winter 12. Miriam Erasmus Over Africa If you really want a mainstream track, Id have to choose Blow the wind southerly by Kathleen Ferrier - she was my idol from childhood. thecrestonline.co.za/an-english-rose-in-africa/ reverbnation/MiriamBackhouseErasmus 13. Kathleen Ferrier Blow The Wind Southerly 14. Karena K. Midnight Walk Picking an influence track is always a tricky one, but I think Walking In The Sand by The Shangri Las would fit the bill quite nicely. Midnight Walk also has an underlying darkness, one of the things that attracts me to many of their tracks and I love their production. > I came up with Midnight Walk walking down the sea front when I lived on the south coast a few years back. It really wrote itself as some songs do, almost fully developed by the time I got home. > Most people miss the undertone but thats fine by me as everyone imparts their own meaning to a song, as it should be. It is the first of two releases from my début solo album, which I will finish recording, when I get the funding hopefully. It was produced by the wonderful Wily Bo Walker. I work with Bo across many projects as you know. He has brought a very special quality to the production. It helps when the producer really does get where youre coming from and our, (occasionally spooky), synergy seems to work. > Tenor/bari sax on this is Ron Bertolet, trumpet/bone Danny Flam, (The New York Brass) Mingo Lewis, (Santana etc), is on congas and the bass was done by Clarky, (former bass player with Rattlin Bone) Soprano sax and everything else on the track is yours truly. Would love to release it on vinyl at some point as many of the soul DJs have been asking for this but at present it is available on iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp and all the usual online stores. > Hope thats enough info for you. KK xx karenak 15. Shangri-Las Walking In The Sand 16. Rose Carleo Get Back Up Again Etta James is my greatest influence. Pure soul and emotion in all her songs. At Last is my favorite. It is timeless and to me, one of the best songs ever recorded. rosecarleo/ 17. Etta James At Last 18. Phyllis Johnson Mr Callahan As far back as I can remember Ive been trying to write a melody as infectious as If I Only Had A Brain from The Wizard of Oz. Mr. Callahan was yet another failed attempt at writing that songs equal. Ha! With 1st wave British invasion influences awash in my head I asked myself, What would Ray Davies do with these chord changes and melody? Ive always adored his storytelling sensibilities. The classical intro was written many years before back in my college days when I was a piano major. It just seemed to fit and really set the mood for the story of Mr. Callahan. I believe the song has elements of the Kinks Sunny Afternoon, the Beatles Eleanor Rigby and the timeless classic 99 Bottles of Beer (On The Wall). https://myspace/phyllisjohnsonmusic 19. The Beatles Eleanor Rigby 20. Jen Dwyer Sweet Times Have All But Gone (written by Johnny Coot) Written by ...................Johnny Croot (New Zealand ) Jen Dwyer .................. Lead Vocals ( Australia) Yvonne J and Jen ......... Backing vocals ( Texas) Robert Siekawitch ..........Guitars (South Carolina ) Jammie Lile ........ ..Bass ( Oregon ) Norm Peterson ............ Keys / other instrumentation / production ( Seattle) This song came about through our world wide music collaboration Team .. My friend Johnny Croot from New Zealand wrote this song with my vocals in mind as hes done with other songs ... I fell in love with it immediately ... Id probably class this song as soft Rock and maybe pop it into the Fleetwood Mac influence , although not being a writer and not having written the song Im not sure where Johnnys influence came about for it ... I just know that hes an aweosme writer and so grateful for all the opportunities hes given me over the years to be a part of his creations, and share a wonderful bond and friendship we had .....sadly , Johnny passed away this year in March , and is very much missed by all his musical friends ... reverbnation/hillbillydix https://youtube/watch?v=B2oXIAx4i0g&list=UUGdBwWbbxPbcPF4PDWZCvDg 21. Fleetwood Mac You Make Lovin Fun 22. Cazna I Dont Do Love Oh wow Darling Debs! Id be honoured for you to play one of mine. Thanks so much for thinking of me. You can have I DONT DO LOVE of course! Royalties....? Kewl! That can go in the money box for our trip! What about mainstream track? I really wasnt influenced with my writing...just from my own broken heart. But singer-wise...I guess Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, Dusty Springfield...to name a few. Im a 60s pop girl. Later it was Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris....which is about when I became country. My favourite song from the 70s would have to be...I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU....by Dolly. reverbnation/cazna 23. Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You 24. Jen Chapin Feed Your Baby Here’s my tune “Feed Your Baby” for which you can also find a video to mention on the show at youtu.be/J3hc8OUNOs8 A great influence track to play would be “Grandma’s Hands” by Bill Withers. jenchapin/ 25. Bill Withers Grandma’s Hands 26. Jude Cowan To America A mainstream influence track hmmm - it was written at a workshop run by Ray Davies where we had to write a song in response to a story in the news and it was about Louise Woodward - I imagined her as a teenager getting ready to go to America to work as an au pair. So I will pick a Ray Davies track as an influence. I would like Walter which he wrote about a childhood friend, as I am writing some songs at the moment about people of London. reverbnation/judecowan 27. The Kinks (Ray Davies) Walter 28. Dennis Holseybrook Go For a Ride outro...
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