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Post by erik on Nov 28, 2020 18:29:09 GMT -5
Quote by egoodstein re. 1985 recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto:
It was actually Yo-Yo Ma, with Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony.
Terry Slater, who I think was their bass player at the time.
Which alt-country L.A. band of the mid-1980s is credited by that band's lead singer as having gotten them a record contract by virtue of meeting Linda Ronstadt in a San Fernando Valley dive?
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 11, 2020 14:20:33 GMT -5
Dunno-- unless it's Lone Justice ??
What blues great who celebrated a recent birthday is perhaps best known for his 1965 song Messin' With the Kid?
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Post by erik on Dec 12, 2020 16:52:51 GMT -5
I think it was Buddy Guy
Tchaikovsky's great Christmas ballet The Nutcracker was given a jazzy treatment in 1960 by which famous American band leader, pianist, arranger, and (quite frequently) composer?
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 19, 2020 19:02:01 GMT -5
Duke Ellington (with coarranging by Billy Strayhorn)
The blues great who most famously recorded Messin' With the Kid was Junior Wells.
41 years into his career, what country 'songwriter's songwriter' finally had an album make the Billboard top 20 country charts in 2014, boosted by a Willie Nelson duet, 'Hard to Be an Outlaw.'
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Post by erik on Dec 20, 2020 21:02:00 GMT -5
I think it was the late, great Billie Joe Shaver.
Name the R&B legend whose Christmas songs "Merry Christmas Baby" and "Please Come Home For Christmas" have been covered by, among others, Elvis, the Eagles, and Aaron Neville.
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