BRIAN WILSON CRAFTS "NEW" GERSHWIN SONGS AND INTERPRETS OLD FAVORITES ON "REIMAGINES GERSHWIN" CD

QUOTE:

Wilson said in a statement, "Along with Irving Berlin, Gershwin basically invented the popular song, but he did something more.
He had a gift for melody that nobody has ever equaled, yet his music is timeless and always accessible.
This is the most spiritual project I've ever worked on."

29 Jun 2010 Kenneth Jones
playbill.com/news/article/140818-
Brian-Wilson-Crafts-New-Gershwin-Songs-and-Interprets-Old-Favorites-on-Reimagines-Gershwin-CD

+ similar prnewswire.com/news-releases/
music-legend-brian-wilson-completes-brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-a-new-disney-pearl-cd-of-george-and-ira-gershwin-classics-set-for-release-august-17-97375459.html

'MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN': BRIAN WILSON AND GEORGE GERSHWIN

CD promotional interview

The album title alone is enough to make pop-music pundits drool, pairing two of the 20th century's most celebrated tunesmiths: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin.

The recording itself, which arrives Aug. 17, was a "labor of love" for Wilson, 68, who was a George Gershwin fan long before he was a Beach Boy or had even discovered the piano.
"Before I could play music, I could hear it," Wilson says, and Gershwin became a hero when he first heard Rhapsody in Blue at about age 4.

June 29 2010 Elysa Gardner
usatoday.com

BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN

Here is a view of the new cd cover and a photo attached to it. It will be released in August.
Doesn't it look fantastic?

Tracklist (taken from allmusic):

1 Rhapsody In Blue (Intro) 1:07
2 The Like In I Love You 3:19*
3 Summertime 3:13
4 I Loves You Porgy 3:37
5 I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' 2:44
6 It Ain't Necessarily So 3:57
7 'S Wonderful 2:48
8 They Can't Take That Away From Me 2:50
9 Love is Here To Stay 2:58
10 I've Got a Crush On You 2:41
11 I Got Rhythm 2:42
12 Someone To Watch Over Me 3:04
13 Nothing But Love 3:24*
14 Rhapsody In Blue (Reprise) :37

* are presumably the new pieces.

Check it out at brianwilson.com
and amazon.com/Brian-Wilson-Reimagines-Gershwin/dp/B002RWKSII/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1277725546&sr=1-1

BACKSTAGE IN SOUTH FLORIDA: THE BEACH BOYS' GOOD VIBRATIONS TURNED BAD

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock 'n' roll encounters that took place in our local environs.
This week: Witnessing a Beach Boys brouhaha.


Jun. 23 2010 Lee Zimmerman
blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2010/06/
backstage_in_south_florida_beach_boys.php

BEAR’ HUGS A-LIST STARS EMBRACE HUMBLE BROOKLYN BAND GRIZZLY BEAR

The harder Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear dodge fame, the more famous fans they attract.

Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé came to the group’s set by the Williamsburg waterfront last year, after which Jay told the Post: “It was beautiful. They played right in front of the Empire State Building.”

20-Jun-2010 TYLER GRAY

Bear’ hugs

+ more pics

HARD SOUNDING MEN REALLY ARE HARD

Researchers have found that people can determine with uncanny accuracy the physical strength of a man by listening to a short clip of their voice

16 Jun 2010 Richard Alleyne
telegraph.co.uk/science/7830013/
Hard-sounding-men-really-are-hard.html

Zap Mama - Brrrlak

Four songs from Zap Mama's best album 'Adventures in Afropea 1' (1993)
All songs are written and arranged by Marie Daulne (sometimes in collaboration)

The first ia a strange song, it uses alternate pygmee yodeling, whisteling and blowing on bottles.




Brrrlak

> Guzophela Zulu style

> Abadou North African (Arabian) style

> Babanzele Like Pygmees in the jungle
(Pygmee music, the photo's used have nothing to do with it)

BONUS Real Pygmee chants

> Berceuse 1 (Pygmées Aka) solo

> 'Song of Joy after the Hunt' group

> Yelli - Baka women yodellers group (hifi sound)

Another happy birthday

In glorious a capella

2010 by J B Craipeau





Joyeux Anniversaire Paul-Elie

> (HD) - A Capella Jazz Arrangement Tutorial

> Smile Medley Barbershop Tag

A BRIEF AND SOMEWHAT INACCURATE HISTORY OF THE BEACH BOYS PT 1-4

Like this, a history in words & pictures! Finally complete.


December 3rd, 2009 by Popfessor
part 1

UPDATE
part 2
part 3
part 4 'The Final Chapter' (June 10th 2010)

ROCKIN' READS

Seven recent books in a nutshell

If 2009 saw women dominating the music world on the radio and through album sales, 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for songstresses on bookstore shelves.

June 13, 2010 TIM SHELLBERG
nwtimes.com

BRIAN WILSON IS AMONG THE GUESTS ON MONICA MANCINI'S NEW ALBUM

'The daughter of' has a talent of her own

QUOTE:

Stevie Wonder, Jackson Browne and Brian Wilson are among the guests on Monica Mancini's new album of classic 1960s songs.
Concord Records will release "I've Loved These Days" on June 15.

Mancini says, "I'm beyond thrilled to have made this album and work with these artists and producers!
For me, it's always about the songwriters and their songs.
As an artist, it has been an important project for very personal reasons and what I needed to do.
I hope people will discover new meaning in the music as I have.
This is my way of exploring my musical heroes and discovering what their songs continue to reveal."

Tracks:

1. These Days
2. God Only Knows
3. American Tune
4. Blame It On The Sun
5. Without Him
6. How Can I Be Sure
7. I'll Follow The Sun
8. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
9. Something So Right
10. I've Loved These Days


14 June 2010
voanews.com (above new album releases)

UPDATE
link: Brian Wilson and the multi- Grammy winning vocal group Take 6 contributing vocals and arranging on “God Only Knows,”

DUELING CRITICS: TEENAGE FANCLUB, SHADOWS

Jocelyn Hoppa and Denise Sullivan debate the merits of Shadows, the new release by Teenage Fanclub.



June 10, 2010
Denise Sullivan, Jocelyn Hoppa


crawdaddy.com/index.php/2010/06/10/
dueling-critics-teenage-fanclub-shadows/

DEAN TORRENCE RIDES THE GRAFFITI SUMMER WAVES INTO THE GALLO CENTER

Dean Torrence and Papa Doo Run Run in concert!

When Dean Torrence was in high school in Los Angeles in the 1950s, he was more interested in becoming a professional football player than a surf-rock star.

Jun. 11, 2010 Lisa Millegan Renner

modbee.com/2010/06/11/1204012/
dean-torrence-he-of-60s-duo-jan.html

"I Y S" by The Man From Another Place

This very relaxing tune has a video now!
(Check out the label)

2009 Written by Daniel Hirst





I Y S

Larsen B - "Marilyn"

This song has the straightforwardness of Vampire Weekend and the drumming of the Talking Heads 'Road To Nowhere'
2010





Marilyn

LARSEN B (No 804)

The album Musketeer is released by Old Radio Tunes on 5 July.(Album cover in Smiley/Rousseau style!)
These Home Counties lads play grandiose music with a rustic charm, like Coldplay jamming with Mumford & Sons

9 June 2010 Paul Lester
guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/09/
new-band-larsen-b

> myspace.com/wearelarsenb

NEW MUSIC SPOTLIGHT ON WALRI

Check out their great single "Tinkle Sprinkle/Cotton Candy" (2009)

I think Scott McMicken (Guitarist and co-frontman of the tremendous Dr. Dog) said it best when describing Walri… “These guys are head scratchingly good”.

This is true on two levels: a) they really are; and b) it’s a total head scratcher as to why they are not a huge band, at least in the “indie” scene anyway.


Jun 8th, 2010 The Zeitgeisty Report
zeitgeistyreport.com/articles/2010/06/08/
you-heard-it-first-new-music-spotlight-on%E2%80%A6-walri/

+ older interview rochestercitynewspaper.com/music/articles/2008/10/
They-are-the-Walri/

THE WIZARDING WORLD OF LES PAUL

(Among many things he invented also the harmonica holder.)



At the age of 10, Les Paul encountered his first musical problem.
You see, he had been playing the harmonica for a couple of years and had gotten pretty good.
But his new love was the guitar – specifically an acoustic one he had bought with money saved from his paper route in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

06.09.2010 Bryan Wawzenek
The Wizarding World of Les Paul

WON’T COME BACK FROM DEAD MAN’S CURVE

THE LEGEND OF DEAD MAN’S CURVE


It was 44 years ago today, April 12, 1966, that Jan Berry, the creative genius behind the singing duo- Jan & Dean- suffered his near-deadly auto-accident.

It would eerily portentously take place just a short distance from Dead Man’s Curve in Los Angeles,California, two years after Jan & Dean released the hit single of the same title.

June 7, 2010 L. KENT WOLGAMOTT
http://therfw.com/2010/04
/wont-come-back-from-dead-mans-curve/

PLAY SONGS OF THE BEACH BOYS: PIANO ACCOMPANIMENTS TO ROCK CLASSICS [VHS]

Amazon has still a few in stock!
Learn how to play nine of the Beach Boys' most popular songs on piano, with the instructional video Play Songs of the Beach Boys: Piano Accompaniments to Rock Classics, taught by Billy Hinsche, with an introduction by Audree and Carl Wilson.

http://www.amazon.com/
Play-Songs-Beach-Boys-Accompaniments

+ billyhinsche.com/vhs-videos.html

Syreeta - Harmour Love

LP version (the single version is sped up)

1975 Written by Stevie Wonder (& Syreeta Wright?)





Harmour Love

+ wiki Syreeta Wright

I do love you - The Beach Boys

In fact this is a Stevie Wonder track with Carl Wilson and Al Jardine doing vocals, and for me it's difficult to hear Al, because there's also some Stevie in the backing vocals.

1985 Written by Stevie Wonder





I Do Love You

JIM O'ROURKE: ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ~ LOVE BURT BACHARACH

NEW CD
Soft and Clear

When experimental musician and producer Jim O’Rourke named his recent tribute album All Kinds of People ~ Love Burt Bacharach he wasn’t being funny.

The pop composer has received accolades from notables in all genres during more than five decades of writing hit songs.

Tracklist
1.Close To You (Haruomi Hosono)
2.Always Something There To Remind Me (Thurston Moore)
3.Anonymous Phone Call (Jim O’Rourke)
4.After The Fox (Akira Sakata, Masaya Nakahara)
5.You’ll Never Get To Heaven (Aoyama Youiti)
6.Do You Know The Way To San Jose (Kahimi Karie)
7.Don’t Make Me Over (Kosaka Tadashi, Jim O’Rourke)
8.Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head (Koike Mitsuko)
9.I Say A Little Prayer (Yoshimi)
10.Trains And Boats And Planes (Jim O’Rourke)
11.Walk On By (Donna Taylor)


2 June 2010 Steve Horowitz
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/124576
-jim-orourke-all-kinds-of-people-love-burt-bacharach

MUSIC FOR DEAF PEOPLE HEADPHONES PRODUCE "SOUND" THROUGH SYNAESTHESIA

Neckphone instead of earphone?
A concept from designer Frederik Podzuweit could deliver music to the deaf using synaesthesia, aka perceiving one of the five senses, like hearing, via a different sense, like touch. Or, as the Beach Boys might call it, Good Vibrations.

May 31, 2010 Jack Loftus
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/05/
music-for-deaf-people-headphones-produce-sound-through-synesthesia/

STEVIE WONDER BIOGRAPHY RELEASED TO CELEBRATE SINGER'S 60TH BIRTHDAY

May 13 was his 60th birthday. A belated happy birthday to Stevie Wonder!

Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder’ by acclaimed popular music writer Mark Ribowsky is the definitive biography of one the world’s most influential and inspirational living musicians

18th May 2010 Laura
http://glasswerk.co.uk/news/national/8537/
Stevie+Wonder+Biography+Released+To+Celebrate+Singers+60th+Birthday

+ http://www.soulculture.co.uk/featuredbanner/
happy-birthday-stevie-wonder-an-ode-to-music-of-my-mind/

+ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/may/13/
happy-birthday-stevie-wonder-60

+ http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/
10-things-you-never-knew-about-stevie-wonder

+ http://www.soulculture.co.uk/features/articles-features/
where-im-coming-from-the-influence-of-stevie-wonder-today/

+ express.co.uk/posts/view/174043/
The-sad-world-of-Stevie-Wonder


In Dutch:
+ nrcboeken.nl/recensie/
het-recht-op-alle-vrouwen-ter-wereld

+ vkblog.nl/bericht/315252/
De_21ste_verjaardag_van_Stevie_Wonder