R.I.P. Barrett Strong & Money

R.I.P. Barrett Strong (Febraury 5, 1941 – January 29, 2023). “Money (That’s What I Want)” (1959).

O Holy Night & Mariah Carey & Advent Reblog

Seasonal reblog of the best rendition of O Holy Night that I know. Recorded in LA (2000) I think.

Tatsuro Yamashita & Sparkle

From the album For You (1982).

Tatsuro Yamashita (electric guitar, electric piano, percussion, backing vocals, writing & arranging), Minako Yoshida (lyrics, backing vocals), Shunzo Sunahara (baritone saxophone), Kohki Itoh (bass), Jun Aoyama (drums), Hiroyuki Namba (piano, synthesizer), Takeru Muraoka (tenor saxophone), Shigeharu Mukai and Tadanori Konakawa (trombone), Masahiro Kobayashi, Susumu Kazuhara (trumpet).

Sunday Music & Aretha Franklin & Precious Memories

Aretha Louise Franklin March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018. “Precious Memories,” from Gospel Greats (1999).

Aretha Franklin R.I.P.

Aretha Louise Franklin, March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018.

Sunday Music & Gospel & Layla Zoe & Susan Tedeschi

Two great singers channel Janis Joplin doing Gospel.

Herbie Hancock & Space Captain

Recording session of “Space Captain” (written by Matthew Moore, popularized by Joe Cocker in 1970), with Herbie Hancock and other greats.

Herbie Hancock (piano), Susan Tedeschi (lead/backup vocals), Derek Trucks (slide guitar), Oteil Burbridge (bass, backup vocals), Kofi Burbridge (organ, backup vocals), Mike Mattison (backup vocals), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums). Epic “trading fours” back and forth between piano and slide from 3:34.

Oh Happy Day & Sunday Music & Sister Act 2

“Oh Happy Day” from Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), with Whoopi Goldberg, and Ryan Toby doing the solo.

UPDATE: Thanks for the likes for this particular post, which triggered an automatic announcement informing me that I have received 1,000 likes on this blog. At 506 posts, that’s almost exactly . . . let’s see here . . . two likes per post!

By gosh, that’s gotta mean something.

I’m just not sure exactly what.

Sunday Music & Aretha Franklin & God Will Take Care of You

From Aretha Franklin, Gospel Greats (1972, re-released 1999 and 2003), with the Southern California Community Choir, directed by Rev. James Cleveland.

Whilst our Sunday offering as always urges this humble blog’s honored readers toward . . . higher matters, I regret that I am compelled, by a damnable oath sealed with drops of my own blood, to link to Nightsky’s (shudder) second Rocktober Countdown!!!!!!!!!!!!! post.

O, do not go there, good friends, I beg you. Or if you do, AVERT YOUR EYES!!!!

Sunday Music & Rimsky*Korsakov & Our Father

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, from Sacred Treasures III: Choral Masterworks from Russia and Beyond, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Directed by Nikolai Korniev, St. Catherine’s Lutheran Church, St. Petersburg, Russia.