CanCon Friday - Myles and Lenny

Ah, one from the personal vaults, dear readers...These Juno award winning fellows (Myles Cohen and Lenny Solomon) had their one mutual Top 20 hit - this track, one of my pre-teen favorites (classical upbringing, y'see - Pops didn't dig no dirty rock and roll), due to the numerous violin hooks and subtle rhythm phasering...Can You Give It All To Me.

Well, can ya?

;>)

Bring Out The Chimp

Sunday Overnight

Grant Green, Exodus, 1961.



...and Mr.Green again, with Idle Moments, from 1963.

All Poppy Got Me Was This Lousy T-Shirt

My Favorite Marxist

Smiles, everyone... smiles!

A laurel, and hearty handshake to my recent surge of guests via that fine font of information Crooks & Liars, and that true Blue Gal.

;>)

CanCon Friday - The Poppy Family

Terry Jacks and Susan Jacks, a Vancouver-based duo, took this song to the number 2 slot on the U.S. charts in 1970, garnering much acclaim along the way for that and other tunes such as Where Evil Grows (look for a rather hippieish Kenny Rogers in the background of that video).

But the real payoff for Terry was his cover of a Jacques Brel tune with anglicized lyrics by Rod McKuen that he had brought to the Beach Boys but later re-recorded with Rumble man Link Wray, releasing it under his own name and seeing it journey to #1 on the hit parade in 1974...Seasons In The Sun.

Made him enough money that he could finally afford to get out of this crazy business.

;>)

Don't Touch That Dial

Blue Hue's Ruse

Sunday Overnight - Drum Battle

Papa Jo Jones, with the JATP All Stars, 1957.



Buddy Rich, in the studio, 1970.



Tony Williams, Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972.

And finally...



Sunny Murray, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1968.