12/16/21
Anne Leighton: Love & Valentines (plus one fun Birthday song)
Anne Leighton: Love & Valentines (plus one fun Birthday song): I Know So The Kings Upbeat with influence of 1960s power pop, rock & roll beat with horns and rock and roll guitar, Hammond b3. Male...
Love & Valentines (plus one fun Birthday song)
I Know So The Kings Upbeat with influence of 1960s power pop, rock & roll beat with horns and rock and roll guitar, Hammond b3. Male vocals. Tempo like J. Geils "I Do" and Syndicate of Sound “Little Girl” "She wants me, I want you. I know so!"
According to the Plan Dan Berggren mid to up tempo folk music, baritone male, acoustic guitar w/ picking, you can't plan love, for better or for worse. according to the plan, keep your eyes wide open, lifelong love with ups and downs.
Beautiful Dream Jann Klose Midtempo, orchestral pop, male vocals, violin solo hook: I don't want to wake up this beautiful dream. feeling predestined for true love & how good it feels. (Contact: Royalty Network)
Long Lost Ghosts Emily Hurd Similar to Dolly Parton, literate writer, piano, full band, Traveling song, linen sheets, ghosts, “I have come for you because.” Her repeating herself about various things in her experiences intensify the stories actions. For instance—she sings "I gave you a kiss that I hoped would save your life, and it did." OR “I thought you were all there was… and you were.” They also move the story along.
FI The Slambovian Circus of Dreams male vocal band, horns, Tom Petty meets John Denver meets Oasis! Cosmic love song with tempo like "Sunshine on My Shoulders." If I were any more high. “FI” is pronounced “If I.”
slambovia.bandcamp.com/track/fi
You Are the Best Gunhill Road mid to uptempo, male vocals chamber pop band piano and Nilsson-like tempo of "everybody's talking" a song praising you "you are the best" & "I'm in love" both repeated.
soundcloud.com/leightonmedia/carry-across
Just Another Birthday Song Dean Friedman music hall pop, tenor, fun jabs at the birthday boy during isolation, "give thanks that your dad wasn't shooting blanks." "thank your mom for pushing you out."
Crowdfunding For Max's Kansas City documentary
How would you like to be the Executive Producer of a film? How about being a
Film Producer? Or owning a piece of Rock & Roll Fashion history?
The folks at Dudeski/Chip Baker Films can make your dream a reality. They have launched
an Indiegogo fundraising campaign for their most recent project,
"Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC".
The film is currently in production and is running an Indiegogo fundraising
campaign thru December 24th, 2021.
Go to this website and see what premium items you can obtain if you donate
funds to help finish their film project.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nightclubbing-the-birth-of-punk-rock-in-nyc#/
For certain donations you can be a Film Producer or Executive Producer or win a
piece of fashion memorabilia that belonged to the late great Dead Boys singer
Stiv Bators.
If you like the film trailer, please share this link and/or donate. Your
contributions will help this independent film see the light of day.
Any and all support would be greatly appreciated!
"Nightclubbing" is the first ever documentary about the renowned New
York City nightclub Max's Kansas City and the indelible impact it has had on
the world of music, fashion, art and culture.
As legendary Alice Cooper puts it: "A million ideas we're launched back
there", referring to the Max's Kansas City famous backroom where Andy
Warhol held court with artists, actors/actresses and musicians including the
highly influential Velvet Underground.
Max's was famous for hosting the creme de la creme of New York City luminaries
from the art world and film stars to musicians and cultural icons.
Artists, Rock Stars, Junkies, Movie Stars, Gutter Trash, Record Executives all
had a place to gather, intermingle, develop and cross pollinate.
Andy Warhol and his Superstars had a place to kick back, relax and revel in the
freedom to express themselves in a casual setting.
Max's was a place where degenerate excessivness and debauchery were so common,
that Iggy Pop bleeding on stage seemed lightweight compared to people shooting
up amphetamines and having sex in the bathroom.
Starting in 1970 Andy Warhol cohort Danny Fields books the clubs first live
music performances of The Velvet Underground, Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop,
starting Max's on its way to being a live venue of credibility and influence.
The Velvet Underground and their summer 1970 residency kickstart the New York
City live original Rock music scene.
As a showcase venue, future superstar artists such as Alice Cooper, Aerosmith,
Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Madonna, U2, The Beastie Boys had a
place to develop and be discovered.
Transgender musical performances and performers had a safe proving ground to
develop.
Iggy meets Bowie. They develop a friendship that becomes a phenomenal working
artist relationship.
NYC Glam Rock had a place to develop. The New York Dolls influence both locals
and foreigners alike. The New York Dolls and the New York Punk Rock scene
inspired Malcolm McLaren to return to London from New York and put together the
Sex Pistols, thus sparking the UK Punk Rock uprising and spreading
the genre worldwide.
Art Rock had a place to start and the music duo Suicide had a place to develop
and influence the New York City scene.
Bowie deems DEVO the future of music.
The New Hardcore Punk/Post Punk Rock movement had a place to develop.
"And EVERYONE IS HIGH AS A KITE!"
All at the nightclub called Max's Kansas City.
"Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC" will be the 6th
acclaimed music documentary for Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia and will
add to the list of respected music documentaries Danny Garcia has produced and
directed.
His other releases include "The Rise and Fall of The Clash" about the
later era Clash; "Looking for Johnny", about New York Dolls guitarist
Johnny Thunders; "Sad Vacation", a film chronicling the final months
in New York City of the Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious & his girlfriend
Nancy Spungen, "Stiv: No Compromise, No Regrets" about Stiv Bators,
legendary frontman of the iconic Ohio band the Dead Boys/The Lords of the New
Church and Danny's most recently released film "Rolling Stone Life and
Death of Brian Jones" about the founding member of The Rolling Stones.
"Nightclubbing" features unique archival footage and exclusive
interesting interviews with:
Alice Cooper
Jayne County
Billy Idol
Elliott Murphy
Sylvain Sylvain
Penny Arcade
Alan Vega
H.R.
Dr. Know
Lenny Kaye
Steve Stevens
J.J. French
Jesse Malin
Peter Crowley
Harley Flanagan
Jimi LaLumia
Neon Leon
Bob Gruen
Leee Black Childers
Marty Thau
Ruby Lynn Reyner
Frank Infante
Jimmy Zero
Cynthia Ross
Peter Jordan
Donna Destri
Sonny Vincent
Mickey Leigh
Phillys Stein
Phil Caivano
Denise Mercedes
Nick Marden
John Holmstrom
Louis X. Erlanger
Steven Blush
ROBEONE - DOGS AND HALOS
Transglobal Records (Sony/Orchard)
Composed, Performed, And Recorded by
Robert Schindler
“Rob wizzes around the keyboard like
nothing else on this PLANET” (Kerry Barns, One World Music Radio, New Age
Music Planet )
At the young age of 70 Robert has just released his
6th solo recording, ROBEONE on LABEL.
The keyboardist says, “Robeone is
short for Robeoneknobe-- a nickname I got years ago at work for being a huge ‘Star
Wars’ fan. It stuck and I decided to use it for my music name.’”
ROBEONE’s Six instrumental keyboard compositions
effortlessly flow into different styles of New Age, Jazz, Prog and Fusion
musics. Robert uses a range of keyboard
gear including Moog, Mellotron, Kurtzweil, Moog, Mellotron, Yamaha, Roland,
Korg, Kurtzweil, Ensonic Roli Seaboard, EMU, and Ashun Sound Machine. He says: “It’s my wish that this music will
take my listeners away from the current times into a musical journey that
serves as an opportunity to feel better.”
Robert has been recording since the early 1970s with progressive
rockers Mayson on Bearsville Records, pop rock acts The States on Chrysalis and
Boardwalk Records, the eclectic Tony Romero’s Vortex on Melodic Revolution
Records, and the progressive rock group ZOOM with Paul Landry on New Age Music
Planet Records. He’s worked with a number of artists—including notables Ronnie
Spector and keyboards for Johnny Nash when “I Can See Clearly Now” was a hit. He played keyboards for the Award-Winning documentary
Soundtrack "The Fiery Narrows - Following The Path Of John Charles Fremont.”
Robert continues to collaborate with many artists…. Recently
he had a solo set at ProgStock, and will be performing solo, as well, this spring 2022 at RoSFest. The ProgStock promoters dubbed Robert as the
Patron Saint for the Bob Moog Foundation, for connecting them with that North
Carolina-based non profit!
HALOS AND DOGS
1. Don’t
Ever Stop YourHeart
2. Morning Rush
3. Yesterday
Again
4. Turn
Off Your Brain Part 2
5. Clusters
6. Halos
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Dec. 20 Kathy Zimmer at the Rockwood Music Hall. NYC
Kathy Zimmer
Recommended
if you like:
Phoebe Bridgers, Kacey Musgraves
Equipped with beautiful
storytelling and an enchanting voice, NYC-based singer-songwriter Kathy
Zimmer will be playing a show at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3 on Monday,
December 20, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Blurring the lines between folk and pop
music, this artist showcases her style of music that she describes as
"cosmopolitan folk."
Tickets are $12.86 with
service fees. The ticket buy link is at:
www.seetickets.us/event/Kathy-Zimmer/452790
The Rockwood—Stage 3 is
at 185 Orchard Street, in New York City.
This is a 21 and over
show.
Her first live performance
since pre-pandemic, Zimmer looks forward to debuting a set of almost entirely
new songs which were written over the past year and a half. Are any of us the
same now as we were in February 2020? Kathy Zimmer felt as though she was
evolving during this time, and had to create music that reflected that. Add to
that the fact that her band moved from the city as a result of the pandemic,
and she is challenged and excited to find a new performance format with which
to present her songs.
Kathy Zimmer has released
several recorded collections of her music, most recently a vinyl record in 2019
combining two EPs, White Noise and Sparkling Smile,
and a separate single, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” (all of which are
available on all streaming platforms). A resident of New York City, Kathy
Zimmer is a native of rural Nebraska. Her original love of acoustic
guitars and tight vocal harmonies was the product of being raised in a large
musical family. In school, Zimmer studied classical music, her education
culminating in a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Zimmer's roots and musical explorations have led her to create music she terms
"cosmopolitan folk"--music that is sophisticated, sincere, smart and
accessible with a variety of identifiable influences including country music,
1960s girl groups and classic pop singer-songwriters. However,
ultimately, Kathy Zimmer strives to make something new.
Rock n’
Reel Magazine has declared her the “latter day Joan Baez.” The
Roots Music Report proclaims, “At various turns enchanting,
haunting and soothing—and at times a bit of all of these—Ms. Zimmer’s
sophisticated song crafting never fails to charm.”
~cosmopolitan
folk in your ears~
12/6/21
Game of Chicken (Live at Progstock) Official Video
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerus nailed the drama in corporations and in political groups, where they're deliberately creating drama for people they shouldn't. The song "Game of Chicken" is a visual for cars racing to each other, and one swerving away at the last minute. If you don't swerve away at the last minute, you'll be called "a coward," even though no one died.
#FastAndFurious #GameOfChicken #ProgressiveRock #HardRock #ElectricViolin #Melodic #Tenor #NewMusic #LiveMusic #BehindTheCurtain #ProgStock
11/15/21
John Hall | Bands To Fans
I enjoyed Cris Cohen interview with John Hall. Technically John found the placement as he's been a fan of Cris's podcast, and told me about it.
#Songwriting #Musicians #Conversation #Guitarist #craftsmen #singersongwriter #ClassicRock #YachtRock #TheBandOrleans #ReclaimingMyTime #Lessons #Gratitudes
11/5/21
NYS Music In Motion - John Hall Interview
John Hall is interviewed by NY State Music. This is the YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=C4yKUQiNsMc #ReclaimingMyTime #NewMusic #Orleans #Songwriting John Hall Band - John Hall music Orleans #YachtRock #ClassicRock #SingerSongwriter #jamband
10/31/21
Leadership Playlist
Welcome Home John Hall commercial pop like the Doobie Brothers with vocals, leadsinger male, about a man that was shipped out to fight for our country and waiting to hear "welcome home." Reality of wounds that don't heal
Let There Be New Flowering Cornelius Eady Dreamy-sounding male and vocal with a guitar, cello.Last line: “Let Love be at the end” 1:14 song length.
Nobody Knew Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus Like the heavier parts of the Beatles’ “I’m the Walrus” and “Strawberry Fields,” Brian May guitar, vocals by Kelly Keeling. The song is apocalyptic about the environment. Powerful line “Nobody knew who’s running the White House,” gas, “all we wanted, here we are,” “Hear me now.” “Nobody Knew where they were going.” “There’s a hole in the blue sky” “Thought it would last.”
Help Kj Denhert Singer-songwriter KJ owns her master, voice and guitar thoughtful ballad, bringing new life to the lyrics.
A Void Andrew Alling with guitar and harmonica male vocals A Void in relationships, why are we against the world? DirtyWords, time to heal, rock & ground shaking poetics.
10/23/21
NYS Music In Motion - John Hall Interview
Set up a reminder to listen to an interview with John Hall from @TheBandOrleans by @NYStateMusic. The interview broadcasts on the 5th of November. https://youtu.be/C4yKUQiNsMc via @YouTube
10/19/21
Orleans Celebrates Christmas With New Album, “New Star Shining” On Sunset Blvd. Records
Orleans is releasing their first and only Christmas album. Subconsciously, the group—which is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2022—must have been working on the holiday collection for decades.
Orleans co-founder Lance Hoppen says, "The material comes from various sources, most written internally and some by friends from other bands. Some had previously recorded lives elsewhere and were remastered, others had previous starts but underwent major revisions and upgrades. Some were cut from scratch in isolation. Some are purely secular, while others center around the Christmas story.”
John and Johanna Hall co-wrote the title track, “New Star Shining” which the band recorded in 1994 for a “Woodstock Holidays” CD released only in Japan. The group’s only Christmas song until now, it was also cut as a duet by Ricky Skaggs and James Taylor. This version features shared lead vocals by John, Larry Hoppen, Lance and Bob Leinbach. The acclaimed songwriting duo also co-wrote “Snowed In With You,” “I Wish I Could’ve Been There” with Tad Richards, and "Quiet Place" with Jonell Mosser. “I Wish” features Little Feat’s Bill Payne on piano and multi-instrumentalist John Jorgenson (the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters) playing mandolin. "Snowed In" shines with Dan Dugmore's pedal steel and Andrea Zonn's fiddle.
Two more historical recordings came from the Hoppen family. Lance found his late brother Larry’s version of “Winter Wonderland” on YouTube, which was recorded for a 2010 Rock Xmas Foundation charity. Larry, Lance, brother Lane and sister Lynda sang the introduction of the traditional song “Mary Had a Baby” around 1985 at a Hoppen Family holiday gathering; Lance found the tape, a snippet of which was digitized and included. The band then recreated the entire four-part harmony arrangement during the pandemic.
Fly Amero contributed three songs: "Jinglin' In New England" was written with his wife Donna. Other Fly songs include “Ballad of the Christmas Day Cowboy” (a collaboration with platinum country writer Robert Ellis Orrall) and “I Wish I Could Fly”, written with Allen Estes, featuring Beaver Brown Band’s keyboardist, Steve Burke.
Other songs include “Mary’s Christmas,” originally recorded by The Little River Band, and “I’m Coming Home for Christmas” originally recorded by Ambrosia's Joe Puerta. “The Sound of Christmas” came from Orleans alumnus Chip Martin, who’s written for Billy Paul and Randy Meisner.
Orleans’ “New Star Shining” will be on all digital platforms and available in music stores and holiday catalogs.
The band went from club and college shows in the Northeast to worldwide acclaim with their top ten singles "Still the One," Dance With Me," and "Love Takes Time.” Orleans has produced a body of work spanning 16 albums and several DVDs. The band’s music is still streamed millions of times a week and featured in TV, movie and commercial productions.
Band members on Album:
John Hall: Guitars & Vocals
Lance Hoppen: Bass & Vocals
Fly Amero: Guitars & Vocals
Lane Hoppen: Keyboards & Vocals
Brady Spencer: Drums & Vocals
Historical contributions from former members Bob
Leinbach, Larry Hoppen.
Songs:
1. New Star Shining (written by John & Johanna
Hall)
2. Quiet Place (John Hall, Jonell Mosser, Johanna
Hall)
3. Jinglin’ in New England (Fly Amero, Donna Amero)
4. Mary’s Christmas (Roger Helton, Tony Elenburg, John
Swaim)
5. I Wish I Could’ve Been There (John Hall, Johanna
Hall, Tad Richards)
6. The Sound of Christmas (Daniel “Chip” Martin, John
Cirillo)
7. Mary Had a Baby (Traditional)
8. Snowed in With You (John & Johanna Hall)
9. I’m Comin’ Home for Christmas (Bill Pfotdresher)
10. I Wish I Could Fly (Fly Amero & Allen Estes)
11. Winter
Wonderland (Felix Bernard, Richard Bernard Smith)
12. Ballad of
the Christmas Day Cowboy (Fly Amero & Robert Ellis Orrall)
10/10/21
Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Read All About It
Let's bring back "If you see something, say something." Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Read All About It: "You treat your pets special" Says the dude w the big muscles Held the door open "I like you lady, You mind your own ...
10/1/21
Anne Leighton: Halloween Songs From My Artists
Anne Leighton: Halloween Songs From My Artists: Halloween Music for #radio, #TV, #film, #blogs, #bumpers.
Lots of artists, including Phoebe Legere, Gentle Giant, Vanilla Fudge, Aoede/@Lisa Lisa Sniderman, Dean Friedman Music, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius.....
Write to me c/o LeightonMedia@aol.com and Anne@AnneLeighton.com if you're a media professional looking for music.
Halloween Songs From My Artists
Armageddon A Go Go Phoebe Legere dirty word alert, female vocal, dramatic/progressive/freeflow, upbeat, lyrics from the Old Testament meets fame culture about the end of times. (Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg inspired Phoebe to write this song.
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered Phoebe Legere Rodgers & Hart classic sung by female, piano, Great American songbook style.
Old
Ghosts Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius uptempo, jazz-rock, electric violin about old friends that
never go anywhere and the doors close, they're mentally dead
The 11th
Hour Tang female/hard
alt rock-metal parallel of walking together into the last days of the seas
rising with the clock, angels cry
Spooky
Boogie Gentle Giant guitars & keyboard-based instrumental,
full band. prog rock, has screams and tension.
Season of the Witch Vanilla Fudge classic rock, male vocals, keyboard Hammond B 3, Stretched out version of Donovan's song, this was also a hit in the 1960s.
Skeleton Aoede female pop theatrical pop, uptempo, keyboard, eerie yet upbeat background vocals, skeletons coming out of the closet when reflecting on the past could be contemplative breakup song
9/29/21
Historical Retrospective MANCE LIPSCOMB “NAVASOTA” on Sunset Blvd Records / CD-SBR-7006
Sunset Blvd. Records has released live recordings of Texas song stylist Mance Lipscomb. Called “Navasota,” Mance was born just outside there on April 9, 1895. He played blues classics throughout his life, and was the first singing, in June 1960 by the Legendary Roots music label Arhoolie Records. This was also the first recorded music from Mance, who was celebrating his 65th year when they signed him.
Mance Lipscomb represented one of the last remnants of the 19th century songster tradition, which predated the development of the blues. Though songsters might incorporate blues into their repertoires, as did Lipscomb, they performed a wide variety of material in diverse styles, much of it common to both black and white traditions in the South, including ballads, rags, dance pieces (breakdowns, waltzes, one and two steps, slow drags, reels, ballin’ the jack, the buzzard lope, hop scop, buck and wing, heel and toe polka), and popular, sacred, and secular songs.
Mance Lipscomb himself insisted that he was a songster, not a guitarist or “blues singer,” since he played “all kinds of music.” His eclectic repertoire has been reported to have contained 350 pieces spanning two centuries.
This album represents 3 previously unreleased performances from 1963, ’64 and ’72.
Album notes by Bill Dahl for Sunset Blvd, noted that Mance’s performances included “finger-picked guitar technique provided vivid and irresistible accompaniment for his supremely atmospheric vocals” of repertoire than encompassed Tin Pan Alley ditties….., along with slide-soaked gospel pieces, reels, breakdowns, patriotic themes—each and every one rendered in his own inimitable style” which was rooted in blues.
$1.00 From
Each Album Sold Will Be Donated To Knowledge-First.org, Houston, Texas
Disc 1 1972
Harvard University
Texas Blues
Alabama
Jubilee
See See
Rider
I Want To
Do
Baby
Please Don’t Go
Going Down
Slow
Rock Me
Baby
Keep on
Truckin’
Key To The
Highway
You’ve Got
To See Your Mama Every Night
Shine on
Harvest Moon
All Night
Long
True
Religion
When The
Saints Go Marching In
Disc 2
Texas ’63/’64
Night Time
is the Right Time
Trouble in
Mind
Mama Don’t
Allow
Going Down
Slow
Careless
Love
Rag in F
Diddy Wah
Diddy
Boogie
Chillen
Willy Poor
Boy
Rock Me
Mama
So
Different Blues
Blues in G
The Titanic
Alabama
Bound
Ain’t It
Hard
Johnny
Take A One on Me
One Thin
Dime
Motherless
Children
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