Welcome to the Music group. Started by Steve to bring local musicians together, we have now diversified to include a wider range of members, to also post, listen to and discuss our choices of music old and new. Please respect others members opinions and tastes. New ideas always welcome.

https://youtu.be/nblsU7NAYJ4?si=0TwpeZUtKVsfVhr3

Wink Martindate ("Deck of cards") age 91

Nino Tempo ("Deep purple/Whispering") age 90

Max Romeo ("Wet dream") age 80

Fragile - the song being used in the Netflix series Adolescence

Here sang by Stevie Wonder supported by its writer Sting

I had never really appreciated the lyrics until now

https://youtu.be/wQzBbohOV0g?si=MXaIq1wi30z3BwJr

Mike Berry died today age 82

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTlcDRB2gbA

Little Miss Dynamite Brenda Lee with the three sons of who?

Johnny Tillotson has died at age 86. Saw him about 20 years ago in a tour with Bobby Vee, Bryan Hyland and Freddy Cannon. Poetry in Motion was one of the first records I bought.

https://youtu.be/d8_fLu2yrP4?si=oGv1EdwGtszfQ3Qv

I heard this the other day. Who would have thought that John Walker from the Walker Bros could do justice to such a Sinatra classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_7DV9VAd0g

In honour of today here’s a rather unusual version of the Chieftains’ Women of Ireland by the jazz musician Bob James.

https://youtu.be/VEk5oDs5Bnc?si=oUrY-FBjPtagZBv_

Another great sadly gone. Rest in Peace in the sunshine.
https://youtu.be/nC9dQOnUyao?si=ewszSHGPqSdmLiBp

Dolly’s husband of 60 years passes away

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/carl-dean-dolly-parton-husband-death-b2708388.html

Oh dear it’s been a sad week

https://youtu.be/4wibyuGQlyo?feature=shared

Killed in a car crash 😢

https://youtu.be/9PWz-NubVpM?si=WRMX2uQW8zzIB5U0

Jacob Lusk sings ….


https://youtu.be/jHqjig0_SsE?si=ekgxNvTdwfGgbemr

What do you consider to be the best year ever for popular music and why?

My choice would be 1958 because so many great artists came to prominence in that year - Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Leee Lewis, Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard, the Everlys. etc. 45rpm singles LPs began to be commonplace.

Would you agree on who the scientists decided had the best?

I was surprised

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/singer-with-the-greatest-recorded-vocal-range-according-science/

Just seen that Frankie Valli got a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys - well deserved.

The words of this song seem so poignant now, we could do with leaders in the world that are not obsessed with themselves or money
Sorry, enough of the politics, not the right group

https://youtu.be/FX4U6XWYvus?si=vx-XL-tWOzVaAqrN

The man that wrote it

https://youtu.be/xu8u9ZbCJgQ?si=kGpGtRe3QKAcarpX

This is lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3mZb-sRv98

https://news.google.com/read/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5PRU9ORWZpYVIxZTRHR09wWFd5VGNaVm1nNU9GZkk4b2lHZHRfeUU3dEZGVzZwOWRRSUZFTGFpT29tR0xFcXN3VHZVd1pDQUFUbFl0QjlxdGV2QdIBX0FVX3lxTE9xdlhwMkM5ZGZ2dDhxTlFValRtWFJMZUw2bG5FemljUlh1enJheWlNRHl3ckxZNXVqZjNoTEJ0WG8xanpuT01TUTB6eFh1OG1YWHJIUml4cVJiUWRoRWtB?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

A 1963 photo - but who are the guys pictured with Benny Hill?

https://youtu.be/g5sbTHMP0Ig?si=LinAJPI4nzkZmFPM

https://youtu.be/-efIjZ_1yQg?si=HM1mjB8_Jyww4eT3

At 89 years old , on stage, singing Misty

https://youtu.be/z6WPZtXsoDI?si=mPwBvoRl-HHurPd4

Some recent deaths that might have slipped past.

Sam Moore of Sam & Dave
Linda Nolan of the Nolans
Brenton Wood (Gimme little sign)
Wayne Osmond of the Osmonds

Have booked to see this at the cinema on Thursday. It’s on for one night only. One of my favourite performers.
https://www.odeon.co.uk/films/luther-never-too-much/HO00006746/

Heard it on the radio this morning on a section called ‘air drums’ chosen by a listener

She said it wasn’t a group we’d think of when it came to drumming and she was right

https://youtu.be/LI3KoQj8jDk?si=a49Rwyfnm1QtMIVC

Why do people still think Sia is in her twenties lol

This is what she looks like now without that wig in front of her face

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdAFkWdf/


https://youtube.com/shorts/09Z4_1c8w8g?si=dccnHCKF0kYtnf0A

Peter Yarrow from the 60's group Peter, Paul and Mary, famous for their song Puff The Magic Dragon, has died aged 86.

Elvis Presley would have been celebrating his 90th birthday on the 8th January, BBC radio has been celebrating this with several programmes about him and his music

Just type Elvis into the search facility on the BBC sounds app to find all of them

Have you a favourite song of his?

I have two 😁 Good Luck Charm and I want to be (your Teddy bear)

https://youtu.be/XcbNryw4DfA?si=2TomO8yi8uLJeFSp

Heard it in another group. Listening to the lyrics it made me think

https://youtu.be/6RiEmf5ISAI?si=NO6KFf5mr4K_jrrR

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025n53?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Hearing of James’s (The Vivienne) untimely death at the age of only 32 , 🥲 reminded me of his/their wonderful Christmas broadcast on Radio Wales. Born and bred in Wales (James) The Vivienne was a scouser 😂😂

Incredibly repetitive song by George Harrison but it still makes me smile

Ding Dong 😂

https://youtu.be/SrXswIbWA7Y?si=g3Pxj3Aw2gGDLMJB

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9051nljd3o.amp

We all knew it could happen any day but it was still an awful shock

Personally I have listened to both and think it’s just coincidence

They won’t stop me listening to her album 25, where it’s track 9 😉

https://youtu.be/EUVDQ1Z81cw?si=oamITbg6bE13YR_u

.... the guy on the guitar pictured with Marty Wilde and Billy Fury in 1958?

I love this because Taylor Swift’s parents filmed a music video for their daughter without knowing it and in it she even unwraps her first guitar

https://youtu.be/mN3rDTAdM2o?si=IPt9stEhkyfSRFtZ

........ if every adult had this as their Christmas Wish List:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn0y8A96IKk

It has some lovely words, thoughts of how we may have struggled but are fighting back as best we can, carrying on climbing ….

https://youtu.be/LWL5v2y_dOI?si=8zFvG7meull5sG0Z

https://youtu.be/FezVApPddqU?si=ClzCkXBY8cq7O_QL

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vrl93553qo

Can members think of any rubbish, silly or even truly bad Christmas songs (before we have a thread on favourites)

Here’s my choice

https://youtu.be/VKTQmZHwDY4?si=vuoeNCEh1Ljn3pu9

.... of Marty and Kim Wilde

Joined by the beautiful voice of Brandi Carlile

https://youtu.be/UwL4UC_tLTI?si=QLz_LwfMMrO3bM-O

Who is this with Marty Wilde?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/04/quincy-jones-musician-michael-jackson-producer-dies

R.I.P Jack Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkATu6Gr4qM

I love these by the late great and very handsome legend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCDeeBWco0I&pp=ygUebWFydmluIGdheWUgd29tYW4gb2YgdGhlIHdvcmxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtQl4XChQ90&pp=ygUed2hlcmUgYXJlIHdlIGdvaW5nIG1hcnZpbiBnYXll

What do you think ?