'Safe'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
A friend sent me an article in email (I believe that the article is originally from Reuters) with this information:
Sonic Youth principals Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, plus their daughter, Coco, on shakers, will appear on the season finale of the WB drama "Gilmore Girls" to perform an acoustic version of the new song "What a Waste."
Billboard.com had that story: [link]
"on shakers" ??? What does an ascetic, celibate, nearly-extinct religious sect have to do with the Gilmore Girls?
Would it disturb anyone if I was to put together a mix of my favorites from this challenge to share with my non-Buffista friends? (Properly thanking each person who supplied me with them, of course.)
It's all freely given, Theodosia.
Five different Bessie Smith comps on the iTunes Music Store and none of them has "I Got What It Takes"?? What freak parallel universe am I in?
eta: for some reason I was able to find it when I made another search. Don't know why.
Five different Bessie Smith comps on the iTunes Music Store and none of them has "I Got What It Takes"?? What freak parallel universe am I in?
The Empress of the Blues did record a lot of songs.
sidenote: Molly Ringwald is a huge Bessie Smith fan.
second sidenote: Bessie Smith once had a confrontation with the husband of one of her woman lovers, and he stabbed her in the ribs and she chased him down the street until she keeled over from blood loss.
Here's the Bessie I've got digitized:
'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Bessie Smith At The Christmas Ball Bessie Smith Backwater Blues Bessie Smith Boweavil Blues Bessie Smith Cake Walkin' Babies From Home Bessie Smith Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer Bessie Smith Graveyard Dream Blues Bessie Smith I Ain't Goin' To Play Second Fiddle Bessie Smith Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town Bessie Smith Kitchen Man Bessie Smith My And My Gin Bessie Smith Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl Bessie Smith On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) Bessie Smith Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair Bessie Smith St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith Take Me For A Buggy Ride Bessie Smith Trombone Cholly Bessie Smith Weeping Willow Blues Bessie Smith You've Been A Good Ole Wagon Bessie Smith
For some reason, a second search worked. Her version and Blanche Calloway's version are very different. I've been working on Blanche's but I've had trouble transcribing one or two of the lyrics.
There's no doubt I admire Bessie's sapphire qualities.
Okay, I downloaded both Bessie's and Clarence Williams'. Clarence wrote the tune. But his version leaves out the verse. Although Blanche's has the verse, it's different than the one Bessie uses. Very interesting.
One failing of iTunes that I'd like to see addressed in future is a field for the date the album was published and a field for the date the song was actually recorded. Those dates won't necessarily be the same for reissues. It would help me make playlists by decade if the songs didn't have the date of compilation. (I'd even like another field for the date the song was written/published.)
Today I had to have the "geniuses" at the Apple store erase the harddrive of my iPod. Because I also just transferred my iTunes Library to my new Powerbook that means that all my smart playlists, regular playlists and, almost more importantly, playcounts and ratings are GONE. iPodula Rasa.
It's left me feeling like an amnesia victim. When I looked at my "favorites" smart playlist (only songs played more than 7 times) one last time in the store, "Naomi" by NMH was my most played song at 84. Now it's zero.
I post this here because I thought surely the musicistas would understand my pain.
I am trying to look at it as a fresh start. But, really, I'm bummed.