10/26/2008

More 70s

ABBA
Voulez Vous

The Name of the Game

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Money, Money, Money

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

S.O.S.

Fernando

Take a Chance on Me

Dancing Queen

ALBERT HAMMOND
It Never Rains in Southern California

ANDY GIBB
I Just Wanna Be Your Everything

Don't Throw it All Away (Our Love)

ANITA WARD
Ring My Bell

BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

BEE GEES
How Deep is Your Love

Night Fever

BILLY PAUL
Me and Mrs. Jones

BLONDIE
Heart of Glass

BREAD
Make it With You

If

Baby I'm-a Want You

Everything I Own

Guitar Man

Aubrey

CAT STEVENS
Father & Son

Wild World

Moon Shadow

Peace Train

Oh Very Young

Sad Lisa

Lady d'Arbanville

CHICAGO
25 or 6 to 4

Saturday in the Park

Feelin' Stronger Every Day

Just You 'n' Me

If You Leave Me Now

Baby, What a Big Surprise

No Tell Lover

CREAM
White Room

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Have You Ever Seen the Rain

Up Around the Bend

Who'll Stop the Rain

Lookin' Out My Back Door

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
Teach Your Children

DENIECE WILLIAMS
Free

DENIECE WILLIAMS & JOHNNY MATHIS
Too Much Too Little Too Late

DONNA SUMMER
Love to Love You Baby

I Feel Love

Last Dance

MacArthur Park

Heaven Knows
w/Brooklyn Dreams

Hot Stuff

No More Tears (Enough is Enough)
w/Barbra Streisand

On the Radio

EAGLES
Peaceful Easy Feeling

Best of My Love

One of These Nights

Lyin' Eyes

Take it to the Limit

Hotel California

The Long Run

I Can't Tell You Why

Rocky Mountain Way

EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Boogie Wonderland

September

Let's Groove

FLEETWOOD MAC
Go Your Own Way

Sara

Dreams

GILBERT O'SULLIVAN
Alone Again

Claire

GLORIA GAYNOR
I Will Survive

GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
The Message

HALL & OATES
Sarah Smile

Rich Girl

HARRY CHAPIN
Cat's in the Cradle

HUES CORPORATION
Rock the Boat

JEFFERSON STARSHIP
Miracles

KANSAS
Dust in the Wind

KOOL & THE GANG
Jungle Boogie

Hollywood Swinging

Ladie's Night

Too Hot

LED ZEPPELIN
Stairway to Heaven

LINDA RONSTADT
Blue Bayou

Long Long Time

LIPPS INC.
Funkytown

MARY MACGREGOR
Torn Between Two Lovers

MUSICALS
Life is a Cabaret

Mein Herr

OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
Have You Ever Been Mellow

Hopelessy Devoted to You

PATRICK HERNANDEZ
Born to Be Alive

RARE EARTH
Get Ready

ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY
Where is the Love

SANTA ESMERALDA
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Family Affair

Sly on Dick Cavett

STEVIE WONDER
Superstition on Sesame Street

SUGARHILL GANG
Rapper's Delight

TAVARES
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel

It Only Takes a Minute

She's Gone

Never Had a Love Like This Before

TERRY JACKS
Seasons in the Sun

THE BAND
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

THE BEATLES
The Long & Winding Road

Let it Be

THE BROTHERS JOHNSON
I'll Be Good to You

Strawberry Letter 23

Stomp

THE CRUSADERS
Street Life

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
What a Fool Believes

Minute by Minute

Long Train Running

Listen to the Music

Black Water

THE FOUR SEASONS
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)

THE HOLLIES
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

The Air That I Breathe

THE PERSUADERS
Thin Line Between Love & Hate

THE ROLLING STONES
Angie

THE TRAMMPS
Disco Inferno

TODD RUNDGREN
Hello It's Me

VAN McCOY
Do the Hustle

10/20/2008

Commodores

Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m-I9eD2jQQ

Just to Be Close to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6A9VtT2Cg

Sweet Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbtmvgc2rqE

Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFHbGuSRAwg

Brick House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48

Three Times a Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7C_ocGy5tE

Sail On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE

Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgsIkL6ink

Lady (You Bring Me Up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNRQ5U-3g4

Oh No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAbVzPiwZs

Nightshift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlsfYDj2HWA


FYI
The Commodores were a highly successful funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

The Commodores originally called themselves the Jays, but had to change their name because of the similarly named O'Jays. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out," he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People Weekly Magazine. "We almost became The Commodes!"

Lionel Richie was an original member of the group.

"Nightshift" (a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson) won the Commodores their only Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

For more on the Commodores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodores

10/08/2008

Chaka Khan

Tell Me Something Good
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P23WCKgZGgo

Sweet Thing
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqzIArLPDDA

Do You Love What You Feel?
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1OSK1nXDc

Hollywood
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2vrcrbPm7Q

Once You Get Started
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldRl9UqJEV8

Little Boy Blue
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4n8QLXOBUc

I'm Every Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXRI1Ce19Q

Clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTf8OAZqv8

What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLCJkmgOp4

Night In Tunisia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emR8gVhntEI

Ain't Nobody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeKFA-IWTp0

I Feel For You
no audio avail. on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgE4qOxW8kU

Through The Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLQ_hvWQh4

I'll Be Good To You
w/Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDHFXdUPLQ

Love You All My Lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZR5Vw-okk&feature=related

It Ain't All Good
w/De La Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhFHn5wB3s

What's Going On
w/The Funk Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTRUpALajc

The National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSfff2H-jY8&feature=related

Walk With Me Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICxKhtC_TY

I'm Still Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsndnHTixM&feature=related

The End of a Love Affair
w/Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9PSpZOnXTo&feature=related

Hey Big Spender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3FWJCgWGk

Reading Rainbow theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOVPcTMrWQ



FYI

Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel For You" and "Through the Fire". She also sung the theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow.

She was first featured as a member of the funk band Rufus before beginning her solo career.

Though regarded as an R&B singer, she has performed numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary, pop and blues standards.
Her contributions to funk and soul music in her early career earned her the title of the "Queen of Funk Soul"

Kahn is known for her perfectly pitched contralto vocals.

Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens. She adopted the African name "Chaka" while working as a volunteer on the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program in Chicago.

At the age of 11 she formed her first group, the Crystalettes.

Chaka's fortunes changed when she teamed with ex-American Breed member Kevin Murphy and Andre Fischer to form Rufus. In the meantime, she married bass guitarist Hassan Khan.

By decade's (70s) end, Rufus was among the most successful funk groups, rivaling the popularity of Earth Wind & Fire & The Commodores, among others.
With the help of Stevie Wonder, Rufus broke into both the pop music and R&B charts in 1974 with the gold-selling hit "Tell Me Something Good".

Rufus earned eight platinum albums and three gold singles before Khan went solo full time in 1980.

On December 3, 2004, Chaka Khan received an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music. She is also active in the autism community, as she has family members who have been diagnosed with this condition.

For more on Chaka Khan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan