Iving Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 I had a note to self to maybe start a thread titled 'Uplifting Music - Blues Get Behind Me!'. Finding myself tracking (chronologically) "God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds" for the 'Best Cover Songs' thread, this seemed as good a time as any for a first 'Uplifting' post. This thread is for anything that makes you glad to be alive. Doesn't have to be religious. Doesn't even have to have optimistic or "half full" lyrics. Just a good smiley vibe is enough. Kazillions of bonus points if you say why you posted something! So - "God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds" Not 100% sure of the first recording - but I love The Delmore Brothers and theirs is the earliest I found. Most noteworthy and probably best is Peasall Sisters. Delmore Brothers (MONTGOMERY WARD M-8690, 1940) Margaret Allison & The Angelic Gospel Singers ('I've Weathered the Storm', 1994) The Peasall Sisters ('First Offering' 2002) DuckToller 1 Link to comment
Iving Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 I N T R O [Intro Bee-Ing] - Carol Batton ('Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word', 2005) Link to comment
Iving Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 March On - Robert Cray ('Bad Influence', 1983) Link to comment
Iving Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 Blue Skies - Nils Lofgren ('Crooked Line', 1992) Link to comment
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Iving Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones (1979) DuckToller 1 Link to comment
Iving Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 Music To Watch Girls By [Sidney "Sid" Ramin] The Bob Crewe Generation (1966) Andy Williams (1967) Music To Watch Space Girls By - Leonard Nimoy (1967) Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 Of course "Uplift to the Scaffold" with very uplifting Jeanne Moreau Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted September 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Iving said: Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones (1979) looking for Bonus points ... The Undertones played a gig in Essen, Grugahalle, in 1981. Rockpalast night. They were the support act for mighty The Who, IIRC. We, my cousin (15, the other imperfect one) and me (16) had heard, that the Undertones might be very special, and we were open to surprises when were waiting for THE WHO. 'Nuff beers and smokes for a perfect night under cousins in my room using a small b/w telly and the radio transmission over my then brand new first stereo system (Infinity/Tensai). Well, that band was really great, but then, they played: we looked at each other and both we thought at our third cousin, who would have never done binging and drugs and such ... we smiled happily like little bastards in tune with a bastard world ... here is the a YT version of that event As a bonus: here are my favourite Undertones tracks ... and Iving and christopher3393 1 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 another spiriting musician for me is : Jonathan Richman The story (for bonus points) is already written down under "summerbreeze", just use the forum's search tool Iving 1 Link to comment
Iving Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 11 hours ago, DuckToller said: looking for Bonus points ... The Undertones played a gig in Essen, Grugahalle, in 1981. Rockpalast night. They were the support act for mighty The Who, IIRC. We, my cousin (15, the other imperfect one) and me (16) had heard, that the Undertones might be very special, and we were open to surprises when were waiting for THE WHO. 'Nuff beers and smokes for a perfect night under cousins in my room using a small b/w telly and the radio transmission over my then brand new first stereo system (Infinity/Tensai). Well, that band was really great, but then, they played: we looked at each other and both we thought at our third cousin, who would have never done binging and drugs and such ... we smiled happily like little bastards in tune with a bastard world ... here is the a YT version of that event As a bonus: here are my favourite Undertones tracks ... and Bonus points awarded in full measure! 1981 is 'Positive Touch' year - but still "peak" Undertones. You were 16? Aha! So you are about 3 years younger than me. Aha! I gave away my age too. In 1980 I was riding a pushbike to and from work in Watford. By 1981 it was a small motorbike in and out of the City of London. In both cases the Undertones were the soundtrack to my existence. The Undertones are a top band ever. FS on his own or That Petrol Emotion - take or leave. Yeah - I like "Get Over You" too. Also "You Got My Number ..." Their BBC sessions with John Peel are worthwhile - just a natural, awesome band. Thanks for the story. Link to comment
DuckToller Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 Due to the full amount of BP, which I really appreciate, I need to admit - with all fairness - that in retrospective I've got the details mixed up. The Who played, correctly displayed in n post, before my 17th birthday, the Undertones, however were performing on the next event in October 81 only. In retrospective, they were the next band after the Who, not before :-) ! ok, we skipped Grateful Dead then... I think, I do still have my TDK SA cassettes with Graham Parker, The Police, The Who and The Undertones from these events, somewhere in the cellar . Here is their gig's line up 17. Oktober 1981: The Undertones, Mink de Ville, Black Uhuru and Roger Chapman and the Shortlist. A long night that's was. Link to comment
Iving Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 49 minutes ago, DuckToller said: Due to the full amount of BP, which I really appreciate, I need to admit - with all fairness - that in retrospective I've got the details mixed up. The Who played, correctly displayed in n post, before my 17th birthday, the Undertones, however were performing on the next event in October 81 only. In retrospective, they were the next band after the Who, not before :-) ! ok, we skipped Grateful Dead then... I think, I do still have my TDK SA cassettes with Graham Parker, The Police, The Who and The Undertones from these events, somewhere in the cellar . Here is their gig's line up 17. Oktober 1981: The Undertones, Mink de Ville, Black Uhuru and Roger Chapman and the Shortlist. A long night that's was. OK - well not many BP deducted owing to honesty - just enough to leave you with incentive to earn them back in the future ;-) Don't have a time machine - but if I could back to watch a band Live in their heyday, The Undertones would be near the very top of my shortlist - if not THE top! Link to comment
Iving Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 Alison Krauss & Union Station - There Is A Reason ('So Long, So Wrong', 1997) Link to comment
Iving Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 What A Wonderful World [Bob Thiele and George Weiss] For all we know a record # Covers?! Found a list of nearly 700! I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself what a wonderful world The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do They're really saying I love you I hear babies crying, I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world Louis Armstrong (1967) Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (1990) Eva Cassidy (1996 - released posthumously 2004) Joey Ramone (2002) Link to comment
DuckToller Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Iving said: OK - well not many BP deducted owing to honesty - just enough to leave you with incentive to earn them back in the future ;-) Don't have a time machine - but if I could back to watch a band Live in their heyday, The Undertones would be near the very top of my shortlist - if not THE top! Here's the setlist https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/rockpalast/bands/the-undertones-setlist-rocknacht-einundachtzig-100.html Iving 1 Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted September 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2021 Flaming Lips - What a wonderful world. The most painful episode of my journalistic life in the early 90s, I got the "In a priest driven ambulance" EP, which I loved, and an evening interview date with these guys in the Frankfurt venue called Cookies, then famous for the midnight gigs on Monday evenings! Just happened to have been the second week into a Trigeminus Neuralgia. Which made me tell them every 10 minutes "it's nothing serious, only pain" in order to explain my pain driven movements. However, I didn't make it for the concert at midnight. Weak me 💪😇🙃🙏🤔 christopher3393 and Iving 2 Link to comment
Popular Post sphinxsix Posted September 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2021 If this won't cheer one up, nothing will (few know the original was produced by Giorgio Moroder). Some covers.. Some more covers.. This IMO is just great! And finally one of the best short movies ever. Now I'm serious.. Really worth seeing in its entirety but if someone is really impatient - go to 0:50 DuckToller, Iving and christopher3393 1 1 1 Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted September 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2021 This does brighten me up, too Especially as I love the German version of it (saw them live a couple of times), car side up Iving and christopher3393 2 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 "Get Rhythm" · Johnny Cash, '56 Ry Cooder's cover of "Get Rhythm", 1987 ...and a little gem of a music video: Iving 1 Link to comment
Iving Posted September 22, 2021 Author Share Posted September 22, 2021 Soapstone Mountain - It's A Beautiful Day (1970) Link to comment
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