Songs Worth Sharing

[Thad1527]

 

[Araucaria]

Laura Nyro did a sweet version of this song, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and sung originally by The Drifters.

 

[pornoboy]

 

[EddMarkStarr]

With all due respect to Tanya Tucker - no one can touch Helen Reddy's version of "Delta Dawn".

 

[pornoboy]

 

[EddMarkStarr]

So beautiful, I'm inspired.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

George Benson - "Give Me The Night" - June 1980

 

[Araucaria]

Check this video out. Aretha Franklin sings at the Kennedy Center Honors, with Carole King, who co-wrote the song, in the audience. Barack and Michelle Obama are also there. And I think that may be Gerry Goffin, the other co-writer, next to Carole.

 

[pornoboy]

 

[Thad1527]

 

[EddMarkStarr]

What was the First recorded music you ever heard?


Mom said that as a baby I would bounce around my crib whenever "The Poor People of Paris" played on the radio.

 

[Thad1527]

This isn't thr first, but we did play this record when I was a child. It still rocks.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Here's the 1964 hit that knocked The Beatles off the charts and rescued the career of Dean Martin.

 

[pornoboy]

 

[pornoboy]

 

[Araucaria]

Here is the most beautiful, most profound song I've ever heard, a blessing for all LGBTQ+ people.

 

[Franco Verum]

 

[Franco Verum]

 

[FrodoTX]

What was the First recorded music you ever heard?


Mom said that as a baby I would bounce around my crib whenever "The Poor People of Paris" played on the radio.

this is the version I know, Edith Piaf, great cabaret singer from France

 

[FrodoTX]

You can't visit Paris without hearing this (the great Edith Piaf)