The Random Music Thread

[JHDK]

I searched 27 pages for a random music type thread and couldn't find it. We do have some fun old thread though haha.

Anyway I'm making this thread only to post this:



Because it's cute and it made me smile.

 

[Channel98]

Here is another prankster: Harpo Marx, appearing with Milton Berle on NBC's Kraft Music Hall, January 14, 1959. Harpo plays a very realistic version of I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles on the clarinet.

 

[Channel98]

"That's the damnedest act I've ever seen!" From 1968, here is Tiny Tim's first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson:

 

[Madison]

Long video but short clips of the K-Tel Albums. I had a couple of them.
I wonder how much the artists got paid for having a song on one of the albums

 

[sadchild]

I had some too. I think I mentioned them a few times in my "high fives" thread

I know I had these two when I was like 9 or 10.

 

[Channel98]

I know nobody is wondering what was the number one song 100 years ago today, so here it is. The Jan Garber Orchestra's Baby Face, written by Benny Davis (words) and Harry Akst (music), was number one for six weeks in October-November 1926. Davis is the vocalist – but he sings only the choruses. A version by baritone "Whispering" Jack Smith, who sings the complete song, reached #6 in the last week of December 1926. Garber had 66 top-30 hits between 1923 and 1951. That includes 29 top tens and four number ones.

 

[Channel98]

I have a K-Tel Christmas songs compilation which misspells Charley Pride's Christmas In My Hometown as Christmas In My Hown Town. Yikes! And here is a K-Tel album that misspells the names of Lou Christie and Jimmy Gilmer:

 

[Channel98]

Garth Brooks' We Shall Be Free peaked at #12 on Billboard's October 17 1992 country chart. The official video added sound bites, chilling video of wars and protests and national disasters, and images of Jay Leno, Whoopi Goldberg, John Elway, Joan Rivers, Harry Belafonte, Martin Luther King Jr. and others. In 1993, the video was honored by the Academy Of Country Music as video of the year.

In 2005, Garth updated the video with recent news footage (including of 9/11) and images of Al Gore, Sean Connery, Forest Whitaker and others. Because of publishing issues and legal issues, it wasn't released until 2017. You can read the messages at the end of the video but you will need a Portuguese dictionary.