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A Little Peter, Paul & Mary


30 Nov

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I may perhaps seem from two ends of the universe posting Little Bow Wow yesterday and Peter, Paul and Mary today but that’s just the way I roll.  It is blustery and cold and snowy and no one wants to listen to rap when they are frantically skidding through intersections and missing other drivers’ bumpers by mere inches.  So, this calming Peter, Paul and Mary song should be perfect.

A Soalin’
Hey ho, nobody home, meat nor drink nor money have I none
Yet shall we be merry, hey ho, nobody home.
Hey ho, nobody home, meat nor drink nor money have I none
Yet shall we be merry, hey ho, nobody home.
Hey ho, nobody home.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry,
One for peter, two for paul, three for him who made us all.

This song conjures images of some kind of renaissance festival-like field where everyone is picking flowers, wearing prairie skirts and braiding their hair.  I guess that was the 60s.  Luckily I have co-workers TV’s David Schwab who were actually at Woodstock to fill me in on what it was like back in the “olden days.”  Enjoy this light and lovely song from Peter, Paul and Mary. Disregard the weird scribblings on the video.

New Bow Wow And You’re Welcome


29 Nov

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So I need to post this new Bow Wow featuring Chris Brown track “Ain’t Thinkin’ Bout’ You” today because it’s HOT and it just came out on itunes.  I saw it a couple weeks ago on BET’s 106 & Park and waited patiently for it to be released.  Last time I thought about Bow Wow he was about 9-years-old so to see him all “growed up” is pretty wild.  Fun fact that I didn’t know….Bow Wow was actually  discovered by Snoop-D-O-Dub (Snoop Dogg) and appeared as a little kid in the video for Snoop’s Gin and Juice.  He is the kid in the number 22 jersey that shows up at the door in the beginning of that video.

New Bow Wow featuring Chris Brown “Ain’t Thinkin’ Bout’ You”

Stardust Remixed


27 Nov

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A while back I told you about Pilooski who studied under Benjamin Diamond who had worked on Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You.”  That track was epic and marked a new dawn of electronic/dance back in its day (1998.)  Diamond did the vocals on the track.  It heavily samples from Chaka Khan’s “Fate” (1981) which would lead and school Diamond’s understudy Pilooski to produce some of the greatly sampled tracks that he is known for today.

Anyway, I believe I first saw “Music Sounds Better With You” on TRL or MTV somewhere back in the late 90s and was blown away. This was the music I was waiting for! My love of electronic/dance/house music and sampling was born.

Recently, a new mix of it hit the internets.  It’s the “Eat More Cake” remix.  Any mix that keeps this song alive is good news to me. This mix is sehr sexy.  Enjoy the new mix along with the original video, and I’ll even throw in “Fate” so you can hear where the sampling came from not only for the Stardust track but also many others.

LOLs to this comment on the youtube video because it is so true:

French house-THE best music in the world

with the weirdest videos :P

Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You” “Eat More Cake” remix

Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You” Original 1998

Chaka Khan’s “Fate” The Evoloution

NMF: New Minaj Dropped


26 Nov

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Nicki Minaj’s new album Pink Friday dropped in its entirety last week.  If you don’t know who Nicki Minaj is you apparently haven’t listened to pop radio in a couple of years.

Nicki Minaj is the latest flash in the pan R & B artist that everyone wants on their tracks right now.  She is EVERYWHERE.  Note to Nicki Minaj:  remember Missy Elliot, Ashanti, Amerie, Brandy, Foxy Brown and Monica?  I remember these artists. They saturate every song in the market by being featured on others’ tracks, then release their own “debut” album and by the time their albums are done promoting no one wants to feature them anymore.  And then their second album flops because the shine of celebrity has dimmed.  And then, they end up on Dancing With The Stars.

I’ll stop because I am depressing even myself.  But anyway, Miss Minaj is hot hot hot right now so I would advise you to listen up and school yourself.  She is kind of like this season’s need-to-have purse.  You won’t love it forever but it is trendy right now.   So you spend the $300 and buy it even knowing it will be on the discount racks by next fall.   Cause you just gots to have it.

Throwback Thursday: Ace


25 Nov

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“How Long” by Ace is just a good song from the 70s.  Period.  Unable to find it on itunes on its own, I ended up basically paying $9.99 to download the stupid soundtrack to some Will Smith movie just to get this song.  It was worth it.  This song has absolutely nothing to do with Thanksgiving, but I had it in the “hopper” so I am just going to crank it out and go eat my turkey.  Gobble gobble.

We’ve Got Charley!


24 Nov

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Veteran North Dakota news man Charley Johnson is joining WDAZ-TV as my new co-anchor at 6 & 10.  And I couldn’t be happier.  I haven’t smiled this much in a long time.

Charley Johnson

For the past “while” that I knew this announcement may be in the pipeline, I have had ONE SONG in my head that I wanted to sing from the rooftops.  Yes, I am a little over dramatic.  That tune is “We’ve Got Annie” from the 80s movie-musical, Annie.

We’ve got Charley! And we are so glad he is joining our news team.  I’ve always fancied myself playing the role of Ms. Grace Ferrell in Annie.  I smell a news promo.  Congrats, Charley.

I Dream In Hall and Oates


23 Nov

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The blog post I had prepped about Nicki Minaj will have to wait until tomorrow because when I dream about something I have to blog about it or it stays in my mind.  Some people dream in color, others dream in black and white.  I dream in Hall and Oates.

The fun fact I was dreaming about was that the song “Everytime You Go Away” by Paul Young was actually a cover.  Originally released and written by none other than the masters themselves Hall and Oates.  I dug up the H & O version below too because I was curious to hear it.  They released it on an album in 80′ and Young covered it and released it in 85′.

I always had a love/hate relationship with the Young version.  It was the soundtrack to long family car trips in the summers.  Eventually hearing it so many times I decided I didn’t really like the echoing piano and that electric sitar annoyed me almost as much as my little sister did.   (An electric sitar is an instrument that sounds like its from India…you can hear it in the song.)  But, 25 years later the song is growing on me.  I guess I am mellowing with age.

Paul Young’s version, “Everytime You Go Away”

The original by Hall and Oates

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass


22 Nov

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So this weekend I took a snowy drive to lakes country, and on the way there and back sampled some of the classics from the 1940s-1970s.  Great music.  I was so disappointed when we got back to the Fargo area and lost our connection to the BBC radio network.  Nothing like hearing some great music and then having Y94 bleed into your station.  Total buzzkill.

One of those great songs we heard that jogged my memory is  by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass “This Guy’s In Love With You.”   It’s a late 1960s song and one of those that you hear but don’t immediately know what it is called or who sings it.  It’s what I would call a modern-day “movie song”….aka the old song that starts playing at the end of the movie when Jennifer Lopez realizes NO! she made a huge mistake and runs back through the airport to catch the love of her life Matthew McConaughey before he gets on the plane but GASP! the plane already left and YES! she turns around and he’s standing behind her and they live happily ever after.  Poor Dionne Warwick also now falls into that category with some of her hits, too.

I thought it would be a nice little start to Monday.  On the video below, Herb is introduced by one of the acts he discovered: The Carpenters.  Enjoy.

New Music Friday: Girl Talk


19 Nov

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The internets were all abuzz this week with the release of the new album by mash up master Girl Talk.  All he does is mash stuff up.  And it is brilliant.  One problem:  he doesn’t have permission to use all of the music he mashes up from other artists.

Definition: Mash Up

A mashup or blend (also mash up and mash-up) is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another. To the extent that such works are ‘transformative’ of original content, they may find protection from copyright claims under the “fair use” doctrine of copyright law.

Some people call Girl Talk a lawsuit waiting to happen.  Other people call Girl Talk by his real name, Gregg Gillis.  I think I like Girl Talk better.  This guy certainly doesn’t look like a guy who is secretly ripping off other artists to make monster-hit mash ups.  He looks more like a more innocent version of Justin Bateman from his Arrested Development days.

Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk

Bottom line:  legit or not, Girl Talk’s new album All Day is hot hot hot right now.  You can download it from his record label Illegal Art where you can also just take a listen of some of the tracks, too.  I am only going to post a link here to Illegal Art’s site because a lot of his stuff is explicit.  So listen at your own risk. You’ll be happy you did.

http://illegal-art.net/allday/

p.s. due to the Girl Talk “fever” created by this Jukebox Hero blog post the popularity of Girl Talk’s new album the Illegal Art site has been crashing this week.  You can also find his tracks on youtube.  Search “Girl Talk steady shock” that should pull up a new track that will give you a good sample of what he is all about.

Throwback Thursday: Silent Running


18 Nov

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This is one of those great songs from the 80s that I love to play on the jukebox at the bar.  I am sure you are lol-ing because the name of this blog is Jukebox Hero.  Lame, right?  For the younger readers, a “jukebox” is that electronic music machine you set your drink on top of, put dollar bills into and then select all of everybody’s your favorite Good Charlotte songs to play.

Anyway, you may not know that this 1985 hit is by a band which was formed by one of the founding members of Genesis.  Pretty awesome.  And, they didn’t just have one hit.  Besides “Silent Running” you may remember “All I Need Is a Miracle, and “The Living Years.”

The video is kinda weird but has something to do with a movie that the song was featured in.  I don’t have time to research that right now so let’s just get to the vid.

Mike And The Mechanics, “Silent Running”

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