Top Track Music

This is a song from my Cd Congitive kung fu. It’s also the most downloaded song I have on Itunes. It’s in the style of Elvis. He was the first artist I listen to when I was a boy. I hope you enjoy it.

Big Mama Thornton  Vs Elvis This is old time famous song, but who version is better. Big Mama makes you feel the blues, but Elvis takes it home. Let me know who you like more.

The original was released in 1952, Elvis was released in 1956. It’s plain to see that Big Mama’s version is blues. Can you tell me what genre Elvis version falls under?

“In The Air Tonight” By Phil Collins is a favorite 80′s tune of mine. It brings back memories of Miami Vice. How many peeps do you know do the air drums at the big breakdown?

“In the Air Tonight” is a song by Phil Collins which first appeared on his 1981 album, Face Value. It was the first single of Collins’ solo career, and remains one of his best-known hits. The music video, which is directed by Stuart Orme, was among those aired on the first broadcast day of MTV.

Musically the song consists of a series of ominous chords played over a simple drum machine pattern (the Roland CR-78 Disco-2 pattern, plus some programming); processed electric guitar sounds and vocoded vocals on key words add additional atmosphere. The mood is one of restrained anger until the final chorus when an explosive burst of drums releases the musical tension, and the instrumentation builds to a thundering final chorus.

Collins wrote the song in the wake of a failing relationship with his then-wife. Collins has described obtaining the drum machine specifically to deal with these personal issues through songwriting, telling Mix magazine: “I had to start writing some of this music that was inside me.”  Collins improvised the lyrics during a songwriting session in the studio: “I was just fooling around. I got these chords that I liked, so I turned the mike on and started singing. The lyrics you hear are what I wrote spontaneously. That frightens me a bit, but I’m quite proud of the fact that I sing 99.9 percent of those lyrics spontaneously.”

The first song that got my attention was Elvis Presley “Hound Dog”

I remember asking my mom “who is this?’ and her reply “Elvis Presley” I was hooked I was only three but I knew music would be a big part of my life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsQSb9RFo0 

is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid 1950s. The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best known version. This is the version that is #19 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. “Hound Dog” was also recorded by 5 country singers in 1953 alone, and over 26 times through 1964. From the 1970s onward, the song has appeared, or is heard, as a part of the soundtrack in numerous motion pictures, most notably in blockbusters such as American Graffiti, Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch, A Few Good Men (film) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.