Showing posts with label Aretha Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aretha Franklin. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Nina puts a spell on you ...

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My pal Martin has been raving (and raving) about that new Nina Simone (1933-2003) documentary  WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? so its got me...
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Saturday, 20 February 2016

Top 60 female singer/songwriters ....

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Our " Daily Telegraph " compiled a list of the top 60 (that many?) female singer/songwriters and I was pleased to see Joni Mitche...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Aretha sings Carole King, again ...

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Words are not necessary. 
Thursday, 17 September 2015

Joni and Tom ... and Aretha, Dusty and Janis too

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I did not realise Joni Mitchell had appeared on our UK  "The Tom Jones Show" back in January 1970, but while browsing the reva...
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Friday, 13 February 2015

Aretha's "Nessun Dorma"

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Many thanks to Mike in San Francisco for mentioning Aretha Franklin's version of Puccini's area " Nessun Dorma " (from TU...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

Respect: Aretha

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What a fascinating unputdownable read RESPECT - The Life of Aretha Franklin  - by David Ritz is. I just finished its 500 pages this mor...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Christmas treats: for me !

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Christmas treats, and its not even Christmas yet and I don't know what Santa is bringing!  I am engrossed in the new biography of Ar...
Monday, 17 November 2014

Showpeople: Aretha and her Aretha-aires

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I loved that 1993 television concert Aretha Franklin did, where she was backed by her new backing group: The Aretha-aires, comprising of he...
Saturday, 4 October 2014

More music news .... return of the oldies !

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80 may be the new 70 as a lot of our senior ladies turn 80 this year: Dames Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins; Sylvia Syms, and Ba...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Dusty time again ...

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How we listened to music then - a nice shot of Dusty in 1965, used to promote a new biography on her, recycling all the gossip and myths....
Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Top female singers of the last 50 years ...

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My 1969 BBC ticket for "The Dusty Show" There is a lively debate going on at the Datalounge.com gossip site, which I have bee...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Aretha: a playlist

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Playing Aretha Franklin tracks on shuffle on the iPod has made me realise how much of her output I have and like, ever since those late ...
Thursday, 24 January 2013

Diva time

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I am always pleased to discover a new hip hop diva, and my new favourite is Kelis . OK - Kelis has been around for a decade or so, I like...
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Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Divas ain't what they used to be ...

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An interesting new year afternoon catching up with the 2012 VH1 DIVAS - that annual Diva concert from music channel VH1. This one thou...