A Song for You
Ted Tocks Covers
Superstar
Originally posted on November 7, 2022
Happy 80th Birthday to Cher!
Cher recorded the first cover version of this Delaney and Bonnie classic.
“Long ago, and, oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you’re not really here, it’s just the radio”
#DelaneyandBonnieandFriends #LeonRussell #Cher #RitaCoolidge #BobbyWhitlock

It was Rita’s dream. Back in 1969, Leon Russell and Rita Coolidge were a noted couple in the music world. It was a case of two music worlds colliding. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends were on a radio…

“Feelin' Alright”
Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell
con Dave Mason (RIP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFFi56h_4ew&list=RDTFFi56h_4ew&start_radio=1
#rock #blues #DaveMason #TTB #TedeschiTrucksBand #LeonRussell

Ted Tocks Covers
Heartbreak Hotel
Originally posted on January 8, 2022
On this day 70 years ago, Elvis Presley hit #1 for the first time with ‘Heartbreak Hotel’.
“Just take a walk down Lonely Street to Heartbreak Hotel”
#ElvisPresley #TommyDurden #MaeBorenAxton #HoytAxton #GlennReeves #AnnMargret #PaulMcCartney #RogerMiller #JamesGang #BruceSpringsteen #TanyaTucker #WillieNelson #LeonRussell #NeilDiamond #KimCarnes #TomPetty #AxlRose

Today’s feature is all about the covers. Let’s celebrate Elvis’s birthday with a host of tributes to ‘Heartbreak Hotel’. This song truly needs no introduction, but it must be noted that…

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John Simon's Album by John Simon, released on Warner Bros Records in 1971.
Review by Bruce Eder
..John Simon's Album (1970) ... was two years in the making and featuring many of the musicians with whom he'd been working over that period, including Cyrus Faryar, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Delaney Bramlett, Leon Russell, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Jim Price, and Rita Coolidge, Bobby Whitlock, and Jean Millington. Perhaps not surprisingly, John Simon's Album mostly resembles the first two Band albums, with a clear, sharp, brittle sound rooted in a multitude of popular music strains. The strangest song here is the first, "Song of the Elves," a surreal, psychedelic song derived from an R&B source and beat (with a strong '50s New Orleans feel) that calls to mind both Randy Newman and Brian Wilson..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSV6jymIT4Y&list=PL7cXtwRYYSEHl9F6678tb2lvIR3PqhYBd&index=1
#JohnSimon #TheBand #GarthHudson #RichardManuel #RickDanko #DelaneyBramlett #LeonRussell #Music

Feelin' Groovy is the debut album by the American sunshine pop band Harper's Bizarre, released in 1967.
Feelin' Groovy Review by Matthew Greenwald
...Enter producer Lenny Waronker and session musician/arranger/songwriter/general musical architect Van Dyke Parks. The two of them brought then-drummer Ted Templeman up to the front as co-lead vocalist, along with Dick Scoppettone, and created a soft rock identity for the group, renaming them Harpers Bizarre...songs by Van Dyke Parks ("Come to the Sunshine"), Randy Newman ("Debutante's Ball"), and others. An excellent and definitive slice of California soft pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPhxPvCVx8&list=OLAK5uy_mNIbemcxGpkoXEreKBtQXih6OHfpFQmhg
#HarpersBizarre #VanDykeParks #WreckingCrew #LeonRussell #Music #SunshinePop #60spop #RandyNewman