LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 10, 2019…ON THIS DATE FIFTY YEARS AGO SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘THANK YOU(FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN).’ MONSTER HIT FOR SLY AND COMPANY. I’LL TELL YOU WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE. THE GROUP CONSISTED OF ELEVEN PEOPLE, MEN, WOMEN, FAMILY MEMBERS, BLACK WHITE…DAMN HERE WAS A FUNK/ROCK/SOUL GROUP FROM OAKLAND THAT EVEN HAD A FREAKIN’ VIOLIN IN THE BAND !! THE INTEGRATED GROUP TRIED TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF RACIAL UNITY AND HARMONY, BUT SLY THOUGHT THAT THE MESSAGE WAS GETTING LOST. THE SONG FEATURES CO-LEAD VOCALS FROM SLY STONE, HIS SISTER ROSE, HIS BROTHER FREDDIE STONE, AND BASSIST LARRY GRAHAM. THE LYRICS WERE SCATHING BUT THE MESSAGE GOT LOST IN IN THE POWERFUL GROOVE. THE SONG WAS NUMBER ONE ON BOTH BILLBOARD’S “SOUL CHART” AND “HOT 100 SINGLES CHART.” “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE RANKED ‘THANK YOU(FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN)’ #402 ON THEIR LIST OF THE “500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.” THE TRACK WAS INDUCTED INTO THE RECORDING ACADEMY/GRAMMY HALL OF FAME IN 2O17.

LOVE THIS LIVE PERFORMANCE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 9, 2019…IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE FORTY SIX YEARS AGO BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE II.’ THE ALBUM WAS POWERED BY TWO HUGE SINGLES ‘LET IT RIDE’ AND ‘TAKIN’ CARE OF BUSINESS’ AND HIT # 4 ON BILLBOARD’S “TOP 100 ALBUM” CHART, TO DATE SELLING OVER 2 MILLION COPIES. THE BAND WAS COMPRISED OF GUITARIST RANDY BACHMAN (WHO WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH THE GUESS WHO) ALONG WITH BACHMAN’S BROTHERS TIM ON GUITAR AND ROB ON DRUMS. BASSIST FRED TURNER ROUNDED OUT THE GROUP. THE GROUP WAS ALSO KNOWN AT “BTO” AS MANY PEOPLE SHORTENED THE BAND’S NAME. CRUELLY, BECAUSE ALL THE MEMBERS WERE ON THE HEAVY SIDE, SOME REFERRED TO THEM AS “MEN WITHOUT NECKS.” THIS IS BTO WITH ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST HITS FROM ‘BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE II’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- DEC 8, 2019-ON DECEMBER 8, 1980 JOHN LENNON WAS GUNNED DOWN BY MARK DAVID CHAPMAN, A CRAZED FAN WHO SHOT LENNON IN THE BACK AT CLOSE RANGE 4 TIMES. LENNON WAS RUSHED IN A POLICE CRUISER FROM THE FRONT OF HIS APARTMENT COMPLEX THE DAKOTA TO ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL AT 11PM. RIP JOHN LENNON. JOHN LENNON SHOT TO FAME AS THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE BEATLES IN THE EARLY 1960’S AND ALONG WITH PAUL MCCARTNEY BECAME ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS AND POP CULTURE ICONS IN THE WORLD. HIS SONGWRITING PARTNERSHIP REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN HISTORY. AS A SOLO ARTIST LENNON SOLD MORE THAN 72 MILLION ALBUMS. WITH THE BEATLES ADD ON ANOTHER 600 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE. LENNON WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME TWICE, IN 1988 AS A MEMBER OF THE BEATLES, AND IN 1994 AS A SOLO ARTIST.

THIS IS JOHN LENNON WITH ONE OF HIS FINEST

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 8, 2019…TODAY THE DOORS’ JIM MORRISON WOULD HAVE TURNED 76. MORRISON OF COURSE WAS THE LEAD SINGER OF THE DOORS AND WAS FOUND DEAD AT THE AGE OF 27 IN PARIS. MORRISON JOINED PAM COURSON IN PARIS JUST DAYS AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE ALBUM ‘L.A.WOMAN’ THE DOORS FINAL STUDIO ALBUM WITH MORRISON. MORRISON’S BODY WAS DISCOVERED AT THE APARTMENT COURSON HAD RENTED FOR HIM ON RUE BEAUTREILLIS ON JULY 3,1971. IT’S SUSPECTED HE DIED OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE, ALTHOUGH OFFICIALLY HIS DEATH IS LISTED AS “HEART FAILURE.” AN AUTOPSY WAS NEVER PERFORMED AND THERE STILL REMAINS QUESTIONS TO THIS DAY ABOUT HIS DEATH. “CLUB 27” STRIKES AGAIN. HERE’S MORRISON AT HIS FINEST WITH THE DOORS, WITH MY FAVORITE VERSION OF GLORIA

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