(Finished July 19th, 2024) Part 2 of The Greatest Hits of Broadway

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On March 1st, 2024 my rock concert girlfriend and I will be going to see "Les Miserables" here in the Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake City. This will be the seventh or eighth time I've seen this amazing musical. It quite likely is my favorite Broadway play ever.

These next eight videos are from "Rent". 18) "La Vie Boheme":

19a) Renee Elise Goldsberry "Out Tonight":

19b) Rosario Dawson "Out Tonight":

20) "Life Support":

21) "Today 4 U":

Bonus: I love this song so much I'm including it twice, it's first appearance is on blog 1 in this series. 22b) "Light My Candle":

This is three times. From the Broadway play "22c) Light My Candle":

"I Should Tell You":

These next seven songs are from "Hamilton": 22) "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":

Such an incredibly beautiful song. 23) Kelly Clarkson "It's Quiet Uptown":

24) "I Know Him":

25) "Wait For It":

26) "The Schuyler Sisters":

27) "Alexander Hamilton":

28) "Say No To This":

From "Cats" 29) Elaine Paige "Memory":

I just barely realized "Illinoise: A New Musical" is now a Broadway play. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who appreciates this great work by Sufjan Stevens. "Come On! Feel The Illinoise":

30) "Jacksonville":

31) "The Man of Metropolis":

32) "Chicago":

33a) "Casimir Pulaski Day":

No one can sing this song better than Sufjan. 33b) Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day":

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(Finished July 16th, 2024) Bachman-Turner Overdrive Setlist/ Preview

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Bachman-Turner Overdrive is coming to the Ed Kenley Amphitheater in Layton, Utah. Along with being in BTO, Randy was also in the Guess Who- in came you're wondering why BTO covers so many of their tunes. Also Tal Bachman, known best for "She's So High", is with the band and I'm sure it's him singing his hit. Looking at the setlist it seems to be a great night of rock and roll and I'm looking forward to it.

The playlist below is fairly close to what will be their likely setlist every night of this tour.

This is the current lineup that will be touring with BTO:

• Randy Bachman – lead vocals, lead guitar
• C. Fred Turner – lead vocals, bass (on select dates)
• Tal Bachman - lead vocals, guitar
• Mick Dalla-Vee – bass, rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Brent Howard – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Marc LaFrance – drums, backing vocals

1) "Roll On Down The Highway":

2) "Rock Is My Life and This Is My Song":

3) "Shakin' All Over":

4) "These Eyes":

5) "No Time":

6) "Lookin' Out For #1":

7) "Stayed Awake All Night":

8) "American Woman":

9) "No Sugar Tonight/ New Mother Nature":

10) "Undun":

11) "She's So High":

12) "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet":

I had no idea they sang this song!! 13) "Let It Ride":

14) "Hey You/ All Right Now/ Rock'n Me/ You Shook Me All Night Long/ Honky Tonk Women/ Can't Take My Eyes Off You/ Get It On (Bang A Gong)/ Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye/ Twist and Shout/ Hey You":

Encore:

15) "Takin' Care Of Business":

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(Finished July 14th, 2024) The Joy Of A Great Sing Along

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After being without my computer for nearly two weeks I finally was able to get it back today. Driving to pick it up was such a joyous time of my life- silly I know but oh so true. I chose to listen to the radio, which is pretty rare and they were delivering a lot of great songs. A lot of great songs I was singing along with.

So get your singing voices ready and sing along with all your heart. 

Is there a more fun song to sing than this? 1) Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville":

2) Dua Lipa "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)":

3) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":

4) Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better":

5) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":

6) Styx "Mr. Roboto":

7) Of Monsters and Men "Little Talks":

8) Imagine Dragons "Radioactive":

9) Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me":

10) Lana Del Rey "Summertime Sadness":

11) Fountains of Wayne "Stacy's Mom":

12) OneRepublic "Counting Stars":

13) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "The Impression That I Get":

14) Walk The Moon "Shut Up and Dance":

15) Lady Gaga "Bad Romance":

16) Frank Sinatra "Fly Me To The Moon":

17) The Animals "House of the Rising Sun":

18) Sinead O'Connor "Emperor's New Clothes":

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(Started July 13th, 2024) Part 3 of Songs On My Mind

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Hopefully I will be getting my computer back soon. I will do the best I can do on my iPhone.

1) The first time I liked the song “Living For The City” is on Slash’s “Orgy of the Damned”. Tara That’s nothing against the great Stevie Wonder, one of the true sic legends of music.

2) Frank Sinatra “Fly Me To The Moon”. It’s now a movie, but it’s also a great song.

3) One of the great 80s ballads, Toto’s “I Won’t Hold You Back.

4) this is one of those songs that just randomly came to mind. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Aeroplane”. The song is a slice of mid-90s funk, one of the catchiest ear worms ever.

5) Ozzy Osborne’s late career butt kicking song “Patient No 9”.

6) Rodriguez “Sugar Man”. Quite simply an ode to illegal drugs and the perceived benefits they bring. His music was big in South Africa, which was something he was unaware of. It seems many people had assumed he was dead. he recorded two albums in the early 70s. He didn’t find out about his own popularity until 1997. He then had a late life comeback as shown in directors’ documentary “Searching For Sugar Man”.

7) Sinead O’ Connor’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. A song that perfectly describes your average gullible Trump supporter. When are they going to realize rhe emperor has no clothes?

Sorry I try to keep politics out of my blog, but at some point you just need to open your eyes folks.

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(Finished July 10th, 2024) Part 2 of Songs On My Mind

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More songs on my mind until I can get my Mac back.

From Tracey Garvis Graves’ novel “heard it in a love song”: Songs on my mind from that book include  Alanis morrissete’s “Ironic”, Eric Clapton’s “Layla” and of course “Heard It In A Love Song”. That song is by The Marshall Tucker Band.

Other songs on my mind, two great songs on my iPod that played back to back. First up Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford’s “Phantom of the Opera”. That led right into another great duet. That would be Shakey Graves and Esme Peterson. Both were so good paired together I had to listen a second time.

Not that I’ve seen it, but I hear the Tears For Fears classic “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” makes a featured appearance.

Other songs on my mind include Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker”, Trombone Shorty’s “Lie To Me” and Fergie’s  “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got). That last song is about as close to an instant classic as possible. 

Other great songs on “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack include Jack White’s “Love Is Blindness”, Emeli Sande’s “Crazy In Love”, the super talented Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” and Amy Winehouse’s “Back To Black”.

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(Started July 9th, 2024) Songs On My Mind

Hello,

My computer is currently not working, which is why I haven’t blogged for awhile. I keep on coming up with ideas. However I’m old and don’t really want to blog on my phone.

But I quickly wanted to post something, anything. 

These are a few songs on my mind. since I read about it in Tom Breihan’s “The Number Ones” I’ve been thinking a lot about The Shirelles “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”. What a great song. 

Also a couple of other songs from that book and also songs on my mind. They are Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” and The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go”.

More later, 

Themusicaddict 

(Finished July 1st, 2024) Part 11 of Gen Z Loves the 90s Country Classics, So Do I

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I have labeled some of these songs as best of the best, the 90s was a tremendous decade for country music. As usual I don't just post the hits, I post the best country songs of that decade.

RollingStone.com has a big article about Generation Z is loving 90s country. Here's the article : https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nineties-country-blowing-gen-z-142735025.html

From the article:

But the Nineties country resurgence isn’t limited to Spotify. Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora have all realized the demand for the subgenre and curated their own Nineties country playlists. Today’s Nashville stars have taken note as well: For the past few years, artists like Luke Combs, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, Hailey Whitters, and Midland have been mining the sound, songwriting, and even style of the decade to great success. Blake Shelton based his entire Friends and Heroes Tour around celebrating veterans like John Anderson and Tracy Byrd. And when Joe Diffie, a Nineties icon with hits like “John Deere Greene” and “Pickup Man,” died in March 2020 from Covid-19, our remembrance of Diffie was one of Rolling Stone’s most-read stories ever.

170) Sawyer Brown "The Walk":

171) Blackhawk "Goodbye Says It All":

172) Don Williams "True Love":

173) Anne Murray "Blue Bird":

174) Mary Chapin Carpenter "Hailey Came To Jackson":

175) Garth Brooks "The Night Will Only Know":

Absolutely best of the best. 176) Pam Tillis "Maybe It Was Memphis":

177) Tim McGraw "Everywhere":

178) Mary Chapin Carpenter "He Thinks He'll Keep Her":

179) Earl Thomas Conley and Keith Whitley "Brotherly Love":

180) John Michael Montgomery "Be My Baby Tonight":

181) Collin Raye "That Was A River":

182) Travis Tritt "Tell Me I Was Dreaming":

183) Randy Travis "Point of Light":

184) Sawyer Brown featuring Earl Scruggs The Dirt Road

185) Anne Murray "I Can See Arkansas":

186) Don Williams "Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy":

187) Doug Stone "In A Different Light":

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