"Kiss Me Again And Again" says this 1940 song written by Mexican singer/songwriter Consuelo Velazquez, this is the most recorded song ever from Mexico and Latin America. When 24 year old Velazquez wrote Beseme Mucho she had never been kissed before - which would have been a sin. Velazquez was known for writing many well-known Spanash standards, but this romantic ballad has been popular throughout the world with covers in many different languages. This 1968 TV performance from Velazquez is based on her 1955 Piano Interpretations album.
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In this 1932 cartoon produced by Max Fleischer and starring Betty Boop, French singer/actress Irene Bordini performs one of the earliest versions of I'm Just A Gigolo. In this bouncing-ball screen-songs cartoon, one from a popular series of theatrical shorts, Bordoni is presented by America's sweetheart and favorite flapper Betty Boop. In the 1920's and 1930's Fleischer pioneered the development of animation with his inventions and films. In many of his cartoons Fleischer would feature music and live action performances from musicians who were little known outside the music circuit at the time, introducing the greater world to musicians like Cab Calloway and others. "It's the best song ever" said John Lennon about this song - it was one of his favorites. This 1973 classic originally recorded by Ann Peebles was spontaneously written by Peebles and the man she would later marry on a rainy Memphis night, and the finished song was handed over to at the Hi Records office the next morning. The song was written one 1973 night when Peebles and her partner Don Bryant, who was a staff writer for Hi Records, were preparing to head out to a concert when a storm suddenly broke out. Peebles reaction was to blurt out "I can't stand the rain!" Don Bryant sat down at the piano and started to develop the song right away - they never went to the concert. Here is The Edge from the often sampled composer, arranger and producer David Axelrod, the song behind Dr. Dre's 1999 mega-hit The Next Episode. The song was recorded by Scottish actor/musician David McCallum and produced by Axelrod. In the 1960's McCallum was well known for his role on TV's The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and he currently has a role on NCIS. In the 1960's McCallum recorded four records - all produced by Axelrod who was known in the 1960's for his unique jazz and soul music and for his production skills. He is also considered to be one of the first musicians to record a fusion of jazz, rock and soul as a style. This rare apperance from Axelrod is from a 2004 concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London that was part of the Ether Festival. Here is a 1976 clip of Rufus and Chaka Khan performing their hit Tell Me Something Good, a song which was written by Stevie Wonder. This hit song won Rufus his first Grammy, and it was one of the earliest hit songs to use the guitar talk box. The song has been covered and sampled many times over the years, including a Ronnie Laws cover that was sampled by the Beastie Boys on their Paul's Boutique album. Luther Ingram's 1972 signature song was written by a pair of Stax records songwriters and it has been covered countless times. In 1974 Millie Jackson wn two Grammy's for her version of the song, and Barbara Mandrill had a very successful country version in 1978. This illicit song, which has also been covered by Issac Hayes, Rod Stewart and others, was originally recorded by The Emotions - a recording that was never released. This is the 1992 hit from Puerto Rican salsa superstar Jerry Rivera that has the very catchy horn intro that was sampled for Shakira and Wyclef's 2006 hit Hips Don't Lie. The song had been previously sampled by Lord Tariq and Peter Guns for Deja Vu (Uptown Baby). Shakira's Hips Don't Lie has been called the best selling single of the 21st century, Wyclef had originally sampled Amores Como El Nuestro in 2004 for Dance Like This, produced for the Dirty Dancing Havana Nights. In 2006 when the song was redone with Shakira for Hips Don't Lie, Rivera publically protested that it was done without his concent, apparantly he was unaware his formar label had sold the rights. Rick James had been recording for 14 years before he released this classic funk track on his debut album as a solo artist in 1978. On this album, and his next two, James played most of the instruments himself, then on his later albums he featured The Stone City Band on rhythm. Mary Jane, the songs title, was a reference to marijuana, which he was passionate about. Mary Jane also inspired the name for the popular 80's group he produced - Mary Jane Girls - who were his protégées. The is the official music video for Gil Scott-Heron's 1974 cult classic The Bottle. When this song was produced the infamous jazz poet, and son of an opera singer, had just finished three albums, two novels and had just received a Masters in Creative Writing. This song from the classic Winter In America album, the first of several collaborations between Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, has been covered numerous times by Joe Bataan and others, and the song has been sampled by De La Soul, S Express, Jungle Brothers and others. This 1972 Lou Reed classic is off the David Bowie produced Transformer album. This was the singer/songwriter's second solo album after leaving the Velvet Underground. The songs title was inspired from the 1956 novel A Walk On The Wild Side. This song has been sampled many times, most memorably in 1991 when it was covered on Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch's 1991 Wildside and A Tribe Called Quest's Can I Kick It. |
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