Perfect Pink and Higher by Taio and Kylie

  Our music blog this week is highlighting the great new song by Pink off of her Greatest Hits So Far Album and it is F....ing Perfect.While Australias princess Kylie Minogue is finally breaking into the American charts with the single Higher. She has the support of Taio Cruz on this song and she is sounding better than ever.

There is another song from train to add a bit of festive flavour and finally our flashback artist is the legendary Johnnie Taylor with songs from Sam Cookes Sar label as well as a from his Stax/Disco period.

Pinks Greatest Hits So Far Review

After 10 years in the music business, Alecia Moore better known as Pink has finally decided to release her first Greatest Hits compilation compromising of all her  biggest songs over the past decade. The compilation kicks off with Pink’s signature tune ‘Get The Party Started’, the song that launched her from a run-of-the-mill RnB artist to a real pop force not to  be reckoned with more...

New Single
F...in Perfect Pink

Kylie Minogue
Back with new Taio Cruz release Higher

Kylie Minogues Breast Cancer Fight

KYLIE Minogue has enjoyed an extra happy New Year as she marks her fifth anniversary free of breast cancer. Australia’s pop princess was diagnosed with the disease in May 2005. By January 2006 she had been given the all clear, but only after chemotherapy and a partial mastectomy.

Minogue said she was still taking small steps forward.

“It’s baby, baby steps,” she told the Daily Mirror. “I am an example of someone five years down the road and that is a big achievement.”

Minogue said she hoped others would learn from her experience and take all the help offered more...

Higher 

Taio Cruz and Kylie Minogue

Just wanted to include this Christmas release by Train. Love this song! The boys really have done sensational with this album,It is full of great songs.

Shake Up Christmas

Train

Flashback to the Legendary Johnnie Taylor

 Johnnie Harrison Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, AK, on May 5, 1934. He grew up mostly in nearby West Memphis. Later moving to Kansas City, where he performed with a gospel group called the Melody Kings.In 1953, Taylor  joined the doo wop group the Five Echoes.He also began performing  with the gospel group the Highway QCs, which had once been home to Sam Cooke. In 1957, Taylor would replace Cooke in the hugely influential Soul Stirrers, after Cooke departed for a career in secular music.It was through this outfit that he initially met and befriended Soul Stirrers frontman Sam Cooke.He recorded for Sam's SAR label before Cookes untimely death.  

 Oh How I love You Johnnie Taylor

He was a top young gospel singer, gritty Stax/Volt soulster, lady-killing balladeer, chart-topping disco king, Southern soul-blues man. Johnnie Taylor  managed to adapt to the times, and his versatility showed out in his recording career that lasted nearly four decades. Nicknamed the "Philosopher of Soul" during his Stax days, here, Taylor is best remembered for his 1968 R and B chart-topping smash "Who's Making Love," but far and away his biggest success was 1976's across-the-board number one "Disco Lady,".The first single ever certified platinum which at the time meant sales of over two-million copies. After the disco craze faded in the mid 80's Taylor moved to the Malaco label and for over 15 years he kept on recording and performing right up to his passing in 2000.

I Found A Love
 


Good Love


 
Disco Lady

Baby We Got Love

Christina Aguilera's great vocals. Chemical Romance and the legendary George Harrison

  Our song of the week is Chemical Romance and their new single Sing. Good stuff Gerard and the boys.The beautiful Christina Aguilera's voice is just amazing and in her new movie Burleque,it explodes onto the big screen.I need to see this movie.  Finally the flashback is the late legendary George Harrison with some great songs over the years.

 Chemical Romance 

 Gerard Way vocals, Frank Iero and Ray Toro guitars, Bob Bryar drums and Mikey Way bass

    Frontman Gerard Way graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He then spent the next few years trying to work as a comic book artist before finally settling with Funhaus, a company which designed and sculpted Marvel Comics action figures for preschoolers.

   His brother Mikey coined the band's name when he saw the book "Ecstacy Three Tales of Chemical Romance", by Irvine Welsh, while working at a Barnes and Noble Store.

     My Chemical Romance started showcasing their music underground in the East Coast.The band became famous for their distinctive vocals and gothic appearance.

Their new single is

Sing

Burlesque

     Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess (Cher), the club’s proprietor and headliner. Burlesque’s outrageous costumes and bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue, who vows to perform there one day more......

Somethings Got A Hold On Me

I'm A Good Girl

Flashback

George Harrison

    George Harrison joined John Lennon and Paul McCartney in 1957, playing guitar for The Quarrymen. By 1962 the group had added Ringo Starr and become The Beatles, the most successful pop act in music history. George had a reputation as the quiet one, and his interest in Indian music and philosophy flavored the Beatles' work during the late 1960s. Several of The Beatles' most famous songs were written by Harrison, including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Something. More...

Got My Mind Set On You

Here Comes The Sun

My Sweet Lord

         Our main feature is the great duet of Rihanna/Eminem Love the Way You Lie Part2.It may not have the impact of part 1 but a song that grows on you.We are taking a look at the X factor, with the British charts being flooded by artists who have performed or are performing on the show. Ellie Goulding has a lovely version of Elton John's Your Song for you to enjoy.While Olly Murs has another hit on his hands with Thinkin of Me.The number one song right now is from the latest X factor finals, Heroes.

       While our flashback is too a real legend of the music industry who started in the business at a very young age Stevie Wonder.Our flashback tracks has a real lost gem in Contract of Love plus the beautiful Is'nt She Lovely.

Rihanna and Eminem 

      This version is from the females perspective, with Rihanna singing the main lyrics with Eminem in the backup roll.Lyrics  ----  On the first page of our story, the future seems so bright.
And this thing turned out so evil, I don’t know why I’m still surprised "Even angels have their wicked schemes, and you take that to new extremes, but you will always be my hero, even though you lost your mind". Fittingly, the song appears on Rihanna's upcoming album Loud was out November 16th, with Eminem the featured artist.
 

Love the Way You Lie Part 2

Ellie Goulding

I’m Ellie and I play guitar. I grew up in a small town near Hereford, although I know live in a small house in the big smoke. I’ve been writing songs since I was about 14, and now with the help of a few friends, I’m at a place where you guys are able to hear them. The support you guys have given means the absolute world to me, and I really look forward to what the future holds.More...

Your Song Ellie Goulding

Olly Murs

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Thinkin of Me 

Stevie Wonder

     His real name is Steveland Morris Judkins Hardaway,born May 13,1950 an American composer,singer,humanitarian and social activist,blind from birth and originally from Saginaw, Michigan.

He was placed in an incubator immediately after his birth,Stevie was given too much oxygen, causing him to suffer permanent blindness. 

      He  was discovered in 1961 while peforming fo some friends by Ronnie White of the Miracles. White quickly arranged an audition for Wonder at Motown records and At the age of 12 Stevie was signed by  Berry Gordy on the spot. Gordy dubbed the child with the name Little Stevie Wonder and placed him in the care of producer/songwriter Clarence Paul Stevies,his first hit came with "Fingertips" (1963), at the age of 13.
    Many hits followed here are just three of them plus a rare Stevie song Contract of Love.

Is'nt She Lovely

For Once in my Life

Contract of Love

Signed Sealed Delivered

Get on the Train with The Black Eyed Peas

    This Week we have some cracker tracks.We are going to open with The Black Eyed Peas and their first single from what is sure going to be another smash album.It has a piece of the old Jennifer Warnes hit Time of Your Life in it but certainly does'nt cover it.Train has another hit off their album with Save Me San Francisco.While our Flashback takes us way back to Dinah Washington and her hits of the late fifties early sixties,including the duets  with Brook Benton.

 Black Eyed Peas

 

  The guys are back with their new album released November 30th.The Beginning, sounds as though there is a lot of experimenting going on but I tell you there is a couple of ripper tracks here and sure fire number ones. The Situation is one of these.It reminds me a lot of Meet Me Halfway when I first heard it.It just had to be a monster hit and this one gives me that very same feeling.

 Just love the Black Eyed Peas.I remember when I first heard Boom Boom Pow.I thought Yeah not bad but i tell you that song is an absolute gem.One of my all time favorites.I take my hat off to these guys they take risks and it works.They blend well together,they use Fergies voice to perfection and they come up with a great mixture of dance and rock music.

Black Eyed Peas The Time Dirty Bit

Snippet of a monster hit prediction

The Situation

Train

Pat Monahan vocals  Jimmy Stafford guitar  Scott Underwood drums

 Train has 15 years in the music industry and with  their latest album a great collection of songs.They add more depth to their recordings and help back up their classic song Drops of Jupiter which  made its mark on music history by winning a  Grammy Award.

  Pat Monahan says taking time away from each other really made the heart grow fonder,of the break.We realized how important we were to one another and taking a few years off helped us all really look at ourselves and what we could contribute to this band as opposed to what we weren't getting from the band.

Save Me San Francisco

Drops of Jupiter

Flashback 

Dinah Washington 

  Born Ruth Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in August 1924, Dinah Washington moved to Chicago’s South Side when she was three or four. Her mother played piano and passed  her keyboard talent to her daughter.

Dinah Washington made the full-fledged leap to pop stardom, thanks to the lovely Belford Hendricks-arranged ballad What a Diff’rence a Day Makes in 1959.

Then came the collaboration with  Brook Benton  and that is what we are going to highlight in our flashback to the early sixties.

She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Rockin Good Way 

Baby You Got What It Takes

I Don't Hurt

Time of Your Life

Bill Medley Jennifer Warnes