Currently Listening to mark III 2014

I'm back from my wanderings so I can bore you with some oldies

To add to the drumming sessions, here's one of Sammy Davis Jr. He could play over a dozen musical instruments apart from dancing and singing.



A lot of you will remember the lovely voice of Karen Carpenter but she was also a drummer.

She comes into this clip from about 1.20 minutes, starts of slowly and builds up from there. For such a tiny person she had a lot of energy!



Then, of course, we have The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Take Five.

 

You learn something new each day

 

Zigs, to a certain extent, that reminds me a bit of the Beatles Yeah, I know it's supposed to be more like The Who

Here's something that's a bit out of character.

It's not quite Uriah Heep's normal rock.



The song was written by folk singers and writers Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff as an anti-war song. It has, variously, been said to be about the American Civil War, WWII and, as they thought at the time, WWIII. Although it was written earlier, the first recording was in May 1963 by Harry Belafonte, quickly followed by Judy Collins in Dec and the Weavers (Fred was a member of the group) in the same month.

It has been covered by a lot of folk singers and pop bands.

Uriah Heep recorded it in 1970 but performed it at many gigs.