You all know I love old school R & B.
So I started singing along and tweeting which songs I was singing at the time. I was asked by pointycat69 who the singers in question were. I told her that it would be easier for me to just post the songs and videos and give her an introduction to American Old School R&B.
If you know the songs, sing along, I know I will be.
This is part of the play that I was watching last night.
Lenny Williams "Cause I Love You."
Betty Wright "Tonight is the Night"
Teddy Pendagrass "Turn Off the Lights"
Mary J. Blige "I'm Going Down"
Luther Vandross "If Only For One Night"
I liked the Mary J Blige one, others were ok :)
ReplyDeleteDid make me think of a couple of songs/singers/whatever they are I like that I'd recommend - Tom Lehrer, especially The Vatican Rag & The Masochism Tango.
And The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain - a friend introduced Ric to them and I've watched the dvd - they're disturbingly entertaining. Hopefully I'm doing the link right, if not it's their version of Life on Mars.
And whle I remember - I thought of some very British films you might enjoy (depending on your taste in films) or at least find interesting: Dog Soldiers, Kinky Boots & Keeping Mum. Kinky Boots is based on what happened with a real shoe manufacturer, although sadly they have now gone out of business. Chiwetel Ejiofor is fantastic in it (I'd only seen him in Serenity before this).
http://youtu.be/nW0ACEOE