Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Les McCann 3 Versions of SUNNY

Les McCann recorded 2 versions of "Sunny" with
Producer Jerry Ross




Plays the Hits

Read the review here:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/les-mccann-plays-the-hits-r143654


On AMAZON the CD version is going for an amazing $300.00
1 new at 84.99; used $300.00

http://www.amazon.com/Plays-Hits-Mccann/dp/B00004TZ6M



LISTEN TO THE 45 RPM VERSION MODERN JAZZ

LP Cover / YouTube 2:37 minutes
Sounds like a different mastering job from the LP version to the 45 RPM version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEBvw1-W9U8

45 RPM cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFRlRNFCqLo&feature=related&noredirect=1


http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d305/d305650b5jx.jpg
9 Minute LIVE version from How's Your Mother CD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzRsQDZfZws

Monday, December 05, 2011

Producer Jerry Ross SPEAKS!

Had a great conversation with producer Jerry Ross on Monday December 5; we are preparing for Jerry's appearance on Visual Radio.

Les McCann 45 RPM version of SUNNY, produced by Jerry Ross


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFRlRNFCqLo


Les McCann's 9 minute version of "Sunny" from his How's Your Mother LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzRsQDZfZws

Saturday, December 03, 2011

Rare Bobby Hebb 45

BEN TUCKER talks about "SUNNY" and BOBBY HEBB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JxH0vb-uaw

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU (Philips 45 RPM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhUkDSnR_s&feature=related

The above song was never released on a legitimate l.p. or CD. We are planning it for the Boxed Set.

There was a bootleg from Germany that stole the liner notes I wrote and the track listing; we tracked down the bootlegger and know who he is. We sent him an official cease and desist.



RARE VERSION OF ATLANTA GA Take 3 FOUND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ggymmG0Q3g




SUNNY version

Evelyn Weigert - Sunny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ORnFO7CJSg&feature=related

Robert Mitchum singing "Sunny"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzvxm51iFO0&feature=related




Did Margaret Whiting have the same manager as Bobby Hebb?

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2011/01/12/Singer-Margaret-Whiting-dies-at-86/UPI-37841294894463/

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Saturday November 26, 2011 SONNIE SONG OF THE DAY!

How do you say "Sunny" in German?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5Tgx4XLbU



Here's a cute German Christmas song

Sonnie "Mein Sunny-Boy ist ein Schneemann" (German Version)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnVPemcReQ


BONEY M performing the ENGLISH version of "Sunny"
Boney M. at the German TV Show "Disco " 02/05/77

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KVnajR3X0

Friday, November 25, 2011

Thursday and Friday November 24, 25, 2011 Luis Miguel

The Sun of Mexico sings "SUNNY" Friday November 18

LUIS MIGUEL, "SUNNY" Studio Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7UlMpxJWA&feature=related


Luis Miguel
Background information
Birth name Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri
Also known as El Sol de México, "Luismi", "Micky"
Born April 19, 1970 (1970-04-19) (age 41)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Origin Mexico
Genres Latin pop, pop music, bolero, mariachi
Occupations Singer, songwriter, record producer
Instruments Vocal, piano
Years active 1981–present
Labels EMI Latin
Warner Music
Associated acts Frank Sinatra
Armando Manzanero
Manuel Alejandro
Sheena Easton
Website Official website

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born April 19, 1970) is a Mexican singer.[1] [2] He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México" (The Sun of Mexico).[3][4] Beginning his musical career in his childhood, Luis Miguel has won four Latin Grammy Awards and five Grammy Awards.[5]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Miguel

Luis Miguel "Sunny"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DTiOZfbXcI&feature=related



Luis Miguel - Sunny Viña del mar 1990


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGueCzbTpU8&feature=related


Sunny - Luis Miguel - (Viña 1990)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUUsX7cb31o&feature=related

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

HAL HEBB - 48 year anniversry of his passing 1963-2011

In Memory of Hal Hebb

Here's a story I published on Hal last year
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2010/17151

Here's Hal singing with The Marigolds Rollin' Stone

Uploaded by on Jul 19, 2010

Originally known as The Prisonairs, who cut the legendary Just Walkin' In The Rain for Sun records while still inmates at the Nashville State Penitentiary with the songs author Johnny Bragg singing lead vocals. Johnny Bragg sings lead on Rollin' Stone, the groups first recording after parting from Sun - although they were still in the shovel - other members are Edward Lee Thurmon, John Edward Drue, Henry Jones, Hal Hebb, Willie Wilson and Alfred Brooks. Johnny Bragg died of cancer just under a year ago in Tennessee age 79; I, like many, am thankful for what he has left of himself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsBOSP_fSVc

The above was written by "RareDooWop"
Johnny Bragg passed away in September 2004
http://www.answers.com/topic/johnny-bragg



TMR Zoo tribute to Hal Hebb

On August 3, 2010 we lost Bobby Hebb, co- author of a song that won a Grammy for vocalist Lou Rawls entitled “A Natural Man”, and singer/performer of a song on the Grammy winning album Night Train To Nashville, the modern pop classic “Sunny”.

Some say “Sunny” was written by Bobby Hebb for God, other reviews of the song claim it was for one particular woman, while still others reference the loss of Bobby’s older brother, Hal Hebb, on November 23, 1963, as a catalyst for one of the greatest songs in the history of popular music. On August 26, 1995, Bobby appeared on my television program, Visual Radio, and gave a clear description of how he wrote his masterpiece:

“I find it more psychological the way I was thinking…it’s your disposition…you need a lift, an up, that’s all. Sometimes everyone needs an up. So “Sunny”, to me, is that disposition, you need a Sunny disposition to get away from whatever, just as I said before, “amuse me”, “make me forget what I just saw man”, “I don’t wanna know, I know I have to know, but I don’t know how to deal with it right now. I will deal with it, I’m not running away from this. I just need a break.”

So this was the idea behind “Sunny” – (it) was (to) give me a brighter idea so that my emotions will not be as disturbed as they are. I need a calmer feeling so that I can balance myself and adjust and then continue forward, onward.”

That Hal Hebb, a member of Johnny Bragg’s group, The Marigolds, who hit the R & B Top 10 with “Rollin’ Stone”, means that he and his younger brother, Bobby, both performed on the Excello Label. But more than that, Hal was definitely young Bobby’s mentor, performing with Bobby on his third birthday at the Bijou Theater on the Jerry Jackson Revue of 1942. In 2001 Hal got some of his due, being referenced in the book “Just Walkin’ In The Rain: The True Story of the Prisonaires by Jay Warner (a six time Grammy Award winning music publisher and writer) on Renaissance Books. This writer conducted an interview with Warner upon the book’s release and got deeper into Hal and Bobby’s references in the author’s work.

As I write this, on November 23, 2010, I’m listening to transfers of performances of “Sunny” that Bobby recorded with me on August 26, 1995 as well as two renditions taped in May of 1998, right after the passing of Frank Sinatra, who also recorded the song (with Duke Ellington!). That Hal Hebb was an inspiration to and for Bobby, there’s no question, the influence of the older brother as an entertainer certainly helped pave the path for Bobby Hebb. Bobby was working on a song entitled “Low Tide” which he abruptly abandoned…the reason I gathered was that Bobby wanted to stay on the bright side of things. Interesting that in July of 2010 author James Sullivan would reference “low tide” in a piece on the song “Sunny” stating: “. ‘Sunny’ was a pop prayer for a better day, after a yesterday “filled with rain.” The gorgeous tune, which borrowed from Hebb’s jazz training in the Navy, his youthful stint as one of the first black performers on the Grand Ole Opry and his smooth-soul recording experience, appealed to listeners across the board. Initially turned down by every publisher he approached, the song would chart high on the country and R&B charts, reaching US No. 2 pop in the summer of 1966.”

The song “Sunny” actually hit #1 in Cashbox and I personally question Billboard keeping it at number two, especially with the memory of how Billboard Magazine tucked The Bee Gees April 1979 single, “Love You Inside Out” conveniently at #1 when CashBox and Record World had it at #2 – if memory serves – it gave The Bee Gees six #1 hits in a row.
Billboard Magazine is a tremendous resource and a wonderful “authority”, however, it is not infallible…keep in mind, the timeless “Louie Louie” was kept out of #1 by The Singing Nun (two songs, “Louie Louie” and “Dominique” which probably cost less than $100.00 to record combined!)

If any song deserved the #1 spot it was and is “Sunny”. Bobby toured with The Beatles that summer as well as with the Jeff Beck / Jimmy Page Yardbirds that same year, 1966, and the response to the rendition of “Sunny” Bobby performed with Barry & The Remains in Toronto on a bill with The Beatles August 17, 1966, which I listened to again this morning, has applause that is at the same level the Beatles themselves received onstage at that event.

Sullivan’s reference to “Just Walkin’ In The Rain”, the Johnny Bragg tune that Hal Hebb sang as a member of The Sunbeams and The Marigolds (who were Bragg’s band following the group that originally hit with “Just Walkin’ In The Rain”, The Prisonaires) is most interesting…Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny” seems to be the other side of the coin to “Just Walkin’ In The Rain”, along with the fact that it was on the label that pressed up Elvis Presley recordings, Sun Records. So let’s say that Sun Records and the reverse of “Just Walkin’ In The Rain” and sunny names for the older Hebb’s bands, The Sunbeams and The Marigolds, inspired Bobby, consciously or unconsciously, it’s wonderful to at least go back and try to discover the threads that helped form this magnificent tapestry that is both the music of Hal Hebb and Bobby Hebb, and the huge international smash “Sunny” itself.

James Sullivan again gives a good reflection in his piece of July 9, 2010, published just about a month prior to Bobby’s passing: “But just as his career was taking off, Hebb’s brother was killed. For months after the incident, “times were at a low tide,” the singer has said. Inspired by ‘Just Walkin’ in the Rain,’ he finally decided to write about the gradual emergence of the human spirit after tragedy.”

Bobby told me that he immersed himself in Gerald Wilson’s You Better Believe it album as a comfort during this great time of sorrow. Wilson’s disc is a textbook that I believe inspired the Pink Panther theme from Henry Mancini (“Sunny” itself including a sly nod to the James Bond Theme just after Bobby sings “Sunny, one so true, I love you” in the song).

Three years after “Sunny” hit in 1966 the group Classics IV had a huge smash with a song giving the flip side answer, “Stormy”. The influence of “Sunny” upon “Stormy” is undeniable – just listen to the mood and the bass line, with Dennis Yost’s Classics IV also recording “Sunny”. The two songs are paired on at least a couple of Classics IV greatest hits packages. So the songs all come full circle, the inspiration inspiring the inspired which, in turn, inspires some more. It certainly will continue for years to come and hopefully this little tribute to one of the influences, Hal Hebb, will be the start of your score card for the more wonderful music yet to come.

Years after Bobby responded to “Just Walkin’ In The Rain” on Sun Records with “Sunny” on the Dutch electronics’ company Philips Records label (what an interesting coincidence since the owner of Sun Records was Sam Phillips – with two l’s instead of one ), we have all these elements that contributed to the creation of a pop masterpiece enjoyed by millions and millions of people on this quickly spinning planet. Johnny Bragg, Sun Records, Gerald Wilson and…Hal Hebb.

Today is the 47th anniversary of the passing of Hal Hebb. You’ll find him listed on the credits of such compilations as “Vocal Groups: Classic Doo Wop or Street Corner Essentials as well as Excello Story Part II 1955-1957; you’ll find him in Jay Warner’s book American Singing Groups: a history from 1940s to today (page 281) – as Jay writes “Bragg formed a new Prisonaires renamed the Sunbeams that included Hal Hebb (brother of Bobby Hebb)…In 1955 the Sunbeams became the Marigolds and recorded in Nashville for Excello Records. The Excello released “Rollin’ Stone” became a number eight R & B hit…

Not as famous as his brother, certainly not as famous as John F. Kennedy (though their two names sometimes get referenced together because of their passing at almost the same point in time), but a man who did perform on a genuine Top 10 hit himself, and who deserves a lot of credit for helping to nurture the musical skills of his younger brother Bobby. Without Theo van Gogh his older brother Vincent might have not had as easy a time putting paint to canvas. Without Hal Hebb would the world be as “Sunny” ?

Joe Viglione is the Chief Film Critic at TMRZoo.com. He was a film critic for Al Aronowitz’s The Blacklisted Journal, has written thousands of reviews and biographies for AllMovie.com, Allmusic.com and produces and hosts Visual Radio. Visual Radio is a fifteen year old variety show on cable TV which has interviewed John Lennon’s Uncle Charlie, Margaret Cho, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Felix Cavaliere, Marty Balin, Bill Press and hundreds of other personalities.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Tribute to President John F. Kennedy

Coming later today, Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a major figure in Bobby Hebb's life


Wednesday November 23, 2011

A Tribute to Hal Hebb

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sunny by Sinatra fan Friday November 18, 2011

SINATRA FAN Friday November 18, 2011

Sunny - Cover


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfpPfcaQBv0


R.I.P. Moogy Klingman

Moogy Klingman, co-author of the Bette Midler hit "Friends", passed away on Tuesday, November 15.

From the editor:
On Tuesday we lost my friend Moogy Klingman who co-wrote "Friends" - the Bette Midler hit with Buzzy Linhart, The connection to Bobby is that Moogy's co-songwriter also wrote with Sandy Baron, Bobby's co-writer on "A Natural Man" and "His Song Shall Be Sung". This site should have a statement from Mr. Linhart regarding Moogy, Sandy Baron and Buzzy's one conversation with Bobby Hebb when we had a conference call a few years back. I wanted Sandy Baron's co-writers to meet...via telephone. Rest in Peace, Moogy.


Here's Moogy at the Utopia Reunion "Friends"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfGsM-MgOw


Here's a "Sunny" song of the day in memory of Moogy - two different versions by Jose' Feliciano



JOSE FELICIANO WITH A LIVE SOLO VERSION OF "Sunny" on tv

"bad days are gone/now the bright days are here,
my Sunny one, so so sincere...Sunny one so true...I love you"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgXw734zr1w&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL9D6E98DE4282B809


Jose' changed the lyric slightly on this live version from television
on the Rolf Harris Show in 1967 Read about Rolf Harris here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302179/

From the poster:

José Feliciano plays Sunny on the BBC's Rolf Harris Show, 25 June 1967. Dig the guitar bongo action at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUOYuJ7flpw

JOSE FELICIANO STUDIO VERSION OF 'SUNNY"

Sunny by Jose Feliciano from the album "Feliciano!" (1968, RCA).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6SgeTc3-p0&feature=related


Our Sunny Song of the Day for Thursday, November 17, 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011

Different Language Versions of "Sunny"

Sunny Songs of the Day - Foreign Language Versions of Sunny

Monday 11-14-11

SUNNY in Japanese
Yoko Nagayama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8YSjoOJGU




Mieko Hirota
is this the first version of "Sunny" ever recorded in 1965?
Miko in New York

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5dm0Gnwl0&feature=related





Richard Anthony / Argentina
Great production - like Dusty Springfield's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7XBr5anA3c&feature=related


Sunny
Luis Miguel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsMJUV3rTlM&feature=related


Version 2 Luis Miguel "Sunny"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DTiOZfbXcI&feature=related


Version 3 Luis Miguel Sunny

Viña del mar segunda noche 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGueCzbTpU8&feature=related


Sunny in Italian by Nina


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdYHsg1ck3g


Another version of "Sunny" by Mina 2:53 into this medley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-X-k14tYgE


MINA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_%28singer%29


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Mina

Mina during her performance in the RAI's television programme Teatro 10 in 1972
Background information
Birth name Anna Maria Mazzini[1]
Also known as Baby Gate, Mina Mazzini
Born 25 March 1940 (1940-03-25) (age 71)
Busto Arsizio
Origin Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Genres Pop, rhythm and blues, jazz, Latin music, Euro pop
Occupations Singer
Years active 1958–present
Labels Italdisc, Ri-Fi, PDU, EMI
Associated acts Adriano Celentano, Augusto Martelli, Bruno Canfora, Giorgio Gaber, Lucio Battisti
Website www.minamazzini.com

Anna Maria Quaini,[2][3] Grand Officer (née Mazzini; 25 March 1940), known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer. She was a staple of Italian television variety shows[4] and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s[5] known for her three-octave vocal range,[6] the agility of her soprano voice,[6] and her image as an emancipated woman.[7]


Sunday, November 13, 2011

A New Bobby Hebb Dot Com!

Bokutachi no yougaku hit Japan CD Bobby hebb  MHCP-190

Japanese compilation
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bokutachi-no-yougaku-hit-Japan-CD-Bobby-hebb-MHCP-190-/370486113498?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item5642b174da

Track Listing:
Music To Watch Girls By 2:38 Andy Williams
Sunny 2:44 Bobby Hebb
Ha! Ha! Said The Clown 2:28 Manfred Mann
A Hazy Shade Of Winter 2:20 Simon & Garfunkel
Wednesday's Child 2:14 John Barry
My Special Angel 2:59 The Vogues
It Must Be Him 2:51 Vikki Carr
By The Time I Get To Phoenix 2:44 Glen Campbell

some of these groups did covers of "Sunny" on the above CD



Sunny Italy - album cover

Too bad Dean didn't sing SUNNY on Sunny Italy...it would be a collector's item now
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dean_martin/sunny_italy/



Dear Bobby Hebb fans,

we are working on two new sites...

Bobbyhebb.com and Sunnythesong.com

Please bear with us while new text is being written and two new sites are being designed

We are also looking for different language versions of "Sunny" with the lyrics written out in a variety of languages.

Check out Yoko Nagayama performing "Sunny"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8YSjoOJGU

D.J.'s should consider a "mega mix" from many of the "Sunny" renditions out there.

Thank you

Joe Viglione
editor
Bobbyhebb.com
hebb_project {@} yahoo.com

Producer
The Bobby Hebb Boxed Set
a 4 disc, 3 CD 1 DVD authorized release for 2012



This amazing Northern Soul single, produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, is going for TWO HUNDRED FORTY NINE DOLLARS...
You Want To Change Me b/w Bobby Hebb's "Dreamy"

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOBBY-HEBB-YOU-WANT-CHANGE-ME-DREAMY-PROMO-NM-45-6168-/300621554873?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item45fe70e4b9

YOU WANT TO CHANGE ME $249.00 on auction on ebay...the same company is selling the single for $149.00 on eBay as well...a one hundred dollar discount

BOBBY HEBB YOU WANT TO CHANGE ME/DREAMY PROMO NM

45 6168)


Item condition:Used

Time left:2d 07h (Nov 15, 201122:36:06 PST)

Bid history:


Starting bid:US $249.99

Same Company also selling it for 149.00
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOBBY-HEBB-YOU-WANT-CHANGE-ME-DREAMY-PROMO-STAMPED-VG-SLIGHT-WARP-45-6169-/300621557656?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item45fe70ef98



"Sunny" is an unexpected delight, maybe because Costa must have realized he couldn't (improve) the hit single by Bobby Hebb. Instead, King is given a chance to use her ultra-relaxed and in-control phrasing to give the song a whole new feel

MORGANA KING: GEMINI CHANGES, DON COSTA, ORIG REPRISE


http://www.ebay.com/itm/MORGANA-KING-GEMINI-CHANGES-DON-COSTA-ORIG-REPRISE-/400250588605?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d30cb4dbd

Beg Scream & Shout: The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul [Audio CD]
Beg Scream & Shout: The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul [Audio CD]
Beg Scream & Shout: The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul [Audio CD]



BEG SCREAM & SHOUT WON A GRAMMY FOR PACKAGING
BOBBY HEBB'S SUNNY IS REMASTERED BY RHINO AND SOUNDS EXQUISITE
GOES FOR $299.00 NOW

http://www.secondspin.com/music/product-detail.jsp?id=842322&cid=1334032&mr:trackingCode=E83FF6DB-C971-E011-B8A8-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA

DJ Eleven Dance Remix of Sunny, Song of the Day Sunday November 13, 2011

Bobby Hebb's "SUNNY" remixed by D.J. Eleven

SUNNY REMIX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSFveqwsYYc&feature=fvwrel

Remixed by DJ Eleven / http://www.djeleven.com


SUNNY REMIX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjK6v1eAew

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Sunny Dance Remixes

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2011

MIKE TERNERO REMIX! of SUNNY

Pre-master recording of the remix available at http://www.beatport.com by Antificcion.
Astro Recordings presents Miguel Picasso feat. Cristie (aka Kristen Deva) - SUNNY
Enjoy this -in a better quality- and other songs at http://www.myspace.com/anchodebanda

Bobby Hebb's masterpiece of melody and song construction is getting the dance mix treatment all over the place...and we're collecting them for fans of this immortal song!

Watch for more remixes in the coming days as well as Electric Flag and other renditions! WATCH FOR THE ALL-NEW BOBBYHEBB.COM AND SUNNYTHESONG.COM WEBSITES...WE ARE WORKING ON THEM NOW!



KEEP IN MIND ... Just Friends/ Sunny was utilized in the Eddie Murphy movie
“Nutty Professor II: The Klumps” See our Nov. 7 posting for more details

There is a remix with 4 dub versions of this tune which uses the Sunny melody at the very beginning

http://www.discogs.com/Musiq-Soulchild-Just-Friends-Sunny-Masters-At-Work-Remixes/release/47993



A1
Just Friends (Sunny) (MAW 12" Mix) 8:49
A2
Just Friends (Sunny) (MAW Dub Beats) 4:15
B1
Just Friends (Sunny) (MAW Dub) 6:02
B2
Just Friends (Sunny) (MAW Instrumental) 3:59


Credits

Friday, November 11, 2011

Sunny Song of the Dany November 11, 2011

Sunny
Melba Moore


Melba Moore is one of the backing vocalists on the original hit version of "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKb6FxxVZWY




Sunny for Thursday, November 10

Steelpan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzWBdOdP_I
Tony Guppy 'live' @ Beat Club (Utsunomiya), Tochigi

This is very cool...avant jazz instrumental...very, very nice

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Wednesday November 9, 2011

DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY sings SUNNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UUgDiKkSqY

Simply amazing.




Tuesday November 8
Ella and Tom Jones

Listen to the nuances in Ella's voice...Tom is in awe...and he should be!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkWBmhVj2Y





Monday November 7

SUNNY (Just Friends) Musique

This was from an Eddy Murphy movie...it's a variation on "Sunny" called Just Friends...the singer is humming the melody of "Sunny" at the beginning...the rap is over the melody line of "Sunny" and variations...very cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7zsG3XFUd8&feature=fvsr


The first single from this album titled “Just Friends (Sunny)” made it to be the soundtrack of Eddie Murphy's “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”.
Not only gaining popularity through one song, but he also hit the spot through other singles such as “Love” and “Girl Next Door”. Both songs along with “Just Friends (Sunny)” received a wide exposure in US and frequently played in urban and urban

http://www.brandnewz.com/?p=2709


also found on this blog
http://youtubesunny.blogspot.com/

Sunday, November 06, 2011

"Sunny" by Andy Williams

Pray for Andy Williams

"Sunny" is Track 10 on his April 1967 LP "Born Free"
http://www.allmusic.com/album/born-free-r26685/review

William Ruhlmann reviewed the 1967 disc:
Williams reacted by dropping the bossa nova and the oldies and looked more to the recent pop charts for covers like Bobby Hebb's "Sunny." He even recorded "I Want to Be Free" (AKA "I Wanna Be Free") from the Monkees' first album. And he scored a Top 40 hit with a pop/rock arrangement of "Music to Watch Girls By," the tune that originated on a Diet Pepsi commercial and had been an instrumental hit for the Bob Crewe Generation. At a time when non-rock pop singers were beginning to be marginalized, Williams successfully threaded the needle, reassuring his older listeners while proving adaptable to current trends.

Singer Andy Williams says he has bladder cancer

The silver-haired "Moon River" singer missed planned performances this fall with an undisclosed medical condition and the theater announced recently that he would likely miss his holiday schedule as well because of the condition. The newspaper reported he has not started treatment, though it did not identify the person who provided that information.

Williams' appearance Saturday was a surprise and brought a standing ovation from a nearly full house. The golden-voiced singer had a string of hits in the 1950s and '60s, including "Can't Get Used to Losing You" and "Butterfly, but he is best known for his version of "Moon River." He earned 18 gold and three platinum albums in his career.


http://news.yahoo.com/singer-andy-williams-says-bladder-cancer-062705233.html

An Evening with Andy Williams: Live from the Royal Albert Hall 1978



http://www.allmusic.com/album/an-evening-with-andy-williams-live-from-the-royal-albert-hall-1978-r948725/review

Sunny Song of the Day Sunday November 6, 2011

Another Jam on Greg Howe's "SUNNY" backing track

Atanas Shishkov Jammin` on "Sunny"- Greg Howe backing track


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvSrh9v0nOc&feature=related


Edward Brands performing SUNNY on the Greg Howe backing track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYv3r7sHpw&feature=related

Saturday, November 05, 2011

A Tribute To Sylvia Robinson

SYLVIA ROBINSON

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/music/sylvia-robinson-pioneering-producer-of-hip-hop-dies-at-75.html

Sylvia Robinson, a singer, songwriter and record producer who formed the pioneering hip-hop group Sugarhill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap recording with them, died on Thursday in Edison, N.J. She was 75.

September 29, 2011, 1:42 pm

Sylvia Robinson, ‘the Mother of Hip-Hop,’ Dies at 75


http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/sylvia-robinson-the-mother-of-hip-hop-dies-at-75/

Sylvia Robinson, the singer, songwriter and record producer who formed the Sugar Hill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap recording, died early Thursday morning at a hospital in New Jersey. She was 75.

Ms. Robinson had a notable career as a rhythm and blues singer long before she and her husband, Joe Robinson, formed Sugar Hill Records in 1979 and served as the midwives for a musical genre that came to dominate pop music.

She sang with Mickey Baker as part of the duo Mickey & Sylvia in the 1950s and had several hits, including “Love Is Strange,” which was a No. 1 R&B song in 1956. She also had a solo hit, under the name Sylvia, in spring of 1973 with her own composition “Pillow Talk.”


Bobby Hebb paired up with Sylvia when Mickey Baker moved to Paris. The duo became BOBBY & SYLVIA performing "Love Is Strange" at the club The Blue Morocco and releasing a 45 RPM on Battle Records

http://www.globaldogproductions.info/b/battle-logo.jpg

http://www.globaldogproductions.info/b/battle.html

Sylvia Robinson search:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=14&xhr=t&q=sylvia+robinson&tok=b9UQnv0LCJW0E7n5pp1aQA&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=sylvia+r&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=9a60118571682f3b&biw=1024&bih=578



Sunny Song of the Day Saturday November 5, 2011

Greg Howe performing "SUNNY"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVbz_uXJd0


Sunny Song of the Day Friday November 4, 2011

Sing along with Greg Howe performing "SUNNY"
Instrumental backing track...terrific!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMeeFqonva0&feature=related

Sunny Song of the Day Thursday

Someone jammin' on Greg Howe's Backing Track to "Sunny"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYv3r7sHpw&feature=related

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Sunday October 30, 2011 Chriz Montez Sunny Song of the Day

Chris Montez has a wonderful version of Sunny with the sound you can hear on two of his pop hits (The More I See You and Call Me), the chorus of voices towards the end of the song with that lounge almost live feel to it.

Chris changes the lyrics, as Bill Cosby and Frankie Valli did:

Now the dark days are bright / the bright days are here
My Sunny one / so sincere


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzitSGzJ4pQ


1:45 in "You're my star of nature's fire / You're my sweet, complete desire"

2:03 "Yesterday my heart was filled with pain"

You can find the Chris Montez version of "Sunny" on these albums. Thanks to Dick Ely for his hard work cataloging the "Sunny" versions
http://onesotrue.blogspot.com

Montez, Chris
A&M LP120(M, WLP) Time After Time
A&M LP120(M) Time After Time
A&M SP4120(WLP) Time After Time
A&M SP4120 Time After Time
Pye NPL28087(M) Time After Time (UK)
A&M AMLB1011 The More I See You (UK)
EMI MFP50435 The More I See You (UK)
A&M MFP50540 All My Loving (comp, UK)
Columbia 412.015 The Very Best Of Chris Montez ( Brazil)

More about Chris Montez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Montez

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Saturday October 29, 2011 Sunny Song of the Day

Saturday October 29

JOHNNY YOUNG from Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkpV8oenW2k&feature=related



Friday October 28 SUNNY song of the day

Dr. Manzanita and Merlin met after a long time again... A sunny afternoon with good Equipment and a little kiss of Miss Muse made us do it... Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZAn6Q3TSlQ&feature=related



Thursday October 27 Sunny Song of the Day

Frank N Sense covers "Sunny"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAVYTmbN7B8

FrankNSense on YouTube


BONUS SUNNY

Sir J's "Sunny" is not Bobby Hebb's, but there appear to be influences in it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzq390-pNaY&feature=related

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Linda Teodosiu of Boney M sings "Sunny" without band

SUNNY SONG FOR WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26, 2011

Live television version of "Sunny" by

Linda Teodosiu - Sunny (Boney M)

Piano / vocal version with live audience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWyT8O9J_8&feature=related

What a great voice!
Linda Teodosiu of Boney M / vocal
Roman / superb funky jazz piano!
Saxophone player is great as well

TV show

Atentie Se Canta

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atentie-Se-Canta/102349503133903?sk=info



SUNNY SONG FOR Tuesday OCTOBER 25, 2011


Name this jazz rendition of "Sunny"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYsAOZfwDY&feature=related


search page with additional versions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYsAOZfwDY&feature=related





SUNNY SONG FOR MONDAY OCTOBER 24

Karaoke version of Sunny
with lyrics

SING ALONG!
AND MAKE YOUR OWN YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N74tp4a7mzc


Page
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sunny+karaoke&aq=f

Sunday, October 23, 2011

K.J. Denhert covers "Sunny"

Sunday October 23, 2011
SUNNY SONG OF THE DAY

K.J. Denhert

  • Original Release Date: July 4, 2006
  • Label: Motema Music LLC
  • Copyright: 2004 KJ Denhert
  • Duration: 7:43 minutes
  • Genres:
  • ASIN: B000QZBC2O
We can't find the YouTube but here's a FREE listen at Yahoo

http://new.music.yahoo.com/k-j-denhert/tracks/sunny--25790207


http://www.kjdenhert.com/

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Herb Albert Sunny song

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJFXPNXcaf0&feature=related


Track seven of the album "The Brass Are Comin'" (1969). 4,574 10/21/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHfD7VgQ4WI&feature=related



HERB ALBERT VIDEO FOR 'SUNNY'

THANKS TO THE GOOCHMAN

79,707 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA55LCylPqg&feature=related

writes:


Rare video clip of the song "Sunny" from the NBC show Brass are Comin'. Also, track is on the album, as well. Sorry so grainy, but it's all I got. I hope you all enjoy.

P.S. I had the once in a lifetime opportunity to see Herb and Lani play at Blues Alley in Georgetown Washington DC 12 May 2008. The show was absolutely spectacular. After all these years, they both still have it: the skills and the love. Truly a remarkable show. Herb and Lani, thanks to all of the wonderful years of warming our hearts with your great art work. You both are truly blessed as well as I was at your show.


(this was written by the person who posted the song on YouTube; not by BobbyHebb.com)

Friday, October 21, 2011

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Sunny Song of the Day

Thursday October 20, 2011


DUSTY SPRINGFIELD LIVE


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Wednesday October 19, 2011

Stevie Wonder "Sunny"
Stevie recorded two versions of Bobby Hebb's classic for Motown. A studio version and a rendition on his live album

Studio version

Studio version

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Cher's Tribute to Sonny

Cher sings "Sunny" as a tribute to Sonny

"Sunny" from USTV


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAA_rm2-JvY


The YouTube poster writes:

Cher with an awesome version of "Sunny" from the one off Tv special "Where the girls are". I like this version more than the original.This is a classic!"

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Bobby Hebb told me that he gave Cher the song to do as a love song to Sonny...but he said "It was their bye bye song".

Our Sunny song of the day for Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

LIBERACE FILM TO BROADCAST in 2012!


LIBERACE BIO PIC SCHEDULED FOR NEXT SUMMER

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/liberace-jerry-weintraub-hbo_n_1015573.html?ir=Gay%20Voices


First announced in 2008, the biopic of Liberace finally found its home last week at HBO, with the cable network announcing that it will air the Steven Soderbergh-directed film after it starts production next summer. Titled "Behind The Candelabra," the film gets its name from the memoir of Scott Thorson, Liberace's younger lover. Michael Douglas, whose bout with cancer pushed back the film's initial production date, will play Liberace, while Matt Damon will tackle the role of Thorson.


SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD MUSIC!

http://spaceagebachelorpad.blogspot.com/

Bobby Hebb's immortal classic, "Sunny", has touched on a number of important genres. As Kal Rudman wrote in the liner notes, it hit the trifecta with Pop, R & B and Country charting the song.

But "Sunny" has also become a Jazz standard, as well as a funk song; it is a song that can cross ALL genres. And someday we may release an album of different renditions of "Sunny" that touches those unique and very distinctive styles of music.

SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD and NORTHERN SOUL are two very hip trends which have Bobby Hebb as a hero of the genre. We will explore this in a future essay in more detail.


LIBERACE RECORDED "SUNNY" ON THE SOUND OF LOVE lp

http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=491914

Liberace,The Sound Of Love,UK,Deleted,LP RECORD,491914

Listen to Track 2, "SUNNY" by Liberace - a different take on Bobby Hebb's song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgm152DZs8I

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We need to start a petition to get Bobby Hebb's SUNNY in the Liberace film!


LIBERACE: Songs My Mother Taught Me
http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Liberace/Discography/album/P1899/R665978/



LIBERACE Here's Liberace CD

http://www.allmusic.com/album/heres-liberace-r26994/review




A Collection of Various Interpretations of Sunny, Vol. 1

Various Artists


http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-collection-of-various-interpretations-of-sunny-vol-1-r503678/review





SUNNY SONG OF THE DAY FOR MONDAY OCTOBER 17, 2011

We played JayK live and solo last week...here's his band:

Jamiroquai-Sunny-Live@Glastonbury'95


LOOK AT THIS COOL COMMENT:
  • Dude I remember being here, first and only Glasto experience - Jay K came on and sung this bobby heb tune and the clouds parted and the sun shined through....magical experience.


Sunday, October 16, 2011

Sunday October 17 Sunny song of the Day - Martino & Scofield

Pat Martino and John Scofield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2RRUVAD9Mc&NR=1

The YouTube writer calls "Sunny" a jazz/funk classic!

"Pat and John tear it up with Joey Defrancesco at the 2002 Umbria Jazz Festival on this jazz/funk classic"

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Saturday SUNNY song of the day JAY KAY of Jamiroquai

JAY KAY of Jamiroquai PERFORMS "SUNNY"

Live on television @ Jools Holland Show 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8RbndInF8E

Jason "Jay Kay" Cheetham[1] (born on 30 December 1969 in Stretford, Manchester, England),[2] is a Grammy Award-winning English artist, best known as the lead singer of the band Jamiroquai.

Jamiroquai also had a rendition of "SUNNY" in a car commercial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Kay


Thursday, October 13, 2011

TWINSET "SUNNY"

Twinset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYoKbpL5_mo




Sunny song of the day, from the brilliant New Zealand group T W I N S E T

Friday October 14, 2011

Del Shannon 'Runaway" sings "Sunny"

it might be raining hard in Boston @ 8:47 AM but...

Our SUNNY song of the day for
Thursday, October 13, 2011


Sunny by Del Shannon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHmAJDg_g0&feature=related

Always a little sunshine on BobbyHebb.com

Dell changed the lyric to "Thank you for that smile that fills the place". Frankie Valli also changed the lines in his version from the 1960s, Valli doing a second version in the new millennium and keeping to the original.

Ten Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty Four spins for
Del Shannon's excellent rendition on 10-13-11. Listen to him really rev up at the end of the tune!

HEBB NEWS:
"Sunny" played on Northshore 104.9 10-12-11 Wednesday night
at 10:10 PM. Thank you, WBOQ Boston!

MARTIN HOVER had the SUNNY SONG OF THE DAY three days ago. He wrote us this on October 11!
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Hello Joe,

Thank you for making my version of Sunny your Sunny song of the day. I feel really honored.

I recorded my version at home on my Tascam DP-02 digital recorder.

It was recorded in May 2009.

What can I say about this song?

It's one of those tunes that, even the very first time you hear it, it seems like it's been around forever. It's got that timeless quality.


Martijn Hover

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"SUNNY" song of the day Buddy & Soul perform "Sunny"

Here's a charming flute and guitar rendition of "Sunny" from the duo Buddy & Soul.

OUR 'SUNNY' SONG OF THE DAY FOR OCTOBER 12, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6lq8Ugkgs&feature=related


Uploaded to YouTube by on Mar 25, 2009

WHO ARE BUDDY AND SOUL (which is the title of a Buddy Rich album as well!)

http://www.jazzserver.org/artists/buddy.and.soul

Buddy and Soul is a duo made of Tim Kliphuis and Herman van der Leest (former members of the group Sequenza) who are playing music from the thirties in the style of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, but also influence from later jazz is to be heard by these two fine musicians.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Sunny song of the day October 11, 2011

Marion performs Bobby Hebb's "SUNNY"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjO0SpGNMg&feature=related

SUNNY - The Bobby Hebb Story

Work is progressing on

SUNNY: THE BOBBY HEBB STORY

stay tuned for more details.

Happy Columbus Day to fans of Bobby Hebb, October 10, 2011

SUNNY SONG OF THE DAY #1 Collect them all!
Here's our "SUNNY" version of the Day, Martin J. Hover performing "Sunny"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyeP3bdE6qI&feature=related


FROM MARTIN J. HOVER

Sunny by Bobby Hebb, violated in my own inimitable probaly illegal way. Just trying to to sing my way through three key changes without getting off key too much ;-)
I used Andrew Rogers' tab for this one. Andrew's no longer with us, but he deserves out eternal graitude for the extremely accurate 60s tabs he's left us with. If you're a guitar player and you like 60s stuff, check him out. (No Beatles though. He didn't like 'em, I think.)