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JOJO - BROADWAY NIGHTS - BOZ SCAGGS IN A FABULOUS PERFORMANCE>
Stunning concert. Boz is a great performer, and he works his
arrangements, instrumentalists and chorus to razor sharp precision
and perfection. The music is tight wire suspense with a pulsating bass
beat; and the lyrics tell a story. Boz Scaggs' stories are frequently
thematic in representations of flawed "tough guys" - the trick is to
listen to each masterwork several times to find the question that
reveals the subject's weakness. Intense and commanding. Wonderful
music. The RadioDAZZ Blog.
Your Uncle DAZZ is a major league Boz Scaggs fan, and always will be. His personal brand of music is unique in its genre...not unlike the music of Steely Dan or of Ry Cooder. Love 'em all.
Make sure you tell someone that you love 'em. Don't wait too long. Please.
This has been my favorite Top 40country and western single since it first came out so many years ago. It's been re-done in a good cover by Brooks and Dunn, but nothing is as purely musical and openly harmonious as the original. A classic -- "My Maria" -- just listen to the high note (in the vocal) held, howled and dropped during the refrain. It's always reminded me of a lonesome desert wolf (hey - remember Lobo? -- "I Love You Too Much To Ever Start Liking You" had me drowning in my own tears over breaking up with my girlfriend when I was 17 years old).
The RadioDAZZ Blog salutes you. One of my favorite country crossover songs, with fabulous high notes and rich, full harmony. Great guitar work -- key of E Major rings out like religion. Thumbs up!
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How about some B.W. Stevenson revival linkage?
B. W.
Stevenson, born Louis Charles Stevenson, was an American country pop
artist, working in a genre now called progressive country. "B.W." stood
for "Buckwheat." Stevenson is most famous for his song "My Maria",
co-written with Daniel Moore. Wikipedia
Fred Steiner's Park Avenue Beat -- is the scintillating theme song from the Perry Mason television series.This theme still sends chills down my spine and gives me gooseflesh. It is mysterious, exciting, eerily discordant, and unforgettable.
Fred Steiner wrote the original classic theme song, but when the series was revived, it was co-opted and refreshed by composer/arranger Dick DeBenedictis. But the Steiner original is still the ultimate -- and that's the arrangement you'll hear.
Here's a bit more about Richard Dick DeBenedictis:
Richard Dick DeBenedictis (born 1937) is an American composer noted for composing music for television shows including Perry Mason and its movies from 1985 until 1993, Police Story, Columbo, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O, and Dean Hargrove's Matlock, and its spin offs Jake and the Fatman, and Diagnosis: Murder. DeBenedictis has been nominated nine times for an Emmy Award, most recently in 1996, for composing, but has never won.
He is the father of musician Dean DeBenedictis.
Click and be entranced by the original -- from my childhood:
How about these others by Boz: "The Harbor Lights," "We're All Alone," "Georgia" and the wildest one of all -- it sounds like a drug-crazed Native American chant - "Hard Times" on the album "Down Two Then Left."
Your Uncle DAZZ is a major league Boz Scaggs fan, and always will be. His personal brand of music is unique in its genre...not unlike the music of Steely Dan or of Ry Cooder. Love 'em all.
Make sure you tell someone that you love 'em. Don't wait too long. Please.