Music Break

Now that once again it's been awhile, here's another set of songs.  To start, this is Status Quo with Caroline, from their 1973 album Hello!.    At this time, the band was in its "Frantic Four" lineup of Francis Rossi (lead guitar & vocals), Rick Parfitt (rhythm guitar & vocals), Alan Lancaster (bass & vocals) and John Coghlan (drums).

Ringo Starr's 2019 album What's My Name? includes Gotta Get Up To Get Down, written with his brother-in-law Joe Walsh, who contributes some rap-style vocals.  Edgar Winter provides the keyboard work.

I was watching a YouTube video about two guys train hopping in the Balkans, which used some songs as background music, and realized that I really liked one of the tunes.  This is Get Some by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, from their 2015 EP Mini Album Thingy Wingy.  The band appears to have named itself after Rolling Stones founding guitarist Brian Jones and the mass murder/suicide at Jonestown, a settlement in Guyana built by members of a sect called the People's Temple.  Its founder and leader, and thus the settlement's namesake, was a man named Jim Jones.  But all of that is tangential.  The band itself was formed in San Francisco and has been around since 1990.

In 1971, the group Fanny played their song Young And Dumb on the German show Beat Club.  Bassist Jean Millington sings this one, and is backed up by guitarist June Millington, keyboardist Nickey Barclay and drummer Alice de Buhr.  Looking on Wiki, I haven't been able to find this one on any of their studio albums.

This last number was performed a few years back by a band that included yours truly on keyboards.  In 1970, Spirit released its fourth album Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus, which included Mr. Skin.  The thumbnail shows the cover of the compilation album The Best Of Spirit, which is a picture of the band's original lineup.  Shown from left to right are Ed Cassidy (drums), Jay Ferguson (vocals), Mark Andes (bass & backing vocals), John Locke (keyboards), and Randy California (guitar & vocals).  "Mr. Skin" was a nickname given to Cassidy because of his bald head.  Ferguson and Andes would later form the group Jo Jo Gunne.  Ferguson would also put out some solo work, while Andes later joined Firefall and Heart, whom I saw live in 1982.  (Thus, Andes is thus one of two musicians in this post whom I've seen live, the other being Ringo Starr.)  Locke later joined Nazareth.  California's real name was Randy Wolfe.  When he played in the band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, frontman Jimi Hendrix called him "Randy California" to distinguish him from their bassist Randy Palmer, whom he called "Randy Texas".  But now that I've presented more tangents than a trigonometry book, let me get back to the song.  It was written and sung by Ferguson.  I don't know who played all the horn parts such as the sax solo.