60s music
Groove along to Beat Media's breakdown of the bands, artists, songs and culture that defined the 60s.
Remembering at Christmastime
As much as our hearts ache for loved ones we have lost it is at Christmastime when we feel the loss the most. They are not lost to us but waiting for us when that someday comes when we have to leave this world and join them. Christmas candles are lit to bring light and joy into our homes and we know that they all gather around us in spirit. Take a look at snowflakes dancing in the wintry air, you are sure to find a face you recognize that was always so dear. Invite them into your home and your heart and know they’ll be with you all Christmas long. Listen to songs of remembrance and don’t feel sorrow but embrace the memories they bring and know that you are loved by someone up above.
By Rasma Raisters3 years ago in Beat
Polymath Actor, Recording Artist, and Filmmaker Amir Royale Releases His ‘Stories of the Lost, Rich & Tormented’ EP
From Amir Royale Sophomore year, NYU Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute, 2017. I created the concept of Stories of the Lost, Rich & Tormented as a "Writing the Hit Song: Deep Cutz" homework assignment. Over the course of 14 weeks, I crafted and reworked about 12 or so ideas. Suddenly, my songwriting professor at the time (Eren Cannata of Cove City Sound Studios, Facethouse Records & Warner Chapel Music), directed us to use all the content we created thus far to formulate an EP. This project would then become one we’d pitch and present to potential A&R scouts. It was our final project. I curated 5 of my best records across the class to showcase a conceptual narrative and description of greed, lust, and youth insecurity within American culture. It is the final entry within my four-EP-long music chronicle (dating back to my 2015 EP, This Is for You.). To let this project go free finally—feels like a blessing. Thank you.
By StageScene Magazine3 years ago in Beat
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
“Run Rudolph Run” is a Christmas song that was written by American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chuck Berry. The song was credited to Johnny Marks and M. Brodie. It was recorded by Berry in 1958. This song is a 12-bar blues. It charted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and made it on the UK Singles chart.
By Rasma Raisters3 years ago in Beat
Singing in the Rain
“A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” is a song that was written by American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan in 1962. It is on his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Dylan has said that all the lyrics of the song were taken from the initial lines of song he thought he would never have time to write. Dylan formally premiered the song at Carnegie Hall in NYC in 1962, as part of a hootenanny organized by Pete Seeger.
By Rasma Raisters3 years ago in Beat
From Child Star to Fame Angel: The Story of Irene Cara
In the wake of her passing I decided to write this story in honor of Irene to celebrate her memory. Before she was writing a song that earned her accolades, she was a young child starlet singing Latin music during the 1960s. During the 1980s, she starred in Fame and singing the film's title that topped number one in various countries until she sang "What a Feeling" making it another hit song compared to Fame.
By Gladys W. Muturi3 years ago in Beat
Songs A Cappella
Introduction A cappella is Italian for ''in the style of the chapel''. Music is a performance by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. The term a cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato musical styles. In the 19th century, a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony, coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists, led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
A Brief History of "There's a Kind of Hush"
The New Vaudeville Band (1966) The studio group, The New Vaudeville Band, which was assembled by Geoff Stephens, struck gold in the fall of 1966 with their mega-hit "Winchester Cathedral" which was #1 in Australia, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and the US. It was also Top 3 in Brazil, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Rhodesia, and the UK. After such a huge hit the pressure was on for a follow-up. Songwriter, producer, and arranger Geoff Stephens was tasked with the daunting duty. He chose "There's A Kind of Hush" a neo–British Music Hall number with a peppy horn section and bouncy percussion. The expectation was that this polished metropolitan pop number would follow "Winchester Cathedral" into the Top 3. The song did just that when it made it to #2 in South Africa. The only problem is that that was it. The song was a hit in only one other country: Australia where it reached #12.
By Rick Henry Christopher 3 years ago in Beat
Your Hand In Mine
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by the band in 1963. In the UK advance orders exceeded one million copies. The song went to number one on the UK charts and became the band’s first US number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It became The Beatles’ best-selling single worldwide.
By Rasma Raisters3 years ago in Beat
River Of Song
Intro When I did my “Runaway Train” playlist (see the end of this one) I was really surprised at how many songs there were called “Runaway Train” and I do like to put things together with a theme, and a friend of mine loves the Joni Mitchell song “River”, so I wondered could I put together a playlist of songs that have the word “River” in the title.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
