Gotta Be This or That

Forever Plaid-a-looza continues here at thesongssstuckinmyhead.blogspot.com 

Sunday morning, I had the second song in the show running through my brain. 

I had a hard time finding the origin of this song.  I almost wish there was a website for songs, just like imdb has for movies.  Anyway, there have been multiple covers of this song over the years, but the original appears to have been done (written?) by Benny Goodman in 1945.

Here's what it sounds like, friends.

I hope you thought this post was neat.  I'm caught up on all the ones I was behind on.  I plan to start blogging regularly every Sundee, neato friend.

She Loves You

I'm getting caught up.... almost.

I'm completely immersed right now in this production of Forever Plaid.  I'm having a great time doing it even if it's such a big time commitment.

If you've seen 'Plaid' there are many funny moments, and one in particular that I find quite hilarious and inspired the song stuck in my head for 1/7/2018 (in what has now become the 6TH year of my blogging)

In the show, The Plaids talk about how they started singing music for a "whole new generation" (referring to the 60s) which leads into a cheesy arrangement of The Beatles "She Loves You" which reeks of 1950's fluff.  It's one of my favorite moments in the script and it's also very fun to perform.

Anyway, the dang song was stuck in my head.  Here's the Beatles' version:

And here's what the Plaid's version sounds like:

(It Starts about 2 minutes in)

I love music and I love you.  

Shangri-La

Heaven help me! 

Here's another song from this production of "Forever Plaid" that is stuck in my head.  I sort of have to eat, sleep and breathe these songs since some of these arrangements I'm learning to sing are the hardest I've ever done. 

Today's song is called "Shangri-La" which was first written in 1946 and made popular in the 50's by some of the groups I'm now mimicking in this production.

Here's an example of what the song sounds like:

Hope you're enjoying some of these posts.

Bye for now.

Crazy 'Bout Ya Baby/Undecided

Man, am I in trouble- I've gotten involved a local production of Forever Plaid and man, oh man, are these songs catchy.

Plan on the majority of the blog posts for the next two months dedicated to these songs, which have perpetually been stuck in my head since we started rehearsals two weeks ago. 

First from a few weeks ago is "Crazy Bout Ya Baby" which was first made popular by the Crew Cuts in 1954: 

Next, is a song I learned from the same production, is called "Undecided" and I'm gonna be lazy and copy what it says about the song on Wikipedia-

"Undecided" is a popular song written by Sid Robin and Charlie Shavers and published in 1938.

Recordings[edit]

The first recording was made by John Kirby and The Onyx Club Boys on October 28, 1938, and released by Decca Records as catalog number 2216,^[1] with the flip side "From A Flat to C".^[2]

It was also recorded by Chick Webb and his Orchestra with vocal by Ella Fitzgerald on February 17, 1939 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 2323, with the flip side "In the Groove at the Grove".^[2]

The biggest hit version was recorded by The Ames Brothers with Les Brown's orchestra on June 25, 1951 and released by Coral Records as catalog number 60566, with the flip side "Sentimental Journey".^[3] It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 28, 1951 and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at #6.^[4] A bebop treatment of the song was released in the same year by Gene Ammons.^[5]Billy May recorded the song as part of his 1955 album Arthur Murray Cha Cha Mambos.

In 1960 Harry James released a version on his album Harry James...Today. (MGM E-3848)

Al Hirt released a version on his 1961 album, The Greatest Horn in the World.^[6]

Raffi recorded his version on his album Adult Entertainment by playing country music.

Natalie Cole recorded the song for her 1993 album Take a Look.

Wow, that was easy to copy and paste.  Don't sue me, Wikipedia

Oh, and here's the song, the version I chose is from the era of Forever Plaid, 1950's.  

A Hug.

Brady