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[QUOTE=ProfessorMurder]Hey did you know that you can like someone without saying they are the greatest ever?
A. You can't prove it.
B. He isn't.
C. It's all opinion.
You're trying to start an argument when you just want to talk about him.[/QUOTE]
Of course it's all opinion.
[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Marie was cool, I didn't care for that wedding song and this one is alright.[/QUOTE]
Dude, he not only left her, he took her wedding dress too and gave it to another woman!
Marie was the only Townes song of the three I posted. Best song about poverty that I know.
However, $1000 wedding is a masterpiece.
In terms of greatest songwriters, I think Chuck Berry is vastly underrated. Very, very few have matched words to melody better. His lyrics just swing. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ezeUM6c74"]Memphis, Tennesee [/URL]. What pop song tops that?
Also, if you're going to be the greatest, you're going to have to go up against Hank Williams and that's a tough row to hoe. Here's [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIdj5uFung4"]Al Green covering him[/URL]
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twjJC3RYR98"]People Get Ready[/URL]
He also had probably the most influence in a bubbling new genre from the Islands, Reggae music.
His melodies, guitar playing and harmonies with the Impressions gave it it's birth along with Ska and Calypso.
[QUOTE=L.Kizzle][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twjJC3RYR98"]People Get Ready[/URL]
He also had probably the most influence in a bubbling new genre from the Islands, Reggae music.
His melodies, guitar playing and harmonies with the Impressions gave it it's birth along with Ska and Calypso.[/QUOTE]
Mayfield may have had an individual influence on reggae, but Jamaican music goes back to [URL="http://niceup.com/history/ja_music_59-73.html"]American Jazz and Rock n Roll and R+B[/URL]. That is reggae would have happened with Curtis Mayfield. Motown was big throughout Jamaica. Now Bob Marley was specifically a fan of The Impressions, but it's a mistake to say the Bob Marley is all of reggae.. Apparently Jimmy Cliff was more of an Otis Redding fan.
Sam Cooke>
[QUOTE=KevinNYC]Mayfield may have had an individual influence on reggae, but Jamaican music goes back to [URL="http://niceup.com/history/ja_music_59-73.html"]American Jazz and Rock n Roll and R+B[/URL]. That is reggae would have happened with Curtis Mayfield. Motown was big throughout Jamaica. Now Bob Marley was specifically a fan of The Impressions, but it's a mistake to say the Bob Marley is all of reggae.. Apparently Jimmy Cliff was more of an Otis Redding fan.[/QUOTE]
Listen to this 1962 track, the beginnings of reggae.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNkcYwTywQ"]The Impressions: I'm The One Who Loves You[/URL]
A minute mark 1:32 that is some straight reggae organ chords.
[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Listen to this 1962 track, the beginnings of reggae.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNkcYwTywQ"]The Impressions: I'm The One Who Loves You[/URL]
A minute mark 1:32 that is some straight reggae organ chords.[/QUOTE]
I don't hear it. I listened the first time without focusing on 1:32. Do you mean the little "stabs" going on in the background. That sounds like reggae guitar to me, however the foreground sounds like horns at that point.
Also I forgot that Curtis Mayfield had his accident in Brooklyn.
[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXihjTeOaLs"]Curtis Mayfield: Never Stop Loving Me[/URL]
[QUOTE=Jax]Sam Cooke>[/QUOTE]
What are your top five Cooke pinned tunes?