Just some old stuff --- but nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzukjHtPyVY

Makes me feel like dancing.   too bad that those days are gone forever.      

Speaking of which, here's a video of Leo Sayer performing his classic "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". Can't quite hit the high notes that he hit in the 70s, but still a fun song.

My oldest daughter was in middle school and high school in the 70's.  She has a box of 45 RPM's  from that era, and  "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing",  is one of them.   The box is stored here, but unfortunately we don't have a 45 player, and she doesn't either.   

I've got more records than I know what to do with. I collected them for a while and got a bunch from various places. I stopped collecting them because I ran out of places to put them. I also don't have a fully working turntable at the moment - I've got an older one that I got somewhere years ago (probably a thrift store or eBay) that needs a new needle and needs to be cleaned (plays too slowly I believe), plus one of those Crosley all-in-one things that my parents got me for Christmas a few years ago (I somehow broke the tonearm switch so it doesn't turn on when you move the tonearm - probably an easy fix but I keep forgetting about it). I need to get them working again so I can enjoy the records I've got.

I'm a big fan of Simon and Garfunkel, and this is one of my favorites.  The Sound of Silence.  Paul Simon wrote great lyrics for all their songs.

That wasn't even intended to be a hit believe it or not (at least initially). The original version was released on the 1964 album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. and just features the duo singing with an acoustic guitar. The album didn't sell very well so the two went on with their lives. The song gradually started getting airplay on some radio stations, so a record executive got the bright idea to overdub electric guitar, bass and drums and release the new version as a single in September of 1965, a year and a half after the original was recorded and almost a year after the album was released. That's the version everyone is familiar with these days and the one that shot the duo to instant stardom. That must have been quite a shock to the two.

A different arrangement of the tune also gained popularity in the past 10 years thanks to heavy metal band Disturbed. This version was released in 2015 and was also a huge hit.

An early recording by Simon and Garfunkel from way back in 1957. Both of them would have been 15 at the time of this recording.

A forgotten tune from what was supposed to be a double album rock opera of sorts. This was the only song from the project that was released until 1996 - the project was shelved after test releases failed to gain any traction. This was from 1967 and was a hit in the UK and the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, peaking at #2 in both locations. It didn't chart in the US though.

Michael,  I think this was ahead of its time?  Many years later, "High School Musical" was produced and was a huge hit with the teen age crowd and a big moneymaker.  Looks like they might have been musically similar?  Too late for that kind entertainment now . . . times and tastes have changed.

Despite the title I don't think it had much to do with teenagers. According to Wikipedia:

QuoteThe basic concept of A Teenage Opera was a series of sketches featuring different characters who lived in a fantasy village. These stories were to be told by a young man to a young girl. Wirtz intended the final project to be animated and later compared it to the Yellow Submarine by the Beatles.

Wirtz is Mark Wirtz, the record producer behind the project. Apparently a stage show was actually produced and performed in 2017, but there doesn't seem to be any video of it on YouTube. Maybe people forgot about it after 50 years.

Most pop music becomes irrelevant after 50 years, except for a few exceptions, like >>>  Music from Broadway musicals, a few songs from top entertainers like The Beatles or Sinatra, etc.,  and a few from good standard pop composers like Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, etc.   Just my opinion, but as generations grow old and die, the music they loved dies with them.   

Speaking of ---

Here's a fun/obscure one. The theme from the American sitcom Hogan's Heroes with humorous lyrics added, sung by four actors from the show. The lyrics were written specifically for this album. This album was released in July of 1966, a few months after the first season of the show aired.

Yesterday was the 63rd Birthday of Enya, Irish singer and song-writer. I read a little about her today, and learned that she lives in a castle in Ireland, sings in three different languages, and has never been married.  I like listening to her beautiful mezzo-soprano voice.  This song, I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls is my favorite.   

This is the only Enya song I'm familiar with.

This was George's favorite Enya. I still miss him.

A Benny Goodman favorite from the 1940's,  And The Angels Sing,  featuring Martha Tilton on vocal, and Ziggy Ellman, playing the  trumpet solo at the end.

A great rendition of an old classic by The Beach Boys. This was originally recorded for the group's 1968 album 20/20, but Al Jardine didn't like that arrangement and convinced the band to re-record it. The new recording was released as a single in 1969 and was a huge hit.
 

Somewhere I might have this -

Another birthday today . . . . Sonny has been gone for 25 years, but Cher lives on!  She turned 78 today!  I wanted to post my favorite,  "I've Got You Babe", but no good recordings on YouTube that I could find.  Too scratchy to hear the words.  So here's another one that some of you will remember.  My second favorite.  "All I Ever Need is You". 

A fun one from Billy Preston. This was a big hit in 1974, peaking at #1 in the US and #5 in Canada.

A great cover of a classic Billy Joel song by comedian David Wain (drums) along with Ken Marino (vocals) and some of their friends, plus special guest Weird Al Yankovic on accordion. Unless you've seen the movie Wet Hot American Summer or are really into stand up comedy you've probably never heard of Dan or Ken (I hadn't until I saw this video a few days ago), but this is still a great tune.

The original version of the song that served as the basis for one of Paul Rever & The Raiders' biggest hits. Their version is a bit different than John Loudermilk's original though. They added their own chorus and made it more a song of the Cherokee people than Native Americans in general.

Allan Sherman's brilliant parody of a song written by two brothers named Sherman (who were not related to Allan at all) for Disney's Mary Poppins. Contains many references to now-dated products/advertising campaigns, though many of you might recognize them (I had to go look up the lyrics on genius.com, which allows users to add "annotations" to explain the meaning of lyrics and such). I still have no idea what Marfac refers to though.

Appropriate song for Memorial Day here in the US.

I wondered what happened to Sgt. Sadler so I looked him up. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barry-Sadler Did anyone know he wrote books too? I didn't, but then I wasn't interested in war novels by then. Wonder if they were any good.

 
Addition: I just looked up his books. It doesn't look like they are in print, but Amazon does have them in both e-book and audio form. Interesting premise: Roman soldier named Casca is "sentenced" to eternally fight for his role at Golgotha (Calvery). 29 books in the series.

"Chim Chim Cheree", is  cute,  and typical Allan Sherman.  I've always liked him, and remember seeing him on the Johnny Carson Show, many long years ago.  The only song of his I can recall is  "Camp Granada" . . . (Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda). 

Allan Sherman had a long career making parody albums but "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" was his only hit. He did have a holiday hit with his parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", but Billboard counted Christmas songs on a separate chart so that one didn't make the Hot 100.

The song that indirectly made Canadian pianist Frank Mills a star in 1978. A promotional single containing this song and "Music Box Dancer" was sent to Canadian radio stations in early 1978, with this being the song the label wanted stations to play. Somehow a copy of this ended up at a pop music station. Confused as to why they had been sent this record, they flipped it over thinking it might have been mislabeled, liked what they heard and the rest is history. When the regular single was released later that year, "Music Box Dancer" was the promoted side instead.