Did anyone here watch the Grammy's?

Beezer said:
Nobody really likes Joni Mitchell's music. We just say we do because it's the Canadian thing to do. Just like The Tragically Hip are an awful band, but most Canadians won't say it.
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I like Joni Mitchell and actually LovE tragically hip. The band leader insisted on equally sharing the bands revenue and insisted he continue playing until the day he died. He had brain cancer. Not too many people are ThAT loyal to anyone. These were his band members.

Beezer, please speak for yourself. The rest of us might think differently than you. I adore tragically hip, especially the lead singer. What a legend he left. I stand and salute him.
 

Music is a generational thing. I just listened to an old favorite, Ted Weems band with Elmo Tanner whistling Heartaches courtesy of UTube. If I knew how to do it, I’d post a link. Maybe some kind soul will do it for me.
 
They are entertainers, they posture, for us. We all have postured a bit about something. Maybe more than we would like to admit. I tried to be a musician in a performance band. Until one day this guy asks me, "So you think you are up there making music?" It embarrassed me. A weird question, I thought. It was my job.

They got a job. Might be ya like it. Might be you don't. A lot has changed since we were enthralled my the musicians and their grooviness.
 
JBR said:
PD, I like the rhumba thing... including all the little percussion things going on underneath the melody & chords. ;)
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I didn't think of it. @helenbacque did. :) It was a big hit in 1947. There were no Grammy's then.

Heartaches (Klenner-Hoffman) by Ted Weems & his Orchestra, whistling by Elmo TannerA big surprise hit of 1947 was this revival of Weems’ up-tempo arrangement of the early ‘30s ballad “Heartaches”....and in two different* reissued Weems versions. It was this 1938 Decca recording (not the earlier 1933 version as incorrectly documented elsewhere) that initially exploded due to its exposure on a Charlotte NC radio station, resulting in Decca hurriedly re-distributing the track and RCA Victor following with their own newly-labeled Bluebird release from 1933.

Both were combined into a single ranked listing on the Billboard charts, spending 13 weeks atop the juke box listings and 12 weeks at #1 in sales....each selling over a million copies.Among the new competing versions of “Heartaches” that were recorded in 1947, only the Harry James release (also included in this collection) registered on the national sales and juke box charts. Several months after “Heartaches,” Decca again struck gold with yet another reissued Weems track, the 1939 “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” featuring a young Perry Como.

Having disbanded several years earlier, Ted Weems himself soon reassembled a band and made a number of new recordings for Mercury, including the hit “Mickey.”* Weems’ first “Heartaches” (recorded for Bluebird 8-4-33, reissued by RCA Victor in 1947) tore through five choruses of the tune with a frantically strumming guitar setting the rhythmic pace. For the more refined Decca remake (recorded 8-23-38), conga drums accented the rhythm, the piano chorus was dropped, and the more relaxed tempo allowed whistler Elmo Tanner to perform a more technically accomplished solo.
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Lara said:
Joni Mitchell wrote this song when she was 27. She's now 80.
This clip is from a year ago Live at the Newport Festival...
My eyes puddled up a little...so touching.
This is the song she sang at the Grammy's. I wish I had seen it now.

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Wonderful!
 
Hubby was watching. Can't say that we were too impressed with Billy Joel's song. Hubby likes Joni Mitchell (not me). And I'm not into who is popular now, but all I heard from the living room was hubby yelling, this is such crap over and over again.:D
 
Jay Z accepts his "Bitter, demanding, childish, I'll hold you hostage to my own ways, insuring you do what I want Next Year" Award:
 
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