Eddie Peregrina

Apakah anda tahu Eddie Peregrina, penyanyi kelahiran Filipina ini ternyata banyak menelurkan lagu-lagu melankolis yang sangat sahdu untuk didengarkan. Saya sendiri tidak mendapatkan banyak artikel mengenai diri beliau, tapi menurut saya silakan anda nikmati sendiri lagu-lagunya dan silakan berkomentar mengenai hal tersebut.
1. Eddie Peregrina - Memories of our dreams
2. Eddie Peregrina - Since you've been gone
3. Eddie Peregrina - What I'm living for
4. Eddie Peregrina - Mardy
5. Eddie Peregrina - Don't ever go
6. Eddie Peregrina - Two lovely flowers

Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (lahir di Port Arthur, 19 Januari 1943 – meninggal di Los Angeles, 4 Oktober 1970 pada umur 27 tahun) adalah penyanyi sekaligus pencipta lagu dan penulis aransemen asal Port Arthur, Texas, Amerika Serikat. Ia mencapai puncak kesuksesan pada akhir tahun 1960-an sebagai penyanyi solo setelah sebelumnya menjadi vokalis Big Brother and the Holding Company. Pada tahun 2004, majalah Rolling Stone menempatkannya di urutan ke-46 dalam daftar 100 Artis Terbesar Sepanjang Masa. Joplin meninggal dunia di Los Angeles akibat overdosis. Joplin memiliki suara mezzo-soprano.

Sebagai seorang pemberontak, idolanya adalah penyanyi blues wanita dan puisi yang ditulis oleh sastrawan era Beat Generation. Bulan Desember 1962, ketika berada di rumah seorang temannya, Janis Joplin merekam lagu pertama, "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" di sebuah pita kaset. Ia pindah dari Texas pada tahun 1963, dan tinggal di North Beach sebelum pindah ke Haight-Ashbury. Pada tahun 1964, Joplin dan gitaris Jorma Kaukonen (nantinya menjadi anggota Jefferson Airplane) merekam beberapa lagu blues standar. Keduanya ditemani Margareta Kaukonen yang memakai mesin ketik sebagai perkusi. Sesi rekaman tersebut menghasilkan 6 buah lagu: "Typewriter Talk," "Trouble In Mind," "Kansas City Blues," "Hesitation Blues," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out," "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy", dan "Long Black Train Blues". Keenam lagu tersebut nantinya dirilis sebagai album bootleg, The Typewriter Tape.

Sejak sekitar tahun 1964, kegemarannya terhadap obat-obat terlarang semakin menjadi dan diketahui sebagai pengguna heroin. Sepanjang kariernya, ia dikenal sebagai peminum berat. Minuman kegemarannya adalah Southern Comfort.

1. Janis Joplin - Take another pieces of my heart
2. Janis Joplin - Oh Lord, won't you buy me a mercedez benz
3. Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby Mcgee
4. Janis Joplin - Little girl blue
5. Janis Joplin - Summertime
6. Janis Joplin - Cry baby
7. Janis Joplin - Ball and chain
8. Janis Joplin - May be
9. Janis Joplin - To love somebody
10. Janis Joplin - Try
11. Janis Joplin - Down on me
12. Janis Joplin - Trust me

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941, in Staten Island, New York) is a folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are topical songs and deal with social issues.

She is perhaps best known for her hit "Diamonds & Rust" and her covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (a top-five single on the United States charts in 1971), and to a lesser extent, "Farewell, Angelina" and "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" — along with "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome" (three of the songs she performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival).

She remains known for her long relationship with Bob Dylan and her lifelong passion for activism, notably in the areas of nonviolence, civil and human rights and, more recently, the environment.

Baez has performed publicly for over 50 years, released over 30 albums and recorded songs in at least eight languages. She is considered a folk singer although her music has strayed from folk considerably after the 1960s, encompassing everything from rock and pop to country and gospel. Although a songwriter herself, especially in the mid-1970s, Baez is most often regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, covering songs by The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and many other artists. In more recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of diverse songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant.

She has a three-octave vocal range and a distinctively rapid vibrato.

1. Joan Baez - Donna donna

2. Joan Baez - Birmingham sunday

3. Joan Baez - Blowing in the wind

4. Joan Baez - Gracias a la vida

5. Joan Baez - We shall overcome

6. Joan Baez - Hush little baby

7. Joan Baez - Banks of the Ohio

8. Joan Baez - Don't cry for me Argentina

9. Joan Baez - One tin soldier

10. Joan Baez - The boxer

11. Joan Baez - Sweet Sir Galahad

John Denver

John Denver (lahir di Roswell, New Mexico, 31 Desember 1943 – meninggal di Pacific Grove, California, 12 Oktober 1997 pada umur 53 tahun) adalah penyanyi, pencipta lagu, dan aktivis politik Amerika Serikat yang membawakan lagu-lagu berirama country dan folk rock. Lirik lagu di awal kariernya sering berisi protes tentang keadilan sosial dan perang. Walaupun demikian, Denver juga dikenal dengan lagu bertemakan lingkungan hidup, seperti: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (1971) dan "Rocky Mountain High" (1972). Kedua lagu tersebut sampai di urutan 10 teratas tangga lagu Amerika Serikat tahun 1971 dan 1973.

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1. John Denver - Take me home country road
2. John Denver - Leaving on a jet plane
3. John Denver - Rocky mountain high
4. John Denver - Starwood in Aspen
5. John Denver - Sunshine on my shoulder
6. John Denver - Rhymes & Reason
7. John Denver - Anie's song

The Carpenters

The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the definite article. During a period in the 1970s when louder and wilder rock was in great demand, Richard and Karen produced a distinctively soft musical style that made them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
The Carpenters' melodic pop charted a record-breaking score of hit recordings on the American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts, becoming leading sellers in the soft rock, easy listening and adult contemporary genres. The Carpenters had three #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and fifteen #1 hits on the Adult Contemporary Chart (see The Carpenters discography). In addition, they had twelve top 10 singles (including their #1 hits). To date, The Carpenters' album and single sales total more than 100 million units.
During their fourteen-year career, The Carpenters recorded eleven albums, five of which contained top 10 singles (Close to You, Carpenters, A Song for You, Now & Then and Horizon), thirty-one singles, five television specials, and one short-lived television series. They toured in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium. Their recording career ended with Karen's death in 1983 from cardiac arrest due to complications of anorexia nervosa. Extensive news coverage of the circumstances surrounding her death increased public awareness of the consequences of eating disorders.

1. The Carpenters - Close to you
2. The Carpenters - Only yesterday
3. The Carpenters - Superstar
4. The Carpenters - Ticket to ride
5. The Carpenters - We've only just begun
6. The Carpenters - For all we know
7. The Carpenters - Rainy days and monday
8. The Carpenters - Hurting each other
9. The Carpenters - Goodbye to love
10. The Carpenters - There's a kind of hush
11. The Carpenters - I won't las the day without you
12. The Carpenters - This masquerade
13. The Carpenters - Jambalaya
14. The Carpenters - Please Mr. Postman
15. The Carpenters - Solitaire
16. The Carpenters - Yesterday once more

Air Supply

Air Supply are a soft rock duo who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and early 1980s. It consists of British guitarist and vocalist Graham Russell (born Graham Cyril Russell, 11 June 1950, Sherwood, Nottingham, England, UK) and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock (born Russell Charles Hitchcock, 15 June 1949, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).

The two met in May 1975 while performing in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. Later that year, the duo, along with Chrissie Hammond and two others, formed Air Supply as a five-man group. Hammond left the band and was replaced by Jeremy Paul in time for the group's first Australian hit single, "Love and Other Bruises." It was followed by a debut album that reached gold in Australia, which featured keyboardist/arranger Adrian Scott, drummer Jeff Browne, and guitarist Mark McEntee. Singles during this period included "Empty Pages" and "Do What You Do". The group was invited to open for Rod Stewart during his tour of Australia; he was so impressed with their performance that he invited them to be the opening act during his tour of the United States. During this tour, Jeremy Paul left the band. (He later played with the original lineup of the Divinyls, led by Chrissie Amphlett and Mark McEntee.)
Eager to prove that they could succeed as a duo, Air Supply released the album Love & Other Bruises, which included re-recordings of many of their earlier hits. Although their music met with some success, Graham Russell on the 1995 DVD recalls that he and Hitchcock were so poor that they were reduced to checking the backs of hotel sofas for change so that they could buy bread to make toast.
Hitchcock and Russell started out fresh again in 1978, and the band that was to record almost all of the hit records was formed. It featured Frank Esler-Smith (arranger and keyboardist), David Moyse, and Rex Goh (guitars) as well as the rhythm section of David Green (bass) and Ralph Cooper (drums).
In 1979, the band released Life Support, a concept album that included a picture disc on its first printing. Produced by Charles Fisher, it was recorded in the tiny Trafalgar Studios in Sydney, Australia where, as Graham recalls on the 2005 DVD, he had half an inch between the end of his guitar and the studio wall. It was on this album that a five-and-a-half minute version of "Lost in Love" was introduced to Australian audiences. Written by Russell in fifteen minutes, the song caught the attention of music mogul Clive Davis, and his record label, Arista, remixed the song and released it as a single in the United States.

1. Air Supply - Even the night are better
2. Air Supply - I can't wait forever
3. Air Supply - Making love out of nothing at all
4. Air Supply - Sunset
5. Air Supply - Sweet dreams
6. Air Supply - Goodbye
7. Air Supply - Without you
8. Air Supply - Power of love

LOBO

Roland Kent Lavoie better known by the stage name Lobo (born July 31, 1943), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits, including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo," "I'd Love You to Want Me" and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend."
Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Lavoie was raised by his mother in Winter Haven, Florida with his six siblings. He began his musical career in 1961 as a member of a local band, The Rumours. The band included Gram Parsons and Jim Stafford, as well as drummer Jon Corneal, who later joined Parsons' International Submarine Band.
In 1964, while attending the University of South Florida, Lavoie joined a band called the Sugar Beats and met producer Phil Gernhard. He recorded a regional hit for the band, a cover of Johnny Rivers' song, "What Am I Doing Here".
During the 1960s, Lavoie performed with many other bands, including US Male, The Uglies, and Me and the Other Guys. It was in the latter band that he met musician Billy Aerts, who became a member of Lobo's touring band in the early 1970s and produced Lobo's comeback album in 1989.

1. Lobo - How can I tell her
2. Lobo - I'd love you to want me
3. Lobo - Stoney
4. Lobo - Don't tell me goodnight
5. Lobo - Don't expect me to be your friend
6. Lobo - Me and you and the dog named boo
7. Lobo - Simple man
8. Lobo - I'm the only one
9. Lobo - Rings
10. Lobo - There aint no way

Bee Gees

Bee Gees adalah grup musik yang sangat populer pada tahun 1960-an dan 1970-an. Grup musik ini beranggotakan trio Gibb bersaudara yang merupakan kombinasi penyanyi-penulis lagu pop dalam genre funk serta rhytm dan blues. Gibb bersaudara terdiri dari vokalis utama Barry Gibb serta dua orang saudara kembarnya yaitu Robin Gibb sebagai vokalis dan Maurice Gibb sebagai pemain keyboard atau gitar. Mereka dilahirkan di Isle of Man pada 1940-an dan memulai karier bermusiknya saat pindah ke Brisbane, Australia. Namun ketenarannya baru diperoleh saat mereka kembali ke Inggris.
Ketika Maurice Gibb meninggal pada tanggal 12 Januari 2003 di Miami Beach, Florida, kedua saudaranya menyatakan bahwa mereka tidak akan tampil kembali sebagai Bee Gees.
Sedikit koleksi lagu-lagu Bee Gees, klik title untuk download.
1. Bee Gees - How deep is your love
2. Bee Gees - I started a joke
3. Bee Gees - How can you mend a broken heart
4. Bee Gees - My World
5. Bee Gees - Tragedy
6. Bee Gees - Too much heaven
7. Bee Gees - Staying alive
8. Bee Gees - To love somebody
9. Bee Gees - Run to me
10. Bee Gees - First of may
11. Bee Gees - I've gotta a massage to you
12. Bee Gees - Holiday
13. Bee Gees - Cherry red
14. Bee Gees - Words
15. Bee Gees - Emotions
16. Bee Gees - Don't forget to remember

Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers (Don Everly, born Isaac Donald Everly February 1, 1937, Brownie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, Phil Everly, born Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939, Chicago, Illinois) are brothers and top-selling country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing. The Everlys are the most successful U.S. rock and roll duo on the Hot 100. Their greatest period came between 1957 and 1964.
The brothers are both guitarists and use a simple vocal harmony mostly based on parallel thirds. With this, each line can often stand on its own as a melody line. This is in contrast to classic harmony lines which, while working well alongside the melody, sound strange by themselves. One example of their close-harmony is "Devoted to You".
The duo's harmony singing had a strong influence on rock and roll groups of the 1960s. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Simon & Garfunkel developed their early singing style by performing Everly covers. The Beatles based the vocal arrangement of "Please Please Me" upon "Cathy's Clown."
Here is, their nice songs :
1. Everly Brothers - All I have to do is dream
2. Everly Brothers - Be Bop a lula
3. Everly Brothers - Bye bye love
4. Everly Brothers - Problems
5. Everly Brothers - Wake up litle susie
6. Everly Brothers - Let it be me
7. Everly Brothers - Crying in the rain
8. Everly Brothers - Sealed with a kiss
9. Everly Brothers - Devoted to you
10. Everly Brothers - Ebony eyes
11. Everly Brothers - Cathy's clown
12. Everly Brothers - Bird Dog
13. Everly Brothers - Claudette
14. Everly Brothers - So Sad

ABBA

ABBA was a pop music group formed in Sweden in November 1970. The band consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog. They topped the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. The name "ABBA" is an acronym formed from the first letters of each of the group members' given names (Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid), and the group took this name officially in late 1973. The group's name is officially trademarked with the first "B" reversed.
ABBA gained international popularity employing catchy song hooks, simple lyrics, and a Wall of Sound achieved by overdubbing the female singers' voices in multiple harmonies. As their popularity grew, they were sought after to tour Europe, Australia, and North America, drawing crowds of ardent fans, notably in Australia. Touring became a contentious issue, being particularly unpopular with Fältskog, but they continued to release studio albums to great commercial success. At the height of their popularity, however, both marriages of the band members failed, and the relationship changes were reflected in their music, as they produced more thoughtful lyrics with different compositions.
They remain a fixture of radio playlists and are one of the world's best selling bands, having sold near 370 million records world wide; they still sell two to four million records a year. ABBA was also the first pop group from mainland Europe to enjoy consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia and New Zealand. Their enormous popularity subsequently opened the doors for other Continental European acts.
The music of ABBA has been re-arranged into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that has toured worldwide and had a movie version released in July 2008. All four of the former members of ABBA were present at the Stockholm premieres of both the musical (2005) and the film (2008). The film première took place at the Benny Andersson-owned Rival Theatre at Mariatorget, Stockholm on 4 July 2008. A new museum devoted entirely to the pop supergroup was scheduled to open in Stockholm in 2009, but the project was postponed as of September 2008.
ABBA (1972–1982) adalah kelompok musik pop dari Swedia. Mereka adalah salah satu artis paling berhasil dari Skandinavia. Terdiri dari Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, dan Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Sebelum menjadi ABBA, Fältskog dan Ulvaeus telah menikah dan kemudian setelah menjadi satu kelompok, Lyngstad dan Andersson juga menikah. Namun kedua pasangan ini kemudian bercerai. ABBA adalah akronim dari huruf pertama keempat anggotanya.

Beberapa lagu dari ABBA :
1. ABBA - Angel eyes
2. ABBA - Cassandra
3. ABBA - Dum dum diddle
4. ABBA - Gimme gimme gimme
5. ABBA - Crazy world
6. ABBA - Arrival
7. ABBA - I am the city
8. ABBA - Andante andante
9. ABBA - If it wasn't for the night
10. ABBA - Super trouper
11. ABBA - That's me
12. ABBA - The day before you came
13. ABBA - The visitors
14. ABBA - The way old friends do
15. ABBA - Tiger
16. ABBA - When I kiss the teacher
17. ABBA - Mamma mia
18. ABBA - Chiquitita
19. ABBA - Dancing queen
20. ABBA - Fernando
21. ABBA - I have a dream
22. ABBA - Take a chance on me

Wieteke van Dort

Louisa Johanna Theodora (Wieteke) van Dort, lahir di Surabaya, (Dutch East Indies), pada tanggal 16 Mei 1943, adalah seorang aktris, komedian, penyanyi, penulis, dan artis dari Belanda. Dia banyak muncul di program televisi anak-anak dan dikenal dengan karakter Belanda-Indonesia nya ("Indo") sebagai Tante Lien dalam acara The Late Late Lien Show di televisi Belanda.

Wieteke Van Dort lahir Surabaya yang kemudian dikenal sebagai the Dutch East Indies saat kependudukan Jepang di Indonesia. Ketika di Surabaya, dia masuk kedalam dua sekolah, kemudian masuk ke sekolah HBS. Ketika usianya 13 tahun, keluarga Van Dort pergi berlibur ke Belanda. Ketika di Belanda, Sukarno memproklamirkan kemerdekaan Indonesia sehingga keluarga Van Dort kehilangan hak nya di Indonesia. Mereka kemudian pindah dan bertempat tinggal di Hague.

Lagu - lagu yang dinyanyikan oleh Wieteke Van Dort

1. Geef mij maar nasi goreng
2. Ajoen - ajoen
3. Klappermelk met suiker
4. Nacht over java
5. Arm Den Haag
6. Mijn kleine nasibal

THE CATS

The Cats were a rock band from Volendam, The Netherlands. together with BZN, they were key figures of what came to be called the Palingsound (eel-sound), an umbrella for artists residing in Volendam (the country's top seafood city).

The band began life as two separate duos: Cees Veerman (born October 6, 1943) and Arnold Muhren (born January 28, 1944) who started in a skiffle band; and cousins Piet Veerman (born March 1, 1943) and Jaap Schilder (born January 9, 1943) who modelled themselves after the Everly Brothers. The duos merged and became The Mystic Four, with Cees Veerman and Piet Veerman on vocals/guitar, Schilder on guitar (and piano), and Muhren on bass. By 1965 they changed their name to The Blue Cats, a reference to the colour of their suits and Cees' nickname, Pussy. Dropping the 'Blue' from their name in 1966 they recruited drummer Theo Klouwer (June 30, 1947 - February 8, 2001).

Lagu- lagu The Best of The Cats.

1. The Cats - Scarlett ribbons
2. The Cats - Why
3. The Cats - Marian
4. The Cats - Magical mistery morning
5. The Cats - Mandy my dear
6. The Cats - Sure he's a cat
7. The Cats - Vaya con dios
8. The Cats - I gotta know whats going on

LAGU - LAGU NOSTALGIA/ KENANGAN BARAT

Pada posting kali ini saya akan mencoba menyuguhkan lagu-lagu kenangan / nostalgia barat, meskipun tidak semua lagu tapi saya berusaha memilihkan yang paling sulit untuk ditemukan dan semua lagu-lagu berikut tetap pada versi originalnya.

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1. George Baker selection - I've been in the way too long
2. Engelbert Humperdinck - Love me with all of your heart
3. Engelbert Humperdinck - The way it used to be
4. Percy Sledge - Come softly to me
5. Elton John - Candle in the wind

6. The Monkees - Daydream believer
7. Chrispian st peter - Willingly
8. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone again ( Naturally )
9. Jade & Peppers - Don't Tell it
10. Jim Reeves - Welcome to my world

11. Mamas & Papas - Californian dreaming
12. Marmalade - Reflection of my life
13. Neil Reid - Mother of mine
14. ABBA - Discillusions
15. The Tigers - Smile for me

16. The Thunderbirds - My lonely heart
17. The Thunderbirds - You were made for me
18. The Classics - I'm gonna loose you
19. Percy Sledge - I'll be your everything
20. Sandra & Andres - Story book children

21. Eddie Peregrina - Two lovely flowers
22. Scott McKenzie - San Fransisco
23. Sam Hui - Interlude
24. Mighty Sparrow - Only a fool
25. Mary McGregor - Torn between two lovers

26. Elvis Presley - Always on my mind
27. Del Shannon - Runaway
28. Aphrodite Child - Rain and tears
29. Maggie McNeal - When you're gone
30. Daniel Sahuleka - You make my world so colorfull