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Title: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 10, 2012, 04:19:42 PM
Here's a macabre little game we sometimes play.  We get on a roll and just do songs by dead guys or gals as the case may be followed by "another dead guy".

Here's one - Imagine - John Lennon

Another dead guy.......


Next?
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 10, 2012, 04:20:24 PM
THIN LIZZY - The Boys Are Back In Town (1976 UK T.O.T.P. TV Appearance) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyB8PMTD3o&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 17, 2012, 05:07:04 PM
Come on summer!

Summertime Blues- Eddie Cochran (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWC59FJqGc&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 23, 2012, 08:18:42 PM
Double Dead Guy - the composer and the artist

Segovia Plays Sonata (Scarlatti) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eql_S0w6k0o&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 02, 2012, 12:17:27 AM
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diu9CnODn7k&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 09, 2012, 11:00:48 AM
Triple dead, Etta James, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Paul Butterfield.

BB King Stevie Ray Vaughan Etta James - Midnight Hour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFJJM6mJSs&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 16, 2012, 12:31:12 PM
Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nEfuE8Pw4U&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 23, 2012, 02:36:21 PM
Buddy Holly -"Peggy Sue" - on the Arthur Murray Dance Party 12/29/57 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 30, 2012, 11:05:35 AM
Earl Scruggs And Lester Flatt - Cripple Creek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sqishGuYw)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on April 05, 2012, 11:21:17 PM
Double dead.

Johnny Cash and Burl Ives (medley) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l903r0RUSg)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on April 13, 2012, 06:52:36 PM
Dave Van Ronk - Gambler's Blues / St. James Infirmary 1959 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dhXz3CH8aU)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on April 20, 2012, 09:12:01 AM
Triple dead!

California Dreamin - Mamas & The Papas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on April 27, 2012, 10:52:49 AM
Double dead, John and George.

The Beatles live 1962 (rare!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDKRyj-ERk&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on May 04, 2012, 03:39:58 PM
Jimi on acoustic 12 string.

Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxzs3lGSu2U&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on May 11, 2012, 02:33:41 PM
Amy Winehouse - Love is a Losing Game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9-AvjsB6g&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on May 18, 2012, 12:01:07 PM
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 01, 2012, 11:39:49 AM
Doc Watson - 1991 - Georgie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJaKQXoAFiw&feature=relmfu)

:'(
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 08, 2012, 11:05:20 AM
Bob Welch - Sentimental Lady (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4Kuv9LyDE)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 15, 2012, 09:12:51 PM
Slim Whitman - I remember you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXOcRe7E5kA&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 22, 2012, 07:46:23 PM
John Lennon - Imagine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 06, 2012, 01:11:17 PM
Solomon Burke ~ Cry To Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEu8DrO9PbY)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 14, 2012, 07:56:35 AM
'The Gallis Pole' - LEADBELLY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsgGNWlNAfA&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 20, 2012, 08:46:32 AM
Jon Lord & Deep Purple - Highway Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0iihjANPc&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 27, 2012, 03:21:53 PM
T-Bone Walker. in "Woman You Must Be Crazy", Tv Special, 1965. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc0P4kCY0NA&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 03, 2012, 08:19:04 PM
Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4NoboSq6w)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 24, 2012, 12:45:37 PM
Bobby Fuller Four - Love's Made A Fool Of You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6rOBS821bw&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 31, 2012, 09:54:14 PM
Free - Alright now - Paul Kossof (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3i-SAcNBFo&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 07, 2012, 01:59:52 PM
Rick Nelson It's Late 1950s B&W (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJ3fxEuv1w&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 14, 2012, 08:42:40 PM
Ewan MacColl - My Old Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJ6P9EkoWw)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 22, 2012, 06:48:44 PM
Django Reinhardt - The Sheik of Araby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6jwvS0mHwo&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 28, 2012, 08:45:52 AM
Bob Marley - Redemption song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoSjZ0ZmLqU&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 06, 2012, 05:07:32 PM
Marty Robbins - Big Iron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUsJvRv7U)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 12, 2012, 03:18:09 PM
What a wonderful world - LOUIS ARMSTRONG (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 19, 2012, 03:45:56 PM
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - California Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUVTnYwGqxI&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 26, 2012, 04:22:42 PM
Fever - Peggy Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 02, 2012, 08:06:58 AM
Howlin' Wolf - I ain't superstitious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVlHYPi6AuA&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 09, 2012, 01:42:07 PM
Johnny Burnette - The train kept a-rollin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcVvWRvrIU&feature=fvwrel)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 16, 2012, 06:40:11 AM
Roscoe Holcomb - Graveyard Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CD5yMpYjtM&feature=related)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 30, 2012, 02:19:31 PM
Always loved this song!

The Ink spots - I don't want to set the world on fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSK-1guFLDk)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 07, 2012, 07:26:41 AM
Redd Foxx and Herb Ellis - The Christmas Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ey7InIMI9w)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 14, 2012, 08:28:59 PM
Hank Snow - Reindeer Boogie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjgqzCjr9-w)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 22, 2012, 07:30:19 AM
Gene Autry - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1953) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjniwIMFzgc)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on January 03, 2013, 08:00:46 PM
Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIM8SRUeJKg)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on January 17, 2013, 10:38:27 PM
Bob Marley - Red Red Wine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtYbF99voEs)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on January 26, 2013, 10:50:17 PM
The Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 01, 2013, 07:38:30 AM
Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qzPjztRAoY)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 08, 2013, 05:05:27 PM
Marijuana, The Devil's Flower by Mr Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFcUto0xje0)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 15, 2013, 11:22:49 AM
Double dead.

Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass - Why don't you do right? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnkokQWNHi8)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on February 23, 2013, 10:15:24 PM
Thumbs Carllile - Springfield Guitar Social (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heLqIN_ysSY)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 01, 2013, 10:09:31 AM
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 08, 2013, 05:51:12 AM
Old & In The Way (Live) July 23, 1973 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5zTpwYlds)

The full concert!     :biggrin:
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 15, 2013, 01:27:03 PM
Ray Charles - Night Time Is the Right Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNzqDUvods)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 22, 2013, 10:17:47 AM
BIG MAYBELLE - Do Lord (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCun9Qgtno)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on March 29, 2013, 08:23:21 PM
The Robins - Riot In Cell Block Number Nine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLXgu84hz4)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on April 12, 2013, 08:21:23 PM
Richard Berry and The Pharaohs - Louie, Louie (1957.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woOaEIevnE)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on April 19, 2013, 03:10:32 PM
Brook Benton - Rainy Night in Georgia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU)

One of my favorites and written by Tony Joe White.
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on May 03, 2013, 05:07:02 PM
George Jones - White Lightning (1959) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQlgfvH_6s)

:'(
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on May 24, 2013, 09:07:43 AM
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the jar 1973 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2jSzLBzK4)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 07, 2013, 04:34:11 PM
"Evangelina" by Hoyt Axton (1980) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asv9DYT_l0w)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 14, 2013, 09:40:15 AM
Jimi Hendrix - Sgt Peppers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9V3D3ufn4)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 21, 2013, 09:44:37 AM
Blind Willie Johnson - In My Time Of Dying / Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HaHVKRouo)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on June 28, 2013, 07:36:11 AM
Bobby Blue Band- Goin Down Slow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg4sdcodFQ)

:'(
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 12, 2013, 01:07:35 PM
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wssByW7JQ)

:sleepy:

:biggrin:
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 19, 2013, 08:26:17 AM
Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmtlqB0x59Y)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on July 26, 2013, 08:02:30 AM
The Beatles - I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YitKiVZ8E)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 09, 2013, 08:32:42 AM
'One For My Baby'(And One more for The Road) - Frank Sinatra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpJoYYGzjM)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 16, 2013, 02:23:44 PM
LOUIS ARMSTRONG - What a Wonderful World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrzKBF6gDU)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 23, 2013, 03:27:22 PM
George Jones - Why Baby Why (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alxT2xDZX7Y)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on August 29, 2013, 11:17:58 PM
Fever - Eva Cassidy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eyS1uluuY)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 06, 2013, 08:30:46 AM
DEEP PURPLE - Highway Star- LIVE in DENMARK 1972 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5EfvVkcfA)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 14, 2013, 06:37:08 AM
John Fahey-Red Pony 1969 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSh-YsyjpXk)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 20, 2013, 07:39:17 AM
Nat Reese & Louie Bluie live in germany JUST A DREAM blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YA7jiKgeYo)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on September 27, 2013, 07:07:19 AM
Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 04, 2013, 03:34:32 PM
Canned Heat - Reefer Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbP-pmuL3Ts)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 11, 2013, 07:58:21 AM
Mountain - Theme For An Imaginary Western - Cincinnati Pop Festival - 13/June/70 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJDX-sYfJ_M)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 18, 2013, 07:30:02 PM
Rocket 88 (Original Version) - Ike Turner/Jackie Brenston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on October 25, 2013, 06:16:25 PM
Waylon Jennings - Lonesome, On'ry and Mean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mw4ImMUmQ)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 01, 2013, 08:51:13 AM
'Please Warm My Weiner' - BO CARTER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g)

:biggrin:
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 08, 2013, 05:05:52 PM
Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor - 1971 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 15, 2013, 10:36:06 AM
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't it Rain & Joshua (1964) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmKwr6YVI5E)

A must see!     :yes:
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 22, 2013, 09:11:31 AM
Professor Longhair - Tipitina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-lsiDJWMsQ)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on November 29, 2013, 01:45:33 PM
Steve Goodman : You Never Even Call Me By My Name - Live 1982 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsa5IiNjIkQ)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 06, 2013, 04:01:29 PM
Waylon Jennings - Thats What You Get For Loving Me (1967). (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3I7wTOO8k)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 14, 2013, 04:55:22 AM
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - John Henry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5s8IaaSiEU)
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 20, 2013, 05:35:19 AM
Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Girl From Ipanema (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFlEOn20UiA&feature=related)

Spanish and English vocals.
Title: Re: Dead Guy Songs
Post by: Da Wham on December 27, 2013, 03:48:10 PM
LONNIE DONEGAN - John Henry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxWRUsUda0)
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