Three Dog Night

The popular band that sold more concert tickets than any other from 1969-1974 has been touring again.  I attended their sold-out concert June 10, 2012 at Hudson Gardens in Littleton, Colorado. Lead Singer Cory Wells told us that one night, an audience member said  that he thought the song “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” was the great-great-great-grandaddy of  rap songs, presumably because of the spoken verses.   

Inspired by this fan, the band provided a bit of comic relief by doing a rap version of the song (with a little bit of music commentary thrown in for good measure.)

After putting on their backwards caps and flashing a few rap moves, they launched into lines like “You don’t need to sing/ all you do is rhyme,” and “You don’t need no talent, just attitude.”

Photo: mrpattersonsir

Three Dog Night Songs Available for Free

The songs from the album Three Dog Night Greatest Hits Live are available to download for free from Freegal. The songs include:

One

One Man Band

Family of Man

Eli’s Coming

Easy to Be Hard

Never Been to Spain

Mama Told Me (Not to Come)

Old-Fashioned Love Song

Celebrate

Try a Little Tenderness

Joy to the World

Liar

Carrie Underwood – Good Girls

I remember when Carrie Underwood was just one of a bunch of contenders on American Idol. She seemed pretty good, but so were some of the others.

Then one day Simon Cowell said, "I predict that you are going to not only win American Idol, but you are going to be the top-selling American Idol winner ever."

He was right. I would say you can tell by that smug look on his face, but he always has that look.

This is Underwood's newest.

This song is now available for free music download on Freegal

photo credit : Faguo shoes 

Just Another American Saturday Night – Brad Paisley

The Fourth of July reminds me of this up-tempo song.

Paisley sings of things America has borrowed from other cultures – Italian leather boots, German cars, Canadian bacon, pizza pie – things that become so commonplace that we have almost forgotten that they originated in another country.

As part of a family with German, Irish, and Chinese traditions, I like the sentiment.
You can get free legal downloads of this song through Freegal
Photo: Cyril Mayer

Call Me, Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen

Wow! Freegal is really up to date.

This song has been dubbed "the song of summer 2012."

It was originally written a folk song, but turned inot a pop song by the producer. It's hit number one in several countries, and has inspired a ton of spoofs on YouTube.

It's available for a free and legal download from Freegal.




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