POLL: best artist on my iPod

Harry J. All Stars

Harry J. Allstars

Hot Chocolate

belafonte

Human League

Husker Du.

herbert

House of Love

Helmut Zacharias (January 27, 1920-February 28, 2002) was a German violinist. He started having lessons at the age of 4. At 6 he played at the cabaret Faun in Berlin and had his first radio broadcast five years later. In the 1950s he was considered to be one of the best jazz violinists of Europe. He played together with many other famous artists, including Yehudi Menuhin and had his own TV show from 1968 to 1973. He died in 2002 in Tessin, Switzerland.
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apparently involved in the underground swing movement, swing having been classed as "verboten!" by hitler...

Harry Belafonte, of course! And I hope he is part of the half that you know, if not get on that shit.

i have a passing familiarity with belafonte the personality, and seemingly always have...but i've never really dug into his stuff. any recommendations for a starting point?

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i think christmas music/tracy morgan when i think belafonte.

The Hampton Grease Band released this, their debut and only album, in 1971, to almost universal disinterest and, even, active dislike. It was, famously, the second worst selling album in Columbia history. It might not have helped that Columbia's marketers, doubtless confused by the dadaistic hippy rock weirdness of the Hampton Grease Band, pitched it to stores as a comedy album. ...Lyrically, certainly odd -- Hampton often sang "found lyrics" from whatever text was at hand, like an encyclopedia entry about Halifax or the back of a can of spray paint. As it says in the cd booklet liner notes, the HGB were "an intensely musical group with an intensely non-musical singer".
Speaking of the liner notes, they're hilarious, full of great stories, like about the time the HGB was playing live, and their drummer suddenly stood up and froze in place, holding that pose for over an hour as the band finished their set without drums and most people left the venue! Somehow these gonzo guys got to open for the likes of Beefheart & the Magic Band, the Allmans, Country Joe & the Fish, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Alice Cooper -- and then somehow got signed to a brief, illfated stint on Columbia Records that produced this album.

Harry J All Stars, then Belafonte. That guy is cool.

The Holloways?! Jesus H, save yourself.

yea halifax is aweseom xxp i think that's all i have by them but that blurb makes me want to hear more

the holloways is one of the groups i have no idea about at all, prob from some comp i suppose.

your Ipod

― Granny Dainger

lol.

H.P. Lovecraft.

Hot Chocolate

Well, the incomparable Music To Eat is among my alltime top 40 LPs, so Hampton & Co. it is. (Husker Du come close, with Hot Chocolate in 3rd place - or lower, depending on which Hot Chocolate they are, US or UK.)

Heart Herbert. However, honestly, having heard, hmmm, half here.

If the Heidy Berri album happens to be Love, the first half is exceptional singer-songwriter with artsy 4AD production that would appeal to many fans of both Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush. Her preceding album (something about waves) is okay if you can stomach a milky voiced singer who regularly sounds about an eighth-step flat. And the later albums never grabbed me.

But the first half of Love...[puts it on].

listening to Hayden right now so heck I'll vote for him.

Can't go wrong with the Human League, ever.

H.P. Lovecraft?

heidi berry not barry

voted for house of love

The right answer is probably Belafonte or one of those jazz dudes I haven't heard, but for me its a toss up b/w Husker Du and my underdog favorites House of Love. Hmm.. I'll go with them, if only for their first two albums. Actually, Babe Rainbow is underrated, so that too.

lol wrote this before ^ was posted

Hot Chocolate, easy. (Do wish I still owned my copy of Music To Eat, though.)

(Can't stand Belafonte's Xmas album, which my wife can't stop playing this time of year. His banana boat stuff is okay, I guess. I'd definitely take Human League over him, though.)

Husker Du. But I don't know who most of those folks are.

H.P. Lovecraft?

― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox)

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