<![CDATA[Two More from WSS]]>hi guys. Put up a couple more songs on my soundcloud page. First my rendition of the Burt Bacharach Elvis Costello song this house is empty now and on the swing side Summer Wind.

http://soundcloud.com/Westside-Steve-Simmons

all positive feedback is appreciated!

(like I tell my audiences: if you liked the show tell your friends! If you didn't, shut the fuck up!)

😁

WSS

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@miktoxic said:

too bad it took me half a lifetime to appreciate all music. i grew up on AM radio as a child in the 60s so we got a constant of AM GOLD. HA! but even so there were plenty of good tunes in there. of course when FM happened it was like a light switch going off and it seemed like all this new fangled ROCK came crashing through our walls. i gravitated to what my peers liked even though a bday gift from my sister of the first album i was ever to own 'wish you were here' carved out a big portion of interest, while my friends like black sabbath, kiss and zep.

meanwhile there was all this other good stuff going on in the studios that i could care less about until of course 30 years later when tastes have changed and temperment and attitudes chilled that i could delve into stuff i had missed all those years ago. the raspberries are a hard band to categorize. and a hard band to get into albeit their 'go all the way'.

WIXY 1260 and CKLW in Detroit were the two main radio stations until WMMS FM came out. That's when FM was almost commercial free.

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@larryfine said:

Wow, Steve, you can sing your ass off. 😁

Hey thanks!

I sincerely appreciate that.

WSS

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@westside-steve said:

hi guys. Put up a couple more songs on my soundcloud page. First my rendition of the Burt Bacharach Elvis Costello song this house is empty now and on the swing side Summer Wind.

http://soundcloud.com/Westside-Steve-Simmons

all positive feedback is appreciated!

(like I tell my audiences: if you liked the show tell your friends! If you didn't, shut the fuck up!)

😁

WSS

Wow, Steve, you can sing your ass off. 😁

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/429243https://brownsboard.com/post/429243Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:55:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:10:13 GMT]]>Wonderful life - Black:

yes I like that did song. Sort of saying genre here's this guy that I've loved for a long time.

I like a wide variety of styles including the pussified stuff

By the way these ballads and standards I'm doing on Soundcloud are a little divergence.

My live stuff, and my originals as a solo or with the band are much different. I just wanted to sing these standards.

Non profit.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423392https://brownsboard.com/post/423392Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:10:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 06:50:28 GMT]]>i'd love to hear you (steve) do something out of the box.

with your vast array of music knowledge i'm sure you've heard of this band BUT i heard this song off an old album today and it reminded me of your voice:

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@fairhooker11 said:

they were all enjoyable! 🙂 Especially the Costello tune... you have great range!

- Glad that you didnt do Manilows Mandy tune, it is still stuck in my head from the 70's!

which BTW - did you know Eric Carmen or the Rasberries group ?

did your group Easy Street start out as a garage band like I think the Rasberries did?

or so my older brother told me...

we opened up for the Raspberries at the Chesterland Hullabaloo many years ago.

eric is a private kind of person but he's a world class singer and songwriter.

I thought about putting boats against the current on this project but felt it was a bit too contemporary.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421378https://brownsboard.com/post/421378Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:57:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:07:53 GMT]]>too bad it took me half a lifetime to appreciate all music. i grew up on AM radio as a child in the 60s so we got a constant of AM GOLD. HA! but even so there were plenty of good tunes in there. of course when FM happened it was like a light switch going off and it seemed like all this new fangled ROCK came crashing through our walls. i gravitated to what my peers liked even though a bday gift from my sister of the first album i was ever to own 'wish you were here' carved out a big portion of interest, while my friends like black sabbath, kiss and zep.

meanwhile there was all this other good stuff going on in the studios that i could care less about until of course 30 years later when tastes have changed and temperment and attitudes chilled that i could delve into stuff i had missed all those years ago. the raspberries are a hard band to categorize. and a hard band to get into albeit their 'go all the way'.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421375https://brownsboard.com/post/421375Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:07:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Mon, 28 Jul 2014 02:26:59 GMT]]>they were all enjoyable! 🙂 Especially the Costello tune... you have great range!

- Glad that you didnt do Manilows Mandy tune, it is still stuck in my head from the 70's!

which BTW - did you know Eric Carmen or the Rasberries group ?

did your group Easy Street start out as a garage band like I think the Rasberries did?

or so my older brother told me...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421355https://brownsboard.com/post/421355Mon, 28 Jul 2014 02:26:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:41:21 GMT]]>(I had to force myself not to do Mandy)

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Zombo said:

Absolutely awesome on 1. Fly me 2. She 3. Summer wind ... In that order, but they are all A+.

I couldn't get through the other song about the empty house, not because of you, it was just too damn whiney.

Z

LOL

Thanks Z.

Unfortunately whiny is high among my favorite kinds of shit!

😁

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421249https://brownsboard.com/post/421249Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:35:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:21:46 GMT]]>Absolutely awesome on 1. Fly me 2. She 3. Summer wind ... In that order, but they are all A+.

I couldn't get through the other song about the empty house, not because of you, it was just too damn whiney.

Z

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421191https://brownsboard.com/post/421191Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:21:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:43:11 GMT]]>Thanks Tox!

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421128https://brownsboard.com/post/421128Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:43:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:12:14 GMT]]>you do have that crooner's voice man. perfect for that genre.

as always very classy well produced stuff.

carry on sir!

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/421088https://brownsboard.com/post/421088Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:12:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:20:29 GMT]]>Thanks Cysko.

I have noticed in putting these together, the project is pretty heavily weighted toward Sinatra. Even though the summer wind is the Michael Buble arrangement.

I will probably have about 20 songs all together and might just as well put them all on the CD since it's only going to be a gift for friends.

The ballads are a little bit more contemporary.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/420937https://brownsboard.com/post/420937Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:20:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:10:30 GMT]]>Nice job on the summer wind and fly me to the moon. I love the standards/jazz/swing personally. You've got a good voice for it too. I'd be interested to hear more. Btw I've got the sound cloud app and that seems to be the way to go

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/420936https://brownsboard.com/post/420936Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:10:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two More from WSS on Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:23:11 GMT]]>And if you guys are checking this out on an Andriod based smartphone let me kno if you are giving any shit about Flash Player.

I have no idea why but when I click on the link from my samsung s5 it says have to have Flash Player but if I click the link from my samsung Tab it seems to play fine. Thanks. WSS

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