YouTube years

After watching some episodes of the Wonder Years, started looking up some classic songs that have the guitar on YouTube. It's not even a definitive 'best of' YouTube list, just some great performers that caught my eye.

Wonder Years, 'The Accident'
This is the clip that inspired this post; I really liked that show, it could be a bit schlocky but was usually oh-so-accurately-bittersweet, with good writing.


Wonder Years Desi (no embed)
There's something very appealing about this guy--the glasses, the outfit, the voice, the guitar, the song. And the little flourish at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMieQvZF-A&search=%22wonder%20years%22

With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker at Woodstock in 1969... perfectly smoky voice... were I alive then I wonder if I'd have known to go? Assuming I wasn't like in Vietnam or something.


Moon River
The performer above, folkpoet80, led me to this classic Audrey Hepburn clip--you gotta be in the right mood to watch it, otherwise it feels a little flat.


Grow Old With You
Also inspired by folkpoet80, here's Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore showing off their great chemistry.


One good-looking Jew
"Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Hanukkah!"--an incredibly young, talented Sandler; I think this has replaced the Dreidl Song as the official anthem of young American Jews.


Bob Dylan
Robert Zimmerman singing Blowin' in the Wind and Just Like a Woman as part of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's Concert for Bangladesh 1971 humanitarian fundraiser.


Peter, Paul and Mary
A militant version of Blowin' in the Wind, from Newport in 1964. People think of them as doing children's songs; like everyone else of good conscience in the 60s they were all politics, all the time.


Dylan and Baez
The 18-year-old Irish poster described this Bob Dylan/Joan Baez clip as "Some civil rights rally, when the ship comes in and only a pawn in their game." It's actually from the March on Washington in 1963, when MLK gave his I Have a Dream speech.... Dylan and Baez look impossibly young... TV was different back then, most of the video is a long shot of the crowd around the Washington Monument.


One Headlight
Bruce Springsteen upstages Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers on this driving song.


Evangeline
Emmylou Harris and The Band from Martin Scorcese's Last Waltz; my favorite performance off that movie is actually Neil Young, followed by Neil Diamond, but neither are online (at the moment).... Clip via Last Waltz site.

Helpless
Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Crosby Stills & Nash, from 1974. Song kindof gets muddled when everyone jumps in halfway through, but the pure Young parts are great.


Sweet Caroline
Neal Diamond doing the ultimate song for a crowd to sing along to, in 1976.


Country Roads
John Denver in 1971, with is sweet voice and big glasses.


Always on My Mind
Willy Nelson in a slightly muffled undated performance (better than the version with Jon Bon Jovi.


I Got You Babe
Classic two-part harmony of Sonny and Cher; hard to believe someone wearing those pants wound up in Congress. I think he must've inspired Arnold.


The Boxer
An older Simon and Garfunkel, apparently from the 1981 Central Park concert--"after changes we are more or less the same".


Cucurrucucu Paloma
A perfectly-paced, magical performance by Caetano Veloso from Pedro Almodovar's exquisite film Talk to Her. A few months after I saw that film, I was reminded of the song by Chavel Vargas' version of Paloma Negra, in Frida.


Screen grab of Kevin and Winnie from The Wonder Years: 25 Best Moments.