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Songs People Should Hear - gryphon - 26-02-2010
Quintessential English sound from Clifford T Ward .............Clifford was an English teacher by trade and often used his literary knowledge and skills to capture this feel in a song.......as usual Clifford is using his romantic side to talk about an unobtainable love.
YouTube - Clifford T Ward ... Wherewithal
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 26-02-2010
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YouTube - Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine, Feb '68 - dub, HQ Audio
"Green Tambourine" was the primary hit by the 1960s Ohio-based rock group The Lemon Pipers, as well as the title track to their debut-album Green Tambourine. Released towards the end of 1967, it peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for one week at the start of February, 1968 and earned the group a gold record for over a million copies sold. The record remained on the chart for three months. It was also the first U.S. number-one hit for the Buddah label. The Lemon Pipers would never repeat this success, although "Rice Is Nice" and "Jelly Jungle" did make it onto the charts in 1968.
The song is the story of a street musician pleading for someone to give him money. In exchange, he would play his green tambourine. The song's instrumentation contains the title tambourine as well as an electric sitar. (Sitar was a frequent trademark of the so-called "psychedelic sound".) Another hook is the heavy, psychedelic tape echo applied to the word "play" in each chorus and at the end, fading into a drumroll ("Listen while I play play play play play play/my green tambourine").
Mrs. Miller covered the song on her 1968 album Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing.
Status Quo covered the song on their 1968 debut album Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo.
Lawrence Welk covered the song and his version placed on the Billboard Easy Listening survey.
Tripping Daisy covered the song on their 1992 debut album, Bill (The Dragon Street release).
At the end of the 2001 film Recess: School's Out, TJ and the gang are seen playing this song, with Mikey singing vocals (Mikey's singing voice provided by Robert Goulet). The gang and Principal Prickly are seen in the background, dressed and hairstyled in Sixties hippie clothing and/or hair.
Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I'll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you drop a coin you'll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Drop a dime before I walk away
Any song you want I'll gladly play
Money feeds my music machine
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Songs People Should Hear - language - 26-02-2010
Wow, Music Head! Thank you for sharing the Lemon Pipers link.
What a delight - I fell in love with the song at once!
Thank you again.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 27-02-2010
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YouTube - Terry Stafford - Suspicion
Nothing available on the song itself, but a bit on Terry. Sure was a good song, and I always preferred his version over Elvis.
Terry Stafford is best-known for his lone Top 10 hit single, "Suspicion", written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. Stafford's voice uncannily resembled Elvis Presley's, especially on "Suspicion," which was originally recorded by Presley on his album Pot Luck. After "Suspicion" peaked at number three early in 1964, he had another Top 40 hit with "I'll Touch a Star" which reached number 23 in the summer of that year. Following "I'll Touch a Star," none of Stafford's singles made the charts. In the late '60s, he turned to professional songwriting and he continued writing songs into the '80s. Two of his best-known songs are Buck Owens' "Big in Vegas" and George Strait's "Amarillo by Morning." Terry Stafford died in 1996.
Everytime you kiss me
I'm still not certain that you love me
Every time you hold me
I'm still not certain that you care
Though you keep on saying
you really, really, really love me
do you speak the same words
To someone else when I'm not there
Suspicion torments my heart
Suspicion keeps us apart
Suspicion why torture me
Everytime you call me
and tell me we should meet tomorrow
I can't help but think that
you're meeting someone else tonight
Why should our romance just
keep on causing me such sorrow?
Why am I so doubtful
whenever you are out of sight?
Suspicion torments my heart
Suspicion keeps us apart
Suspicion why torture me
Darling, if you love me,
I beg you wait a little longer
Wait until I drive all
these foolish fears out of my mind
How I hope and pray that
our love will keep on growing stronger
Maybe I'm suspicious
'cause true love is so hard to find
Suspicion torments my heart
Suspicion keeps us apart
Suspicion why torture me
Songs People Should Hear - kvincent5555 - 28-02-2010
I was curious what these sounded like before Zep did them. I was pleasantly surprised. Very raw with great slide work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHfWkwXjng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1SRJrNZZw
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 28-02-2010
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YouTube - Bobby Vee & The Strangers - Come Back When You Grow Up
once again, nothing for the song, but a bit on Bobby Vee
from lastfm
Bobby Vee (born April 30, 1943) is an American pop music singer. Born Robert Thomas Velline in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, his 1961 summer release Take Good Care Of My Baby went to No.1 on the Billboard U.S. and number 3 on the UK singles chart (according to EveryHit.com). Known primarily as a performer of Brill Building pop material, he went on to record a string of international hits in the 1960s, including Devil or Angel, Rubber Ball (1961), More Than I Can Say (1961), Run To Him (1961), The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1963), and Come Back When You Grow Up. When Vee recorded Come Back When You Grow Up in 1967, he was joined by a band called ââThe Strangersââ.
His first single was Suzie Baby, an original song penned by Vee which nodded towards Hollyâs Peggy Sue for the Minneapolis-based Soma Records in 1959; it drew enough attention and chart action to be purchased by Liberty Records, which signed him to their label in early 1960. His followup single, a cover of Adam Faithâs UK Number 1 What Do You Want? charted in the lower reaches of Billboard in early 1960; however, it was his fourth recording, a revival of The Cloversâ doo-wop ballad Devil or Angel, that brought him into the big time with US buyers. His follow-up single, Rubber Ball, was the record that made him an international star. Vee was also a pioneer in the music video genre, appearing in several musical motion pictures as well as in the Scopitone series of early film-and-music jukebox recordings. He is a 1999 inductee of the North Dakota Roughrider Award.
Come back when you grow up, girl
You're still livin' in a paper-doll world
Livin' ain't easy, lovin's twice as tough
So come back, baby, when you grow up
You're lookin' real good like a woman now
Your mind hasn't gotten the message somehow
So if you can't take it and the goin' gets rough
Come back, baby, when you grow up
I want you girl but your wide-eyed innocence
Has really messed up my mind, yeah
I'd rather you get your very first heartbreak
Somewhere else along the line
Come back when you grow up, girl
You're still livin' in a paper-doll world
Some day be a woman ready to love
Come back, baby, when you grow up
Come back when you grow up, girl
You're still livin' in a paper-doll world
Livin' ain't easy, lovin's twice as tough
Come back, baby, when you grow up
Come back when you grow up, girl
You still got a lotta time left in the world
You'll some day be a woman ready to love
Come back, baby, when you grow up
Come back when you grow up, girl
You're still livin' in a paper-doll world
Livin' ain't easy, lovin's twice as tough
So come back, baby, when you grow up
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 28-02-2010
kvincent5555 Wrote:I was curious what these sounded like before Zep did them. I was pleasantly surprised. Very raw with great slide work.good stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHfWkwXjng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1SRJrNZZw
thanks
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 01-03-2010
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YouTube - The McCoys Hang On Sloopy
from wikipedia
"Hang On Sloopy" is a song by the pop group The McCoys which was #1 in America in October 1965 and is the official rock song of the state of Ohio and The Ohio State University. It was written by Wes Farrell and Bert Russell and is named for singer Dorothy Sloop (1913-1998), who used the name "Sloopy" on stage.
The song was originally titled "My Girl Sloopy" and was first recorded by The Vibrations in 1964 on Atlantic Records, becoming a top thirty hit. It was the title track of a live 1965 recording (released on Rhapsody in 1966) by the Ramsey Lewis Trio which earned a gold record. It has also been recorded by Arseno Rodriguez (Bang 1966), The Supremes (Motown 1966), The Kingsmen (WAND 1966), Little Caesar and the Consuls, The Yardbirds, Saving Jane, Jan & Dean (Liberty-LP "Folk'n'Roll" 1965) and Die Toten Hosen (2002). It has also been performed by Johnny Thunders and the Oddballs in a medley with "Louie Louie" and can be heard on the "Add Water and Stir" live Japan bootleg.
In 1965, The Strangeloves, a rock band who purported to be from Australia, decided to make the song the follow-up to their hit single "I Want Candy", and began performing the song in concert. However, the Dave Clark Five, who they were touring with, told the Strangeloves that they were going to record their own version of the song, copying the Strangeloves' arrangement. The Strangeloves realized that the Dave Clark Five's version would probably outsell their own, but they were still enjoying success with "I Want Candy" and did not want to release a new single yet. So the trio—who were, in reality, three successful writer/producers from Brooklyn, New York— recruited a group from Union City, Indiana, Rick and the Raiders, to record the song instead. The group's name was changed to The McCoys (to avoid confusion with another popular band of the era, Paul Revere and the Raiders), and their 16-year-old leader, Rick Zehringer, became known as Rick Derringer. The group added vocals and a guitar solo to the already-completed Strangeloves backing track, and the single was released on Bang Records. It entered the chart on August 14, 1965, effectively beating the Dave Clark Five to the charts. The single went on to hit number one on October 2.
Originally written and recorded with three verses, "Hang On Sloopy" was edited down to two verses for the single and original Hang On Sloopy album. The unedited three-verse version first appeared on the 1970 Bang various artists compilation Bang & Shout Super Hits (BLPS-220), then again in 1995 on the Sony Legacy compilation Hang On Sloopy: The Best Of The McCoys.
The song gained an association with The Ohio State University after its marching band began playing it at football games; it first played it October 9, 1965 after a band member, John Tatgenhorst, begged the director to try playing it. After finally convincing the director, Tatgenhorst arranged the song and the band played. After the crowd reaction, the band began to play it at every game and now it is a Saturday tradition to play the song before the start of the fourth quarter of every Buckeye game. Since then "Sloopy" has been appearing on the band's CDs and as a free download on its website.
The basic riff of the song became a staple of garage bands during the 1960s, being used on such songs as The Weeds' "It's Your Time" and Kit and the Outlaws' "Dude and the Sundowners" "Don't Tread on Me." The song was covered by The Beau Brummels on the band's 1966 album Beau Brummels '66. A 1973 cover version by Ramsey Lewis won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1974. Punk rock band, Youth In Asia (New Jersey) recorded the song on their 1984 album Pulling Out The Plug. A parody named "Hang on Snoopy" was included on Swiss rock group Patent Ochsner's 1994 album Gmües. All-girl Japanese punk band Lolita No. 18 covered the song, which is a testament to its far-reaching influences. The song was also covered by the German punk-rock band Die Toten Hosen as b-side for their 2000 single "Bayern." Also in 2000, Aaron Carter recorded his version, included as a bonus track on his second album, Aaron's Party (Come Get It). In 2006, the rock group Saving Jane recorded the song also. There is a character in the novel The Wanderers by Richard Price named "Hang On Sloopy." The song also appears in several Peanuts cartoons but the words are altered slightly to "Hang on Snoopy". The family of the late Bert Russell Berns call their music publishing company Sloopy II Music. In Mexico was covered by the Rock & Roll group Los Teen Tops (The Teen Tops) and known as "Lupita mi Amor" (Lupita, My Love). The Smashing Pumpkins also released a cover of the song in their Live Smashing Pumpkins album series. Islands (band) uses the chorus in a b-side named "Two Dogs."
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
And everybody, yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Sloopy I don't care what your daddy do.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
'Cause you know Sloopy, girl, I'm in love with you.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
And so I sing out,
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Sloopy wears a red dress, yeah, as old as the hills.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
But when Sloopy wears that red dress, yeah,
You know it gives me the chills, oh, oh.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Sloopy when I see you walkin', walkin' down the street,
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
I say, "Don't worry, Sloopy, girl, you belong to me."
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
And so I sing out,
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Yeah, (yeah), yeah, (yeah).
(I'm gonna give it to 'em right now.)
Sloopy let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me,
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Sloopy let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me.
Yeah, yeah. (Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Come on Sloopy, (come on, come on).
Well, come on Sloopy, (come on, come on).
Well, come on Sloopy, (come on, come on).
Well, come on Sloopy, (come on, come on).
Well, it feels so good, (come on, come on).
You know it feels so good, (come on, come on).
Well, shake it, shake it,
Shake it, Sloopy, (come on, come on.)
Well, shake it, shake it,
Shake it, yeah, (come on, come on).
Ahhhhhh!
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Yeah, (yeah), yeah, (yeah), yeah, (yeah).
Oh, hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Yeah, (yeah), yeah, (yeah), yeah, (yeah).
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
Songs People Should Hear - gryphon - 01-03-2010
People either love or hate Kate Bush's voice ...but she has proved so often that she is a highly intelligent song writer , who can write from a unique view point...she can capture much that eludes others .....if you have ever read the book or visited my native Yorkshire then you will now that she can express the spirit of both.........couple that with Dave Gilmour`s outstanding guitar work and you have a classic.
YouTube - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 01-03-2010
gryphon Wrote:People either love or hate Kate Bush's voice ...but she has proved so often that she is a highly intelligent song writer , who can write from a unique view point...she can capture much that eludes others .....if you have ever read the book or visited my native Yorkshire then you will now that she can express the spirit of both.........couple that with Dave Gilmour`s outstanding guitar work and you have a classic.I agree with that
YouTube - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights