The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[Padraig]

. . . and why not? It's a long time since anyone heard this once ubiquitous song. Joseph K might like the saxophone bit, and our late CdaJazbo would have loved the piano bit, so keep on laughing. For once Lady Day is smiling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_XM4l1DHo

[johncorrigan]

. . . and why not? It's a long time since anyone heard this once ubiquitous song. Joseph K might like the saxophone bit, and our late CdaJazbo would have loved the piano bit, so keep on laughing. For once Lady Day is smiling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_XM4l1DHo

That was great and so uplifting, Padraig. I've been listening to this one by Billie today - 'if I never have a cent, I'll be rich as Rockefeller' - 'Just direct your feet to the Sunny Side of the Street'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr73nqSBHTo

[antongould]

. . . and why not? It's a long time since anyone heard this once ubiquitous song. Joseph K might like the saxophone bit, and our late CdaJazbo would have loved the piano bit, so keep on laughing. For once Lady Day is smiling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_XM4l1DHo

Wonderful IMVVHO Padraig …..

[cloughie]

Just watching a BBC2 programme on Carole King. Was there ever anyone who could write the perfect pop song. Was Tapestry the perfect album. The transition of a songwriter for tin-pan-alley to a singer-songwriter.

[teamsaint]

A favourite single of mine…..Suburban Dream by Martha and the Muffins. They made a few decent records other than the rather overplayed Echo Beach, which I don’t much care for.

But Suburban Dream is the pick of them for me, and it is a really well crafted record, with lots of interwoven rising and falling lines throughout. Well worth a close listen.

https://youtu.be/fzHhUna4ZdA

[cloughie]

I read that Roberta Flack, at the age of 85, has motor neurone disease, and can no longer sing.

Very sad how age and illness takes its path. Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell and now Roberta - lets be thankful for what their careers and recordings have provided for us!

[johncorrigan]

Started working my way through Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' one song at a time, and very enjoyable I am finding it. I suppose a book like this wouldn't have worked in the days before Youtube/ Spotty etc. Anyway, Bob's second choice is 'Pump It Up' by Elvis and the Attractions. Bob says it's the song you sing when you've reached boiling point. He also suggests that Declan had a heavy dose of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' when he wrote it. I'd never thought of it before, but I think his Bobness may be on to something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y71iDvCYXA - great vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0 - really great vid

[gurnemanz]

Started working my way through Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' one song at a time, and very enjoyable I am finding it. I suppose a book like this wouldn't have worked in the days before Youtube/ Spotty etc. Anyway, Bob's second choice is 'Pump It Up' by Elvis and the Attractions. Bob says it's the song you sing when you've reached boiling point. He also suggests that Declan had a heavy dose of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' when he wrote it. I'd never thought of it before, but I think his Bobness may be on to something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y71iDvCYXA - great vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0 - really great vid

I 'm sure I will get around to this. So far I have only read Craig Brown's parody of Dylan's writing style in this week's Private Eye, including an analysis of Benny Hill's Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)

[johncorrigan]

I 'm sure I will get around to this. So far I have only read Craig Brown's parody of Dylan's writing style in this week's Private Eye, including an analysis of Benny Hill's Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)

[johncorrigan]

I 'm sure I will get around to this. So far I have only read Craig Brown's parody of Dylan's writing style in this week's Private Eye, including an analysis of Benny Hill's Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)

Managed to get a copy of the Eye, gurney. I was shaking laughing - Brown on the money as usual - hilarious! Thanks!

[johncorrigan]

I've been working my way through Dylan's new book and enjoying a song a day. Chapter 12 is 'Pancho and Lefty', Townes Van Zandt's classic, performed by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. Bob is extremely sympathetic towards Townes and the self-destructive life he lived, and died. I saw Townes perform in Perth one time not long before he died - a wonderful guitarist and songwriter. But as Bob says, Willie Nelson could sing the phone book and make it sound great...in fact he could write the phone book. Here's that great outlaw classic with Townes making an appearance in the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoKvUYbGu7A

[johncorrigan]

Still working my way through Bob's 66 picks. Today's was 'CIA Man' by The Fugs - I had completely forgotten how great this song was...thanks again, Bob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW9cCWm53H4

[Padraig]

Imagine hearing this as a teen in early 1950s (51?) Some of us jeered. Others were impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FO07LN72ek

[johncorrigan]

Imagine hearing this as a teen in early 1950s (51?) Some of us jeered. Others were impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FO07LN72ek

I remember seeing him on the TV some time in the sixties, Padraig, and being completely bemused at what was going on. In Bob Dylan's book about Modern Song he covers Johnnie Ray - he says that lots of people thought he was a girl, but he just sang in his natural voice. Bob says his voice is that of '...a damaged angel, cast out to walk the streets of dirty cities...' Bob suggests that Johnnie reached 'a rarified air where only he and maybe Roy Orbison lived'.

[MickyD]

Just got hold of this delightful collection of songs about London - missed it first time around. An enjoyable cabaret given by Catherine Bott and David Owen Norris with a live audience.