Old Timey Music for Howard and DC

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:05 pm

Very nice.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:08 pm

One of the great voices, and the great songs.

Later recorded with one of the great guitarists, Richard Thompson.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:15 pm

Judy Collins had a hit with this song. Here are some other distinctive cover versions.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:54 pm

Judy Collins accompanied by Stephen Stills.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:11 pm

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 2:32 pm

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:20 pm

Rennaisance is the only prog band I recall truly liking back in the day. But I appreciate Yes more now than I did then.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:09 pm

DC47 wrote:Rennaisance is the only prog band I recall truly liking back in the day. But I appreciate Yes more now than I did then.

I'm not a HUGE Yes fan, but I love that song. Quintessential headphone music.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:28 pm

Without a doubt. As was just about all of prog rock. Even when I couldn't get over the barrier posed by the lack of connection with blues, jazz and soul roots, I could sometimes get into the sonic space that a prog group created. This song had all that and stunning musicianship.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:00 am

Great vocalists show what they can do with the same strong material.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:08 am

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:25 am

Master class in soul screaming.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:57 am

I loved Free. (They were before my time, but I picked up on them later.) Never knew Wilson Pickett also did that song. Amazing.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:44 am

In this pairing, it's Pickett covering Rodgers' song. But Rodgers was a teen when Pickett was singing smash hits in the mid '60s. I hear a lot of Pickett in Rodgers' singing. So it's a bit like Pickett covering Rodgers covering Pickett.

Apart from Rodgers being a tremendous rock singer, Free was a powerful band. They played simply. But there's a lot going on between Fraser on bass and Kossoff on guitar. Sophisticated in tone and interplay at a very young age.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:17 pm

I never heard that Wilson Pickett cover, very nice. I also learned about Free after the fact, other than their huge hit All Right Now. But right out the gate I was a big Bad Company fan, and worked my way back to Free. On that song, I'm most impressed by how far out of the way Fraser stays with his minimal bass line on the guitar solo. His interplay with Kossoff is wonderful throughout their work, but on this tune he just shuts the fuck up and lets the guitarist do his thing. Positively Dunn-esque in playing the fewest notes to get the job done.

I never noticed them using Orange amps. Didn't even know Orange was that old

DC47 wrote:Rodgers was a teen when Pickett was singing smash hits in the mid '60s. I hear a lot of Pickett in Rodgers' singing. So it's a bit like Pickett covering Rodgers covering Pickett.

I enjoy picking out incidents like this. McCartney singing Lady Madonna said he was doing his best Fats Domino; a couple of years later Fats covered the tune. Another is when Tina Turner covered Ann Peeble's I Can't Stand the Rain; I was completely flummoxed about who did it first and who was channeling whom. (Throw Patty LaBelle in with those two, and it gets even more fun.)

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:01 pm

Déjà vu - the whole album - recorded off vinyl. Such a great album.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:18 pm

Shirley wrote:Déjà vu - the whole album - recorded off vinyl. Such a great album.

First album I ever purchased. Eleven years old. I subsequently bought some real crap, but I can be proud of that one.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:59 pm

sancarlos wrote:First album I ever purchased. Eleven years old.

Fine choice. Mine was Abbey Road, age 12, a few months earlier.

edits for all kinds of factual errors. The memory fades.

7:26
Almost cut my hair
happened just the other day
…but I felt I owed it to someone
(I'm not giving in an inch to fear)

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:17 pm

Steve Marriott on lead vocals. The Small Faces.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 1:30 am

What did you do there?

HDO45331 · Post by **HDO45331** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 2:24 pm

sancarlos wrote:
Shirley wrote:Déjà vu - the whole album - recorded off vinyl. Such a great album.

First album I ever purchased. Eleven years old. I subsequently bought some real crap, but I can be proud of that one.

I saw Crosby and Nash about 5 years ago. The funniest line was by Nash, stating, "It has been proven as fact, that more ladies lost their virginity to Our House than to any other song." I would have to agree.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:59 pm

This is pretty damn groovy.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:26 pm

I am a little busy, but I want to hear this. Give me just a little more time

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:29 pm

Absolutely.

Here's a classy (i.e., string section) introduction to the mores of dating. One of my first 45s.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:58 pm

There were some great soul songs on the radio in the late 60s through the early 70s. A few of the singers became legendary. Marvin Gaye, Levi Stubbs, Aretha, Ray Charles, James Brown, Al Green, Otis, Wilson Pickett. But there were so many others who really had it going on.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:02 pm

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:11 pm

Oh, I loved that Tyrone Davis one. I haven't thought of that in a long time.

I remember Pay To The Piper, my mom even liked that one. A small jump to my next submission, from the same label as the Chairmen. The greatest Motown side ever, not produced by Motown. Although it was written by Holland-Dozier-Holland, had the Funk Brothers on rhythm, singing backup the two ladies who later joined Tony Orlando as Dawn, featuring a sitar as the requisite odd instrument, and so much production they forgot to write a chorus. And 12yo me was smitten by Freda Payne, probably my first celebrity crush. Love this song so much:

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:14 pm

A mighty trio.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:19 pm

Oh man. Freda Payne blew my young mind. Almost made me forget entirely about Marilyn McCoo.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:26 pm

I had this 45. General Johnson wrote it. Freda may have been what put me over the top into becoming a devoted Vietnam War protester, years before I could shave.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:32 pm

The first time I remember watching Soul Train was that Freda Payne appearance. The wiki tells me that Johnson wrote a lot of the Chairmen tunes plus the trio of hits that Honey Cone had, Want Ads, One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show) and Stick Up as well as Patches.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:01 pm

howard wrote:I am a little busy, but I want to hear this. Give me just a little more time

You got it!

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:38 pm

Love when I can jog some brain cells.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:51 pm

Soul meets funk meets Hendrix.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:39 am

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:57 pm

The Isley Brothers were not handsome men.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:54 pm

When it got to naming ugliest bands (Supertramp, The Cars, The Kinks, Ramones) The Isleys were always my go-to.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:01 pm

howard wrote:When it got to naming ugliest bands (Supertramp, The Cars, The Kinks, Ramones) The Isleys were always my go-to.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:04 pm

Oh my yes, sorry for the sleight on Peter Wolf and the boys.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:19 am

Shirley wrote:The Isley Brothers were not handsome men.

In a strange land, long ago and far away, there was a time when people enjoyed music based largely on how it moved them. Not on whether the musicians looked like models, or whether they dressed like strippers. Many of the musicians actually composed much of the music that they played, and they also played instruments at concerts and on their recordings.

The Isley Brothers were all of that. They created a distinctive sound by combining their gospel background with the funk and rock sound that was everywhere in the late 60s and early 70s. Ronnie was as tremendous lead singer, and Ernie had a unique sound on lead guitar. Jimi Hendrix was the Isley's guitarist in the early 60s, and lived with them. Ernie, a teen at the time, obviously picked up on some of the Hendrix style.