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Like to think some DC. mongrels might be humming this one, from the confines of Gitmo soon.
Doubtful.
House of the Rising Sun was the first song I ever sang/played and got payed.
A friend, John, and I came up from Sicily and stayed in Munich for two weeks in ’83 or ’84, at the end of Oktoberfest and into the more private celebrations that went on after. After a few days we settled into a small bar in Schwabing, owned by a guy named Hans. He spoke English and loved all things western, as in cowboys, etc. He had been to Arizona and Texas a couple of times. Well, he found out that I was raised in a logging camp and on a ranch, and just pulled out all the stops to make us welcome. That in itself could be a several pages story.
Every night after the day’s activities, we would settle into our new home and I would play for Hans and his customers. Lots of drinks for free. Even more stories about THAT, but maybe some other time.
One night I was playing and ended a session with ‘Rising Sun’. I went into the bathroom, and this great big black guy followed me in. I mean big; he was about 6’5″ or “6 and weighed at least 250+. Anyway, he followed me in and waited until I was ready to leave. I was pretty uncertain about what was going on, because he was acting pretty funny. He grabbed my hand and started crying, and kept telling me in barely understandable English about how good I played that song. He pulled out a 50 mark note and tried to give to me, but I kept trying to refuse it. I told him several times that I wasn’t playing for money, just drinks.
He finally got all intense and said very clearly. “You take or I kick your ass.” Needless to say I took the money.
And for good measure on our ’60s-fest, here is Grace.
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Listen to these songs and realize that most of them could sing and actually play their instruments. I have a work van, only has a radio, I try to listen to the radio and can’t. Rap sounds like someone shouting obscenities over an unbalanced washing machine load (old school washer with agitator) and lots of Mexican accordian music and pop. Screaming has replaced singing. County gets old and monotonous after awhile.
Eric Burdon, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the list is long….and….at one time all those folk were considered risque and vulgar…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-SFgkVlno
AM radio at it’s finest.
One for Grog, and any other fans of Van
edit: can’t believe the lyrics changed from “makin’ love in the green grass behind the stadium with you’ to ‘laughin’ and a-runnin’, behind the stadium…So, I call BS, on this being the original. Unless the .45 I listened to as a lad was a revised version that included visions of young love, and the original was to get past the censors at the time. My, how times have changed.
Had Jim Morrison lived, the Doors may have been bigger than the Beatles.
Here’s three others:
Yardbirds featuring young Eric Clapton
Spencer Davis Group featuring young Steve Winwood.
Stone Pony’s featuring Linda Ronstadt
Nice! However the Yardbirds clip is with Jeff Beck, no Eric at that time.
So many good ones:
Deon Jackson:
Bobby Hebb:
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
If you got high on acid in the 60’s and didn’t come down til ’71, then this song qualifies.
Maybe we’ll get the ’50’s next week?
50’s Friday?
I will be damned,you actually went and grew the music with a 60’s Saturday,nice!
A 50’s Friday would be good,still like “Metal Monday” as would cover the 80’s(fine we can also do Flock Of Seagulls ect.!”I would be more then happy to come up with Monday playlists,be damned if I can post videos but can easily come up with some good songs.We really want to step back could have a 20’s Tuesday,a lot of jazz/blues ect.!
Waiting to see which Elvis song is chosen. Gonna be a mighty hard choice.
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You could repeat the 60s for the next 10 years. Dam good music.
Have to make a contribution to this marvelous era. Beach Boys all the hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_tMBBuIwlo
Press Play, then read the text below it, during…
Jasmine, let me tell you about our batchelor number 1, the one you selected on the far left.
Skip is single, but he still lives at home, in his parent’s basement.
He’s a college graduate, and stays active playing video games and trolling the internet.
He likes a latte from Starbucks infused with soy every day, with a side of avocado toast.
He’s active in politics, likes to wear black, and attend demonstrations occasionally
He’s an activist for social justice, and therefore quite the fan of socialist politicians. He hates whites, but
He’s hoping like hell that you’ll provide him with all kinds of free stuff, including access to your body.
Jazz, I’d like you to meet him.
Skippy, come on down!
We’ll be sending you on a 3 day vacation for two to the lovely city of Philadelphia, along the famed 30 blocks of squalor district. Enjoy, and Thanks for playing The Dating Game.
~L
Great memories! My parents had Tijuana Brass albums and my future brother in law competed and won on the Dating Game show.
Good times.
Lol! My dad had that album and I played the shit out of it. I loved that album.
1979 album “Rise” is excellent. A more mature jazzy vibe. One of my favorites albums still.
Expanding on a great idea. You must be from the Steve Jobs school of market dominance.
Does it count if it started out on the charts in October of 59 and was still on the charts in March of 60? I was too young to remember it’s debut, I had to look it up. But AM radio was still playing it a lot several years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllHMWkXEU
Well, she was born in ’26 but 90 years later, Marilyn Monroe is still hot. So is Mack.
I’m don’t think Admin such a total purist to declare a fatwa on you for that. Unless he starts the 50’s Friday theme, then you can add it again.
It’s kinda a creepy song but I never listened to the words.
I didn’t realize it at the time, buy when Mack the Knife came on my folks (older than most parents of my friends) would stop what they were doing and listen intently. Once I figured out that Bobby D’s music had The Big Band era sound it made sense, especially when after it was over Dad would go over and pat Mom on the backside of her dress-and unlike most times she would not squirm away while the kids were observing. They danced, danced, and danced some more to those sounds when they were courting years before.
1965
A Great Year and the start for this rolling stone..
A lot of great bands more known for their 70″s stuff started in the 60’s,Tull/Zep/Scorpions/Gold Earing/Deep Purple/Yes,a endless list.
James, do yourself a favor and look up Ruth Brown. She of the era when it really began (not saying that there was not good music in earlier decades-there was-just that the early ’50s is when things seemed to start catching fire in a powerful way. The old Negro singers really had something and left a lasting mark.
Gypsy,watched a couple of her live songs.She has a great stage presence and voice,the band while excellent musicians seems to be playing a blend of jazz/light blues/almost big band sound that doesn’t work for me personally on the music side,would liked to have seen her competing with a loud/heavy blues band,she had the voice for it!
I am now looking forward to this part of the platform each week as the old songs are the sound track of our lives to say the least and to borrow a phrase that a really smart person conjured up. Specifically the Animals 1964 blockbuster House of the Rising Sun is timeless…..new in 1964 and just as fresh in January 1990 when over a few beers in a team hut in Palmerolla ( Soto Cano) Honduras we sang our hearts out as we partied when I was released from mission to go back to the world after Panama was under control……
I was at Palmerola in ’85, Muskie. Somebody had 2 videotaped movies that we watched over and over in the hut – Devil in Miss Jones and Purple Rain. That was it. Rain sounded like the end of the world on the tin roof.
EC: I left the 82nd and went to Stanford for my masters in June of 87 and was subsequently assigned to Redstone Arsenal in an air defense project office. This assignment came out of the blue and overrode what I had been doing to field an ADA BN in Germany. I went on down and it was like being back at Bragg in the division. My duties ended up very supportive of Panama and required an in depth knowledge of what the fighting battalions/regiments would need/ask for with respects to combat services support. No problem there…did a lot of work with the SOCOM community within the entire central America region. Those guys and gals were superb in every respect.
Very fond memories of the best soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and coasties in the world.
That sounds like Billy and SSS. I seem to recall they mentioned being there also (CA).