Posted on 04/22/2016 3:23:24 PM PDT by mdittmar
The day before Kerry had a debilitating stroke, he called in to Hannity and said, “Sean, not all of us musicians are liberals.” The liberals celebrated his misfortune the next day. Lovely bunch.
I liked "MacArthur Park" when it came out, in the spring of 1968. For one thing, I was a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur and fully agreed with him that there was no substitute for victory. The song came out shortly after the Pueblo incident, which to me, proved that he was right, and that we should have taken out North Korea while we had the chance.
And being from suburban Whittier, I liked any and all songs about Los Angeles and Southern California.
“The tree in question is probably marijuana or coca.”
See the weed, how big it’s grown,
but dude, it hasn’t been too long,
it was just a...huh, what?
I didn't know that part. Thanks.
One of the saddest songs I know of is Little Mother by Vaughn De Leath, from the summer of 1928.
Yeap. I'm glad he survived it. The band has a documentary "Miracles out of nowhere" I think is the name. It's about the groups beginning up past the Leftoverture album I think. They deliberately left out some issues in it that were happening in the band they didn't want to promote or glorify. It is an interesting story though. I missed out on a lot of 1976-80 music because I was at sea a lot.
Did you know that Toto was formed by a bunch of former members of Kansas? Someone asked, “What should we call ourselves?” And the answer was, “Toto. We’re not in Kansas anymore!”
. . .
It’s a totally made-up story, but I like it. ;)
I remember this song when it came out. So sad I can’t listen to it.
LOL, good one:)
You’re welcome.
To me, it makes the song even darker.
She committed suicide. It sounds like she suffered from depression as she would cry when alone
Kinda smart and kinda dumb covers a lot of people. But it’s not PC to call a woman that.
“Then how do you explain ‘the Angels came’.”
Hell’s Angels — the motorcycle gang type?
Another one like that is “I Never Said Goodbye”. Probably many have sung it, but (don’t laugh) I have it by Englebert Humperdinck.
Could have also been the California Angels baseball team.
The guitar riff is a close match to what you hear on "Pretty Woman", so can we assume that's Bobby playing on Roy's hit?
Hey, he could sing.
Another song that I’ve realized I can’t listen to any more is “Daisy A Day” by Jud Strunk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5AzmEX-txw
The guitar riff is a close match to what you hear on "Pretty Woman", so can we assume that's Bobby playing on Roy's hit?
His ability to play in Roy's style was likely why Roy hired him to start with. I can't listen to "Little Things" to tell though because I can't access a high speed ISP at home. If you put a group of professionals together playing for very long they will pick up on each others styles. A close group of friends Orbison, Harrison, Petty, Dylan, and Lynne, proved that. But I can pick out many of Roy's riffs in their album together though. I'm talking about The Traveling Wilburys.
Roy's Roy's voice was really his uncopiable signature IMO at I think three plus ranges and the distinct quiver in all ranges he could sing in. There is a 6:18 video of him playing an extended version of Pretty Woman possibly on a special called Black and white night. The other players were following his riff flawlessly.
I like country as well and get a kick out of a video of Merle Haggard and Marty Robbins together. Close your eyes and you can't tell the difference when they sing each others songs and Merle could play in Marty's style as well. Part of Merle's show used to be impersonating other singers.
Mainly it's musicians and groups that came after Holly's death mentioned in the song. Helter Skelter in the summer swelter likely referring to the Beatles song named same recorded in September 1968 or the Berkley riots. He then mentions The Birds and Eight Miles High {a hit by The Byrds}. Other words like The Jester on the sidelines in a cast. Dylan was in a motor cycle wreck that sidelined him either by injury or a choice to leave touring a few years. Bob Dylan points back again to The Byrds of which Dylan had previously been a member. Dylan's back up band when he went out on his own was "The Band" whom later went out on their own with huge success. Possibly it's all about many things going on in kind hidden in the words but it's not that hard to decipher most of it.
Folk music {Dylan{ was also becoming popular and later rock bands began using {Brass} instruments marching bands used such as Chicago, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, The Beatles on the Sgt Pepper album, and a few others. Music was changing radically from Rhythm & Blues, Rockabilly, and the rock & roll Don McClean likely grew up on and Holly was a part of was fading away. McClean was born in 1945 and Holly died Died: February 3, 1959 making McClean 14 old enough for the musical influence and even a paper route. Even Marty Robbins enters in. Robbins hit was "A white sport coat and a pink carnation" was released in early 1957 and considered Rock at that time.
It seems to be a song about the changes in music and the world in general. I can understand why he would write it. I don't care for any rock written after the early 1980's LOL. I hated Disco, Rap, and Hip Hop as well. As Bob Seger says I like that old time rock and roll.
What all started me thinking on this was I was just reading up on The Band and found out they were Dylan's back up band about the time of his wreck and I remembered this thread and somebody mentioning American Pie. I also knew Dylan was with The Byrds and remember Eight miles high. LOL
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