Posted on 04/29/2021 2:53:53 PM PDT by lee martell
I enjoy many types of music at some point or another. I have a CD by Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans. I never tire of hearing Tumbleweed or 'Cool Clear Water'. I was looking for something similar but more recent. I took a chance on this CD collection by Charley Pride. The Essential Charley Pride. This is what I call a Back to Back playable album collection. Meaning, I enjoy listening to it from the first to the last of 20 songs. (Maybe just one track that I can do without).
I came across a sweet little tune that pleasantly stays in the head for a while. "Burgers & Fries & Cherry Pies". Nothing profound or life changing here, just a very nice melody that dredges up good memories if you have ever liked one of those restaurant foods. You may find yourself humming it. The song was written by Ben Peters and recorded by Charlie in 1978. What's your Earworm du Jour?
May I suggest Michael Martin Murphey? His cowboy and country songs are awesome; for instance ‘Goodbye Old Paint’, ‘Red River Valley’, ‘Bury Me Not on the Lone Prarie’...truthfully they give me a strange feeling, happiness and sadness at the same time. His voice evokes a long-vanished time when America was good.
Consider the second verse of ‘Home on the Range’ ( realize that MMM did not write this):
...The red man was pressed,
in this part of the west,
it’s not likely he’ll ever return.
...From the banks of Red River,
where seldom if ever,
his flickering campfires still burn.
Take a listen, I would love to hear what you think.
Murphey, Murphey....Didn’t he also do “Wildfire” in the late 70’s?
I’ve heard “Goodbye Old Paint” by Roy Rogers.
It was very touching.
I will listen to Mike’s version later.
Yes he does a pretty good job on ‘Wildfire’ also
Good song. I think about Griff’s hamburgers hearing it (Its a Fort Worth/Dallas institution, just like ole Charlie) Met him once at the Tom Thumb by his house in Irving.
A Charley Pride ear-worm is a welcome sound to me!
Ol Charley didn’t do bad for the fourth of eleven children of a Mississippi sharecropper.
Married his one and only wife in 1956. Great recording career, ended up part owner of the Texas Rangers.
Kids, grand kids and great grand kids.
I had an aunt who loved listening to Charley Pride on her a.m. radio. Every time one his songs came on she would turn the volume up. She found out he was black when her son bought her a Charley Pride album for her birthday. He said her response was “stunned silence.” He told me it was three days before she would play the album. After that she never looked back. She’s still living and owns everything Charley recorded.
This version, one of my favorites, includes that verse. It's a frequent earworm. The melody is different from the one most people know today, which dates from 1930.
A Home on the Range--Vernon Dalhrt (1927)
When the Tumbleweeds Come Tumbling Down Again--Gene Autry (1938)
Nice. Autry also recorded three of the most familiar Christmas Songs: Frosty the Snowman, Here Comes Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Crank It!!
Very nice. I would not have thought of that combination of instruments. It works, tho.
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I'll go back and sit down and stop hijacking your thread... Enjoy!!
70’s pop straight up sucked. There, I said it.
Oh, I don’t consider it ‘hijacking’ at all. You have some good things to share.
One of my favourites. I first heard it in the Kurt Russell film “Breakdown” a suspense movie from the late 90’s.
They had “Burgers and Fries” playing in the diner when he’s asking the guy at the till if he’s seen his wife. Have enjoyed the song ever since.
Great post, great song.
I don’t agree, but many would agree with you.
The 70’s was chock full of many approaches to popular music.
There was something from most every menu. Some areas of the country got saturated with certain styles depending on what the popular radio stations decided to promote.
Some in the Midwest may have felt bombarded with Bubblegum Type songs, such as....dare i say it?
the infamous “Afternoon Delight” from Starland Vocal Band, or Muskrat Love, by The Captain & Tennille.
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