C.Bogle Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Webb Pierce, one of the biggest country stars of the 1950s, singing a very abbrviated version of his hit There Stands the Glass. Must have been a shot glass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57qhKXMnI0c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I have to laugh every time someone mentions a country singer from many years ago. Being from the south, and of a certain age, I remember them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I think I get the idea. The White Album is likely my favorite. The knock on it is that there's too much "filler" on it, but I've never seen it that way. It's just got about every kind of music there is and I love it. Dear Prudence is a favorite, and though it's hard to make picks, a few others are I'm so tired, Sexy Sadie, Cry Baby Cry, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, and Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey. And the rest of the songs are pretty good too. MMT seems to be a bit underrated, maybe because it came after Sgt. Pepper and also because of the TV program, but it's still a good album, as is Abbey Road. Hard to pick out a favorite because they're all solid. IMHO, you just can't beat the Beatles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 How about Jim Reeves------"He'll Have to Go", and the answer song from ?????????, "He'll Have to Stay". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 You talkin' to me? My mom would have left my father for Jim Reeves, and gladly gone down in the plane crash with him! She had just about every album that man recorded. Cowboy songs. Backwoods ditties. And the sweetest love songs this side of the Cumberland River. "Am I That Easy To Forget?," "Guilty," "Am I Losing You?" Look hard enough, you'll find better compositions. If you come up with a softer, more soothing baritone, let me know! "He'll Have To Stay?" I honestly don't know that one. But I bet my guess hits the bullseye. Who but Messrs. Homer and Jethro would explore that territory? If I may, when my mom died in 2008, a local radio station played Reeves' "Welcome To My World" and dedicated it. There is some hope. Edited by: redriver on Jul 15, 2011 3:08 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 The answer song was by Jeanne Black. There were a number of answer songs at that time. None occurs to me right off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 There's a lot of esoteric information about 50s country music flying around here. I'll humbly leave it to you connoisseurs, I just want Webb Pierce's jacket. (Some tailoring adjustments might have to be made.) C.B., I was thinking about "anachronism" and "anachorism". I'm already familiar with the former word, in fact, I sometimes think I'm an anachronism as in many ways I like the past more than the present. Maybe I should have taken as a screen name "Anna _ Kronism." I looked up the other word, anachorism, and couldn't find it anywhere - not on the internet, and not even in my super duper 2 volume old school Oxford Dictionary. Methinks you may have made that one up, being C.B. and all. Anyway, here's another person ( besides me) who seems fascinated with the past - Robbie Robertson. Back in the 80s he made a recording called Somewhere Down the Crazy River. Roberstson is famously enamoured with old movies ( maybe he should be a TCM guest programmer) and this song, kind of like a beat poem set to music, reflects that. So I skipped past the "official video" in favour of some youtube offering with lots of film noir images - always fun for us film lovers. Ok, the track's a little pretentious, but if you go with it, it's also fun: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Webb Pierce is a little before my time, but I like his music. When I was younger I really wasn't a country music fan, but now I enjoy much of the older music. Yes, Homer and Jethro did a good send up of Jim Reeves' big hit He'll Have to Go. I think the first line of their version was 'Put your big mouth a little closer to the phone.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 That is a pretty sharp suit Webb's wearing. There is a photo of Hank Williams wearing a similar suit with musical notes down the pants legs. There is actually a word anachorism, though apparently it's not too well known. I couldn't find it in Webster's, but it does appear in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, at least in the older edition. You can look it up. I didn't know Robertson was an old movie fan. There are some neat shots from noir movies, most of which I recognized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 There's more than one song out there with the title "Sunday Morning". Of course the Sunday Morning , the one that will never be topped, is the Velvets' , the first track on their first album. Well, hate to disappoint, but I'm posting a totally different Sunday Morning, not to be compared in any way to Lou and company, but charming in its own way. This is k-os with his "Sunday Morning". Looks a lot more like Saturday night to me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 In the realm of free association, "I remember Sunday morning" from "Sunday Will Never be the Same" by Spanky and Our Gang. Edited by: finance on Jul 17, 2011 1:31 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Sunday must be a popular topic with songwriters - there's also the Kris Kristofferson Sunday morning song, although the least esoteric version of that is Johnny Cash's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Here be The Tragically Hip with New Orleans is Sinking ( this was made years before Katrina.): Not to be pushy, but I'm going to post the same song, same version, but a different video. This is because that "rights issues" notice popped up once or twice, so I'm not sure if you guys can get the original video in your country. Shirley at least one of these two youtube offerings will be legit in the States. The song has a nice semi-funky guitar riff and a compelling drive to it - not a bad tune. ( I don't expect anyone to listen to this twice, obviously - just wanted to make sure that at least one of these makes it through the "rights" thing to the US of A.) Edited by: misswonderly on Jul 18, 2011 9:48 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Oops. k-os's tune was blocked by EMI due to copyright issues in your country. Maybe the Sex Pistols were right about EMI. We all had to say goodbye. Speaking of Sunday, there is Everyday Is Like Sunday by Morrissey and Sunday Girl by Blondie. I'm sure there are a few more out there too. Cocaine and Heartbreaker are two other song titles that have been used quite frequently. The Chili Peppers and Pumpkins both recorded songs titled Tear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 the least esoteric version of that is Johnny Cash's. Is that good or bad? I think the great John R. Cash spews heart and soul all over that tune. Cash was almost an actor more than a singer. He made us believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 red, I'm not sure why you'd think I was implying in any way that the famous Johnny Cash version of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" was not the wonderful country tune it is, both in words and music. I love that song. By "least esoteric" I simply meant that it was pretty well-known, and was also giving the running "esoteric" word joke that's been going on here for a little while one last gasp. In fact, just to prove my sincerity with respect to Johnny's Sunday Morning, here 'tis: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The Jesus and Mary Chain, currently Between Planets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOAuAXCUk-Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Damn, C.B., that was one frig of a good song ! I'd forgotten all about the Jesus and Mary Chain, but you just reminded me about them all over again. I just wish I could have made the volume on my computer louder. That song should be played at 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 C.B. wrote: "...Speaking of Sunday, there is Everyday Is Like Sunday by Morrissey and Sunday Girl by Blondie. I'm sure there are a few more out there too. Cocaine and Heartbreaker are two other song titles that have been used quite frequently. The Chili Peppers and Pumpkins both recorded songs titled Tear. Also the moody and very effective Gloomy Sunday, as sung by Billie Holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I mentioned the doo-**** titans "The Harptones" in another forum. They did "Sunday Kind of Love" and "On Sunday Afternoon". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 They did have a cool melding of distorted guitars and pop hooks. I only have a couple of JAMC CDs, maybe I should get a couple more. I bet Nigel's computer's volume goes all the way to 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 In the "old business" department, you've mentioned Joy Division on a couple occasions. Did you mention their re-groupung as New Order after Ian Curtis' suicide? I've been hearing some New Order stuff lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I have mentioned "New Order", but mainly in response to something C.B. posted about them. Yes, I believe "New Order" sort of morphed out of "Joy Division", but truth be told, I do not know that much about either group. Although both were pretty good bands musically, both were also a little too gloomy for me to get into 100%. I imagine C.B. could probably enlighten us further about them. I do remember a film that came out a year or two ago about Ian Curtis, the bipolar founder of Joy Division who like so many artists before him, ended up depressed and dead ( in that order - no pun intended.) Sorry, I shouldn't be flippant about such a sad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 So, not to be pushy, I'm just curious - did either of those Tragically Hip links work for you Yanks? New Orleans is Sinking is probably the group's most well-known song. I never know what's going to be blocked and what isn't. It's quite silly, really, this "no rights in your country" (which, by the way, I get at the Canada end too sometimes). Don't these guys know that it's futile to try and stop these exchanges on youtube? Even if they block something now, it will probably for whatever reason be available in a few months. and something that is available now might be blocked. It seems completely arbitrary. I think they (whoever "they" are) should just give up. Sweet and wholesome country singer Anne Murray with her most well-known song, Snowbird : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNj9Pl-i7I Edited by: misswonderly on Jul 19, 2011 9:35 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I'm beginning to feel like a bit of a bore, but isn't Anne Murray also Canadian? (yawn) Edited by: finance on Jul 19, 2011 9:38 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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