I was going to cover 'strange' songs tonight, but then I remembered it is St. Patrick's Day.
Remember The New Christy Minstrels? Here is Barry Maguire belting out their 1963 hit,
Green, Green." It was sanitized, well-scrubbed hootenany stuff like this that caused a lot of my generation to pick up guitars and then find our way back to the more authentic material. Check out this video of a live performance at an Arizona university. This was before the '60s became the '60s. But by '65 the cultural as opposed to the calendrical '60s had arrived with a vengeance and the same Barry Maguire came out with The Eve of Destruction. Topical songs and social protest came to displace songs about Tom Dooley and workin' on the railroad . . . .
Joan Baez, Green, Green Grass of Home. Red Foley does a great job with this 'green' song.
Hoyt Axton, Greenback Dollar. Here is the Kingston Trio's cleaned-up collegiate version. Fretkillr's killer amateur version is modelled on Hoyt Axton's.
Hoyt Axton, Greensleeves
Jim Lowe, Green Door, 1956.
Roy Buchanan, Green Onions. A guitar-slinger's version.
Finally, a song about the lean green.
And now to bed.