Category: Music
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Metals and Mining
Springfields, Silver Threads and Golden Needles Neil Young, Heart of Gold Connie Francis, Oh My Darling Clementine Lee Dorsey, Working in a Coal Mine Marty Robbins, That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine Joan Baez, Silver Dagger Miranda Lambert, Gunpowder and Lead James Taylor, Copperline Allman Bros., Silver Dollar Bob Dylan, Cold Irons Bound YouTuber comments: There's…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some ‘Song’ Songs
Mose Allison, The Song is Ended Punch Bros., Dink's Song Dave van Ronk, Dink's Song Arlo Guthrie, Percy's Song Fairport Convention, Percy's Song Doors, Alabama Song Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly with his Song Bob Dylan, Song to Woody Chad and Jeremy, Summer Song Simon and Garfunkel, 59th Street Bridge Song Brook Benton, The Boll…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Phil Ochs and Tim Hardin
Joan Baez, There but for Fortune. Ochs' best song in its best rendition. Phil Ochs, Changes YouTuber comment, good except for the exaggeration in the last sentence: Somewhere, in a parallel universe, in another dimension, where there's musical justice, Phil Ochs wasn't just Bob Dylan's sidekick in the early 60's, who released a bunch of…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Wall (of Sound)
There is a lot of talk of walls these days. I need a break. Here are some of my favorite Phil Spector productions. It wouldn't have been the 'sixties without him. I avert my eyes from his later misadventures and remember him for his contributions to the Boomer soundtrack. Crystals, Uptown, 1962. Crystals, He's a…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Tunes of the Season
Merry Christmas everybody. Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy. Me, I'm nursing a Boulevardier. It's a Negroni with cojones: swap out the gin for bourbon. One ounce bourbon, one ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on the rocks, with a twist of orange. A serious libation. It'll melt a snowflake for sure. The…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Varia
I link to what I like, and I like to what I link. And my taste is decidedly catholic. Billie Holliday, The Way You Looked Tonight. An uncommonly long intro. I first heard this old tune in the The Lettermen version in 1961. YouTuber comment: Suzanne, the world did get cold after we parted. I…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Memorable ’60s Instrumentals
Phil Upchurch Combo, You Can't Sit Down, 1961 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, The Lonely Bull, 1962 Booker T. and the M. G. s, Green Onions The Tornados, Telstar, 1962. About the first telecommunications satellite. Mason Williams, Classical Gas, 1968 Michael Bloomfield, Carmelita's Skiffle, 1969 Dick Dale. Let's Go Trippin,' 1961. Not about drugs; pre-psychedelic. Dave…
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Sunday Night at the Oldies: “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Cultural Literacy Test
Karl White recommends Billy Joel, We Didn't Start the Fire. The lyrics make for a good cultural literacy test. Can you identify all of the people, places, things, events, etc.? Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie RaySouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggioJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, TelevisionNorth Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb,…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Dylan on Rick Nelson and James Burton
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One (Simon and Shuster, 2004), p. 13: He was different from the rest of the teen idols, had a great guitarist who played like a cross between a honky-tonk hero and a barn-dance fiddler. Nelson had never been a bold innovator like the early singers who sang like they were navigating burning ships.…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Varia
I post what I like and I like what I post. Barrett Strong, Money. Flying Lizards' parody. Buckwheat Zydeco, Jackpot Dolly Parton, Silver Dagger. Great version, but then so is Joan Baez's. Elmore James, Dust My Broom Since 1992, the most beat-to-crap broom on my premises was always given the name, 'Hillary's Broom.' "Wifey, hand me Hillary's Broom. I got me…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Varia
Joe Satriani, May This be Love (Waterfall). The Hendrix tune, masterfully done on acoustic guitars. Doc Watson, Moody River Dick Dale and the Deltones, Misirlou. Before Clapton, before Bloomfield, my first guitar hero. "King of the Surf Guitar." Pipeline (with Stevie Ray Vaughan). Nitro (with So Cal scenes). Let's Go Trippin', 1961. Not a drug reference. Pre-LSD. The first…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Kerouac Goes Home in October
Jack Kerouac quit the mortal coil 49 years ago tomorrow, securing his release from the samsaric wheel of the quivering meat conception, and the granting of his wish: The wheel of the quivering meat conception . . . . . . I wish I was free of that slaving meat wheel and safe in heaven…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Tom Merton, Baez, Dylan, and Ry Cooder
Thomas Merton, though 51 years old in 1966, was wide open to the '60s Zeitgeist – all of it. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Six, p. 93, entry of 10 July 1966: Borrowed a record player and played Joan Baez over again — and now really know "Silver Dagger" (before I had the melody confused…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ramblin’ Elliot Charles Adnopoz
David Dalton, Who is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan, Hyperion, 2012, p. 65: As Dave van Ronk pointed out in his autobiography, many of the people involved in the first folk revival of the 1930s and '40s were Jewish — as were the folkies of the '60s. Van Ronk reasoned that for…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: September Songs
But first the absolute best version of Dylan's From a Buick Six just to get your blood up. But now that Gary U. S. Bond is in the house, here is Twist, Twist, Senora with a trio of 1940s dancing girls. New Orleans, live, with Jeff Beck. ………………….. September ends. A transitional month leading from…