Category: Music
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cool Tunes and More Mose
Ramsey Lewis Trio, The In Crowd Dave Brubeck, Take Five Corsairs, Smoky Places Harry Nilsson, Everybody's Talkin' B. B. King, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Sam Cooke, Fool's Paradise Thelonius Monk, In Walked Bud Mose Allison, Your Mind's on Vacation Mose Allison, I Don't Worry About a Thing Mose Allison, Don't Get…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: October Jazz
The 15th already! October's a bird that flies too fast. Time herself's such a bird. I would freeze her flight, but not that of Charley 'Bird' Parker, Ornithology Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen, Charlie Parker Kerouac and Allen, October in the Railroad Earth Jack Kerouac, San Francisco Mose Allison, Parchman Farm. This one goes out…
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Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour
Episode Thirty Two: Moon. The harvest moon is big and bright these October nights. Informed commentary by a lover of and major contributor to musical Americana. Hear how much you've missed and how much young Bobby Zimmerman sopped up through long and cold Hibbing nights listening to the radio. Around 50:00 Dylan commences reading …
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Marital Advice
Before you even think of getting married, make sure you have plenty of money. Then shop around. Consider who will become your mother-in-law. If you want to be happy, don't worry too much about physical beauty. If she has a cheatin' heart, hit the road, Jack. But then again you might be better off without…
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From Bad to Worse
His johnson became his dousing rod, but it led him not to the waters of life, but to the fleshpots. This after abandoning organized religion and its hypocrisies, but also its curbs and checks on destructive behavior. So he went from bad to worse. He started on down that Lost Highway.
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: September Songs
September's on the wane. A transitional month leading from hot August to glorious October, Kerouac month in the MavPhil 'secular liturgy.' Dinah Washington, September in the Rain Rod Stewart, Maggie May. "Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you/It's late September and I really should be back at school." Carole King, It Might as Well…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Wall of Sound
No dark songs this Saturday Night. Some upbeat numbers to take our minds off the depredatory Left and their depredations. 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,…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Dark Songs for Dark Times
Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter Bob Dylan, Masters of War Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet. But it's getting there .…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ten Violent Democrat-Run Cities
New York, New York. "Start spreading the news . . ." L. A. Woman Born in Chicago Houston Streets of Philadelphia Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. "The post office has been stolen and the mail box is locked." Prescient! Detroit City Dallas Alice By the Time I Get to Phoenix Lady…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘The King’ Dead 45 Years
Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, 45 years ago. We can't let this weekend pass without a few tunes in commemoration. First a couple of 'Italian' numbers modeled, respectively, on O Sole Mio and Torna a Surriento: It's Now or Never Surrender Continuing in the romantic vein: Can't Help Falling in Love. A version by Andrea Bocelli. A…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Outstanding Dylan Covers
Johnny Rivers, Positively Fourth Street. Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers one was my favorite. It was obvious that we were from the same side of town, had been read the same citations, came from the same musical family and were cut from the same cloth. When I listened to…
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Rocks and Gravel
I forgot how good this is. He played better guitar in the old days, and could do amazing things with his voice.
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Purgation of Memory and the Waters of Oblivion
So many of our memories should be allowed to sink forever beneath the waters of oblivion. But not all. Let's recall some songs about forgetting and water. Bob Dylan and the Band, Too Much of Nothing Say Hello to ValerieSay hello to VivianGive them all my salaryOn the waters of oblivion. Doors, Soul Kitchen. "Learn…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Jimmy Elledge and Some Other One-Hit Wonders
Jimmy Elledge, Funny How Time Slips Away. Born January 8, 1943 in Nashville, Elledge died June 10, 2012 after complications following a stroke. The song, written by Willie Nelson, made the #22 slot on Billboard Hot 100 in 1961, and sold over one million copies. Elledge never had another hit. As a YouTube commenter points out, that…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Obscure ’60s Psychedelia
The Monterey Pop Festival was 55 years ago, yesterday. Your humble correspondent was in attendance. How many of these do you remember? If you were too much of the '60s then you probably don't remember anything assuming you still animate the mortal coil; if you were too little of the '60s then you won't remember…