{"id":777,"date":"2024-05-11T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-weather-conditions-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:40:19","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-weather-conditions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-weather-conditions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Weather Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earl Scruggs and Friends, Foggy Mountain Breakdown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ella Fitzgerald, Misty<\/a>. Beats the Johnny Mathis version. A standard from the Great American Songbook.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze<\/a>. Not<\/em> from the Great American Songbook. And presumably not about weather conditions.  'Scuse me while I kiss the sky? Or: 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy?<\/span><\/p>\n

Cream, Sunshine of Your Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Waits, Emotional Weather Report<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Art Garfunkel and James Taylor, Crying in the Rain<\/a>. Written by Carole King and popularized by the Everly Bros.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain<\/a>. Written by Fred Rose and performed by Roy Acuff in the '40s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now my hair is turned to silver<\/span>
All my life I've loved in vain<\/span>
I can see her star in heaven<\/span>
Blue eyes cryin' in the rain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Someday when we meet up yonder<\/span>
We'll stroll hand in hand again<\/span>
In a land that knows no parting<\/span>
Blue eyes crying in the rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Allman Bros., Blue Sky<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kansas, Dust in the Wind<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Clapton, Let It Rain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dave van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters, Clouds<\/a> ("Both Sides Now").  This beautiful version by "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" goes out to Oregon  luthier Dave Bagwill who I know will appreciate it. Judy Collins made a hit<\/a> of it. And you still doubt that the '60s was the greatest decade for American popular music?  Speaking of the greatest decade, it was when the greatest writer of American popular songs, bar none, Bob Dylan, made his mark. Some generational chauvinism is justified! <\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Baez, A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall<\/a> Could Johnny Mercer write a song like this?<\/span><\/p>\n

Eva Cassidy, Over the Rainbow<\/a>. Another old standard from the Great American Songbook.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Waits, On a Foggy Night<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rolling Stones, She's a Rainbow<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Fogelberg, Rhythm of the Rain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Cascades, Rhythm of the Rain<\/a>. The original.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dee Clark, Raindrops<\/a>. Manny Mora:<\/span><\/p>\n

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"Raindrops" is a 1961 song by the American R&B singer Dee Clark. Released in April of that same year, this ballad peaked at position 2 on the Hot 100 and at position 3 on the R&B chart.  [. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Clark's biggest hit was also his last. [. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Clark had a brief revival in 1975 when his song "Ride a Wild Horse" became a surprise Top 30 hit in the UK Singles Chart, becoming his first chart hit in the UK since "Just Keep It Up." Afterwards, Clark performed mostly on the oldies circuit. By the late 1980s, he was in dire straits financially, living in a welfare hotel in Toccoa, Georgia. Despite suffering a stroke in 1987 that left him partially paralyzed and with a mild speech impediment, he continued to perform until his death on December 7th 1990, in Smyrna, Georgia, from a heart attack at the age of 52. His last concert was with the Jimmy Gilstrap Band at the Portman Lounge in Anderson, South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dave Bagwill<\/a> sends us to a clip<\/a> in which Dave van Ronk talks a bit about the days of the "Great American Folk Scare" and then sings his signature number, "Green, Green, Rocky Road."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earl Scruggs and Friends, Foggy Mountain Breakdown Ella Fitzgerald, Misty. Beats the Johnny Mathis version. A standard from the Great American Songbook. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. Not from the Great American Songbook. And presumably not about weather conditions.  'Scuse me while I kiss the sky? Or: 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy? Cream, Sunshine of Your Love Tom Waits, Emotional Weather … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Weather Conditions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}