I know this one has been posted here before, but it is a very good one.
KAS
I want to see if I can figure out how to do this.
KAS
Edit: okay that was easy![]()
I don't know what you've done.
I remember Mary back in the Swinging Sixties - those were the days.
The days when heavy metal worked on farms or in quarries. When guitars were made of wood but the men were made of steel.
Nurse - Is it bedtime yet?
I know I first saw this one first posted here somewhere, I had never heard it before.
KAS
That one was before my time, but always loved that song, I used to listen to a lot of oldies like that one. I do like the old time rock n roll, (as Bob Seger said) and a lot of other stuff also.
KAS
As a child I didn't know that music was divided into genres. My father's family all played the fiddle and some of them also another instrument. As youngsters we would write down the words of songs from the wireless in cheap notebooks and sing them around the house. There were all sorts from traditional folk music to the latest popular music and classical, it made no difference to us, it was all music. At school in the fifties we had an excellent music teacher who got us to bring in our pop records and he dissected them for us. We were listening to the beat and the words but he would, for example, pick up a violin and play what the violins were playing in the background. Remember, in those days singers often had a full orchestra behind the vocals.
That attitude that I learned at a young age has served me well through the years. For example, I can watch a football match with any two teams unincumbered by partisan leanings, I have followed Formula One for many years with pleasure in every race because I don't support a specific driver or team.
After reading back that which I have just written I think I find myself becoming a fan of me!![]()
Here is another old tune I like, there is a live version but the sound is better on this one.
KAS
Gordy Lightfoot! I remember him well, he's older than me, not only still alive but still working!
I've just spent a little time in Spotify prodding my memories of his work, brought back some memories.
If you like that style, do you know of Stan Rogers? If not, look up "Between the Breaks", there are some of his maritime based songs on it worth listening to and in a similar vane to Gordy's "Edmund Fitzgerald"
Thanks, Kas, you cheered me up immensely.![]()
KAS
Edit: I realized today that this was wrong, the guy I saw was Gary Puckett.
"Young Girl" makes me slightly suspicious of my younger self. I was in Hong Kong when that was a big hit and it always reminds me of a beautiful 16 year old girl in a white swimsuit - that's enough!
two greats to end a not so great day. Thanks