What are you listening to?

[Hilda]

If anyone knows of a more drug fuelled group from the hippy generation I would be interested to hear them.

Don't know if Jefferson Airplane was drug fuelled, but for drug references New Riders of the Purple Sage The Adventures of Panama Red has to be in the running.

• Panama Red
• Important Exportin' Man (the group sings "Importin' Exportin' Man")
• Kick in the Head

and my favorite:

• Lonesome L.A.Cowboy

I've been smokin' dope, snortin' coke
Trying to write a song
Forgetting everything I know
Till the next line comes along

[watcher1]

Emily Linge covering of one of the finest songs to emerge from the 1960s - Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale.

[Hilda]

Emily Linge covering of one of the finest songs to emerge from the 1960s - Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale.

I remember the song well. I hadn't given it a listen in some time, so dipped into my music collection and discovered, with a shock, that the versions I have are in magnificent mono. As far as I can tell, it wasn't until the release of a fiftieth anniversary album that a re-mixed stereo version first appeared. So, so weird hearing the drums, bass, and organ separately. It'll take some getting used to.

I went over to Wikipedia for details of the recording and noted that some contributor has identified the organ intro as based on a Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major. The same article quotes Gary Brooker as saying "If you trace the chordal element, it does a bar or two of Bach's 'Air on a G String' before it veers off. That spark was all it took. I wasn't consciously combining rock with classical, it's just that Bach's music was in me."

A likely story. The article does record, accurately. the copyright dispute over the organ part. Not by Brooker at all, but by Matthew Fisher, so who was Brooker kidding? 

I got to see Procol just once, on a double bill with Deep Purple. Great concert!

[watcher1]

Emily Linge covering of one of the finest songs to emerge from the 1960s - Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale.

I remember the song well. I hadn't given it a listen in some time, so dipped into my music collection and discovered, with a shock, that the versions I have are in magnificent mono. As far as I can tell, it wasn't until the release of a fiftieth anniversary album that a re-mixed stereo version first appeared. So, so weird hearing the drums, bass, and organ separately. It'll take some getting used to.

I went over to Wikipedia for details of the recording and noted that some contributor has identified the organ intro as based on a Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major. The same article quotes Gary Brooker as saying "If you trace the chordal element, it does a bar or two of Bach's 'Air on a G String' before it veers off. That spark was all it took. I wasn't consciously combining rock with classical, it's just that Bach's music was in me."

A likely story. The article does record, accurately. the copyright dispute over the organ part. Not by Brooker at all, but by Matthew Fisher, so who was Brooker kidding? 

I got to see Procol just once, on a double bill with Deep Purple. Great concert!

That must have been one rocking concert. Did Procol sing their other hit, Conquistador?  I am sure Deep Purple sang Hush Hush. I have watched YouTube videos of Booker still touring on the 50th anniversary of the release of Whiter Shade of Pale, which was in 1967.

[blackdog]

A bit of amusing C & W.

[Shiela_M]

Yiruma - River Flows in You

I cry every time.

[Asmodel]

WHATEVER IT TAKES,
IMAGINE DRAGONS.

[Hilda]

That must have been one rocking concert. Did Procol sing their other hit, Conquistador?  I am sure Deep Purple sang Hush Hush. I have watched YouTube videos of Booker still touring on the 50th anniversary of the release of Whiter Shade of Pale, which was in 1967.

I had to check online set lists (my memory isn't that good) and Procol Harum did sing Conquistador. Deep Purple didn't sing Hush.

It's a mystery to me how people have preserved, or re-created, the set lists for concerts from fifty or sixty years ago. I can remember the bands, how they were dressed, where the musicians stood on stage, even the instruments they played, but the music is one long blur.

[ObiDongKenobi]

The Hollies - "The Air That I Breathe'

Not a great fan of The Hollies but this is one of the few songs that I end up miming the vocals to (you dont' want to hear me sing).  Wikipaedia tells me that Albert Hammond recorded it originally and then Phil Everly.  Personally I prefer the Hollies faster version.

[Hilda]

The Hollies - "The Air That I Breathe'

Not a great fan of The Hollies but this is one of the few songs that I end up miming the vocals to (you dont' want to hear me sing).  Wikipaedia tells me that Albert Hammond recorded it originally and then Phil Everly.  Personally I prefer the Hollies faster version.

The Hollies did some great covers of other people's songs. One of my favorites is their version of Dan Fogelberg's Tell Me to My Face.

I have Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress in one of my playlists and must have listened to it a hundred times. I'm still can't figure out some of the lyrics. The published versions don't quite match what I'm hearing. Something about a 5' 9" beautiful tall woman with a pair of 45s. 

[ObiDongKenobi]

The Hollies - "The Air That I Breathe'

Not a great fan of The Hollies but this is one of the few songs that I end up miming the vocals to (you dont' want to hear me sing).  Wikipaedia tells me that Albert Hammond recorded it originally and then Phil Everly.  Personally I prefer the Hollies faster version.

The Hollies did some great covers of other people's songs. One of my favorites is their version of Dan Fogelberg's Tell Me to My Face.

I have Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress in one of my playlists and must have listened to it a hundred times. I'm still can't figure out some of the lyrics. The published versions don't quite match what I'm hearing. Something about a 5' 9" beautiful tall woman with a pair of 45s. 

Many thanks Hilda, along with "He Ain't Heavy" and "The Air that I Breathe", "Long Cool Woman" is in my top three of Hollies songs.  A pair of 45s does sound anatomically preposterous, a misheard lyrics (Mondegreens) translates it as a pair of tawny thighs. http://www.amiright.com/misheard/stories/thehollies.shtml

I have never heard "Tell Me to My Face`'

[Hilda]

I have never heard [The Hollies'] "Tell Me to My Face`'

It's just as well you can't see me blushing. I totally messed up the attribution of that song.

It was written by the Hollies (credited to Clark, Nash, and Hicks) and appeared on their For Certain Because album (1966). Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg did a magnificent cover on their Twins Sons of Different Mothers collaboration (1978)

I bought the Fogelberg + Weisberg album when it was released, played it non-stop for a few months, and still go back to it from time to time. It's a classic.

Some time later I heard the Hollies' version and jumped to the wrong conclusion. If you're interested, there's a remastered version on YouTube (where else?)

[watcher1]

Telling Me Lies - cover by Foxes and Fossils

[Asmodel]

The Von Trapp Family Choir

[Pornhubby]

Pat Benatar “We Belong.”

Not her best work. Rather schmaltzy. But for some reason it rings a bell today.

[Pornhubby]

One more. So lucky to have seen Queen and Bowie in the day.

[ObiDongKenobi]

Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Exodus"

[Asmodel]

BEETHOVEN FUR ELISE TRAP VERSION!

[HppyHrryHrdn]

A long while back when my ex bought her dildo a free gift was "Michael Ninn's SEX The Soundtrack". It is actually pretty calming when going down the highway at &^* mph.

[Asmodel]