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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 4, 2022 6:40:13 GMT -5
I have a question for everyone.... What is hip? Just discovered this song for the first time today. Try this for walking around New Jersey, Kaybli. You'll think you're in a 1970s crime drama. That's a fairly deep Tower of Power cut Rizz. They had several big hits, "You're Still A Young Man" and "So Very Far To Go" and "Don't Change Horses" in the early 70s. They often appeared in concert with Tommy Chong. Chong himself wrote a hit song (okay, in addition to "Basketball Jones") as lead guitarist for Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, "Does Your Mamma Know About Me?" in 1968. And there's today's completely useless piece of information. Try working that into a conversation if there's a lull. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 4, 2022 19:45:41 GMT -5
I have a question for everyone.... What is hip? Just discovered this song for the first time today. Try this for walking around New Jersey, Kaybli. You'll think you're in a 1970s crime drama. That's a fairly deep Tower of Power cut Rizz. They had several big hits, "You're Still A Young Man" and "So Very Far To Go" and "Don't Change Horses" in the early 70s. They often appeared in concert with Tommy Chong. Chong himself wrote a hit song (okay, in addition to "Basketball Jones") as lead guitarist for Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, "Does Your Mamma Know About Me?" in 1968. And there's today's completely useless piece of information. Try working that into a conversation if there's a lull. You are a DJ at heart, Pipps! You and Renfield would be great to have on the Music Trivia part of the HeAmeHa variety show! |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 4, 2022 19:48:35 GMT -5
Okay, this song came on Spotify yesterday, and it has been years since I heard it. Something about it says summer in the 1970s:
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 4, 2022 19:56:09 GMT -5
That's a fairly deep Tower of Power cut Rizz. They had several big hits, "You're Still A Young Man" and "So Very Far To Go" and "Don't Change Horses" in the early 70s. They often appeared in concert with Tommy Chong. Chong himself wrote a hit song (okay, in addition to "Basketball Jones") as lead guitarist for Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, "Does Your Mamma Know About Me?" in 1968. And there's today's completely useless piece of information. Try working that into a conversation if there's a lull. You are a DJ at heart, Pipps! You and Renfield would be great to have on the Music Trivia part of the HeAmeHa variety show! Well that's our era, Rizz. A lot of you guys have Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails covered. You know the country scene. Chi is here on behalf of Neil Young. Kaybli is the hip-hop referant. Inger holds down the fort against any disco incursion. I'll keep my eye on breaking developments with The Turtles and Martha and the Vandellas.😉 Bearman knows a lot of obscure R&B. I haven't seen him in these parts in awhile. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 4, 2022 20:03:25 GMT -5
Okay, this song came on Spotify yesterday, and it has been years since I heard it. Something about it says summer in the 1970s: Yep, spring of 1977 but would still be played into early summer. His other big hit was "Thank You For Being A Friend ." Andrew Gold was a big-time LA session musician who was a staple on Linda Ronstadt recordings. In fact she did backing vocals on this one. |
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Post by inger on Apr 4, 2022 21:06:29 GMT -5
Okay, this song came on Spotify yesterday, and it has been years since I heard it. Something about it says summer in the 1970s: Yep, spring of 1977 but would still be played into early summer. His other big hit was "Thank You For Being A Friend ." Andrew Gold was a big-time LA session musician who was a staple on Linda Ronstadt recordings. In fact she did backing vocals on this one. Lonely Boy is always good with me… Thank you for being a friend illicits nightmares about old ladies with lanais… |
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Post by Renfield on Apr 4, 2022 22:11:37 GMT -5
Haven't heard that one in a while. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 5, 2022 7:03:54 GMT -5
Okay, I had to look up Andrew Gold to see if he was born on a winter's day in 1951. He actually was born on a summer's day in 1951, so I guess that gave him plausible deniability about the song being literally autobiographical. Then I found a quote from him in which he said he put that in there "because it was convenient" and added that he wasn't a lonely boy at all but had a very happy childhood. He had two sisters, but I couldn't find if one came in the summer of 53.
His mother was Marni Nixon, who was very famous in Hollywood for doing voice-overs for actresses in musicals. She dubbed for both Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno in "West Side Story" and Deborah Kerr in "The King and I" and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady" and filled out the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
His father was Ernest Gold, who scored many films -- he won an Academy Award for the theme from "Exodus" and scored virtually all of Stanley Kramer's movies. So, as with Randy Newman, film music was in his genetics.
I've seen Gold in several Linda Ronstadt videos from the early 80s. "Tell Him" features him rather prominently. He was engaged to Neil Young's ex-squeeze Nicolette Larson ("Lotta Love") at one time. He died from heart failure in 2011.
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Post by inger on Apr 5, 2022 9:37:46 GMT -5
Okay, I had to look up Andrew Gold to see if he was born on a winter's day in 1951. He actually was born on a summer's day in 1951, so I guess that gave him plausible deniability about the song being literally autobiographical. Then I found a quote from him in which he said he put that in there "because it was convenient" and added that he wasn't a lonely boy at all but had a very happy childhood. He had two sisters, but I couldn't find if one came in the summer of 53. His mother was Marni Nixon, who was very famous in Hollywood for doing voice-overs for actresses in musicals. She dubbed for both Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno in "West Side Story" and Deborah Kerr in "The King and I" and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady" and filled out the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." His father was Ernest Gold, who scored many films -- he won an Academy Award for the theme from "Exodus" and scored virtually all of Stanley Kramer's movies. So, as with Randy Newman, film music was in his genetics. I've seen Gold in several Linda Ronstadt videos from the early 80s. "Tell Him" features him rather prominently. He was engaged to Neil Young's ex-squeeze Nicolette Larson ("Lotta Love") at one time. He died from heart failure in 2011. I would have gladly played with Linda Rondstadt for free. I mean, an instrument in her videos. But since I played no instrument, I still would have played with Linda Ronstadt for free. At the start, we could have played with her tea set and Dollie’s together, and moved on from there. I would have never left. Those eyes were intoxicating. The way she wore her halter tops and tied her blouses at the bottom. She was not particularly buxom, but the entire package, along with that voice just played up for me… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 5, 2022 10:58:53 GMT -5
Okay, I had to look up Andrew Gold to see if he was born on a winter's day in 1951. He actually was born on a summer's day in 1951, so I guess that gave him plausible deniability about the song being literally autobiographical. Then I found a quote from him in which he said he put that in there "because it was convenient" and added that he wasn't a lonely boy at all but had a very happy childhood. He had two sisters, but I couldn't find if one came in the summer of 53. His mother was Marni Nixon, who was very famous in Hollywood for doing voice-overs for actresses in musicals. She dubbed for both Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno in "West Side Story" and Deborah Kerr in "The King and I" and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady" and filled out the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." His father was Ernest Gold, who scored many films -- he won an Academy Award for the theme from "Exodus" and scored virtually all of Stanley Kramer's movies. So, as with Randy Newman, film music was in his genetics. I've seen Gold in several Linda Ronstadt videos from the early 80s. "Tell Him" features him rather prominently. He was engaged to Neil Young's ex-squeeze Nicolette Larson ("Lotta Love") at one time. He died from heart failure in 2011. I would have gladly played with Linda Rondstadt for free. I mean, an instrument in her videos. But since I played no instrument, I still would have played with Linda Ronstadt for free. At the start, we could have played with her tea set and Dollie’s together, and moved on from there. I would have never left. Those eyes were intoxicating. The way she wore her halter tops and tied her blouses at the bottom. She was not particularly buxom, but the entire package, along with that voice just played up for me… I have no doubt you could have had her reaching those high notes Inger. I mean if Jerry Brown could make it work with her, there was hope for the multitudes. When we stopped in Tucson last winter, I noticed that the bus depot there was called the Ronstadt Transportation Center. I was thinking that was kind of a back-handed compliment, maybe a tasteless reference to her middle-aged girth (which long pre-dated her illness, just to be clear), but actually it was named for her grandfather, who was a bigshot in the early days of the city. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 5, 2022 19:35:46 GMT -5
Yes, at one time, Sarah and I had license plate frames that said "Parrot-head!" A Jimmy Buffett concert is about the most laid back, friendly, relaxed event there is. No fighting, no jerks, no anger - everybody is chill as a frozen margarita. The crowd is comprised of hedonists from 15 to 95.
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 9, 2022 9:05:26 GMT -5
Okay, Spotify is has thrown me some songs lately that I have never heard of previously. Some are not great but nevertheless interesting. Does anyone remember a song called "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor?
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 9, 2022 9:21:23 GMT -5
Okay, Spotify is has thrown me some songs lately that I have never heard of previously. Some are not great but nevertheless interesting. Does anyone remember a song called "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor? Very definitely. It was a huge hit. I still have my vinyl R. Dean Taylor album! Can't say I've listened to it much over the past half- century. I'm pretty sure several posters here remember that one. "I Fought The Law" by The Bobby Fuller Four (originally done by The Crickets after Buddy Holly's death and later covered by Tom Petty among others) remains my favorite running from the cops song. The BF4 was a great group whose career was cut very short by the suspicious death of Bobby Fuller. But even that song didn't give us sirens and police ordering the perp to give up. |
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Post by inger on Apr 9, 2022 9:40:50 GMT -5
Okay, Spotify is has thrown me some songs lately that I have never heard of previously. Some are not great but nevertheless interesting. Does anyone remember a song called "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor? “Indiana Wants Me” was some of my favorite shower-singing fodder back in the day. Yet another example of a guy that has a hit soooo big… and then fizzles. His biggest hit reaches #1. Then he fails to ever chart again. The Joe Charboneau of rock and roll. Though I doubt a guy named R Dean could open a coke bottle with his eye socket like the say Joe C could. And really, was his given name really “R”? Seems a natural match for a “Toys-R-Us” endorsement. Or a pirate movie… |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 9, 2022 9:45:14 GMT -5
Okay, Spotify is has thrown me some songs lately that I have never heard of previously. Some are not great but nevertheless interesting. Does anyone remember a song called "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor? Very definitely. It was a huge hit. I still have my vinyl R. Dean Taylor album! Can't say I've listened to it much over the past half- century. I'm pretty sure several posters here remember that one. "I Fought The Law" by The Bobby Fuller Four (originally done by The Crickets after Buddy Holly's death and later covered by Tom Petty among others) remains my favorite running from the cops song. The BF4 was a great group whose career was cut very short by the suspicious death of Bobby Fuller. But even that song didn't give us sirens and police ordering the perp to give up. It's so fun that you guys remember these, which to me are obscure. I had no idea it reached number one! |
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