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Song Of The Day For Oct. 4, 2019-The Who: Pinball Wizard
Yep, 1969 was the year of ‘Tommy: Hey, might as well toss in… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRD_gIoVOmY And one of the greatest rock finales ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmC1T9rukk
Song Of The Day For Oct. 3, 2019: “I Want You Back”-The Jackson 5
This was #1 on the soul/r&b charts for 1969. Feel free to sing and dance along: OK, I can’t resist. Here’s my fave cover of the song. Not from 1969:
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: September, 2019
Fewer songs this month, some more mellow than usual, likely the result of my having been away for two weeks and not obsessing daily over music. I think you’ll enjoy what I did find, though. I just heard of this band. I mean, like, last week. FWIW, they’re my kind of band. Feel free to […]
Song(s) Of The Day: A Trifecta From CCR
Creedence Clearwater Revival put out three albums in 1969, each one featuring at least one all-time classic. From Bayou Country: From Green River (a great song in its own right): No, the bathroom is not on the right. From Willie And The Poor Boys (Walgreens ruined the title song for me), my fave CCR song […]
Song Of The Day: ‘Gimme Shelter’: The Rolling Stones
As my classmates and I celebrate our 50th High School Reunion this month (Brandywine HS, Class of ’69), I’m gonna present a month of great songs from one of the greatest years in music ever. Newsweek described ‘Gimme Shelter’ as ‘an erotic exorcism for a doomed decade’. And this article, must reading, which provides a […]
Song of the Day 9/30: Death Cab for Cutie, “Summer Skin”
From 2005’s “Plans” LP, this is Ben Gibbard’s elegy for summer, youth and innocence. It was never released as a single, but it’s one of the strongest tracks on an album best known for “I Will Follow You Into the Dark.”
Song of the Day 9/29: The Changin’ Times, “Pied Piper”
Nothing says “we’re copying Bob Dylan!” quite like calling your folk-pop duo The Changin’ Times, and reinforcing it by using “masquerade” in the first line of the lyrics of your groovy tune. The song was co-written by Artie Kornfeld, who went on to be the musical director of the legendary Woodstock Festival. The song did […]
Song of the Day 9/27: Jackson C. Frank, “Blues Run the Game”
Jackson C. Frank was an American folk singer who, like Paul Simon and a few others, moved to London shortly after the “British Invasion.” He met Simon there and impressed him so much that Simon offered to produce an album for him. It was released in 1965. This is the title track, which Simon and […]
Song of the Day 9/24: Gillian Welch, “Elvis Presley Blues”
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings released this song on her second album, “Time (The Revelator),” and the sparse arrangement and their muted harmonies perfectly captures the sad ending of a legend whose greatest triumphs were long behind him. The song is much admired but seldom covered. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, even playing it acoustic, […]
Song of the Day 9/23: David Allen Coe, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name”
Ken Burns’ multi-part documentary on country music, still airing on PBS stations, hasn’t reached the end of the ’60s yet, so I don’t know if it’s going to address what by its own account is the greatest country and western song ever written. Steve Goodman and John Prine wrote it in 1971, and Goodman included […]
Song of the Day 9/22: Jim Pepper, “Witchi-Tai-To”
Jim Pepper was a tenor saxophonist of Native American heritage who played in a group called the Fresh Spirits, considered the first jazz-rock fusion band, but he’s best remembered for this song, based on a peyote ceremony chant he learned from his grandfather. This version, from Pepper’s first solo album in 1971, was a popular […]
Song of the Day 9/21: Cracker, “Eurotrash Girl”
Back when people bought their music on CDs — ‘memba them? — bands started to have fun with the format by including hidden tracks after the end of the listed program. It quickly reached the point of absurdity, as bands would put lots of blank tracks before the hidden song, but sometimes it was worth […]
Song of the Day 9/20: Billy Harner, “Sally Sayin’ Somethin”
If you didn’t live in the Philadelphia area, you might not know this Northern Soul classic, but it was all over WIBG in the summer of ’67. It also charted in New York and LA, but failed to break out nationally. It probably didn’t help that Harner was such a big draw at the Jersey […]
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