tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post1229517505353759155..comments2024-03-29T18:02:04.058-04:00Comments on Tilting at Windmills: Time Machine week 67CWMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-62150770546815991072016-04-12T16:33:57.154-04:002016-04-12T16:33:57.154-04:00Wait'll Willie gets up there with 'em...Wait'll Willie gets up there with 'em...CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-86565788152449345602016-04-12T15:53:08.809-04:002016-04-12T15:53:08.809-04:00Those memes are EPIC!! I was HUGE fan of Merle and...Those memes are EPIC!! I was HUGE fan of Merle and so happy I found my concert tshirt yesterday. I hate that he's gone but I have to believe he and my Dad are having some serious jam sessions. hollihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08558294192449866387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-26321852022092020662016-04-11T11:14:16.385-04:002016-04-11T11:14:16.385-04:00LOL - neither that nor the type of idol that India...LOL - neither that nor the type of idol that Indiana Jones would ever look for.<br />Yeah, that's me.<br />:)Bob G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09222203353717749897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-81824416203247726422016-04-10T18:29:34.894-04:002016-04-10T18:29:34.894-04:00The Omori thing was a more surprising catch of the...The Omori thing was a more surprising catch of the Lennon sound-alike. I tend to have a lot of songs "in the bullpen" that favor late sixties psych.<br /><br />Nice to see I'm not alone on Joe, too.<br /><br />Waddya mean don't look like him? I thought you were a teen idol, too!CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-42026119972560026022016-04-10T18:26:31.957-04:002016-04-10T18:26:31.957-04:00Even if most of Merle's stuff never hit my ear...Even if most of Merle's stuff never hit my ears, you know a legend.CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-61563083833215688452016-04-10T18:25:53.145-04:002016-04-10T18:25:53.145-04:00I HOPE you just meant Merle...I HOPE you just meant Merle...CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-84720324114887742082016-04-10T17:45:02.324-04:002016-04-10T17:45:02.324-04:00Chris:
Yes, another great bites the dust and rides...Chris:<br />Yes, another great bites the dust and rides off into the sunset.<br />Always like Merle...good solid artist.<br />Mom would put on her "hillbilly music" (as Dad called it), but if you snuck a glance at him while he was reading, his toe was tapping, too.<br />Good tribute. Great memes!<br />---Nice find w/ that AC/DC connection, too.<br />(never head of "Grapefruit", but like the juice a lot)<br />---SEVENTY TWO acts of MONY MONY???<br />(that's a lot of acts)<br />---Why does Cullen Omori remind of a sixties band? Not half bad.<br />---I think you found the ONLY Joe Cocker song I like, too.<br />---Shame about that song taken off-media...not awesome.<br />---The "other" Bobby G....ROFL!<br />(great song, even if we never did look alike)<br /><br />Very good ride this week.<br /><br />Keep on rockin' up there, brother.<br />Bob G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09222203353717749897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-61386244086485200182016-04-09T02:00:08.212-04:002016-04-09T02:00:08.212-04:00Thanks for highlighting Merle. So sad. I didn'...Thanks for highlighting Merle. So sad. I didn't even know that he lived in Redding - not far from me.<br /><br />Have a nice weekend, friend.Rawknrobyn.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15997241410192066577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-38104781292094241492016-04-08T19:08:28.431-04:002016-04-08T19:08:28.431-04:00What can I say other then I was here and not a fa...What can I say other then I was here and not a fan Jo-Anne's Ramblingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11418152399382818709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-62019280538188011812016-04-08T15:34:18.241-04:002016-04-08T15:34:18.241-04:00And prolly wouldn't accept money for doing it!...And prolly wouldn't accept money for doing it!CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-83282291601141969902016-04-08T15:33:42.571-04:002016-04-08T15:33:42.571-04:00Glenys has her spot... that's why I went to th...Glenys has her spot... that's why I went to the trouble of finding her name. That was one of a handful of my sister's 45's that really hit me when I was little. Some of the others were the Vogues' Magic Town and Max Frost and the Troopers, of course.<br /><br /><br />If you had trouble with Simon Says and their ilk, DO NOT search the Swampseeds Can I Carry Your Balloon. It, following your analogy, would be like putting your finger in powdered sugar, lifting it to your mouth, and finding out it was flour.<br /><br />Speaking of crappy, our local station does a "reconstituted oldies" segment where they play a big hit and then an obscure cover. Today they did Tears For Fears' Head Over Heels by Katy Perry- this was the most hideous cover I ever heard on the radio. The word that came to mind was "ghastly" and I never use that word in normal conversation.<br /><br /><br />However, you can always sign me up for TSOP, right down to the stretch of Hall and Oates' Abandoned Luncheonette.<br /><br />Yeah, was never a Mony Mony or a Hanky Panky guy, Give me Crystal Blue Persuasion and Mirage, Getting Together, or Crimson and Clover!<br /><br />Y'know, I hadn't noticed, but Two Kinds DOES sound a bit like Number Nine Dream! Never really minded ol' CB&C, music, outside of a couple well-known tunes, just his attitude on life.<br /><br />On Cocker: You then like the very songs I despise. I guess a trip with Delaney and Bonnie and friends isn't in our future...<br /><br /><br />We had a deal with Laurie (STH), but it was a long time ago. I THINK it involved seeing if there were any hits using her name, and discovering that.<br /><br />Looking at the Cashbox list of the top songs of '68, I saw two that I would rather hear Honey than: the totally annoying Judy In Disguise, and Human Beinz Nobody But Me. Of course there are a couple of Aretha tunes in there that I don't exactly know, so there is the potential for more...<br /><br />Anyway, next is 1970 so I know you're gonna be hoping I find SOME hope out there. I do have a new M10 song I really like coming up, so there is that...CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-76329043068138977872016-04-08T11:12:47.625-04:002016-04-08T11:12:47.625-04:00Never was a huge Merle Haggard fan.
But, this was ...Never was a huge Merle Haggard fan.<br />But, this was a pretty good clip.<br />If nothing else, he'd beat the snot out of Kanye.Al Penwasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052950809151897315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-89804383636476108062016-04-08T10:02:43.002-04:002016-04-08T10:02:43.002-04:00Hi, Chris!
Yessir, the death of Merle Haggard is ...Hi, Chris!<br /><br />Yessir, the death of Merle Haggard is another blow - another huge loss to music. Another important voice of generations has fallen silent. It has been decades since I listened to "Master Jack." I went to YouTube, played it and enjoyed it. Please enter Glenys Lynne in your next Beauty Contest.<br /><br />The music of spring 1968, the soundtrack of my freshman year at PSU (Paterno State University) was wall-to-wall great, with records like "Valleri," "Lady Madonna" and "Young Girl" as examples.<br /><br />The new directions in pop music during this period are exemplified by three songs I noticed in this post. "La La Means I Love You" by the Delfonics is an early example of TSOP, The Sound of Philadelphia - the cool, slickly produced, lushly orchestrated style of soul music that would explode in popularity in the 70s. Sly Stone's "Dance To the Music" is an example of the developing Funk movement that would compete against (or complement) TSOP recordings in the marketplace. "Simon Says" is an example of the emerging nursery rhyme pop category that kept the chart littered with sugar sweet teenybopper ditties in the late 60s. (Me no likey.)<br /><br />I like your list of songs on the Ft. Wayne chart. Edwin Starr's "I Am The Man For You Baby" was a biggie at the Shady Dell and is featured in my series "Shady Dell - the College Years." I never heard of "Baby What I Mean" but "More Today Than Yesterday" was one of Mrs. Shady #1's favorite songs.<br /><br />"Mony Mony" is my least favorite Tommy James number and I didn't like the version by Billy Idol much more. I just don't like the song, period. <br /><br />I enjoyed the Cullen Omori recording! It sounded like something... (am I allowed to say his name?) ...something John Lennon might have recorded solo during the 70s. (From now on I will substitute the words "Corned Beef & Cabbage" whenever I need to mention Lennon.) I don't like this uptempo Joe Cocker recording nearly as much as his typically raw, raspy, earthy, shouting numbers, and I especially didn't like the visuals married to the song by that YouTuber.<br /><br />The syrupy tear-jerker "Honey" is arguably the worst record of 1968. I do not like songs that pander to the masses with maudlin sentimentality. (See also "Tell Laura I Love Her" and "Laurie (Strange Things Happen in This World.") Does your Laurie know that one? My favorite record by Bobby G came three years earlier in the form of the danceable, "Pretty Woman"-inspired "Little Things." <br /><br />Thanks, Chris, and have a Scrappy weekend!Shady Del Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03839935472941264414noreply@blogger.com