⦿ Bob Dylan’s birthday~2 songs

It’s  Bob’s = 80th = Birthday !   (why do I suddenly feel so Very OLD.)
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2  Fine  songs !   Most  of  the Time (Oh Mercy 1990) Things  Have  Changed  (from the film Wonder Boys, 2000) 

⦿You’re a Big Girl Now – Dylan 1974

Bob Dylan.  from Blood on the Tracks 1974, about the breakup with his wife Sara.
A most beautiful and heartfelt song, with stunning  acoustic guitar

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⦿Yakety Yak – the Coasters 1959

a fun ‘moldy-oldie’ record by the Coasters
with funny lyrics about a teenager being tormented by his folks into doing his chores.
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‘you tell your hoodlum friends outside you ain’t got time to take a ride’

⦿ Janis Joplin ~ Maybe, live 1970

The One & Only…imitators step back !   From German tv  1970

⦿Roy Orbison~Star Spangled Banner 1988

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At an LA ice hockey game, kind of randomly weird but  – it’s ROY ORBISON !
He passed away shortly after this.   

⦿ Haburu the Piano Cat

Fur Elise  &  Boogie Woogie.  Haburu the cat loves chillin’  IN  the piano while it’s being
played ! There’s lots of videos of this special musician Thầy Minh and his unusual cat 

Fur Elise

Boogie Woogie

⦿Just Like Heaven~The Cure live, 2004

One of my all time favorite songs in a live performance from 2004.
Some people react to Robert Smith’s appearance, which has zero to do
with his talents as a songwriter & musician.  He is an individual who lives
as he chooses with no apologies.
 
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⦿Speedo ~ the Cadillacs, 1955

A fun vintage doo-wop record from 1955.  No, I’m not THAT old,  I just love the record

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⦿Techno Chicken &Cat Rave Party

These have been around for years but still funny to me, when I need a good laugh over something goofy

Techno Chicken          Crispy! . . 

Cat  Rave  Party

⦿ Old Blue ~ Byrds 1969

an old Appalachian Mountain classic. . . ‘bye bye Blue, be a good dog, you. .’
Sweet 12 string finger-pickin’  from Roger McGuinn  – ‘Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde’ 1969

⦿ Counting the Raindrops ~ Cormac O’Caoimh (O’Qweeve)

My favorite song from my pal  Cormac O’Caoimh  in  Cork, Ireland.
 A  sweet  intimate song. . .  He has 4 self-released CDs, see on Facebook.
. . . . . . .(the woman is speaking Gaelic at the beginning!)

⦿ What Does It Take (to Win Your Love)~~Junior Walker 1969

Another great oldie that’s like a time capsule of emotion. I remember how I felt then,
the things I thought about, and how my room looked in the dawn as I got ready for
school with the radio on.

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⦿ Bonnie Raitt ~ You Got It

 Bonnie Raitt, 1995.  The 1989 song by Roy Orbison,Tom Petty & Jeff Lynn.
Who doesn’t love Bonnie ! I’ve never heard of a bad word said against her, she is widely respected
for her character & values, as well as talent.   I love her to death !

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⦿ Make You Feel My Love ~Dylan

from the  great  Time Out of Mind  album, 1997.
A surprizingly sweet & emotional love song from Bob Dylan.  It has been covered by several artists, most notably  Adele.

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⦿Elmer Bernstein – ‘Hollywood & the Stars’ theme

The memorable beautiful theme by Elmer Bernstein for the tv show ‘Hollywood and the Stars’, 1963-64;
also used for a time at the Academy Awards.  A lovely piece of music that so many remember and love.

♦  To me it evokes a haunting melancholy,  yet at the same time a majestic grandeur..
Bernstein was a prolific composer, with 200+ well-known film & television themes and scores in 50+ years,
for a wide scope of projects : dramas, comedies and westerns — the iconic Magnificent Seven theme, for one.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Bernstein
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⦿ Buzzin’ Fly -Tim Buckley 1969

A beautiful & sweet emotional love song by Tim Buckley from the Happy Sad  album, 1969.
A sad ending from a heroin overdose in 1975, only 28 yrs old.
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Buzzin’ Fly
I wanna know  everything about you …I wanna know  everything about you…
What makes ya smile, what makes ya wild,  what makes ya love me this way,  Darlin’  I wanna know. . . 
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⦿ Cannibals – Mark Knopfler 1996

A feel-good Zydeco thing,  &  not about cannibals !
from  ‘A Night in London’ concert, live 1996  –  with a long intro w/Sonny Landreth.
This is wild  at the end  and everyone has a good time !

‘big strong daddy,  big strong boy,  livin’ in a big strong land’

‘once upon  time there were cannibals, now there are no cannibals anymore’

⦿ Shower the People You Love with Love ~James Taylor

 a favorite old song…1988 performance .
.’Things are gonna be much better if you only will ‘

⦿Jefferson Airplane ~ She Has Funny Cars & It’s No Secret

because  I  like  the  classic oldies.
R.I.P.  Paul  Jan 2016 …. R.I.P.  Marty  Sept 2018

     She  Has  Funny  Cars .  from Surrealistic Pillow 1966  Flash ! Paradise
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     It’s  No  Secret 

 

             Paul,  Grace  &  Marty  1966
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⦿ Still They Ride ~Journey 1981

I’m not a big Journey fan  but I really like this song….it has a deeply wistful & melancholy feel to it..
Written about the old ‘cruisers’ in Steve Perry’s small hometown in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley, California

⦿ Hurricane – Bob Dylan 1976

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the story of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and his unjust arrest   &   20 year imprisonment
   with the lovely Scarlett Rivera on fiddle.

Dylan was sued  by Patty Valentine for using her name & had to pay her off and delete
her name from future issues of the record..but people know  the original recording.
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[complete lyrics]

Pistols shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out “My God they killed them all”
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For something that he never done
Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
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Three bodies lying there does Patty see
And another man named Bello moving around mysteriously
“I didn’t do it” he says and he throws up his hands
“I was only robbing the register I hope you understand
I saw them leaving” he says and he stops
“One of us had better call up the cops”
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashing
In the hot New Jersey night.

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Meanwhile far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that
In Patterson that’s just the way things go
If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street
‘Less you wanna draw the heat.
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Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around
He said “I saw two men running out they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates”
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
Cop said “Wait a minute boys this one’s not dead”
So they took him to the infirmary And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.
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Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
The wounded man looks up through his one dying eye
Says “Why’d you bring him in here for ? He ain’t the guy !”
Yes here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For something that he never done
Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
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Four months later the ghettos are in flame
Rubin’s in South America fighting for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley’s still in the robbery game
And the cops are putting the screws to him
looking for somebody to blame
“Remember that murder that happened in a bar ?”
“Remember you said you saw the getaway car?”
“You think you’d like to play ball with the law ?”
“Think it might-a been that fighter you saw running that night ?”
“Don’t forget that you are white”
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Arthur Dexter Bradley said “I’m really not sure”
Cops said “A boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we’re talking to your friend Bello
Now you don’t wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellow
You’ll be doing society a favor
That sonofabitch is brave and getting braver
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain’t no Gentleman Jim”

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.Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much
It’s my work he’d say and I do it for pay
And when it’s over I’d just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
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.All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance
The judge made Rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
And though they could not produce the gun
The DA said he was the one who did the deed.
And the all-white jury agreed.
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Rubin Carter was falsely tried
The crime was murder ‘one’,  guess who testified
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers they all went along for the ride
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand ?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.
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Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell

That’s the story of the Hurricane
But it won’t be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he’s done
Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
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⦿ MORE COWBELL – SNL skit

April  2000
   
   I got a fever…

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⦿I’m Every Woman –Chaka Khan & Can’t Get Enough of Your Love – Barry White

Youngsters take note– this is how it’s done,  1970s  old school

 CHAKA KHAN – I’m Every Woman   ‘Chaka Khan – Chaka Khan – Chaka Khan’
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BARRY WHITE  – Can’t Get Enough of Your Love    
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⦿ French Inhaler – Warren Zevon

 1976.  Warren. . and the painfully beautiful lyrics

‘How are you gonna make your way in the world when you weren’t cut out for workin’..
…where will you go with your scarves and your miracles, who’s gonna know who you are..’
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⦿ I’m Only Sleeping — Beatles . . . . . .(Revolver ’66)

 the Beatles videos are  back on youtube
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⦿ Mexico – James Taylor (1975)

A lovely record that I associate with a dear friend, now passed on.
I introduced this song to him so now I associate it with pleasant memories.  

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⦿Everything is Coming Our Way ~ Santana 1971

such a joyful song
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⦿High-heel Sneakers -Tommy Tucker 1964

  a  classic !
‘Put on your red dress, baby, cuz we goin’ out tonight
. . better wear your boxing gloves in case some fool might wanna fight‘

⦿Daddy Sang Bass~Johnny Cash live @San Quentin 1969

‘Daddy sang bass, Mama sang tenor, me & little brother would join right in there. . ‘
the 1969 San Quentin concert.   Carl Perkins wrote the song !
I first heard this song, Johnny w/ the Carter Family,  long ago late at night, on a powerful
vintage Zenith table radio – on a 50K watt country station, coming in from UTAH  to California. 

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⦿ Move It On Over . . . . . . . . .. . . . George Thorogood

a killer record that never gets old ! (a surprize : written by Hank Williams Sr.)
If this doesn’t wake you up, you might be dead. . .. move over little dog, the big dog’s comin’ in
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⦿Simple Twist of Fate – Bob Dylan

from  Blood on the Tracks   1974 

 

⦿Ray Charles ~ Hit the Road, Jack

When I heard this song on the radio as a kid, I decided my calling was to be a Raylette !
That strikes me as funny now, but I guess I was born with ‘soul’ because I didn’t get it
from my folks or experiences in white-bread suburbia, that’s for sure.
Live – 1961

⦿Galveston – Glen Campbell

in rememberance of Glen Campbell .. . my favorite record of his

⦿Louisiana 1927 – Randy Newman

from Good Ole Boys album 1974. The intro especially captures a sense of  the ‘Old South’

⦿Poor Poor Pitiful Me ~ Zevon

  a gem of a lyric from Warren Zevon
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⦿Ronettes – Be My Baby, live

  Be My Baby  &  Shout – 1965  —— Ronnie’s a natural performer,  she sure knows how to work an audience  ——
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⦿Mixed Emotions -Rolling Stones

1990 Tokyo 

⦿ CARS : Gary Numan

love this weird picture

……………………..The video is kind of tacky–it was almost 40 years ago -but it’s fun

⦿ King Tut ~ Steve Martin SNL

1978. . . an oldie but a goodie ..’Funky Tut’

⦿Dylan ~ Forever Young – the Last Waltz & You’re a Big Girl Now

 Forever Young – the Last Waltz  1978
        

written for his young son Jakob

 . . . . You’re a Big Girl Now  from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
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⦿I’m an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grand & Soda Fountain Baby ……….. Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks

Dan Hicks passed away  6Feb2016  . . best known in the San Francisco area
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. 1972. l’ve loved this ever since first hearing years ago.   . . . . . the amazing vocalist is  Lickette  Maryann Price  
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. . . . Soda Fountain Baby ~Flip Wilson Show ’72 . . delightful Maryann is on the left in the white top

           (photo: Swing That Cat).  Maryann on the left

originally posted 2013

⦿Bob Welch: Sentimental Lady (2) . . . & Hypnotized

Sentimental Lady Live ’82  with the lovely Christine McVie  &  Mick Fleetwood on drums   Hypnotized – live 1982…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

⦿ Van Morrison: Caravan. Domino. Wild Night

 ♥ 3 superb classic songs from Van the Man ♥ 

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 Domino. . .the horns ! (‘hit it’)
I figured out late that the words are ‘roll me over, roll me off, there you go.’

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⦿Married Men~Linda Ronstadt & Phoebe Snow ~audio only

  Saturday Night Live  May 1979 (video by me).  Audio quality not the best but this is all there is presently.

⦿The River & Prove It All Night ~ Bruce Springsteen

The River  live 1980.

Prove It All Night – live 2009  Paramount Theater 

⦿ Cherry Bomb ~ J. Mellencamp

just because I love this song so much. .  1976. . when holding hands meant something, baby…

⦿MARK KNOPFLER ♥Romeo & Juliet (2) ~ ✪Darling Pretty ~ ✪Cannibals ~ ✪I Think I Love You Too Much♥

Romeo & Juliet. . this is me pretending I had a good seat at  the Mark Knopfler concert (9 Sept 15) .
On youtube (try it full screen display)   linked picture ⇓  https://youtu.be/Rvx0WnCxnvE

♥ Romeo & Juliet – from A Night  in London concert 1996.( he chokes up on  ‘I can’t do anything but be in love with you..’)

✪ Darling Pretty – a pretty  song that sounds  like it could be an ancient  Celtic tune–but Mark wrote it 

 ✪ Cannibals   A  feel-good Cajun zydeco thing with a long intro w/Sonny Landreth.
.This is wild  at the end! ‘Once upon a time there were cannibals, now there are no cannibals anymore’.

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✪  I Think I Love You Too Much ♥ Mark Knopfler ♥ a perfect blues song.  .with the Notting Hillbillies 1990     ♥
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⦿Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat ~ Bob Dylan 1966

You look so pretty in it, honey can I jump on it sometime. . .

⦿CALL ME AL & Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes ~~Paul Simon–Zimbabwe & Graceland

 ‘ bone-digger, bone-digger, dogs in the moonlight, far away, my well-lit door. . ‘ –how great is that !
Hugh Masekela on trumpet.

‘. .woe,  my  nights are so long . . ‘ If this doesn’t get you moving there’s something wrong with you !
.  . from the Graceland album 1986.
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 Graceland ~ Paul Simon  

⦿Let’s Dance~David Bowie (Red Shoes) & Elvis impersonation

♥ R.I.P. ♥  10 Jan 16 . . . a lovely and gracious man in addition to his many talents 

under the moonlight, this Serious Moonlight . .                 . . castanettes !

David Bowie was a big Elvis fan, even wrote a song for him (declined!)
His Elvis impersonation – Christmas Greetings  (he’s spot- on!) 

originally posted 2013
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