Music Thread - part 2

@Joker
An absolutely superb post!
I have no idea where you dig these classic songs out of, but keep on doing it mate!
This one deserves a post on our music forum......

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Of what, a tainted Bird.

Yes Joker, absolutely superb !

Mine is better...

My first dance with a girl was to this song.......... long ago. 😏
Before most of you were even born.

Da doo ron ron was a very interesting, and musically important, record....

Co-written by Phil Spector, maybe the first record 'producer' in the modern sense of the word (creating an overall memorable sound rather than just optimizing acoustics).

His particular contribution was the 'wall of sound'.... a dense and fuzzy orchestration behind the vocalists...

Of course Spector later devolved into a weirdo freak and convicted murderer... but there's no need to dwell on that.

Anyway... a lot of people forget how... disposable popular music was until the early 70s (starting around 1973....). Previously a number one song might be completely forgetten after a year or two. But then radio stations started playing songs that were over ten years old (that is putting them into the mix). Eventually this led to whole radio stations specializing in older pop music.

In 1973 Carpenters had a big hit with a song about listening to old (especially doo wop) songs on the radio called Yesterday Once More. On the album it appeared on it preceded a medley of early 1960s songs... one of which was 'Da Doo Ron Ron'....

Then in 1977 teen idol Shaun Cassidy covered the song and it hit number one on the Billboard hot 100 (the original version had peaked at 1973).

So an interesting bit of pop music history!

Here's the song 'Yesterday Once More and the oldies medley following it.... Da Doo Ron Ron starts at 8:03

She had an amazing voice and was a pretty good drummer too.

It actually was. Thanks.

Thanks maf, very informative.
How about this oldie ?
I liked to dance to this one at school dances too.

I don't know much about it but looking at the lyrics it has a lot of beatnik imagery though beatniks were about to be blown out of the public consciousness by the Beatles and then the hippies.

But the ideas of a decrepit coffee house, espresso and barefoot young women in black leotards is all very beatnik coded....

On the other hand it's a nostalgia song since he's already married his sugar shack girl and they're thinking of the past.

The idea of teenage years as a separate life stage (rather than a short transition between childhood and adulthood) was more or less invented in the US in the 1950s... so this song as a foot in both worlds.

Now I'm wondering if 'sugar shack' was one of the inspirations for the B-52's Love Shack in 1989 (or thereabouts).

"Nights in white satin" is indeed a great song!People reveal so much by their musical tastes.I always knew this about you Rich but most readers of your posts don't.
You are a passionate and emotional guy.......you will deny it and your haters will deny it too...... but I know.......


I was thinking the same thing.....

Here is another great one from my era.
You can actually hear the vocals back then

How many of you are honest enough to say that you are old enough to remember this song.....



"White Punks on Dope" may have caught my attention, but I preferred this song.....



I never really got into Punk Rock,but in the late seventies I did get into "Fringe" bands like The Tubes and The Stranglers, this is another one I liked.



One more from The Stranglers.



I'll end my posts with two songs from The Tom Robinson Band's album, "Power in the Darkness"..... this is the title track....pure genius, because both people from the far left and the far right thought this song was supporting their views.....



Last post.......

these will be my last posts in this thread tonight, maybe.



and this one is one of my all-time favorites back in my day

Something relevant to current events.. Carlos Santana's daughter plays drums on this song.

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Weirdly I heard Nina Hagen's German language cover first (TV Glotzer) and the original cannot displace it from my affections....

My god, you must be very old!


Your Micki Free post is superb, but that is the standard I expect from someone like you :-)
I keep saying it, but some of the songs you post on here need to go on our music forum.... and this is one of them!


She was always a bit too weird for my tastes,my God, The Tubes were weird enough already, an over made up German with a poor voice was never going to swing me.

He farts dust!


Ive posted it before...

Good Ol Boys

And their best line up too...... proper band!

There is one member left, the drummer. And guess what? Hes still on the road as Skynyrd...lol

Such a shame....... but they were one of the best Rock bands ever!

Here is one of the best American songs ever in my day.

I saw these guys play this song in Diamond Head, Hawaii in 1976.
It was a great concert.

Here's one that describes somebody every morning between August and December last year. Can anybody guess who?

This is one that Lazarus sings to himself wen he wakes up every morning. 🤣

Another lie as they never played in Hawaii in 1976 and certainly not on top of Diamond Head! LOL
concertarchives.org/bands/eagles?page=1&year=1976#concert-table

They played a concert in Honolulu but not in 76

Did the imaginary concert happen inside the crater? LOL

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Surely that was a private concert for Mystic Jimmy and all his friends, no? Remember that he was also vastly wealthy in the mid 1970s and so was able pay any band he wanted to play for him and his friends. Don't you remember hearing about the time he had the Beatles play at his 30th birthday party in 1982? And the time Stevie Ray Vaughan and Chet Baker played at his 40th birthday party in 1992?

The only music he heard then was singing among the chain gang and hymns in the prison chapel. That and the percussion od spoon on radiator.

Sure they did, they played on February 12th, 1976 so quit making up lies.
As I remember I saw them in Diamond head where they played unannounced on New Years Day 1976 with several big-name groups.
I "think' they were on their way to a concert in New Zeeland and had a layover in Honolulu where I was living at the time.
There were only maybe 2000 people that showed up for it.
Damn joker, that was 50 years ago, how do you expect me to remember ever little detail to defend myself with to you. lol
I have pictures that I took and when I run across them I will post them for you Snitch.
I have never seen such jealousy of an insecure moron like you.
Why is it so hard to accept the fact that I am cooler than you are ? HooT !