Tuesday, July 27, 2010
GOLD....1979
"......cuz people out there turn the music into gold...."
This song brings back memories. It's not a great song, just a piece of fluff from the 70's.
And it totally cracks me up.
Some background: The song is by some dude named John Stewart. No, not from the Daily Show. This guy was from the Kingston Trio, and all I know about them is they're probably a band my parents listened to.
Anyhoo, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks appeared on the track. Lindsay's guitar work is obviously apparent – and probably a large part of why I like this song - and Stevie Nicks lends her voice. It's not credited as a duet, but it might as well be – you can't miss her vocals.
However, every time I hear this song I get the vague feeling Miss Stevie is singing a completely different song than Stewart.
It's like she's singing along to something in her head, and it doesn't quite match up. Quite possible – it was during her drug addled years.
Still, it works.
I went YouTube-ing hoping to find a live version of them performing this song, but instead found Mr. Stewart's 1979 appearance on Solid Gold.
AWESOMENESS. SQUARED.
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I like how he plugs his guitar in at the beginning of the song, like it really matters or something.
Oh come on.
You have to know more about the KT than that!
Tom Dooley?
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
or
Sloop John B?
We come on the sloop John B, my grandfather and me. Around Nassau town we did roam.
Drinkin' all night. Got into a fight. Well, I feel so break up, I want to go home. (I want to go home. So now,)
[Chorus:]
Hoist up the John B's sails. See how the main sails set. Call for the captain ashore, let me go home. (Let me go home.)
Let me go home. (I want to go home.) I want to go home. (Why don't you let me go home?)
Well, I feel so break up, I want to go home. (I want to go home.)
You simply must remember Charly and the M.T.A.:
Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned and his fate is still unknown. (What a pity! Poor ole Charlie. Shame and scandal. He may ride forever. Just like Paul Revere.)
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston. He's the man who never returned.
listen to the amazon samples. I'm sure you'll recognize all three.
amazon music link with these three songs
Sorry guys, I fell off the planet for a while :(
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