MLT Club Member Tim Arnold
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I love The Hollies and I think my favorite song of theirs is Long Cool Woman. It has one of the coolest rock n roll beats ever. Here is a live version from the U.S. television show The Midnight Special. I believe, at least the first few years, the bands that appeared on the show were required to play everything live. I believe singer Allan Clarke left the Hollies not long after this appearance.
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Jung, I just started a forum thread on live performances and started with an Elton John performance and then I seen this one of yours started with an Elton John song, Lol. I guess we were both on the same cosmic wave length today. Anyways I do love sad songs, especially the ones that could make your heart cry. It’s because of these songs that I love Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. They were more known for their novelty songs like The Cover of the Rolling Stone but their best music was the gut wrenching tear jerkers that were mostly album cuts. They played mostly country music but would never get played on country radio because they had long hair and didn’t conform to the Nashville standards. They did clean up their act and had quite a few pop hits later in their career but to me their best stuff was their early gut wrenching country stuff. This was their first major hit and I bought their first album because of it. I’ve been a life long fan ever since. That lap steel guitar in this song is so hauntingly beautiful.
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I like this one too. Just a nice relaxing feel to the outside venue. I believe this was done on Martha’s Vineyard. An enormously talented singer and a great song.
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I think this song has to be included. Maybe not the greatest movie soundtrack but possibly the greatest song from a movie.
This paragraph was from Wikipedia, In March 2017, Judy Garland’s 1939 Decca single was entered in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as music that is “culturally, historically, or artistically significant”. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ranked it number one on their Songs of the Century list. The American Film Institute named it best movie song on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs list.
I wouldn’t mind hearing what the MLT’s harmonies could do with this song.
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Lisa’s smile at 1:25, yep, there goes my heart again!!
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Yep, I agree with Chris, everything about it is fabulous. The music, the vocals, the guitar work, I love that slide and the video is amazing, beautiful looks and cool effects. Absolutely groovy.
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Thanks for all the clips Dave, I remember Joni mainly for Big Yellow Taxi but I never listened to her much. She is fun to listen to though and a very good performer. That whole band is talented. Good stuff.
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That’s a beautiful song Jung, I never heard it before. It’s amazing how those simple lyrics can be presented in a way that anyone can understand and that everyone can relate to. It’s funny that when we go through sad times we feel like we go through them alone but the truth is that everyone will go through these same feelings at sometime in their life. I guess that’s why sad songs are so popular, they speak to everyone.
Here’s another song that works the same way, just simple lyrics but words anyone can understand especially if you’ve had your heart broken deeply. I’ve always liked the line ” I’m gonna find a hole in the wall, gonna crawl inside and die” it doesn’t get more real than that.
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Jung, there are a few of the Twins songs that bring a tear to my eye Vincent, Imagine and Wish You Were Here are a few. The guitar playing on Wish You Were Here gets to me, it’s not sad though, it’s just that beautiful. The song that really floored me was Alone. I listened to it four or five times the day they released it in the club and then I suddenly remembered a young girl I knew from work who took her own life because she had been hit with depression from many angles at the same time. She was betrayed by her boyfriend, her boss and her union steward and stabbed in the back by co workers and so called friends. I didn’t realize she was so depressed. I only knew her a short time but considered her a friend and even now wonder if there was something I could have said or done to help her. I can’t imagine how alone she must have felt. I love this song so much but still tear up from it. I’m having a hard time even writing this while the song is playing but I guess that is what a great song is suppose to do, bring out your feelings.
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Thanks Chris, I didn’t know she sang the original version of this song. I’ve heard it sung by many different artists but none any better than this. Recorded in 1944 I can’t imagine the feelings of the men and women all over the world that were serving in the war when they heard this song. She was a special entertainer.
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Yeah, I’ve heard her sing on variety shows and a few of her other movies on classic movie television. She was a great singer, no b.s., with a huge stage presence for such a small lady. I think that is the beauty of this scene, just her beautiful voice with minimal instrumentation and really quite simple lyrics that anyone can understand. It really draws you in and sets the mood for what is to come in the movie.
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Chris, here’s some clips from Roadhouse with another great track by Jeff Healey. The movie was great if you like bar fights and that good bluesy music. Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott are bouncers at the club, hired to clean up the riff raff. The Jeff Healey Band is the house band and provide most of the soundtrack.
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Jurgen, I love that video. Deep Purple was one of my favorite bands. I think the Hammond was one of the reasons I liked them a little better than Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin although both of those bands were great too. It seems I’ve always had a copy of Machine Head, on 8 track, cassette, vinyl, or cd. One of my favorite tracks was the song called Lazy. Here’s a great version of Lazy I found a few years ago. The line up is as follows, Jimmy Barnes (Vocal), Joe. Bonamassa (Guitar (R), Brad Whitford (Guitar (L), Arlan. Schierbaum (Organ), Michael Rhodes (Bass), Anton Fig. drums. Barnes is from the Australian band Cold Chisel, Whitford is from Aerosmith and Anton Fig was the drummer from David Letterman’s Late Show band. Bonamassa is pretty good on the guitar too. I think you guys will like it.
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Yeah Bud it is pretty simple but I think that was the allure for the young rock n rollers. If you knew 3 chords you could have a band and become popular with the girls. It worked pretty good for Elvis.
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Jung, I’m not a guitar guy at all so I did a little research and I believe this guitar is a Gretsch 6120, either a 1959 or 1960. It is probably referred to as a Country Gentleman because it was built for playing country music and used by Chet Atkins among others. I know a lot of Rockabilly guitar players used them and the orange ones especially because that’s what was used by rockabilly icon Eddie Cochran. The Stray Cats guitarist Brian Setzer has a collection of these guitars but here’s an interesting video about Brian and his original 1959 Gretsch 6120.