Music for the day

[bobpbx]

That white boy George had real soul. I once missed an important concert. He played at the Sunset View Inn in Browns Mills, and I was not quick enough to realize it, so did not make it in. I really liked him, and still have his solo album "Thanks, I'll eat it here". Unfortunately, he died very soon after that Browns Mills concert. Here's a good song off that album. I think Allen Tousaint wrote it.

 

[66C10]

Saw Marshall Tucker and Skynyrd about 10 years ago I think it was boardwalk hall. While only 1 or 2 original guys in each band at the time they both still tore it up especially being an inside venue. As for Little Feat, one can not simply listen to Willin’ without singing along.

 

[Menantico]

If you are interested, I'll be having Gabe Coia (pinelandpaddler) on my radio show "Kuz Control" today from 4-6pm. He'll be playing three original songs, guest DJing for a segment, and we'll be chatting in between music sets. If you are in the Galloway region you can tune in to 91.7. If not you can stream the show from the link below. Fair warning: I'm not sure everyone will like the music I play on the show, but I know you love Gabe!

Kuz Control 91.17 WLFR

 

[bobpbx]

That went very well! Gabe's playing was spot on. I remember at least two of those songs.

 

[bobpbx]

I had a cassette player in my 75 jeep CJ5. I had this tape (I Robot, by the Alan Parsons Project) for a long, long time. This song was a good one. Great start to it.

"I wouldn't want to be like you"

If I had a mind to
I wouldn't want to think like you
And if I had time to
I wouldn't want to talk to you

I don't care
What you do
I wouldn't want to be like you

If I was high class
I wouldn't need a buck to pass
And if I was a fall guy
I wouldn't need no alibi...

I don't care
What you do
I wouldn't want to be like you

Back on the bottom line
Diggin' for a lousy dime
If I hit a mother lode
I'd cover anything that showed

I don't care
What you do
I wouldn't want to be like you
I don't care
What you do...
I wouldn't wanna
I wouldn't want to be like you
I wouldn't want to be like you

 

[Teegate]

Looks like Ozzy Osbourne has died.

 

[bobpbx]

I swear I have Al Green's greatest hits on tape in a box in some closet. I used to have a 91 blue camry, and it was a mainstay for me in that car.

 

[slingblade]

Looks like Ozzy Osbourne has died.

Donny Osmond posted this rememberence yesterday.
Just the Prince of Darkness having some fun and drinking some Pepsi.

 

[M1 Abrams]

Along with Ozzy Osbourne, the music world also recently lost George Kooymans. He was a co-founder of what would become Golden Earring. He was their lead guitarist and also accompanied on vocals. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with ALS. His ordeal with that horrible disease ended on Tuesday.

Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone," which cracked the top 10 in the U.S. Presented here is the first big international hit by Golden Earring, co-written by Kooymans and Barry Hay, "Radar Love."

 

[slingblade]

 

[manumuskin]

 

[M1 Abrams]

It's been a hard week for the music world. Unfortunately, there is news that yet another legend has passed. Tom Lehrer died yesterday at the age of 97. Although the bulk of his musical career was limited to the 1950s and 1960s, his legacy as one of the all-time great musical satirists seems secure. He combined sharp, sardonic lyrics with a peppy, cheerful, theatrical style.

While many of his songs touched on social and/or political issues, others had a more general appeal, including The Elements as well as this selection. (I wonder, had he grown up in the Pine Barrens, if he might have written Poisoning Beavers in the Bog?)

Listening to Tom Lehrer helped to make yours truly the seriously disturbed fellow he is today.

 

[Boyd]

Wow, I had no idea he lived so long. I heard his songs when I was very young, liked them so much my mother gave me his first album. I remember a guest of my parents saw that record in my room and said "You gave him THAT album????" I think I had all his albums, can still probably recite the lyrics to most of his songs. Like the Werner Von Braun Lullaby...

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.
"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department", says Werner Von Braun!

 

[bobpbx]

That was awful. I can see why God took him early.

On the other hand, I did enjoy this one by Alan.

 

[manumuskin]

It's been a hard week for the music world. Unfortunately, there is news that yet another legend has passed. Tom Lehrer died yesterday at the age of 97. Although the bulk of his musical career was limited to the 1950s and 1960s, his legacy as one of the all-time great musical satirists seems secure. He combined sharp, sardonic lyrics with a peppy, cheerful, theatrical style.

While many of his songs touched on social and/or political issues, others had a more general appeal, including The Elements Song as well as this selection. (I wonder, had he grown up in the Pine Barrens, if he might have written Poisoning Beavers in the Bog?)

Listening to Tom Lehrer helped to make yours truly the seriously disturbed fellow he is today.

I hate to see what the pigeons will now do to his tombstone in retribution for his games he played back then

 

[Boyd]

That was awful. I can see why God took him early.

I plan to live forever, but would still be happy if god "took me early" at the age of 97, like Tom Lehrer.

 

[Teegate]

I plan to live forever, but would still be happy if god "took me early" at the age of 97, like Tom Lehrer.

My mom might disagree. She was hurting pretty bad the last few years and could never get comfortable. Sometimes when something is wrong with me and I can’t get comfortable, I think about what that would be like for the rest of my life.
Hopefully, everyone here won’t have that happen to them. Then 97 sounds pretty good.

 

[Boyd]

Yeah, I do want to keep my health. My grandmother died at 97 back in 2000. She was still living independently in her same little house in a small midwestern town - driving the same 1966 Rambler! She out-lived two husbands and both my parents. One day she felt sick, went to the hospital, passed out and died three days later. I'd settle for that.

 

[M1 Abrams]

That was awful. I can see why God took him early.

Apparently, the idea of pigeon poisoning was not something Tom Lehrer just dreamed up. I read that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service actually did poison pigeons in Boston public areas in the 1950s.

I hate to see what the pigeons will now do to his tombstone in retribution for his games he played back then

Given that he satirized the government's idea of poisoning pigeons, perhaps the pigeons will spare his tombstone their caudal commentary and leave it clean.

I plan to live forever, but would still be happy if god "took me early" at the age of 97, like Tom Lehrer.

My mom might disagree. She was hurting pretty bad the last few years and could never get comfortable. Sometimes when something is wrong with me and I can’t get comfortable, I think about what that would be like for the rest of my life.

Dying doesn't scare me, but infirmity does. One of my cousins dropped dead while walking across the yard. If I could sign up for that or just going in my sleep, calling it a life at three score and ten wouldn't be so bad.

On the other hand, I did enjoy this one by Alan.

No offense meant to the estimable Alan Sherman (though I'm sure that Louis and Marie would not appreciate taking the needle from him after taking the chop from the French citizenry), but word on the street at the time was that if Sherman had attempted The Elements, he would have already been sucking wind by the time he got to thorium and thulium and thallium, and would not have made it to cerium and cesium. The ability for Tom Lehrer to manage it is almost as remarkable as him earning a B.A. in mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard at the age of eighteen.

This is from his performance at Copenhagen in 1967. He speculated that perhaps he served as America's revenge on Denmark for Victor Borge. (My apologies for the annoying ticking clock sound added to the last half-minute or so of this clip; please pause it after Tom gets done at about the 2:34 mark.)

 

[bobpbx]

I plan to live forever, but would still be happy if god "took me early" at the age of 97, like Tom Lehrer.

I was trying to be funny, tongue in cheek old sport.