Music for the day

[M1 Abrams]

A different selection was planned for this morning, but sometimes you just have to wait in anticipation.

 

[bobpbx]

Lisa. She floats my boat like no other singer.

I want to swim in your current
Carry me out, up and away
I want to float
On every word you say
Want to be underneath your weather
Every cloud and ray of sun
I want to float
In between every one
In between every one
I want to sink down like a stone
You never lost me, you never broke
I want to be adrift on your radio
Oh, take me under, take me home, the undertow
I want to be all of a sudden
Every wave and undertow
I want to float
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go

 

[M1 Abrams]

Boots and walking are on my mind today, although my attire will be slightly different, and (to the relief of all) my gams will not be on display.

 

[Boyd]

Just looking at the costumes of the women in the background, I'm struck by how much they resemble Star Trek female crew uniforms from the original series. Both the song and Star Trek date from 1966 - when I was a junior in high school!

 

[slingblade]

 

[Teegate]

I have that album. Many great songs on it.

 

[bobpbx]

I have that album. Many great songs on it.

There is a video of them doing a full concert somewhere, maybe Youtube. They were one of those groups that played their songs in concert the way they recorded them for the album, without drifting into jams or innovations. Creedence Clearwater Revival did that too.

 

[bobpbx]

Old Bobby. What a tale he tells.

Just a minute 'fore you leave, girl
Just a minute 'fore you touch the door
What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
Do you think we can talk about it some more?
You know, the streets are filled with vipers
Who've lost all ray of hope
You know, it's not even safe no more
In the palace of the Pope
Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah
Come over here from over there, girl
Sit down here, you can have my chair
I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl
The only place open is a thousand miles away, and I can't take you there
I wish that I'd been a doctor
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed
Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, oh, yeah
I ain't too good at conversation, girl
So you might not know exactly how I feel
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl
And build you a house made out of stainless steel
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
That's hanging in the Louvre
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
But I know that I can't move
Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
And I need you, oh
Who are these people who are walking towards you?
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
Oh, do you remember St. James Street
Where you blew Jackie P's mind?
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
And laid his life on the line
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
No more booby traps and bombs
No more decadence and charm
No more affection that's misplaced, girl
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
When he played and we didn't dance
Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah, you
Ah, I need you

 

[M1 Abrams]

Reach out, reach out and touch someone...

 

[bobpbx]

Not a lot of people know Eddie Floyd wrote and performed that song 634-5789. I like this one he did too (Big Bird).

 

[M1 Abrams]

Big Bird has been brought to you today by the letters P, B, and X, and the number 1410. (Wow, that's a big number!)

 

[M1 Abrams]

The Hollywood Argyles did the original version of Alley Oop back in 1960, but Ray Stevens does have a way with novelty songs. Anyway, I know at least one mean motah scootah here who's a big fan of ol' Ray, and at his advanced age, it's good to try and keep him happy.

 

[manumuskin]

The Hollywood Argyles did the original version of Alley Oop back in 1960, but Ray Stevens does have a way with novelty songs. Anyway, I know at least one mean motah scootah here who's a big fan of ol' Ray, and at his advanced age, it's good to try and keep him happy.

I Prefer to sing it Alfie Oop! never heard Rays version of it before but as you say Ray is king of funny songs.

 

[bobpbx]

I Prefer to sing it Alfie Oop! never heard Rays version of it before but as you say Ray is king of funny songs.

When I was, like 15, I was with this guy in Wrightstown at the old discount mart (can't recall the name, kind of like a woolworths). He lifted a can of shoe polish and the 45 record "Guitarzan" by Ray Stevens. I was struck dumb, and never said a word. But I was very disappointed when the State Police came and took us to their barracks across the street. And I always disliked that tune.

 

[manumuskin]

When I was, like 15, I was with this guy in Wrightstown at the old discount mart (can't recall the name, kind of like a woolworths). He lifted a can of shoe polish and the 45 record "Guitarzan" by Ray Stevens. I was struck dumb, and never said a word. But I was very disappointed when the State Police came and took us to their barracks across the street. And I always disliked that tune.

Apparently the guy wasn't very good at his chosen profession. I was goin with a girl when i was 17.Took her to the cumberland mall and she wanted to go in the gap.She took some clothes into the dressing room (I forget what it was) and I waited about ten minutes and out she came....without the clothes.I said where are the clothes you took in,she grabbed me by the arm and hustled me to the door the whole way I"m saying where are they,I was quite naive and more of a trespasser then a thief. She gets me oit the door and then smiled and pulled her top up to show me she had it on whatever it was under her clothes.I was pissed off,that was pretty much the end of that very quick relationship.She was a street urchin,I shoulda knew better but she was a good lookin street urchin.

 

[Rooftree]

The Hollywood Argyles did the original version of Alley Oop back in 1960, but Ray Stevens does have a way with novelty songs. Anyway, I know at least one mean motah scootah here who's a big fan of ol' Ray, and at his advanced age, it's good to try and keep him happy.

I was 15 years old when the original version was first recorded. It was inspired by V T Hamlin created comic strip of the same name. Alley Oop was a caveman. We had called one of the neighborhood kids 'Alley Oop' at the time. It just so happens he's my fishing buddy of 70 years. It was our interest in fishing that kept us close together for all these years.

 

[M1 Abrams]

I was 15 years old when the original version was first recorded. It was inspired by V T Hamlin created comic strip of the same name. Alley Oop was a caveman. We had called one of the neighborhood kids 'Alley Oop' at the time. It just so happens he's my fishing buddy of 70 years.

I've only been buddies with "Alfie Oop" for about two years...though from his side of the fence, there are probably times when it feels as if he's been stuck with me for seventy years!