Look what I found -
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kyburgDid what I shouldn't have - I followed a white rabbit in a polyester leisure suit down a rabbit hole....
And look what I found there.
Jerry Reed. You remember that guy, right? The redneck truck driver from the Smokey & The Bandit movies. Total nutball, right?
Except that he's something of a musician, too. And I find this cut fascinating on a number of levels. Download it -
Jerry Reed - 'Amos Moses.' (It almost makes you want to send it to Steve Erwin. Almost.)
I don't what makes this so intriguing - the production values are solid, but you can't really call the man a vocalist - he's speaking the lyrics most of the way through, until you realise there's a musical scale being used within the speech. And the accent and word useage is so specific, it's irresistable.
I also love songs that are stories. This one is a story as a character study.
Boy, nothing says late 70's like synthesizers without shame.
Styx - 'Babe.'
This has a couple of elements that both scream *SEVENTIES* and make me happy at the same time. The over-production, the layering of voices, bandset and both acoustic and electronic keyboards. The *swoon* angst. Ahh. My high school graduating class chose another Styx tune as our class song - 'Sailing Away' if you must know - so I have a soft spot for these guys.
And they sound GREAT in the car with the big sound system. Hee.
But. The rabbit had one last song for me - in sympathy for the way this week has turned out. Since it isn't over yet, he said this would hold me until the weekend -
Harry Nilsson - 'You're Breaking My Heart.'
*grins* I remember taking this up to the Ramona Bowl parking lot at night, with Ron who had both the tape deck and the CB sideband radio with the HOOOGE antenna on the roof. It didn't matter if you had only 2 watts - you could blanket the valley like you had 100 Kw if you had height - shoot, up at the entrance to Lake Fulmore, you could hit locations in Catalina if the conditions were right.
We would *ahem* douche the frequency with that last tune. Eh - we used Dr. Demento's bleeped version - which made it all the funnier, to be honest.
Good times. Hee.
I warned you about what happens when I go down rabbit holes.
And look what I found there.
Jerry Reed. You remember that guy, right? The redneck truck driver from the Smokey & The Bandit movies. Total nutball, right?
Except that he's something of a musician, too. And I find this cut fascinating on a number of levels. Download it -
Jerry Reed - 'Amos Moses.' (It almost makes you want to send it to Steve Erwin. Almost.)
I don't what makes this so intriguing - the production values are solid, but you can't really call the man a vocalist - he's speaking the lyrics most of the way through, until you realise there's a musical scale being used within the speech. And the accent and word useage is so specific, it's irresistable.
I also love songs that are stories. This one is a story as a character study.
Boy, nothing says late 70's like synthesizers without shame.
Styx - 'Babe.'
This has a couple of elements that both scream *SEVENTIES* and make me happy at the same time. The over-production, the layering of voices, bandset and both acoustic and electronic keyboards. The *swoon* angst. Ahh. My high school graduating class chose another Styx tune as our class song - 'Sailing Away' if you must know - so I have a soft spot for these guys.
And they sound GREAT in the car with the big sound system. Hee.
But. The rabbit had one last song for me - in sympathy for the way this week has turned out. Since it isn't over yet, he said this would hold me until the weekend -
Harry Nilsson - 'You're Breaking My Heart.'
*grins* I remember taking this up to the Ramona Bowl parking lot at night, with Ron who had both the tape deck and the CB sideband radio with the HOOOGE antenna on the roof. It didn't matter if you had only 2 watts - you could blanket the valley like you had 100 Kw if you had height - shoot, up at the entrance to Lake Fulmore, you could hit locations in Catalina if the conditions were right.
We would *ahem* douche the frequency with that last tune. Eh - we used Dr. Demento's bleeped version - which made it all the funnier, to be honest.
Good times. Hee.
I warned you about what happens when I go down rabbit holes.
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Date: 2006-03-02 02:42 am (UTC)As for synthesizers: "I believe in magic" by Gallery (I think)...anyway that one just POUNDS a synthesizer in it. I heard it yesterday and had not for a long time...I had it cranked and WOW I had forgotten about that bridge. :)
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Date: 2006-03-02 02:48 am (UTC)It ain't legal huntin' alligators down in the swamp, boy!"
Jerry Reed was part of my childhood soundtrack.
heeee.
Date: 2006-03-02 02:51 am (UTC)along with 'Coconut'.
Can you believe this kid had never heard 'Coconut' before?
I can see him not knowing "You're Breaking My Heart" but 'Coconut'?
I have some work to do on this one.
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Date: 2006-03-02 03:20 am (UTC)I love his music....well some of it.
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Date: 2006-03-02 04:44 am (UTC)And what is this "bit of a musician" bit anyway? No, he cain't hardly sing, but he is definitely a "red hot picker".... and then there's "Preacher and the Bear", and the "Coin Machine"....
Although the hottest picker of'em all was Roy Clark. The man could play anything with strings. Bowed or plucked. Four, five, six, or twelve strings, nylon, steel, or gut. Anything from "Malageña" to "Back Up and Push." *and* he could play Buck Owens for a straight man between numbers.
But Reed could flat get it, too. He could even act a little bit.
BANDIT: When you get that *dog* back in the cab you can put the hammer down....
SNOWMAN: How'd he know that?
Ooo.
Date: 2006-03-02 05:14 am (UTC)It's never too early to play with my son's head. Tee hee!
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Date: 2006-03-02 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 04:57 pm (UTC)I've gone looking for things he did on CD - I've got one cut on a collection somewhere I should post.
Where is that guy with the penalty for making the South look bad again?
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Date: 2006-03-02 08:13 pm (UTC)Wasn't much of a country music fan when I was younger and absolutly hated Hee Haw. However I will give you this....Roy Clark was a hell of a musician....I just didn't like the type of music, that doesn't mean I can't apreciate the skill behind it.