Posted on 04/06/2015 4:37:53 PM PDT by 9thLife
Got to open for him once (backing Tiny Tim as well as playing with an oldies act). Nice guy.
In "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," the singer doesn't say where the journey to Oklahoma starts. I figure that it's Buckeye, Ariz. To get from there to Texhoma, the nearest town in Oklahoma, in a day in 1967, when the song came out would have taken some determination on the driver's part, as the 800-mile distance would have mostly been over two-lane highways.
Had the singer started farther to the west or southwest, he would have been singing, "by the time I get to Flagstaff" or "by the time I get to Casa Grande."
When I heard that, I thought it was about marijuana, "key" being doper slang for kilogram.
When I heard that, I thought it was about marijuana, "key" being doper slang for kilogram.
Puhleeze ... I am old enough to remember “Ebb Tide” when it was strictly instrumental, then Al Hibler’s hit with lyrics. Song’s been covered and covered and covered.
I think the reason the RIghteous Broz version is so popular is their incredible voice range (and “Ghosts”). IIRC, it wasn’t really till the movie that their song, then years old, became a hit.
I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates,
You’ve got a brand new key,
I think that we should get together,
And try them on to see...
Although it’s been decades since I’ve had skates that used a skate key to... uh... mount them onto my shoes, I do remember the tight fit.
Hmmm. And the overwrought, banging piano chords leaves little to the imagination...
My favorite Don Mclean song was always “Vincent”.....
Yep, I had a memory reawakening the other day of Steppenwolf and checked out "The Pusher" on Youtube......
What I didn't know was that Steppenwolf put out three top quality albums in just 15 months......
Mercy. There are probably a lot of Jim Morrison fans here, too.
Karl,
I wanna tell you ‘bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master
Some call it heavenly in it’s brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
snip
Listen to this and I’ll tell you ‘bout the heartache
I’ll tell you ‘bout the heartache and the loss of God
I’ll tell you ‘bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I’ll tell you ‘bout the maiden with raw iron soul
I’ll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
snip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxeGDnZpKQ
When I listen to Morrison, I hear a brutal sarcastic attack directed at the culture and his own audience of useful idiots.
American Pie is certainly more direct.
$1.200,000 manuscript was sold for this sum. Yes, one point two million dollars.
Hope this makes Don happy.
It would make me happy if I were Don.
Lol!
In my freshman year of high school, the year that American Pie came out, my way-cool first-year English teacher took us through the lyrics. Every phrase has a meaning. I’ll get a copy of the lyrics and post that later on today.
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