Posted on 09/21/2016 7:26:37 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. Yellow River
music *ping*
Ok. Not Chris Christie and a yellow river.
Norman Greenbaum - “Spirit In The Sky” (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8
I’m from the northeast. I see “Christie” and “Yellow River” and I think pollution.
Great lost classic from a great year in music. Thanks for posting.
It’s not lost. It just relocated. I have no recollection of this song in 1970. I first heard it in the 1990s in Thailand. It was hugely popular, and would appear on karaoke disks and all the Thais knew the chorus, at least.
Until then I only knew “Yellow River” as a book written by I.P Daley.
Another one I’d never heard of which was big over there was “One way ticket to the blues”.
‘Yellow River’ was first offered to The Tremeloes but they turned it down. The Tremeloes did record the song first (but did not release it) with the same instrumental backing track used for the latter version by Christie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2S1zT7fCVI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River_(song)
I wonder why they were recording/playing a song about a river in China while cruising down the Thames in London.
Thought it was about peeing.
That's some mighty curious theology.
It got a lot of airplay on AM stations out here around the beginning of fall, 1970. Interesting that the Thais would pick it up.
Note that the flip side--"Down the Mississippi Line"--is about another river in a different part of the world.
I love the old pop songs. Especially the way bring back a snapshot in time. They just don’t make them anymore.
In the Army I had a commander with a sense of humor.
Whenever he wanted to lock the area down for urinalysis collection, “Yellow River” was played on the squawkbox.
The latrines were renamed “The Peehouse of the August Moon” during the process.
Good song.
Prefer this version, from before year zero, by Pan Ron:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipf4T7v4v18
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