Posted on 06/26/2019 5:41:29 PM PDT by SamAdams76
So there are not many women in the world of Yacht Rock. Sure, you hear plenty of women doing backing vocals on Yacht Rock tracks but very rarely, if ever, do they take the lead vocal.
Not sure why that is. I mean women can be just as smooth and breezy as any man singing a Yacht Rock song.
Case in point is Midnight At The Oasis - a smash hit from back in 1973 - by a woman named Maria Muldaur.
I don't care what people say but this tune is a cornerstone of the Yacht Rock canon. I mean, the cactus is her friend and she's sending the camels off to bed. Good! It's about time those camels went to bed so that the two of us can slip off to a sand dune and kick up a little dust. I will be her sheik and she can be my belly dancer. Or something like that.
Just make it smooth.
Rene Olstead does a pretty fine rendition herself.
So. glad you do. Are you old enough to remember “dancing against the music,” which this song invited. You couldn’t really dance to it, beat was sort of contra the intent of the lyrics. Gee I. miss being young sometimes, and haven’t entirely given up on it. Giggle.
Great thread to amuse ourselves with on the night of the first Democrat Clown Car Rally .
Yes, she did— she was (maybe not now, needing to work) a prima donna with super high attitude. This moved past her marriage into a time of lesbianism (at least on the road, beknownst or not to husband Geoff Muldaur). The sound techs at venues and the roadies all gossiped about it.
Now she’s ostensibly a Christian. Could be, not perfect, just forgiven.
For me, Maria Muldaur is best known for providing the guest vocals on The Doobie Brothers’ awesome “I Cheat the Hangman”
Dee and Shirley would have told the Doobies to take a long walk on a short pier. Dee would have made them buy back the bootleg tape.
Listening to "Cool Change" right now. Nice song even with the stupid lyric "The whales and the albatross are my brothers". However, my life is pre-arranged - obviously. Staring at the full moon as a lover.
The best Little River Band song is "Take It Easy On Me" and I don't care what anybody has to say about that. So just don't say it.
I must admit, although I mostly listened to hard rock in High School, I loved the Little River Band, with Glenn Shorrock.
I had their live album, which had a symphony orchestra, “It’s A Long Way There” just flat out rocks.
David Nichtern wrote the song. The guitar work on the recording is the inimitable Amos Garrett. All of them— much older now, still alive.
Garrett has a book on his stringbending technique— a remarkable lead solo that also .. “made” the song.
All these players got into country and jazz... and stayed in blues smooth jazz. Great stuff.
Pablo Cruise was another good “Yacht Rock” band.
Yacht Rock is not so much about the maritime aspect as the “smoothness” of the songs.
bet it's already there.
perfect match
Yacht Rock is a Sirius channel (70) of smooth, lyrical stuff we loved 30 years ago. "Sailing" - Christopher Cross is a perfect example of Yacht Rock. What I notice most is that lyrics are understandable on most every piece.
And then music went to hell with grunge, punk, rap.....
How about this one?
Ich Sitze im Schlauchboot (I'm sitting in a dinghy)--Fausti (1969)
“Lady” by Little River Band got a mention on another thread recently.
“Which Doobie you be?”
It’s more music a snooty rich guy would listen to on a yacht. I don’t know the first two, but Banana Boat is probably the wrong vibe. The channel plays a *lot* of Steely Dan. I’m a fan and even I’m sick of hearing Deacon Blues at this point.
How about “Moonlight (Feels Right)” by Starbuck?
Any song with a Marimba solo in it, has to be Yacht Rock.
This was the kick-off speech for the general election and when Reagan said “Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
"Sailing" was the number one song in the nation when Reagan gave this speech and as he spoke, boats (and a yacht or two)j plyed the waters of New York harbor behind him.
What a magnificent time to be living in America.
That's brown-water country. How about some blue-water country?
Seaman's Blues--Ernest Tubb (1948)
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