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Ironically, "New York's A Lonely Town" Is One Of The Best Surf Songs
The Tradewinds
| 1964, I think
| The Tradewinds
Posted on 02/20/2005 4:41:17 PM PST by JennysCool
Just an observation. I pulled out my surf CDs since the mercury cracked 40, the sun came out, and the snow and ice is melting like crazy. Holy Cow! I have a lawn!
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KEYWORDS: cabinfever; snow; surf; tradewinds; woodie
Hope things are thawing your way, too.
To: JennysCool
ironically, one never quite feels how alone one is (if, in fact he is) unless he is surrounded by multitudes who will forever be strangers.
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posted on
02/20/2005 4:51:22 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
("remember, from ashes you came, to ashes you will return.")
To: the invisib1e hand
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posted on
02/20/2005 4:52:10 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: Zack Nguyen; weegee; Californiajones; CobaltBlue; tame; Mount Athos; JellyJam; AMDG; MikeD; ...
A completely arbitrary surf ping.
Btw, didn't one of you guys predict "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" would win the Grammy? Got any lottery tips?
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:08:58 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: JennysCool
"New York's a Lonely Town" was released in 1964 but held on in the top twenty until early 1965. The Trade Winds were a bunch of pick-up studio musicians that hung around a man whose last name was Poncia and the somewhat legendary Vince Andreoli (later shortened to Anders), and figures such as producers Bones Howe and Shadow Morton. (I believe the Shangri-las came out of the same shop, as did the Dixie Cups.)
KRLA, then a major rock station in LA, had a special version cut where the boys sang "and there's no KRLA" underneath the main vocal line. Some Angelenos of a certain age still think those words are part of the song.
Vince Anders, as he later styled himself, tried a number of things in the later Sixties, but he never made it on a major scale.
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:46:28 PM PST
by
Publius
(The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
To: Publius
Wow! Thanks for the background! I like the whole incongruity of the song. The surf genre taken to the extreme.
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:50:20 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: JennysCool
How many rock songs use sleighbells and a glockenspiel in the arrangement?
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:52:03 PM PST
by
Publius
(The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
To: Publius
utside of Brian Wilson's, not many!
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:52:57 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: JennysCool
The irony is delicious. BW was shut out of the vocal and production/engineering categories, but finally ends his 42-year Grammy drought with a Best Rock Instrumental award. An award for a song he wanted locked away for 30+ years and a song he didn't play a note on.
I suppose if you have to lose, though, at least you lose to Ray Charles. It's not like he lost to the Spice Girls or anything...
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posted on
02/20/2005 6:36:04 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Columnated ruins domino...)
To: MikeD
Yeah. Note to self: Never be nominated for a Grammy the year Ray Charles passes.
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posted on
02/20/2005 6:45:48 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: Publius
Springsteen used a glock and belle's in 'Thunderroad' and "Santa Clause is Coming to Town'
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posted on
02/21/2005 8:12:39 AM PST
by
AMDG
To: JennysCool
Hi, there, JC :o)
Brian gets a grammy! Long overdue :o)
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posted on
02/22/2005 1:57:58 PM PST
by
tame
(Are you willing to be as SHAMELESS for the TRUTH as leftists are for a LIE???)
To: AMDG
Oh yeah, so did Matthew Sweet on 1999's "Thunderstorm."
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posted on
02/22/2005 8:54:11 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Columnated ruins domino...)
To: JennysCool
Cooper’s Beach in New York has been listed as the best beach in the USA—so it looks like the Trade Winds do have a place to surf, after all.
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