And yes, Rod was part of the Small Faces, for those who may have thought otherwise:
That album cover is the UK version. In the US it was changed to "Faces"
Posted on 04/08/2020 4:13:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Forget the virus watch this and turn it up loud
https://youtu.be/eudNu08hD3o
LOL...funny
Stewart is one of those rare guys that can cover someone else's song and make you forget the original version. Cash and Cocker have that same unique ability.
'Reason to Believe, 'Street fighting Man', Downtown Train, are three covers that come to mind as examples.
IIRC it was a contract dispute that prompted the name change.
OMG - somehow I was at a second row concert of his one night and many around me had some kind of white powder. It was pretty amazing. First time I had ever seen so much of that.
Here is a link to a youtube video of him that has 279M views! It’s great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46bWxS9IjY
For later
I agree. I like the purist songs, before artists get so commercial. “Forever Young” is one of those “need me a new Aston Martin” kind of songs to me. Like Elton John’s “Philadelphia Freedom” and “Honky Cat”...i mean REALLY?!
And yes, Rod was part of the Small Faces, for those who may have thought otherwise:
That album cover is the UK version. In the US it was changed to "Faces"
I’ll say this about him....he does remakes pretty darn good. This one is even better than the original and I think he moves better than the Isley guy too. Like how a rocker should move to a soul motown song....perfect. No?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1d3SnS1FWQ
Rod is a good interpreter of songs. Can sing any style and put his own signature on it.
After Small Faces split (Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie), Lane, Jones and McLagan joined forces with two former members of The Jeff Beck Group, singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood.along with Art Wood and Kim Gardner to form Quiet Melon. Four singles were recorded before the lineup minus Art and Kim, became Faces. However, hoping to capitalize on Small Faces’ earlier success, record company executives wanted the band to keep their old name. The band objected, arguing the personnel changes resulted in a group altogether different from Small Faces.
You are so right. He did a great rendition of Creedence Clearwater song too......Have you ever seen the rain. Fantastic rendition.
Eric Burdon, Stevie Winwood, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll and Rod Stewart - I Feel Alright
August 8th, 1965-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmlBiIRk_I
Rod Stewart’s Tribute To Long John Baldry - “I’ll Be Seeing You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4CXHuf8Hz0
Long John Baldry discovered Rod Stewart singing on a London railway station when RS was 18 years old.
Long John Baldry was a favorite of mine when I was a young lad of 15.
This >>>
Long John Baldry - “Don’t Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie On The King of Rock & Roll”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_lZ4hkJd8
Baldry, known as Long John because of his 6ft 7in stature, had formed a band known as Bluesology some years earlier. The line-up included Reg Dwight on keyboard and Elton Dean on saxophone. When Dwight later launched a solo career, he “borrowed” band members’ names and came up with Elton John.
The Man Who Saved Elton John’s Life
https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-man-who-saved-elton-johns-life
Damn, just damn...
Turns out, Long John Baldry was a pole smoker like his friend Elton John.
I take Rod Stewart like Barry Manilow - one song at a time and with lots of others in between....anyone know what Maggie May looked like - she sounds interesting as Cecilia in the Simon-Garfunkle repertoire...
>> Can sing any style and put his own signature on it. <<
That signature being that of a Lesbian “priest.”
I appreciate that people on this thread have a sense of humor. I don’t like Rod Stewart, but it is just a matter of opinion.
If y’all like a lesbian priest in a purple jumpsuit, that’s says nothing else about you.
Shawn Colvin does a great (live) version of “Looking For The Heart of Saturday Night” on her album, “Cover Girl”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfrlx-O43I
Amazingly, Tom wrote one of the most beautiful love songs -”Take Me Home” - for the soundtrack of Coppala’s “One for the Heart” sung by Crystal Gale. Amazing lyrics that only TW could write...and touches me as it hits very close to my own heart.
Crystal Gayle - Take Me Home FULL VERSION (written by Tom Waits)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MgdIZQW-4E
Rod’s music video of “Young Turks” featured a young “EG Daily” as “Patty”. She later was PeeWee Herman’s girlfriend in “Big Adventure”
She was also Phoebe’s songwriting partner for “Smelly Cat” episode on “Friends”.
EG Daily also sang the “Men, men, etc” theme song for “Two and a Half Men”.
Our plane was delayed and they handed out some crappy butter sandwiches (for real) while we waited. I looked at it and thought "Not putting that near my mouth".
One of the poor indians among many begging and selling goods INSIDE of the airport came up, waved at me, pointed to the sandwich to which I nodded and he devoured it on the spot.
It hit home. When I hear people complain about having it bad here, I've got some perspective. Walking through favelas in Brasil, seeing starving indians who would eat things we would flush before we put it on a plate, and a general quality of life that made people envy rats left me with a burning anger towards people who take this country for granted.
My wife is directly indian descent. She has told me countless times how her mother's side of the family would never discuss what life was like, as if it were a trauma to be buried forever.
On a lighter note: Had family come to visit in Arizona. We were preparing to to take them on a tour that would pass through Navajo lands. One of my SILs asked "We are indian, will the Navajo give us a discount?" to which we laughed and explained "Nope, doesn't work that way..." LOL!
I would have been there when you went through, as I had an office in Asuncion from late 80s through late 90s. When I first set up shop there, the airport was literally a bus stop. They upgraded it significantly by the time you went through, but the Guarani beggars were the same.
That Rod Stewart song brings back quite a few memories, especially the line about “catching pneumonia” in a subtropical country. I’ve never been colder than in Paraguay. A few of the other lines about the girl are pretty consistent, too..., I still crack up at, “I know I’m not a football star, but I wanna a little better than that”! So true of the girls down there... :)
I never made it to Rio, but had an office in a rather nice part of Sao Paulo, so didn’t see the poverty as much as I did in Paraguay where things are all closer. Across South America, the poor they have electricity but not good water, so it always amazed me to see the lights throughout the cities and countryside at night — and the blue flicker of televisions. My first visit to Caracas was at night, and I thought the city was rather pretty with all those flickering lights. Riding back out the next day I realized that all those lights were single, bare bulbs strung across miles of favela. So sad.
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