Wed. Oct. 5, 2005 - It's 1972

[princessofcairo]

proxy of cairo, "dirty work". and a VHM from me.

thanks!

[mshray]

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail...

not to harsh the mellow, but remember when this became the theme song of a late-night tryout show on ABC, hosted by a young Geraldo Rivera?

Do y'all know who wrote that song (w/o looking it up)?

Triva answer:  J.J. Cale's full name is Jean Jacques Cale.  Go figure.

ETA: Missed out on the rest of the set with an important phone call & then a meeting.  Upshot of the call is that I'm going to St. Louis next week, hopefully will scalp tix to Game 1 of the NLCS (iff'n the Padres cooperate a little).

[urth]

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail...

not to harsh the mellow, but remember when this became the theme song of a late-night tryout show on ABC, hosted by a young Geraldo Rivera?

Do y'all know who wrote that song (w/o looking it up)?

Triva answer:  J.J. Cale's full name is Jean Jacques Cale.  Go figure.

Yep--the late Steve Goodman, I believe.

[mshray]

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail...

not to harsh the mellow, but remember when this became the theme song of a late-night tryout show on ABC, hosted by a young Geraldo Rivera?

Do y'all know who wrote that song (w/o looking it up)?

Triva answer:  J.J. Cale's full name is Jean Jacques Cale.  Go figure.

Yep--the late Steve Goodman, I believe.

You got it.  He also wrote "Banana Republics" which is one of my favorite Jimmy Buffett songs & one that totally sounds like a Parrothead tune.

[RGMike]

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail...

not to harsh the mellow, but remember when this became the theme song of a late-night tryout show on ABC, hosted by a young Geraldo Rivera?

Do y'all know who wrote that song (w/o looking it up)?

Triva answer:  J.J. Cale's full name is Jean Jacques Cale.  Go figure.

Yep--the late Steve Goodman, I believe.

You got it.  He also wrote "Banana Republics" which is one of my favorite Jimmy Buffett songs & one that totally sounds like a Parrothead tune.

I think "BR" is credited as co-written by Goodman & Buffett, tho' my memory's a bit hazy -- I recall they each did a version of it on LPs released around the same time.  I prefer Goodman's.

[ggould]

10/05/05 - Midweek Wednesday!  A seventies year...1972!!!

Daniel Boone - Beautiful Sunday
Graham Nash/David Crosby - Immigration Man
Elton John - Mona Lisa & Mad Hatters
J.J. Cale - Call Me the Breeze
Yes - Long Distance Run Around/The Fish
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (B-O-S!!)
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
Steely Dan - Dirty Work
Santana - Everybody's Everything
Al Green - You Ought to Be With Me
BONUS TRACK:  Dan Hicks - I Scare Myself

[ggould]

proxy of cairo, "dirty work". and a VHM from me.

In my past life, one of my employees, who's now a bassist in Nashville, called this song our theme song, and would always sing along loudly, and in my direction when  it came on radio.

[Anonymous]

JJ Cale -- proxy WOS for Gaz, who's MIA this AM.

Yeah, I've been spending more days at the Voice lately -- finally making a little bit of money, feeling like Tracy Chapman's fast-car protagonist.  Dunno if I know the JJC song that played, but my BOS woulda gone to Elton, one of my all-time faves, and a major sledgehammer from the period when I lost my job in SoCal and moved back to SF in late summer 2000.  (Its use in Almost Famous, which I saw about three weeks later, only compounded its power.)

I'm guessing Jean Jacques has some Creole roots?

P.S.  I have Steve Goodman's original recording of CONO on the Buddah Box Set.  It's not as grand as Arlo's cover, a rare instance of a cover incontrovertibly topping the original.

[RGMike]

Dunno if I know the JJC song that played.

It was "They Call Me the Breeze", which you've also WOS'd by Skynyrd. :wink: