Author Topic: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!  (Read 14077 times)

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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2016, 10:27:38 AM »
BOS3 Rhymin' Simon, "Was a Sunny Day"

Her name was Lorelei, she was his only girl
She called him "Speedo" but his christian name was Mister Earl

Love that verse.
This song is rubbing me the wrong way today. His faux Jamaican seems mocking to me.

EVERYTHING old is politically incorrect thru a 21st century prism.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2016, 10:28:17 AM »
Multiplication Rock --> LedZep "The Ocean". BOS5.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2016, 10:28:21 AM »
All in the Family --> H&O, "She's Gone" Carbon AND monoxide.
Wow, I never would have guessed this song was that old. Very sorry to have missed the first three, especially The Real Me.

It wasn't a hit til '76, after Sara Smile. It originally charted in '74 but only got to #60, then they rereleased it after SS hit and it went to #7. Can you picture a record company doing that now? (Taking a second chance on a 3-year old song that died on the charts two years previously.)
Thanks for the background -- that explains it. And yeah, that song would be dead as a doornail.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2016, 10:29:29 AM »
Multiplication Rock --> LedZep. BOS5.
AM rocks hard! BOS for the week.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2016, 10:32:50 AM »
"Soylent Green is people!" --> Rev Al "Call Me". BOS6.

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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2016, 10:36:18 AM »
"I am not a crook!" --> Hawaiian Punch --> "Jean Genie", pulling the waiters.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2016, 10:44:43 AM »
"I am not a crook!" --> Hawaiian Punch --> "Jean Genie", pulling the waiters.
I was looking at the lyrics just now, and it was a bit stunning how few of them I actually knew. He uses some pretty odd pronunciation to make it more challenging, and what he's saying doesn't make a lot of obvious sense.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2016, 10:46:20 AM »
2/26/16 - Friday!  It's 1973!

1. The Who - The Real Me
2. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay
    (TV:  All in the Family)
3. Hall & Oates - She's Gone
4. Tower Of Power - So Very Hard To Go
    (TV:  The Partridge Family)
5. Bruce Springsteen - Growing Up
6. Paul Simon - Was A Sunny Day
    (TV:  Columbo)
7. Elton John - Elderberry Wine
    (TV:  Multiplication Rock)
8. Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
    (Movie:  Soylent Green)
9. Al Green - Call Me (Come Back Home)
    (News:  President Nixon:  "I'm not a crook")
10.David Bowie - Jean Genie

No. 9 appears to be a bust-out.

Edit:  corrected bust-out list
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2016, 10:56:04 AM »
An excellent set, including some very nicely played segues. Only possible negative is that she missed an opportunity to give a send-off to Dan Hicks, who passed nearly three weeks ago now. Last Train to Hicksville came out in '73, she could have played Payday Blues or 'Long Come a Viper. Not to take away from a great set, but I do think he deserved recognition.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2016, 11:13:57 AM »
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2/26/16 - Friday!  It's 1973!

9. Al Green - Call Me (Come Back Home)

No. 9 appears to be a bust-out.

Played once by Dave in 2007 (in a ''70s Vertical Tasting, apparently)

But as you pointed out last week, any '70s set without bustouts is a serious missed opportunity.
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Re: 26 Feb 2016: it's...1973!!!!
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2016, 09:56:02 PM »
these songs make me think of working in the PO, night shift down at Rincon Annex.
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