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1970 on Tues 4/19/05
« on: April 19, 2005, 07:58:47 AM »
fingers crossed for Flaming Ember, the promo earlier promised Morrison (Van) and Harrison (George).
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2005, 08:04:25 AM »
VHM to CSN; "Carry On" has my favorite CSN harmonies of all.
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2005, 08:07:28 AM »
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VHM to CSN; "Carry On" has my favorite CSN harmonies of all.


I was a progressive radio newbie in early 1970; I had gotten my first FM radio for Xmas '69.  I was pretty much immersed in all the NYC free-form rock stations, and talk about saturation airplay for an LP! CSNY were everywhere at once.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2005, 08:09:12 AM »
ah, the theme song of the Puerto Rican Jew: "Oy Vey Como Va."
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2005, 08:11:46 AM »
HM to "Tighter, Tighter" even though there's just something weird about Tommy James's songwriting structure.  Are there more than 20 distinct words in this song?
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2005, 08:14:01 AM »
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HM to "Tighter, Tighter" even though there's just something weird about Tommy James's songwriting structure.  Are there more than 20 distinct words in this song?


if you've got a hook, who needs lyrics?

"a-woman-a-touch-a-mah-soul-now..."

And A&K are still dining off that one hit.
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2005, 08:14:44 AM »
oh look -- an overplayed long-haired leaping Katrina!
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2005, 08:14:52 AM »
BOS to "Spill the Wine."  A sloppy production but a fascinating one.  Saw a live performance of this (some German top-of-the-pops-esque TV show) in which a blotto Burdon tries to call the wine "a bottle of Liefraumilch" and fails miserably.
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2005, 08:22:48 AM »
anyone else remember his followup, "Canned Ham?"

we ran into a furniture salesman at Macy's who knew him, and we were told tales of how his career was spoiled by a girlfriend who wouldn't let him tour behind the album...
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2005, 08:23:16 AM »
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BOS to "Spill the Wine."  A sloppy production but a fascinating one.  Saw a live performance of this (some German top-of-the-pops-esque TV show) in which a blotto Burdon tries to call the wine "a bottle of Liefraumilch" and fails miserably.


Liebfraumilch (the milk of a loving wife?) goes well with "Canned Ham"; unfortunately we got "Spirit in the Sky" instead.   Hmmm... a Jew has a hit about Jesus and follows it up with a song about ham...
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2005, 08:24:35 AM »
It really seemed like Van was kind of bipolar back then; releasing one album of pop tunes, followed by an artsy ethereal album, and so on.
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2005, 08:24:47 AM »
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anyone else remember his followup, "Canned Ham?"

we ran into a furniture salesman at Macy's who knew him, and we were told tales of how his career was spoiled by a girlfriend who wouldn't let him tour behind the album...


"CH" is one of my all-time-fave failed follow-ups (see my previous post).
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Re: Spirit in the Sky
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2005, 08:27:54 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2005, 08:32:30 AM »
Made it in time. First time in a while.
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« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2005, 08:34:27 AM »
VHM GFR "I'm Your Captain".  I was SO torn when this came out; I loved this song and yet rock crits (I was just starting to read folks like Christgau in the Village Voice and others in Rolling Stone) HATED GFR with a passion.  

As I've mentioned before I won tix to see them at Madison Square Garden in Dec of that year. We were down front near the speakers and my ears rang for days.
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