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Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:00:31 AM
Can't remember the last time Bob did '60s twice in one week.  Maybe Dave can make it a Daily Double?
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: mshray on September 14, 2007, 08:05:26 AM
...Meanwhile, atop the umbrella factory, we find the secret headquarters of the rascally Penguin and his fine, feathered Finks!

just had to post that bit from the lead-in.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:06:22 AM
HM to "I Can't Quit Her."  But I suspect this'll get better.  Easy to assume we'll get Jimi, Beatles (yay), and/or Cream.  But I'm hoping for Donovan, Monkees, or -- what the hell -- Vicki Carr's "With Pen in Hand."
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:11:43 AM
Should've seen this coming: "Suzy Q."
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: mshray on September 14, 2007, 08:13:02 AM
Hey Gaz, do you know what happened 41 years ago this week?
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:13:55 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
or -- what the hell -- Vicki Carr's "With Pen in Hand."


ah, but have you ever heard the versions by Ree-Ree, Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (of "Tennessee Birdwalk" fame), Bobby Goldsboro (who wrote it, iirc), and Billy Vera?
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:16:00 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Hey Gaz, do you know what happened 41 years ago this week?


I believe we discussed that earlier this week -- Little Steven devoted his entire show to it Sun nite...
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:20:22 AM
BOS John Fred and his Lemonade Pie.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:22:34 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
or -- what the hell -- Vicki Carr's "With Pen in Hand."


ah, but have you ever heard the versions by Ree-Ree, Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (of "Tennessee Birdwalk" fame), Bobby Goldsboro (who wrote it, iirc), and Billy Vera?


I was aware of Billy Vera's, but none of the others.  BG wrote it?  Wow, the head spins, the mind reels.

Meantime, BOS to "Judy," which -- TANC -- I just heard at a bar the other night.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: mshray on September 14, 2007, 08:24:18 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Easy to assume we'll get Jimi, Beatles (yay), and/or Cream.


Very easy, yet still a BOS for All Along the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:28:15 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
I was aware of Billy Vera's, but none of the others.  BG wrote it?  Wow, the head spins, the mind reels.



"with pen in hand
She sipped on a julep"

If memory serves, the Vera and Carr versions had a classic cover battle, so neither was a big hit (even tho' she was coming off "It Must Be Him"). Aretha's is just as you'd imagine it to be.  

BOS2 TJ&TS, "C&C". Ovah and ovah!
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:30:12 AM
Was C&C '68?  I've always associated it with 1969.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:30:28 AM
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BOS2 TJ&TS, "C&C". Ovah and ovah!


Ladies and gentlemen... the looooong "psychedelic" version!! And "Suzy Q" was also the long (some would say "endless") version.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:31:28 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Was C&C '68?  I've always associated it with 1969.


late fall release, I believe it hit #1 around Christmas and lingered far into '69.  Another of those songs I associate with shoveling snow.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:34:03 AM
BOS3 "Love Street" -- where's Meg Ryan when you need her?
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:34:15 AM
BOS to "Love Street."  We've heard this a few times this year, to my pleasant surprise.  (Better this than the singles from the Waiting for the Sun album, dare I say.)
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:35:09 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
And "Suzy Q" was also the long (some would say "endless") version.


*koff koff*

PS: Is this an alternate vocal mix on "Love Street"?  Sounded doubled on the verses.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:38:02 AM
BOS4 Rascals -- oh, heaven now!  Another of those "why can't artists be political like that anymore?" songs that dominated the charts back then.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:39:07 AM
That train of freedom forgot to make a few stops.  Nevertheless VHM.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:41:29 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
That train of freedom forgot to make a few stops.  Nevertheless VHM.


at the time I thought "Everybody sing it now come on let's go see" was "Everybody's singin' 'bout a horny-toad seed".  (and I wasn't even doing drugs!)

BOS5 Sly. And so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:42:31 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
That train of freedom forgot to make a few stops.  


They shoulda flown Miami Beach BOAC.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 08:46:14 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
PS: Is this an alternate vocal mix on "Love Street"?  Sounded doubled on the verses.


there's your answer!
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on September 14, 2007, 08:47:06 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
PS: Is this an alternate vocal mix on "Love Street"?  Sounded doubled on the verses.


there's your answer!


Now that's service!
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: mshray on September 14, 2007, 08:50:50 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
BOS4 Rascals -- oh, heaven now!  Another of those "why can't artists be political like that anymore?" songs that dominated the charts back then.


TANC, speaking of political artists, I jumped off to hear the Pete Seeger interview on KFOG, after which Dave played "Little Boxes" & then had a Request-o-rama-o-rama question on it.  And then the winner chose BAD "Medicine Show", which is still playing right now.

"...and I heard in the Middle East, we traded some for a hostage release."  which was right at the very beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Title: The Drive, 9/14/07: 1968!!
Post by: RGMike on September 14, 2007, 09:01:12 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
BOS4 Rascals -- oh, heaven now!  Another of those "why can't artists be political like that anymore?" songs that dominated the charts back then.


TANC, speaking of political artists, I jumped off to hear the Pete Seeger interview on KFOG, after which Dave played "Little Boxes" & then had a Request-o-rama-o-rama question on it.  And then the winner chose BAD "Medicine Show", which is still playing right now.

"...and I heard in the Middle East, we traded some for a hostage release."  which was right at the very beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal.


TANC2: Seeger was one of the celeb cameos in that Sesame Street video from 1988 that I posted yesterday.