post your favorite oldies

[Nemo2]

From 1962:

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

From 1962:

I was just a sprout back then, but I remember this.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

A lot of rockers found success covering old blues tunes. Here's a musician giving a metal number a bluesy twist.

 

[Nemo2]

I was just a sprout back then

You'd have been a little older for these ones then:

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

I remember the Seekers primarily for "Georgy Girl." Big hit for them, but a couple years later.

My first writing job was at a rock n roll radio station in Fond du Lac, Wis., making commercials and managing ad traffic. The station had its own "Dr. Johnny Fever," John Bucklen, who had deejayed his way up into the Minneapolis market before returning to Fond du Lac, where he had worked a decade earlier. John and I hit it off -- I had family in his hometown of Hibbing, Minn., and I had a distinctively Finnish surname that may have reminded him of home.

At any rate, he had a high school classmate named Bob Zimmerman, who was also into music. He or Bob rustled up a cheap tape recorder from somewhere and tried to duplicate some contemporary hits. The recording has become something of a collector's item. The quality and musicianship are nothing to brag about, but I hope John has made it pay for him.

 

[Nemo2]

Bob Zimmerman

Naah, doesn't have a ring to it....a name like that does not go gentle into that good night.....not at all poetic....he should look elsewhere.

 

[Marita40]

I'm not scared of dying
And I don't really care...

 

[Marita40]

40 years later and I'm still in love with Davy Jones. How can that be possible? He was just so adorable. He sings about his shaving razor in this song but looks like one hasn't touched his baby face yet.

 

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Rosie is gone now, great talent..

 

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Veronica Bennett married Phil Spector and became Ronnie Spector.

 

[candrew]

Happy 21st of September!

Do you remember the 21st night of September?

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

I learned that my first-ever girlfriend died recently. I was 14 and she was 16; she liked her men young and innocent (her old man probably felt the same way).

Anyway, here's one in honor of Kathleen "Little One" Ortiz.

 

[Boho]

The sad song thread reminded me of Heartaches but it's closer to my favorite oldie than the saddest.

 

[timo2]

What Jesse Colin Young said about this song recently on a different you tube version: I started writing this song while performing in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. There was a tune on the FM radio there that caught my ear by the band Kaleidoscope, and it helped me dig down into my Celtic roots. I wrote the lyrics at the kitchen table one night in my apartment when we returned home to Manhattan. I wrote it for all my brothers and sisters serving in Vietnam...to support and honor them. I hope we can pause today to honor and thank all those who are serving right now and all who have served in the past. God bless them and bring'em home safe.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

What Jesse Colin Young said about this song recently on a different you tube version: I started writing this song while performing in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. There was a tune on the FM radio there that caught my ear by the band Kaleidoscope, and it helped me dig down into my Celtic roots. I wrote the lyrics at the kitchen table one night in my apartment when we returned home to Manhattan. I wrote it for all my brothers and sisters serving in Vietnam...to support and honor them. I hope we can pause today to honor and thank all those who are serving right now and all who have served in the past. God bless them and bring'em home safe.

I saw Jesse Colin Young open for CSNY in the mid-70s. Great singer/songwriter who probably didn't get his full due.

Along the same line ...

 

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[Mr._Graybeard]

This one has been running through my head the last week or two. It could be an earworm, but it's definitely an oldie from my childhood.

It's supposedly based on childhood rhyme, which brings this to mind.

 

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