Oldies

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WARNING: THIS POST WILL PROBABLY ONLY INTEREST OLD FARTS LIKE ME (and Marlin, Xracer, berto, Tranter . . . et al, ad fininitum ) of course!

What songs among the "oldies" (I'm talking 1950s, 1960s, 1970s here) were your favorites? I have just acquired, though a strange concatenation of events which shall remain a mystery, quite a number of songs that fit into this category. I've been listening to them all evening, some of which I haven't heard in over 40 years! Among my favorites . . .

House of the Rising Sun -- The Animals
I Fought the Law -- Bobby Fuller Four
I Think We're Alone Now -- Shondells
England Swings Like a Pendulum Do -- Roger Miller (maybe Tranter???)
Lipstick on Your Collar -- Connie Francis
Moody River -- Pat Boone
Only the Lonely -- Roy Orbison
Run to Him -- Bobby Vee

Many, many others, actually. What were some of your favorites?

[Alpo]

That's England Swings.

A whole lot of Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now?
Take a Letter, Maria - R. B. Greaves
I'll admit it. Tony Orlando. Knock Three Times.
And I like bubble gum music.
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
Chewy Chewy - The Ohio Express
Simon Says - 1910 Fruitgum Company
I'm Broke and Venus - A and B sides by Frankie Avalon
Daydream Believer - the Monkees
Ever heard Speedy Gonzalez, by Pat Boone? I hadn't until the other day, but it made it to Billboard's #6 in '63. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIFgo...eature=related
Fernando - Abba

[artabr]

Thats some good ones.
I've been on a Simon and Garfunkel / Jim Croce binge the last week or so.
Today I picked up a good CD in the cheapskate rack. $4.99
Ray Charles "R&B Soul"
Georgia On My Mind
Hit The Road Jack
What'd I Say
etc.
Great disk.

Art

[armedandsafe]

Lessee, Today I ran through about 4 1/2 hours of 50's R&R, setting up the CD for the 50th reunion next month. Then I cooled off with Benny, Bix and Glen, with a little YoYo thrown in for good measure.

Did somebody mention "old pharts?"

Pops

[Lead Lobber]

Kingston Trio - all their stuff
The 4 Lettermen
Lionel Hampton - Golden Vibes
Frank Sinatra
Benny Goodman
Beatles
Stones

And the list goes on - the above is incomplete

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Originally Posted by armedandsafe

Did somebody mention "old pharts?"

Pops

Well Pops, I really didn't mean to include as oldies such songs as "Over There" and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."

[armedandsafe]

AH, the memories. (Some actually true. )

Pops

[Lead Lobber]

Originally Posted by armedandsafe

AH, the memories. (Some actually true. )

Pops

Ah, the mammaries; some came in pairs ....

[jacksonco]

Hi-Way Star - Deep Purple
Frankenstien - The Edgar Winter Band
Rock and Roll All Night (and Party Every Day) - Kiss
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nuggent
An American Band - Grand Funk Railraod
American Pie - Don McCleanan?

[berto64]

Roy Orbison-all of his stuff, same with the Everly Bros.

[Lead Lobber]

Boss Skags - Lone me a dime - I know, I'm not spelling it right, but this is classic, old rythm/blues - Someone lone a dime .... ?

Geez, or LOAN me a quarter, I wish I could spell ... opens the way to a new verse, in light of our current level of education (sigh) ..

[artabr]

Originally Posted by Lead Lobber

Boss Skags - Lone me a dime - I know, I'm not spelling it right, but this is classic, old rythm/blues - Someone lone a dime .... ?

Geez, or LOAN me a quarter, I wish I could spell ... opens the way to a new verse, in light of our current level of education (sigh) ..

Saint James Infirmary. Best blues song ever!!!

Art

[TranterUK]

The older I get the better I was.

Music, there was music? When I got married my brother in law couldn't believe I didn't own a record player.

'I couldn't live without my music' he wined. I couldn't live without decent group's I'd reply, and I wasn't talking music.

[Lead Lobber]

Originally Posted by artabr

Saint James Infirmary. Best blues song ever!!!

Art

artabr - I never knew the album title, just the signature tune that ran at least 10 minutes (not sure) back in the ******ties ) not sure there, either.

But it is mesmerizing, irrestistable, like Bo Derek, listening to "Bolero" in Ten, another work of art that slowly builds to a musical cresendo.

Those were the days.

[user]

It's nice to hang out here. Some of you guys make me feel young.

I was a bit of a musician myself in those days, so on the one hand, I was right partial to Schoetz, Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, and Beethovan.

And on the other, I spent a lot of time with Iron Butterfly; Jimi Hendrix; The Doors; Jefferson Airplane; Chicago; Cream / Blind Faith; Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention; Steppenwolf; Santana; Jethro Tull; Big Brother & the Holding Company; Blood, Sweat & Tears; The Who; Pink Floyd; Led Zeppelin; Leon Russell; and such folks. I was the person people called to "do lights" for their parties. Whoa - psychedelic, man - Far out.

[artabr]

Originally Posted by Lead Lobber

artabr - I never knew the album title, just the signature tune that ran at least 10 minutes (not sure) back in the ******ties ) not sure there, either.

But it is mesmerizing, irrestistable, like Bo Derek, listening to "Bolero" in Ten, another work of art that slowly builds to a musical cresendo.

Those were the days.

Lobber, I had a big brain Phart. The song is "Lone Me A Dime". Scagg's recorded it in 1969 on the album "Boz Scagg". I got it mixed up with "St. James Infirmary". Both are great songs that I haven't heard in years. I think I might spend a little money to update my collection so next time I'll know the difference.

Art

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Originally Posted by berto64

Roy Orbison-all of his stuff, same with the Everly Bros.

Remember "Ebony Eyes," "Cathy's Clown," and "Lucille," Berto, not to mention "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "Only the Lonely?"

[dcd_enterprises]

England Swings -- Roger Miller
Against the Wind -- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Alabam' -- Copas, Cowboy
All for the Love of a Girl -- Johnny Horton
Are the Good Times Really Over -- Merle Haggard
Baby Please Don't Go -- Them
Ballad of a Teenage Queen -- Johnny Cash
The Ballad of Ira Hayes -- Johnny Cash
The Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton
The Bottle Let me Down -- Merle Haggard
A Boy Named Sue -- Johnny Cash
Break on Through -- The Doors
Casey Jones -- Johnny Cash
Cats in the Cradle -- Johnny Cash
Classified -- C.W. McCall
Cocaine Blues -- Johnny Cash
Comanche -- Johnny Horton
Crispy Critters -- C.W. McCall
Daddy Frank -- Merle Haggard
Daddy Sang Bass -- Johnny Cash
Danger Zone -- Kenny Loggins (Maybe '80's)
Delia's Gone -- Johnny Cash (A truly strange song, but I like it)
Devil With a Blue Dress On -- Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Devil Woman -- Marty Robbins
Don't Take Your Guns to Town -- Johnny Cash
Down in the Valley -- Johnny Cash
The Fightin' Side of Me -- Merle Haggard
Fishin' in the Dark -- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Five Feet High and Rising -- Johnny Cash
Five O' Clock World -- The Vogues
Folsom Prison Blues -- Johnny Cash
Fortunate Son -- Credence Clearwater Revival
Frankie's Man, Johnny -- Johnny Cash
From A Jack to a King -- Ned Miller
Game of Love -- Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
Get Rhythm -- Johnny Cash
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky -- Johnny Cash
The Girl on the Billboard -- Del Reeves
Great Balls of Fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis
Gonna Find Me a Bluebird -- Marvin Rainwater
He's In the Jailhouse Now -- Webb Pierce
Highway Patrolman -- Johnny Cash
The Highwaymen -- The Highwaymen
Honky Tonk Man -- Johnny Horton
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do -- Clarence (Frogman) Henry
I Got Stripes -- Johnny Cash
I Walk the Line -- Johnny Cash
In the Jailhouse Now -- Johnny Cash
Jim Bridger -- Johnny Horton
Johnny Freedom -- Johnny Horton
Johnny Reb -- Johnny Horton
Land of 1000 Dances -- Wilson Pickett
The Legend of John Henry's Hammer -- Johnny Cash
Lonesome 77203 -- Hawkshaw Hawkins
Long Black Veil -- Johnny Cash
Mrs. Robinson -- Simon & Garfunkel
My Woman, My Woman, My Wife -- Marty Robbins
North To Alaska -- Johnny Horton
Nowhere to Run -- Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Okie from Muskogee -- Merle Haggard
One Piece at a Time -- Johnny Cash
Oney -- Johnny Cash
Orange Blossom Special -- Johnny Cash
Promised Land -- Elvis Presley
Ribbon of Darkness -- Marty Robbins
Rock Island Line -- Johnny Cash
Saginaw, Michigan -- Lefty Frizell
The Silverton -- C.W. McCall
Sing Me Back Home -- Merle Haggard
Sixteen Tons -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
Sloop John B -- The Beach Boys
Still -- Bill Anderson
Sweet Home Alabama -- Lynard Skynard
Tears in the Holston River -- Johnny Cash
Teddy Bear -- Red Sovine
Tell Laura I Love Her -- Richie Valens
Tennessee Flat Top Box -- Johnny Cash
There Ain't No Good Chain Gang -- Johnny Cash
There Won't be no Country Music -- C.W. McCallWalkin' After Midnight -- Patsy Cline
Waterloo -- Stonewall Jackson
Wabash Cannonball -- Johnny Cash
What a Wonderful World -- Louis B. Armstrong
Whispering Pines -- Johnny Horton
White Lightnin' -- George Jones
Wings of a Dove -- Ferlin Husky
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Old 97 -- Johnny Cash
etal...

[Lead Lobber]

Originally Posted by artabr

Lobber, I had a big brain Phart. The song is "Lone Me A Dime". Scagg's recorded it in 1969 on the album "Boz Scagg". I got it mixed up with "St. James Infirmary". Both are great songs that I haven't heard in years. I think I might spend a little money to update my collection so next time I'll know the difference.

Art

"Lone", rather than "Loan" changes the intent, calling for a new ear, here. I'll have to dig out the CD and listen in a different light. I was always been a melody man, never good at (deciphering) listening to the words.

It's been a hard day's night ...

LL

[Lead Lobber]

Originally Posted by dcd_enterprises

England Swings -- Roger Miller
Against the Wind -- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Alabam' -- Copas, Cowboy
All for the Love of a Girl -- Johnny Horton
Are the Good Times Really Over -- Merle Haggard
Baby Please Don't Go -- Them
Ballad of a Teenage Queen -- Johnny Cash
The Ballad of Ira Hayes -- Johnny Cash
The Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton
The Bottle Let me Down -- Merle Haggard
A Boy Named Sue -- Johnny Cash
Break on Through -- The Doors
Casey Jones -- Johnny Cash
Cats in the Cradle -- Johnny Cash
Classified -- C.W. McCall
Cocaine Blues -- Johnny Cash
Comanche -- Johnny Horton
Crispy Critters -- C.W. McCall
Daddy Frank -- Merle Haggard
Daddy Sang Bass -- Johnny Cash
Danger Zone -- Kenny Loggins (Maybe '80's)
Delia's Gone -- Johnny Cash (A truly strange song, but I like it)
Devil With a Blue Dress On -- Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Devil Woman -- Marty Robbins
Don't Take Your Guns to Town -- Johnny Cash
Down in the Valley -- Johnny Cash
The Fightin' Side of Me -- Merle Haggard
Fishin' in the Dark -- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Five Feet High and Rising -- Johnny Cash
Five O' Clock World -- The Vogues
Folsom Prison Blues -- Johnny Cash
Fortunate Son -- Credence Clearwater Revival
Frankie's Man, Johnny -- Johnny Cash
From A Jack to a King -- Ned Miller
Game of Love -- Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
Get Rhythm -- Johnny Cash
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky -- Johnny Cash
The Girl on the Billboard -- Del Reeves
Great Balls of Fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis
Gonna Find Me a Bluebird -- Marvin Rainwater
He's In the Jailhouse Now -- Webb Pierce
Highway Patrolman -- Johnny Cash
The Highwaymen -- The Highwaymen
Honky Tonk Man -- Johnny Horton
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do -- Clarence (Frogman) Henry
I Got Stripes -- Johnny Cash
I Walk the Line -- Johnny Cash
In the Jailhouse Now -- Johnny Cash
Jim Bridger -- Johnny Horton
Johnny Freedom -- Johnny Horton
Johnny Reb -- Johnny Horton
Land of 1000 Dances -- Wilson Pickett
The Legend of John Henry's Hammer -- Johnny Cash
Lonesome 77203 -- Hawkshaw Hawkins
Long Black Veil -- Johnny Cash
Mrs. Robinson -- Simon & Garfunkel
My Woman, My Woman, My Wife -- Marty Robbins
North To Alaska -- Johnny Horton
Nowhere to Run -- Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Okie from Muskogee -- Merle Haggard
One Piece at a Time -- Johnny Cash
Oney -- Johnny Cash
Orange Blossom Special -- Johnny Cash
Promised Land -- Elvis Presley
Ribbon of Darkness -- Marty Robbins
Rock Island Line -- Johnny Cash
Saginaw, Michigan -- Lefty Frizell
The Silverton -- C.W. McCall
Sing Me Back Home -- Merle Haggard
Sixteen Tons -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
Sloop John B -- The Beach Boys
Still -- Bill Anderson
Sweet Home Alabama -- Lynard Skynard
Tears in the Holston River -- Johnny Cash
Teddy Bear -- Red Sovine
Tell Laura I Love Her -- Richie Valens
Tennessee Flat Top Box -- Johnny Cash
There Ain't No Good Chain Gang -- Johnny Cash
There Won't be no Country Music -- C.W. McCallWalkin' After Midnight -- Patsy Cline
Waterloo -- Stonewall Jackson
Wabash Cannonball -- Johnny Cash
What a Wonderful World -- Louis B. Armstrong
Whispering Pines -- Johnny Horton
White Lightnin' -- George Jones
Wings of a Dove -- Ferlin Husky
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Old 97 -- Johnny Cash
etal...

alpha beta tized - impressed, I am

[dcd_enterprises]

Originally Posted by Lead Lobber

alpha beta tized - impressed, I am

Alphabetizing was not my intent, I was just sitting here going through my iTunes Line up, and started picking out the older ones that are favorites of mine. Didn't realize until I posted it how long my list was getting...

[Mrs. DCD]

My love for this 'old but gold' music was inspired by my mother who had tons of 45's, and could bebop, which she taught me how to do. Some of my favorites came from Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Dion, Fabion, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, and the list goes on and on. I still have all of those 45's, and a stack of albums to make any disk-jockey drool. I always listen to all the commercials that advertise the oldies for sale. Gotta love em.

Some of my favorites were:
Spirit in the sky
Under the board walk
The lion sleeps tonight
The Bird
Then he kissed me
The stroll


There are just to many to remember, besides list, see I'm not like my husband. Ha! Ha! HA! And don't it just figure, he doesn't like to dance. Oh well, I have three little boys whom I will teach the fine are of dance some day.

Have a good week, and at least once, try to limbo!!

[Lead Lobber]

Guess I'll have to air a pet peeve, here - those that are unaware of their surroundings because their ears are stuffed with music. Nothing personal here, but I can't understand folks that go about listening to music, no matter how good it may.

Riding bicycles, skate boards, roller skates ... all manner of vehicular conveyance ... while numb to sounds (and potential dangers) in their immediate environment. Not a good survival tactic, but really bewilders me are those that carry battery-powered music players into the wilderness on camping trips.

Camping should be about a connection with nature, or is that just me? Maybe tunes belong in the woods - who am I to object? To each their own interrpretation of wilderness living, I suppose.

Did you know Indians would never camp near white water? Why? The background noise made it too easy for enemies to sneak in and attack.

Not too much danger of that today. Or, is there?

[USMC-03]

Originally Posted by Lead Lobber

Guess I'll have to air a pet peeve, here - those that are unaware of their surroundings because their ears are stuffed with music. Nothing personal here, but I can't understand folks that go about listening to music, no matter how good it may.

Riding bicycles, skate boards, roller skates ... all manner of vehicular conveyance ... while numb to sounds (and potential dangers) in their immediate environment. Not a good survival tactic, but really bewilders me are those that carry battery-powered music players into the wilderness on camping trips.

Camping should be about a connection with nature, or is that just me? Maybe tunes belong in the woods - who am I to object? To each their own interrpretation of wilderness living, I suppose.

Did you know Indians would never camp near white water? Why? The background noise made it too easy for enemies to sneak in and attack.

Not too much danger of that today. Or, is there?

Last weekend my wife and I took the kids to the movies and saw Wall-E. Kind of a cute movie but not nearly as entertaining as most of Pixar's work.

There was a theme in the movie that did ring a bit to close to the truth. The movie portrayed an entire race of human beings that had so immersed themselves in technology that they were essentially incapable of most physical activity and conducted all relationship via electronic communications.

It's a bit scary when I see my daughter completely immersed in texting over the cell phone or a video game at the expense of everything else around her. The texting is especially bothersome with the almost 24/7 communication. I'm a bit of a loner by nature enjoy privacy both individually and as a family. It seems that teens today have no concept of privacy or how refreshing a healthy amount of solitude can be. My wife and I step in and limit her technology use when needed, but I really hope this is a fashion that will fade away soon.

Now, as far as oldies...

Roy Orbison is without a doubt my favorite vocalist. His vocal range and dexterity was really something to marvel at.

I grew up on Johnny Cash, Jim Reeve, Buck Owens, Hank Williams Sr., ett. I still prefer this vintage of country and somewhat up into the 80's far more than anything produced today.

I mainly listen to Blues, John Lee Hooker, T. Bone Walker, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters...

I'm also have been a 60's and 70's rock fan and especially like the Doors, The Guess Who, Pink Ffloyd and Jimi Hendrix. I've been an aficionado of psychedelic rock since my teen years.

Some others really I enjoy; Jackie Wilson, Del Shannon and Ray Charles.

[armedandsafe]

I once lent a thumb drive to a youngster on my bus. Fifth grader, if I remember correctly. There was a musical selection he wanted to learn. When he returned it, he commented that there was some music on there he really, REALLY liked and wanted to know who this guy "Batch" recorded for. Took awhile to get him to take the "t" out of the composer's name.

Pops