Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

[sirius]

Incredible String Band ~ Maya



Incredible String Band ~ Maya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JnyN1a ... re=related

Incredible String Band ~ Cousin Caterpillar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0brlGG ... re=related

The Incredible String Band - Douglas Traherne Harding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j80dSUvrjBw

The Incredible String Band - The Circle Is Unbroken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkxSSQbGsI&NR=1

[John Etherington]

Hi sirius,

Three of my all-time favourite String Band tracks there ("the spice box of earth" already put "Cousin Caterpillar" on here). I bought "Wee Tam" and "Big Huge" in late 1968/early 1969, at the time time that I started buying Leonard's records. By the way, I met Douglas Harding during the '80s (he died only recently). Here's the String Band song that started it all for me...I put my transistor by my bed-side to listen to John Peel, fell asleep, and heard this partly in the waking state. I couldn't find the original on youtube, so here's Mike Heron (in recent times) performing it with his daughter, Georgia Seddon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCDZsMVVuPU ("You Get Brighter" by Mike Heron & Georgia Seddon)

All the best, John E

[kwills]

Hi everyone,I've managed to move on from '72 to 1977!
This is another instrumental ,from Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llNSdf9cl4

[kwills]

Thanks kwills for posting Hot Buttered Popcorn, I do remember it. I loved the video, I felt like I had just drank some cider laced with acid!

M

[Bequia]

Hi everyone,I've managed to move on from '72 to 1977! This is another instrumental ,from Space

Descendants of the Spotnicks whom John posted????

Another from Space Disco:

I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, Hot Gossip, 1978

...the group's singer singing to the moon later on:

La Luna, Sarah Brightman, 2001+/-

[Kush]

Yeah Hugh Masekela !!!! His album Revival is outstanding as is Live from Market Theater Johannesburg. Phola is OK.

[kwills]

Hi John, going back to Jesse Winchester I found a link

http://www.last.fm/music/Jesse+Winchest ... ?autostart

It's like a make your own radio site,trouble is Black Dog only lasts for 30 seconds on it!

I thought that version on you tube wasn't Black Dog.

[John Etherington]

Definitely time for Country Joe and the Fish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRL91DJ8s8 ("Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" by Country Joe and the Fish)

[Bequia]

Definitely time for Country Joe and the Fish!

One of their lesser know songs that is a favorite:

Who Am I, Country Joe and the Fish, 1967

It's hard to believe group did not get an Oscar for their acting and music in a 1971 "Acid Western":

The Crackers, Poor But Honest Crackers, from Zachariah, 1971

Their most popular song back in the days when (something else that may be hard to believe) the US was involved in an unpopular war:

Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die, Country Joe Mc Donald, Woodstock, 1969
...(version with "Fish Cheer" per John's request - "explicit" warning as iTunes likes to say)...

sounded a lot like this:

Muskat Ramble, Louis Armstrong and His Hot 5, 1926

...one of Louis' Hot 5 wrote the melody and is seen performing it later with his group (with the "Muskat" typo on the original record label corrected):

Muskrat Ramble, Kid Ory 6, 1959

... In 2003, a lawsuit for copyright infringement brought by Ory's daughter was rejected because of "failure to assert legal rights in a timely manner" - she ended up having to pay McDonald's legal fees, apparently resulting in her having to sell the rights to her father's song ... the story is found here ...

[John Etherington]

Hi Bequia,

Thanks for "Who Am I"...I've never got round to buying the first Country Joe album; only "Electric Music for the Mind and Body". Interesting about the Ory-McDonald saga...I didn't know that. You've got to have the "Fish Cheer" in "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die"...you should cut and re-paste...the full version is on youtube.

All the best, John E

[Bequia]

You've got to have the "Fish Cheer" in "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die"...you should cut and re-paste...the full version is on youtube.

... wasn't sure if the up-front language (vs. what is slipped into the song) might offend some but it's there now - with a parental warning, of course ... BTW, the cheer made the group an answer to a trivia question - "who was paid to stay off the Ed Sullivan show (the major US Variety TV show)?" - story here ...

Having posted Fixin' to Die, it seems appropriate to post a song from those who had a different view:

Ballad of the Green Berets, SSgt Barry Sadler, 1966

Love it or leave it, but Sadler, like Joe McDonald, was not someone who was just playing to please an audience - Sadler had served and been injured in Vietnam ... his lifestory is an interesting one as told here ...

[John Etherington]

Quick! Let's have the song that finally ousted this from its U.S. No.1 slot, after four weeks. Surprisingly this is not a Phil Spector production, but it is my favourite song by these two guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzB-3Ff5GZM

[kwills]

From Paul Hardcastle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LdMAqUMnM

[John Etherington]

kwills... that is one I had truly forgotten. Quite bizarre, combining a message about post Vietnam stress disorder with an electro-dance beat! Mind you, if that was Hardcastle's medium and he wanted to get the message across, I can see why he did it,,,or maybe he felt that this was the only way he could get young people to listen. Quite why this was no. 1 for so long, I don't know...maybe it was a relevant protest during the Thatcher-Reagan era? However, I think I'd avoid a disco where this was played, just as I'd avoid a disco where Cohenites dance to "The Future"! Anyway, it wasn't my intention to bring a political theme into this thread... maybe the co-ordinators could lump all of the political music posts into one thread?

All the best, John E

[kwills]

Hi John, I didn't mean to get political either,but the earlier posts reminded me of Paul Hardcastle's 19.I wasn't a fan of his,but that song seemed to get stuck in my head !Apparently Mike oldfield claimed that a melodic element of "19" had been copied from a sequence of his multi-million selling concept album, Tubular Bells, and a settlement was made. Simon Fuller, who was Hardcastle's manager at the time of "19"'s release later adopted the title for his company, 19 Management.

Karen