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Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 15-03-2013
A fun song...I like it!
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 17-03-2013
#351 - Dion - Runaround Sue - 1961
running recap for me - 3's=83, 2's=55, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Runaround Sue
Written by Dion DiMucci, Ernie Maresca
Produced by Gene Schwartz
Chart action: #1 US, #11 UK
the players:
Dion DiMucci - vocal
Del Vikings - backup vocals
other people playing things
Dion's only #1 song and he did it after splitting from the Belmonts, who he had been with since
starting his career. Dion declined on that plane ride that took Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens and
the Big Bopper. Back up on this hit is by the Del-Satins who did session work for the label.
Can't tell any difference between them and the Belmonts. A doo-wop is a doo-wop. This one made
Dion a household name, enough so to be inducted into the R&R HOF in 1989.
[video=youtube;jxyPtMdBcI4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyPtMdBcI4[/video]
Lyrics
Here's my story, sad but true
It's about a girl that I once knew
She took my love then ran around
With every single guy in town
Ah, I should have known it from the very start
This girl will leave me with a broken heart
Now listen people what I'm telling you
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue
I miss her lips and the smile on her face
The touch of her hair and this girl's warm embrace
So if you don't wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue
Ah, she likes to travel around
She'll love you but she'll put you down
Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys
Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my love still grows
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Sue
She likes to travel around
She'll love you but she'll put you down
Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys
Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my love still grows
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Sue
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 18-03-2013
Without a doubt one of my favorite all time songs ever!!!!!...should be rated much higher!!!..It was the quintessential song in the early sixties, all of us in grade school were singing it!!!
Music Head Wrote:#351 - Dion - Runaround Sue - 1961
running recap for me - 3's=83, 2's=55, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Runaround Sue
Written by Dion DiMucci, Ernie Maresca
Produced by Gene Schwartz
Chart action: #1 US, #11 UK
the players:
Dion DiMucci - vocal
Del Vikings - backup vocals
other people playing things
Dion's only #1 song and he did it after splitting from the Belmonts, who he had been with since
starting his career. Dion declined on that plane ride that took Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens and
the Big Bopper. Back up on this hit is by the Del-Satins who did session work for the label.
Can't tell any difference between them and the Belmonts. A doo-wop is a doo-wop. This one made
Dion a household name, enough so to be inducted into the R&R HOF in 1989.
[video=youtube;jxyPtMdBcI4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyPtMdBcI4[/video]
Lyrics
Here's my story, sad but true
It's about a girl that I once knew
She took my love then ran around
With every single guy in town
Ah, I should have known it from the very start
This girl will leave me with a broken heart
Now listen people what I'm telling you
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue
I miss her lips and the smile on her face
The touch of her hair and this girl's warm embrace
So if you don't wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue
Ah, she likes to travel around
She'll love you but she'll put you down
Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys
Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my love still grows
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Sue
She likes to travel around
She'll love you but she'll put you down
Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys
Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my love still grows
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Sue
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 18-03-2013
Dion's Abraham, Martin and John was a pretty big hit up here.
Looking Back At Some Classics - maradona - 19-03-2013
Hello SteveO,
I think like you.
Maradona
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 19-03-2013
maradona Wrote:Hello SteveO,
I think like you.
Maradona
actually, I don't think you do
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just trying to engage the poor soul with some intelligent conversation
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 19-03-2013
#350 - Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come - 1975
running recap for me - 3's=83, 2's=56, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: The Harder They Come
Written by Jmmy Cliff
Produced by Jimmy Cliff
Chart action: did not chart
the players:
Jimmy Cliff - vocal
other people playing things
Song from the film of the same name. Never saw it. Like the song, but I've never gone in for
the whole "the man is keeping me down" thing. Jimmy plays the main character in the movie, in
which a young man comes to Kingston, Jamaica, to make his way as a musician. The song has been
covered by Madness and Joe Jackson. The only cover I see charting is by Rockers Revenge, which
reached #30 in the UK. Never heard of them.
[video=youtube;GXUFRcikngE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXUFRcikngE[/video]
Lyrics
Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry
So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Well, the oppressors are trying to keep me down
Trying to drive me underground
And they think that they have got the battle won
I say forgive them Lord, they know not what they've done
'Cause, as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all
And I keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave
So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all
Hey, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all
What I say now
What I Say now
What I say now
What I say, one time
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-03-2013
runaround sue ***
jimmy cliff **
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 23-03-2013
The Cliff tune is above par but nothing great!
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 24-03-2013
#349 - Who - Baba O'Riley - 1971
running recap for me - 3's=84, 2's=56, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Who's Next
Written by Pete Townshend
Produced by Who, Glyn Johns
Chart action: non single
the players:
Roger Daltrey - vocal
Pete Townshend - guitar
John Entwistle - bass
Keith Moon - drums
Sometimes it's better to just not read the lyrics. Awesome performance clip for this one. Named
for Townshend’s spiritual guru, Meher Baba, and minimalist composer Terry Riley, whose work
inspired the track’s repetitive electronic textures. I thought it should have been called
Teenage Wasteland. Written for another Rock Opera piece that Townshend was working on to follow
up Tommy. It never saw the light of day but the song became the leadoff to the groups next
album. Townshend says the song is about the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock. Oh!
now I get it.
[video=youtube;hKUBTX9kKEo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUBTX9kKEo[/video]
Lyrics
Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland
Sally ,take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together
Before we get much older
Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh, oh
Teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!