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Looking Back At Some Classics - TraceNspace - 19-10-2012
This is probably my favorite song by The Cure and I love them. I never get sick of this song. I think it's so pretty.
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 20-10-2012
Definitely a rock classic!
Music Head Wrote:#489 - Drifters - Under The Boardwalk - 1964
running recap for me - 3's=7, 2's=4, 1's=1
this one - ***
from the album: Under The Boardwalk
Written by Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young
Produced by Bert Berns
Chart action: #4 Billboard Hot 100
the group:
Johnny Moore - lead vocal
not sure after that
revolving door makes it hard to figure out
Probably one of the first black groups I was into. But then '64, I was soaking up the british invasion. Sure I still
loved this one too. Johnny Moore was drafted to sing lead because the track's original singer, Rudy Lewis, died of a
heroin overdose in his hotel room the night before the session. Lewis had sung lead on most of their hits since the
1960 departure of Ben E. King. Didn't miss a beat with the replacement. The group had been around since the early
50's with numerous front men. Thought this would have charted at #1. It's actually their third highest charting
single after Save The Last Dance For Me and There Goes My Baby, both with a Ben E. King lead. After this hit, Johnny
Moore remained the groups lead until they hung it up in 1976. But this classic was the groups last top 10 song.
[video=youtube;EPEqRMVnZNU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU[/video]
Lyrics
Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fireproof
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be
(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be falling in love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk
From the park you hear the happy sound of a carousel
Mmm, you can almost taste the hot dogs and French fries they sell
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be
(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be falling in love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk
Oh, under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be
(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be falling in love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 21-10-2012
#487 - Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen - 1970
running recap for me - 3's=9, 2's=4, 1's=1
this one - ***
from the album: Love It To Death
Written by the band
Produced by Bob Ezrin, Jack Richardson
Chart action: #21 Billboard Hot 100
the band:
Vincent Furnier (vocals, harmonica)
Glen Buxton (lead guitar)
Michael Bruce (rhythm guitar & keyboards)
Dennis Dunaway (bass)
Neal Smith (drums)
Thought it would have charted higher, but that's respectable. It is the song I think, that broke him to the
mainstream. Interesting that Johnny Rotten used this song to audition for the Sex Pistols. The groups third album
with much credit given to Bob Ezrin for the success. He would hook up with them for many more. Love the black and
white white album cover, but even that brought controversy. Vincent had his finger sticking out of his fly making it
appear as if it was something else. Warner Brothers air brushed that out after the initial release. Give me a break
people, it's a finger. I do have one complaint about this song. It was recorded in 1970, and Vincent was born in
1948, making him 22 at the time. He clearly lied about his age.
[video=youtube;DNF2KNcRm-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNF2KNcRm-U[/video]
Lyrics
Lines form on my face and hands
Lines form from the ups and downs
I'm in the middle without any plans
I'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm eighteen and I don't know what I want
Eighteen I just don't know what I want
Eighteen I gotta get away
I gotta get out of this place
I'll go runnin' in outer space oh yeah
I got a baby's brain and an old man's heart took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about feels like I'm livin' in the middle of doubt
'Cause I'm eighteen I get confused every day eighteen I just don't know what to say
Eighteen I gotta get away
Whoa lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form on the left and right
I'm in the middle the middle of life
I'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm eighteen and I like it
Yes I like it
Oh I like it love it like it love it
Eighteen eighteen eighteen eighteen and I like it
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 21-10-2012
i'd never heard this track until i just listened to it here...not bad for a first listen iMO, but then again, im not a big Alice Cooper fan...
incidently, another of those artists who were bigger elsewhere than their home country...ie: bigger here than he was in the US,and still is.
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 21-10-2012
I'm Eighteen in 1971 I WAS 18 and in Montreal. Bought the single and put it in my duffle bag where it was smashed later on somehow? I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 22-10-2012
#486 - David Bowie - Young Americans - 1975
running recap for me - 3's=10, 2's=4, 1's=1
this one - ***
from the album: Young Americans
Written by David Bowie
Produced by Tony Visconti
Chart action: #28 US, #18 UK, #33 Canada, #27 Australia
the players:
David Bowie – vocals, guitar
Willie Weeks – bass
Mike Garson – piano
Andy Newmark – drums
David Sanborn – saxophone
Pablo Rosario – percussion
Larry Washington – congas
Ava Cherry – backing vocals
Robin Clark – backing vocals
Luther Vandross – backing vocals
Don't think I was real keen on this one when it came out. Didn't take long with that sax driving it. That was just
killer stuff. Bowie says "It's about a newlywed couple who don't know if they really like each other". Only the
writer could come up with that and I'll take his word for it. Ziggy was history as this ventured into that blue eyed
soul category. Noted by the appearance of Luther Vandross who would go on to his own fame. Bowies first actual hit
in the states with the song and the album. Recorded while still touring for the previous Diamond Dogs album, it
would sit on the shelf for a brief spell.
[video=youtube;ScVi_L817ec]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScVi_L817ec[/video]
Lyrics
They pulled in just behind the bridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but
All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American
Scanning life through the picture windows
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"
All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American
All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"
All night
He wants the young American
Young American, young American, he wants the young American
All right
He wants the young American
Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?
Have you been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the Afro-Sheeners
Ain't that close to love?
Well, ain't that poster love?
Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have
All night
You want the young American
Young American, young American, you want the young American
All right
You want the young American
You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady’s got a Chrysler
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands shake
I heard the news today, oh boy
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you struck our faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
break down and cry?
All night
I want the young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
All right
I want the young American
Young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
(I want with you, I want with you want)
All right
(You want it, I want you you, you want I, I want you want)
Young American, young American, I want the young American
(I want to want, to want, to want , to want I, I want you)
All right
(Lord I wanted the young American)
(young American)
Young American, Young American
I want the young American
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 23-10-2012
Fabulous song by a master artist! I thought this song would rate much higher?
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 23-10-2012
yep, brilliant track by 'the thin white duke', not a big fan of his albums overall, but as a singles artist he was sublime IMO
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 23-10-2012
#485 - LaBelle - Lady Marmalade - 1975
running recap for me - 3's=10, 2's=5, 1's=1
this one - **
from the album: Nightbirds
Written by Bob Crewe, Kenny Nolan
Produced by Alan Toussaint
Chart action: #1 US, #17 UK, #1 Canada, #17 Australia
the players:
Patti Labelle - lead vocal
Nona Hendryx - backing vocal
Sarah Dash - backing vocal
Meters - the music
Was never a huge fan of this one. I think it was the french and the gitchi gitchi thing. I would just mumble
anything and it made as much sense to me. Surprised to see Kenny Nolan as co-author, as anything I have heard by him
was more of an easy listening jazz type of thing. And Bob Crewe was the man behind most of the Four Seasons hits.
The music saves the song for me, with the Meters providing the funk that drives it. Just found out that the voulez-
vous line translates into "do you want to sleep with me tonight". See, all this time I thought it was about sex, and
now I find out it's about sleeping. I just love learning stuff.
[video=youtube;t4LWIP7SAjY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY[/video]
Lyrics
Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister [x2]
He met Marmalade down in Old New Orleans
Struttin' her stuff on the street
She said 'Hello,
Hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?
'Mmm Hmmm Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya here
Mocca chocolata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
He savored her cool
While she freshed up
That boy drank all that magnolia wine
On the black satin sheets where
He started to freak
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here
Mocca chocalata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Heh, Heh, Hehhhh
Seeing her skin feeling silky smooth
Colour of cafe au lait
Made the savage beast inside
Roaring till it cried More, More, More
Now he's at home doing 9 to 5
Living his brave life of lies
But when he turns off to sleep
All memories keep More, More, More
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya here
Mocca chocolata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Creole Lady Marmalade
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 23-10-2012
good song, the cover that was released the other year was pretty good also