Great Lost Tracks - An Everyday Series

It's the words...

...always the words.

A wee story....

This next track was voted number 8 on the Mojo top 100 songs of all time and it's not by a hip, indie-skinny nor cock-monsterish classic-rawk flavour of the month-type...

"absolute legend doooood "

...artist like ya would 'speck.

Bonnie Raitt - chuggiest of all the rootsy, worthy ginger-haired female AOR-ists.

Plumstead/Mainstream Nashville production

No alarms - no surprises...

But check out the words - the story...

It's the song stoopid

The guy who wrote this was an ex pro-footballer (American) and his inspiration came from a court case that he read the details of in a local (Pennsylvania) newspaper.

Apparently some sad-sack, beaten-down, love-bruised booze-hound had shot at his girlfriends car as she drove away from his abode.

He got lifted and appeared in front of a patronising magistrate who asked him if he had "learned anything from this episode", to which he replied,

"I learned, Your Honor, that you can't make a woman love you if she don't."

And from the banal came the profound

And from the strong came forth sweetness

Pure syrup

Pure genius

Of course sometimes it is just the performance

The hat at a certain angle...

The Brooks Bros suit a bit careworn...

The Cardin tie loosened from the unbuttoned collar of the Rael Brook button-down...

The spiral of smoke from the ashtray-berthed fag rising into the unforgiving glare of the bar-mounted halogen spots......

(Paul Morley sat at the end of the bar sayin"That's a bit overblown - even for me. I'm off. )



Words by Rod McKuen

Strings by Don Costa

Sublime!



Dunno who the cock-socket in the vidja is BTW

Best ignored

From the same album...

If embdy fancies it - I'll make it available

It's the least i can do

Bein such a





and all



All previous "ignore the visuals" procedures are still in force

Sinatra may be the ultimate song technician/mechanic

But nobody pounds ya right in the gutbucket the way ole Tone does.

Like a big, good-natured Italian baker (with impressively chunky and hairy forearms ) suddenly bustin into song from the sheer joy in his soul.

Elemental and instinctual in a way that the perfectionist genius - Francis Albert - could admire but never emulate.

He knew it..

It's prolly why he described him as

"...the best there is. He's a pigeon-blood ruby... and that's the rarest ruby that exists."

I saw Tone and Ralph Sharon at the Theatre Royal in the 80s

A treat chief

Toots fel asleep after three songs





Like I said...



A treat chief

Ahhh don't be lookin at me like that...

You knew I'd drift onto this thread eventually

It's the last pub on the crawl - what can I tellya

Anyhow

In the spirit of Ono's parlour game... (Hey Trev! )

Best artist at Hitsville USA...

Marvin...?

Or Stevie...?

The Tops?

Or The Tempts

Sortin out a Northern Soul/Cusp of Disco/Early 70s funk/pop comp for big Tam of the Carolgees Mowser.

Quiz regular

Funny as fukk

Bluenose

Gentleman.

Throws up some beauties when ya go for a quick trawl through the archives tho dunnit

Treasures untold I tell ye

Arrrr

Pass the grog

Splice the mainbrace!

Do whatever it is you have to do with the mizzen!

Arrr

Any of that grog left Seaman Staines?

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ahhh bollix

Now I got a decision to make

Which marv track for the requisite era

Hmmmm

May hafta make it a doubler

Double bollix

The trawl always triggers a memory of a track that ya don't have too

Belter tho

Lovely electric pianner stuff in the intro

Clean up that focsle fur fukks sake

I'd havee keel-hauled ye scurvy dog.

If I wurnt so grogged-up

Little Antneh

and DMPeerials...

(In a Wigan accent )

A Northern Soul oddball pick

Arrrrr

We've traversed the choppy seas of page 44 me buckos and arrrrr set fair for the virgin waters of page 45....

Arrrr....

Arrrr...


Aaaaahhh fukk - I'm fed up with this....

I can't keep the accent up

Plus I should go to bed really

If any of the previous grooviness appeals I can prolly make that comp available to the music clubbers via the usual channels.

But you gotta say if yer interested

I cant be wastin valuable time sendin stuff out to them as don't want it

I've got a busy schedule y'know

Arrrrr!

Land Ahoy!!!



That man had a natural talent for the wearing of the safari jacket - I don't care what anybody thinks.

It's not something which should be attempted by amateurs or members of the general public mind...

Immo wrote:

If any of the previous grooviness appeals I can prolly make that comp available to the music clubbers via the usual channels.

I'll send it as soon as i can be arsed

Whit more d'ye fukkin want?

Have a wee wallow in this while yer waiting

...and thank fate that you haven't yet reached your upper-40s and are consequently compelled to get all misty-eyed, melancholic and nostalgic about this kinda Nationwide League fare.

Fukkin nice tho

And the telly stuff???





You poor bastard

You got all this to come yet....

Although I expect your nostalgic telly triggers will be a bit more hi-tech than the following

Betcha Aslan, Sev and/or Baldy bite tho

"Girls" stuff first...



You can pretty much lose interest once the tune's done.

What was it with girls and horses in the 70s ??




Arthur English!!!

"Boys" stuff...



I know I've said it before....

But this is the one that ALWAYS reduces me to a heap of quaking, blubbering rags

FACT!

Have at yeee !!!

(thrust)

Yee monarchist dog!!!

(parry)

Huzzah!!!

That Billie'd get it - even now

Course all gender lines get blurred as ye grow up and start watching "proper" telly





Carla Lane

Can I have her in the death sweep Ono?

Y encore

Il Maestro

He didn't work in telly that often but when he did...



Nytol