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What are You Listening To? - August 2024
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I used to really enjoy "The Platters" when I was younger. I can still listen to "The Greater Pretender" and have it as one of Top 5 records from the 50's!
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"Oh yes, (oh yes) I'm the great (the great) pretender
Yes, pretending that I'm doing well
Yes, my need (my need) is such (is such) I pretend (I pretend) too much (too much)
I'm lonely but no one can tell (no one can tell)
Oh yes, (oh yes) I'm the great (the great) pretender (yes)
Adrift in a world of my own (yes)
My need (I play) to be (the game) all I am not (but to my)
You've seen (real shame) and you've left me to dream all alone (to dream all alone, yes)"
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"Oh yes, (oh yes) I'm the great (the great) pretender
Yes, pretending that I'm doing well
Yes, my need (my need) is such (is such) I pretend (I pretend) too much (too much)
I'm lonely but no one can tell (no one can tell)
Oh yes, (oh yes) I'm the great (the great) pretender (yes)
Adrift in a world of my own (yes)
My need (I play) to be (the game) all I am not (but to my)
You've seen (real shame) and you've left me to dream all alone (to dream all alone, yes)"
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Now playing The Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin With The Miles Davis Quintet
solid Gold 1982... part of my musical imprinting era for sure! love it: music, ads, primordial special effects and all! ;-)
Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, and Greg "Fingers" Taylor - Need I say more?
Penned by Harlan Howard, the solid gold honky tonk twanger Another Bridge To Burn ranks high on the canonical list of required tunes for a hillbilly singer.
Not only a cry in your beer juke box classic, second only to another Harlan Howard classic The Key In The Mailbox, if you want the dance floor to fill play Another Bridge To Burn.
“I’m so hurt, and you’re so unconcerned
Our love’s just, another bridge to burn”
The original was by Little Jimmy Dickens, 1963
Not only a cry in your beer juke box classic, second only to another Harlan Howard classic The Key In The Mailbox, if you want the dance floor to fill play Another Bridge To Burn.
“I’m so hurt, and you’re so unconcerned
Our love’s just, another bridge to burn”
The original was by Little Jimmy Dickens, 1963
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Perhaps because of his diminutive size, Little Jimmy Dickens in his time on the Grand Ole Opry was associated mostly with humorous songs, that no drunk on a barstool would ever spend his last dime playing on the Whirlitzer, and would never fill a dance floor.
But Dickens had a long list of serious twangers, including 1960’s We’ve Lived It Up (And Now We’ve Got To Live It Down).
What is, the greatest classic
honky tonk hard county twanger of them all?
If you had to pick only one nostril nosed song from 1950-1975, when pure country died with Lefty, what would that one Lefty song be?
Although it’s a humorous song (at the end, only) , most hillbilly singers I know would nominate Lefty’s 1964 classic Saginaw Michigan.
I was only six, but when the man who filled the juke box at the Shady Nook Cafe in Humansville spun Saginaw Michigan (how many can remember they always spun all the new songs to see if they skipped) no words can possibly describe hearing it, brand new, for the first time.
honky tonk hard county twanger of them all?
If you had to pick only one nostril nosed song from 1950-1975, when pure country died with Lefty, what would that one Lefty song be?
Although it’s a humorous song (at the end, only) , most hillbilly singers I know would nominate Lefty’s 1964 classic Saginaw Michigan.
I was only six, but when the man who filled the juke box at the Shady Nook Cafe in Humansville spun Saginaw Michigan (how many can remember they always spun all the new songs to see if they skipped) no words can possibly describe hearing it, brand new, for the first time.
When I’m chording and twanging, (as opposed to picking and grinning) there are very few seventies “Outlaw” genre songs requested.
One of the exceptions is Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Jaded Lover”.
The only kind of man that you ever wanted
Was one that you knew you’dnever hold very long
You keep sittin there cry’n like I’m the first one to go
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