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Playlist by Algernon
Cover Versions
With each of these I tried to match the original version with the version that had arguably the most chart success. Some of the covers are in some cases better than the original like All along the watchtower. Others are indistinguishable from the original like Gloria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swbcFnkeMwE
All along the watchtower – Bob Dylan 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuxJH2Mj30
All along the watchtower – Jimi Hendrix 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGJXmpKGXY
Respect – Otis Redding 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0
Respect –Aretha Franklin 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0
Stand by Me – Ben E King 1961
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYGoCNvTtqg
Stand by Me – John Lennon 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_j7i_ZVfxw
Gloria – Them 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxygqSTO1lQ
Gloria – Patti Smith 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmlcTVFvic
I fought the Law – The Crickets 1959
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsS0cvTxU-8
I fought the law – The Clash 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzhyKn1ThpU
Jealous guy – John Lennon 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1VQUtDbOqc
Jealous Guy – Roxy Music 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LX7WrHCaUA
Rocket Man – Elton John 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8v2RNLHr0
Rocket Man – Kate Bush 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrCMIG53XQ
Why can’t we live together – Timmy Thomas 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVtzKYeAmQ
Why can’t we live together – Sade 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk
War – Edwin Starr 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__zgVz9fN4
War – Frankie goes to Hollywood 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WKoN8K6nI
Don’t leave me this way – Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifAtvI48R_0
Don’t Leave me this way – The Communards 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ppmdvXsMBE
Dear Prudence – The Beatles 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ww-pKVClzU
Dear Prudence – Siouxsie and the Banchees 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsMz9vIaLwQ
Tainted Love – Soft Cell 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_o
Will you still love me tomorrow – The Shirelles 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLrSVD6380
Will you still love me tomorrow – Dusty Springfield 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20qZtnODB0w
Mad World – Tears for Fears 1982
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
Mad World – Gary Jules 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbUl_E-R91Q
Sunny – Bobby Hebb 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF6C9kkVzrQ
Sunny – Boney M 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO073fekFfA
Walk on By – Dionne Warwick 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c
Walk on By – The Stranglers 1978
Keywords: Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Ben E King, John Lennon, Them, Patti Smith, The Crickets, The Clash, Roxy Music, Elton John, Kate Bush, Timmy Thomas, Sade, Edwin Starr, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, The Communards, The Beatles, Siouxsie and the Banchees, Gloria Jones, Soft Cell, The Shirelles, Dusty Springfield, Tears for Fears, Gary Jules, Bobby Hebb, Boney M, Dionne Warwick, The Stranglers, youtube, music
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Hello Algy
I traded for a while in vinyl records. I love this cover. It’s one I’ve never seen before.
Would you believe it I have a retro couch in red cloth with a contrasting cream base. I paid $30.00 for it at the beginning of the year, something to sit on, sleep on in my new digs. It’s as heavy as because it’s a day-night lounge.
We just don’t have too good a Broadband service here – and still sorting the updates and compatability issues that go with new connections and equipment. I have the playlists stashed in email as reference. For when I can have a Playlist party. Many thanks. They give me joy and otherwise I am lonely.
It has stopped raining after a sprinkle from the heavens. I think I will have to trickle some water on the seedbeds and plants I got up to tend to.
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Hi Shoe, I suspect the cover never made it here. It is American. Interestingly the the record label made its money by doing cover versions of other bands or singers songs and selling them a price about half the original. We had a couch not much different to the green one shown when I was growing up. My parents replaced it with some spanish copy looking thing.
I’m glad your enjoying these list as I enjoy preparing and presenting these summer editions. I’ve quite deliberately kept them fairly mainstream with the odd twist here and there.
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Hi Algy, I have been fishing on The Spit (ocean-side) all day. Just got back.
I haven’t had time to blog.
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Catch anything?
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Dunno why I bother really. Find what I think is the best piccie for a blog post and not a comment, not even one.
I care little whether I get 5 post here or 100. My main concern is that everyone enjoys the lists that I have prepared each week and that we can have a discussion, express our likes and dislikes and maybe post the odd tune of our own.The same for any of my written posts. This place gives me the opportunity to do something that I otherwise wouldn’t.
Here Gerard and Helvi have announced that they are leaving the Pigs. Gee I hope not. It has upset me greatly that they have chosen to move on and I sincerly hope that they a just taking a break from here and will return when they feel ready.
We all have our differnces here from time to time and they can get faily heated. VL and I had a spat last year and we appear to have moved on. I know we’ll disagree on many things, doesn’t mean I don’t respect what he has to say or agree to disagree with him. Personally I chose to limit my commenting for while.
On this one though there’s a lot of stuff that possibly has a place at fora elsewhere here and unfortunately left me feeling quite hollow. Not the happy birthdays though, did I say happy birthday HOO.
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Algy:
I did think your cover was spot-on. Sorry I neglected to mention it. The reflection of that period is all there. During that time it was all be-bop-a-lula and that flick of hair over the forehead was essential. Those butterfly chairs are still popular but one needs to be pretty agile to get out of those. I sat in one last week and afterwards ended up crawling first on my knees onto the floor and then lift myself up with some difficulty. Give it time and I will be offered a strong arm for support and steadyness.
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Friends of ours had those chairs when growing up. Getting in was easy as I recall, getting out well as you say…
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It is a lovely album cover although looks more like the 50s. Finding the pic must have been quite an adventure. A challenge even. Now, have you noticed that Gerard IS BACK !
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It could be 1961, I found a site of album covers, there were 1000’s. I had another chosen and this one jumped out at me. What got me were the socks. Now I did notice Gerard was back after a short period away, he posted just above you. The question is will Helvi return whom I’d miss just as much.
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A quick google suggests it was relased in 1957.
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Assuming the cover is 1961,means that during that time I was secretary of the Parramatta Scooter club. Lambretta and Vespas were both accepted and scooters were huge in numbers in those days.
There was a girl in our club whose name was Norma and I bought her once a strawberry milkshake. “I want it malted”, she demanded. This was extra and not unlike some additive one would ask the garage attendant to put a squirt of in petrol, supposedly to make the engine last longer, run better and give more power. Was it called Reddux or something? It was the same colour as the strawberry milkshake, a bright pink.
Our scooter meetings were held at the Parramatta Ambulance hall. I can vividly remember meeting after meeting being taken up by arguing about a club badge which had to feature, not unreasonably in my opinion, a ‘scooter’. No one could agree on the scooter being a Vespa or Lambretta. It split the club. Now, there was a lesson somewhere already.
I don’t know of any Norma’s now. Has this name gone out of fashion.?
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Well 1957 in the US could easily be 1961 here. Norma is such an old fashioned name. I can’t recall anyone when I was growing up with that handle. Our next door neighbour was a Norma though, she was English and she’d be around 80 now.
One of the daughters knows some one called Winsome, apparently she dislikes the name intensely.
Ambulance halls they’re an interesting thing aren’t they. Why would they be called that. Mrs A and I had our wedding reception in one in the country town she grew up in. The tnink was booked for the night and it went on for hours.
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Am sure the socks never translated to Australia.
Have you noticed that after a horror of over 15 years of insane names (spelt stupidly as well as just plain old made up nonsense), there is a return to Ruby, Grace etc – old fashioned names. I knew a Winsome or two (not my age) and one was always Win.
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This ones a Winnie. I’ve heard of a few called Grace, in fact a young couple I know recently called their first born Grace. Friends called their daughter Grace in the 80’s, she was married a few weeks back. With the stupid names you wonder what gets into peoples heads. The child has to live with the name for the rest of its life. Bought petrol once and was serverd by a “Keviin”. I was litterally ROFL.
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If you look closely at the girl who is jiving, you can just about make out her wearing the popular conical shaped bra, probably of the “lovable” brand They ‘cross,lift and separate’ was how they were advertised. “Love me in my Lovable” was another ditty doing the rounds. You needed Nock & Kirby hardware to take them off.
They were made of carton or cement and no matter how a girl did the shake or shook, nothing ever moved or spilled over or out. Now-a-days, it’s all more natural and moving naturally.
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Algernon, thanks for the birthday wishes. You are doing a great job with your lists, I listen to most of them. Don’t be hollow,we are all grown ups and Yes a barny will happen from time to time, that’s life, keep up the good work young fella.
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Bugger – forgot to wish Hung/Hang Happy Birthday. So here ’tis – Happy Birthday for the other day, the 5th January.
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Thank you Viv, 54 years young I am 🙂
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Helvi, It is highly unusual for me to like a Beatles song and I have just lost 20 bucks on the horses, what do you think of the latest win by the Australian cricket team? 🙂
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Best have bear chests here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSugn0dB4c
Led Zeppelin – The Ocean Song
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Oh I better not post any more, Julian will get upset, I forget he is from Queensland
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If you can follow me go over to the Clip at Julian’s request
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Half century up Algernon, well deserved
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Hang On Inn is an inspired pseudonym evolution.
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yo 🙂
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Hi Hung,
Surely you don’t expect Helvi to be here after all the hypocrisy and unrelenting verbal abuse heaped on her by Ato. Amazing, only yesterday, she, Ato’s cohort, was hollering for your head to roll and now, a bit lower down on the music piece, she is smarming up to you.
Both of us have supported you through all the good and the bad times, but where is Helvi’s support? We need time off to absorb the astounding hypocrisy.
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What we expect is that you forget it. A lot of things are said in the heat of the moment and atomou did explain. Helvi can put her thoughts down gerard.
To be honest, I am a tad confused, but that is what happens in a blog. No-one followes every sentence that’s written; consequently the meanings get smudged.
I mentioned once before that I never understood Helvi’s, obvious, dislike of some of the things that Voice is supposed to have said. Well, I never heard, or picked up on anything. Only the repartee once they were answering back to each other.
Atomou, seems to think that he has offered you an explanation. What about I am not sure. Since, without going back over all of the original texts, I can never know. Perhaps you should go back to what you think was said–and then re-examine it, yourself.
But don’t be so precious, life is to short.
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Confused is spot on. Helvi has more than supported the Pig’s arms but is hurt by Ato’s abuse. She has, more than ayone, tried to be supportive of all and is devasted by the loss of opportunity to give her very best to the Pig’s arms. . She and I have decided to part from the Pig’s arms. Both Voice and Ato are just too much. They both have barracked to demolish Hung privately. To read Voice’s ‘happy birthday’ to Hung is the ultimate Judas kiss we should all be repulsed by. (That is if we care enougfh about right from wrong)
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Gez, Get Helvi to talk to me, please, I promise I won’t touch her up 🙂
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I disagree. Friends can make up. Maybe atomou is hurting because his children are in Japan?
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My children are in Melbourne, maybe Ato could father them? 🙂
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Hung has insulted me. I have criticised him.
“I wished him happy birthday.”
Voice criticised him (so what, he was an arse-hole and he knows it), but then wished him Happy Birthday, which he relished and made a funny remark. Helvi has not wished Hung felicitations.
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Anyway, it sounds as if you and Helvi are talking a lot about it and are going round in circles.
Take a break- and pop back
YOU KNOW THAT YOU WILL BOTH BE WELCOMED
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Thank you Lord of the Manor however I did not insult you nor was I an arsehole. You an Voice took umbrage at a joke. Some jokes you have posted have been ten times worse that any thing I said. What are you talking about Julian?
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1) How have I insulted you Jules?
2) Thanks for the birthday wishes
3) Voice has known that I am an arsehole from day one, please ask her, she will verify this.
4) I try and make funny remarks all the time
5) Helvi and I get along fine, she doesn’t need to wish me happy birthday as I love to remind her that she is older than me, just.
6) Gez and Helvi walk around in circles as one of their feet are nailed to the ground(Refer to Monty Python)
7) Take a break yourself
8) Don’t use uppercase as it is interpreted as yelling, most unlike you.
Next 🙂
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Helvi has my full support Gez, the last 2 nights I have worked and have been a bit slow today, I support Helvi full time, she is my favourite. I have sent emails to Mike and Ato affirming our friendship at the Arms and have received an email from Jules, Voice and Agly confirming business as usual. We fight, me in particular, but we dust ourselves off and get on with it, we are mates, and that’s the way it will always be, Helvi is my mate, mate, I will never let her down, I will never leave her side and if she punches me in the nose for being a dickhead then so be it. 🙂 Gee it’s great blogging at 4 in the morning when no one else is around, but look, every one at the Arms is mates, we are going to fight from time to time, we get over it, we tell each other off, and then we move on, simple, just like me.
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Look I am just saying I told Voice and Jules off cause they couldn’t get a joke, pretty simple, you and Helvi have had to put up with a lot worse from me, I mean you don’t even enjoy cricket!!!!!! Crikey, unheard of, but you and Helvi along with Jules and Voice are vital to me, I love all of you and yous is my mates, like Tutu, without you I am nothing, don’t ever leave me, even if I can’t stomach a rollmop or two after a big night!
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Neither of you are allowed to go.
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Here’s a good version of a well known song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEeikuti9Q
Carole King – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
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Look I know you think James Taylor was the male Carole alternative but here’s my view,
Neil Young – The Needle and the Damage Done
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Us kids really thought Carole King was the bees knees back in our 20s Hung eh. Idolised her. I’ll listen to this before I head out. I’m going to the shoppe.
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Amazing how these tracks have reproduced. The sound is clear as a bell. I’m running a small Asus laptop with Windows Vista and generally sound has not been one of its strong suits…for a long time after I first bought it.
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood – War, fantastic, mate, haven’t heard this on before, really good
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You like Edwin Starr’s War as he has a Manly t-shirt on, c’mon admit it 🙂
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Hers one for us 50’s babies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBKOvyIll8
Doug Parkinson -Dear Prudence
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Sade is a good hard rock female band. To balance her I add this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw
Tool – Stinkfist (Warning: Put little children to bed, pull blinds down, turn up the volume, I don’t know what the film clips means but this is heavy metal at its best, enjoy)
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Gary Jules version of Mad World – excellent
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Sorry Algy, but I have decided that anyone can make Bob Dylan songs better hat Bib Dylan
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Sorry Algy but I couldn’t see the link so I will add some pollution,
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Patti Smith, hmm if Dionne Warwick doesn’t want to marry me may be Patti will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2VlZtNnnE
Patti Smith – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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What do you want me to do Hung? Listen to yours or Algy’s ?
I only have so much time in my ‘old’ life 🙂
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Listen to what ever you want old boy, you are not under any obligation to listen or read or hear anything at The Pigsarms. Like when you post a comment, a clip, a song etc. it’s up to the listener, if they don’t like it they wont read, hear, watch etc. anything put up here, it’s up to you. Tonight I have time, I will go through Algy’s list from start to finish, on the nights I don’t I just pick one or two out, pretty straight forward to me.
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Hey, I’m gonna post one of my favourite songs. If you don’t want to listen to it that’s okay, I don’t mind(instead of me saying I don’t give a fuck which actually means the same but less offensive to some) This band copied most of the attributes of the music that Algernon has posted today and on other pages, disco, funk, jazz and rock. These styles were a major force behind the Steely Dan style. If you have time listen to some Duke Ellington and you may be able to discern where Donald Fagen was coming from. When Steely Dan put out Aja, they were at the point where they were frustrated with commercial radio that would only play disco, this was one on many of their better answers, Peg and Josie where SD’s answer to disco. This is nor to detract from Algernon’s excellent list, in my view his best, it is just a view into the world of Hang On Inn or whatever I am now called
Steely Dan – Peg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wsw3yd8zug
Steely Dan – Josie
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MUSIC & BLOG POLICE>>!
DON”T YOU DARE!!
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Whoooops, too late.
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Sunny, classic…
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ALgernon, my three best black America singers are
1) Ella Fitzgerald
2) Nina Simone
3) Dionne Warwick
I am hoping number 3 will marry me now I am single, walk on by……
Oh and if I could add another good black female singer it would be Anqulique Kidjo
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What do you think H, I know you are a fan?
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Algernon, Kate Bush had two things really going for her. First and foremost she is a Steely Dan Fan, second she is drop dead gorgeous, it goes downhill from there to the point as I am not even sure she could give good oral sex. What do you think? 🙂 (Hang being cheeky)
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No I think Kate might have struggled at oral sex after watching her version of Rocket Man
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Some great oldies algie, and I’m not talking about Hung and VL here. (OK, I will include them.)
I suppose it goes along with having a cover version.
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Yes Voice, when talking about oldies I am sure you are only referring to Julian 🙂
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Congratulations, Mark, you made it to 54!!
We can all thank Gordan for that.
Hope you had a great day!!
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Oh yes Mark, I got up, I yawned, I urinated, I put on coffee….
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Ah yes, Hung nothing like a good slash to start the day. All the best for your 54th from someone who is just 53.
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You lucky young bastard you 🙂 Hey we whooped them Ingines 🙂
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Then I poured Orange juice and made toast with pate, oh the list goes on depending on how many you need to get to the ton 🙂
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So did Pete get good head?
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Great repertoire aujourd’ui, Algy.
Congrats to you Hung for your 54th, It’s amazing how music works. I am still in awe when watching that TV show on music last week (Sting) whereby scientists tried to put a handle on music. What makes us sway or clap or move when music is played.? How come, people with advanced altzheimer unable to recognize hubby, at the playing of the first few notes will remember the rest of a piece of music?
I still remember my Dutch childhood ditties my mother sang to us, even the words as I suppose most of us do.
Ring-a-ring-a-Rosie, Humptie Dumptie sat on the wall and the heart-wrenching simple Simon met a pieman.
I am sure there are stores of thousands of pieces of music in everyone, that by the sound of the first 4 or 5 notes will bring forth the totality of the piece. I don’t know, but how do people cope with having been born without hearing, no sound ever! Must be terrible. Are there people with good hearing, totally musically deaf? I mean, unable to relate to rhythm or beat, timbre, tone etc?
Thanks for the smorgas board Algy and sorry for the gruel dished up elsewhere.
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To right Gerard. It always amazes me that I really don’t like classical music however to sit down to 30 minutes of Beethoven or Mozart is unbelievable, I love it, I guess it is a love hate relationship
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CONGRATULATIONS TO MARK – FOR YESTERDAY.#®§¦ {¤} Ψ♥♫♪♪♂♂יִ☼☺☺☺☺
I won’t insult you by posting Cliff’s song.. Although he made a few good ones
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Thank Gordon for small mercies 🙂
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I’ll go through these Algy.
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Great list Hung. Of coure there are more versions of many of these songs.
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Yes, meant to say Algy – all gets confusing with author and poster not being the same person.
There is another Dear Prudence by big Aussie bloke whose name finally came to mind – Doug Parkinson.
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I agree Viv, it was Doug’s version that got me into this song
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Helvi, I actually admitted to liking a Beatles song, have I gone soft now I am 54? What is your favourite as I know you are a fan?
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I know of the Doug Parkinson version and that should appear in the coming weeks. Like many of these, there are many covers of the same songs. So sometimes its hard to choose. The Souxsie and the Banchees version was their highest rated single and something quite different for what was essentially a punk band, my preference there though was The Beatles version.
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The song was written about Mia Farrow’s daughter. John Lennon wrote it.
And the Kate Bush enquiry??
Ask Peter Gabriel.
I fought the law. Bobby Fuller version is the one that I remember. Of course the Clash made a version years later.
Got give Boney M 9/10 for the dancing: check out that dude in the white flares. But NO contest …the winner : Bobby Hebb.
Play some more manana.
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I actually thought of posting the Bobby Fuller 4 version as well as the Crickets version and The Clash version. Sonny Curtis of the Crickets wrote the song and they were the first to perform it, The Bobby Fuller 4 version was more popular in the US in 1966. And Bobby Hebbs Sunny is the best version. There were a lot of soul singers who covered it as well.
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Great list here Algernon, I’d say your best and includes my all time favourite Beatles song in Dear Prudence
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That’s funny. An American guy that walks his dog in the same park as me. Yesterday he was telling me that Helter Skelter, is his all time Favourite. I had to be reminded of it, by his out of tone singing. It came from The White Album, same as Dear Prudence.
We then launched into a discussion about the album and that era. he loves music, so we often reminisce. He’s an ex-helicopter pilot–retired here–and very knowledgeable about music. I’m guessing that he is about the same age as me ’57 and¾..Heh.
I asked him if he knew of a group called Family. I saw them at The Albert Hall once. He surprised me by knowing. The lead singer was Roger Chapman: he had a weird tremulous voice, that fascinated me.
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Well yes, I was 54 yesterday
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You’re just a whipper-snapper, Hung… Although you look about 94, in your photo 😉
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May I say without offence my liege you look 100 plus in your photo but are a well balanced 40 year old in your mind, well done old chap
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Whereas I still look fresh as a flower.
Happy Birthday Hung.
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Thank you oh Voice, you contributions are highly valued, oh and one day I might even grow up 🙂
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