A Little Bit of Early Reg and then a bit of Reg and Bernie
A little bit of early Reg then some Reg and Bernie
Playlist by By Algernon
This list looks at the early days of Reginald Dwight from his first band Bluesolgy to his time at DJM records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2vXijE1T7Y
Come back Baby –Bluesology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5izH7MuD8
Times getting tougher than tough – Bluesology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjRkhMUGp1s
Mr Frantic – Bluesology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtuZ3R_sGCA
Just a little bit –Bluesology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwC4Q-tSnbg
Since I found you – Bluesology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVSgmUIlCz8
Let the heartaches begin – Long John Baldry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jF5gm4Pfbs
I can’t go on living without you – Lulu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KtScrqtbc
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother – The Hollies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJIZGTYHhWI
Lily the Pink – The Scaffold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B2GxtpGuKc
Mr Boyd – Argosy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RH1p1iFc40
Lady D’Arbanville – Elton John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmKSg5g8S0
To be young gifted and Black – Elton John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcsg7tUzxjg
Love of the common People – Elton John.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDVOG0fKxo
Lady Samantha – Elton John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g17Q2hCGc-s
Skyline Pigeon – Elton John (Empty sky)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7b-32Mpbs
Border song -Elton John (Elton John)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZ88TTDf-M
Burn down the mission – Elton John (Tumbleweed connection) this version off Live 17-11-70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lXOuZgm_eY
Levon – Elton John (Madman across the Water)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7H6iohAb8
Honky cat – Elton John (Honky Chateau)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA78e27R_J4
Daniel – Elton John (Don’t shoot me I’m only the piano player)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_xAToFzck
Funeral For a friend – Elton John (Goodbye yellow brick road)
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Interesting listen from start to finish algernon. It seems good when it begins and gets better. Thank you for the time out (with a book on oil painting too). 🙂
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Thank you Shoe, I found some interesting discoveries with this list. Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding was a great finishing.
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Interesting there, Algy. I had never heard E.J’s early stuff.
Wikipedia is a “BASTARD”. I start looking something up and then it leads through a labyrinth of connections. I get lost in time. ………Very interesting when one looks at some of the pedigrees of the bands.
One of the reasons, that I like Heartbeat, is the music. they often play The Hollies.
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And I wouldn’t have picked up on The Hollies link until I put this together. The pedigrees are interesting where some of the connections went to and the early Elton John band he put together. The Bluesology stuff to when he started as Elton John is quite different.
Heartbea would have been set in the times of his early stuff 63 to 67 from memory.
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Yes it was The Hollies that I was referring to. They had at least 2 songs played the other night.
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Although I was never a big fan of Elton John (I only bought two of his albums), I loved some of his songs. I’d rather listen than watch him.Loved Daniel. Wasn’t McCartney’s brother in Lily the Pink. one hit wonders.
I’m tired. I’ll play Boyd thingee later. Was that The Supertramp version Algy?
I told a tale about them appearing for me once..remember?
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I may have got the Boyd one wrong and it maybe Imagine instead, but yes Roger Hodgon was the lead here before he went onto Supertramp. Elton John did a lot of backing work before launching his solo career.McCartneys brother was a member of The Scoffold, Graham Nash and Jimi Hendrix were also session musicians that worked with them.
Levon was a favourite of mine as was Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding.
The Supertramp thing was fairly recent tale wasn’t it?
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Of course Long John Baldry was a poof too.
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Indeed he was, talked him out of topping himself. Ironic that he married that German lass when he clearly was a mans man.
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Truth to tell I was never really a big fan of Mr Dwight… although admittedly he’s not a bad vocalist/pianist, and Mr Taubin is a writer of some great songs… but I could never take whole ‘albums’ of him… an unconscious preference for guitar-based bands over piano-based bands, perpaps.
Is Ripperzoff a new friend to whom I ought to apologise for my differing taste in music? Or is s/he another piglet in disguise and who I know will not be offended?
If the former, then I’m sorry Ripperzoff, but tastes diverge and thank Gord it’s so; variety is the spice of life. Oh! And welcome to the pub… If the latter… no words are needed.
🙂
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This was a one off asty. And theres no need to apologize for differing taste.
I think you’ll find Ripperszoff is Emmjay and merely the vehicle one uses for getting things posted.
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Aha… thought R might have been Emmjay in disguise… Normally, of course, I would never bother apolgizing for my differing tastes, Algae, for which there is no accounting; I just didn’t want to seem impolite whilst posting a negative opinion on what may have been some poor sod’s first post… such behaviour may have put off a real newcomer I thought; and one likes to err on the side of caution.
🙂
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Taupin…Mmm, I think.
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Wasn’t sure whether it was a ‘p’ or a ‘b’ Julian… but I gave it some thought before settling, hesitantly, on the latter… but you’re probably right; you, after all, at least bought a couple of his albums and so probably know more about him than I would… And of course, you’ve also probably met him… maybe the same night Algae talked PJ Proby out of committing suicide… maybe there was some connection, eh? (Just kidding…)
Nah! You’re probably right anyway…
😐
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Or was it Long John Baldry?
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Long John Baldry
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Always got those two muxed ip, Algae…
🙂
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I used to play Yellow Brick Road LP by Elton AKA Reg a lot. I always thought that most of the songs had great lyrics – meaningful stuff.
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vivienne, I thought all the albums before Yellow brick road were great albums and a few after. Went to probablly 4 concerts up until the early 80’s. But always thought his early stuff was the best. Yellow Brick Road is probably my favourite, mines a Yellow vinyl copy.
I found an album called 16 Legendry covers when researching this, he did more than cover those songs he literally copied them, worth a listen.
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Agreed. The early stuff, can’t think of the name of the song, I remember thinking that was Jose Feliciano singing, but it was in fact Elton.
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Reg Dwight sung back up vocals on that. He sung back up vocals or piano those in the middle. The covers are off an ablum 16 Legendry covers from 1969-70.
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Isn’t ‘Lilly the Pink’ the PA theme tune??
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opps see above.
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