Pure goofiness...
I was thinking, I wonder if Sammy Davis, Jr did a cover. Be careful what you wish for...This festoonery is courtesy of Mr. Baby, who started singing the song out of nowhere tonight and, of course, Mr. ZeroSumGames, better known as The King of Blogging.
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posted by murat11 at 9:22 PM
14 Comments:
REM and Cassandra Wilson get my vote with James Taylor and the Dells running right behind. Awesome. REM, who'd a thunk it :)
I don't think Jimmy Webb got near the fame he should have gotten either...
Very tough call, my sister. Just about every single one had some charm, though I likes your choices. Cassandra kicks (would you believe I left her off the first go-round?), love JT's, and the Dells do lay it down. Reggae one's kinda cool, too, and dork that I am, I was always a fool for Lani Hall (the brunette) in Brasil 66.
Beware the King of Blogging. Abandon all hope, ye who enter...
that was an interesting side trip...
Country cousin of mine...
This is so odd to me - a thousand version and yet I'd never heard of the song before!
DM: Old old song, recorded by Campbell back in the late 60s. Written by Jimmy Webb (one of the versions), who hit it very big as a pop songwriter back during that period, lots of pop hits. This song never did much for me back then, but somewhere along the way, it seeped in, and Cassandra's version a few years back knocked me out.
I liked James Taylor best, then the Dells, then REM. I remember the original always playing on the radio when my mom did the ironing or made breakfast. (You really have tamed the beast now, and I have to get ready for the brainiac smack down. What am I going to do?)
Teresa: Good choices all, but girded up with Sammy Davis Jr, ain't nobody takin you down in the smackdown, cher.
William Flanagan: Well can’t a singer act out a song?
Bob Dylan: Yeah sure, a lot of them do. But the more you act the further you get away from the truth. And a lot of those singers lose who they are after a while. You sing, “I’m a lineman for the county,” enough times and you start to scamper up poles.
Richard: Love the quote. Hilarious. After Sammy, you probably went all the way up the redwood...
That song has amassed quite a presence in various repertoirs! Thanks for the walk down Memory Lane, Paschal. It's been a while since I enjoyed some of those wonderful voices and it was fun to hear the different decade's sounds depicted in the renderings.
Peace!
Lee
Lee: Dylan's veto notwithstanding, it's certainly had a wide-ranging life...
I gotta tell ya - I hate this song; and up up and away I really don't like Jimmy Webb either - not even By the Time I get to Phoenix. My vote goes to every singer who's never covered this. Cassadra's great, but the song - I'd rather listen to monkeys screaming.
Richard: What, no "Galveston" or "MacArthur Park"? I hear you, brother. No fan of them myself, though I do have to admit that somehow the lineman passes muster for me, and I do like what Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden do with his "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." Thankfully, perhaps, on the latter there are no lyrics to be heard. Someone left a cake out in the rain...
And to think: I'll never have that recipe again...
Oh no.
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