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Sep 24, 2020 - 4:47 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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"Not So Fast...Count" Like the dog returneth to its vomit, I do vaguely remember that S. California song, but from later times. I don't know how much of a hit it was in the UK charts, or if at all. I musta been out that day. During 1969 to 1974 (between my ages 4-9) if one of my brothers or sisters wasn't blasting it out of their bedrooms*, I probably stuck to my gimmick records like Bloody Red Baron and Ernie (the fastest milkman). I remember a brothers girlfriend giving me the LP's for T-Rex (T-Rex) and Queen (A Day At The Races) which started my music love proper. And my fateful meeting with John Williams was just around the corner (Jaws End Title...then...da dahhhh...Star Wars) *with so many differing tastes from my siblings, that's were I first fell in love with stuff such as Cat Stevens, David Bowie, James Tayor, Motown, David Cassidy, The Osmonds, Mike Oldfield, Nilsson (amo, like the ads used to say).
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Sep 25, 2020 - 10:05 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Indiana Wants Me comes from that 'mini-movie-in-a-song genre', that were quite popular in the 70s. Songs like Coward Of The County by Kinnie Rogers and Billy Don't Be A Hero by Paper Lace, told a tale, from start to finish, during their 3-5 minute run time. Cheesy as hell, but enjoyable nonetheless. Apart from having a cinematic quality, I've always appreciated these songs for their desolate sadness--naturally, I love this stuff. The aforementioned "Indiana Wants Me", "It Never Rains in Southern California", "Billy Don't Be a Hero", "Last Song" "A Horse with No Name", "Sunshine", and a dozen more I could list but won't because I'll only be talking to myself. This era is a bit of an obsession of mine. I go on at length about in the "Harry Chapin Taxi" thread.
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Thanks Jim (and Thomas). Strangely enough, I do know that song from somewhere in the dark recesses of my mispent youth. Is this thread to become the poor, lonely poster child for anguished 70s storybook rock?
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Cat's In The Cradle!! Classic Stuff Jim. I've got that track on a soundtrack album lying around somewhere (can't remember which one*). Quality. *a quick Google search tells me I have it on the Shrek The Third OST.
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