GEEZER'S MUSIC THREAD

And, of course, the wonderful Temptations -

In my early USAF days, my roommate during tech school was learning to play the guitar. His favorite tune to practice with was Apache. I can remember hearing select passages from this song over and over and over...

How's this for clever political advertising!



From Wikipedia:
"M.T.A.", often called "The MTA Song", is a 1949 song by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes. Known informally as "Charlie on the MTA", the song's lyrics tell of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system, then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). The song was originally recorded as a mayoral campaign song for Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien. A version of the song with the candidate's name changed became a 1959 hit when recorded and released by the Kingston Trio, an American folk group.[1]
The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that the Boston-area transit authority named its electronic card-based fare collection system the "CharlieCard" as a tribute to this song.[2] The transit organization, now called the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), held a dedication ceremony for the card system in 2004 which featured a performance of the song by the Kingston Trio and then-governor Mitt Romney

It's intering that the cover version of Apache by Jørgen Ingmann got more famous than the earlier original by British band The Shadows ... which was a hit in Europe over months (and still is one of my favourites).

The Nashville Teens were favorites though I didn't know at the time they were Brits. John D Loudermilk, the author of Tobacco Road was a Country song writer .
The Kingston Trio opened up my world to Folk and Bluegrass music and I heard Apache by the Ventures, a great instrumental group.

Here's another instrumental that was a big hit by way of England
They made a movie about the producer of Telstar Joe Meek. A strange story.

So this is the Geezer club eh, where all the dudes hang out, all the big knobs.

Well being a Geezer meself I said I'd play a classic for ye lads. and lassies.
I didn't think wee Lassies could be Geezers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thuuik8z978

With a similar style to The Shadows and The Ventures, The Spotniks later became my favourite instrumental group. (Because Cliff Richard made the Shadows play "girlie music", and because I'd thought in those days, the Ventures just were a cover group.)

A Geezer is, typically, a male Cockney of the Del Boy (Only Fools & Horses) type - a bit of a ducker and diver, selling 'hooky' goods 'off the back of a lorry', drinking pints of beer in a pub, and eating eels, pie and mash - or so I believe! Lady Geezers - mmm, not sure - but how many A2K posters fit into the Geezer mould anyway?

This is what the Free-Dictionary-dot-com has to say, and it is in this sense that i used it:

An old person, especially an eccentric old man.

I'd never known any other definition for the term.

Now that's the archetypal Geezer, Del Boy.

Though .... drinking pints of beer in a pub, and eating eels, pie and mash does sound very Izzypushy to me.

The ultimate dodgy geezer.....





Arthur Daley was the main character in a series from the '70's called Minder.
He owned a "lockup" with hookey gear (goods that aren't acquired in a conventional manner), a used car outlet, and god knows what else.
At the time, it was one of the funniest and most popular programmes on TV.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_lyrics_to_Arthur_Daley_'e's_all_right

Oops - I'd better leave all the Lemon Squeezers (Cockney rhyming slang for Geezers) alone to get on with their thread then!

But can't we consider you an old person?

I'll have to think about that!

Thought about it - decided to lie and answer - NO!

I prefer the Jørgen Ingmann version over the Shadows. Perhaps it is because that is the one I grew up with. The Shadows version sounds disjointed to me and it does not have the swish, swish, swish sound of an arrow that Jørgen put in.

The Shadows version.


The Ventures version is similar to Jørgen's and has the swish.