GEEZER'S MUSIC THREAD

The sibs and I pro- (re-?) gressed from a three part harmony to a two part harmony. We did this entire album.

The Gordon Lightfoot reminded me of another Canadian (two in fact, but i'll get to that soon) who attracted my attention when was a young and callow fellow. Cohen published it as a poem in 1966, and it was recorded by Julie Colins in the same year. This is from Cohen's 1967 debut album.

I'm getting stuck on numbers (who, me?) One more duo and then I'm off for the Brother's Four and the Clarkson FIve.

The other Canadian of whom i was reminded first "broke through" as a song writer. In 1966, Buffy Sainte-Marie had a bit with this song:



Several people approached (the rather snobbish) Judy Collins, then the doyenne of folk music, about recording some of this Canadian artist's songs, but her reply was, at least twice, that she had never heard of the song writer. After more than one singer recorded this song, Collins had a top ten hit with it. Here is a live version from 1976 (ten years on, and she still sees Mitchell as a song writer, rather than a successful performer):



And here, this deservedly legendary Canadian singer/song writer performs both of these songs:

The Brothers Four

Er, no that would be the Dave Clark Five

Jim Reeves - He'll have to go (1960)

and the answer song
Jeanne Black - "He'll Have To Stay"

Johnny Horton Sink the Bismarck (1960)

Bill Doggett -- Honky Tonk 1956

Ah, the days of the "Rat Pack"!

Try To Remember was sung by Jerry Orbach(Law & Order) in the Broadway musical The Fantasticks.
I heard it by The Kingston Trio and it was a favorite.

I Only Have Eyes for You by the Flamingos

Shoobop Shoobop....

'They Call the Wind Mariah' (from Paint Your Wagon) by Harve Presnell.
I grew up with this song...definitive version...and Geezer material.

You guys leave me in the dust; but, then, i don't know much about history . . .

There's a television series which uses this song as their theme song, and i hear it advertised frequently on the radio. So, in the way of exorcising an ear worm, here's Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers . . .

I like the Frankie Lymon song. There is a different song with the same name that I like even better: