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@chai2,

There is a story going around that Dick Clark sanitized Stagger Lee for Lloyd Price to make it acceptable to the general public. What they leave out is that Price's record is the pre-sanitized version.

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@edgarblythe,

I Cried a Tear by LaVern Baker

and

Jim Dandy by LaVern Baker

Tweedly Dee

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

There is a story going around that Dick Clark sanitized Stagger Lee for Lloyd Price to make it acceptable to the general public. What they leave out is that Price's record is the pre-sanitized version.

what did Dick Clark want to change/leave out?

That would be like saying, "lets play Mack the Knife, but leave out the part how he kills people."

I know there's been lots of versions of that song, all good.

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Speaking of Bobby Darin....

and Spacey's versision

hey look around 00:18, ehbeth's in the audience.

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

There is a story going around that Dick Clark sanitized Stagger Lee for Lloyd Price to make it acceptable to the general public. What they leave out is that Price's record is the pre-sanitized version.

what did Dick Clark want to change/leave out?

That would be like saying, "lets play Mack the Knife, but leave out the part how he kills people."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGFZUnJgqU[/youtube]

I know there's been lots of versions of that song, all good.

I just happen to have Dick Clark's version of Stagger Lee right here. Razz

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@edgarblythe,

Oh well now that's just pitiful.

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@chai2,

At least they were wise enough to use Lloyd's version on the radio.

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Randy Bachman (pronounced BACK-man, not Bock-man), formerly of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has a weekly program on CBC Radio, "Vinyl Tap." Each program has a theme--this week's theme is "Still Standing--Too Old to Die Young." Here are just a few of the songs he has played this evening, all by people in late 70s or in their 80s, all of them still perpforming.

And the daddy of them all, still performing at age 87, Anthony Dominick Benedetto . . . here's a 1962 recording of his 1953 hit (amagingly, it was the "B" side of the record) . . .

(Sorry, EB, i just noticed that you had already posted "Blueberry Hill.")

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@Setanta,

"California Girls" was the B-Side? Am I seeing this correctly?

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@Setanta,

Great show...I had to go out and buy his book ...same name

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@Thomas,

Actually Let Him Run Wild was the B side.

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@Thomas,

"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" was the B side of Tony's 1953 recording . . .

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@panzade,

beforeWe Are the World there was the NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND's
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN

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@chai2,

"Mack the Knife" was a song in Kurt Weil's Three Penny Opera wich opened in Berlin in 1928. That's an old, old song.

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@Setanta,

AS Bertol Brecht worded it it was less entertaining (unless it was used as a bit song on Ernie Kovaks)

Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne,
Und die trägt er im Gesicht.
Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer
,Doch das Messer sieht man nicht.

Bobbie Darrin's version

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The Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice"

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@farmerman,

I give it a 3, you can't dance to it.

Even Sting can't do a thing with it.

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The thread is Geezers, no restrictions, so here is a tribute to country music, which I heard almost exclusively before Elvis and Fats came along.

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