Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[litl rooster]

BTW majority of the songs covered were by the Beatles Stones Hendricks or Dylan. However Van Morrison and Tommy James held their own as far as others covering them.  All the Tommy James songs listed here were remade by others

You can stream the station at    947theglobe

[Leo Tanner]

Rooster pulls out the Zombies    I think Santana covered that one a few years later.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

I've got two remastered CD's from the day:  Purple Haze and Abraxas.  They sound better than ever.

[Sod Buster]

Here's one from the WAY BACK machine:

<intro instrumental and whistling>

Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.

The moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.

<instrumental and whistling>

Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.

Oh, the moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues

-the # 4 song of the 1955-1959 rock era
-was # 1 for 10 weeks in 1956
-competing version by Marty Robbins hit # 17

[Texas Lawdog]

I always like to listen to Marty's western songs like El Paso and many others. I 've his CD of gunfighter ballads which is a classic.

[Delmonico]

Here's one from the WAY BACK machine:

<intro instrumental and whistling>

Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.

The moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.

<instrumental and whistling>

Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.

Oh, the moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues

-the # 4 song of the 1955-1959 rock era
-was # 1 for 10 weeks in 1956
-competing version by Marty Robbins hit # 17

Got that one here at work by Don Edwards on his tribute album to Marty, most folks when they here it thinks it be him instead of Don, good by either.

[Texas Lawdog]

Del,   Don Edwards! Now you're talkin.  Fort Worth's best kept secret.

[Delmonico]

Some of us know, I sell a lot of his CDs.

[Sod Buster]

Got that one here at work by Don Edwards on his tribute album to Marty, most folks when they here it thinks it be him instead of Don, good by either.

I guess I am the odd man out.  When I think of that song, I think of Guy Mitchell.

[Delmonico]

I guess I am the odd man out.  When I think of that song, I think of Guy Mitchell.

Well, I also think of Black Oak Arkansaw and Leon Russell.   BTW Leon's version of "Lost Highway" is almost as good as Hiram "Hank's" version.  (Always take yer hat off when you talk about "Hank the Father." )

[Delmonico]

For those who have not heard it, this frrom 1971 is a Country Music masterpiece.

http://www.epinions.com/content_16744287876

[Leo Tanner]

Does anyone remeber the Marty Robbins sequel "Return to El Paso"?
     I can't find the lyrics but it was about a modern man flying over the spot of the incident at the cantina and having memories of his past life.  Nothing like the original but much better than Jimmy Deans attempt to follow up "Big John".  That was a train wreck.


Leo

[Delmonico]

It's called "El Paso City."

From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor I see it there below
A city with a legend, the West Texas city of El Paso
Where long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl
And a little place called Rosa's where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl

I don't recall who sang the song but I recall a story that I heard
And as I look down on this city I remember each and every word
The singer sang about a jealous cowboy and the way he used a gun
To kill another cowboy, then he had to leave El Paso on the run

El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
The cowboy lived and rode away but love was strong he couldn't stay
He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand
El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
I try not to let you cross my mind but still I find
There's such a mystery in the song that I don't understand

My mind is down there somewhere as I fly above the badlands of New Mexico
I can't explain why I should know the very trail he rode back to El Paso
Can it be that man can disappear from life and live another time
And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think that you yourself lived in that other time

Somewhere in my deepest thoughts familiar scenes and memories unfold
These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long, but I have never told
Like everytime I fly up through the heavens and I see you there below
I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso

El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
Could it be that I could be the cowboy in the mystery
That died there in that desert sand so long ago
El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
A voice tells me to go and seek, another voice keeps telling me
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso

El Paso City

[Leo Tanner]

Thanks Del. 
     Gotta a feelin if given the opportunity we could while away quite a few hours bouncin music back an forth.  This is the Jimmy Dean mess I was talkin about.  It's even more tongue in cheek when ya hear it than it reads.  Prolly when he decided his future lay in sausage an not makin records 

She kinda breezed into town from New Orleans,
And said, "Boys, I'm Big John's Cajun Queen,
Now I didn't come here to argue or waste anbody's time,
I just came to get my man from your dirty old mine,
'Cause he moves me!
Now where you give up's where old Queenie's gonna start,
'Cause I got a powerful love in my heart,
So just show me the hole way down in the ground,
And tell the whole wide world Big John's been found,
And he's livin'!"

So down in the mine without a sign of a light,
Old Queenie went a-lookin' for John that night,
She found him there at the bottom of the pit,
And placed a red hot kiss on those cold blue lips!
He started breathin'!
She waited a minute and then she kissed him again,
And old John got the power of a hundred men,
Up he come a-clawin' and a-diggin' like a mole,
And said, "Come on Queenie, we're gonna leave this hole!"
They started walkin'!

Now a roar from the crowd greeted this fine pair,
As they both walked out in that cool night air,
And up for silence went Big John's hand,
And the Queen said, "I told you I'd get my man,
'Cause he moves me!"
You can find them today, they're down in New Orleans,
Big Bad John and his Cajun Queen,
They're a little bit wrinkled from the strain of time,
But their love's just as strong as that night in the mine,
A hundred and ten grandchildren!

Now the moral of this story has a real clear omen,
Don't you ever underestimate the power of a woman!

[Leo Tanner]

What's weird about that the lyrics came from a site called Leo's Lyrics Database.  Sure as hell ain't my database.

[litl rooster]

Leon Russell was just at the Birchmere a week or so ago.

[Texas Lawdog]

Leon is a little wierd, but he can tickle those horse teeth.   "Up on the Highwire".

[Leo Tanner]

Is it jus me or does Leon Russel have the same voice as Leon Redbone?  Mebbe some kinda alter ego thing goin on there...
     Wierder things have happened in the music world.


Leo

[litl rooster]

Leon is a little wierd, but he can tickle those horse teeth.   "Up on the Highwire".

He might be weird but he's made a living for 40 years being it....If any of you got a LP copy of the origanol OUTLAWS Willie  Waylon TomPaul Jessie, I believe Leon was also in the credits on most of the cuts



Now Leon Redbone is weird and sounds nothing like Leon Russell

[Texas Lawdog]

You got three guys that sound alike and are a little wierd,   Leon Russell, Dr. John, And Mr. Redbone.