D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Me and The Bobby McGees. Solo records by members of The Who.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Kris Kristofferson wrote the song "Me And Bobby McGee", first released in 1970 on the self-titled album Kristofferson, and was most famously sung by Janis Joplin on her album "Pearl" in 1971. It was later covered by dozens of artists worldwide.
Gianna Nannini - Io E Bobby McGee (1979)
Pavel Bobek- Chvíle Kdy Jsem Byl S Ní (1975)
Åttopojat - Rättiväsyneet (2005)
Johnny Hallyday - L'histoire De Bobby McGee (1975) Johnny Hallyday had sold more than 100 million records, and earned 40 gold records, 22 platinum records, 3 diamond records, and 8 Victoires de la Musique (the French equivalent of the Grammy). 28 million spectators have attended his concerts over more than 100 tours in France and Europe. However, like most French singers and musicians, his international career never really took off. Despite some tours abroad in the 1960s and 1970s, and a concert in Las Vegas in 1996, Hallyday is virtually unknown to the public outside the French-speaking world.Hallyday recorded some 1000 songs, including a little more than a hundred self-penned titles and around 250 French adaptations of original songs in English. Especially in the beginning of his career, during the early 1960s, Hallyday built his career mostly on French adaptations of songs by his American idols.
Mona Gustafson och Curt Jürgens - Anna Och Mig (1979)
Renate Kern - Er Nahm Ein Anderes Mädchen (1971)
John Entwistle - Cinnamon Girl (1971) I never knew this song was about drugs.
John Entwistle - Ten Little Friends (1972)
John Entwistle - Mad Dog (1975)
Keith Moon - I Don't Suppose (1975)
Keith Moon and Ringo Starr - Together (1975)
Keith Moon - Move Over Ms. L (1975)
Keith Moon - Naked Man (1975)
Pete Townshend - And I Moved (1980)
Pete Townshend - Pure And Easy (1972)
Pete Townshend - Slit Skirts (1982) "Can't pretend that growing older never hurts."
Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane - My Baby Gives It Away (1977)
Roger Daltrey - Giddy (1977)
Roger Daltrey - One Man Band (1973)
Roger Daltrey - Get Your Love (1975)
Nana Mouskouri - Me and Bobby McGee (1979) She sings the word "jeans" like she's never worn them in her life.
Olivia Newton-John - Me and Bobby McGee (1971) Or "harpoon"...
Gordon Lightfoot - Me and Bobby McGee (1970)
Sam Samudio (of Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs) - Me and Bobby McGee (1970?) Duane Allman on resonator guitar.
Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinerman - Me and Bobby McGee (1974-76)
From the liner notes:
"This all happened in 1974 and 1976. Under the headline "Donegan Meets Leinemann" they went on tour and recorded two very successful albums -- "Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann" and "Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann - Country Roads". Between the musical mastermind and washboard virtuose Ulf Krüger and Lonnie Donegan arose a decade long friendship. And so it happened that Ulf Krüger, a huge fan of Lonnie Donegan, produced a few recordings for and with his idol. Donegan was thrilled as he heard these takes and said: "Let's release this Ulf!" Sadly it shouldn't come to this -- the "King Of Skiffle" died because of a heart attack on 11.03.2002 shortly before he should have performed in the London Royal Albert Hall during a concert to the commemoration of the Beatle George Harrison ("Concert For George"). Today, many years later, Ulf Krüger has opened up his archive and gave us three previously unreleased recordings from and with Lonnie Donegan, including a duet with the unforgotten grandmaster of skiffle, the genre which changed the music world in the early 1960s and became the cradle of European beat music. Re-release of the successful albums of "King Of Skiffle" LONNIE DONEGAN together with the Hamburgs Skiffle rockers LEINEMANN out of the years 1974 and 1976."
Bill Haley and His Comets - Me and Bobby McGee (1970)