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)
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Tired from my tour of Route 40, I pressed on for YOU.
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Adam and the Ants - Lady (1978)
Adam and the Ants - Beat My Guest (1980)
Adam and the Ants - Zerox (1979)
Cory Wells - Starlight (1978)
Cory Wells - You Can Count On Me (1978)
The Bats (really, Danny Hutton, singer for Hanna-Barbera) (1965)
Danny Hutton - Roses and Rainbows (1965)
Danny Hutton - Funny How Love Can Be (1966)
Three Dog Night - Everybody's A Masterpiece (1976)
Paul Anka w/Odia Coates - Make It Up to Me in Love (1976) Some disco. Disco got almost everyone. People thought this was gonna be the future of music, from then on.
Odia Coates - Showdown (an early Electric Light Orchestra cover!) (1975)
Odia Coates - The Woman's Song (1975) Paul Anka wrote this. Fantastic.
Odia Coates - You Come and You Go (1975) Again, a good song by Paul Anka. If a little derivative of "Love Hangover". But which came first?
Paul Anka - Life Song (1979) From the album "Headlines", which I know you own.
Paul Anka - My Best Friend's Wife (1977)
Paul Anka - A Woman is a Sentimental Thing (1967) The Beatles were putting out "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" around this time.
The Who - Relay (1972)
The Who - Waspman (1972) From Wikipedia:
"Waspman" originates from an incident in the late 1960s during one of The Who's many plane flights while touring.
During some white-knuckle turbulence, Moon and a groupie escaped to the bathroom. Shortly after, Moon burst forth with the groupie's bra wrapped over his head and announced, "I'll save you! I'm Wasp Man!" In addition to writing this song, Keith Moon also bought a wasp costume and wore it whenever the mood struck him.
[In this way, we're all just like rock stars.]
The Who - Water (1971)
The Vapors - Sunstroke (1980)
The Vapors - Prisoners (1979) Their first single went nowhere. But the second, aided by MTV's need for programming, went Top 40 in the US.
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Lord Crazy and his Witchy Bitches - The Witchy-Bitchy Super-Duper Eyeball-Highball Cocktail Party Hell-Based Ghost-Chased (1966)
Lord Crazy and The Safaris - Crazy, Crazy (1966)
Lou Rawls - The Split (1968)
Joan Armatrading - Stepping Out (1975)
Bob Seger - Turn The Page (Studio version) (1972)
Billy Thorpe - Drive My Car (1975)
Starbuck - Drop a Little Rock (1975)
Frank Zappa - Andy (Live) (1980)