1824 - Wayback machine

Music. I have a favorites directory that has a bunch of my favorite old songs that are on youtube. The songs come and go as the DCRMPQRSTXXX whatever has them taken down. But right now there are two recordings of two best song ever (yes there are two) on youtube from thirt... fort.... a long time ago.

My sister and I and friends would go to Collinsville Park ballroom to listen to Johnny Kaye and the Runaways.

The two songs were two of their best songs. The bands back then always had a horn section. So between the guitar rifs driving these songs they had great horns that were as up front as the singer. I don't really listen to the words of a song. The voice is just another instrument to me. If I start paying attention to the words I've listened to the song a few to many times.

The first best song? J.J. Jackson, But It's Alright. (Great horn finish)



The next best song? Otis Redding, I Can't Turn You Loose.



The original I Can't Turn You Loose has a slower beat than the more familiar Blues Brothers version. But after you listen to the original 10 to 15 times it will sound more normal.

I could drive to the coast and back with these two songs. One song there, the other back.

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1554 - It's all right - really

Do you have a best song ever? Here's mine. It's not by the original artist because youtube keeps removing it every time somebody posts it. But this is a close as it gets to a local band that played it when I was ..... a long long time ago. (plus it's just a good video recording) The horn section even does 'steps' like 'Johnny Kaye and the Runaways' used to do.

J.J. Jackson - But it's all right



Here's the original, record skips and all. Here now, gone later.



I've got the 45 of this. I should try and put it out on the tube.

 

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It's late and I'm blank for a post. Don't like it? Well Candice has got the post for you in a song.

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1263 - Zeppelin

I heard a song on the radio the other day. An oldie. Thought wow I haven't heard this in awhile. Of course I also missed the artist and song title. And naturally the song was stuck in my head. Specifically the guitar riffs. (emphasis is to get you to listen to the whole song)

As I'm thinking about it I'm pretty sure it has to be Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. So I'm searching around for the song and coming up with nothing. Heard a lot of good music though. So what to do to find this. I hum a few bars to a few people and get blank looks.

Then I finally see my son the guitar player (which doesn't happen to often these days), I hum my few bars and he pops right back with "Led Zeppelin, mid 70's. Can't think of the name but Jason will know." So with that info I beat Jason to the punch and found the song.



Here's an interesting history behind the song from youtube -

"Ten Years Gone" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. Originally intended to be an instrumental piece, Jimmy Page used some 14 guitar tracks to overdub the harmony section. Robert Plant later added lyrics, which are dedicated to an old girlfriend who, ten years earlier, had made him choose either her or his music. Plant explained in an interview in 1975:

Let me tell you a little story behind the song '"Ten Years Gone" on our new album. I was working my ass off before joining Zeppelin. A lady I really dearly loved said, "Right. It's me or your fans." Not that I had fans, but I said, "I can't stop, I've got to keep going." She's quite content these days, I imagine. She's got a washing machine that works by itself and a little sports- car. We wouldn't have anything to say anymore. I could probably relate to her, but she couldn't relate to me. I'd be smiling too much. Ten years gone, I'm afraid. Anyway, there's a gamble for you.[2]

Some have speculated that this song was a variation of the never-released Led Zeppelin track "Swan Song", the name they chose for their own record label.

This is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs in which it is possible to hear the squeak of John Bonham's bass drum pedal in the recording studio, the others being "Since I've Been Loving You" from 1970's Led Zeppelin III, "The Ocean" from 1973's Houses of the Holy, "Houses of the Holy" from 1975's Physical Graffiti, and "Bonzo's Montreux" from 1982's Coda.

Live versions of this song were performed on Led Zeppelin's 1977 concert tour of the United States. John Paul Jones originally played the melody on an acoustic guitar but then introduced an unusual triple-necked guitar that included a six-string, twelve string, a mandolin and bass pedals. Jimmy Page used his 1960's Botswanna Brown Fender Telecaster featuring a Parsons and White B-string bender. The band again played the song on the first date of the concerts at Knebworth on August 4, 1979 which was also their last time playing it in concert. They cut it from their set on their second and final Knebworth appearance on August 11, due to problems with the sound system.

Page and Plant performed this song once on their Japanese tour at Osaka on February 15, 1996. Jimmy Page also performed this song on his tour with The Black Crowes in 1999. A version of "Ten Years Gone" performed by Page and The Black Crowes can be found on the album Live at the Greek.
[Taken from Wikipedia].


I will be out of town for a few days. But your not getting off the hook. I preposted.