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Steel2Velvet

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  1. "Games People Play" Spinners and Joe South
  2. I don't think that BW Stevenson had any other hits beside hs monster "My Maria." The Sanford Townsend Band never had another hit after "Smoke From A Distant Fire" even with a band name as easy to remember as theirs () An interesting story on the one hit of Morris Albert that I just found out today. He was a Brazilian living in the USA and "borrowed" a fifty year old Brazilian copywrited melody into which he injected his lyrics titled "Feelings." He was prosecuted and for a brief time imprisoned in Brazil for his breach of propriety. This pretty much ended his career as a musician, though he made millions from "his" song.
  3. Paint It Black is black Stones - Los Bravos Surfer Girl You'll be a Woman Soon Beach Boys - Neil Diamond
  4. "What we have here is a failure to communicate." from Cool Hand Luke
  5. Can't Touch This is a Man's World MC Hammer and James Brown
  6. Kim Carnes had a big hit with Kenny Rogers - "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" and I believe she had at least one other solo hit, but don't recall the title.
  7. If musicianship or instrumental virtuosity counts for anything in rock & roll, then one cannot discredit Ian Anderson because he doesn't pluck at a bass or some other stringed instrument. This man's flying fingered tonal accuracy and vanguard musical stylings belong alongside any other groundbreaking event in a genre noted for pushing the boundaries of convention.
  8. "Come on down to my boat, Baby I need your lovin'" Every Mother's Son and The 4 Tops
  9. Angel - David Bowie Angel - Jimi Hendrix Still the One - Orleans Still the One - Shania Twain
  10. Great thought for a song or lyrical poem. That first stanza is a great one! It has rythmn and flows so well. That solo line I put in quotes above does not have the same rythmn or flow. Feels a little awkward. If you could get that in the same meter as the rest of this fine piece, you will have a winner!
  11. Geoff, writing your feelings helps on so many levels. You are smart to transfer your emotions to paper as soon as possible. I also write. Here are two observations I have made over half of a hopefully very long lifetime that might be of some consolation to you at this time. The first is untitled, while the other is appropriately titled. Passion that results in pain Is infinitely better than Solitude that realizes solace. One indicates a flame That will never die. The other gathers kindling That will never light. Learned We fell in love with ideas of love; Living life, our hearts were torn apart. We should have sought integrity .. character, Let hearts find the love therein. Youthful fantasy and reality is a volatile mixture. Decisions should never be made near a wishing well. All the best to you, my friend.
  12. John Lennon's voice said to not trust his; trust your own. Billy Holiday Robin Gibb
  13. The Thrill is Gone - BB King Teen Angel - not sure of the artist Desperado - Eagles Take It to the Limit - Eagles I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles
  14. There is no Elton John song that I understood all the words the first, second or third time I heard it. Yet Taupin's lyrics are splendid and deserve to be understood. I found THIS site through a lyrics google because I finally went so crazy trying to understand the line "Jai Guru Deva, Oohm" in Lennon's Across The Universe. For years I thought he was saying "Like a new day love .. home" (sort of.) But I have at various times heard that song covered by 3 different artists and every one said the same unintelligible line. After finding out that line on this site, I was relieved to find I am no more crazy than originally diagnosed.
  15. From their One World album, "What'd I Say" by Rare Earth.
  16. [quoteMy suggestions: "Making Movies" -Dire Straits "Blonde on Blonde" -Bob Dylan. Any Beatles album. "Goat´s Head Soup"- Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street"- Rolling Stones. "Bridge over Trouble Water"- Simon & Garfunkel "DSOTM" - Pink Floyd.
  17. Thanks for the heads-up Edl. I apparently got bum info from a guy I met in the service who claimed to have been in boot camp with the drummer from Marmalade. But, now that you mention it, I HAD heard they were a UK band, but it did not register. They just never had another hit in the U.S.
  18. Don McLean had a hit with a remake of Orbison's "Crying" and I believe he also wrote and recorded "Vincent" (Van Gogh) which was a minor hit.
  19. I feel the sentiment of lost culture has been with every generation since time began. I remember my father telling me the Beatles were just a bunch of noise. HIS father probably said the same about Woody Guthrie. I am sure more than a few parents have reviled U2. The messages we need to assimilate in order to fulfill our role will always be available to us. Sometimes they are whispers and other times, shouts.
  20. Madman Across The Water (Elton John) Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Simon and Garfunkle) sound track to Easy Rider
  21. Crosby, Stills and Nash (first album) The Best of Roy Orbison
  22. Suicide is neither romantic nor bold; a solution nor resolution. It is he ultimate form of selfishness. It says, "Here, you that I leave behind, clean up all my messes for me; the old ones, the immediate ones and a sardonic good luck on the problems that won't be manifesting themselves for a good long while yet. I can't, so you handle them in my place."
  23. Add their separate solo discographies and the qualitative total isn't even close to their combined force and talent as symbiotic songwriters. Each influenced the other by what was inside their personalities and though polar opposite in many areas, their match filled the gaps of the other; musically, lyrically, socially and ethically. Though usually writing separately even while Beatles, they both editorialized one another's work and lent additional dynamics to almost every song attributed to that team. Truly the sum was greater than its parts.
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