Dappled

Not the ones I thought of and they don't fit the theme. More clues in a while!

3 is correct, Farin. That one was easy!

Ok, let me try one. There's a theme to it. 1. Don’t board this one! 2. Hope not it’s a one-way street. 3. If angels could cry there would be... 4. Made me think of Esau’s brother. 5. Did this cause the death of a salesman? 6. Could be if you’re in love. 7. Maybe the Pope could if he only would? 8. Try to get out of here! 9. They are very small! 10. I wonder if he could fly?

1. Singer Not The Song, The - The Rolling Stones Love those out of tune 12-strings guitars :guitar: 2. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals Save up all your bread and fly Translove Airways to San Fransisco 3. 59th Street Bridge Song, The (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep 4. You're A Big Girl Now - Bob Dylan A masterpiece, seldom heard on the radio 5. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks I've got a big fata mama.(My mom didn't like it when I sang this verse!) 6. Imagine - John Lennon Simply beautiful 7. Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band I played this and the other pieces from the East West album over and over again when I was a foreign exchange student in Californa in -66 - -67. The dad in the family I stayed with hated it. He called it japanese torture! He liked Lawrence Welk, whoever he was 8. Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King Love his guitar! 9. California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas Yeah, me too. Orange County, ahhhhhhh 10. All My Loving - The Beatles My mother's favourite Beatles song

It's on his 1975 Blood On The Tracks album. You can hear a small part of it on that site.

I nominate two songs many may not have heard. The Stones one I heard in 1965 and loved it (it was the B side of Get Off of My Cloud) and the Dylan song I heard on the radio for the first time 5 years ago and it's become one of my favourite. The Singer Not The Song - The Rolling Stones You're a big girl now - Bob Dylan Here's what Allmusic.com says about Singer not the Song: The early Rolling Stones (and in fact, the Rolling Stones throughout their career) were never all about raunchy, bluesy rock. They also penned a fair number of tuneful, poppy romantic songs, even if those were never dominant in their repertoire. "The Singer Not the Song," appearing on the December's Children album in late 1965, is one of the more overlooked ones. In retrospect, it's kind of a bridge between their early, wimpy Merseybeat-like original songs " which they tended to give to other artists to record, rather than do themselves " and their more mature pop/rock, non- blues-based tunes, such as "Lady Jane" and, a little later, "Ruby Tuesday." "The Singer Not the Song"'s still been criticized for being a little too sappy, and for the undoubtedly out-of-tune guitars and harmonies (as if those were rare events on early Rolling Stones records). But it's a fairly attractive British Invasion-like pop tune with a tinge of folk-rock in the heavy use of reverberant acoustic guitars (and a tinge of groups like the Beatles in the greater use of harmonies than usual). There are also some hints of tenderness and vulnerability in both the lyrics and the way they're sung, as if to signify that there was more to Mick Jagger and the boys than sardonic rebellion and misogyny. The phrase "it's the singer, not the song" is itself pretty lyrical and abstract for an early Rolling Stones song " almost philosophical " and helps put this in a more sophisticated league than earlier pop/rock ballads the group had written. The final chorus, too, has a weird leap into falsetto harmonies, on what's been speculated is an actual attempt to sound like the Four Seasons. Not too many people have heard it (or ever will).

He should if he likes Mike Bloomfield! Texas was on their A Long Time Comin' album and Sunny on the follow up after Mike Bloomfield had left the group. It was named An American Music Band. Both were quite good.

Anyone heard The Electric Flag's version of Sunny? It's terrific. Buddy Miles sings with vigour.

My intro to rock and roll came in 1959 when my family visited a relative in Stockholm. They had a "radio-grammophone" and you could put a stack of 45's in the player and they would drop down and be played automatically. I liked to sit and watch it happen. I didn't care for the music which I think was jazzoriented, but then suddenly I heard a kind of music which made me jump up and listen real hard. I liked it! It was the only record of it's kind and I played it over and over again every time we visited that relative. It was Johnny and the Hurricanes playing Red River Rock .

1. Time Of The Season - The Zombies 2. Pink Moon - Nick Drake 3. And I Love Her - The Beatles 4. D'yer Mak'er - Led Zeppelin 5. Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers 6. Wild World - Cat Stevens 7. She Loves You - The Beatles 8. Sunny - Bobby Hebb 9. Time After Time - Cindy Lauper 10. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Did Sting sing it on the remake of that movie? Vanilla Fudge did a good version of the song in 1970.

I went to a Manfred Mann concert in 1967 or so with Mike D'Abo singing. They were very good but I liked them better when Paul Jones was the lead singer. I did buy his solo album, Love Me, Love My Friends, which was not up to the quality I was used to hear from the Manfreds. Dylans The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol was great though. I sold most of my vinyls in the 80s when I needed money, but have most of them now as mp3. One favourite I never managed to find though is Paul Jones' single Sonny Boy Williamson.

Time of the Season - The Zombies Pink Moon - Nick Drake 2 beautiful songs!

They were one of my alltime favourites too. I bought any record by them I could get my hands on, including the EPs (The One in the Middle, Machines, As Was, Instrumental Asylum and Instrumental Assasination). Their 1st LP The Five Faces of Manfred Mann must be one of the best debut albums ever! Do you know if Jack Bruce actually played on any of Manfred Mann's recordings that Paul Jones sang on?

In the 80s my eldest daughter was in her teens. I can remember that some of the artists she listened to were Simply Red, Madonna, Womack & Womack, and I liked them too. I listened mostly to classical music but I did buy some popular music, for example Toto, (don't laugh!), Moody Blues, David Johanson, Rupert Hine.

Eric Burdon talked a lot on his records, for example on the Animals' first LP Story of Bo Diddley. On their third album, Animalisms, which is their best IMO, he says at the beginning of One Monkey Don't Stop No Show: You know I got a letter from a friend of mine In Newcastle-Upon-a'Tyne the other day He said to me "Eric I heard you've been havin' some trouble down in the smoke with the girls" He said "You wanna catch that flyin' Scotsman back up here to Newcastle, 'Cause we've got enough females to go around up here And I can figure you can find yourself a little somethin' And because people around here don't go away stealin' each others loved ones away from one another, Like they do down there in the smoke" He also said in the letter that, ah, (and the singing starts) Things don't happen like that here on Tyne... Great song!! Like many on that album: Maudie, Gin House Blues, I Put a Spell On You, Outcast,...

How about Electric Flag's Wine and Johnny Cash's Bad News It's not about drinking but he sounds like he's had a few on that one.

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin Beautiful lyrics in that one This one should be ease: When you knew that it was over, were you suddenly aware That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair?

1. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 2. Waterloo Sunset - Kinks 3. Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac 4. Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles 5. Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 6. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 7. Blackbird - The Beatles 8. All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople 9. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John 10. Get Together - The Youngbloods

Jeff's Boogie from the Yardbirds' Over, Under, Sideways, Down album.

"This following program is dedicated to the city and people of San Francisco, who may not know it, but they are beautiful, and so is their city. This is a very personal song, so if the viewer cannot understand it, particularly those of you who are European residents, save up all your bread and fly Translove Airways to San Francisco, USA, then maybe you´ll understand the song, it will be worth it, if not for the sake of this song, but for the sake of your own peace of mind" Eric Burdon talking in the intro to San Fransiscan Nights. You get the impression it was meant to be on a video. Who sang about Translove Airwaves??

Richard Bona Tiki Richard Bona with his band did the best live performance I have ever attended in November last year when he played at a small club where I live. Such an incredible bassist! Some consider him one of the best. The rest of the band was terrific also. For two hours they entertained us with music that was forceful, joyful and profound at the same time. If you have any chance to listen to him live, take it. See www.bonatology.com for info about concerts. Here’s a review of his latest CD, Tiki. You have to hand it to Richard Bona - the bassist-singer-songwriter just keeps getting better and better. After a couple of nice-but-tentative albums, he switched labels (to Universal) and really got into his stride with 2003's Munia (The Tale), and continues the story with Tiki. He's also an inveterate collaborator, working with Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Toto-Bona-Kanza and Bobby McFerrin, not to mention a cameo on Faces and Places for his old boss Joe Zawinul. Tiki demonstrates what a confident musician Bona is. He sings most of his songs in Douala, one of more than 200 Cameroonian dialects, yet the music is truly of the world. There's a strong Brazilian influence on numbers such as Manyaka O Brazil, reminiscent of Milton Nascimento, while Esoka Bulu (Night Whisper) seems indebted to the great American songbook. Ida Bato (Ancient Song 1789) is a tour de force for multitracked vocals, mbira and rippling acoustic guitars There's straight pop, smooth jazz, funk and an intense and moving, neo-classical version of Jaco Pastorius's Three Women orchestrated for strings. Yet Tiki is almost shockingly easy to listen to - it's music that makes you smile, moves your feet and touches your heart in ways that more celebrated music personalities can only dream about.

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

Wonderful songs! Rainy Night in Georgia isn't in Songfacts. Here's what allmusic.com says about it: Songwriter Donnie Fritts told Atlantic Records staff producer Jerry Wexler about "Rainy Night in Georgia." Wexler was looking for material for new Atlantic singer Brook Benton, who would be issued on the label's Cotillion imprint. The song had been written by Louisiana swamp rock singer Tony Joe White, who scored a number eight pop hit with "Polk Salad Annie." White came up with the melancholy ballad while working on his first job out of high school, driving a dump truck for the state highway department in Mariatta, GA. After a heavy rainstorm, White wouldn't have to work the following day, leaving him some time to play his guitar. The session for the song was held at Miami's Criteria Studios where another Atlantic artist, Aretha Franklin, had recorded some of her hits, including "Call Me." On hand were guitarist Cornell Dupree, harmonica player Toots Thielmans, organist Billy Carter, bassist Harold Cowart, drummer Tubby Ziegler, and pianist Dave Crawford. Produced by arranger Arif Mardin, "Rainy Night in Georgia" went to number one R&B and number four pop in the spring of 1970. White and Benton performed the song in 1988 for a Nashville television show.

Oh the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I's made to memorize With guns in their hands And God on their side. Bob Dylan ~ With God on Our Side Word up: sapphire