_Laurie_ Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Teegarden and VanWinkle Has anyone heard of these guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Yea, I just barly remember the name, but none of music... Another one hit wonder like this one " Friends of Distinction" ; "Grazzin in the grass"........ Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Jim were you posting a link?...It didn't connect... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Sorry, got side tracked.. No not posting a link, but will try to find one and post it ... BRB (I hope)... Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Heres one for your ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teegarden_&_Van_Winkle Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 And heres one from my reply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Distinction Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Thanks Jim! and yes I know that one! ^ I can dig it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 And heres one from my reply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Distinction Jim And here's a video for ya! Love those cool moves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Oh, I remember Teagarden&Vanwinkle... but it´s deep down in my memory... late sixties or early seventies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Teegarden and VanWinkle Has anyone heard of these guys? Oh yes! I'd completely forgotten them, but I loved that song, way back when! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Hubby used to have one of their albums....He says it's around here somewhere, but I haven't seen it yet...I'll keep searching...I never knew Bob Seger was in this band either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Me neither. That was interesting, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Very...and Hubby new that...he thinks he's so cool now, that he knew that, and I didn't.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 "Ooh Look, There Goes Concorde Again" - And The Native Hipsters As Douglas Wolk describes the track in a recent Boston Phoenix: ".....("There Goes Concorde Again") pivots around a jazz bass that doesn’t walk so much as trudge, note by exhausted note. Bells and faint, woozy guitar effects attempt with limited success to follow it where it’s meandering. Eventually, Nanette Greenblatt, a/k/a Blatt, starts rambling in a dazed sing-song about fat women walking up a hill and thin women walking down. "What do they do down there that results in such an increase in size and weight?" Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular. Then she spies something she likes: "Oooo, look! There goes Concorde again! Oooo, look, there goes Concorde again!" She remarks on the Concorde’s appearance over and over. She pauses for a minute (as the bells and whooshes hover uncertainly) before repeating everything she’s said, from the beginning. Then she does it again, trying to understand what she’s just said....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 "Edward Fox" - Smack is a bizarre beauty of a single, which my children have grown to love as much as I do. Even though, in its year of release, it ranked at #45 in the NME's "Best Singles of 1980 (as voted by our journalists)" - that's one place above The Police's "Don't Stand So Close To Me"- I tend to think that any single meriting less than a dozen Google hits is pretty obscure by most people's standards. To refer to Smack / "Edward Fox" as post-punk as Wikipedia does (in its profile of the famous British actor Edward Fox) is true only insofar as it was not "punk", but came out in that exciting couple of years after punk, when things went off at tangents. It certainly isn't in the style of Joy Division, PIL, Magazine or whatever else "post-punk" normally describes. Whilst the music is, in some ways, reminiscent of fairly standard pub-rock/rhythm'n'blues with a vaguely new-wave flavour (think Dr Feelgood meets early XTC), there is a definite quirkiness about this song. It takes as its lyric a biography of the actor Edward Fox, originally published in the New Manchester Review. The verses are all spoken word, narrated in suitably plummy, aristocratic tones: "Edward Fox has charm; not the sticky transatlantic variety, nor the hammy continental strain, but rather a uniquely English charm of old hounds, tweed jackets, unobstrusive courtesy and a complete lack of condescension" begins the first verse. "I wouldn't live anywhere else" he said,when we spoke of the old country,"I like this country, don't you? I like the people: bit dull sometimes, but so what? I also think the best things in theatre happen here..." The mob choruses of "Edward, Edward, Edward Fox! Edward, Edward, Edward Fox!" are a joyous punctuation to the slightly rambling narrative of the verses. Then , for no obvious reasons, the vocalist asks "What do the police think?" before imitating a siren "Nee-nar, nee-nar, nee-nar, nee-nar..etc" over what might otherwise have been a serviceable guitar solo. Then there is a reasonably serviceable guitar solo. Then the narrative resumes with a series of philosophical and insurrectionary treatises about the human condition, the indomitable spirit of ordinary people and the possibility of a proletarian revolution: "Anarchy should be a joyous thing: it should take place in the heart and mind, and speak to the heart and mind", "I think vandalism is poetic, as it's an expression of one human being's otherness", "I think human beings are incredibly tolerant; if they really sat down and thought about how they are mistreated, then there really would be a revolution..." etc. etc. Quite frankly, I find it hard to believe that Edward Fox (the actor) espoused such views, but then again, I've never been to one of his dinner parties. This single (apparently the only one Smack ever released) never made the National Charts, but it did make the Top 10 of the "new-concept-at-the-time" Independent Chart, so it must have sold at least a few hundred copies. To me, it is an absolute joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Here;s another for all. It may have mentioned (dont know, did'nt read every post) --- Peppermint Rainbow--- "Will You Be Staying After Sunday"--- link= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peppermint_Rainbow Jim. ps.. looking for a vid now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Favourite obscure song? "Childhood's End" by Pink Floyd from the album "Obscured by Clouds." So This Song Will End Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidwolf Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Great songs that you don't hear on classic rock stations? Uh, lots of stuff by the Airplane that isn't White Rabbit or Somebody To Love. I never hear anything else, and in my opinion, they're a little overrated. D:< (woo, this is my first post on this forum!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Woo! Welcome, acidwolf. I dig your avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidwolf Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 Thanks. And I found that off Photobucket somewhere. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 I always liked this one , too, which has the same hypnotic effect . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted November 22, 2007 Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 This is one of the songs of my life's soundtrack. I post any and everywhere I can. It's probably my favorite song, period. I've yet to meet a single person from outside the area I'm from that knows this song. However it's considered a classic back home. And no, back home is not Chicago.... Lake Shore Drive ~ Aliota, Haynes & Jeremiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentH Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 (edited) Someone mentioned Tommy Bolin's "Post Toastee," which is wonderful. Some of my favorite obscure songs: Never Met a Dog--Vinegar Joe--Robert Palmer on vocals, and it makes no sense at all, but it's a smooth tune!Every Step of the Way--Steve Walsh--Kansas's lead singer on his own. Schemer Dreamer a tough album to find.Hey, St. Peter--Flash & the Pan--Great tune that would sound fresh even today.Blue Mist--Mama's Pride--A regional band out of St. Louis, the Pride had a great little tune with this one.Roll the Dice--Couchois--Just something a little funky and a little cool about this song.Hollywood--Shooting Star--Another regional band, this one out of Kansas City, that never really got its due. "Hollywood" is a phenomenal track. Edited January 30, 2008 by Guest Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Baloni Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I don't know how obscure these are but... How about: Biding my Time- Pink Floyd Where Were You When I Needed You- Grassroots Star- Stealer's Wheel In Heaven, We All Are- The Dead Bodies Two Shy Gnomes Sacrifice a Field Mouse- The Easy Tease The Octopus Ride (I forget what it's called)- Syd Barrett Mihalis- Dave Gilmour 16 Military Wives- The Decemberists Mariner's Revenge- The Decemberists Telegraph Road- Dire Straits I'm Never Gonna Wipe My Butt- The Shins ....so there's my list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Baloni Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Favourite obscure song? "Childhood's End" by Pink Floyd from the album "Obscured by Clouds." Funny, as soon as I saw the name of this thread, that album popped into my head! Everything off of that album is pure gold, as far as I'm concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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