The Ghost of Jim Croce?

haverocketwilltravel · July 14, 2013, 08:32:00 PM

onan · July 14, 2013, 08:35:55 PM

"you can keep the dime"

Eddie Coyle · July 14, 2013, 08:48:55 PM

"I Got A Name" ranks up there with "They Way We Were", "You Are The Woman", "Oh Very Young", "Get Closer", "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Seasons in the Sun" as songs that tortured me in my crib. Being 5 months old and hoping the mobile fell and put me out of my misery.

Child is Father to the Man, indeed.

ItsOver · July 14, 2013, 09:00:33 PM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on July 14, 2013, 08:48:55 PM

"I Got A Name" ranks up there with "They Way We Were", "You Are The Woman", "Oh Very Young", "Get Closer", "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Seasons in the Sun" as songs that tortured me in my crib. Being 5 months old and hoping the mobile fell and put me out of my misery.

Child is Father to the Man, indeed.

Reminds me of other "classics", such as "Muskrat Love," "I Am Woman," and the all-time best "Afternoon Delight."

I think I need some insulin.

haverocketwilltravel · July 14, 2013, 11:58:40 PM

Good. So you don't like his music. The topic is about the image in the photograph. Anyone see it?

Eddie Coyle · July 15, 2013, 12:06:20 AM

Quote from: haverocketwilltravel on July 14, 2013, 11:58:40 PM
Good. So you don't like his music. The topic is about the image in the photograph. Anyone see it?

Lighten up, Francis. Be happy with any response to such piffle. Two posts in the books and you're a topic narc already.

haverocketwilltravel · July 15, 2013, 01:34:01 AM

Ha ha. Kiss my ass idiot. I'm outta here. LOL.

Eddie Coyle · July 15, 2013, 02:19:38 AM

Quote from: haverocketwilltravel on July 15, 2013, 01:34:01 AM
Ha ha. Kiss my ass idiot. I'm outta here. LOL.

Before I could even put you on ignore. For shame. Please don't go.

MV/Liberace! · July 15, 2013, 03:19:05 AM

pretty interesting. it does look a lot like him.

Sardondi · July 15, 2013, 11:32:42 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on July 14, 2013, 08:48:55 PM
"I Got A Name" ranks up there with "They Way We Were", "You Are The Woman", "Oh Very Young", "Get Closer", "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Seasons in the Sun" as songs that tortured me in my crib. Being 5 months old and hoping the mobile fell and put me out of my misery....

Quote from: ItsOver on July 14, 2013, 09:00:33 PMReminds me of other "classics", such as "Muskrat Love," "I Am Woman," and the all-time best "Afternoon Delight." I think I need some insulin.

Well, those are strong hands, strong hands indeed. But I see yours with "Billy, Don't Be A Hero", and "Alone Again Naturally", and I raise you "You Light Up My Life".

I think the pot is mine, thank you very much.

ItsOver · July 15, 2013, 12:07:49 PM

Quote from: Sardondi on July 15, 2013, 11:32:42 AM
Well, those are strong hands, strong hands indeed. But I see yours with "Billy, Don't Be A Hero", and "Alone Again Naturally", and I raise you "You Light Up My Life".

I think the pot is mine, thank you very much.

I fold, Sardondi. Debby pushed me over the edge.

West of the Rockies · July 15, 2013, 04:30:28 PM

I looked and looked -- I didn't see anything other than a smudgy photograph. This is a little like one of those EVP cases where you are told you will hear words to the effect of, "Not fun..." You listen again and again, and maybe, eventually, "Nahmmmvvz" sounds like "Not fun."

Can anyone place the quote: "Is that potato not the spittin' image of Richard Milhous Nixon?" (Is that smoky smudge not the spittin' image of Jim Croce?)

onan · July 15, 2013, 04:34:59 PM

My all time worst song...

Having my baby... I am getting nauseous this very moment.

West of the Rockies · July 15, 2013, 04:38:16 PM

Remember (from that general era) "Watching Scotty Grow"? How about "Don't Expect for Me to Be Your Friend"? There's a mucky old song....

onan · July 15, 2013, 04:47:13 PM

There was some really bad stuff then...

My girl Bill.

Anything by America, Bread, the carpenters, Dawn... just to name a few.

Sardondi · July 15, 2013, 08:50:08 PM

Quote from: onan on July 15, 2013, 04:34:59 PM
My all time worst song...
Having my baby... I am getting nauseous this very moment.

Ouch - that is strong.

Quote from: West of the Rockies on July 15, 2013, 04:38:16 PM
Remember (from that general era) "Watching Scotty Grow"? How about "Don't Expect for Me to Be Your Friend"? There's a mucky old song....

Oh, you're on to something, but you didn't even get the worst one from Bobby Goldsboro: "Honey".
A saccharine, gut-tearing, heart-rending bathetic masterpiece in a 2:42 song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3n6GtwtiHs

But let us not forget the lugubriously sung Roger Whittaker's "The Last Farewell" - "There's a ship lies rigged and ready for the harbor...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGWs1HK8iDU

I think it's the sappy strings and the angel-choir backup voices, plus the horrible repetition, that made for the worst Top-40 music.

Quote from: onan on July 15, 2013, 04:47:13 PM....Anything by America, Bread, the carpenters, Dawn... just to name a few.

Now wait. Yes, there was terrible overplay on Top-40, but you're talking Bread, man. That was almost guaranteed parking music. And I mean tongue action, Daddio. So let's not be throwing off on Bread. David Gates could toss a hook like nobody's business. I think I've got an 8-track around here someplace...

Speaking of parking songs, if you could ever fog the car windows to this point, all things were possible: "Jungle Fever". And this was 1972. Yeah, that's right: we were swingers, baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0CCh2rg5s

Eddie Coyle · July 15, 2013, 08:53:18 PM

I nominate the dead dog epic "Shannon" by the appropriately named Henry Gross. *The request that set off Casey Kasem on his infamous rant.

I always thought "Chevy Van" was about a serial rapist/murderer. "Jackie Blue"...because she needed the money.

Sardondi · July 15, 2013, 09:01:04 PM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on July 15, 2013, 08:53:18 PM
I nominate the dead dog epic "Shannon" by the appropriately named Henry Gross. *The request that set off Casey Kasem on his infamous rant.

I always thought "Chevy Van" was about a serial rapist/murderer. "Jackie Blue"...because she needed the money.

Oh, man, the involuntary-cringe power of those titles. But you also made me think of "Brother Louie" by Stories, whoever the hell that was - "Louie, Louie, Louie Loueyyyyyye"

ACE of CLUBS · July 15, 2013, 09:01:51 PM

'Sometimes when we touch .......
I'll up-chuck very much ..... '
Ouch!

UnscreenedCaller · July 15, 2013, 09:05:11 PM

Oh, really? Well, I'm just dealing myself in with Wildfire, The Ballad of Billy Jack, Disco Duck and for the topper: Feelings, guaranteed to make you puke out your car window.

I just looked at that picture and all I see is an alien head on the right. Too much C2C, my brain is fried.

Sardondi · July 15, 2013, 09:08:59 PM

"It never rains in California,
But girl, don't they warn you..."

my favorite line...
"Please don't tell 'em how you found me
Don't tell 'em how you found me
Gimme a break, give me a break"

This 70's trash music threadling has also reminded me of the War singles, which is decidedly good music, which I'm now listening to: first with Eric Burdon(!) and "Spill The Wine", and then just the brothers with, "Slippin' Into Darkness", "The World Is A Ghetto","Cisco Kid", "Why Can't We Be Friends?" and "Low Rider". A soprano sax, a fat and funky bass line, and Latin syncopation on the rim shots.

ItsOver · July 15, 2013, 09:42:51 PM

To counteract all the saccharine, I would like to humbly nominate "Timothy" as one of the strangest pop songs of all time.

Wiki has quite the write-up on this little gem, much of which I'd never known until this fateful night. In a salute to MST3K, here is one excerpt:

"In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode featuring Monster A Go-Go, Crow and Servo are discussing Rupert Holmes's PiÃ±a Colada Song, and Joel Robinson asserts that, as a pop songwriter, Rupert Holmes always wrote about contemporary popular trends. The robots retort by citing "Timothy" ("That was about cannibalism. When was that popular?"), but Joel assures the robots that it is a "well-known fact that Timothy was a duck."

As you were.

Flaxen Hegemony · July 15, 2013, 09:45:20 PM

Adding some kindling to the fire,

"hey lady, please lady. You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife..."

Sardondi · July 15, 2013, 09:51:40 PM

Quote from: Flaxen Hegemony on July 15, 2013, 09:45:20 PM
Adding some kindling to the fire,
"hey lady, please lady. You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife..."

"I've Never Been To Me" - I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth....

UnscreenedCaller · July 15, 2013, 10:50:38 PM

The Commodores:
You're once , twice, three times a lady
And I looooooooove you...

Eddie Murphy did the best version on SNL

Any and everything by Barry Manilow but especially Mandy: "You gave and you gave without taking". Yeah, right, Barry.

Sardondi · July 16, 2013, 02:44:19 AM

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on July 15, 2013, 10:50:38 PM...Any and everything by Barry Manilow but especially Mandy: "You gave and you gave without taking". Yeah, right, Barry.

And all the while it was Patinkin he was thinkin' of...

onan · July 16, 2013, 04:32:00 AM

Quote from: Sardondi on July 15, 2013, 08:50:08 PM

Now wait. Yes, there was terrible overplay on Top-40, but you're talking Bread, man. That was almost guaranteed parking music. And I mean tongue action, Daddio. So let's not be throwing off on Bread. David Gates could toss a hook like nobody's business. I think I've got an 8-track around here someplace...

I was making out with Barb Ruffato, and the words "Baby, I'm a want you... Baby I'm a need you" were playing out. I started snickering. Then Barb started snickering... god what an awful song.

MV/Liberace! · July 16, 2013, 04:58:57 AM

Quote from: onan on July 16, 2013, 04:32:00 AM

I was making out with Barb Ruffato, and the words "Baby, I'm a want you... Baby I'm a need you" were playing out. I started snickering. Then Barb started snickering... god what an awful song.

Man. What a pile of shite that song is.

Juan · July 16, 2013, 05:18:49 AM

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on July 15, 2013, 09:05:11 PM
Disco Duck

While Rick Dees was great, the best version of this song was by Happy Kyne and the Mirthmakers. I separated rib cartilage laughing.
OMG, it's on youtube - it starts about 1:40 in.

Fernwood 2Night - Disco Duck

Sardondi · July 16, 2013, 10:22:33 AM

Quote from: onan on July 16, 2013, 04:32:00 AMI was making out with Barb Ruffato, and the words "Baby, I'm a want you... Baby I'm a need you" were playing out. I started snickering. Then Barb started snickering... god what an awful song.

Quote from: MV on July 16, 2013, 04:58:57 AMMan. What a pile of shite that song is.

I am almost certain that at some point in time I was listening to that song as I tried to keep my tongue from being cut to ribbons on the razor-blade minefield that was the massive set of braces of the otherwise perfect Sharon Cantrell. Sweet, sweet Sharon. The butterscotch hair; those blue eyes, those Angelina Jolie lips, those lovely, long tanned legs, those gravity-defying bazooms out to tomorrow...

And you call it "awful"? And "shite"? I don't think I can take it....*sob*...Sharon! They're mocking our music! Sharon! Where are you?! Shaaaaaaarrrrrrroooooooooon! Hmmm. I wonder if that would have been the same night I drooled so badly on her that she literally had to wipe her mouth backhanded like a TV drunk in an Old West saloon scene.

Dammit, I'm gonna go listen to some Paul Revere and the Raiders: only the music of a man who currently makes his living based on a willing suspension of his audiences' disbelief so gargantuan that they can pretend that at 71 he still looks and sounds like he did almost 50 years ago will soothe the raw wound that has been made on my soul today. *sobs*....