Hello, partygoers! As we head into the final stretch of the Listening Party, we thought we’d take some time to read and comment on your own comments that have been sent into the show over the last few months.
It goes without saying – but we’re going to say it anyway – that the party wouldn’t have been half as fun without your contributions. Your thoughts, opinions, stories, alternate song choices, and jokes have made this podcast a real joy to do.
Of course, it wouldn’t really be the Listening Party without music, and Dave has stepped up big time to offer us four fun Top 5 categories and some truly great songs. We think you’re really going to enjoy it!
Top 5 Hair Songs:
1) The Cowsills – “Hair” – MGM single b/w “What Is Happy?”, 1968 – 06:41
2) Pearly Gates Music – “Gossamer Hair” – Pearly Gates Music, 2010 – 21:24
3) Wimple Witch – “Marmalade Hair” – Tales from the Sinking Ship, 2009 – 29:50
4) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Almost Cut My Hair (Full Version)” – CSN, 1991[1970] – 35:59
5) White Denim – “Mess Your Hair Up” – Workout Holiday, 2008 – 58:09
Bonus Hair Song:
6) Chimera – “The Lady with Bullets in Her Hair” – Holy Grail, 2002 – 1:05:36
Top 5 Train Songs:
1) Five Man Electrical Band – “Private Train” – Five Man Electrical Band, 1969 – 1:14:33
2) Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio – “Train Kept A-Rollin’” – Coral Records single b/w “Honey Hush”, 1956 – 1:22:15
3) Cindy and the Playmates – “Don’t Stop This Train” – Kemp Records single b/w “A Portrait of God’s Love”, 1972 – 1:29:44
4) Michael Hurley – “Water Train” – Hi-Fi Snock Uptown, 1972 – 1:40:20
5) The Monkees – “Steam Engine” – Listen to the Band, 1991 [1969] – 1:52:46
Bonus Train Song:
6) The Rising Sons – “2:10 Train” – Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, 1992 – 1:57:12
Top 5 Rodent Songs:
1) No Fun – “Rodents Fair” – Snivel, 1984 – 2:04:15
2) The Kinks – “Rats” – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One [also b-side to “Apeman” from the same album], 1970 – 2:09:33
3) The Monochrome Set – “Mousetrap” – Trinity Square, 1995 – 2:16:23
4) Junior Wells – “When the Cat’s Gone the Mice Play” – USA Records single b-side to “She’s a Sweet One”, 1963 – 2:23:34
5) The Modettes – “White Mice” – The Story So Far, 1982 – 2:27:24
Top 5 Tack Piano Songs (for Ed Draganski):
1) The Mojo Men – “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” – Reprise single b/w “Don’t Leave Me Crying Like Before”, 1967 – 2:43:10
2) The Hollies – “Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe” – Evolution, 1967 – 2:52:39
3) Mike D’Abo – “(See the Little People) Gulliver Travels” – Immediate single b/w “An Anthology of Gulliver’s Travels – Part Two”, 1969 – 2:57:02
4) The Bunch – “Spare a Shilling” – CBS Records single b/w “Looking Glass Alice”, 1967 – 3:04:19
5) The Beach Boys – “Heroes and Villains [Alternate version]”, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, 1993[1966} – 3:11:26
Bonus Tack Piano Song:
6) Freddie and the Dreamers – “I Want to Go to the Overworld” – Oliver in the Overworld, 1970 – 3:22:32
Also spinning on the old Victrola:
Tori Amos – “Mr. Zebra” – Boys for Pele, 1996 – 2:39:01
Gary Usher – “Scorpio” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:16:17
Thanks for listening.
Dept. of Corections:
The word David was looking for was “spindle” – a record sits on a spindle on a turntable.
The original singer for Manfred Mann was Paul Jones, who would also leave the band for a fitful solo career
As usual, when one extemporizes extensively on a podcast, mistakes are bound to creep in, and David made a big boner biweek: it was Humphrey Lyttelton who recorded the Joe Meek-produced “Bad Penny Blues”, which is said to have inspired “Lady Madonna’. The Black Dyke Mills Band recorded a single for Apple – the Paul McCartney composition “Thingumybob”. Anyway – pretty embarrassing.
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Thanks for another top TOP 5 (ish) episode. I especially enjoyed the tack piano songs. What can I say, I’m into whimsical tunes. I’m not saying that “Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe” inspired me to prance about the room, but I’m not saying it didn’t.
I’ll admit it, I pranced.
I’m willing to say that I picked up my little boy and we “danced” around the living room to “Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe.” It was a fun and bouncy song!
I have to say I’m flattered you remembered my request some episodes ago about he Toytown Psych and tack piano music, I could have searched for days and not found a better top five…er, six songs. Listening brought a tear or two of happiness to my eyes, much appreciated. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I’ll miss this podcast greatly, it has evolved into a showcase of knowledge and entertainment for us. I’ve enjoyed the mini documentaries just as much as trashing The Eagles right into that spittoon.
I have to say that if you ever found yourself looking for a job as a music researcher or archivist, I think you could make a pretty good go of it. You can’t be lifting giant garage doors forever you know. My Uncle was a music librarian for The Roosevelt University in Chicago for many years, he knows more about classical music than anyone I know. There’s a syndicated program out of New York I listen to in Dallas on their classical station called “Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin”. McGlaughlin discusses classical music themes and stories every night the same way you do on Listening Party with modern music. In fact, Bill McGlaughlin actually offered my Uncle a job on his show years ago as a researcher but my Uncle declined since he was near retirement and it would mean moving to New York. Still, my Uncle boasts this because he knows he’s that good. I bet you could do something like this with all the experience and talent you have with music. Remember what the Joker said in “The Dark Knight”, “If you’re good at something, never do it for free!” I just had to put that bug in your ear Dave.
I mentioned my high school friend who was ELO superfan and he knows their beginnings better than I ever will. His mention of Jeff Lynne was part of another conversation we were having after he saw Lynne LIVE (Leaving me insanely jealous!!). I mentioned The Move and it kind of “bread-crumbed” back to them, but he knows ELO much better than I originally mentioned in my post. My first 45 record I ever bought was “Livin’ Thing” by ELO with “Fire on High” as the B-Side but I didn’t know a damned thing about them and way before I met my friend in high school.
I found this episode to be particularly nice, and I especially enjoyed the Top 5 Plus 1 Tack Piano Songs. Please tell Mary that the use of the word “bosom” is sadly falling out of fashion in the Southern United States. I am the only person I know who uses that terminology in my community, so I was surprised to hear that there is someone else out there using it in their vocabulary. I like the word because it is old fashioned and makes me think of 19th Century romantic paintings. This was a joyful episode!
‘Dept. of Corections’ [sic] indeed! I missed that at first. Well played! 🙂
Just two quick notes on this show, which was fab, as ever. First, I really DO appreciate you including the time that each song appears in the mixtape in the show notes. However, it doesn’t seem to have stopped me listening twice to each episode. Guess I’m hooked, man.
Second – and I hope this link works outside the UK – I think I might have stumbled onto part of the CSNY TV appearance Dave was talking about. They play a slightly truncated version of Down by the River here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NjZrPX-l0
Thanks, Chris! What a pleasure to be able to re-watch that performance. It really is good, right?
Fantastic – the full Deja Vu band in their prime! Also, I forgot to say how much I enjoyed that longer version of Almost Cut My Hair in this episode – hadn’t heard it before. So much better than the original album edit.