PINBALL WIZARD? (There's GOT To Be A Trick)
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The Loose Acoustic Trio haild from sacramento, Ca. and calls itself an old fashioned jug band. I know they got the lyric right, but the melody belongs to something else....I just can't put my finger on it.
Spike?
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"The Wabash Cannonball," which Chuck Berry used for "Promised Land."
That sinister map is mysterious, open to many different messages.
The mandolin part that opens this had made its way across the Atlantic a good while back - this was recorded in a small studio just outside Edinburgh in the mid-1980s
http://mog.com/Baudolino/blog/162706
Really? I think the message is pretty clear. And I'm glad you could nail the melody source so quickly. Jeff, I like this - probably more than the original.
The melody is also similar to Woody Guthrie's "Grand Coulee Dam", no?
Reminds me of a few Americana/ early country. A bit o Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie and some Cajun type music. Great lyrics.. fun melodic line too.
Great song, now I gotta go listen to Wabash Cannonball.
UffinGreg, the Carter Family recorded it first, but the version I'm most familiar with is Roy Acuff's, maybe from the early 1940s. A year ago January I included it in a comment to one of deadmandeadman's posts, and here it is again.
Thanks Spike
I'd hafta say I like this cover better than the original myself!
@Spike....nothing too subtle about the illustration. But I knew I could count on you to fill in certain blanks. Like so many selections from The Great American Songbook this tune has accompanied many sets of lyrics over the last few centuries. Ironic that laws designed to protect artists (ie: Copyright Law) would put such a chokehold on the art itself. Folk, Country, Blues....in each of these traditions it was accepted as normal to write new lyrics, in part or in whole, for tunes in the "collective concious". Many a beloved blues song from years past are in fact amalgams of myriad snatches of older songs, trapped in the techno-amber of twentieth century recordings. Which is not to say that Robert Johnson didn't "write" Love In Vain (for instance) only that his song is , lyrically, a retelling of of hundreds of such songs n images n phrases.
Baudolino, thanks for that trip to the past post...great tune. & yes Grand Coulee Dam
Mark....I think The Spiked One was making with the humor. and yes, I like it better than.
Kori, I agree, there are echoes of all kinds of artists n songs here. Great, isn't it?
Greg, Spike almost always come through.
Hey Doommeister! How you doin'? I'm not a big Who fan, never was, never will be. I like this much better.
Makin it man! Just makin it!
Don't worry my friend our new President will lead us all to the land of Milk & Honey..................(Clinton says..."Did somebody say honies"?)
I'm still waiting for my bailout package!! It's gonna be swell!
My favorite rendition of "Pinball Wizard" remains Elton John's, from the movie soundtrack to Tommy. Go ahead and laugh.
The lyrics actually have been altered (slightly, and fittingly). Pete Townshend didn't demarcate his character's turf from Yodo (whatever that is) to Stockton...
I too think copyright laws are a hindrance, but I'm not sure how Obama came up.
Delightfully silly cover, though. Loved it.
Soho?
you asked Spike, and Spike had the answer. the logic thereof never ceases to amaze me. unfortunately, the button just keeps turning (it worked in all other posts!) but you've got me thinking about the impossibility of pinballs.