This English folk-rock group recorded their arrangement of a traditional folk song "Lovely in the Water" in late 1970 for their second album Please to See the King. In the lyrics, provided below for those of you who, like me, often find it easier to understand lyrics if they're transcribed, a Navy sailor tells his unhappy girlfriend he has to go help fight in an ocean battle, saying, "Oh, we ...
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Aside from Jason & the Scorchers raveups on Dylan and Hank Sr tunes, this may be my favourite odd cover version of a song that *isn't* a piss-take like Big Daddy's.You kinda wonder whether Buddy would even have recognised his song, much less approved - but i think he would have.(Less than a minute from a two-minute song, downsampled to about AM radio quality, but it ought to make the point.)
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In 1973 or so, while a student at Georgia Tech, i was sort of semi-listening to Tech FM station WREK, headphones on while i did some homework so as not to disturb my Techwood dorm roommate, when they played *The Weaver and the Factory Maid*. I remember thinking that it was rather pretty... and then it came to the bit near the end where Maddie multi-multi tracks a capella vocals of the final cho...
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On this rendition of the old story about the sailor outsmarted and rolled by the hooker, Steeleye enlisted the instrumental (ukelele) and vocal services of someone rather better known as an actor - Peter Sellers.As an accompanist, Sellers does quite well... and intejects some comments in the voices of Henry Crun and Min Bannister, two characters from the old BBC radio "Goon Show", on which Sell...
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First, let me say congratulations. I know you're happy that your candidate won, and I can't blame you. It was a hard-fought battle, and as McCain said later, the American people chose who they wanted, and made it very clear. So, enjoy your moment of victory. However, I have some issues I would like to mention. In the days before and since the election, I have been hearing more and more outr...
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This English folk-rock group recorded their arrangement of a traditional folk song "Lovely in the Water" in late 1970 for their second album Please to See the King. In the lyrics, provided below for those of you who, like me, often find it easier to understand lyrics if they're transcribed, a Navy sailor tells his unhappy girlfriend he has to go help fight in an ocean battle, saying, "Oh, we ...
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This started as a comment on a post by Anna and Got Bigger:Hmmm - we did this {a sort of musical trivia game; check Anna's post for details} a couple of years ago, didn't we?(Actually, i know we did, 'cos i was just looking back for one of my old MOG posts to include a link to it in the comments forum on Brooke McEldowney's daily Pibgorn on-line comic and came across my post about it...(McEldow...
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Aside from Jason & the Scorchers raveups on Dylan and Hank Sr tunes, this may be my favourite odd cover version of a song that *isn't* a piss-take like Big Daddy's.You kinda wonder whether Buddy would even have recognised his song, much less approved - but i think he would have.(Less than a minute from a two-minute song, downsampled to about AM radio quality, but it ought to make the point.)
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In 1973 or so, while a student at Georgia Tech, i was sort of semi-listening to Tech FM station WREK, headphones on while i did some homework so as not to disturb my Techwood dorm roommate, when they played *The Weaver and the Factory Maid*. I remember thinking that it was rather pretty... and then it came to the bit near the end where Maddie multi-multi tracks a capella vocals of the final cho...
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