Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

[Tony]

One more, written by Shel Silverstein.

"Me and Jimmie Rodgers" sung by Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDRyqlZ8Gw

[Kush]

Spymaster himself with Blueberry hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo

[John Etherington]

Merry Christmas everyone, and happy birthday to this thread tomorrow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HjzakNaUE

[Kush]

From John Hiatt's new(ish) album released last spring, Open Road

Homeland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f365_A6cTs

Well, I jumped so high
Knocked the table over
Thought I saw a ghost
Come out of the clover
She lived in this house
Forty odd years or so

She was buried in the back
With the English and the Natives
Slaughtered like sheep
Women and babies
A lot of blood and tears
Three hundred years ago

It's like they're caught up in the trees
In the webs of spiders
Spun out of leaves
Ghostly riders
Lookin' for a trail
To find their way back home

But there's nothing back there or tomorrow
No place they can put their sorrow
Heavy as death
Cold as a broken stone

And I call this place my homeland
And I claim this land I own
But it belongs to another people
They possess it in their bones

Well, I can hear them in the night
Like a hundred televisions
Hummin' down low beneath the subdivisions
All they really want is if we can hear 'em now

They been troublin' this plain
Looking for attention
Making crazy tracks
They need an intervention
All they really want
Is to get back home somehow

So build up a fire
Say a little prayer
Cook a little meat
Pull 'em up a chair and
Offer them a plate
Maybe we can all find peace

You can't bury anything, men or nations
Old memories, old vibrations
The pain doesn't stop
Just because the killin' ceased

And I call this place my homeland
And I claim this land I own
It belongs to another people
They possess it in their bones

Well, I jumped so high
Straight up off the bedsheet
Nightmare sky
Bloody with the red heat
Started to shake
Cause I couldn't find my way back home

Well, I landed in the ditch
Landed in the gutter
Landed in arms of my long lost mother
Cryin' like a child
While the Bayou Pierre groaned

And I call this place my homeland
And I love this land I own
It belongs to another people
They possess it in their bones

[sebmelmoth2003]

songwriting's a dying art says jimmy webb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 385195.stm

[John Etherington]

Thanks for the link! Cue one of my favourite Webb songs by one of my favourite singer-songwriters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAQ0RuOFRaM (I like Jimmy's Seventies stuff, the best).

[Diane]

A friend from Kerala India put me on to pianist Stephen Devassy who hails from there - as does Neha S Nair, who sings in this. Here's their wonderful interpretation of an old Hindi/Bollywood song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6yO9vxXtRM

[John Etherington]

Suddenly prog seems relevant!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6gStymTNsE

[Kush]

Just Like Townes Van Zandt's Blues....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjypGcP2cwE

[Kush]

A song from John Hiatt's first album I'd never heard until last week:

Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNIGappzxwQ

I am the west wind
I am the sea gull
I dance on the waves
As they break on the shore line

The moon is my sorrow
The moon is my lantern
I searched for you so long
These dark lonely beaches

Oh where can you be?
This restless sea
These empty nights
Have swallowed me

Looking for something
Softer illusion
To soothe these vicious schemes
Where is the Old one
The Wise one, the Bold one
Who guide the sailor's dream

I am the hunger
The ache of affliction
I nestle in bones
That you left for the vultures

Death is my secret
The child my illusion
And life is the suffering
That brings men to know me

and

Oh, where can you be?
This raging age
This rotting life
This mystery

Lost in your body
The cave of your screaming
Longing to be free
When you have broken
The spine of your madness
Come over here to me

[John Etherington]

Two forgotten songs from the Peter Asher event, which featured the Webb Sisters, on Saturday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6l4i-zA_Q ("I Go to Pieces" by Peter and Gordon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXLhLrvSWZc ("Day After Day" by Jeffrey Alan Ross of Badfinger)

[B4real]

"I Go to Pieces" by Peter and Gordon

ha ha! John,
I still have the original 45 record of that song with Love Me Baby on the flip B side and produced by Columbia (made by EMI-Aust)

....but you are right, I had forgotten it!!

On the record under the title is written (Del Shannon) ...it seems he must have written "I Go To Pieces".

EDIT: You are not going to believe this but as I'm typing this "I Go To Pieces" is playing on the radio here because it is Peter Asher's birthday today 22nd June.

[Kush]

District Six (Hugh Masekela and Corlea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUpaDjzkTcc