❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[onanismaddict]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Joan Baez - Farewell, Angelina

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 17
Emma Rede - I gotta be with you

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Whiskey On A Sunday - Danny Doyle

 

[Deleted member 6607120]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

I sing this one a lot while in the shower.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 17
Muriel Day - Nine Times Out Of Ten
+1 for being female
+1 for being Irish
(=27)

 

[vagrantx]

Day 17: A song from the 60's
+1 for irish artist
+1 for mentioning ireland (well, irish cities and other locations. does that count?)
+1 for whiskey
=27

While Metallica may have put this song on the map for our generation, there's just something about the Dubliners version that pricks the heart.

 

[morelikeasong]

@morelikeasong can I get a rules clarification?

Since it's the '60s, unless a band was super popular, chances are a recording of any song, especially if it wasn't a hit single, from that year or decade might not exist on the internet. I'm that case, can we take any recording of the song we fine if we can prove it's original recording date was in the appropriate decade?

This particular tie in with the points scheme presents an issue we've not really run into yet.

Also, are we going by East Coast time for posting eligibility, or local time? I forget.

Yeah I don’t see why not. Do you mean like if the song was originally from the 60s and then remastered later? As long as it’s still the same artist/song. You can’t use a newer cover by a different artist.

And local time is fine when the prompt is already up!

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 16: A song that mentions one or more birds
Freebird (since @Azuldrgon got to it first, I'm going to post a different version of the song I love)

Day 17: A song from the 60's
Cream: Sunshine of your love

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 17: A song from the 60's

 

[Sexy_Singer]

Day 17

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 17: A song from the 60's

Released in 1966 by the Abbey Tavern Singers - Off to Dublin in the Green

The group was formed in Ireland in 1964, and included 4 women: Anne Byrne, Margaret Monks, Tess Nolan, and Mary Sheehan. While this song is about a young Irish lad going off to war to fight for Irish independence and is therefore sung in a male first person voice, the female backup vocals of the women group members are clear. This song earns +2 for multiple women, +1 for being Irish, +1 for mentioning Ireland, and +1 for mentioning green. Total score +5

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 17: A song from the 60's
- Van Morrison is Irish
- "Making love in the green grass behind the stadium..."
+2!

According to the liner notes, you may be entitled to 2 more points.

 

[ZfrkS62]

1960's

The Johnstons "Bitter Green"

2 female group members, Irish/Irish descent, mentions green =4 for 27.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 17 - 1960’s

Seven drunken nights although the song only talks about five of them.

Irish band +1
Booze +1

Total points - 22

 

[ZfrkS62]

Yeah I don’t see why not. Do you mean like if the song was originally from the 60s and then remastered later? As long as it’s still the same artist/song. You can’t use a newer cover by a different artist.

And local time is fine when the prompt is already up!

Let's say the song was released on an album or single in 1963, but someone has a recording of a performance from the 1970s, whether that be a radio program, TV appearance or digitally transferred from vhs tape. Hell, maybe even a re-release on CD but the copyright data is wrong. Or maybe a performance by at least one of the original members later on. I could go on.

 

[Bry1313]

Let's say the song was released on an album or single in 1963, but someone has a recording of a performance from the 1970s, whether that be a radio program, TV appearance or digitally transferred from vhs tape. Hell, maybe even a re-release on CD but the copyright data is wrong. Or maybe a performance by at least one of the original members later on. I could go on.

You are thinking too hard about this

 

[Azuldrgon]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

+1 female artist
MTD total +18

 

[morelikeasong]

Is this for one of the prompts?

Let's say the song was released on an album or single in 1963, but someone has a recording of a performance from the 1970s, whether that be a radio program, TV appearance or digitally transferred from vhs tape. Hell, maybe even a re-release on CD but the copyright data is wrong. Or maybe a performance by at least one of the original members later on. I could go on.

I agree with Bry… thinking too much as long as it’s following the spirit of the prompt I’m fine with it

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

You don't think it fits?

 

[ZfrkS62]

Is this for one of the prompts?

I agree with Bry… thinking too much as long as it’s following the spirit of the prompt I’m fine with it

Hey, I'm on a roll with points and I'm not looking to get DQ'd at this stage

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 17 A song from the 60’s

20+2=22

I’m just skipping the St. Patrick’s day points and just taking my +2 for one of my favorite songs of all time.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth​

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 17: A song from the 60s
Okay, Irish rebel songs. I have a feeling this may be a theme for me this week, though I make no promises. I am trying not to over think it.

I am not going to delve too much into the history of Ireland and her annoying neighbors because it all sucks, but oft history does. (There is a line from Malazan: The Book of the Fallen that states it as clear as anything I have read. "Children are dying," he said. "That is all of history in three words.") But the Irish are a people who sing when they are happy, and sing louder when they are sad. (I have two grandparents who were born in Ireland, and a grandfather on my mother's side who was Arapaho. I only saw the three of them together once, and they got along famously, and taught each other their songs.) And given what the history was, there are a lot of rebel songs. And I am of two minds towards them. On one side, I love the history, and I believe in Irish rule over the Irish. On the other hand, there are many who gleefully delve into horrible things, often very recent to when the song was made. And the gleefulness is off-putting.

This is an older one, about the uprising of 1798. It is interesting to me that this rebellion originated with protestants, who allied with the Catholic majority to push out the English rulers. It failed (this is a theme). There was a movement at the time, started in France, for anti-aristocracy movements to cut their hair short in opposition to the powdered wigs of the ruling class. An Irish nickname for those who fought for independence in the 1798 was "croppy," thus "The Croppy Boy." There are at least two major versions recorded, both sad. This one tells the story of a young boy who wants to fight for independence, but is sold out by his cousin to the English for a pittance, and, while awaiting execution on the scaffolding, is disowned by his father just before his is killed. It is put to the music of Cailín Óg a Stór, or "O Darling Young Girl." If it sounds familiar, Dylan used it for "Bob Dylan's Dream."

This version is sung by the lovely Anne Byrne, who isn't a household name here, but should be better known. She was from County Dublin, and had a whole album of rebel songs in the sixties. She has a lovely voice, and gives this one a haunting quality that is missed by other versions, at least to me.

"The Croppy Boy," Anne Byrne (+1 for female, +1 Irish artist, +1 Ireland, +1 green, for +4)

(27+4=31)

 

[Deleted member 6666935]

A song from the 60s? Too easy, so I’ll forgo my usual Beatles and toss out…