Older songs and slight embarrassment

[MaeveoSliabh]

Today I found myself humming an older song. About 20 years old or so, I would say. Not so bad, since I'm a big fan of cheezy 80s music and sing along to the station at work... just to make the younger people laugh at me.

Actually, they think it's kinda cool, so it's all good.

The embarrassment comes in realising what song it was. And still thinking that, instead of being horrible and cheezy, it's still a damned good one. Then trying to find a torrent of the album it was on.

So, uh.... Anybody willing to share an old Hal Ketchum album with me?

 

[cloudy]

I used to have one of his cassettes (yes, that long ago). I think it was "Past the Point of Rescue" - I still love that song.

Last night I dreamed you were back again
Larger than life again,
holding me tight again
Placing those same kisses on my brow
Sweeter than ever now,
lord I remember how
Couldn't get enough of kissing,
do you know how much you're missing
No you don't,
but I do

The days like a slow train trickle by
And even the words that I write refuse to fly
All I can hear is your song haunting me
Can't get the melody out of my head, you see
Distractions are amusing,
do you know how much you're losing
No you don't,
but I do

But I do,
and I wonder if I'm past the point of rescue
Is no word from you at all the best that you can do
I never meant to push or shove you,
do you know how much I love you
No you don't,
but I do

I swore I'd never fall like this again
Fools like me never win,
came to my knees again
Can't close the door on likelihood
Things might be just as good,
I always believed they would
Gotta let your love invite me,
baby do you think it might be
No you don't,
but I do

But I do,
and I wonder if I'm past the point of rescue
Is no word from you at all the best that you can do
I never meant to push or shove you,
do you know how much I love you
No you don't,
but I do

 

[rgraham666]

I realized yesterday I remember all the words to My Sharona.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

I used to have one of his cassettes (yes, that long ago). I think it was "Past the Point of Rescue" - I still love that song.

Heh... That's the album I want. That song being one of the reasons.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

I realized yesterday I remember all the words to My Sharona.

Could be worse. You could be like me and actually get up and dance and sing along to Mony Mony.

 

[rgraham666]

Could be worse. You could be like me and actually get up and dance and sing along to Mony Mony.

Um. (shuffles feet) I can

 

[Guest]

Um. (shuffles feet) I can

I wanna see that in Chicago 2008.

 

[Night_Jasmine]

*blush* I know the words to Mony Mony too. A lot of the sixties stuff I know.

 

[starrkers]

I realized yesterday I remember all the words to My Sharona.

I remember Racey - and their "dance" moves.

 

[RunningJib]

Why be embarrassed?

Today I found myself humming an older song. About 20 years old or so, I would say. Not so bad, since I'm a big fan of cheezy 80s music and sing along to the station at work... just to make the younger people laugh at me.

Actually, they think it's kinda cool, so it's all good.

The embarrassment comes in realising what song it was. And still thinking that, instead of being horrible and cheezy, it's still a damned good one. Then trying to find a torrent of the album it was on.

So, uh.... Anybody willing to share an old Hal Ketchum album with me?

Never heard of Hal Ketchum

But I dig jazz. Stuff from the swing era like Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing (See: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/100list.html#3sing) as well as the be-bop era from the likes of Miles Davis, Gil Evans, T.S. Monk, Charles Mingus, etc.

I graduated high school in ’71. And I still dig the classic rock and roll (Jefferson Airplane, Eric Clapton, Emerson Lake and Palmer; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)

And my music tastes continues to expand. Now my favorites include: Tony Bennett, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Moby, Jack Johnson, Steely Dan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Brazil 66, etc, etc.
And there’s this song my grandfather taught me from WWI (My Buddy).

So hum / sing away—just do it at the top of your lunges. Show us your passion!

 

[glynndah]

Never heard of Hal Ketchum

But I dig jazz. Stuff from the swing era like Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing (See: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/100list.html#3sing) as well as the be-bop era from the likes of Miles Davis, Gil Evans, T.S. Monk, Charles Mingus, etc.

I graduated high school in ’71. And I still dig the classic rock and roll (Jefferson Airplane, Eric Clapton, Emerson Lake and Palmer; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)

And my music tastes continues to expand. Now my favorites include: Tony Bennett, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Moby, Jack Johnson, Steely Dan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Brazil 66, etc, etc.
And there’s this song my grandfather taught me from WWI (My Buddy).

So hum / sing away—just do it at the top of your lunges. Show us your passion!

My Buddy was my husband's grandparents song. They danced to it at their wedding and it was played at both their funerals.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

Jib, lovey, you graduated before I was born... but I like you. My current winamp playlist has everything from the Carter Sisters to Ella Fitzgerald to Godsmack to Rimsky-Korsakov to Shakira to Steely Dan to Metallica to Flogging Molly to the Brobdingnagian Bards to... uh... Well, you get the idea.

And I do sing loud. In the car. Alone. It scares people if they pull up to a stop light next to me. Windows rolled down, car bouncing all over cause I'm dancing in the seat, music turned up, and me singing loud enough my face has turned purple before. It's great!

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

Um. (shuffles feet) I can

If I can get there, you and me baby... you and me...

and Mony Mony.

 

[SeaCat]

I still listen to a lot of the older Chris DeBurgh. ("Don't pay the Ferryman", "Revolution" "Man on the Line" "Crusader".)

I listen to and know the words to "One Tin Soldier".

Janis Joplin is often heard on my stereo.

We won't even get into the types of Country I have.

"Songs of the Yukon" has been known to be blasted from my Speakers. (Anyone here ever listened to "The Cremation of Sam Magee" or "Mush"?)

I also have an ancient album in pristine condition titled "This is Stereo" from when Stereo was just coming out. (Talk about fun to listen to.)

Now if I could only get my hands on a low priced, (As in reasonably priced.) Turntable so I could put some Vinyl back on. Things like Styx The Serpent. (Let's see how many of you even know that album.)

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

Here's my favourite song to sing in the shower.

It suits my vocal range too.

 

[starrkers]

I still listen to a lot of the older Chris DeBurgh. ("Don't pay the Ferryman", "Revolution" "Man on the Line" "Crusader".)

I listen to and know the words to "One Tin Soldier".

Janis Joplin is often heard on my stereo.

We won't even get into the types of Country I have.

"Songs of the Yukon" has been known to be blasted from my Speakers. (Anyone here ever listened to "The Cremation of Sam Magee" or "Mush"?)

I also have an ancient album in pristine condition titled "This is Stereo" from when Stereo was just coming out. (Talk about fun to listen to.)

Now if I could only get my hands on a low priced, (As in reasonably priced.) Turntable so I could put some Vinyl back on. Things like Styx The Serpent. (Let's see how many of you even know that album.)

Cat

Does the "This is Stereo" have the sound of a train coming into a station, stopping, people getting off and on, and then the train leaving the station?
If so, I have a similar record. It's just in a box with all my other stuff!
I admit to loving "Don't Pay the Ferryman", much to my musician husband's disgust.
And is that the "Styx the serpent is rising" from the early 70s or the reissue from 1980?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

There were so many songs from the 80s that I still love. I still have a few of those CDs in my car booklet too. I still know most of the words to most of the songs, and I can still dance just as badly as ever to them any time I hear them.

 

[S-Des]

There were so many songs from the 80s that I still love. I still have a few of those CDs in my car booklet too. I still know most of the words to most of the songs, and I can still dance just as badly as ever to them any time I hear them.

Do you do the Molly Ringwald/Breakfast Club/preppy girl dance? I'd pay to see that.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Do you do the Molly Ringwald/Breakfast Club/preppy girl dance? I'd pay to see that.

I have said before and I will say again. I dance worse than Elaine of Seinfeld fame.

 

[R. Richard]

So, some of you are a bit embarrassed that you remember songs from the 80s and, hell, even the 60s, are you? I collect 50's and 60s music. [OK, I even have a few songs like Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood' and Charlie Barnett's 'Flying Home.'] I have to watch myself so that I don't, in public, hum something like 'Sh-Boom,' 'Earth Angel' or the Bullmoose Jackson version of 'Big Ten Inch.'

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

So, some of you are a bit embarrassed that you remember songs from the 80s and, hell, even the 60s, are you? I collect 50's and 60s music. [OK, I even have a few songs like Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood' and Charlie Barnett's 'Flying Home.'] I have to watch myself so that I don't, in public, hum something like 'Sh-Boom,' 'Earth Angel' or the Bullmoose Jackson version of 'Big Ten Inch.'

hehe... I have two out of three of those on the winamp list, too. And you can't forget things like 'Blue Moon' or 'Who Put the Bomp'

 

[SeaCat]

Does the "This is Stereo" have the sound of a train coming into a station, stopping, people getting off and on, and then the train leaving the station?
If so, I have a similar record. It's just in a box with all my other stuff!
I admit to loving "Don't Pay the Ferryman", much to my musician husband's disgust.
And is that the "Styx the serpent is rising" from the early 70s or the reissue from 1980?

Damn it you have the same one? Does yours have the sounds of the race cars at Indie? Does it start with the deep voice saying "This is stereo"? If so we have the same album.

I have the original Styx, in the original album jacket. (With the original version of the Toilet Seat Song. )

Cat

 

[starrkers]

Damn it you have the same one? Does yours have the sounds of the race cars at Indie? Does it start with the deep voice saying "This is stereo"? If so we have the same album.

I have the original Styx, in the original album jacket. (With the original version of the Toilet Seat Song. )

Cat

I haven't listened to it for ages - I don't recall the Indie cars, but it does have the deep voice at the start!

 

[R. Richard]

Some time ago, I talked with a man who maintained juke boxes, back in the 50's and 60s. I asked him if there was a song or songs that were played and played, until they literally wore out. He told me yes, there was one such song. [I was prepared for an Elvis song.] You might try to guess the song.




























Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin - 1959 #1. Whazzat? Yes, they had electricity and even jukeboxes back in 1959.

 

[glynndah]

We bought many of the public library's albums when they were switching over to CDs. Chain Gang songs from Parchment prison recorded early in the 20th century and the complete BBC recordings of sound effects. Any one need a French taxi horn or horse's hooves on cobblestones or water dripping, slow, fast, down a drain pipe, on a tin plate, etc?