Selling Stuff in the Sixties
July 26, 2011
Ahhhhh yeah – the 60′s. When you weren’t playing with your Etch A Sketch there was TV – all 4 channels.
60′s Commercials:
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Jail Bait Rock
July 20, 2011
I had a young student from China staying with me a while back. When she arrived she spoke very little English. Her first day she came down with a t-shirt she had bought in China that had only English written on it with a cute cartoon drawing of a little girl (like Betty Boop). It said “Little Miss Jailbait”. After explaining to her what jail bait meant she ran back upstairs and never wore that shirt again.
Little Red Riding Hood – Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs 1966
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Sit and Think
July 13, 2011
1967 was a good year for .ca with Expo 67 and Centennial celebrations. It was also a good year for sitting down and thinking.
Twin spin.
SIT DOWN I THINK I LOVE YOU – MOJO MEN 1967
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Released the same year – there IS a connection.
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD – Sit Down I Think I Love You (1967)
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Who’s On Feist?
July 12, 2011
Mushaboom is a place on the Atlantic coast a litlle northeast of Hafilax (and I think I can safely say NS is my favourite place in the world.) Really.
Mushaboom is also a song by Feist that when I first heard it I said “Hey what a coincidence. This song has the same quirky name that an area in Nova Scotia has.” Very interesting! But silly, stupid, dumb (was I).
Feist is a singer that I have a lot of respect for ever since her sound died in the middle of a song live at the Junos a few years back. She also has the reputation of putting out some interesting videos.
Her music (and videos) spawned a wave of commercials using the same style and techniques that Feist employed.
Mushaboom – Feist 2004
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Listen to Feist site
image from Music Wallpapers
Stanz the Man!
July 11, 2011
Many years ago, maybe aroud ’83, I was taking a class with an older fella who LOVED Stan Rogers. I thought it was quaint. That my classmate was so in love with this Hamiltonian turned Nova Scotian known as Stan Rogers.
Stan really started to roll after playing (see story) the Winnipeg Folk Festival in ’75. (see pic). A lot of people still don’t know the man, his story, his love of the sea & Canada and the tragic way he died. But those who do are lovin’ life with the music he left behind.
Fogarty’s Cove – Stan Rogers 1976
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Up In Smoke
July 9, 2011
With the Folk Festival goin’ on at the Hill, I thought I was wandering through a campground somewhere on the west coast. Lots of woodsmoke and sweetgrass.
Appropriate song that reminds me of Woodstock and Easy Rider:
Don’t Bogart Me – FRATERNITY OF MAN – 1968
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Well Blow Me Down!
July 6, 2011
I just saw an interview with the band The Heartbroken on ShawTV. I like their attitude – something rare in a Toronto based band. Of course, part of the reason for their fresh, unpretentious look and feel is because the lead singer is from Newfoundland.
Good indie band in the alt-country folk-pop-jazz-blues-reggae-metal genre. Members: Damhnait Doyle, Blake Manning, Stuart Cameron and Peter Fusco.
The Heartbroken – The Truth 2010
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It’s Raining Mandolins
July 5, 2011
Mandolin - the instrument with a long history and commonly tuned like a violin (8 strings tuned in pairs to GDAE). It morphed its way into our lives from the lute family in the 1600s.
On the holiday weekend I bought my first one and to celebrate, here is a song from almost 25 years ago (25 freakin yrs)! Listen to the song bring back waves of memories of love lost at the lake….it’s happened to the best of us. Sniff!
Bruce Hornsby and The Range – Mandolin Rain – 1987
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Mandolin Rain lyrics
written by Bruce & John Hornsby
The song came and went
Like the times that we spent
Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent
I laughed and she’d smile
It would last for awhile
You don’t know what you got till you lose it all again
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
A cool evening dance
Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill
From the air till they play the last song
I’ll do my time
Keeping you off my mind but there’s moments
That I find, I’m not feeling so strong
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
Running down by the lakeshore
She did love the sound of a summer storm
It played on the lake like a mandolin
Now it’s washing her away once again…again
Whoa whoa whoa…
Yeah-eah-eah-eah-eah-eah…
Oooooh…
Listen to…
Do, do, do…
The boat’s steaming in
I watch the sidewheel spin and I
Think about her when I hear that whistle blow
I can’t change my mind
I knew all the time that she’d go
But that’s a choice I made long ago
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
As she turns to go, oh hoh…
Listen to the mandolin rain…
Whoa whoa whoa whoa oh hoh…
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
Ahhh…
Listen to the mandolin rain…
…..damn mandolin rain…..who needs it anyway?
Bruce Hornsby’s official website on the world wide web
