OT: The Old, the Obscure, and the Forgotten

[Yorkeez4]

Old version of a song most know.

 

[Waquoit]

I gave it a like because I remember it fondly as a kid. But it was a Billboard #1 hit! For 5 weeks! Obscure?

 

[Jingo]

Some consider Gee to be the first rock and roll song.

 

[Jingo]

The Crows ballads were even better:

 

[Scud49]

I gave it a like because I remember it fondly as a kid. But it was a Billboard #1 hit! For 5 weeks! Obscure?

I'd say it fits into the old and forgotten categories pretty well - kinda like me.

 

[Bigboote]

Joan Baez "STEWBALL" -

This is a widely performed song, both in the UK and Ireland. I first heard it by Steeleye Span as Skewball. Here’s an Irish version. I saw Andy Irvine solo a couple of times in the 80’s. He’s one of the best musicians I’ve ever seen.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

luv me sum 'new wave' beats.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

and if you may think 80's drops aren't old, consider that the time gap between say, rudy vallee (30's teen pop star idol) and, say, 60's jimi hendrix is the same as new wave till now.
have sum.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

ah, what the heck....trifecta! (editorial note: we could seriously use some more fun girl bands today...)

 

[Scud49]

The Corrs - so big in Europe, but obscure here. Tremendously talented family, here doing "Toss the Feathers" with special guest Mick Fleetwood:

 

[ClifSpliffy]

and cuz sumone here dissed country, so, rebuttal, kinda sorta on topic? boneyard artistic license and all that...

play it. LOUD.

 

[Bama fan]

Quicksilver Messenger Service - pretty talented group back in the 70's, one of the members did prison time for some infraction, and wrote a pretty good song about it all:

Great band. Happy Trails was and is a fantastic album. Thanks for reminding us.

 

[Jingo]

I thought this might be an interesting angle to take music wise. I'm sure you have a favorite song(s) that just might fit into these categories. I'll kick it off with a beautiful acoustic tune from the mid 70's by a really obscure artist by the name of Brian Friel:

 

[Jingo]

How bout my favrit medley from the fifties: http://brionhathaway.com/Tunes/Musical32.mp3

Classic, quality tunes!!!

 

[Bama fan]

I know this song as a Brooks & Dunn hit. The original sounds great. The remake barely bothered to change anything from this version.

I think Three Dog Night made the most well known recording But the original artist's take is very nice.

 

[Bama fan]

I know this band has popped up on quite a few song threads. Maybe I didn't listen close enough before. This song is wonderful!

Steeleye Span has done fantastic music. I am a Span fan

 

[Bama fan]

Joan Baez "STEWBALL" -

I remember Peter, Paul ,and Mary doing this one years ago. I think it was on "In The Wind" . I read then that the original song was about a horse named Skewball who won many races in the mid 1700s in Ireland. He was apparently a skewbald horse of black and white coloring. Not sure how the name morphed, but folk songs often do that.

 

[Bama fan]

Richard and Mimi Farina made two absolutely fabulous albums before his untimely demise at the age of 29. Mimi, Joan Baez's younger sister, passed at 56. They're responsible for me getting into folk music and playing and building mountain dulcimers. This is an achingly beautiful song:

Here is one for@Bigboote featuring Joan and Mimi together. It did not happen often.

JOAN BAEZ & MIMI FARINA "Catch The Wind"

 

[Waquoit]

I think Three Dog Night made the most well known recording But the original artist's take is very nice.

I'm not sure about that. I don't recall a TDN version and can't find it on Spotify.

 

[nwhoopfan]

The Corrs - so big in Europe, but obscure here.

They had some big hits in the U.S. in the late 90s/early 2000s. Runaway and Breathless were all over radio and MTV/VH1 back then.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Here is one for@Bigboote featuring Joan and Mimi together. It did not happen often.

JOAN BAEZ & MIMI FARINA "Catch The Wind"

 

[Scud49]

They had some big hits in the U.S. in the late 90s/early 2000s. Runaway and Breathless were all over radio and MTV/VH1 back then.

Ah, good to know - gotta admit my interest in MTV, etc vanished quite a while ago.

 

[nwhoopfan]

my interest in MTV, etc vanished quite a while ago.

There's almost no Music in Music Tele Vision anymore, and what little bit they play is mostly rap.

 

[Oldbones]

Old? Obscure? Forgotten? Oh. I though you were talking about us boneyarders, and that we had to pick one of the three titles to best describe ourselves. Only one?


I think that I have the winner. On the B side of the classic "Please Mr. Custer" by Larry Verne, "The Okeefenokee two step," includes (0:37) the seminal line "Now give me a big basketball."

 

[Scud49]

There's almost no Music in Music Tele Vision anymore, and what little bit they play is mostly rap.

Yea, can't agree more - what's out there in the "mainstream" now is horrid and actually, well, pretty damn putrid IMHO!

 

[Scud49]

Peter, Paul, & Mary aren't obscure of course, but I think their version of Dylan's "Too Much of Nothing" is a bit unknown and obscure - and I always loved it:

 

[Bama fan]

I'm not sure about that. I don't recall a TDN version and can't find it on Spotify.

This might help refresh your memory.

 

[choochoo]

I thought this might be an interesting angle to take music wise. I'm sure you have a favorite song(s) that just might fit into these categories. I'll kick it off with a beautiful acoustic tune from the mid 70's by a really obscure artist by the name of Brian Friel:

well I know you only had it on Vinyl originaly. I have over 2000 of those and about 1500 cd's. Mostly from late 60's till early 90's but mostly classic rock and art rock.

 

[Ozimoto]

In keeping with Derby weekend, Chestnut Mare by the Byrds.



This song was supposed to be part of a concept album about the american west. Sort of a musical Remington painting.

 

[Scud49]

If you might like beautiful, rhythmic, pulsating jazz, you might just like this one by the German jazz band Guru Guru. I heard it late one night on a jazz show many years ago on a Boulder, Colorado FM station - KBCO: