The old FNCMFPECDAA often runs the risk of wandering off the reservation and tonight’s fare is no exception. This came about as I noticed one of the current participants in the news this afternoon. I already had this topic in mind as a possibility but it sealed the dealio.
Check your weapons at the door and wrap your mind around this deceptively simple match-up.
Van Morrison or Delbert McClinton?
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Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Delbert has contributed a recording of “Lay Down Sally” to the Imus Ranch Record CD, to be released on September 16. Proceeds from the sale of this CD benefit the Imus Ranch in New Mexico. Radio legend Don Imus and his family play host to over 100 children with cancer each year at this working cattle ranch.
Here’s a list of all the tunes on the CD:
1. Silver Springs — Patty Loveless
2. Lay Down Sally — Delbert McClinton
3. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys — Lucinda Williams
4. You Better Move On — Levon Helm
5. Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs — Raul Malo
6. I Ain’t Never — Little Richard
7. I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore — Randy Travis
8. You’ve Got To Fight For Your Right To Party — Big & Rich
9. What A Difference A Day Makes — Willie Nelson
10. Give Back The Key To My Heart — Dwight Yoakam
11. What Happened — Bekka Bramlett
12. Welfare Music — John Hiatt
13. A Satisfied Mind — Vince Gill [SOURCE]
Link | October 4th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Sans Direction wrote,
He also wrote “B-Movie Boxcar Blues”, which is my favorite Blues Brothers track. Video link, but not the Blues Brothers.
Both are useful and good things. But in my musical life, that’s about all Delbert McClinton has done.
On the other hand, “T.B. Sheets”, “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Gloria” (which gets us the Doors’ “Gloria” and also Patti Smith’s), “Moondance”, “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile”, “Wild Night”, etc. Nothing against Delbert, but the choice is clear. Van Morrison.
Link | October 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Yes the choice is very clear to me… since I my first romantic kiss was with Sally Kerbow in 1967, and she had beautiful brown eyes… strawberry blond hair and the most interesting birth mark on her thigh. …so that Brown Eyed Girl became our song… we were twelve.
Do any of you poets remember your first… Kiss? Out behind the woodshed, Radio… and before lay down Sally…
Jack, what you are asking a Southern boy is too tightly wound in context of my blithering Stadium boy meeting Sally under the seats, of hot days and cool nights, and swarms of bugs in the high field lights, and bats diving through the crazed moths to eat despite photo-phobia…
And Sally and I in total innocence trying what all the others tell us to do.. only to wonder why the heck memories stay in the Mind, as the Mind, so the Man, and Woman.
You are a sneaky one Boheme… Yes to everything Mr Direction says — and — Van Morrison divided by McClinton times three = Van Morrison …unless I change my mind. Now you all know more about me than you ever could’ve wanted to know; for that I will understand why you might avoid me on the street.
pd-in-full Pat. Pending
Link | October 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Pribek wrote,
Is it true that Delbert taught John Lennon to play harmonica?
Link | October 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Delbert says “no” in a uTube where he and Channel reminisce about “those days.” All Lennon did was to ask how DMcC did the harp in “Hey Baby.” Then Lennon did harp similar in “Love Me Do.” Delbert denies teaching it to JL.
In those uTubes, it says Beatles were bumped in a TV showcase for DMcC and Channel once. So there you have it from 1960 - 1961.
I was six years old then, and I sang Hey Baby with my older brother and sister around the house; that’s when I also learned to whistle so I could do the harmonica parts.
Link | October 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
If the question is on blue-eyed soul, perhaps as an alternate, Hall and Oates vs the Righteous Brothers?
Link | October 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
SOURCE Clik HERE — The Celestial Monochord; Three Vignettes on Music and Geography
When Delbert was in England and the fans were cutting themselves with Channel’s initials in their arms Delbert “under went” the similar awakening as Barry Ancelot in the above excerpt. Clik HERE Bruce Channel and Delbert McClinton Speak out
My vote is 95.1% Righteous Brothers, 4.9% Hall ‘n Oates….. final answer
Link | October 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Pribek wrote,
I like Hall and Oates vs the Righteous Brothers, might have to cue that up on a later edition.
Anyway, Sans got pretty close to where my head was at here. You take away the often waxed about “mysticism” of Van Morrison and what you have is a blue-eyed soul singer. Is the mystic a valid component or just fodder for guys who write about music?
See, I read that Van is going to be performing and releasing a live version of “Astral Weeks”. This being the most mystical of Van’s body of work, considered so by 4 out of 5 music critics/mystic authorities; does the idea of doing one of these live versions of an old record make any damn sense to anybody? Obviously, it’s before the fact but, I’m thinking that this idea not only can’t suck enough (well, maybe if Jimmy Buffett was involved I would be more down on the idea) but, it also, in theory, serves to invalidate any previous mysticism.
Given that-let’s take a look at it as a couple of blue eyed souls singers, eh?
Link | October 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
One time, way long ago, I asked you, “What do you think of Van Morrison…?”
You replied: “I think he has completely lost his mind..” (paraphrased) or maybe you said: “He has gone completely mad…” ??
I asked; you answered; I dropped it. But, at the time I didn’t even know about the Astral stuff… I assumed VM had checked into rehab… and had that belief until five years later I saw the lyrics to astral projects and laughed my level head off, and required another lobotomy to get rid of my jagged cranium cap..
But in response to “…but, it also, in theory, serves to invalidate any previous mysticism.” I say he is doing it because he can; uh …he still can, can’t he?
Yes it does invalidate previous sublimation pretenses… still my final answer: VM is my and Sally’s songster.
Link | October 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Pribek wrote,
I don’t recall saying that but, that doesn’t mean I didn’t say it. If I said it, I stand by it.
Link | October 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pm