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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Nov 22, 2018 0:25:47 GMT -5
Touche on that one, Deeky. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Nov 22, 2018 0:46:30 GMT -5
Well, Deeky, I typed Yellow River Country Version into u-tube's search engine and got the followiing:
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 22, 2018 12:14:25 GMT -5
I never can make it through the minute-long intro of, "Ooh-ooh, yeah".
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Post by Deeky on Nov 22, 2018 13:18:44 GMT -5
It is a bit too long.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 22, 2018 19:00:02 GMT -5
I agree. I think a song about pissing shouldn't be longer than the actual act itself.
Then I immediately began overthinking things, and considering that a S&M-style "piss slave" might be pissed on by multiple people. Maybe even for an 8-minute-long song?
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Nov 27, 2018 1:24:47 GMT -5
Neil Merryweather's Hollywood Boulevard, a Great Companion Piece to Ian Whitcomb's "In Hollywood."
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Lyrics very soul mated to Ian Whitcomb's "Saunter the boulevards, you're out for hire . . . "
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 5, 2018 2:11:54 GMT -5
"Yellow River" has spawned a host of cover versions by artists as diverse as R.E.M., Leapy Lee, Elton John, The Compton Brothers, Middle of the Road, Chris Rea, Bernd Spier, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and Joe Dassin (his cover named "L'Amérique" reached No.1 in French charts). In Australia, Christie's version of Yellow River gained only limited airplay due to the 1970 radio ban. Local bands Jigsaw from Melbourne and Autumn from Sydney both had success with cover versions. Mexican group Banda La Mentira recorded a Spanish version called "Río amarillo" in 1995 Mexican group Banda Pachuco recorded a Spanish version called "En mi mundo" (In my world). It was also released in Germany under the name "Lemme Ria". Deeky, are all those other versions of yellow river easily available for free on utube? Do you particularly like or care for the song yourself? Or was it just part of your experience of working in a record store? I din't care much for the country version that I posted here. Wonder if that was the only country version, or if there were many country versions? I'll pursue this a bit further. I think that James Taylor did a great version of Carolina in my mind, as a songwriter should. but Crystal Mansion's version is good also. I might check out different renditions by both Crystal Mansion and Mr. Taylor. Sorry I can't get any Ballantine Ale to drink while listening to it. The closest think I can find that tastes a bit like Ballantine ale is O'Doul's no alcohol beer. For probably two or three days, last week, , I consumed way too much beer, and it gave me diarreah, and the very thought of drinking beer is very repellent to me. Did drink some dry sherri-Sack Monday night and tuesday morning, and it was good. I don't |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 5, 2018 2:39:45 GMT -5
OK, I just listened to Elton John's version of "Yellow River," one u-tuber asking the question, what is yellow river, well, it's in my blood, and that radio DJ said it's a coward's song, since the saying, "yellow coward," and the singer having yellow blood, would have a certain logic to it.
But, again, he got his papers and collected his pay, so he was not a "yellow" coward desterter, even if he might have had yellow blood.
How about Sir John Falstaff?
Was he ever a coward?
Was he ever accused of cowardice?
With enough Sherri-Sack, came any deed of valor.
I would like to see the orson wells film, Chimes at Midnight, said to be one of Orson's best efforts.
John Waters made some derogary remarks about Orson's films, but I like and appreciate both Orson and John Waters.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 5, 2018 2:44:39 GMT -5
I just listened to the R.E.M. version of Yellow River, and it was OK.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 5, 2018 3:03:32 GMT -5
Listened to or watched 2 more versions of Yellow River by Middle of the Road and Leapy Lee who did the best, so far, variation and not as "samey" as all the others so far. Middle of the road started off samey, but their ending of the song was a good variation.
Now, all you ZAQBers, who remember those DVDs where we all sent in our submissions,and Webmaster Deeky put them altogether with his unique and great editing skills . . .
We all remember the Brady Bunch doing their songs . . .
What would a Brady Bunch version of Yellow River sound like ? ? ?
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Post by Deeky on Dec 5, 2018 9:45:56 GMT -5
Deeky, are all those other versions of yellow river easily available for free on utube? I have absolutely no idea. I've never heard it. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 5, 2018 9:58:14 GMT -5
Deeky, I do like the song, although I suppose you can get Too Much of a Good Thing, and if I listen to all of the available versions, with so little variation so far, I might not like it, and might not want to ever hear it again.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 5, 2018 12:25:47 GMT -5
The Yellow River is also a very famous book by I.P. Freely.  |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 5, 2018 19:13:12 GMT -5
Looks like one that Dillon Samuels and Kyros Christian would have enjoyed in that aborted post you made on the old board. I suppose it wasn't deleted, although that is possible. But, if I do come across it, in my Final Farewell project of looking over every single post to every single thread on the old board, I will save it.
I suppose that Ryan Connors in Nightmare on Twink Street, and Malcolm McDowell in Caligula, and another film, I have forgotten the title of on an old Something Weird probably Dragon Art Double feature, where some guy was loose raping women in a city, and these two women, one a victim, were talking about it, and the victim, in flashlight, told her story, and it was quite obvious to any viewer that she was not being forcable raped, or even giving a good acting performance of it, and after the "rape," he Freely peed over his victim.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 17, 2018 0:28:28 GMT -5
Neil Merryweather's Hollywood Boulevard, a Great Companion Piece to Ian Whitcomb's "In Hollywood." I Lyrics very soul mated to Ian Whitcomb's "Saunter the boulevards, you're out for hire . . . " Have done some net searches but so far have not found a satisfactory version u-tube version of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." Ian Whitcomb's "In Hollywood" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" both pretty much are cynical, pretty much hopeless songs of despair, whereas Neil Merriweather's "Hollywood Boulevard" offers a ray of brightness in the darkness of the other two songs, "the straight folks say the magic's gone, but in their dreams, which fill their minds, they see the magic linger on . . . " |
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Post by Deeky on Dec 17, 2018 13:27:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Dec 17, 2018 13:28:02 GMT -5
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 17, 2018 13:55:44 GMT -5
Deeky, I preferred the Kinks selection. I'd like to check out the written lyrics of both songs.
In the Neil Merryweather song, I especially liked "stepping out they walk on stars . . . with names they've never heard of . . . "
I did also listen to one of the latter day "boulevard of broken dreams, which keep some of the original lyrics, add the word f---, and leave out the references to giggilo and giggelete"
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 18, 2018 1:11:39 GMT -5
Looks like one that Dillon Samuels and Kyros Christian would have enjoyed in that aborted post you made on the old board. I suppose it wasn't deleted, although that is possible. But, if I do come across it, in my Final Farewell project of looking over every single post to every single thread on the old board, I will save it. I suppose that Ryan Connors in Nightmare on Twink Street, and Malcolm McDowell in Caligula, and another film, I have forgotten the title of on an old Something Weird probably Dragon Art Double feature, where some guy was loose raping women in a city, and these two women, one a victim, were talking about it, and the victim, in flashlight, told her story, and it was quite obvious to any viewer that she was not being forcable raped, or even giving a good acting performance of it, and after the "rape," he Freely peed over his victim. Well, Deeky, I now remember the title of that SWV Dragon Art Double Feature, at least the one where the rapist was loose and gave his victim a golden shower: Tracy's Revenge, or Tracy's Sweet Revenge. Don't now remembe the title of the other feature, tho. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 20, 2018 0:18:32 GMT -5
I've listened to one different version of Crystal Mansion singing "Carolina in My Mind," and it does not sound any more like I remembered first hearing it, presumably as in the u-tube post with the photo of the 45 RPM which was presumably what the one I heard the song the first time.
My memories of the song, and drinking Ballentine Ale are a chorus of singers, sounding somewhat African-American, but the Crystal Mansion with the photo of the 45 RPM sounds like one Anglo lead singer with no accompaniment.
Does anyone know of any versions of the song by African-American singers, which I could have heard?
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