blurb about each of our tunes
(sshhhhh…..don’t tell anybody we’re doing this one! 🙂 It was number 4 on Billboard and was the only one they had to crack the top 10. Poison had a hit with it, too. Gary’s been playing with them since they got back together in 2005 and has many time called it the zenith of his …
Gary0 has had the pleasure of playing on dates with Dave on numerous occasions, both with Jim Messina and, of course, with ‘Loggins and…’ He’s an immeasurable talent who’s still out there singing the songs he’s written or co-written with a high energy and plays a Telecaster like only he can.
Gerry Rafferty, lead singer on this one, is also responsible for the song with that iconicsaxophone riff called ‘Baker Street’. This one was a very early tune that had a propervideo production including the clowns and jokers spoken of in the lyrics. Until then most of the videos you might see were of a band …
This guy was a real anti-war, el protesto living in a song writer co-op in the early ’70s. From what he says about it the song ‘just kinda came out’ and he went with it. He performed it on the steps of the Washington Monument at a protest rally and it stuck. Evidently there was …
There were 7 bands with the name ‘Gallery’ throughout our musical travels, all over the map. This one actually categorized themselves as ‘soft rock’ during their run. You probably won’t recognize this song until the hook comes in after the intro. I still hear this one on all the genre stations. There’s fantastic a solo …
This song has generated some politically correct controversy lately. It was originally done in the ’30s across South Africa by a number of groups culminating in a definitive version done by Solomon Linda and The Evening Birds. It bounced around until it was picked up by Pete Seeger and his group The Weavers. Pete misunderstood …
I remember this as having been done by ‘Michael Murphy’. This was one of those hits with multiple lives, and I can’t seem to find the original-original anywhere. Seems there was a remake and re-release of this one somewhere down the road and the first iteration has vanished like it was in witness protection. Everything …
This was a cover of an old ’50s tune. John Lennon loved this version and said so publicly. I LOVE the guitar work and the flange-y vocal. This one will be included in the set of one of our warm-up acts called ‘Max and the Mutations’, doing a Rock-a-Billy set.
This isn’t a song about a two-timing lover, it was about one of the guys in the band, bass player Terry Comer, playing about with other bands. There was a similar feeling about this among the band members. Paul Carrack was the lead singer and he went on to perform with Squeeze and had a …
There’s all kind ‘o story about this. It was composed by Arthur Smith in the ’50s and appropriated by Eric Weissberg in the ’70s for the movie ‘Deliverance’. (Arthur Smith successfully sued for ownership and was subsequently awarded a Grammy for it). Andy takes up the banjo and Gary rolls out on the acoustic guitar. …
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