Bob Dylan-Fallen Angels
Marty Stuart-Tempted
Weezer-Ok Human
Lonnie Mack-Second Sight
Tampa Red-The Guitar Wizard
Big Bill Broonzy-Big Bill's Blues
Say Anything Soundtrack
Harry Belafonte At Carnegie Hall
Bo Deans-Joe Dirt Car (a better copy)
More 45's from Moondog Music
Mercy-Ohio Express (Buddah One Million 14) #30 1969
The Chambers Brothers-I Can't Turn You Loose (Columbia 4-44679) #37 1968
Gotta Hold On To This Feeling-Jr. Walker And The All Stars (Soul S-35070) #21 1970
What Is A Man-Four Tops (Motown M-1147) #53 1969
You Gotta Have Love In Your Heart-The Supremes And Four Tops (Motown M-1181) #55 1971
Life-Rick Nelson (Decca 32779) 1971
Tired Of Toein' The Line-Rocky Brunette (EMI 8043) #8 1980
To Be A Lover-Billy Idol (Chrysalis 43024) #6 1986
Tall Cool One-Robert Plant (Es Paranza 7-99348) #25 1988
Beg Borrow And Steal-Ohio Express (Cameo C-463) #29 1967
I Can't Get Over You To Save My Life-Lefty Frizzell (ABC-11387) 1973 #43 Country
Ticket To Ride-The Beatles (Capitol 5407) #1 1965
Who's Your Baby-The Archies (Kirshner 63-5003) #40 1970
Forever Came Today-Diana Ross And The Supremes (Motown M-1122) #28 1968
Massachusetts-The Bee Gees (Atco 6532) #11 1967
Train Of Thought-Cher (MCA 40245) #27 1974
I Know You're Out There Somewhere-Moody Blues (Polydor 887 600-7) #30 1988
If I keep finding things close to home, we won't have to go to Madison to hoard things.
Alas, I was late to get my oil changed, I picked the wrong day, therefore I have to return back to Maquoketa to get taken care of....in two weeks.
They do have a open jam session on Thursday Nights and I got to check it out. At the Smokestack, it was basically a much younger bunch of kids playing Pavement songs and a 15 minute version of All Along The Watchtower which made me wanna invade the stage. In some ways, it's Dubuque's answer to the Olympic Thirsty Thursday Jam, 20 something's playing music. I think I was the oldest guy there outside of the dude that wanted me to back him up on drums but lost his spot since he was outside and didn't make the stage in time.
A few obscure and lesser known Motown singles, from the fading Four Tops and Supremes 1971 duet, What Is A Man and Gotta Hold On To This Feeling came from the production of Johnny Bristol, B Side Don't Bring Back Memories, has a hook that would pop up on K Jee from the Nite Lighters, not a surprise since Harvey Fuqua produced this. Forever Came Today and Time Changes Everything seemed to be giving signals that Diana Ross was ready to depart from the Supremes, tho Time Changes Everything adds a cha cha beat, very un 1968 like. Not one of the better Holland/Dozier/Holland songs. I always thought Can't Turn You Loose was a very good Chambers Brothers song, of course it's no Otis Redding, but it still rocks.
The Ohio Express has two songs, one is the garage rocker Beg Borrow And Steal, with a Louie Louie riff with different words, Mercy is one of the last of the top 30 songs and more in tune with the bubblegum craze for the Buddah Records label. Roll It Up, is a minute forty jam complete with cheesy organ with thought on the spot lyrics, what's not to love about it. Maybe, is a forgettable b side mellow tune. Speaking of bubblegum, we have The Archies' Who's Your Baby, their last top 40 hit, with Toni Wine dueting with Andy Kim. With Jeff Berry producing, it's a given that Ellie Greenwich is singing backup, certainly on the b side Seniorrita Rita.
The Bee Gees 45s that I have found have suffered from too many scratches or grooves played down to the nubs, but Massachusetts is the best condition of sound. Cher's Train Of Thought is one of her better 70's songs written by Alan (Undercover Angel) O'Day. Dixie Girl (written by former Five Americans keyboard player John Durrill) is a underrated b side. Cher could find great songs to cover, she found her rock and roll roots from time to time with If I Could Turn Back Time, but she's been all over the place, hitting it big with Believe in 1998. Of course she had to break away from Snuff Garrett. The one hit wonder Tired Of Toein' The Line from Rocky Burnette, which I had on 45 but gave it away. Another Rick Nelson find was Life, to which the former teen idol had a nice career making California country rock but by this time, nobody paid much attention outside of She Belongs To Me or Garden Party. Nelson never did get much credit for this music, which does fuel the seeds of bands like Poco and Eagles. Nelson did record a version of Tired Of Toein' The Line but the record label decided to give Rocky Burnette the edge to sing it. Nelson's version was fair but Burnette's version was better. After that, Burnette faded from view. Nelson would record Playing To Win for Capitol to indifferent ears and public.
Concluding the finds, is Billy Idol's To Be A Lover, the best song he's ever done. Tall Cool One, was Robert Plant's fond farewell to Led Zeppelin, even sampling Black Dog, Whole Lotta Love, The Ocean and Custard Pie, with Jimmy Page on guitar. It did give incentive for him to get back to rocking on his next album Manic Nirvana and later returning to hang with Page with the No Quarter and Walking To Clarksdale. Most of the time, any 45's I found in the late 80s are jukebox copies but To Be A Lover plays fine, tho Tall Cool One sounds a bit tinny.
(Photo courtesy of Garland Boyette)
Five star Mud Game: Rice Stadium 12/16/67
Houston 24 San Diego 17
When the Oilers played at Jeppersen Stadium, they had plenty of mud bowl games, the 1963 Chargers edge Houston when George Blanda missed a game winning FG and splashed around the mud puddles yelling at the refs. By 1967, Houston and George parted ways, and Bobby Breathard was the starting QB and George moved over to Oakland to finish out his career. Houston had a poor 1966 but on this game they managed to win 5 of the next 6 (only loss was to George Blanda...and the Raiders) and on the fourth straight home game at Rice Stadium eliminated the Chargers on that rainy afternoon. Breathard throwing for 2 touchdows and Hoyle Granger running for 107 yards and a score. San Diego lost their final four games and sat out during the playoffs. The AFL Eastern was week (only the New York Jets hade a winning record) But Houston had a 9-4-1 record. The comeback team fell short, Oakland (and George Blanda) got the last laugh again and blew them out 40-7 for the privilege of playing Super Bowl 2 and The Green Bay Packets, To which Green Bay blew them out 33-14.
The next season Houston would move into the Astrodome to which the only games they got dirty was during baseball season and the dirt infield was not covered.
