The Liverpool Lullaby (Stan Kelly)

 

Two Bare footed kids outside a (Scottie Road) Scotland Road Pub, Liverpool, Merseyside, U.K. 

It is said I was once left outside a Liverpool pub in my pram by my maternal great grandfather while he went inside for a pint only to be torn into and given what for by my Maternal Grandmother (a tiny woman) he being an alcoholic he didn’t see the problem but she gave him hell! She hated drink the rest of her life and it worried her deeply. A.S.

Liverpool Lullaby

Oh you are a mucky kid, 
Dirty as a dustbin lid 
When he finds out the things you did 
You'll get a belt from your da 

Oh you have your father's nose 
So crimson in the dark, it glows 
If you're not asleep when the boozers close 
You'll get a belt from your da 

You look so scruffy lying there 
Strawberry jam tufts in your hair 
Though in the world you haven't a care 
And I have got so many 

It's quite a struggle everyday 
Living on your father's pay 
'cause the bugger drinks it all away 
And leaves me without any 

Although we have no silver spoon 
Better days are coming soon 
Now Nellie's working at the Lune 
And she gets paid on Friday 

Perhaps one day we'll have a bash 
When Little ones provide the cash 
We'll get a house in Knotty Ash 
And buy your dad a brewery 

Oh you are a mucky kid, 
Dirty as a dustbin lid 
When he finds out the things you did 
You'll get a belt from your da 

Oh you have your father's face 
You're growing up a real hard case 
But there's no one can take your place 
Go fast asleep for Mammy 

Stan Kelly

(For those who think it was an Irish folk song! (sic) Stan Kelly-Bootle (stage name Stan Kelly) was born Stanley Bootle in Liverpool, Lancashire, on 15 September 1929. )

Cowboy Junkies : Handouts In The Rain (Richie Havens cover) | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

So I will sign off the day with this hauntingly beautiful rendition of this classic Richie Havens number from the always listenable Cowboy Junkies! 

Night all!

Handouts In The Rain

Cowboy Junkies

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Penultimate Track of the Day | Tom Waits - Rockpalast 1977 Invitation To The Blues

 Tom Waits - Invitation To The Blues Rockpalast 1977 - Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Time for a brew . . . . . . . . thanks to Art From The Future

My theme on my facebook page is as a fan of this

Commentary of the Day | Blind Blake - “He’s In The Jailhouse Now!"

Blind Blake - He’s In the Jailhouse Now (1927)

Remember last election
Everybody was in action
Tryin’ to find themselves a president

with Thanks to Guess I’m Dumb!

Paul McCartney Live at Knebworth 1990 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

Knebworth Festival, Knebworth House, Knebworth, Britain, 6-30-1990, Part 7: Paul McCartney

So we haven’t featured any Macca for a while and this is really nice and a favourite track listing for sure. 

Paul says: The seventh performance at the 1990 Knebworth Festival was by Paul McCartney.

McCartney didn't do any tours for all of the 1980s until the last few months. Then he went on a big world tour that lasted until the end of July 1990. So this was much like another stop on that tour, though playing to an even bigger crowd, of 120,000 people. 

The set list was composed of songs typical from his tour that year, though cut down to fit within the allotted time slot. That included two songs written by fellow ex-Beatle John Lennon, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Give Peace a Chance." Technically, he was promoting his 1989 album "Flowers in the Dirt," but he only played one song from it, "We Got Married." This concert was also the first time he played the Beatles song "Birthday" in concert.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 talk by Cathy McGowan & Timothy Dalton 
02 Coming Up 
03 Back in the U.S.S.R. 
04 I Saw Her Standing There 
05 talk 
06 We Got Married 
07 talk 
08 Birthday 
09 talk
10 Let It Be
11 talk 
12 Live and Let Die
13 talk
14 Someone Else I'd Like to Be
15 talk 
16 Hey Jude 
17 talk
18 Strawberry Fields Forever 
19 Give Peace a Chance
20 talk 
21 Yesterday 
22 talk 
23 Can't Buy Me Love 

THE GRAPES OF WRATH | Henry Fonda and John Steinbeck

 

 Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?

Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.

Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.

Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.

 

"The Grapes of Wrath" was released on January 24, 1940. 

John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in the 1940 film version of his novel "The Grapes of Wrath," feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character, and added that Fonda as Joad made him "believe my own words." The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

According to Fonda, director John Ford preferred only one take and little or no rehearsal to catch the most spontaneous moment. For the key climactic final scene between Tom and Ma, Ford didn't even watch the rehearsal. When the time came to shoot, Ford led Fonda and Jane Darwell through the silent action of the scene, preventing them from starting their lines until the two actors were completely in the moment. It was done in a single take and Fonda said on screen it was "brilliant."

"I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."

Prior to filming, producer Darryl F. Zanuck sent undercover investigators out to the migrant camps to see if John Steinbeck had exaggerated about the squalor and unfair treatment meted out there. He was horrified to discover that Steinbeck had actually downplayed what went on in the camps.

Henry Fonda kept the hat he wore in the movie for the rest of his life. Before he passed away in 1982, he gave it to his old friend Jane Withers. Apparently he and Withers, when she was an 8 year old girl and he a young man, did a play together before Fonda made movies. Fonda was so nervous to go onstage that little Jane took his hand, said a little prayer to ease his nerves, and the two of them became good friends for life. 

again not sure where I found this about a wonderful favourite book read as a teenager so if its yours please drop me a line and I will credit . Please note this is NOT written by me  . . . . . . .

Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'Do Re Mi' (written by Woody Guthrie) live at Shepherd's Bush Television Theatre, London in 1977. Band Lineup: Guitar, Vocals - Ry Cooder, Alto Saxophone - Pat Rizzo, Drums - Isaac Garcia, Bass - Henry 'Big Red' Ojeda, Bajo Sexto - Jesse Poncé, Accordion - Flaco Jimenez, Vocals - Eldridge King, Terry Evans, Bobby King

Dylan of The Day | Lyric Bob Dylan - Something There Is About You

 

Something there is about you that strikes a match in me

Is it the way your body moves or is it the way your hair blows free?

Or is it because you remind me of something that used to be

Somethin' that crossed over from another century?

Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth

Rainy days on the Great Lakes, walkin' the hills of old Duluth.

There was me and Danny Lopez, cold eyes, black night and then there was Ruth

Something there is about you that brings back a long-forgotten truth

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings

Don't have to look no further, you're the soul of many things.

I could say that I'd be faithful, I could say it in one sweet, easy breath

But to you that would be cruelty and to me it surely would be death

Something there is about you that moves with style and grace

I was in a whirlwind, now I'm in some better place.

My hand's on the saber and you've picked up the baton

Somethin' there is about you that I can't quite put my finger on

PLANET WAVES 

First played Jan 03, 1974

Copyright © 1973 by Ram's Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music 

Sounds of The Day | The Romans ‘Think It Over’ (1967) | Guess I’m Dumb

The Romans - Think It Over (1967)

Another lost treasure. The Romans were a garage rock group from Arkansas, and this moody soulful ballad really hits the mark.

What do the Romans ever do for us!? Well here’s your answer . . . . . . . . . . . . THIS!

Classic revisited | ANNE BRIGGS - Tangled Man [The Time Has Come] | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Song of The Week | I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) : Four Tops | Larkin Poe Cover

Now I love the Larkin Poe gals and this made me smile from the moment I recognised it! 

This is how to do a cover and make it your own! 

from their very own Facebook page

Steve Winwood and friends ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ Crossroads Festival 2007

 Stevie Winwood

(With Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall, etc)

Can’t Find My Way Home

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 Part 2

Think we posted this before but I love this song and this recording here is wonderful

usually posted as being by Clapton I feel it is due to emphasise Steve given he wrote and performs it here

CREAM - Live at Fillmore Auditorium & Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco 10/3/1968

 Back when he was ‘God’ ha ha and not lost most of his cognitive ability and still could play . . . . . . . . 

we were blown AWAY by the playing here and what has come since . . . . . . 

Cream - Crossroads (1968)

Dylan of The Day | Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Live at Newport Folk Festival 1965)

 Prolly posted this before but a favourite always . . . . . 

My love, she speaks like silence

Without ideals or violence

She doesn't have to say she's faithful

Yet she's true like ice, like fire

People carry roses

And make promises by the hours

My love she laughs like the flowers

Valentines can't buy her

In the dime stores and bus stations

People talk over situations

Read books and repeat quotations

Draw conclusions on the wall

Some speak of the future

My love, she speaks softly

She knows there's no success like failure

And that failure's no success at all

The cloak and dagger dangles

Madams light the candles

In ceremonies of the horsemen

Even the pawn must hold a grudge

Statues made of matchsticks

Crumble into one another

My love winks, she does not bother

She knows too much to argue or to judge

The bridge at midnight trembles

The country doctor rambles

Bankers' nieces seek perfection

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

The wind howls like a hammer

The night blows cold and rainy

My love, she's like some raven

At my window with a broken wing

 

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN : Black Star (Live) | GUITAR

You see this is what I mean . . . .I do not care for this at all! This is what I mean by virtuosity for virtuosity's sake when we have discussed this before

The pomp and the excess and the 'over playing' as I might call it. . . . I find it grandiose and unnecessarily and gratuitously shreddy (it’s a word!) complexity and showy for no good reason

Change my mind in the comments below?

Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star, the first track from "Rising Force" album. It is ranked number 36 on Guitar World's "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". This track shows how Yngwie Malmsteen's music is classical music done with distortion, and true music theory. (Live) Official Yngwie Malmsteen  

#yngwiemalmsteen #rocnroljunkie

rocnroljunkie

David Bowie's lost 1973 Top of the Pops performance of The Jean Genie

 

Recorded on 3rd January 1973, broadcast on 4th January 1973. Lost and never seen again until broadcast by the BBC on 21st December 2011. God bless the BBC ! See the story of the discovery of the lost footage:    • David Bowie's lost 1973 performance o...  

David and Hermione . . . . .

 We mentioned David Bowie and all his girl friends, partners, pals and wives and someone posted this

"The hand that wrote this letter, sweeps the pillow clean. So rest your head and read a treasured dream..." Hermione Farthingale (the girl with the mousy hair) and David Bowie in Tony Visconti's flat in Lexham Gardens, London, 1968. Photo by Tony Visconti - 'Letter To Hermione' words & music David Bowie

.

#hermionefarthingale #davidbowie #tonyvisconti #swingingsixties #lifeonmars

New Series of articles from FLAGGIN' DOWN THE DOUBLE Es By RAY PADGETT : TWEEDLE DUM & TWEEDLE DEE

Now It Goes Like This: "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum"

from the latest Newsletter from Ray Padgett’s excellent Flaggin’ Down The Double Es

As always fascinating and part one here is free of a new thesis from Ray looking at Dylan changing of the guard and re-arranging of songs as he tours. Really good and (mostly) listenable quality vids included throughout!

RAY PADGETT

"If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know there’s nothing I like more than starting a new series, writing three or four entries, and then forgetting about it. RIP(?) to One Random Song, This Date in Dylan, CD-Rchive, Compilation Corner, My Back Pages, and Venue Spotlight. (Seriously though, if there’s one of those you’d particularly like another installment of let me know—they’re not dead, just hibernating. I’ve actually got another Venue Spotlight already scheduled.)

Today, I’m kicking off another series I may or may not stick with: “Now It Goes Like This.” The idea is to take one Dylan song and track its various re-arrangements over the years, with the title inspired by Bob’s intro to a famous early rearrangement: “I Don’t Believe You” on the 1966 tour when he changed it from an acoustic folk strummer to a raw electric blast. Thanks to folk on our Discord for their help brainstorming this series name (genius runner-up ideas included “Versions of Johanna,” “Go Start a New,” and “Evolution in the Arr.”)

To test the waters before we get to a song that’s worn a million different masks like “Tangled Up in Blue” or “Maggie’s Farm,” I thought I’d start with an easy one. Despite being played hundreds of times in the years after its 2001 release on Love & Theft, “Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum” has only had a few different arrangements. But some of them are quite dramatic."

Speaking of Hendryxs! | Here’s Nona with KEEP IT CONFIDENTIAL!

Keep It ConfidentialNona HendryxNona

A tad DISCO for my usual taste but heck there are exceptions and if Donna can do it too then Nona is right up there with those gals huh? 

oooh don’t know where I found this now . . . . .