NanciNet Digest 5-2-03
// We were pretty slow for a couple of days, then we hit
// some songs for a rainy day. Enjoy. [BP]
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Subject: NN: What may or may not be an
interesting forthcoming release
From: "Mike Barrett" (mikebarrettuk@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 22:45:36 +0100
I received a list from a UK country music mail order outfit today which
shows the following as a June release -
Nanci Griffith - The Complete MCA Recordings
No price or details, and it may well be yet another example of MCA
getting
the most out of the recordings they have, but who knows.
Could be a box set with unreleased songs, alternate versions, a 50 page
glossy booklet full of fascinating information and great photographs.
Or
maybe not....
Mike Barrett
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Subject: NN: RE: NanciNet #03424
From: "Young, Greg" (Greg.Young@ucsfmedctr.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:51:25 -0700
Dear fellow list-mongers and lurkdom lodgers:
First things first, I have managed to misplace my glasses and so I am
typing
this in virtual Braille (I can type, but I can't edit what I've just
typed).
Confession number two - I have been locked in lurkdom for some time,
being
aggrieved by many of the developments in the world, while also feeling a
little less connected to most things Nanci. Nonetheless, I do read the
Digest and always look forward to hearing the latest from outposts
around
the world. Which leads me to inquiring of fellow NN's as to why
commentary
on "A Mighty Wind" has been so minimal?
Confession Number 3 - I went to AMW opening night and was looking
forward to
the occasion almost as much as a Nanci event. Call me shallow, but I
love
what Christopher Guest and company do. And while I went with slight
trepidation as to whether their satiric punches were possibly going to
be
used to bludgeon an otherwise soft target - I was gratified to find
that the
movie was not derisive or overly campy. If anything, it had a
bittersweet
edge that I found to be touching and wondered if any others have seen
the
movie and perhaps reacted in the same way. What was equally of
interest, is
the amount of work these performers (whose specialty after all is the
comedic, deadpan and irreverent) put into their music - and the fact
that it
sounds pretty good.
Mind you...I was a bona fide folkie of some magnitude---at least as far
as
the music itself went. My first regular outpost outside of my family
home
and away from my peers was at one of a couple of local coffee houses
(of the
North Beach post-beat, pre acid genre) and though I heard my share of
bathos
and pretense via open mike and various other performance venues, in
truth I
was simultaneously making the formative journey through my own bathetic
and
pretentious impulses. So I was pretty well below being superior to it
all. I
also distinctly recall that there were a number of fine musicians, some
very
good people, and in particular a group of singer songwriters from the
60-70's whose work I still listen too without enduring any
self-conscious
mortification.
The easiest targets of A Mighty Wind - a certain type of folk group that
made a full frontal appeal to bland American insipidity certainly
existed
(no need to name names). And there was a brief period when their oeuvre
was
raised to greater than called for prominence by "clever promotion" aka
greed
hacks inside the music business and a trend crazed consumer culture
outside.
Sadly, those same institutions and cultural tendencies are still in full
flower, although they've managed to alter their stripes to fit the
times. I
would not care to argue, either, that these times are lacking in squalid
impulses, or by degree are more desperate in character than where we've
come
from.
I'm not sure I have a point here, other than to say it was good to
laugh out
loud with a roomful of other people, and also to feel a little empathy
for
some of those characters on the screen whose foibles and weaknesses mark
them as targets - for reproval and also for sympathy. Since I share in
some
of the self-same weaknesses, my conclusion is that laughing at one's
self is
an altogether useful tool. The folks who seemingly don't get that, are
arguably the same one's who pretensions, and their ability to act on
them
could most use an overhaul. The one really embarrassing thing I've seen
lately, is the ongoing media spectacle of trying to mud wrestle the
Dixie
Chicks into an apology for....well, there it is. For What?
PAX and Love: PS. Don't miss the Waifs on tour.
From: "Caroline Grew" (c.k.grew@btinternet.com>
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Subject: NN: Speed of the Sound of Loneliness and BBC Radio 2
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:55:30 +0100
I have just ordered Alabama 3's Exile on Coldharbour Lane because I have
become hooked on the TV series The Sopranos and like the signature tune
Woke
Up This Morning. I see that they have done a cover of Speed of The
Sound of
Loneliness on this album and am intrigued to hear what it is like.
Have any
other Nancinetters heard this version?
To echo an earlier post I have just switched over to BBC Radio 2 after
getting fed up of the commercial stations here in the UK which are so
caught
up in repetitive playlists and seem to have a fear of playing anything
older
than 1980s hits. It is wonderful to hear such a great mix of music,
blues,
rock, folk all thrown in together.
Caroline
London, UK
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Subject: NN: Callin' Texans...
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:15:15 -0700
From: "Susan Peete" (suepeete@cruzio.com>
...or anyone visiting TX for that matter...
I plan to travel from CA to be at the Kerrville Folk Festival in TX on
the
weekend of May 30th. Denice Franke and Eric Taylor are among the
performers
for that day. I'm still making plans, so I'm not sure yet how many days
before and after that weekend I'll be in TX. I sure would like to see
and
visit with some Nancinetters around that time period, if at all
possible.
Please email me if we can meet up somewhere or look for that "Flyer"
hat and
come up and say "Hi".
Thank yew...
Sue
np: Tom Russell - MODERN ART
WOW "Gulf Coast Highway" is sure different.
I can't sing along with it! :(
I guess, that's a good thing, for some :)
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Subject: NN: Back On Tour?
From: "Michael Harrison" (miketeked@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:40:08 -0400
I don't know if anyone else has noticed or posted, but pollstar.com has
3
new Nanci dates for NC, TN, and OH in June and July.
Michael "waiting in NH" Harrison
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Subject: NN: Sandy Denny (some Nanci content)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:41:57 +0100
From: "Graham Shipley" (gshipley@perioikos.u-net.com>
I just heard 'Pick of the Week' on BBC Radio 4, which included a snippet
from Radio 2's tribute to Sandy Denny last Wednesday for the 25th
anniversary of her death. Nanci was talking about what a great influence
Sandy Denny had been on her.
I missed the original programme. I don't suppose anyone has a tape
cassette
of the entire show? I don't have a sound card on my PC---those who do
can
still hear the programme on the BBC website. I would love to hear the
programme, as I clearly remember the 10th anniversary programme on
Radio 2
... Gosh I feel old.
Graham 'Where did all the time go?' Shipley
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Subject: NN: Fw: Bob Dylan Custom Mix CD with new rarities
From: "Tony Cox" (tonycox@pacific.net.au>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:02:24 +1000
This looks interesting - seems totally official, too. Wonder which
other
artists will follow suit?
Tony
> Starting today, the Bob Dylan Custom Mix CD program has added
> exclusive new rarities, and the offer is now available in Canada
> and Europe as well as the United States!
>
> Visit www.custommixcd.com/dylan today and create your
> own custom Bob Dylan CD, with up to 12 tracks, including
> old favorites and
> otherwise unavailable rare performances.
>
> Here's a description of just some of the newly added rarities:
>
> Highlands (Live Version)
> From a limited edition bonus CD single given away with "The Best
> Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2" in the UK. Recorded live, Santa Cruz Civic
> Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, 3/16/00.
> Original version appeared on the 1998
> Grammy Award-winning Album of the Year "Time Out Of Mind."
>
> Cocaine Blues (Live Version)
> In-concert version of the oft-covered favorite also
> known as "Cocaine." Recorded at El Rey Theatre, Los
> Angeles, CA, 12/20/97.
> Originally appeared on the European Columbia CD single
> "Love Sick."
>
> I Threw It all Away (Outtake)
> 1969 studio outtake from the "Nashville Skyline" sessions.
>
> For the full list of new rarities and to make your own
> Bob Dylan custom mix cd visit: www.custommixcd.com/dylan
> * * * * *
> bobdylan.com
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Subject: NN: Listening to the Radio
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:07:25 -0700
From: "Noah Samuels" (nesamuels@earthlink.net>
Hello Nanci Netters,
I was driving along in my car a couple of days ago & a strange thing
happened. I heard a Nanci song. Even stranger...it wasn't Nanci. The
song
was "Listen to the Radio", but it wasn't Nanci. I know Suzy Boggus has
done
"Outbound Plane" & Mattea has done "Five & Dime". I wasn't imagining
this.
Does anyone know who it might have been? Also, does anyone know if Nanci
plans to reach the West Coast this summer?
Best,
Noah in L.A.
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Subject: Re: NN: Listening to the Radio
From: "Bob Juliano" (rjuliano@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:36:57 -0400
> The >song was "Listen to the Radio", but it wasn't Nanci...
> Does anyone know who it might have been?
Juice Newton covers "Listen To The Radio" on her "American Girl"
collection.
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Subject: Re: NN: Listening to the Radio
From: "Joanne Crotts" (jtcrotts@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:39:17 -0400
Seems like Juice Newton, Kathy Mattea and Ann Armstrong have all covered
Listen to the Radio...
Joanne (at the ref desk with time to spare) Crotts
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Subject: NN: A nice evening in Chicago (little Nanci content)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:36:32 -0500
From: "Bill Page" (bpage3@earthlink.net>
Hey, y'all,
Sunday night I was fortunate to see two of my favorite
singer-songwriters in
concert on the same bill. Susan Werner and Lucy Kaplansky performed at
Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. (Nanci content: Lucy has done
back-up vocals on some of Nanci's music, and Susan credits her decision
to
become a folksinger to hearing Nanci...and Dawn-Marie introduced me to
both
of them.)
As might be expected if you know the work of these two, it was an
amazing
evening. Both of them were in good voice, both did a nice combination
of old
and newer songs. Lucy sang her song from 9-11, and Susan had a new song
looking at America during this time of war. ("I decided I needed to
write a
song about it," she said. "If you have a leak, you call a plumber; if
you
have a war...")
Lucy told of being part of a BBC radio discussion on the phenomenon of
air
guitar playing. Susan (who performed much of her set with a jazz bass
player
whose name escapes me) had a wonderful (for the audience) moment when
one of
her guitar strings broke in mid song. Not missing a note, she RETUNED
the
two adjacent strings and kept going!
Both ladies performed part of their sets at the Yamaha grand. While Lucy
sang only one song with the piano, Susan did four or five, with her
unusual
extraordinary skill.
(Just how many singer-songwriters who we usually think of as "guitar"
folks
play piano well, anyway? Kate, yes. Susan, superbly. Lucy K and Iris, uh
huh. Who else?)
The two also performed together.
Susan provided vocal support to Lucy's "Guinevere" at the end of Lucy's
set,
and then they joined again for the encores: A heart-breakingly exquisite
rendition of "The Water Is Wide," and an ad hoc but equally lovely
version
of the Beatles' "If I Fell for You."
As a sidebar (so to speak) to the show, the Chicago Tribune Magazine on
Sunday featured a short interview with Susan, part of their weekly "Just
Asking" segment. That interview is reproduced below.
All in all, a lovely evening on Lincoln Avenue.
Bill "did I mention the music?" Page
(Lucy once told me I looked like her shrink...)
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Just Asking
Folk Wisdom
Susan Werner brings her classically informed, jazz-inspired music to
the Old
Town School of Folk Music on Sunday night.
Q. Is there a true folk scene anymore?
A. There are artists incorporating basic folk materials into their
writing.
And the success of the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" indicates there's
plenty
of interest in the basics done well. So there will be folk music as
long as
there are musicians who acquaint themselves with traditional forms and
interpret them in ways that connect with the times.
Q. What do you like most about Chicago?
A. One of my favorite places in that little park by the lake-the Milton
L.
Olive III park, with that arch of trees that you stroll under-romantic,
so
Parisian.
Q. Do different regions tend to produce distinctive kinds of folk music?
A. There is a Boston school, for instance, where the songs are highly
poetic-think Emily Dickinson with a Martin guitar-and it's highly
adventuresome harmonically. The Texas writers are more plain-spoken;
they
have a sense of humor. In terms of a Midwestern school for folkies, I
guess
I'd have to refer to Steve Goodman. He was a great storyteller and
funny,
too. One of the best things about Midwestern writers is true about the
Midwest in general: We are not fussy. [Just] say what you have to say
and
don't get all impressed with yourself.
Q. If you could pick anyone-dead or alive-whom would you most like to
perform with?
A. Sinatra and Tony Bennett. I saw Bennett at Ravinia last summer and
learned so much from that-the way he led 10,000 people though the story
of a
song-it was amazing. It was kind of like the pope at an outdoor mass,
except
Tony had a better bass player.
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Subject: NN: pickers and ticklers
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:37:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Deb Thornton" (timpcoyote@yahoo.com>
Bill, our distinguished host, asks parenthetically:
(Just how many singer-songwriters who we usually think of as "guitar"
folks
play piano well, anyway? Kate, yes. Susan, superbly. Lucy K and Iris, uh
huh. Who else?)
Well, Joni, Joni, and Joni, for starters, especially on Blue, which has
so
much dimension because of those incredible piano tunes.
Even Joan. I've heard Gorka play piano (You don't know me) and Hiatt.
Didn't
Griffith even say that she wrote "Late Light Grande Hotel" falteringly
on a
piano?
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Subject: Re: NN: pickers and ticklers
From: DvBGardner@genelogic.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:01:40 -0400
don't forget bonnie raitt...i saw her in a live concert with the indigo
girls and beth nielsen chapman a few years ago. she's almost as
impressive
on the piano as she is on guitar.
donate "no slide, nor capo needed on the ivory keys" v.b.-g.
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Subject: Re: NN: pickers and ticklers
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:07:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Reid Mitchell" (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
When I saw Bob Dylan last Saturday, he played piano on almost every
song.
Great show by the way--Lucinda Williams opened.
Reid Mitchell
From: ICYBLUEHART@aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:13:28 EDT
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Subject: Re: NN: pickers and ticklers
I heard that the Waifs are touring with Bob. Were they there as well?
Just
got a couple of copies of live stuff from the Waifs and they are
incredible.
Sort of an Indigo Girls harmony combined with a Lucinda-ish voice. They
do
an amazing version of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright"
Rhonda Karas
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Subject: Re: NN: pickers and ticklers
From: PRobin5478@aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:19:32 EDT
Bruce Springsteen also plays piano occasionally in concert.
In fact, a guy from one of the Boss lists put together a CD of Bruce's
solo
piano selections for The Rising tour. Great stuff.
Peter Robinson
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Subject: NN: Fwd: [nancinetcafe] Re: darkness on the edge of town
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:38:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Shawn Kimbro" (shawn@mountainsoul.net>
"Donate" (musikerin4u@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Clearly, this post should be on the regular nancinet message list,
>> dontcha
think? I'm worried that Cafe-goers will ignore the original group,
because
we're having too much fun here...Shawn - as a moderator and creator of
this
group, you think you could work out a way that certain nanci-related
messages are copied over to the n-net?((
Clive Dawson wrote:
> Shawn Kimbro (shawn@m...wrote:
> We took cameras last weekend and I just posted some of
> the photos in the pictures section linked from the
> main Nancinetcafe page if anyone wants to see.
Great pics, Shawn!
The muted tones immediately brought to mind the black and white film,
"Wings
of Desire" which old timers will recall has a strong connection to
Nanci.
Next, my mind quickly conjured up thoughts of Nanci's video with John
Prine,
"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness". This led to imagining which other
videos
of her songs would work in that setting. "Waltzing with the Angels"
would be
a fine possibility, as well as any of the other songs that mention
angels:
"Nobody's Angel", "Where Would I Be", "Saint Teresa of Avila" and of
course
"If Wishes Were Changes", the song inspired by the film mentioned above.
Then I started thinking that the cemetery was a rather macabre version
of
the "Late Night Grande Hotel", and what about...
Enough! (SLAP!>
Clive "Thanks, I needed that!" Dawson
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Subject: NN: Compilation CD
From: "Molly Prive" (prive@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:47:02 -0700
I have been having a hard time dealing with an extremely rainy April,
and
for some reason, on the first great day we've had in a while I get the
idea
to make a compilation CD with songs about rain. Here's the line up:
Rainy Days and Mondays
Looking for My Love in the Pouring Rain
Easy's Getting Harder Every Day
I Wish It Would Rain
On A Bad Day
The Beauty of the Rain
Early Morning Rain
Rainy Road Into Atlanta
Fire and Rain
The Weather
Bring on the Rain
Steady As The Rain
Tears That She Cries
Comin' Down in the Rain
Alabama Rain
Molly P.
// Don't forget "Soon It's Gonna Rain" from "The Fantasticks"
// [BP]
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Subject: NN: Rainy songs
From: ConorMG@aol.com
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:37:48 EDT
Molly wrote:
(( the idea to make a compilation CD with songs about rain.
When I saw this I started my own list of favourites, but couldn't always
remember the singers:
- Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (I loved this song as a kid, but
thought it
a dumb question.)
- Rain (the one most Oasis songs remind me of)
- It's raining, it's pouring (from one of the greatest lps of all)
- Catch the Wind (When the rain has hung the leaves with tears, I want
you
near to kill my fears...what a wimp, I thought, but I bet it worked)
- Rainy Night in Georgia (aaah)
- Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (the clever structure here draws
you
through a lot of delicious inconsequentialities)
- A Hard Rain's Gonna (Going to) Fall
- It's raining in my heart (There must be an angel, cos....?)
- Singin' in the Rain (one of the all-time great life-enhancing songs)
Enough messing about in puddles for now, but thanks for the fun!
Conor
np Lucy Kaplansky
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Subject: NN: (NNC) rainy days
From: DvBGardner@genelogic.com
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 12:07:00 -0400
off the top of my head, one of my favorites from former days:
"listen to the mandolin rain"
donate "it's raining here now" v.b.-g.
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Subject: NN: Re: Rainy songs
From: "Andrew Werling" (nitesead@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:53:53 -0600
One of my very favorite rain songs is simply titled "Rain," from the
debut
Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby...one of my
all-time favorite albums!
Eurythmics "Here Comes the Rain Again"...might be too popular/obvious.
As for:
> It's raining in my heart (There must be an angel, cos....?)
I'm guessing this is another Eurythmics song, "There Must Be An Angel
Playing With My Heart" but you never know!
Hey, rain rocks!
Andrew
From: "Mike Barrett" (mikebarrettuk@hotmail.com>
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Subject: NN: Re: Rainy songs
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 22:53:23 +0100
> the idea to make a compilation CD with songs about rain.
This will really date me, but how about the great "Rhythm of the Rain"
by
the Cascades?
Mike Barrett
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Rainy songs
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 20:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Reid Mitchell" (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
The New Orleans classic, "It's Raining" by Irma Thomas is my favorite.
Reid Mitchell
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Subject: NN: RE: Re: Rainy songs
From: "Ken Stiffler" (ksmsc@kmsx.net>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:34:24 +1200
Mike wrote:
>> This will really date me, but how about the great "Rhythm of the
>> Rain" by
the Cascades? ((
Well, it may date you if you own up to it. :)
But I came along too late to appreciate Rhythm of the Rain in its
original
glory days and that didn't stop me knowing, from the first time I heard
it,
that this is one of the greatest songs of all time.
I now have the original version, the remake that the reformed Cascades
did
in about 1973, the Dan Fogelberg version, and two Jerry Jeff Walker
versions. And all of those are good because it's a great song to start
with.
But the original version will always have that special place in my
heart.
Ken "Rain, won't you tell her that I love her so" Stiffler
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Subject: NN: Re: RE: Re: Rainy songs
From: "Andrew Werling" (nitesead@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 06:58:39 -0600
> great "Rhythm of the Rain" by the Cascades?
The Gary Lewis and the Playboys version ain't bad either...well, I had
bought the record on special when I was 10 or 11. It also had their
version
of Proud Mary. Okay, the more I type about this the weirder it sounds.
Andrew
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Subject: NN: Rainy Songs NNC
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 09:29:01 -0400
From: "Mike Chesman" (chesman@preferred.com>
> Molly wrote:
> the idea to make a compilation CD with songs about rain.
add this to your list
Electric Light Orchestra's The Rain Is Falling from the album Time
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Subject: Re: NN: Rainy Songs NNC
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:35:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: "KENN" (lippert@nauticom.net>
The Who, "Quadrophinia", "Rain"
kenn "behind blue eyes" lippert
| kenn lippert "See Kate Campbell"
| lippertNO@SPAMnauticom.net KateCampbell.com
|
| "I have loved the stars too fondly "The moon, the music, and me."
| to be fearful of the night." -Vince Bell, Texas Plates
| -Sarah Williams www.VinceBell.com
| 3ap.org
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Subject: Re: Rainy songs
From: "Ron Hennessy" (ronhennessy@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 22:01:08 -0500
Great thread!
One of my favorite "rainy songs" is Eddie Rabbitt's "I Love a Rainy
Night "
of 1980.
I've never bought any of Eddie's great music, but I plan to rectify that
oversight soon.
Best wishes to all,
Ron Hennessy
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Rainy songs
From: Halesbop@aol.com
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:02:42 EDT
"Rain At The Drive In" --NRBQ
(a "classic" if any rock song deserves that designation)
If you need help locating this song, ping me off-list.
Steve Hale,
just so happen to be going to see the Q in Columbus Friday night--Yay!!!
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Subject: Rainy Songs (NNC)
From: "Daniel Horan" (dhoran@arl.wylelabs.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 02:20:04 -0500
> From the movie Beaches (Bette Midler):
I Think It's Going To Rain Today
...beautiful song.
My personal favorite, however, is the Carpenters singing, "Rainy Day and
Mondays"
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Subject: Rain songs
From: Mistercd103@aol.com
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 10:42:33 EDT
How about "Who'll Stop The Rain" by CCR, "The Rain, The Park And
Other
Things" by The Cowsills (Nanci connection), "Raindrops" by Dee Clark
(Wow,
am I dating myself?), "Rain On The Scarecrow" by John Mellencamp, "Rain
On
The Roof" by The Lovin' Spoonful, "Rain Dance" by The Guess Who, "Rain"
by
The Beatles, "Rain, Rain Go Away" by Bobby Vinton, "Rainbow" by Russ
Hamilton, "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp, and "Rainy Day People" by
Gordon Lightfoot?
Sid Porter
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Subject: NN: Rainbows
From: "Steffel, Kenneth A." (hickorywind@inos.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:33:06 -0400
Molly and All. Thanks I liked this thread. If more of us think of Rain
themed songs, Please post them. Or send them to me off-list. Thanks.
One of my sisters is named Rain, and I made a Tape Compilation for her
many
years ago (circa 1987) I think I had fully, three D-90 sides filled up
with
songs I don't have the list anymore and cannot seem to remember any
but a
couple of the tunes that were on it. Including some of the `titles
already
mentioned by other Nuns
A WHO song was in there (Let It Rain Down On Me ?)
But I recall, I put "RAIN" on it (Beatles)
And "RAIN" from a now, long forgotten, Ian Hunter 33 & 1/3 album with
Mick
Ronson playing guitar. (That might not be quite the complete accurate
song
title name)
Purple Rain (?) Prince
Rainy Day Women Number's 12 and 35 Dylan
As I went back over the "Rainy" posts starting with Molly's I came up
with a
question that need not be answered here, (but feel free) I need to
check for
myself, but here it is
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain"
"Who'll Stop The Rain?"
These are two different songs by Credence Clearwater Revival Yes? (My
old
LP's are in deep storage)
But, and really not to be critical, I read ConorMG's post and he
mentioned
Donovan's (Ah, But I May As Well Try And) `Catch The Wind' he typed,
(snip>
>> Catch the Wind (When the rain has hung the leaves with tears, I want
>> you
near to kill my fears...what a wimp, I thought, but I bet it worked)((
I've seen Donovan a couple of times (back in the day) And He, and we,
used
to sing "I want you near to CURE my Fears,"
A lot nicer, more romantic too.
We (usually) cannot have Rainbows with out a little rain
And in truth, Little Darlings,
"Here Comes The Sun"
one_love. ken.
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