[78-L] Bad news on record

[Bill McClung]

I totally agree. I just played the Goodman medley and was reduced to
laughing tears (again). If ever you get the chance to hear the Born to Be
Wild/Tell Laurie I Love Her sequence, it willl show you what a knowledgable
and musically gifted performer Steve Goodman was. 

(And getting this back to 78 land) He often performed with Jethro Burns and
wrote a great song about Carl Martin and did a song where he talks about
Alfred Brumley then launches into a slide guitar version of I'll Fly Away
(a song, he says, that proves you don't have to know much about spirituals
to like gospel music).  Goodman was a true songster that could play
whatever his audience wanted to hear.  

Having the chance to hear Goodman live was one of the few reasons I would
have traded living in Austin for living in Chicago in the seventies.  I got
to hear my other three college musical favorites (David Bromberg, Loudon
Wainwright, and Taj Mahal) at Armadillo World Headquarters but not Goodman.


> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Shirer <rshirer at neb.rr.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: 7/9/2009 11:32:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bad news on record
>
> Hi all,
> Some have mentioned the Smothers Brothers Chocolate song, but they also
did 
> a wonderful version of "Hangman, Hangman Slack Your Rope", which resulted
in 
> in "slack it for a gllllp. . . . "  Quite gruesome, if you think about it.
>
> And with specific reference to StevenC's reference of the teenage death 
> songs of the fifties and early sixties, Steve Goodman did a wonderful
medley 
> of,. as he put it, "dead girl songs" which is on the 2 CD compilation of
his 
> wonderful stuff: "No Big Surprise: the Steve Goodman Anthology".   He
wanted 
> to borrow a cowboy hat from the audience, but all they had was a
motorcycle 
> helmut.  So he did "Born to be Wild", followed by "Teen Angel", "Tell
Laurie 
> I Love Her", and, as he said, "I'll never have another chance to sing
this": 
> "(Laurie) Strange Things Happen". I don't have the specific information,
but 
> Rounder put out an lp, many years ago, with a range of teenage suicide 
> songs; it grandly included a kleenix dispenser.  I kindly gave my brother 
> and sister copies, but hadn't the wit to buy one for myself.  Oh well. . .
> Cheers,
> Bob Shirer
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:55 PM
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>
>
> > Also, we mustn't forget all the doleful msical tales of the late 
> > fifties...
> > like "Tell Laura I Love Her" (and others I can't recall) in which the
> > singer/protagonist gets in a fatal automobile accident...?!
> >
> > ...stevenc
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