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Topic: Country songs on pop/rock records? |
Joachim Kettner
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Posted 30 Apr 2011 11:32 pm |
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This is meant to be fun. I started buying records mostly by rock bands, back in the sixties and sometimes very unexpected, I heard a country song or two on an album.
Examples- Todd Rundgren: The Range War, the Beatles: Act Naturally.
You have other surprises?
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Joey Ace
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 1 May 2011 4:47 am Not on an albums, but ssurprizing just the same
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Waylon's "Bob Wills Is Still The King" by The Stones
http://youtu.be/FMpBkO2SAn8 |
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Larry Miller
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Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 1 May 2011 6:29 am
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 1 May 2011 7:09 pm
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"Rider In The Rain" by Randy Newman.
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 2 May 2011 12:12 am
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Not in the 60's, I wasnt old enough to by records till the 70's 
Led Zeppelins Hot Dog sounded like a country song when I first heard it back in 79.
It didnt have steel or fiddle, but I didnt know any better. 
Marley Purt Drive by the Bee Gees.
Im stumped on covers of classic country songs by 60s rock groups.
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Shaan Shirazi
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Austin, TX, USA
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Posted 2 May 2011 6:06 am
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| Huey Lewis and the News did Honky Tonk Blues on their Sports record |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 2 May 2011 11:08 am
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This used to be fairly common.
Elvis' second LP, from 1956, included Red Foley's "Old Shep".
His first LP contained Jimmy Wakely's "I'll Never Let You Go, Little Darlin'".
Jerry Lee Lewis' first LP included two songs written by steel players: Ralph Mooney's "Crazy Arms", and Billy Mize's "It All Depends" (aka "Who Will Buy The Wine"), plus Goodnight Irene.
Gene Vincent's second LP included Blues Stay Away From Me, a country tune from the 1940s.
Numerous pop artists (Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Joni James, etc) recorded Hank Williams' songs in the early 50s. |
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 2 May 2011 11:59 am Re: Not on an album, but surprising just the same
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Thanks Mitch,
That puts things in historical perspective pretty well.
Elvis Presley was only a little before my time.
I did have a 45 of Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock though!
I think just about everyone did.
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| Waylon's "Bob Wills Is Still The King" by The Stones |
As a young Beatles and Rolling Stones listener, It always seemed to me that Mick Jagger tried to sound like a southern American country singer. Maybe its where the drawl and English accent coincide?
Honky Tonk Woman, Girl With Faraway Eyes, etc. payed homage to the country music they loved. Their covers of Robert Johnsons Love In Vain, Muddy Waters and other blues artists did the same. They sure loved Chuck Berry too.
That they would do Waylons tune now ('06) is only a testament that its still true!
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 2 May 2011 12:59 pm
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| The Stones had "I'm Moving On" (Hank Snow) on their "December's Children" album, released in '65. |
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Duncan Hodge
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DeLand, FL USA
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Posted 2 May 2011 2:08 pm
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One of my favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4
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Chip Fossa
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Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 2 May 2011 4:36 pm
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Thanks Duncan,
I've never been a fan of the Rolling Stones.
This is good. Actually, it's great.
Thanks, Bucko
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 2 May 2011 7:12 pm
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One of my favorites
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Which song is it? The copyright protection doesn't allow that it is heard/seen over here.
And someting country influenced by Procol Harum. "This Old Dog"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieigrTkUKhA
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Craig Stenseth
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Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 3 May 2011 6:15 am
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| The Beatles also had "What Goes On", I like that one better than "Act Naturally" most of the time. |
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George Rozak
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Braidwood, Illinois USA
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Posted 3 May 2011 4:13 pm
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Dion's version, circa 1963, of the old Luke The Drifter recording of "Be Careful of Stones That You Throw."
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Mitch Drumm
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Posted 3 May 2011 4:19 pm
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| George Rozak wrote: |
| Dion's version, circa 1963, of the old Luke The Drifter recording of "Be Careful of Stones That You Throw." |
Good one George. I'd forgotten about it. Dion also did Hank's "Honky Tonk Blues" in the 60s.
Pop-jazz singer Kenny Rankin did a fine version of Hank's "House Of Gold" in the 70s. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 4 May 2011 2:31 am
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| I was visiting Paul Franklin Sr and his wife Oleda a couple of years ago and asked about Paul Jr. He said he was in California doing a Barbara Striesand session. Barbara was putting a George Strait song on her new album (I don't remember the name of the song) and she wanted the same steel guitar on her cut as was on the George Strait cut. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 5 May 2011 5:21 am
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Pop-jazz singer Kenny Rankin did a fine version of Hank's "House Of Gold" in the 70s. |
Yes, it is on "The Kenny Rankin Album" from 1977.
Another good one is "Why Baby Why" from Roger McGuinn's Thunderbyrd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du-4sB0et9U
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