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And def Rod Stewart for Maggie May

The early 70's have so many special memories, young love, innocence, awakening ...
my first divorce ... freedom to be single in NYC. If I knew then half of what I know now ....

G-L-O-R-I-A

Who did that one again?

Everly Brothers

I think I still have my 45 rpm copy of that great Everly Brothers song.

He died last year at 65.

I think "Walk Away Renee" was their first record, and it went to # 5 on Billboard.

They disbanded in 1969, reformed in 2011, & again in 2015 with original singer Steve Martin Caro.

As far as I could find out, they have apparently disbanded again...this time probably for good.

http://www.leftbankeband.com/

Beach Boys

One of my all-time favorites.

CSN

Bernadette (Four Tops)
Gloria (Them, Laura Branigan)
Ruby (Kenny Rogers, Rolling Stones, if you add "Tuesday&quot
Agnes English (John Fred)
Tell Mary (Leo Kottke)
Sandy (Ronny and the Daytonas)
Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys)
Tell Laura (Ray Peterson)
Little Martha (Duane Allman)
Ma-ma-ma Marie (The Gaylords)
Marion The Librarian (from the Music Man)
Barbara Ann (Beach Boys et el)
Maria (Leonard Bernstein, from West Side Story)
My Sharona (The Knack)

etc etc etc etc etc

On one side it has lyrics, and on the other side, also called "Sandy", is an instrumental version.

Barbara Ann is a truly great song, IMO....so is Help Me Rhonda

But it was just one part of my list, so I didn't bother to edit it out.

Not too many of us who remember Sandy, I'll bet!

It shows how old we both must be, right?

At least, my mind tells me I'm not old. (While my body says, Let's see what I can do to change your mind...

(Yes, I know it's not about a woman named Lucy.)

And, no, it's not about a woman named Lucy.

Good pick!

sung by Porky Pig (Porky & Bess, of course), like (in that Porky Pig voice) "B-b-b-bess, y-y-ou is my w-w-woman now..." And I can't hear it any more without thinking of Porky Pig.

I hate that song, guys always thought they were being all original by coming up to me and singing it. Ugh.

I also have always loved the name Melissa.

(I love Bernie too)

I like my name, but I hated the song association!

She's in her late 20's and I just realized we both had Allman Brothers songs with our names recently, when I heard Jessica one day on Sirius in my car. I was thinking to myself, well at least her's is an instrumental when it hit me.

It's on the live album Rock 'n' Roll Animal.

Yeah I'm old.

It's another great song, IMO.

By Country Joe and the Fish

Black Betty, by Ram Jam

Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)

Maria Isabel (Los Payos)

Lola (Kinks)

Layla (Clapton)

Katyusha (Old Russian Folk Song)

For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Simon and Garfunkel)

Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett)

Amie (Pure Prarie League)...one of my favorites

Miranda (Adam West as Batman)

I saw the Kinks back in the late 70s at Winterland (SF) and I think they did "Lola"

I also saw Country Joe do "Sweet Loraine" (on more than one occasion) at the Fillmore Auditorium.

(I'm pretty sure I saw Wilson Pickett at least once at the old Fillmore as well.)

A great '90s film about the formation of a soul band in Dublin is called The Commitments"
and the very first song they work on is "Mustang Sally"
Near the end of the movie, they do a version of it that is so good it makes Wilson Picket's version pale in comparison.

Just a lot of previews.

Originally released by Derek & the Dominos.

Clapton wrote it with help from Jim Gordon

I didn't know anything about Clapton & George Harrison's wife
Very interesting!

I wonder if he was still married to her in the '90s when that insane freak broke into his house & stabbed him 27 times ? (He barely survived that knife attack)

His wife saved his life by hitting the intruder over the head with a lamp.

Husband: George Harrison (Beatle, m. 21-Jan-1966, div. 9-Jun-1977)
Boyfriend: Ron Wood (Rolling Stone, together briefly in 1973, extramarital)
Husband: Eric Clapton (guitarist, m. 27-Mar-1979, div. 1988)
http://www.nndb.com/people/491/000163002/

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Lou Reed

Denise is one of my favorite bee-bops.

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Denise was Randy & the Rainbow's one & only hit.

I can't think of any oldie I love more than "Denise"....It's a perfect rock & roll song!

Trivia fact: "Denise" was written as a "homage" to Denise Walton, the prolific Brill Building songwriter who worked closely with Allan Freed, the DJ who coined the term "Rock & Roll"
A good, (but not totally accurate) TV movie made about Allan Freed is called:
"The King of Rock and Roll..The Allan Freed Story"

Traditional, but done a few years back by Levon Helm.

"Suzanne" --Leonard Cohen
"Annie's Song" --John Denver
"Dreamboat Annie" --Heart
"Linda Was A Lady" --Kansas City (I bet NOBODY remembers THAT one! God, what a good song!)

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Maybeillene-Chuck Berry

Annie-Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend

Lola-Kinks

Elvira-Oak Ridge Boys

Jane-Starship

Dear Prudence-Beatles

Michelle-Beatles

Daisy Jane-America

Lady Jane -Stones

Sweet Virginia-Stones

Angie-Stones

Bernadette-Four Tops

and I bought "Maybelline" back when it came out.

"Lola" might just be the best Kinks song ever....I love those lyrics!

She HATED that song!

(I'm currently unable to view videos)

Although there is a second Rowena's Theme that's very different and unrelated.

The wind cries Mary- Jimi Hendrix Experience

I love that song and loathe "Michelle".

Big Leg Emma - Mothers of Invention

Grateful Dead - Althea

A song praising the finer aspects of the full figured women, "You can say she's got it all!!"

Come let me love you

Wallflowers

Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded but we're all doing our best to deny it.


He of course has a few more with women's names in the title.


Peace

Christines Tune-Flying Burrito Brothers

As one of Kottke's most fanatical fans, that should have been the first one I thought of.

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"Geese farts on a muggy day"

If I only had such geese farts........