MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Jung, I’m not really a fan of Westerns in general, but if Bonanza is one of the best, then okay, I’ll give it a shot sometime. I have eaten at the Ponderosa Steakhouse a few times, if that’s worth any partial credit.
Once as a kid my siblings and I were watching TV, and one of Lorne Greene’s Alpo commercials came on. When it ended, my four-year-old sister said very matter-of-factly, “When I grow up to be a dog, I will eat some Alpo.” We had a long talk.
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I really like that Apeman song, Joe! I wasn’t familiar with it.
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That one could go on the animal song thread too!
Jung, you made me think of this Willie Nelson song. Lots of people have recorded it, so I just picked my favorite vocalist among them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i55TnK-YJko
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Not to worry, Jacki. We all have little mental blocks and crossed wires about various details of things. I always find myself talking about episodes of magazines and issues of TV shows.
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I think we had this exchange once before, Jacki, but are you talking about “Four Strong Winds” rather than “Blowin’ in the Wind”? I can’t find an Ian and Sylvia recording of the latter.
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Joe, are you familiar with the Mamas & Papas song “Creeque Alley”? It paints sort of a family tree of the folk groups that intersected with them.
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It wasn’t publicized, but at the time Cass was married to Jim Hendricks.
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Yes, Joe, that’s Cass Elliott, before the Mamas and Papas.
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I’m firmly in Jacki’s camp on this one: I’d rather hear a cat being strangled than listen to Dylan’s affected singing voice. But I’ll agree with Joe that both are more pleasant than Yoko.
That being said, I have to acknowledge his genius as a songwriter, and this is coming from someone who seldom pays attention to lyrics. So many of the tunes he wrote sound wonderful when performed in multi-part harmony. I’d put Peter, Paul & Mary’s rendition of “Blowin’ in the Wind” at the top of the list, followed by the Seekers’ recording of “The Times They Are a-Changin'”.
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Continuing my free associating, that Snoopy vs. the Red Baron song always makes me think of this one for some reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0
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Here’s another song called Ringo that I’m sure Jacki knows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdI6nqh2crQ
And it’s consistent with the animal theme of this topic.
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When I hear Lorne Greene’s voice I think of two things: Battlestar Galactica and Alpo dog food.
To this day I’ve never watched Bonanza, thanks to a traumatic (or so it seemed at the time) early childhood experience of a babysitter insisting on watching Bonanza during the sacred Sesame Street time slot.
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From what I can tell, the Clingers’ fame came primarily from their appearances on TV variety shows (Danny Kaye, Glen Campbell, the Smothers Brothers), and they never found much success on the music charts.
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Apparently the Clingers were a pretty big deal at one point, Jung. Check out this headline from 1964:
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See You Later, Alligator – Bill Haley
Dig a Pony – The Beatles
