MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Averaged over the last eight days, for Vincent, V = 1548 and C = 4.59, and for Here Comes the Sun, V = 1699 and C = 4.13.
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I posted this once before, but here’s a very weird song that Micky Dolenz wrote about his cat:
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One more train-related song from the Seekers:
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That’s right, Bill. All the Seekers are from Melbourne. A couple of them have even written impressive patriotic songs. Check out Bruce Woodley’s “I Am Australian” and Judith Durham’s “Australia Land of Today”.
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Amen to that, Bill. I’ve made no secret in this club of my admiration for the Seekers, and Judith in particular. She, Karen Carpenter, and Julie Andrews all have perfect voices that I could happily listen to for hours.
I think what made the Seekers special was Judith’s powerful jazz-trained voice on top of the guys’ smooth folk voices. That sort of combination had never been tried before, and it’s why you can always tell a Seekers recording just from the sound of it.
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Oh yeah, the Aristocats! And then there’s this jazzy/bluesy cartoon cat combo:
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Ah, I forgot about this one:
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Oh yes, Jung. I recall several of those based on the premise that a baby kangaroo looks just like a giant mouse. No wonder I struggled in high school biology class.
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You’re making us all feel very old, Dan!
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Yay, cats! Nature’s physicists.
I was trying to think of a song that was about cats in the literal sense, but as often happens I had to go back to childhood. This is one of my favorites from grade school music class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqpvy8p-WzQ
I once wrote an extra verse for this song, to address the elephant in the room:
As Don Gato stood, prepared to wed,
His beloved turned to him and said,
“Though I used to love you most now (meow, meow, meow),
You’re a creepy zombie ghost now (meow, meow, meow).”
And she jilted poor Don Gato.
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I like that Gonzo cover, Juergen; I had never seen it! I was actually introduced to that song by a different Muppets version of it:
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Until I was in college I knew nothing about the Beatles, other than that there had been a group by that name in the 60’s. My first genuine Beatles experience was when my brother, who had just discovered them, bought a copy of A Hard Day’s Night on VHS and insisted that I watch it with him.
Needless to say, my appetite was more than whetted. And as I listened to songs from their albums (which my brother had purchased), I noticed several that I already knew other versions of from early childhood, although I have no idea which one I heard first.
There was Love Me Do, which was featured on the Brady Kids album, and three songs that had been covered on Sesame Street: Yellow Submarine, Octopus’ Garden, and this one, which was just posted on YouTube three days ago and which I’ve just now heard for the first time in over fifty years:
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I just found this one. I probably saw it on TV back in the day, but I have no recollection of it. Most likely I blocked it out to keep from having nightmares.
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Hey, Juergen.
I discovered the Seekers on YouTube, so for the most part my knowledge of them is not arranged by album. I looked at their discography on Wikipedia and didn’t really see a concentration of my favorite songs on any particular album. There is a gradual evolution from covers of traditional folk songs, to original folk/pop from other songwriters, to self-written folk songs with somewhat unusual arrangements.
I bought a copy of their 1997 CD Future Road, and a box set of their entire 1960’s output called All Bound for Morningtown. But you certainly can’t go wrong with a “best of” compilation!
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And now comes the very sad news that Judith Durham passed away yesterday.
