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The Bee Gees – “Stay In A Line” LOL!
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UK Radio (BBC), “Top Gear”, July 1964, Featuring Brian Jones on “Bo Diddley’s” guitar.
The Rolling Stones – “Crackin’ Up” (Ellas McDaniel), 1964
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Hey Mona and Lisa, have you had a chance to play around with a dulcimer yet?
The Rolling Stones – “Lady Jane” (featuring Brian Jones on dulcimer), Ed Sullivan Show 1966
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Yes, it is a fantastic album. I have the vinyl version too. By the way, Sunday the 8th of December is my birthday anniversary! What time is your broadcast? Is the webpage in your initial post the broadcast site?
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Well done Jacki. Your poem encapsulates the essence of the MLT’s Christmas cheer!
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Mike Oldfield. Featuring Maggie Reilly – Moonlight Shadow
Now who do we all know that can sing as sweetly as Maggie Reilly!
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I may have missed Angelo’s nieces playing their guitars or you may be thinking of Tomás’s niece accompanying herself to the MLTs “The Wide, Wide Land”, which was very beautiful indeed.
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These three sisters from the Netherlands were really big in several countries in the seventies and were the first Dutch group to have a number one song in the UK. The following is the German version of one of their hits.
Pussycat – Broken Souvenirs (German version)
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“Visions of Johanna” is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan on his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. Several critics have acclaimed “Visions of Johanna” as one of Dylan’s highest achievements in writing, praising the allusiveness and subtlety of the language. Rolling Stone included “Visions of Johanna” on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1999, Sir Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, listed it as the greatest song lyric ever written.
In 2017, the International Observer named the song the second best ever recorded.
I have selected the Marianne Faithfull version.
“Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?
We’ll sit here stranded though we’re all doing our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain
Tempting you to defy itLights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn offJust Louise
And her lover, so entwined
And these visions of Johanna
That conquer my mindIn the empty lot where the ladies play blind man’s bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls, they whisper of escapades out on the D Train
We can hear the nightwatchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s insaneLouise, she’s alright, she’s just near
Like silk she’s delicate and seems like the mirror
But she makes it all to concise and clear
That Johanna’s not hereThe ghost of electricity
Howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna
Have now taken my placeNow, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to meHe’s sure got a lot of gall
To be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall
While I’m in the hallOh, how can I explain?
It’s so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna
They’ve kept me up past the dawnInside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smilesSee the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say “Jeez,
I can’t find my knees”Both jewels and binoculars
Hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna
They make it all seem so cruelThe peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him
Saying, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”
But like Louise always says
“You can’t look at much, can you man?” as she herself prepares for himMy Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes “Everything’s been returned which was owed”
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodesThe harmonicas play
The skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna
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You can expect one early in the new year Stephen, as per Mona’s previous advice:
“I have been playing a bit more on them recently and have been messing around with new sounds, so I’m thinking about playing one in an upcoming Duo Session early next year. ?”That must be a nice piece you have there. Do you still play it?
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Mona plays the harmonica on a BBC Manchester show with Becky Want.
On Donovan’s “Catch The Wind”, very briefly from around the 2.24 minute mark.
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Rowan Atkinson – Interview with Elton John
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That’s great news Mona! I do look forward to your Duo Sessions and it is really nice to know little surprises like this are in the pipeline. It must be hard playing the blues harp and getting that gorgeous smile of yours to shine through at the same time.
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Well stated Tomás. We don’t celebrate ‘Thanksgiving’ down-under (our turkeys are quite relaxed here), but those of us who are aware of the MonaLisa Twins give thanks every day for our discovery. They’re like Thanksgiving, Xmas and your birthday all rolled into one!
And yes, the MLT Club is a great source of Peace and Love, and education, may I add. It seems that everything the Wagners attempt become wonderful creations.
