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What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
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Subject: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Mbo Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:08 PM Remember that guy on "Seinfeld" who would stop and drop everything he was doing whenever "Desperado" by The Eagles came on the radio? I was wondering what song makes you stop, causes that blank stare (and accidents, if you're in a car) you become totally involved with, and makes you oblivious to outside stimuli? --Mbo (mine is Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie) |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Metchosin Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:15 PM I hate to admit it, it isn't a folk song, but Dire Straits, Money for Nothin' still rivets me. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:19 PM "Greenwood" as sung by jai of the Royal Madrigals. I doubt if any of you have heard it, but wow! A close second is "Brian the King" by Brian Leo |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Mbo Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:25 PM Master Mario, I heard you speak of that song before, I must go and find it, it sounds rulin'! Don't worry Metchosin, we don't make fun of people who like other things besides folk music! I sure don't! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Guy Wolff Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:26 PM Little richard's Toody Fruity....I'm sorry you guys but it gets me every time...Ive been away in Honduras for the week but am glad to be back<<<<>>>> hello all, Guy |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:40 PM Mbo - if you mean "Brian the King" I posted the lyrics some time back, the tune is the traditional "Brian Boru" Max has it on tape, but unfortunatly I DON'T have permission to record it so broadcasting it would be a no-no.....but I DO have permission to perform it, and I do as often as possible.... if you can't find it, personal message me, or e-mail (I'm listed at bbc's site) and I will send you the lyrics....and the site where you can buy Molly and the Tinker's CD's....*grin* |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Barbara Shaw Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:41 PM La Bamba (Ritchie Valens) Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin) If You Want My Lovin' (Aretha Franklin) Walk Right In (who was that?) Dixie Chicken (Little Feat) Ashokan Farewell (Jay Ungar) Where's the folk? Would take another hundred to work my way up to the present... I stop easily. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Amos Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:46 PM "You, Who Are On the Road...", Crosby Stills and Nash. And almost anything from the Chieftains or Tommy Makem' gang. A, |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: katlaughing Date: 15 Nov 99 - 09:51 PM This week: Art Thieme's Why White Men Cannot See Clearly/Cherokee Queen; Great Silkie; Master of the Sheepfold; Is Your Lamps Gone Out Colum Sands: Buskers Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer's The River Where She Sleeps It's ME!! Geoff Bartley's One Kind Word Susan McClelland's Falling from grace All of the above courtesy of a wonderful gift of two cds, to me, from Art! Many more, also! |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Bill D Date: 15 Nov 99 - 10:34 PM my wife, Ferrara..(Rita) singing "The Vacant Chair", "When the Yellow's on the Broom", "Lorena", etc. Davey Stewart singing "The Merchants Son and the Beggars Daughter" Jean Redpath singing "The Twa' Corbies"..and 27 more Jeannie Robertson singing absolutely ANYTHING..(list by request) and more, if I could remember this time of night |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 15 Nov 99 - 10:43 PM Rod Stewart singing 'You're in my soul', because it was "our song" for my first love and I, way back in 1978 (I was a late developer on the boyfriend front), and seems even more appropriate now that he is no longer here, especially the line 'you're ageless, timeless', sorry, must go and have a little sniffle..... For other kinds of music, as previously mentioned somewhere, 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' will have me dropping everything, in an effort to get away from the wretched noise - well you try singing it three times at three seperate weddings on the same day! Besides, it goes much better as a triple jig..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Little Neophyte Date: 15 Nov 99 - 10:47 PM Moon River It was my mom's favorite song |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Musicman Date: 15 Nov 99 - 10:51 PM For me, one song I havn't sung for almost a year, (don't think i've even listened to it yet!) I sang it at my wedding, Stan Rogers: 45 Years from Now. Also, Christmas carol sung by Kings College, Cambridge, ... "In The Bleak Midwinter", Harold Dark(?) Probably a few others too...... |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Date: 15 Nov 99 - 10:55 PM Fred J. Eaglesmith's, "Go out and Plow" Richard |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: WyoWoman Date: 15 Nov 99 - 10:55 PM "The Last Leviathan" by Rory Block. It simply makes my heart break. It's beautifully sung, and because it has to do with our human disregard for animals, I listen out of reverence and respect for them as well. I can't hear it without crying. ww |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: thosp Date: 15 Nov 99 - 11:08 PM so many stop me-i just can't go! but to name one dylans' tamborine man well to name another ian & slyvia-the royal canal well just one more joan baez--greenwood sidio(don't tell me about the spelling) and the list goes on! and the list goes on! ohhh and tim buckley--morning glory |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Michael K. Date: 15 Nov 99 - 11:13 PM ''Drive''..by The Cars. Crosby Stills Nash verison of McCartney's ''Blackbird.'' ''Rainy Day'' Hendrix version ....and any James Horner sound-track.... |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Bugsy Date: 16 Nov 99 - 12:07 AM Little Neophyte - I recently played Moon River on my Folk Show and got so many phonecalls from people wanting to buy this version. It's by the Cafe Orhestra with guest vocals by Sinead Stone. Artist: Cafe Orchestra Album Title: Topaz Label: Grapevine cat No: |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Bugsy Date: 16 Nov 99 - 12:08 AM Little Neophyte - I recently played Moon River on my Folk Show and got so many phonecalls from people wanting to buy this version. It's by the Cafe Orhestra with guest vocals by Sinead Stone. Artist: Cafe Orchestra Album Title: Topaz Label: Grapevine cat No: GRCDX 211 I know you won't be disappointed. Cheers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Escamillo Date: 16 Nov 99 - 12:16 AM For me, it's Gershwin's SUMMERTIME Yours, Andrés Magré |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Nov 99 - 12:26 AM The carol 'In the Bleak Midwinter' is also one of my favourites, tunes by Gustav Holst or Harold Darke, and the words by Christina Rossetti. Written as a poem, it was set to music and has become one of the better known 'modern' carols. As a Pre-Raphaelite fan, it is a total joy, a word painting, that although geographically odd (midwinter in Bethlehem is neither frosty nor snowy) is so full of imagery and passion that you can forgive the stranger qualities. Also 'It came upon a midnight clear', esp the lines 'beneath the angel strain have rolled 2000 years of wrong'. Very appropriate this year I feel... Hopefully the 'whole earth will hush their noise', and 'give back the song the angels sing'. LTS |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Clifton53 Date: 16 Nov 99 - 01:00 AM Song to Woody by Bob Dylan Blue Sky by the Allman Bros. When I Woke Up This Mornin by The We Five or Nanci Griffith California Dreamin (Michelle Phillips, boy was she hot in'69) Mamas and Papas And maybe 50 or so more, not the least of which is "The Late John Garfield Blues" by John Prine |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: katlaughing Date: 16 Nov 99 - 01:02 AM LilNeo, serendipity strikes again? Moon River is one of the only *pop* songs I ever memorised, on my own on piano at about 9 or 10 yers old. I can still sit down at a piano and play the first few bars, both bass and treble! Forgot Mozart's Requiem, esp. the Kyrie. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: WyoWoman Date: 16 Nov 99 - 01:07 AM Schubert's Mass No.2 in G Major. Also especially the Kyrie. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Chris/Darwin Date: 16 Nov 99 - 02:12 AM Steeleye Span's "Rogues in a nation" Planxty's "Bonny Lighthorsemen" or "Arthur McBride" Corries' "Flower of Scotland" from their concert album Dan Fogelberg's "Sutter's Mill" Bob Fox/Stu Luckley "Doodle.." or just about anything Touchstone's "Jack Haggerty" or "Nova Scotia" The list goes on ... thank God there is so much good music about! |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Mudjack Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:41 AM The Star Spangled Banner has a way of making people stand right up. Once had a co-worker who was attending his first baseball game at Anahiem Statium say, "Look at that, she sang that so well she got a standing ovation". and he meant it. I've recently discovered Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance" and the last song on the CD is "Don't Stop" featuring the USC marching band, A total knock out.I stop what I'm doing and start boogy-ing. Mudjack |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Metchosin Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:49 AM Barbara, I think Walk Right In was done by the New Christy Minstrels Just trying to redeem myself here. Any version of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda as long as it's not sanitized, almost anything off the Old Blind Dogs' albums New Tricks, Close to the Bone, Tall Tails and Legacy, Richard Thompson's Down Where the Drunkards Roll, June Tabor singing Beat the Retreat and anyone singing Amazing Grace. I drop a lot of stuff. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Neil Lowe Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:25 AM Jimi Hendrix's version (any one of 'em) of "Red House"...
Janis Joplin singing "I Need A Man To Love" Not necessarily in that order. Neil Lowe
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Allan C. Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:45 AM CSN&Y's "Almost Cut My Hair" (well, especially that one, but almost any cut from "Deja Vu" CSN's "Lady of the Island" "Gaudete" Steeleye Span's "Sheep-Crook and Black Dog" as well as "Parcel of Rogues" The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" John Gorka's "Thorny Patch" (but I can't say much for the rest of his "After Yesterday" CD upon which this song appears) Mommas and Pappas' "Dedicated To the One I Love" Tania Opland's "The Oregon Trail" Garnet Rogers' "At A High Window" These are what come to mind at the moment. But if you were to ask me the same question tomorrow, it would probably be a different list. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: kendall Date: 16 Nov 99 - 09:07 AM The Thieving Magpie...Rossini Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald..Gordon Lightfoot Phoebe Snow..Utah Phillips, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: alison Date: 16 Nov 99 - 09:33 AM WARNING..... non folk tracks approaching.... these bring back fantastic memories from my teens.....
Stay with me tonight -Jeffrey Osbourne
Folk
One, I love - Karan Casey
Classical
Land of the mountain and the flood - Hamish MacCunn slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Easy Rider Date: 16 Nov 99 - 09:52 AM The Grateful Dead: "Uncle John's Band" My very favorite song ever "China Cat Sunflower" "Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower Girl walking Jingle in the Midnight Sun..." Otis Redding: "Dock of the Bay" |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: sam in philadelphia Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:06 AM Looking for the Heart of Saturday Nite, by tom waits, stops me dead in my tracks. also, alison Krause does a splendid cover |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: ann Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:35 AM tennessee waltz |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Wesley S Date: 16 Nov 99 - 01:42 PM I would have to add : Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copeland Second Movement of Beethovans 9th { makes me wave my imaginary baton } Song of Bernadette performed by Jennifer Warnes The French Girl { ? } by Ian and Sylvia Thristy Boots by Eric Anderson Devil Got My Woman performed by Geoff Muldar Birmingham Sunday performed by Joan Baez And a dozen others but I'm feeling very "folkie" today |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Folksie Lady Date: 16 Nov 99 - 02:06 PM My car's tape player is on the fritz (too much interstate travel this year!) but songs coming over the radio might include: Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen (what magnificent singers!) American Pie, Don McLean Of *course* I know all the words! :) Old Time Rock and Roll, by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. If it's a classical station, hands-down favorites are: Symphony No. 3 ("Organ") by Camille Saint-Saens Symphony No. 9 ("Choral") by L. Beethoven Symphony No. 4 ("Campmeeting"?) by Charles Ives And any number of other tone-poems, short pieces, songs, etc. And don't even get me started on folk.... Folksie Lady |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Gary T Date: 16 Nov 99 - 02:20 PM Barbara and Metchosin, I remember "Walk Right In" as a chart hit for the Rooftop Singers, late 50's/early 60's. Don't know who else might have done it. "O Holy Night" always grabs me. I know there are several others from various genres, but I can't bring any to mind right now. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Banjoman_CO Date: 16 Nov 99 - 02:52 PM Right on, Liz Holtz makes me tingle a bit. As for Folk --- East Virginia Pop ----- Yesterday by the beetles and anything by "Blood, Sweat and Tears" but my all time "make you stop everything song" it would have to be "Never My Love" by the Association. Fred |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: JedMarum Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:41 PM Ray Charles singing Georgia on my Mind |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:43 PM I think one of the ones that's often requested around here stops me everytime. Enjoy Very emotional and a lot of other verses too, some of which have been discussed here ad infinitum (Believe it or not). |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Bert Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:47 PM Spaw, You don't need a song. You don't have to HAVE a reason, you'll drop 'em at any time;-) Bert. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Little Neophyte Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:49 PM Bugsy, where can I buy your version of Moon River? Have you ever notice you stutter on your postings? Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: lamarca Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:53 PM There are always a few songs that I try not to play too often, so they will still have the "shiver down my spine" effect that wears off after too many exposures. A few of these for me:
No Regrets - Tom Rush; I still cry when I hear it... I guess maybe I'm really susceptible to music - there are so many pieces that I don't just hear, but FEEL viscerally. The best music for me is that which wraps up my feelings and physical sensations and transports me elsewhere for the time it is playing. I feel lucky in that there are pieces from the classical repertoire, traditional music, rock and contemporary that make me feel that way; it is a blessing in my life to be able to hear and feel music and have it be a comfort, catharsis, escape or joy-bringer. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Magpie Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:00 PM Me, I drop things all day. So many nice songs.. "Both sides now" done by Clannad "Cry baby" - Janis Joplin "Dimming of the day" done by Rick Danko and Kirsten Braathen Berg June Tabor singing "The band played waltzing Mathilda" a cappella Various choires from Verdi's operas also send shivers up my spine.. John, Brendy and Mike: you know this one Spry's Abundance doing Sliav Gallion Braes and Song for Ireland. ..Just to mention a few Magpie |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Metchosin Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:06 PM Hi lamarca, Richard Thompson's Beeswing is about Anne Briggs, as far as I know and apparently she has resurfaced lately on the folk scene again. I also considered this song for my list too. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Metchosin Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:18 PM Gary T.... as they say...if you can remember the sixties, you weren't really there....Big Grin |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Lonesome EJ Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:18 PM Thanks,sam, for reminding me about Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night, there's something about it that's so plaintive that it brings tears to my eyes. Anytime I hear Somebody to Love by the Jefferson Airplane on my car radio, I jack up the volume and sing at the top of my lungs. My passengers are often horrified. |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Penny S. Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:22 PM LTS - I feel like that about the angels at the midnight clear, too. Have you heard it with the gloria descant? Magic. And Officium, with the Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek(?) And Hildegard of Bingen's work Not folky, though Penny |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Metchosin Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:28 PM although seems to me in my Hootenanny days I was deeply into coffee...hmmm.. no excuse for bad memory |
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Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything? From: Little Dorrit Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:33 PM Beeswing Richard Thompson I heard it thru'the grapevine marvin gaye grey funnel line I lived not where i love linda thompson and virtually any song sung or played by nic jones |
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