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Origins: W/ money in yr pocket-Blind Pig,LA,70s

09 Jun 20 - 11:24 PM (#4058500)
Subject: Origins: W/ money in yr pocket-Blind Pig,LA,70s
From: Irthlingz

In the later 70s (76-79?), in the "Blind Pig" coffeehouse in the 6500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles (less than half a mile east of N. Highland Avenue), I heard a (folk-rock?) band fronted by a guy with a gravelly voice kind of like Rod Stewart and an eye patch.

The song I'm interested in starts something like, "The bears up in Boston they all have fine degrees" and the hook is "With money in your pocket, good God, the world treats you right."

Would love to remember the name of singer/songwriter or band, and find the song itself.

Most of the acts that played the Blind Pig were acoustic singer/songwriters, so I'm thinking someone in the here may have hung out there back then.

Thanks!


12 Jun 20 - 05:24 PM (#4059011)
Subject: RE: Origins: W/ money in yr pocket-Blind Pig,LA,70s
From: cnd

Do you have any more lines to the song? My searches have turned up nothing.


13 Jun 20 - 09:49 AM (#4059093)
Subject: RE: Origins: W/ money in yr pocket-Blind Pig,LA,70s
From: GUEST,Starship

Dennis (Michael) Locorriere ??


13 Jun 20 - 10:20 AM (#4059101)
Subject: RE: Origins: W/ money in yr pocket-Blind Pig,LA,70s
From: GUEST,Starship

Idiot. I meant Ray Sawyer. Sorry. Too early for this.


15 Jun 20 - 02:31 PM (#4059360)
Subject: RE: Origins: W/ money in yr pocket-Blind Pig,LA,70s
From: Irthlingz

It's not someone that well known. In fact, I suspect the performer and the song have disappeared under the waves of time and fading memory.