Lyr Req: Hey Joe

Subject: hey joe
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Date: 18 Apr 99 - 09:35 PM

Has anyone heard of Hey Joe?

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Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 09:45 PM

Please tell me you are kidding!!!!!!! Well, all you fifty somethings, how old does this one make you feel???? No offense to you SherryAnn, but this song is a very old blues tune that was covered by just about every garage band on earth back in the 60's.

Mick

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Frank Maher
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:08 PM

Hey Joe was sung by Carl Smith in 1953..And I don't need any Snide remarks about My Age......

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: John Hindsill
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:18 PM

But the BIG popular hit was by Frankie Laine. He, in his mid-80s is still recording and live performing...Frank, you and I are not so old after all.

As I remember them, the last lines are: "Hey, Joe, we'll be friends until the end/ This looks like the end my friend/ I've got to have that girlie for my own."

Subject: Lyr Add: HEY JOE (Boudleaux Bryant)
From: Frank Maher
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:42 PM

HEY JOE

Hey, Joe, where’d you find that pearly girly?
Where’d you get that jolly dolly?
How'd you rate that dish I wish was mine?
Hey Joe, she's got skin that's creamy dreamy,
Eyes that look so lovey-dovey,
Lips as red as cherry berry wine.
Now listen, Joe, I ain't no heel,
But, old buddy, let me tell you how I feel.
She’s a honey. She's a sugar pie.
I'm warning you, I’m gonna try to steal her from you.
Hey, Joe, though we've been the best of friends,
This is where our friendship ends.
I gotta have that dolly for my own.

Hey, Joe, come on let's be buddy-duddy.
Show me you're my palsy-walsy.
Introduce that pretty little chick to me.
Hey, Joe, quit that waitin', hesitatin'.
Let me at her. What's the matter?
You're as slow as any Joe can be.
Now come on, Joe. Let's make a deal.
Let me dance with her to see if she is real.,
She's the cutest girl I’ve ever seen.
I'll tell you face to face I mean to steal her from you.
Hey, Joe, now we'll be friends 'till the end,
And this looks like the end, my friend.
I gotta have that dolly for my own.

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Mike Billo
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:45 PM

Obviously, there are two "Hey Joe's". The first was a cajun souding country song of the early fifties, the other, and more well-known was the '60's folk-rock hit by Hendrix, the Byrds, and just like Big Mick said, every garage band of that era. No matter who holds the copyright, it was written by Billy Roberts.

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:47 PM

While we're showing our age, may I interject that people of MY age think first of Jimi Hendrix when they think of Hey Joe (click here).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:56 PM

Joe, I think of the band Love, whose leader wrote the song. Anyone remember their version? I used to jam with their bass player when I lived in Sarasota, Florida.
And according to Barbara Carr's Mudcat birthday list, Joe, we really ARE the same age.

Mark

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:58 PM

Thank you Frank...another of my Dad's favorites and I always thought of it whenever the Hendrix thing came up. With time, I'd forgotten the words pretty much except for the, HHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY JO-OE. Makes me miss him and that whacky sense of humor a little more than usual tonight...but thanks for the memories. He'd be 87.

catspaw

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 12:02 AM

And, I thought we were talking about our own Joe Offer!

katlaf

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: LEJ
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 01:13 AM

We used to cover the fast Hey Joe( Byrds and Love style) then medley right into the slow (Hendrix) in my college band. Didn't know that Love lead singer Arthur Lee had written it. Sorry to say I've never even heard the other Hey Joe.

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 02:01 AM

LEJ, I had always been "sure" that Arthur Lee wrote "Hey Joe," mostly because the bass player I mentioned earlier (Ken Forssi) told me so. Just to be sure, I just scoured the web and found out first of all that Ken Forssi is no longer alive (he died of brain cancer), and that many people claim to have written the "Hey Joe," among them: Billy Roberts, Arthur Lee, C. Powers, Jimi Hendrix, and Deep Purple. So I don't think I know anymore.

Mark

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Brakn
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 03:25 AM

Tim Rose did it mid sixties.

Mick Bracken

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Ritchie
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 07:35 AM

the last time this thread came up ...back end of last year ...we had a dispute as to who wrote it...at that point I changed my name to Anon aka Traditional and waited for the royalties to come pouring in...I'm still waiting.

Ritchie formerly known as ...

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 10:18 AM

In some Jimi Hendrix liner notes he refers to Hey Joe as being about a one hundred year old Cowboy song that he just adapted. I think I'll take Jimi's word over Love's bassist on this one.

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 10:55 AM

BTW - turns out that Arthur Lee is now about halfway through a 12-year(!) prison sentence for brandishing a pistol and firing it into the air.

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: LEJ
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 12:14 PM

I don't think writing honors can go to Hendrix. The up-tempo version done by the Byrds pre-dates the Are You Experienced? version by at least a year. Not sure whether it appeared on Younger than Yesterday or Renaissance Fair , which were released 1965 and 1966 respectively.

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Ethan Mitchell
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 12:23 PM

Can't resist....One of the best live music performances I've ever seen was Ian Svenonius (sort of heroin pop) playing Hendrix'es-or-whoever's 'Hey Joe' in this tiny little place called the Ottobar in Baltimore. An unemployed WWF guy called 'The Vortex' came in to crash the show, and actually started climbing across the audience to get onstage. We (The audience) moved en masse to eject Mr. Vortex, since the Ottobar has no bouncers...not a song I will quickly forget. Interesting that the lyrics can survive through so many different musical scenes, so many subcultures...

Subject: RE: hey joe
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 12:39 PM

Love's version came out in 1966 on Love (Elektra EKL 4001). Love was the first rock group signed by Jac Holzman to then-folk label Elektra.
Before he formed Love, a teenaged Lee -- making his stab at becoming the next Phil Spector-gave a young upstart named Jimi Hendrix a studio gig on Rosa Lee Brooks' moony symphonette "My Diary." Some say that Hendrix lifted Lee's outrageous "black hippie" fashion schtick.

Mark

Subject: Lyric Request - Hey Joe
From: Freddie Fox
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 06:25 PM

Don't know who it's by [I ought to, but don't - sorry] - need lyrics and chords [tune wouldn't hurt if in mid format - have various music writing software]. Can anyone oblige? Be very grateful

Subject: RE: Lyric Request - Hey Joe
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 07:12 PM

Gee, that's a song that's near and dear to me. Don't think there's a way to come up with a tune to a song like that, but you can click here for a thread with the lyrics.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyric Request - Hey Joe
From:
Date: 18 Oct 99 - 10:30 AM

Any relation to Harry Fox?

Chet

Subject: RE: Lyric Request - Hey Joe
From: Freddie Fox
Date: 18 Oct 99 - 02:16 PM

Sorry, Chet, not that I know of - Freddie Fox was a nickname that I aquired through an ISCF conference in the sixth form that stuck all through University, and I still use for fun every now and then. For what it's worth, my given name is Julia!