What Song Makes You Drop Everything?

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 05:12 AM

Too many to list, but one comes to mind a barnstorming "I can't get started" by Roy Eldridge from one of the Jazz at the Philharmonic packages. Saw him do it at the Birmingham Town Hall and got the double LP recorded on the same tour which included it. The first few notes of Louis Armstrong on "Sleepy Time Down South" or "Black and Blue" (or most everything else). Bechet's "Petite Fleur"... too many, and I haven't mentioned blues or folk yet. Back to work, Roger,([I'm also suffering from CRS or CRAFT (Can't remember a fucking thing)disease: turned up yesterday for a meeting, moaned that no-one else turned up, got back to the office to find it was scheduled for today! Still, at least I've got all the handouts ready in time!]

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Brakn
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 04:46 AM

Off the top of me 'ead,

Christmas in the Trenches by Joe McShane (I've never heard the original)
Wreck on The Highway - Bruce Springsteen
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
The Man Who Couldn't Cry - Louden Wainwright
It Had To Be You - Fred Astaire
Men With Broken Hearts - Hank Williams
She's Leaving Home - Beatles
Streets Of New York
Grace - Jim McCann
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle
The Soldiers Song
God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
Roads Girdle The Globe - XTC
Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Bluejay
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 03:52 AM

Lamarca: No Regrets also does it for me. Have you ever heard Tom Rush do The Panama Limited? I think you'd like it. Makes you want to drop everything & reconcile whatever. Barney, by Ian & Sylvia, is a drop-it song. I play it now because someone asked for a tear-jerker; the responses are interesting. Some people are revulsed by a song about a cowboy shooting his lame horse, but they usually come around, as the meaning of the song transcends animal rights type stuff by far. Other drop-it songs: George Winston playing Spanish Fandango on the guitar; Don't Want to Die in Georgia, by Brewer and Shipley, (and most of their other stuff); I'll Fly Away: Bryan Bowers' slow plaintive version,not the quick time. Norman Blake's John Hardy, and When I Paint My Masterpiece, by anyone. If I heard ANY of these songs on the radio, I'd probably drop everything due to heart failure. (Thanks for permitting my diatribe, I'm new here.)

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 03:39 AM

Anything sung by Davey Jones(from the NE of England -not ex monkee), but particularly "You have the most beguiling eyes" kindest regards Patrish

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 03:03 AM

Song for Ireland, especially the version sung by a woman (name unknown) accompanied by DeDannan

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Harold W
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 02:55 AM

It's not a song but a classical number "Serenade for Strings" By Roman Hoffstetter.

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From:
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 12:33 AM

The Merry Ploughboy - = bugger off ka booom ! Loved it way back still do, GREAT song.

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:59 PM

Again, so many songs stop me in my tracks I pretty much limit my real time for listening to time spent in my car.

Two abiding favorites are Jennifer Warnes' "Famous Blue Raincoat" -- which I no longer have any but an elderly taped copy of (it apparently is no longer being reproduced -- big fat hairy bummer) and from which I have learned "Song of Bernadette." It's one of my favorite songs to sing, but I'm pianist-dependent for that one, since most guitarists can't just sit down and fake that one.

And Tom Waits "Small Change" album or a "Best of Tom Waits" album I've loaned and not gotten back. In fact, just about anything by Waits puts me in *such* a mood. I have to be careful or he can put so much of the divil in me I'll do something foolish...

Also Karla Bonoff's "Home" and "Like a Shooting Star"

Sam in Philadelphia, what CD is Alison Krause's version of "Heart of Saturday Night" on?

WyoWoman

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: BK
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:44 PM

lamarca: where can I hear June Tabor doing that Bill Caddick song Aqaba?

As for mesmirizers;

Steeleye Span, esp the album "Below The Salt." Lots of Stan Rogers, (but I often particularly like "The Witch of The West Merelands." Garnet Rogers "Stars In Their Crown" or "Small Miracles," or "Sleeping Buffalo," or many others... Danny Doyle doing "Christmas in The Trenches," or "My Grandfathers' Emigrant Eyes"(I can picture & smell Ellis Island while listening; it just takes me away w/a flood of images) or the true-story-based, "Rose Of Saigon," & "Kilkelly, Ireland," & many others... Sally Rogers doing "Seven Long years." (much like our lives!) Much of Joan Baez's early stuff. not too much of her later stuff. Lots of Gordon Lightfoot's early stuff. Lot's of Ian & Sylvia. a lot of Loreena Mckennit, esp if I'm in the right mood.."All Soul's Night"... 'n I'm tired, betcha lots more fit, but I gotta go ta bed.. Too late!! A few more are insisting on getting out.. Ann Hills singing "Follow that Road" (talk abt images..!! I've lived in that part of the country..)Priscilla herdman's whole CD "Star Dreamer"... Wow! Sanders, Cass & White doing "Woyaya" (We Are Going) or their fantastic song abt the Aids Quilt "Be Still".. I start to cry just thinking abt it then I get the damn keyboard wet & can't see the keys any-way.. IMHO they also do the DEFINITIVE VERSION of Cristine Lavin's "Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind," all on their CD "Feels Like Home." & Then there's Sally Fingerett's "Home Is Where The Heart Is" to get the ol' tear ducts flowin. James Keelaghan's "Fires Of Calais" & "Jenny Brice" if the foregoing ain't enough.. & a zillion more; let's face it, I'm easy.. I still enjoy "Waltzing With Bears," (w/the extra verse, of course) & the wacky sequel by the Berrymans, "Aunt Emily," & the equally wacky parody, "Golfing With Hares," by Sue Train*r.

I REALLY gotta get to bed..

Cheers, BK

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: lamarca
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:36 PM

Andres, I've always been more partial to the Dies Irae! I've only sung the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi, though - Verdi's Dies Irae really makes you feel the terror. Someday I want to get a chance to sing the Faure' Requiem, too...

I was just a child when the Pope ended the Latin mass, and I think it took away some of the reverence and ceremony for me. Now I'm no longer a Catholic at all, and I guess singing is the best way for me to commune with God (although many of my favorite songs are more earthly than spiritual).

Mary

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: sophocleese
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:03 PM

Christmas in the Trenches, doesn't matter what I'm doing I'm going to start crying if it comes up on the radio. A lot of songs that were popular when I was a teenager but aren't played much anymore will make me stop just to hear them again even if I wasn't that fond of them when they came out.

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: TheMuse
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:54 PM

Neil, Are you by any chance a Janis Joplin fan?! Have to admit "Piece of My Heart" is a favaorite of mine. Had the chance to see her live and in person shortly before she died and turned it down. A LARGE regret of mine. The Muse

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Mike,NZ
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:41 PM

Ralph McTell's "streets of London", take me back to the days I was a copper in the city

Also many others depending on the mood at the time

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Escamillo
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:40 PM

Kat & WW : why always the best part of a mass is the Kyrie ? :)

Yours, Andrés

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From:
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:32 PM

Foster- Hard Times Come Again no More

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:31 PM

Lucretzia Bori singing "Un Bel Dia" from "Butterfly". 'Course no one else will play it so I drop everything FIRST, and then put it on.
Leadbelly and Paul Mason Howard doing Ella Speed.
Alfred Karnes singing "Called to a Foreign Field".
Rick

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Cricket in Canyon Lake, TX
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:52 PM

I got carried away and forgot my contribution... I would have to say "Suzanne" by L. Cohen; " Country Roads" by John Denver ; " Angel from Mongomery" John Prine; Bobby Mcgee; Wha a wonderful thread and a sort of sad and thrilling walk down memory lane...

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: JL in Ozland
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:51 PM

Kristofferson, "Sunday Morning Comin' Down"; Barley Bree, "Rape of Glencoe"; John Prine, "Paradise"

...and too many country/folk songs to even think about. Amen, Lamarca, thank the Muses for the catharsis of music in all its forms.

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Cricket in Canyon Lake,TX
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:44 PM

Oh, you guys, you guys... what wonderful memories! I would have to agree on so many of the choices. Are we going to do a list a the top one hundred important folk songs of the century? Is there an easy way this can be accomplished? Every one else has their list...

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Bugsy
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:31 PM

Little Neo,

It was the Cafe Orchestra version that I played on my radio show. It's not a song that I perform personally. However I am confident that you will like it.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:15 PM

Thanks, I was hoping to get Bugsy's version of Moon River? But I'll settle for the Cafe Orhestra version

Little Neo

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: Bugsy
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 08:07 PM

Little Neo - You should be able to get it from your "Folk Friendly" record store.

If not Contact me with a personal message giving your location details and I'll try to work out a way to get one for you.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:34 PM

It depends what mood I'm too.. these days after the break up, Roy Acuff singing," I'll forgive you, but I cant forget". It says exactly how I feel.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...
Aqaba - Bill Caddick song as sung by June Tabor; I can SEE T.E. Lawrence when I hear the song
Beeswing - Richard Thompson; a recent favorite, again, it makes me cry; is this about Anne Briggs?
"Ashes Are Burning" and "Black Flame" - Renaissance; Annie Haslam had another voice that could grab your soul
"Oh, Fortuna" from Orff's Carmina Burana - shiver!
Mozart's "Requiem" - I got a chance to sing it in college choir, and I have to stop everything and listen if it's on our local classical station
"Harold in Italy" - Berlioz; I grew up hearing Yehudi Menuhin's recording of this, and it STILL grabs me!

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.

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

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.

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).

SPAW

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: JedMarum
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:41 PM

Ray Charles singing Georgia on my Mind

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

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.

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

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

Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
From: ann
Date: 16 Nov 99 - 10:35 AM

tennessee waltz

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

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"

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
ain't nobody - Rufus & Chaka Khan
Do ya wanna funk - Sylvester

Folk

One, I love - Karan Casey
The Hiring Fair- Ralph McTell

Classical

Land of the mountain and the flood - Hamish MacCunn
The Moldau (Vltava)- Smetana
Russian Easter Overture - Rimsky Korsakov

slainte

alison

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

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.

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"
Janis Joplin singing "Piece Of My Heart"
Janis Joplin singing "Summertime"
Janis Joplin singing "Turtle Blues"
Janis Joplin singing "Ball And Chain"
Janis Joplin singing/screaming/crying/moaning/wailing/talking.

Not necessarily in that order.

Neil Lowe

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.

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

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!

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.