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23 Oct 97 - 06:27 AM (#15105) Subject: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: DWDitty I realize this is a folk/blues site, but I have arranged several Oscar Brown songs for acoustic guitar and voice. Among them: Signifying Monkey, The Snake, Rags and Old Iron, and Somebody Buy Me a Drink. These songs always get a strong response from the audience. Although OBJ is usually classified under Jazz Vocalists, many of his songs come from the chants and chances of the urban black experience and translate into great folk/blues. If anyone has any other arrangements or chord progressions for other of his songs, I would appreciate hearing from you. If you haven't heard OBJ before, it is worth checking him out - mostly on Columbia (circa 1960-65). Some reissue on CD is available. |
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24 Oct 97 - 06:01 AM (#15144) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: Top floor, please. |
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24 Oct 97 - 09:33 AM (#15145) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: Martin Ryan Brings me back! He was a fine singer, with real bite. I still sing "Worksong" unaccompanied when the chance arises and think "Bid 'em in" is another great song that suits the treatment. Regards |
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25 Oct 97 - 06:58 AM (#15194) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: dwditty There is a pretty good OBJr. site at http://www.chitown.com/http/word/OBjr.html There are lyrics to many songs - no chords or music though. |
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25 Oct 97 - 06:59 AM (#15195) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: dwditty Of course that's "www.chitown" not "www,chitown" |
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06 May 98 - 06:50 AM (#27449) Subject: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: dwditty In answer to Martin Ryan's question, Sin & Soul is available on CD. Try Borders or CD Now at www.cdnow.com. |
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06 May 98 - 07:05 AM (#27451) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: Martin Ryan Thanks! Regards |
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20 Aug 98 - 02:10 PM (#35424) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: Joe Offer Say, dwditty, that Oscar Brown, Jr. site doesn't have his lyrics to "Signifyin' Monkey." Might you be able to post them for us? I posted a different version in another thread a while back. I like the Oscar Brown, Jr., version better but I can't make out the words well enough to come up with a good transcription. The site DOES have the lyrics to "Brother, Where Are You?" which has always been one of my favorite social-action songs. -Joe Offer- |
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17 Apr 01 - 04:15 PM (#442822) Subject: ADD: BROTHER WHERE ARE YOU - Oscar Brown, Jr. From: Joe Offer I found thes lyrics on the site dwditty linked to above. Somebody mentioned the song in another thread, so I thought I'd post the lyrics. I first heard the song on a short movie I saw in the 1960's - don't recall the name of the song. -Joe Offer- BROTHER WHERE ARE YOU? (Oscar Brown, Jr.) A small boy walked down a city street And hope was in his eyes As he searched the faces of the people he'd meet For one he could recognize CHORUS Brother where are you? They told me that you came this way Brother where are you? They said you came this way The eyes of the people who passed him by Were cold and hard as stone The small boy whimpered and began to cry Because he was all alone CHORUS Now there are many who will swear it' s true That brothers are we all And yet it seems there are mighty few Who will answer a brother' s call CHORUS |
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18 Apr 01 - 09:14 AM (#443350) Subject: RE: Oscar Brown, Jr. From: LR Mole It was a black-and-white social action thing that also had someone repeating, "Vanity, all is vanity, saith the preacher". Can't recall the title of the film. Lots of panning around grainy inner-city photography.I used to play it around Em-Am for the verses into C-G for the choruses. Relevance. Church work. I was, however, so much older then. |