Musical Name Dropping

I’m limiting this page to songs I’ve mentioned in my author pages, otherwise this would be never ending.

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Do I love Johnny Rivers? Why yes, I do…

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The House of the Rising Sun, The Animals and Eric Burdon singing live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1964. If you want to know how good a singer really is…listen to them sing live.

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The Late Show, Jackson Browne…believe it or not, I’ve done this song a cappella.

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Peter Case, Honey Child, live on Folkscene…the song I’d like to have if I was deserted on an island.

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If I was on a different deserted island, it would be anything by Sly and the Family Stone. They tore up the Ed Sullivan Show in 1968 with “I want to take you higher.”

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Neil Young, Ohio…I had read James Michener’s book about Kent State when I was in 7th grade.

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The Balancing Act; Jeff Davis, Steve Wagner, Willie Aaron and Robert Blackmon. “We’re Meant to be Here” off of ‘Three Squares and a Roof.’ copyright 1987.

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Don’t Bug Me When I’m Working. Little Village…John Hiatt, Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder on vocals, with Jim Keltner on drums…

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Sandy Denny and Listen, Listen. It’s where I get my online name…I am a travellerbytrade, I only have what I have made, a fortune teller too they say, and he can take us all away…

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I do a cover of “Stranger to Himself,” which she does as a demo on this album. It’s a little rough, but I like it far better than the refined version done by her with Fairport Convention.

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MEANWHILE BACK IN MICHIGAN…..

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Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Devil with the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly

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? and The Mysterians, from Saginaw, Michigan (their recording studio was in Bay City), 96 Tears, recorded and released in 1966.

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Gordon Lightfoot and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Before appearing in Detroit, he changed the words in one verse at the protest of the families of the young men that were lost, that they would have been so careless as to leave the hatches open or loose. If you want more information from the newspaper databases you won’t find much under “Edmund Fitzgerald.” You have to enter “the Fitz” into the search engine.

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With all due respect to Marvin, this is my favorite version of ‘Heard it Through the Grapevine’…a little more MOTOWN…

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The Bob Seger System, Ramblin’ Man, 1968, remastered 2011. I think WLS played this about every half hour in 1968.

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