45 Number Seventy-Four

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqiDOuwUJxk

Chose the B side for this record. This song was my pensive, alone in my room, singing along, high school years' song. From the great Turnstiles album. The link takes you to a nice live 1977 recording. The A side ain't to shabby either; "Say Good Bye to Hollywood" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ5Nek7HFqw&feature=related . The link is to another 1977 live performance, drummer Liberty DeVitto playing great right in the middle of the stage.

45 Number Seventy-Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYO3Se-VHk

Wow! Check out this video of this song from Elvis' Sundance music show. It features Ron Sexsmith and Elvis singing Ron's arrangement of the song. It is fantastic! That's Neko Case, Sheryl Crow and Jessie Winchester giving Elvis and Ron longing looks as they sing.

Ok, book songs:

"When I Write the Book" - Rockpile (Nick Lowe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qhX-E4IyTk

"The Book of Love" - Magnetic Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjXr9SrzQE

"Can't Judge a Book by Looking at It's Cover" - Bo Diddly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lch0o4wwGyw&feature=related

"My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors" - Moxy Fruvous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9F_XHb81N0

"Encyclopedia" - NRBQ

45 Number Seventy-Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62UfgT1K0Tw

If we didn't have this record, we wouldn't have this record from the Ramones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9iUdiS3hI&feature=related .

45 Number Seventy-One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roebfnD-bc&feature=related

Nice video from 1970 at the Isle of Wight Festival. Pete in his white jump suit. Never had a chance to see Keith play live. I love to watch video of him. Here is a "My Generation" video with collage of Who footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI&feature=related .

Richie Havens did a recent cover of "Won't Get Fooled Again" that I really liked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzxMR3oZ2k .

45 Number Seventy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2td7q5ZMc

Well as you might have gathered from earlier posts, Dave is one of my musical Gods. In college we sought out his shows like pilgrimages. One of those journeys took some buddys and me to Dave's room at the Holiday in Oneonta NY. A shocked Edmunds happily signed our picture sleeves, as he professed astonishment that anyone in the small upstate town had ever heard of him. Speaking of picture sleeves, someone has a real nice slide show of I'll bet damn near all of Dave's picture sleeves, which provide the visual for his version of "Baby I Love You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVRWktdnODg&feature=related . If you're an Edmunds fan you should have a look. I am happy to say I have many of the picture sleeves featured in the slide show, although I don't have one for Dave's version of NRBQ's "Me and The Boys," which is one I really would like. His rendition of the song is pretty sweet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA7BKHDWQdk .

45 Number Sixty-Nine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJ36QrwXz4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxxpePEjQaI

Neil. Not sure what to say here. I often feel that there are some musicians that make more than music. There is something, dare I say, spiritual, when I listen to his records. His voice, the words, his expressive guitar playing, they all seem to reach a different spot in me.

Neil is a great thing to have on the jukebox, but usually it's "Heart of Gold." To have a stomper like "Homegrown" is awesome. (The video link above takes you to a recent solo performance with Neil playing the banjo). And then to get "Hey Babe" on the flip side, is way cool. Both from the great American Stars and Bars album. I am pulling that out tonight.

I have seen a couple of Neil's incarnations. Solo at the NY State Fair. The Shocking Pinks at the fair as well. And the Blue Notes at the Weedsport County Fair grounds. Never saw Crazy Horse though. I won't even try to put together a list of favourite Neil songs, but here's a couple of Neil related stuff I dig.

• Neil's Bridge School Concerts, especially the early ones. From one of the early discs of the concerts they put out there is David Bowie with an acoustic "Heroes" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyLSI7yKm8 ), Patti Smith's "People Have the Power," and Elvis Costello doing "Allison" with Neil singing backing vocals. Here is a link to Costello doing Neil's "Tell Me Why" from a more recent Bridge School concert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWc3VUivDc .
  
• From the My Better Self album, Dar Williams' cover of "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" with Marshall Crenshaw playing and singing.
• The Bridge record, which is a tribute album that features modern rockers interpreting Neil (Flaming Lips, Nick Cave, Victoria Williams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib98a5wW-6s , Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, and many more).
  

45 Number Sixty -Eight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB3RBxnn98g

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So here is how it goes. You go to the rummage sale and there in the box of 25 forty-fives is "Personality Crisis" by the NY Dolls. Of course you have to get it. you offer the guy a buck. He says "Nope, five bucks for the whole box." So now you have "United We Stand" by The Brotherhood of Man. But look at this video. We have to show it for the children's sake. We can't let them make the same cultural and fashion mistakes.