A Capella Wars

Lisnaholic · 05-21-2017, 06:12 PM

Compared to The Band's version of this Dylan song (on Big Pink), Joan Baez takes it a bit slower and gives us a chance to focus on every beautifully-enunciated word of the lyrics:

Lisnaholic · 01-06-2018, 07:43 PM

This a joyful, surprising track from Bobbie Gentry's 1967 album. To me it still sounds fresh and is so cleverly put together I can't help smiling every time I hear it. "Yellow dotted swiss" - I don't know what it is, but I love it !

Spoiler for Lyrics of Reunion:

Psy-Fi · 01-06-2018, 08:17 PM

The Persuasions covering a song by the late, great, Frank Zappa...

The Persuasions "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"

Lisnaholic · 01-06-2018, 08:28 PM

^ Wow, Frank Zappa tells it like it is, and it's still topical today. I'll definitely be looking into this strange and new-to-me album.

Psy-Fi · 01-06-2018, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Wow, Frank Zappa tells it like it is, and it's still topical today. I'll definitely be looking into this strange and new-to-me album.

It's a great a capella album! Frank produced the debut album by The Persuasions and they've also done covers of the Grateful Dead and the Beatles. Their Zappa covers album is my favorite, though.

Psy-Fi · 01-07-2018, 05:23 PM

Stumbled across this while I was on YouTube.
"Huntsville Police Dept Blue Notes 5"
Not sure which Huntsville they're from, but damn fine vocals...

Huntsville Police Dept. Blue Notes 5 - Oh, Mary Don't You Weep

Lisnaholic · 01-07-2018, 07:37 PM

^ Yes they have good voices and it's nice to see armed policemen innocently singing in harmony.

Here's a guy presumably on the otherside of the law, but he's doing something I really love to hear; a lone voice singing out from decades ago, and still sounding great. Whoever you may be, Bama Stuart, you couldn't imagine that your singing would now be freely available all across the globe or that your Youtube clip would get more than 77,000 visits:-

... and one of those Youtube visitors posted the lyrics, plus their ideas about some hidden messages:

Spoiler for I'm Goin' Home lyrics:

05-21-2017, 06:12 PM	#201 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Compared to The Band's version of this Dylan song (on Big Pink), Joan Baez takes it a bit slower and gives us a chance to focus on every beautifully-enunciated word of the lyrics: __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

01-06-2018, 07:43 PM	#202 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	This a joyful, surprising track from Bobbie Gentry's 1967 album. To me it still sounds fresh and is so cleverly put together I can't help smiling every time I hear it. "Yellow dotted swiss" - I don't know what it is, but I love it ! Spoiler for Lyrics of Reunion: Mama, can I huh, mama, can I huh, huh Can I mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh That's the sweetest little dress, Sally where'd you get the pattern? Made me one just like it out of yellow dotted swiss Yes, I guess we got the earliest garden in the county Beneath the strawberries are a heap of snappin greenbeans (It's been so long since I saw you, Hows your family Too bad about your boy) Mama make Willie quit pulling at my hair! Mama ouch! ouch! mama, just make Willie quit it! Tommy, if ya don't put down that stick I'm gonna wear you out with it, boy, be quick Come quick, Sammy Jean stuck her finger in a Coke bottle Can't get it out cause its stuck, stuck, stuck (Dad finally had his operation You know how he is at putting off things) Now I told you my mama didn't raise no fool I can do anything if I got the right tools Mama can I huh, mama can I huh, huh Can I mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh The crops been failing, lord it sure is dry You'd think that we'd a sprinkle by and by (Family reunion) Gonna tear you up, girl, gonna get a switchin' Better tell your cousin that you're sorry that you hit her (Abby MaGiunness in love with Aybel's oldest boy It's opt to kill their ma) If I told you once, it's been a thousand times Quit askin' your uncles for nickels and dimes Mama, make Willie quit it, pulling at my hair Mama, ouch! ouch! mama, just make Willie quit it I told you my mama didn't raise no fool I can do anything if I got the right tools (Family reunion) Did it again, put her finger in a Coke bottle Can't get it out 'cause it's stuck, stuck, stuck (I heard this mornin' they dropped the Tallahatchie river And found poor Billie gone) Ah, a little head cold, that's all ya have You fix it right up with a jar of Vic's salve It's the first time ever that the family's been together It's so nice that we all get along so well (Family reunion) He's got the money, you'd think that he'd try And do something for his mama before she died Now I don't mean to criticize your cookin', no I don't But I think that ya could add a little bit of pepper (Harvey, I'd love to have your recipe, is that the cake you served last Sunday) I told you my mama didn't raise no fool I can do anything if I got the right tools Mama, make Willie quit, bitin' at me! Mama, ouch! ouch! mama, just make Willie quit it! Why yes, I guess And don't ya look nice in your Sunday dress? Doesn't Sally look tacky in her silly little dress? You can see that she just doesn't know no better (Can you imagine, she let her daughter Rosalie Go off to Memphis by herself) Mama, can I huh, mama can I huh, huh Can I, mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

01-06-2018, 08:28 PM	#204 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ Wow, Frank Zappa tells it like it is, and it's still topical today. I'll definitely be looking into this strange and new-to-me album. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

01-07-2018, 07:37 PM	#207 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ Yes they have good voices and it's nice to see armed policemen innocently singing in harmony. Here's a guy presumably on the otherside of the law, but he's doing something I really love to hear; a lone voice singing out from decades ago, and still sounding great. Whoever you may be, Bama Stuart, you couldn't imagine that your singing would now be freely available all across the globe or that your Youtube clip would get more than 77,000 visits:- ... and one of those Youtube visitors posted the lyrics, plus their ideas about some hidden messages: Spoiler for I'm Goin' Home lyrics: Last year was no good crop year And everybody KNOWED IT Grandpa raised A BUSHEL OF CORN AND some black rascal stole it I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home [Thinking of the poverty stricken rednecks scratching in their sand patches in the hills, Bama in effect tells the guard, "Sonny boy, I'll leave you behind; there's nothing you and yours can do to me."] Jaybird pullin’ the TURNIN' PLOW Sparrow pullin’ the HARROW You gonna pull it today big boy And I’m gonna pull it tomorrow I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home [Thinking of the unequal division of labor in the South, and how some day the tables may be turned.] Lost my gal the other day WHERE you RECKON I found her? Way down THERE in THE old corn field Fifteen boys around her I’m goin’ home big boy, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home [Now moving on to a fantasy about a promiscuous white woman, carrying out her forbidden desires for black lovers.] CALL THE n**r with the black boots on I sure do wish IT WAS SLAVERY I take THESE TRACE CHAINS here And run you stone crazy I’m goin’ home big boy, I’m goin’ home Talking: Yeah you like that ALL RIGHT, BOSS I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home [The cracker wishes he could drive off the superpotent black with unchecked violence. Conscious of the real difference between a slave and a free man, he consoles himself with the fantasy murder of a Negro casually encountered. Bama answers again, "look sonny, you can't hold me, because I'm goin' home, big boy, I'm goin home."] Grandma had an old bulldog She swore he’s double-jointed She sent that dog to the blacksmith shop And had his nose POINTED I’m goin’ home big boy, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home boy, I’m goin’ home Girl bring me my shotgun Rifle ain’t got no trigger We goin’ down to A party tonight Might meet another n*r I’m goin’ home big boy, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home son, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home big boy, I’m goin’ home Talking: BOSS YOU like that ONE ALL RIGHT? I'm goin’ home gal, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home big boy, I’m goin’ home Talking: What else GO WITH THAT song boy Last year I PLOWED A HORNY OX This year I PLOWED A MULIE I didn’t make no cotton and corn I'm going home to Julie __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough."* - Sybille Bedford, 1953