(sshhhhh…..don’t tell anybody we’re doing this one! 🙂 It was number 4 on Billboard and was the only one they had to crack the top 10. Poison had a hit
Continue reading“Your Mama Don’t Dance” – Loggins and Messina
Gary0 has had the pleasure of playing on dates with Dave on numerous occasions, both with Jim Messina and, of course, with ‘Loggins and…’ He’s an immeasurable talent who’s still
Gerry Rafferty, lead singer on this one, is also responsible for the song with that iconicsaxophone riff called ‘Baker Street’. This one was a very early tune that had a
Continue reading“Stuck In The Middle With You” – Stealers Wheel
This guy was a real anti-war, el protesto living in a song writer co-op in the early ’70s. From what he says about it the song ‘just kinda came out’
There were 7 bands with the name ‘Gallery’ throughout our musical travels, all over the map. This one actually categorized themselves as ‘soft rock’ during their run. You probably won’t
This song has generated some politically correct controversy lately. It was originally done in the ’30s across South Africa by a number of groups culminating in a definitive version done
I remember this as having been done by ‘Michael Murphy’. This was one of those hits with multiple lives, and I can’t seem to find the original-original anywhere. Seems there
This was a cover of an old ’50s tune. John Lennon loved this version and said so publicly. I LOVE the guitar work and the flange-y vocal. This one will
This isn’t a song about a two-timing lover, it was about one of the guys in the band, bass player Terry Comer, playing about with other bands. There was a
There’s all kind ‘o story about this. It was composed by Arthur Smith in the ’50s and appropriated by Eric Weissberg in the ’70s for the movie ‘Deliverance’. (Arthur Smith
Continue reading“Duelin’ Banjos” – Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell