Name that Tune

[WordWolf]

It occurs to me that I can do a "connection" thingy here:

Who knows how long this will last

Now we've come so far, so fast

But, somewhere back there in the dust

That same small town in each of us

(extra credit if you know the connection)

This is the End of the Innocence,

title cut for the Don Henley album of the same name.

(I liked it, but liked the previous album more.)

I don't know the connection, but if I were to guess,

I'd say Bruce Hornsby was somehow connected with Poco,

since he contributed the melody for this song.

(If you compare the melody for "Valley Road" and

"End of the Innocence" in your head, you'll see the

connection.) And in all fairness, it was Raf, long ago,

who told me Hornsby contributed it.

[WordWolf]

I'm confident enough to go ahead and post the next one.

This is more recent than most of the songs posted, so it's unusually

difficult for a lot of the people here.

But, I'll give it a shot.

Besides, I have the guitar riff for this one stuck in my head, now.

"I got the ways and means to New Orleans.

I'm going down by the river where its warm and green.

I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around,

I got a lot to think about. Oh, yeah..."

[bulwinkl]

slighty OT here but I promised Suda I would post this,Oh and I think the connection Tom was talking about is Timothy B Schmit. He played in both Poco then left to play witj the Eagles,

Back to your regularly scheduled program.

[Tom Strange]

close bulwinkl... very close and another connection... but that's not the one I was thinking of...

Randy Meisner left Poco and joined up with Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon as Linda Ronstadts b/u band (after a short stint with Rick Nelson) who then became the Eagles.

Timothy B. Schmidt replaced Meisner as bass player with Poco and then with the Eagles.

[Tom Strange]

WW, I'd also heard that about Hornsby on his collaboration with Henley... hmmm

[Suda]

Thanks for posting the tune. Nice one! Don't recollect ever hearing it before.

Suda

[Tom Strange]

Thanks for posting the tune. Nice one! Don't recollect ever hearing it before.

Suda

Suda... that song came out somewhere around 1972 I think... probably were still in diapers then :)

Poco were pretty much the pioneers of country rock, or one of the leading pioneers... if you haven't heard much of them try them out...

[WordWolf]

I hope this one isn't TOO tough for this crowd...

"I got the ways and means to New Orleans.

I'm going down by the river where its warm and green.

I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around,

I got a lot to think about. Oh, yeah..."

"They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night.

They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night.

They were naked as the day they were born, skin all bone-china white.

O, you're a vampire, and I may never see the light."

[Tom Strange]

sorry WW... about the only 'recent' music I know anything about would be if it were by U2... sadly, that's about it...

[WordWolf]

Someone who knows this MIGHT check in...

"O you're a vampire and baby I'm walking dead.

O you're a vampire and baby I'm walking dead."

"I got the ways and means to New Orleans.

I'm going down by the river where its warm and green.

I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around,

I got a lot to think about. Oh, yeah..."

"They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night.

They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night.

They were naked as the day they were born, skin all bone-china white.

O, you're a vampire, and I may never see the light."

[bulwinkl]

I'm totally clueless.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

About the only Halloween-themed songs I'd get would be "Monster Mash" and "Spooky."

George

[waysider]

Here's a wild stab in the dark (and dreary night):

All You Zombies----- The Hooters---?

[WordWolf]

Here's a wild stab in the dark (and dreary night):

All You Zombies----- The Hooters---?

No, and the lyrics on that one are VERY distinctive.

"Holy Moses met the Pharaoh,Yeah, he tried to set him straight

Looked him in the eye, "Let my people go!"

Holy Moses on the mountain,High above the golden calf

Went to get the Ten Commandments.

Yeah, he's just gonna break them in half!

All you zombies hide your faces,

All you people in the street.

All you sitting in high places,

The pieces gonna fall on you.

No one ever spoke to Noah,

They all laughed at him instead.

Working on his ark,Working all by himself.

Only Noah saw it coming, Forty days and forty nights.

Took his sons and daughters with him. Yeah, they were the Israelites

All you zombies hide your faces

All you people in the street

All you sittin' in high places

The rain's gonna fall on you

Holy Father, what's the matter

Where have all your children gone

Sitting in the dark

Living all by themselves

You don't have to hide any more

All you zombies show your faces...

All you people in the street.

All you sitting in high places.

The pieces gonna fall on you.

All you zombies show your faces,

(I know you're out there)

All you people in the street.

(Let's see you)

All you sittin' in high places,

It's all gonna fall on you.

Very different song.

[WordWolf]

Someone who knows this MIGHT check in...

"O you're a vampire and baby I'm walking dead.

O you're a vampire and baby I'm walking dead."

"I got the ways and means to New Orleans.

I'm going down by the river where its warm and green.

I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around,

I got a lot to think about. Oh, yeah..."

"They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night.

They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night.

They were naked as the day they were born, skin all bone-china white.

O, you're a vampire, and I may never see the light."

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Ok, I'm not going to hold up the thread.

This is Concrete Blonde's song, "Bloodletting (the vampire song)".

Next song coming up.

[WordWolf]

New song.

Similar timeframe, but those of you who don't know this song, SHOULD know this song,

for reasons that will be clear once it's guessed.

"And the walls came down

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing, never saw them when they fell."

"It was out on Thunder Road,

Tweeter at the wheel.

They crashed into paradise - they could hear them tires squeal.

The undercover cop pulled up and said 'Every one of you is a liar.

If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire."

[doojable]

Smuggler's Blues?

[WordWolf]

Smuggler's Blues?

No, this was done by a group.

[WordWolf]

"The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man.

Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can.

Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill

She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill."

"It was out on Thunder Road,

Tweeter at the wheel.

They crashed into paradise - they could hear them tires squeal.

The undercover cop pulled up and said 'Every one of you is a liar.

If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire.'"

"And the walls came down

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing, never saw them when they fell."

[waysider]

Dang!!

Stumped again.

[WordWolf]

I'll take one last shot.

"The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man.

Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can.

Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill

She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill."

"It was out on Thunder Road,

Tweeter at the wheel.

They crashed into paradise - they could hear them tires squeal.

The undercover cop pulled up and said 'Every one of you is a liar.

If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire.'"

"And the walls came down

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing, never saw them when they fell."

"Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit.

He was taking the whole thing personal,

He didn’t care about the loot.

Jan had told him many times, 'It was you to me who taught

In Jersey anything’s legal as long as you don’t get caught.' "

[WordWolf]

Ok, apparently those who know this (and we have some of them) aren't reading this thread lately.

That was "Tweeter and the Monkey Man," by the Traveling Wilburys.

The song has a number of Springsteen references in it, like Thunder Road and Jersey Girl.

You may recognize the names of the guys in the band.

Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Bob Dylan.

I figure the people who're following the thread would have picked up "Volume 1", or should have.

[WordWolf]

One last try, another song.

Which you may have heard. A lot, at some point.

"Darkness Falls Across The Land,

The Midnight Hour Is Close At Hand.

Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood,

To Terrorize Your Neighbourhood.

And Whosoever Shall Be Found

Without The Soul For Getting Down,

Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell

And Rot Inside A Corpse's Shell.

The Foulest Stench Is In The Air-

The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years,

And Grizzly Ghouls From Every Tomb

Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom."

Edited November 2, 2007 by WordWolf

[Tom Strange]

yeah... I know the Wilbury's ...just never bought any of there stuff...

[Raf]

I can actually hear that song in my head.

Thriller, by Michael Jackson, with a little help from Vincent Price.