Underplayed Classics
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According to Wikipedia, Bacharach’s first professionally written song was ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ ( sung by Nat King Cole).
‘Three Wheels on my Wagon’ (sung by Dick van Dyke – whose amazing 99 years old!) was released in 1961 (with lyrics by Bob Hillard).
Wham Rap – Wham!
D.H.S.S. stands for the Department of Health & Social Security.
Best lyric: ‘Do you enjoy what you do? If not, just stop. Don’t stay there and rot.’
Wham’s George Michael was a member of the Young Communist League as a teenager.
Wham played Miners’ Strike benefit gigs during 1984/5.
You don’t say? Well, that’s something he had in common with Shakin’ Stevens. Apparently, GM’s Greek father was a Leninist – & the former voted for the Labour Party throughout his life.
To correct a small mistake I made, ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ wasn’t the first *song* written by Burt Bacharach due to it being an instrumental (performed by Nat ‘King’ Cole on the piano).
The first song was ‘The Story of my Life’ by Marty Robbins (with lyrics by Hal David).
Means to be religious, I know. But not a bad call for people to make an effort of the imagination.
Elvis. If I can dream.
– h.moss
That was the very first song posted on the Music thread of this forum. If my memory serves me right, it was posted by Paula McEwan. It’s a great song, though.
(Marie’s the Name of) his Latest Flame – Elvis ‘the pelvis’ Presley
Fun fact, Elvis did not write a single one of his songs (or at least the vast majority of them). He was a bit of a square honestly, especially in relation to the counter-culture and anti-war movements of the ’60s and ’70s. That’s not to say that he didn’t create any good music though.
– Zugzwang
That reminds me of something someone said about Bob Hope: ‘Some say Bob Hope was a bad comedian because he didn’t write his jokes. However, Elvis didn’t write his songs & nobody says he was a bad singer’.
Anyway, here’s a beautiful cover version of a great Chicago song: Hard to Say I’m Sorry – Emma Gilmour
Moo – “That reminds me of something someone said about Bob Hope: ‘Some say Bob Hope was a bad comedian because he didn’t write his jokes. However, Elvis didn’t write his songs & nobody says he was a bad singer’.”
To be fair Pavarotti and Marie Callas didn’t write many of their songs either
Re Elvis, I prefer Eddie Cochran. Here’s his “Summertime Blues” (1958),
“I’m gonna take two weeks /
Gonna have a fine vacation /
I’m gonna take my problem /
To the United Nations /
Well, I called my congressman /
And he said, quote: /
‘I’d like to help you, son /
But you’re too young to vote'”I’m sure the line about being “too young to vote” resonated with the youth of the ’60s and ’70s, who were forced to fight in a war that they had no say or vote over. (The age of voting in the US was only lowered from 21 to 18 in 1971.) Barry McGuire more directly references this lack of representation—not that bourgeois democracy is worth much to begin with, or that lowering the age of voting would have prevented the American War in Vietnam—in his cover of “Eve of Destruction” (1965):
“The Eastern world, it is explodin’ /
Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’ /
You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’ /
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’? /
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'”
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