studio version.... [video=youtube;q0JrV86EKCs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JrV86EKCs[/video] ...for those with insomniac tendencies..... [video=youtube;cyKg7cN3hpo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKg7cN3hpo[/video]
Some good choices tigerscanada yes I am a child of the 60's and still love the music today. The story as I understand it with the Stones and Tears Go By is that the then manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, told Jagger/Richards that after their first record was written by Lennon/McCartney he didn't want it to happen again so they had better start writing their own stuff. It proved a frustrating time so frustrating the Oldham locked Jagger/Richards in a cupboard and refused to let them out until they had written some stuff of which As Tears Go By came to be. But of course that song did not fit the image of the Stones that Oldham wanted, the opposite to Brian Epstein's clean cut Beatles and up and coming singer Marianne Faithful was given it to record. As for The Kinks I've always felt that singer/songwriter Ray Davis has been one of the most poetic songwriters of the era and that he has never been given credit for some of the great songs he has written. Songs from any era often mean something to a person at a certain time in their lives no matter how old you are. You may remember songs your parents played, in my case Mario Lanza's The Student Prince, for most of your life and for me the 60's and 70's music will always appeal to me, even if much of it today is regarded as old hat. But not all of it, my 12 year old granddaughter wears a t-shirt with The Beatles, along with a picture, emblazoned on the front, yes fab times indeed the 60's.
Cheers ref.... like yourself I think music, whatever tastes we might have as individuals, or associations with a particular piece of music and the reminders of happy or sad times it may conjure up in our memories....music transcends the ages like nothing else I can think of. Couldn't live without it myself....only wish I had enough talent to create some myself. Had not heard of the "As tears go by" story you relate before..management manipulation perhaps, yet it seems to have done the trick...a lovely piece, both by Marianne & The Stones. Ray Davis...brilliant & prolific chronicler of much that was happening in the 60's....in his own way a Brit Bob Dylan with his social messages. I've suggested a couple of times on this incredibly enjoyable "Friday Night is Music Night" thread how with much of the more recent music the influence of those I enjoyed in my early years filters through in their music. The "old timers" were in turn influenced by their predecessors....that's the nature of music. Some may call it "old hat" as you put it....they'd be mistaken...it's evolution in my mind. So many of the 50's & 60's bands were influenced e.g. by one of my favorites...Buddy Holly. A few weeks ago when the topic of plagiarism & legal action came up about Led Zeppelins "Stairway to Heaven" being pinched by them from some California band (can't recall the name of the other band), I pointed out the similarities to Pachelbel's Canon in D, and perhaps the ancestors of the 15th century composer should be suing both of the 20th century bands. New music always has, and always will be influenced by forefathers in the trade.
Reading these just brought back a memory of us sitting on the train in Paragon station in 1965 ready to leave to you are watch City play York City and someone was playing on their Danette transistor radio "All of the day and all of the night by the Kinks. Just has stuck in my head for some reason
Well well well, believe it or not John I also went to a match at York and appeared on the local York rag on the front page, The Yorkshire Evening Press, I have the copy in front of me now just to check the facts. The only thing is this is dated Saturday March 12th 1966 and my picture is on the front page of the early addition and the back page on the later editions, small world
Aye it's rock'n'roll it should do what the **** it wants to do.... [video=youtube_share;mW6G3nh5S3I]http://youtu.be/mW6G3nh5S3I[/video] [video=youtube_share;KM02WcvlKn0]http://youtu.be/KM02WcvlKn0[/video]
