Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 4 March 2016
Here’s that song containing the phrase “a twelvemonth and a day” which I mentioned a couple of posts ago.
Produced by Mike Batt this is Steeleye Span’s folk rock* take on a traditional 19th century song apparently interpolated with lyrics from another song from the same era, Farewell He.
Steeleye Span: All Around My Hat
*Wikipedia seems to differentiate folk rock from electric folk.
Posted in 1970s, Lyrics, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 13:00 on 1 July 2011
Another all but forgotten gem; from 1971. It’s about the aspiration of living up to a parent’s successes. (And the impossibility of achieving them.)
I particularly like the line, “He conducted the Hallé Orchestra at the age of twenty two.”
It’s another from that school of song with jaunty tune and much less jaunty lyric.
Vaughan Thomas: I Wanna Be Famous Like My Dad
I see from the label this was produced by Mike Batt! I have previously mentioned Mike Batt in connection with this post.
Posted in Lyrics, Nirvana, Nostalgia at 14:29 on 18 July 2009
I featured the real Nirvana‘s Pentecost Hotel recently. After the posting I began to think about songs featuring named hotels in their titles. There aren’t all that many that came to mind. Hotel California, obviously, and Heartbreak Hotel. A quick scan of You Tube – up to page 16! – only revealed Procol Harum’s Grand Hotel as one I hadn’t heard. (I’ve listened to it now and it’s a bit overblown.)
The only other named hotel song I can remember is this from Mike Batt. From the sublime (Nirvana) to the bathetic.
Mike Batt: The Railway Hotel
Perhaps that bathetic should have been pathetic after all. Or is that too harsh?
