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One of my favorites: Green River, CCR
CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)MLAA
(17,277 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,102 posts)I think that the band director was sending a message to the people in my hick town. Unfortunately nobody else in town was smart enough to get the message.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Never ran into these guys, though.
Oh, if only.
And I never knew why Duck's head didn't fall off.
Botany
(70,489 posts)When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
underpants
(182,767 posts)and instantly became a fan.
hurl
(938 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)I love this tune.
History
In 1967, Johannes Bouwens was living in Wormerveer and joined the band Soul Invention, a soul band which played covers of songs by Otis Redding and Sam and Dave. They changed their name to "George Baker Selection", Bouwens naming himself for a character from a detective novel. The band consisted of Jan Hop, Jacobus Greuter, George Thé, and Jan Visser. Their first album, Little Green Bag (1970), produced an immediate worldwide hit: their debut single, "Little Green Bag" reached No. 16 on the Cash Box magazine chart and No. 21 on the Billboard Top 100 in the United States. The success came as a surprise for Baker, who remembers hearing it on the radio at work, in a lemonade factory. The single sold over one million copies globally, and received a gold disc. A string of singles and albums followed; the second single, "Dear Ann", was such a success that Baker quit his job in the lemonade factory and became a full-time musician. Besides scoring hits with his own band, he also wrote songs for others, including BZN, The Shoes, Andy Star, and Next One. In 1974 singer Lida Bond joined the band, and combining her voice with Baker's proved highly successful.
Their fifth album, Paloma Blanca, was released in 1975, and the single "Paloma Blanca" reached No. 1 on charts in several countries. "Paloma Blanca" sold more than seven million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful Dutch singles ever.
In 1978 the George Baker Selection split up because "the pressure had become too much." The band has sold over 20 million records worldwide. George Baker formed a new George Baker Selection in 1982, which stayed together until 1989. The band has released twelve albums and several compilation albums.
The band experienced a brief return to the international charts in 1992 when the song "Little Green Bag" was used in the title sequence of the film Reservoir Dogs and in "Machos", a cheesy Chilean soap opera in 2003. The song is also featured in a Moto X smartphone commercial circa 2013.
So if the next thread asks for a song with "white" in the title, there's this:
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Dave Von Ronk:
Tom Waits - All the World is Green:
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,670 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,677 posts)Jazz tune recorded by a slew of artists.
Leith
(7,809 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,259 posts)Orrex
(63,200 posts)Original artist:
And possibly the definitive version:
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Runningdawg
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(6,229 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,229 posts)Thyla
(791 posts)Donkees
(31,381 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)hurl
(938 posts)Eeeew....
mithnanthy
(1,725 posts)..one more night without sleepin..." It's a really old song. I'm ageing myself here.
mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)True Dough
(17,301 posts)Oops! Sorry, I'm color blind!
TexasTowelie
(112,102 posts)DBoon
(22,354 posts)From the Peter Green era
PossiblePasts
(46 posts)Off the album 'More'
lunasun
(21,646 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)IcyPeas
(21,857 posts)IcyPeas
(21,857 posts)Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)Drifter
(4,751 posts)Cheers
Drifter