Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[myglaren]

I have story about Peter Noon

[mickthemaverick]

I have story about Peter Noon

Are you saving it for lunchtime in The Drift Cafe Steve?

[myglaren]

Perhaps. it doesn't reflect well on me.

[mickthemaverick]

[mickthemaverick]

25 minutes of magic that has got 51million + views on Youtube to date:

[mickthemaverick]

If ever a set of lyrics didn't make sense to me it's these, but I love the song!!



so I thought it worth posting my favourite version adapted for the occasion:

[mickthemaverick]

Following on in the Leonard Cohen theme I think this video has some fantastic film of birds in flight. If you're not a Cohen fan turn the sound off and watch the video just for the visuals!!

[myglaren]

Leonard Cohen, since he first appeared, is one of the few men I can listen to.
He has always been a family favourite.

I recently found my negatives from the concert in Stockholm I was at in the early seventies.
No darkroom to print them though. Must get a negative scanner one day.

Here is a slight variation.





Technically not his song. It is is a poem by C.P. Cavafy.



Possibly the most tragic version of Halleluja. Imogen's voice is so broken here.

[mickthemaverick]

Nice set there Steve, but if you think that version is tragic you should hear me singing it!! (That is something you definitely don't want to do )

[myglaren]

Just the brokenness of her voice, made like that specifically for the OC on the death of one of the cast - Marissa IIRC. She doesn't normally sing like that but she does make a lot of music for TV and films.

[myglaren]

Went for a walk to the next village for bread and milk, had my phone as am mp3 player and LC's last CD was playing as I got home. Very hard to put down.




Rather alarmingly, as I was passing a primary school, there were two ambulances and a police van drove into the school and were still there as I passed again on my way home haf an hour later.

[mickthemaverick]

That track reminded me of another track around a table, and then I realised we havn't paid tribute to the passing of one of the finest country singers of our times. Sadly he slipped away on March 20th amid the Covid-19 Pandemic news and hardly had a mention. He definitely deserved more:

[myglaren]

I wasn't aware that "The Gambler" was one of his, only heard it by First Aid Kit.

This was probably the first male singer/musician that I had any regard for and that was probably because Joan Baez endorsed him. It was years before I found the dynamic between him, her, her sister Mimi and Richard Fariña.




Do you recall where you were when you heard?

[mickthemaverick]

I was on my way home from an Exhibition at Olympia, The Boys and Girls I believe, when Dad pointed it out on a newstand poster!!
Ironically I was on Earls Court station, on my way home from another exhibition, 3 and a bit years later when I heard Donald Cambell had died!!

[mickthemaverick]

I was having a lazy lie in this morning watching the TV when a program called Gold Diggers came on about Australian prospectors and describing the tough life it is. It reminded me of this rather mournful tale: