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March 25, 2013
"Takin' Care of Business" — BTO* delivers your Monday morning wake-up call
No better way to jumpstart your week.
Bonus: Keith Moon, looking as dapper and establishment as you're ever likely to see him, introduces the power rock group's live 1974 performance of their "heavy duty rock" classic.
This song will be played — full blast over quantum chromodynamic speakers — in the asteroid mining colonies both in our own solar system and those yet to be discovered and visited.
If not, I will cheerfully refund every penny you paid.
Hey, joe, wait a sec... what does that mean?
Lyrics?
What, it's not enough I put up the song?
Now you want the lyrics so you can scream along?
Your wish, as I am wont to say, is my demand.
*For those of you who weren't even born (I'm thinking prolly 99% of those reading this) when this song electrified the U.S. in 1974, BTO stands for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Back story here.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: How about that strange object on the wall behind Keith Moon in the intro?
That black structure with the round dial and holes?
Is that an ansible?
Never seen one except in The Smithsonian?
I figured that might be the case.
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Randy Bachman has a program on CBC radio in Canada.
He plays some of the good old R&R songs and has great comments and anecdotes about the singer, band, recordings, various and some really odd topics (see below).
Here is a URL to one of his shows http://www.cbc.ca/vinyltap/, and a description of it from the CBC website
This week on Vinyl Tap Randy Bachman continues to run through his playlist of songs with seven word titles.
Now seven may seem like a lot of words for a title but it is by no means the most. A song by Christine Lavin has over 90 words in the title... that could perhaps be the entire song. And there are some songs with much shorter titles. Prince released a song called "7" in 1992... coincidence?
The artists contributing seven word titles this week include Crowbar, Barry White, The Beatles, The Hollies, Janet Jackson, April Wine, Joe Jackson, Sting and Neil Young among others.
Rock and roll is a viscious game... so be sure to tune in to the Tap.
Posted by: terrence | Mar 25, 2013 12:52:43 PM
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