Some music for this Election Day. Some of the songs have this as a subject or in their title, but I'm also just including some tunes that made my day over the last few weeks on my evening walks like this one by the Guess Who. NOTE: videos can only be seen on the web version of this site.
The Guess Who "Sour Suite"
They must have been voting for the President or something X "The New World"
Arcadia "Election Day"
James Brown "Funky President (People It's Bad)"
The Replacements "Election Day"
Music Machine "Come On In"
Let There Be Love
the greatest political song ever: Alice Cooper "Elected"
This Sunday Showcase review is from the December 3, 1972 edition. I was a mere 6 years old. Apollo 16 had successfully gone to the Moon earlier in the year and the last manned mission, Apollo 17, was going to launch in just a few days so my head was filled with visions of outer space around this time. It would have been apropos for someone to gift me with the last David Bowie record for Christmas, but I think I got a Sesame Street one instead. My parents should have shopped at 100 Oaks Mall.
The Top Ten Records in Nashville for this week are a mix of soul, singer songwriter, rock, and pop. It's interesting to see old rockabilly cat Billy Lee Riley in the top ten with the Tony Joe White penned tune "I've Got A Thing About You Baby." It was recorded at American Recording Studio in Memphis by Chips Moman and was probably just a local Southeastern hit since it only hit #93 nationwide. This is really quite a good top 10.
There were a couple of concerts coming up at Municipal Auditorium in the next few weeks. The country rock band Poco was playing December 8, 1972 with It's A Beautiful Day and Jim Croce. You could have picked up tickets for as low as $4 at Sgt. Pepper's record store in Rivergate Mall. I wish I could find a photo of that store. I'm sure it was cool. I was way too young to attend this concert, but I would have loved to have been there, admittedly mainly because of Jim Croce. He was truly one of a kind.
If you had some gifts you needed perhaps you could do some Christmas shopping at The Hobbit with 2 locations. Perhaps some older Nashvillians can comment and let me know exactly what sort of store The Hobbit was. I found an ad a year later noting they were a licensed seller of Sony stereo products, but maybe they sold more than audio equipment.
Another big concert coming to town was the Godfather of Soul himself; James Brown. The whole James Brown Show would be at Municipal on December 9, 1972. Funny Man Clay Tyson, female preacher Lynn Collins, and the J.B. Blues Band are on the bill. If you were either there, or been reading my Sunday Showcase posts, you know that James Brown played Nashville often in the early 70's. I hope many reading this got to see him. I'm sure it was incredible.
Finally, if you still hadn't made your New Year's plans back in December of 1972 and you considered yourself an "Action People" you could get tickets to the King of the Road Motor Inn's big New Year's Eve Party. Ronnie Milsap was the featured attraction. That's it for this trip back into the past. Next week we'll be in December 1980 which will see the arrival of a bikini brief wearing guy from Minnesota for a show. Hope to see you there.
I've run across three great live bootlegs in the mp3 format in the last few weeks which is always a treat since I'm not one of those bit torrent types.
First up: The Replacements from July 1st, 1985 in their hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can find it at Pop Headwound. It's a sufficiently rowdy and robust document of a band during 7th Street Entry gig. It's known under the title "Simply Unacceptable."
Next we have James Brown in Zaire playing a music festival in September 1974. It's quite funky and fast, but what makes it special is that this music festival happened right before Ali knocked out George Foreman in the "Rumble In The Jungle." Ickmusic has this polyester treat for all of you Maceo fans.
Greg at Captains Dead recently welcomed another future Pavement fan into the world so he shared one of his favorite Pavement shows from a June 26, 1995 Cologne, Germany show. So congratulate him and enjoy.
