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Post by petrolino on Jul 2, 2020 1:02:05 GMT
5 Rock Songs that reference Rita Coolidge
"In 1970, Eric Clapton’s drummer, Jim Gordon, composed a gorgeous progression on the piano, and played it for a woman he was dating, singer Rita Coolidge. Coolidge composed a second part to the progression, a “counter-melody” to the tension of the original’s chords that “built to a dramatic crescendo.” Coolidge wrote lyrics to their new song, which they called “Time (Don’t Let The World Get In Our Way),” and they recorded a demo. They played the song for Clapton and left him the tape, but nothing came of it — or so she thought. A year later, in the middle of a photo shoot, she heard a familiar progression on the radio. It was her song. Except, it wasn’t."
- Larry Getlen, The New York Post
"Graham (Nash) is as sweet as any human being I’ve ever met."
- Rita Coolidge
'And So It Goes' - Graham Nash (with John Barbata, David Crosby, Harry Halex, Ben Keith & Neil Young)
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Stephen Stills
'Cherokee' (1970) by Stephen Stills
'My fortunes mean nothing,
I never cared about fame,
The dark eyed Cherokee,
Like the raven, she knows me ...'
'Sit Yourself Down' (1970) by Stephen Stills
'When I get restless,
What can I do?
When I need someone,
I think about you ...'
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Leon Russell
'Delta Lady' (1970) by Leon Russell
'Woman of the country,
Now, I found you,
Longing in your soft,
And fertile delta ...'
'A Song For You' (1970) by Leon Russell
'I've been so many places,
In my life and times,
I've sung a lot of songs,
I've made some bad rhymes,
I've acted out my love on stages,
With ten thousand people watching,
But we're alone now and,
I'm singing this song to you ...'
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David Crosby
'Cowboy Movie' (1971) by David Crosby
'He's saying something here ain't exactly right, oh,
So we quick grabbed some of our hardware,
Stumbled out of our home,
Two minutes flat we had found her an Indian girl all alone ...'
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'All Time High (Let Them Fly)'
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Post by millar70 on Jul 2, 2020 1:39:43 GMT
I was scrolling through your post, all ready to bring up Crosby's "Cowboy Movie", and you had it listed last.
Lyrically, that song is a real trip as Crosby (rightly or wrongly) calls out Rita Coolidge as a major contributor to the demise of CSNY, as if the egos and cocaine had nothing to do with it.
In the song, Crosby is the narrator, Stills is Eli, Nash is Young Billy, and Neil is the Duke. Rita Coolidge is the Indian girl who shows up and breaks up the "gang".
Fascinating tune off of a excellent album, Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 2, 2020 1:53:33 GMT
I was scrolling through your post, all ready to bring up Crosby's "Cowboy Movie", and you had it listed last. Lyrically, that song is a real trip as Crosby (rightly or wrongly) calls out Rita Coolidge as a major contributor to the demise of CSNY, as if the egos and cocaine had nothing to do with it. In the song, Crosby is the narrator, Stills is Eli, Nash is Young Billy, and Neil is the Duke. Rita Coolidge is the Indian girl who shows up and breaks up the "gang". Fascinating tune off of a excellent album, Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name.
That's interesting detail, thanks.
I think it's a beautiful album by David Crosby that plays to his strengths. I really think some great solo works came from that 'C,S,N,Y' unit - 'If I Could Only Remember My Name', 'Stephen Stills 1', 'Songs For Beginners', 'Wild Tales'. Must confess I really like the wild, over-the-top prog stylings of 'Earth & Sky' to, which everybody from old psychedelicists to Rhino Records' reissue division have commented favourably on, so I'm glad I ignored all the naysayers and checked it out.
'Barrel Of Pain'
With Neil Young, my favourites are 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere', 'After The Gold Rush', 'Harvest', 'On The Beach', 'Tonight's The Night' & 'Zuma', one coming after another. A phenomenal run of albums.
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Post by millar70 on Jul 2, 2020 2:40:03 GMT
I was scrolling through your post, all ready to bring up Crosby's "Cowboy Movie", and you had it listed last. Lyrically, that song is a real trip as Crosby (rightly or wrongly) calls out Rita Coolidge as a major contributor to the demise of CSNY, as if the egos and cocaine had nothing to do with it. In the song, Crosby is the narrator, Stills is Eli, Nash is Young Billy, and Neil is the Duke. Rita Coolidge is the Indian girl who shows up and breaks up the "gang". Fascinating tune off of a excellent album, Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name.
That's interesting detail, thanks.
I think it's a beautiful album by David Crosby that plays to his strengths. I really think some great solo works came from that 'C,S,N,Y' unit - 'If I Could Only Remember My Name', 'Stephen Stills 1', 'Songs For Beginners', 'Wild Tales'. Must confess I really like the wild, over-the-top prog stylings of 'Earth & Sky' to, which everybody from old psychedelicists to Rhino Records' reissue division have commented favourably on, so I'm glad I ignored all the naysayers and checked it out.
'Barrel Of Pain'
With Neil Young, my favourites are 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere', 'After The Gold Rush', 'Harvest', 'On The Beach', 'Tonight's The Night' & 'Zuma', one coming after another. A phenomenal run of albums.
In 1970-71 CSNY ruled the world of music. CSNY had the Deja Vu and Four-Way Street albums, plus the "Ohio" single. The individual members each had a pretty stunning solo album as well (If I Could Only Remember My Name, Stephen Stills, Songs For Beginners, After The Goldrush). They could do no wrong, they really were the "American Beatles". Of course for CSN, that was pretty much the peak, while Neil was just getting started..... |
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Post by petrolino on Jul 2, 2020 2:46:19 GMT
That's interesting detail, thanks.
I think it's a beautiful album by David Crosby that plays to his strengths. I really think some great solo works came from that 'C,S,N,Y' unit - 'If I Could Only Remember My Name', 'Stephen Stills 1', 'Songs For Beginners', 'Wild Tales'. Must confess I really like the wild, over-the-top prog stylings of 'Earth & Sky' to, which everybody from old psychedelicists to Rhino Records' reissue division have commented favourably on, so I'm glad I ignored all the naysayers and checked it out.
'Barrel Of Pain'
With Neil Young, my favourites are 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere', 'After The Gold Rush', 'Harvest', 'On The Beach', 'Tonight's The Night' & 'Zuma', one coming after another. A phenomenal run of albums.
In 1970-71 CSNY ruled the world of music. CSNY had the Deja Vu and Four-Way Street albums, plus the "Ohio" single. The individual members each had a pretty stunning solo album as well (If I Could Only Remember My Name, Stephen Stills, Songs For Beginners, After The Goldrush). They could do no wrong, they really were the "American Beatles". Of course for CSN, that was pretty much the peak, while Neil was just getting started.....
I know you're a big Neil Young fan so I wish to tread carefully here, but I do feel sometimes some artists can do no wrong for critics. This week, I read reviews of Young and Bob Dylan's albums that cited as such, and I agree. Here in the U K an easy comparison of contemporaries would be Elton John and David Bowie; for years Bowie was the cool one with half a dozen albums in every critic's top 100 list, John was lucky to have 1 album in the list. I find that ludicrous, so I'm wary of falling into that trap. After all, it is just opinion at the end of the day, and one man's gold is another man's silver.
I don't feel the need to rank John Lennon above Paul McCartney just because the critics do; in fact, I listen to McCartney's post-Beatles works a hell of a lot more than Lennon's.
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Post by millar70 on Jul 2, 2020 4:29:38 GMT
In 1970-71 CSNY ruled the world of music. CSNY had the Deja Vu and Four-Way Street albums, plus the "Ohio" single. The individual members each had a pretty stunning solo album as well (If I Could Only Remember My Name, Stephen Stills, Songs For Beginners, After The Goldrush). They could do no wrong, they really were the "American Beatles". Of course for CSN, that was pretty much the peak, while Neil was just getting started.....
I know you're a big Neil Young fan so I wish to tread carefully here, but I do feel sometimes some artists can do no wrong for critics. This week, I read reviews of Young and Bob Dylan's albums that cited as such, and I agree. Here in the U K an easy comparison of contemporaries would be Elton John and David Bowie; for years Bowie was the cool one with half a dozen albums in every critic's top 100 list, John was lucky to have 1 album in the list. I find that ludicrous, so I'm wary of falling into that trap. After all, it is just opinion at the end of the day, and one man's gold is another man's silver.
I don't feel the need to rank John Lennon above Paul McCartney just because the critics do; in fact, I listen to McCartney's post-Beatles works a hell of a lot more than Lennon's.
Critics must be taken with a grain of salt. Why it's determined that certain people's opinions of art are more important than others and therefore we call them critics has always been a pretty puzzling thing to me. There's a Neil Young fansite that I like to visit and it's real funny, whenever the critics don't like a new Neil album, everyone on the site talks about how meaningless critics are, but when the same critics praise a new Neil album, everyone posts quotes from these guys as if it justifies their own love for Neil. My favorite quote about critics came from Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. No one gets this when I say it, but it makes total sense to me. Weir once said that critics are to artists what ornithologists are to birds. Think about it..... |
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Post by petrolino on Jul 2, 2020 4:35:02 GMT
I know you're a big Neil Young fan so I wish to tread carefully here, but I do feel sometimes some artists can do no wrong for critics. This week, I read reviews of Young and Bob Dylan's albums that cited as such, and I agree. Here in the U K an easy comparison of contemporaries would be Elton John and David Bowie; for years Bowie was the cool one with half a dozen albums in every critic's top 100 list, John was lucky to have 1 album in the list. I find that ludicrous, so I'm wary of falling into that trap. After all, it is just opinion at the end of the day, and one man's gold is another man's silver.
I don't feel the need to rank John Lennon above Paul McCartney just because the critics do; in fact, I listen to McCartney's post-Beatles works a hell of a lot more than Lennon's.
Critics must be taken with a grain of salt. Why it's determined that certain people's opinions of art are more important than others and therefore we call them critics has always been a pretty puzzling thing to me. There's a Neil Young fansite that I like to visit and it's real funny, whenever the critics don't like a new Neil album, everyone on the site talks about how meaningless critics are, but when the same critics praise a new Neil album, everyone posts quotes from these guys as if it justifies their own love for Neil. My favorite quote about critics came from Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. No one gets this when I say it, but it makes total sense to me. Weir once said that critics are to artists what ornithologists are to birds. Think about it.....
I like Bob Weir's playing.
My general point though is that I'm not a ranker. When Neil Young says Stephen Stills is a genius, does that put Stills on a pedestal? To me, no, because for all Stills' musical skills, I think he made some crummy records too, but if others like Young lap them up, then good for them.
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Post by millar70 on Jul 2, 2020 5:59:12 GMT
Critics must be taken with a grain of salt. Why it's determined that certain people's opinions of art are more important than others and therefore we call them critics has always been a pretty puzzling thing to me. There's a Neil Young fansite that I like to visit and it's real funny, whenever the critics don't like a new Neil album, everyone on the site talks about how meaningless critics are, but when the same critics praise a new Neil album, everyone posts quotes from these guys as if it justifies their own love for Neil. My favorite quote about critics came from Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. No one gets this when I say it, but it makes total sense to me. Weir once said that critics are to artists what ornithologists are to birds. Think about it.....
I like Bob Weir's playing.
My general point though is that I'm not a ranker. When Neil Young says Stephen Stills is a genius, does that put Stills on a pedestal? To me, no, because for all Stills' musical skills, I think he made some crummy records too, but if others like Young lap them up, then good for them.
For sure, you have to make your own mind up on anything, whether it be music, film, food, art......just because someone else tells you it's good or bad, even someone you respect, you're the one who's gonna make the final judgment for yourself. Although there are people out there who really seem to make a lot of their choices based on what a critic or the mob have to say. I have loved Neil Young's music for over 30 years now, but by no means do I take his word as some sort of gospel. And he's made a few clunker albums in his day. They ALL have. |
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 3, 2020 4:36:58 GMT
A bit OT but many people, including Derek and the Dominos keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, claim that Coolidge wrote the piano coda to Layla. That part is usually credited to her then-boyfriend Jim Gordon, who was the drummer for Derek and the Dominos.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 3, 2020 13:53:55 GMT
A bit OT but many people, including Derek and the Dominos keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, claim that Coolidge wrote the piano coda to Layla. That part is usually credited to her then-boyfriend Jim Gordon, who was the drummer for Derek and the Dominos. It's all good, thanks.
I included this quote in my text :
"In 1970, Eric Clapton’s drummer, Jim Gordon, composed a gorgeous progression on the piano, and played it for a woman he was dating, singer Rita Coolidge. Coolidge composed a second part to the progression, a “counter-melody” to the tension of the original’s chords that “built to a dramatic crescendo.” Coolidge wrote lyrics to their new song, which they called “Time (Don’t Let The World Get In Our Way),” and they recorded a demo. They played the song for Clapton and left him the tape, but nothing came of it — or so she thought. A year later, in the middle of a photo shoot, she heard a familiar progression on the radio. It was her song. Except, it wasn’t."
- Larry Getlen, The New York Post
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