Great Music: Take A Workbreak - "Up On The Roof"

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This song, performed originally by the Drifters (and sung by the fabulous Ben E. King), was written by Carole King. While the original arrangement was by far the finest, other covers were done by James Taylor, Laura Nyro, Carole King (after all she wrote it), Bruce Willis (nothing more be said, but a nice, pleasant voice.... not bad), and others.

The Drifters also did some other immortal versions of "Under The Boardwalk," and "Saturday Night At The Movies". Ben King did notable recordings of "Stand By Me," "A Rose In Spanish Harlem," and, of course, "Save The Last Dance For Me."

Yet, the Drifters original version with its continuous upbeat marimba riff, great sustained chord vocal harmonies, and full orchestra (strings, brass.... the whole enchilada) remains one of my favorite childhood songs. It was magical. It was fresh air. Click and enjoy it with me.

UP ON THE ROOF - Drifters

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Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds - DAZZRadio 1960s

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The Byrds had an amazing, iconic Vietnam-era hit with this beautifully melodic and gentle song with lyrics based upon the biblical scripture of Ecclesiastes. Roger McGwinn's signature twelve-string folksy-rock guitar sound was a classic example of the folk style used by the New Seekers, Paul Mauriat ("Love Is Blue"), Cyrkle ("Red Rubber Ball"), Peter And Gordon, Chad And Jeremy, and a whole cluster of great music performed by the Turtles prior to their evolution (?) into Flo and Eddie in later years.

This performance is eloquent in its recital of biblical verse and tender understatement of the way that the world turns and life is lived, generation after generation.

It is a well-crafted, well-intended work of 1960s protest folk-rock, and is incredibly revelatory as well as it is calming. This video, done as part of a World Geography class project by a young woman named Manta is stunning! I compliment her on her wonderful work, and I thank her for sharing it on YouTube.

I hope you enjoy it. Just click as often as necessary. Let it wash over you like a cleansing wave of renewal, redemption and rebirth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvf20Y6eoM

Scriptural Lyrics... 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 NIV

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet^[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.  

¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

¹⁵ Whatever is has already been,
    and what will be has been before;
    and God will call the past to account.^[b]

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Baby It's You! - Smith (Cool 60's headgear).

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Mama Lion and Smith shook us up and knocked us down. (The reverse would be unthinkable).

When DAZZ was a mere innocent in the 1960's, he (I'm speaking in the third person for some reason -- perhaps too much Geritol) heard this song on the radio (performed by the unknown group Smith and sung with smoky, seductive subtlety by "Mama Lion") and he thought that it was mysterious, sneaky, haunting and every so slightly funkacious. The Beatles earlier version of the song never caught much traction. The Shirelles' original version of the song was was a bit better than the Beatles' version, but just fading into the archives while a good many of their other works are 1960's classics [my favorite being "Foolish Little Girl"].

Then, when I saw Smith perform on television, with Mama Lion looking very seductively 60's and with a psychedelic Peggy Lipton from Mod Squad kind of sexy 'lectricity, I was smitten. There was an intense psychedelic power rock sound to the group -- but the magic was that it was suppressed and bottled up, building up tension in every devout listener (I was one of those) until the refrain, when the band let it jump out of the cage.

Listen for the abrupt stops (tacets) after each full, explosive refrain. Amaxing dynamics, and iconic for the psychedelic sixties. They were, like far out, Man.

Pump up the volume, click on the link or video player below, sit back, and feel the jolt. As for Mama and Smith, I'm a loyalist, trying to wake up my sector of cyberspace to some fabulous music. Truly: Rock and roll never forgets. - RadioDAZZ


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The Turtles - Elenore! - Hysterical Lyrics - DAZZ Laughs

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The Turtles had hit after hit through the mid to late 1960's (including "Happy Together," "You Know She'd Rather Be With Me" and many others -- each one a perfect rock single). Some years later the creative nucleus of the group resurrected itself as "The Phlorescent Leech And Eddie," later nicknamed "Flo n' Eddie," and toured with Frank Zappa.

YouTube commentary:


"Though many remember only their 1967 hit, "Happy Together," the Turtles were one of the more enjoyable American pop groups of the '60s, moving from folk-rock inspired by the Byrds to a sparkling fusion of Zombies-inspired chamber pop and straight-ahead, good-time pop reminiscent of the Lovin' Spoonful, the whole infused with beautiful vocal harmonies courtesy of dual frontmen Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. Though they hit number one in 1967 with the infectious "Happy Together," the Turtles scored only three more Top Ten hits and broke up by the end of the '60s. Kaylan and Volman later joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention during the early '70s and also recorded themselves as Flo & Eddie, but were on the oldies circuit with a revamped Turtles by the mid-'80s..."

The Turtles had a fabulous catalog of brilliantly written music, rich in melody, harmony, fabulous dynamics, and, as in the case of this classic, hysterical lyrics.

Listen and savor! This is a wonderful live performance. Note how the singer (Kaylan or Vollman?) resembles Rob Reiner's role as the archetypal "Meathead" on Norman Lear's Television Series, "All In The Family" -- Listen to the fabulous lyrics. Enjoy the show.

Click on the hyperlink or the YouTube Video Player below to be immersed in Turtlemania:

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Looking For A Love? - RadioDAZZ Break

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Bobby Womack did a wonderful, upbeat version of this fabulous soul tune. It moves, it grooves, the harmony is old-school classic, and the song is just pure fun. Real instruments. Real entertainment. Bobby -- we need you more now than ever.

Enjoy this. Let it lift your spirits. It will get your hips rocking and your fingers poppin'. I'll bet that this piece of classic pop-soul will be haunting you all day. Great tune. Great sound. Great RadioDAZZ break.


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