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Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville, Florida. They wrote this as a tribute to the studios at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where they recorded in 1971. The studios gained fame during the '60s and '70s when it became the vogue thing for bands to record there. Artists like Bo Diddley, Aretha Franklin, and all the big Southern Rock groups recorded there. "The Swampers" were a group of studio musicians who worked there, acting as the backup band for the solo artists. That's where Skynyrd got the line: "Muscle Shoals has got The Swampers."
One of the verses is an attack on Neil Young: "I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don't need him around anyhow." Young had written songs like "Southern Man" and "Alabama," which implied that people in the Southern US were racist and stuck in the past. Skynyrd responded with this, a song about Southern pride and all the good things in Alabama. The feud between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young was always good-natured fun; they were actually big fans of each other. Ronnie Van Zant often wore Neil Young T-shirts on stage and is wearing one on the cover of Street Survivors, the last Skynyrd album before his death.
Neil Young performed this once. He played it at a memorial to the 3 members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a plane crash in 1977.
Burton Cummings singing one of the many hits for this Canadian band, The Guess Who. In later years, Randy Bachman joined. Without going into the hoopla of that story, the band became BTO: Bachman Turner Overdrive. Burton Cummings still sings today. In fact, he dated my cousin for a while (is that called "name dropping"? Hee. I just did it, then!). It's amazing the difference in the way Burton Cummings looked 40 years ago!!!!!!!! Yeah, I guess you would have to age a little, wouldn't you?
A baby squirrel is having some difficulties, even with mama trying to help. Then humans step in to help. It's a touching video, and there is a song by the group Chairlift played throughout.
Bob Seger
My favorite Bob Seger song. The music is from the '70's, but the filming is recent. The photos and clips are from the '70's. Great song, great performer! He looks much different from his younger years, but still doing fine! *smile*
This is featured in the Kevin Costner movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, where it plays over the credits. This song was written to order for the movie, initially by American film composer Michael Kamen, with the middle eight, break, outro and arrangement added by Adams and producer Mutt Lange. Adams told Mixdown the writing process for this song: "Well, we had received a tape from my old friend David Kershenbaum with about twenty minutes of music that had been written by film composer Michael Kamen. I remember was a little fragment which we ended up liking a lot (the intro to the song). I went into the other room and read the script and told Mutt that there was a line in the film that could be an interesting angle for a title: I do it for you... an hour later we had written the whole song including the melody and middle eight in about an hour."
Well, it's Christmas Eve. I figure it's about time I keep with my holiday pseudo tradition of sharing a few songs. Fill out the rest of your playlist with this post and this other post.
First some twinkly:
Some interesting versions of carols:
And one for fun:
love-love. lindsay
Bon Jovi:It's My Life
This video shows the pain of the soldiers as they go, day by day, fighting a war that isn't just a video game. Emotions are clearly shown throughout. The photos, included in the video, are genuine. Yeah, War sure looks like fun when you see your friends dropping dead all around you. Some soldiers straight-out bawled.
This is a song by Simple Plan that shows what the outcome of drunk driving could be.
