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Song of the week

by DougJ|  August 27, 20113:28 pm| 27 Comments

This post is in: Music, Readership Capture

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From Can’t Explain.

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Skylark, “Wildflower” (1973)
Who says Canadians can’t play soul music? Skylark was basically another project that emerged out of the welter of Ronnie Hawkins’s many and various backup bands, which include the Band. The guy had a knack for spotting talent. “Wildflower” was a big hit in the early ’70s, both in Canada and the U.S. With music mostly supplied by guitarist Doug Edwards (you can hear that in the omnipresence of the dramatic electric guitar), lyrics by Victoria policeman and part-time poet Dave Richardson, serviceable vocals from one B.J. (no relation, I’m sure) Cook, and an arrangement that juxtaposes said guitar with swooning orchestral touches and a nice if somewhat dated late hippie-era declaration of love and fealty, this is a very pleasant song to encounter unexpectedly, as I did on the radio one day this week.

Not to be confused with Michael Murphey, “Wildfire” (1975)
More stuff at Can’t Explain.

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  1. 1.

    Alex S.

    August 27, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    I’m listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin at the moment. It started with the inevitable ‘When the Levee Breaks’. Cleek must have made the same connection.

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    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    August 27, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Uggh.

    This sounds like the theme song to an early-’70s exploitation flick, and a poor take on the Philly Soul of the era.

  3. 3.

    Jeffro

    August 27, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    I am currently listening to two songs by Blonde Redhead + that song from “One Day” you hear in the ads

    Blonde Redhead: “Spring and By Summer Fall”, and “23”
    OneRepublic: “Good Life”

    And that song someone had up a while back by The Joy Formidable, “Whirring”, also too.

  4. 4.

    licensed to kill time

    August 27, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    OT but CNN reporting Atiya Abdul Rahman, yet another Al-Qaeda second-in-command, has been killed in Pakistan.

    My SU remarked “So, I guess they didn’t get the Top Rahman”.

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    PeakVT

    August 27, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    The song that DougJ wasn’t referring to in the previous post.

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    August 27, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    @PeakVT: I thought he was referring to Ziggy Stardust by Bowie. “Like a leper messiah
    When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band”

  7. 7.

    RobertB

    August 27, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    That song was ubiquitous back in the day, and I could’ve never in a million years told you that band’s name.

  8. 8.

    cleek

    August 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    more Leper Messiah:

    There is also a strange story about the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement. One day the rabbi was riding with a young student. He stopped his wagon at the hut of an old leper, horribly affected by the disease. The rabbi climbed down and spent a great deal of time with the poor man. When he returned to the wagon and recommenced his journey, the puzzled student asked the rabbi who it was that the rabbi had visited with. The rabbi replied that in every generation there is a Messiah who will reveal himself if the generation is worthy. The leper he had been meeting with was that Messiah, but the generation was not worthy, so the Messiah would depart. (Quoted in The Messiah Texts, by Raphael Patai, page 31.)

  9. 9.

    Poopyman

    August 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    Ah well, power seems to have crapped out fer real this time. Gotta sign off before the UPS runs outta juice.

    See ya tomorrow!

  10. 10.

    PeakVT

    August 27, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    @MikeJ: He was referring Ziggy. I’ve never cared for Bowie and haven’t listened to him much, so I automatically thought of Metallica.

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    gogol's wife

    August 27, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    I can’t click on that video because what it has put into my head is the beautiful Hoagy Carmichael song “Skylark,” and I’m sure what’s on that video can’t be any better than that.

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    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    August 27, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    A big hit?

  13. 13.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    August 27, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    @PeakVT: Let’s dance with Stevie Ray Vaughn. come on dawg

  14. 14.

    Alex S.

    August 27, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    @Alex S.:

    Hmm, I think I was wrong to declare cleek the owner of the Can’t Explain blog. Apologies. (Ah, cleek hosted the name-that-song contest…)

  15. 15.

    PeakVT

    August 27, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): There’s some Bowie songs I like but I just don’t like them enough to shell out for the CDs, which is how I still buy music.

  16. 16.

    Svensker

    August 27, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    B.J. Cook is a girl. I think that must be Danny Gerard doing lead vocal.

  17. 17.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    August 27, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    @PeakVT: Gotha.

  18. 18.

    Hydrino

    August 27, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    I prefer the version by soul group New Birth, who had a hit with this song on the R&B charts at about the same time this version was out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRHyjry864

  19. 19.

    PeakVT

    August 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): No remorse.

  20. 20.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    August 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    Where’d everybody go?

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    August 27, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    Not to be confused with Michael Murphey, “Wildfire” (1975)

    The horror.

  22. 22.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    August 27, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    @Mike in NC: Saw him at the Armadillo World Headquarters once upon a time, pretty good show.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): One thread down methinks. The conversation is running an interesting parallel track.

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    CT Voter

    August 27, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    I didn’t like this song. I remember hearing it way too many times on AM radio–particularly during one of the Hike for Hopes. Everyone carried little radios, and played the same station, and this song was played over and over and over during the 25 mile hike. Ugh.

    I like this song more than then.

  25. 25.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    August 27, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    I dunno. As bad as it is, I prefer Wildfire to this thing up top.

  26. 26.

    PanurgeATL

    August 28, 2011 at 1:54 am

    I used to hate “Wildfire”, too, probably due to fear of Teh Gerli, but I now realize that it’s a very good song. I don’t know if I like it much better, but now I know that it’s possible to hate a good song.

  27. 27.

    Paul in KY

    August 29, 2011 at 10:16 am

    This is an OK song. Little too slow paced for the kind of music I like best. Had never heard of it before (and I lived thru that era).

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