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Bus stop, wet day

by DougJ|  November 11, 201111:38 am| 61 Comments

This post is in: Music, Readership Capture

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An early edition of Song of the Week from Can’t Explain…..

Margo Guryan, “Under My Umbrella” (1968)
Awww, it’s getting rainy around here. Maybe snowy where you are. Time for staying indoors more often, hot chocolate and marshmallows, games of Scrabble and old black and white movies, that kind of thing. This Margo Guryan song fits the mood pretty well. Guryan was a terrific songwriter from Far Rockaway. Her life and musical orientations changed in all kinds of interesting ways once she heard the Beach Boys song “God Only Knows.” I happened to discover her and this song courtesy of the great music blog blowupdoll, always worth a visit if you happen to find this sort of thing up your alley, as I do.

Sunday songs:
Julie London, “Sunday Mornin'” (written by Margo Guryan)
Spanky & Our Gang, “Sunday Will Never Be the Same” (this act also covered Margo Guryan’s “Sunday Mornin'”)
Velvet Underground, “Sunday Morning” (not the Margo Guryan song)
More at Can’t Explain

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Doug again here: wait this isn’t the under my umbrella the title refers to. I didn’t think those guys were called Margo Guryan, but you never know.

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  1. 1.

    Woodrowfan

    November 11, 2011 at 11:43 am

    were you thinking of the Hollies?

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

  2. 2.

    harlana

    November 11, 2011 at 11:45 am

    I have to admit, although I was completely devoid of compassion yesterday, I thought Perry was funny on Letterman.

  3. 3.

    Poopyman

    November 11, 2011 at 11:46 am

    wait this isn’t the under my umbrella the title refers to. I didn’t think those guys were called Margo Guryan, but you never know.

    Yeah. Hollies fail. But since I’d never heard Margo Guryan … thanks!

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    November 11, 2011 at 11:47 am

    This makes me thik of two great, great songs:

    John Prine, “Blue Umbrella.” One of his most beautiful, sad, and underrated songs.

    Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” sung by Johnny Cash. Just an unbelievable song, about which not much needs to be said.

  5. 5.

    DougJ

    November 11, 2011 at 11:49 am

    @harlana:

    Me too, hilarious in fact. I like the guy as an on-camera retail politician when he’s scripted. How can he be such a fuck up in debates?

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    November 11, 2011 at 11:50 am

    @Woodrowfan:

    Yeah. Also too, I always wondered if that Police song with the “big enough umbrella” referred to the Hollies song.

  7. 7.

    Cat Lady

    November 11, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Add a French accent and it’s Claudine Longet, or more breath in the voice and it’s Jane Birkin in je t’aime. I’ll take Janis Joplin plz kthx.

  8. 8.

    Woodrowfan

    November 11, 2011 at 11:52 am

    there is also “Early in the Morning.” Eric Clapton’s version is, as you’d expect, great.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7rDWbpG9lQ

  9. 9.

    DougJ

    November 11, 2011 at 11:53 am

    @Woodrowfan:

    I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I really like Eagles Tequila Sunrise as a morning song.

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 11, 2011 at 11:54 am

    @DougJ:

    He has to think on his feet.

    He’s not an improvisational comic. Without a script, stage directions, and someone manipulating his every move, he’s toast.

  11. 11.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    November 11, 2011 at 11:55 am

    @Cat Lady: Oh my god I can’t believe someone mentioned Claudine Longet. I had such a crush, I can’t tell you. Hey I was 14, what can I say, and hadn’t developed much musical taste yet. Actually two years later was listening to Janis all the time also. But, oh my, at the time…..

  12. 12.

    Woodrowfan

    November 11, 2011 at 11:55 am

    I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I really like Eagles Tequila Sunrise as a morning song.

    I like the Eagles so that’s fine by me. being of college age in the 70s the Eagles were good at slow dance/making out music.

  13. 13.

    Matthew B.

    November 11, 2011 at 11:58 am

    Claudine Longet actually covered a couple of Guryan’s songs (“Think of Rain” and “I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without You”).

  14. 14.

    Cat Lady

    November 11, 2011 at 11:58 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    Spider Sabich. THAT was a scandal. Imagine if Nancy Grace had been around in those days.

  15. 15.

    DougJ

    November 11, 2011 at 11:59 am

    @Cat Lady:

    Great, great SNL take on this if you can find it on the internets.

  16. 16.

    Steve

    November 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Maroon 5 – Sunday Morning

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    Imagine if Nancy Grace had been around in those days.

    OK, I need some brain bleach right now. A barrel…

  18. 18.

    Cat Lady

    November 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm

    @DougJ:

    I don’t remember that, but her reputation as a sweet kitten type belied that it had all the juicy 70s stuff of sex, drugs, glamour and Aspen. Who would have played Claudine on SNL? Gilda?

  19. 19.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    November 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    @Cat Lady: No kidding. This was long before all that though. Voila. For instance.

    Actually this is a lot more Astrud Gilberto than I remembered, though more girlish and breathy and so on.

    “We’re not expecting wainbows…” I think the first time I realized, years later, that there were actual people on the planet who spoke English like that, it was all over.

  20. 20.

    DougJ

    November 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    It was just clips of skiers falling with the sound of gunfire.

  21. 21.

    Cat Lady

    November 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    @DougJ:

    LOL!

  22. 22.

    BGinCHI

    November 11, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    Now I have the strange and wonderful version of “Sunday Afternoon” by Blossom Dearie stuck in my head.

    Crist.

  23. 23.

    Poopyman

    November 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    @Cat Lady: IIRC, Claudine wasn’t portrayed in that sketch. I’m sure you could find it on Youtube somewhere, but I think it was Chevy Chase and Jane Curtain (?) sportscasting the “Claudine Longet Downill Event” or somesuch. Videotape of downhill racers flying along, a gunshot sounds, and they wipe out. One after the other.

    I guess you have to see it.

  24. 24.

    JITC

    November 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    You had me at hot chocolate with marshmallows. Recently tried these marshmallows. The peppermint ones in hot chocolate were divine.

  25. 25.

    PurpleGirl

    November 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    @DougJ: He’s not scripted. He can’t do improvisation or speak extemporaneously as in a debate — he needs a script.

  26. 26.

    Poopyman

    November 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    @PurpleGirl: But I would like to see him in a debate with Mike Tyson/Herman Cain.

  27. 27.

    PurpleGirl

    November 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    @Cat Lady: And even though she and Andy Williams divorced, he stayed her friend and support for years.

    Yeah, Nancy Grace would have a meltdown and never give her peace.

  28. 28.

    harlana

    November 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    @DougJ: one of the few Eagles songs I still enjoy – most have been played to death and whenever I hear Hotel California, I want to shoot myself in the eye.

  29. 29.

    harlana

    November 11, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    @Poopyman: I remember that!

  30. 30.

    tomvox1

    November 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” sung by Johnny Cash. Just an unbelievable song, about which not much needs to be said.

    Yes! Beautiful melancholia by Cash on the studio record and check out this jaunty live duet w/Kristofferson:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLiuPRMJy8

  31. 31.

    Poopyman

    November 11, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    @harlana: Best I can do.

  32. 32.

    JPK

    November 11, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    @Woodrowfan: A natural mistake. I love all these mid-’60s Hollies songs too. “Bus Stop,” “Stop Stop Stop,” “On a Carousel,” “Carrie-Anne,” etc.

  33. 33.

    Davis X. Machina

    November 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Yay, regulation!

    The FCC and many industry partners are offering broadband Internet access to needy families for $9.95 per month (with tax) for two years. There will be no installation, activation, or modem rental fees (although customers can buy a modem for $10), and the service must have at least 1Mbps performance.
    —
    To qualify for the program, a family must have at least one child enrolled in the Free School Lunch Program. The family also must not be a current broadband customer and can’t have any unpaid broadband bills or un-returned equipment on the books for that service provider.
    ___
    Participating ISPs include Bend Cable, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast (via Internet Essentials), Cox Communications, Eagle Communications, GCI, Insight, Mediacom, Midcontinent, Sjoberg’s Cable, Suddenlink, and Time Warner Cable.

    In Maine, every middle-schooler has a laptop, and many districts follow that up, even some of the less prosperous ones, through high-school, that goes home with the child.

    This will help to close the gap a bit between the haves and the have-nots…

  34. 34.

    BGinCHI

    November 11, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    @tomvox1: I’m wearing all black today in honor of that duet.

    Man, that’s a sad song. Always chokes me up.

  35. 35.

    harlana

    November 11, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    @Poopyman: it was hilarious – too bad we can’t get it on the youtubes

  36. 36.

    piratedan

    November 11, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    @BGinCHI: here ya go, something in the same vein….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbn48xbex-8

  37. 37.

    piratedan

    November 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    @JPK: and “I’m Alive” which is one of the best “holy shit am I in love!” songs ever.

  38. 38.

    BGinCHI

    November 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    @piratedan: Another song for the soundtrack of my life. Nice.

    Nick Lowe has great Old Rocker Guy hair too.

  39. 39.

    Phlip

    November 11, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    May I suggest Hello Sunday, Hello Road by Gil Scott Heron

  40. 40.

    JPK

    November 11, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    @BGinCHI: @piratedan: Great stuff!

  41. 41.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    November 11, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    Happy Nigel Tufnel Day

  42. 42.

    piratedan

    November 11, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    glad I could be of service ;-)

  43. 43.

    Violet

    November 11, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    @Steve:
    I love that song. It’s on the “Love Actually” soundtrack, which I love. Especially the hilariously awful “Christmas is All Around” by Billy Mack.

  44. 44.

    PeakVT

    November 11, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Speaking of wet, check out some guy surfing a 90-foot wave. A bit of background is here.

  45. 45.

    John Weiss

    November 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    @DougJ: Great song.

  46. 46.

    dedc79

    November 11, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    Wilco’s new album closes with a song called One Sunday Morning that is phenomenal (but also 12 minutes long)

  47. 47.

    Comrade Mary

    November 11, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    @BGinCHI: Whenever someone mentions Blossom Dearie, I reach for this.

    Also: Eliott Smith’s sublime version (well, a badly recorded YT version of his sublimity).

  48. 48.

    Comrade Mary

    November 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    And Blossom says, “Hey John, look at me digging you digging me”.

  49. 49.

    Captain Goto

    November 11, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    “Spanky’s Greatest Hit(s)” has a place of honor on my digital music thingy. I categorized it for my daughter as “60’s hippie harmony”, of which there were many fine practitioners.

  50. 50.

    piratedan

    November 11, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    @Captain Goto: harmony sure doesn’t seem to be in vogue these days, or perhaps I’m just not listening in the right places.

  51. 51.

    4jkb4ia

    November 11, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    In the context of the idea of this song, Rihanna’s “Umbrella” isn’t even a snide joke, although it is much more in your face. Which reminds me of the parody “Vuvuzela” that was done for the World Cup and which Goal linked to.

    (OT: Here is an informative article on banks and European sovereign debt since John now has the sense not to show up for the rest of the afternoon.)

  52. 52.

    eemom

    November 11, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    That umbrella, we employed it.

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    November 11, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    Sunday songs, country division:

    “After All This Time,” Rodney Crowell.
    “You and You Alone,” Vince Gill.
    “This Is Love,” Mary Chapin Carpenter
    “Reason to Live,” Kathy Mattea

  54. 54.

    4jkb4ia

    November 11, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    The Vuvuzela Song, although I am sure no one cared.

  55. 55.

    General Stuck

    November 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    I recognize that song, I think it was on the movie soundtrack for Emmanuelle, The Convent Years

  56. 56.

    different-church-lady

    November 11, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    So that’s what Julie’s last album sounded like. Better than I’d imagined. She does a nice job with that song.

  57. 57.

    different-church-lady

    November 11, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    I suppose we gotta do this:

    Sunday Will Never Be The Same – Spanky & Our Gang
    Monday Monday – Mamas & Papas
    Tuesday Afternoon – Moody Blues
    Wednesday Week – Elvis Costello and The Attractions
    Thursday (?)
    Friday (?)
    Another Saturday Night – Cat Stevens

  58. 58.

    ed_finnerty

    November 11, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    sundays

    lucinda williams

    love sunday morning coming down – but am partial to the Kristopherson version having heard it first

  59. 59.

    JPK

    November 12, 2011 at 3:55 am

    @different-church-lady: “Thursday” by Morphine, Asobi Seksu, and/or Country Joe & the Fish + “To Claudia on Thursday” by the Millennium
    “Friday on My Mind” by the Easybeats, “Black Friday” by Steely Dan, “Thank God It’s Friday” by Love and Kisses

  60. 60.

    Paul in KY

    November 14, 2011 at 8:38 am

    @eemom: Led me to a vow.

  61. 61.

    Paul in KY

    November 14, 2011 at 8:39 am

    @different-church-lady: You know which song will be for ‘Friday’ :-)

    Better find a better one quick!

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