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But I miss old Joey Jordison. He was a human metronome.
Some of this dues shit is absolutely terrible, some is good, and some is funny.
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Dave's Song of the Day
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) – Art Garfunkel
Monday song of the day: Today’s song is a cover of a Stevie Wonder album cut.
Art Garfunkel will forever be linked with Paul Simon. As a duo, they had some of the most well-known songs of the 1960s. While Garfunkel was a very good singer, as the songwriter Paul Simon was the driving force behind Simon and Garfunkel. Their solo work also shows this disparity. Simon has created numerous important solo recordings, and while Garfunkel has had a decent solo career with a few top 40 hits, his body of work pales in comparison.
This is evident on Garfunkel’s 1975 album Breakaway. The first two singles, Break Away and I Only Have Eyes for You, charted at #39 and #18 respectively. The big hit on the album was My Little Town, which was actually a reunion of Simon and Garfunkel. The song was included on both Breakaway and Simon’s 1975 solo album Still Crazy After All These Years. My Little Town reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. The last single from Breakaway was a cover of Stevie Wonder’s I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever). This single failed to chart at all.
The song was written by Stevie Wonder and Yvonne Wright for his 1972 album Talking Book. It was a straightforward soul love song, and while it has since become popular, I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) was not released as a single at the time. The Art Garfunkel cover version is a bit dreamier sounding than the Stevie Wonder original, with a string arrangement and processed vocals. To me at least, the Stevie Wonder version is superior.
Art Garfunkel 1975
Stevie Wonder, 1972
Tomorrow: I can’t wait forever
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) – Art Garfunkel
Monday song of the day: Today’s song is a cover of a Stevie Wonder album cut.
Art Garfunkel will forever be linked with Paul Simon. As a duo, they had some of the most well-known songs of the 1960s. While Garfunkel was a very good singer, as the songwriter Paul Simon was the driving force behind Simon and Garfunkel. Their solo work also shows this disparity. Simon has created numerous important solo recordings, and while Garfunkel has had a decent solo career with a few top 40 hits, his body of work pales in comparison.
This is evident on Garfunkel’s 1975 album Breakaway. The first two singles, Break Away and I Only Have Eyes for You, charted at #39 and #18 respectively. The big hit on the album was My Little Town, which was actually a reunion of Simon and Garfunkel. The song was included on both Breakaway and Simon’s 1975 solo album Still Crazy After All These Years. My Little Town reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. The last single from Breakaway was a cover of Stevie Wonder’s I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever). This single failed to chart at all.
The song was written by Stevie Wonder and Yvonne Wright for his 1972 album Talking Book. It was a straightforward soul love song, and while it has since become popular, I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) was not released as a single at the time. The Art Garfunkel cover version is a bit dreamier sounding than the Stevie Wonder original, with a string arrangement and processed vocals. To me at least, the Stevie Wonder version is superior.
Art Garfunkel 1975
Stevie Wonder, 1972
Tomorrow: I can’t wait forever
Dave's Song of the Day
Time Won’t Let Me – The Outsiders
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song was a local Cleveland group’s first single and biggest hit.
A band called The Starfires formed in Cleveland in 1958 and was popular in the local area. In 1965, the record company insisted on a name change and the band became The Outsiders. At around the same time, the band added Sonny Geraci as the lead singer. For their first single, Tom King and Chet Kelley wrote a song called Time Won’t Let Me. The lyrics were about the singer not wanting to wait to be in a relationship with the girl he is singing to. It was far from a ballad, however. It had a bouncy rock beat and made good use of a horn section to punctuate the music.
Time Won’t Let Me was released in January 1966. It took a while for the record to catch on nationwide, but in April it topped out at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It ended up selling over a million copies.
The Outsiders had three more Top 40 hits in 1966, although none made the Top 10 like their first hit. After that, they never again cracked the Hot 100 and broke up in 1970. Their drummer, Jim Fox, later went on to form The James Gang with Joe Walsh, with that band performing Sunday’s song of the day, Funk #49.
Tomorrow: It just wouldn’t be fair
Time Won’t Let Me – The Outsiders
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song was a local Cleveland group’s first single and biggest hit.
A band called The Starfires formed in Cleveland in 1958 and was popular in the local area. In 1965, the record company insisted on a name change and the band became The Outsiders. At around the same time, the band added Sonny Geraci as the lead singer. For their first single, Tom King and Chet Kelley wrote a song called Time Won’t Let Me. The lyrics were about the singer not wanting to wait to be in a relationship with the girl he is singing to. It was far from a ballad, however. It had a bouncy rock beat and made good use of a horn section to punctuate the music.
Time Won’t Let Me was released in January 1966. It took a while for the record to catch on nationwide, but in April it topped out at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It ended up selling over a million copies.
The Outsiders had three more Top 40 hits in 1966, although none made the Top 10 like their first hit. After that, they never again cracked the Hot 100 and broke up in 1970. Their drummer, Jim Fox, later went on to form The James Gang with Joe Walsh, with that band performing Sunday’s song of the day, Funk #49.
Tomorrow: It just wouldn’t be fair
Dave's Song of the Day
Precious and Few – Climax
Wednesday song of the day: Today’s song has the same singer as yesterday’s song, although with a different band.
A few years after The Outsiders had a hit with Time Won’t Let Me, the band broke up. When The Outsiders split in 1970, singer Sonny Geraci moved to Los Angeles and released a single with a new band, called “The Outsiders featuring Sonny Geraci”. Meanwhile, Outsiders founder Tom King had a band in Cleveland still that he was calling “The Outsiders (featuring Jon Simonell)”. Simonell was the replacement for Geraci in the new version of King’s band. A court case soon decided that King had the rights to The Outsiders name, so Geraci renamed his band as Climax.
Follow the name change, Climax released a single called Hard Rock Group that didn’t sell very well. Their second single, Precious and Few, was released in December 1971 and proved to be a big hit. Written by the band’s guitarist Walter Nims, Precious and Few was a ballad with very sappy lyrics. It found an audience, however, and rose to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling over a million copies. After the success of the single, Climax released an album in 1972. The group disbanded in 1975 after recording songs for a second album that was never released. Nims died in 2000 and Geraci died in 2017.
Tomorrow: Do the things he likes to do
Precious and Few – Climax
Wednesday song of the day: Today’s song has the same singer as yesterday’s song, although with a different band.
A few years after The Outsiders had a hit with Time Won’t Let Me, the band broke up. When The Outsiders split in 1970, singer Sonny Geraci moved to Los Angeles and released a single with a new band, called “The Outsiders featuring Sonny Geraci”. Meanwhile, Outsiders founder Tom King had a band in Cleveland still that he was calling “The Outsiders (featuring Jon Simonell)”. Simonell was the replacement for Geraci in the new version of King’s band. A court case soon decided that King had the rights to The Outsiders name, so Geraci renamed his band as Climax.
Follow the name change, Climax released a single called Hard Rock Group that didn’t sell very well. Their second single, Precious and Few, was released in December 1971 and proved to be a big hit. Written by the band’s guitarist Walter Nims, Precious and Few was a ballad with very sappy lyrics. It found an audience, however, and rose to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling over a million copies. After the success of the single, Climax released an album in 1972. The group disbanded in 1975 after recording songs for a second album that was never released. Nims died in 2000 and Geraci died in 2017.
Tomorrow: Do the things he likes to do
I don't know why but this song has been swimming around in my head over and over for weeks now. I mean I love it but it's an odd timing for what is basically a sad song.
View: https://youtu.be/D4LDjo8ltl4
View: https://youtu.be/D4LDjo8ltl4
I do as well. Considering he was about 4ft 2, he knew how to bang it out. He filled in last minute for Metallica literaly last minute when Lars got sick at Download Festival, and absolutely nailed it. I wasn't a MASSIVE Metallica fan but watching that was mental. It was like they had a quick chat backstage and then he just went and did the set like NBD.
I adore Corey Taylor but if you get on the wrong side of him you're fucked. I miss Jim Root from Stone Sour, he got rid of him like a hot potato...guess the exception is him not firing him from Slipknot.
Never heard many backstage stories from them. Only just got back into them with their last two albums. Bother is a great track.