![]() ![]() ![]() Robby Krieger, the Doors guitarist, wanted to write about one of the elements: fire, air, earth, and water. The song is ranked at number 35 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. As of December 1971, it was the band’s best-selling single with over 927,000 copies sold. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1967 for 500,000 units shipped. The song was largely written by the band’s guitarist Robby Krieger, and was credited to the entire band. A year later, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 following the success of José Feliciano’s version of the song (which peaked at number 3 on the Billboard chart), peaking at number 87. Released as an edited single on April 24, 1967, it spent three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late July. My favourite in this bracket is Light My Fire, a song by the Doors, which was recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their self-titled debut album. There is a line in the original version about smelling a spring on “the Salford wind” is sometimes sung as “the sulphured wind”. The words talk about the gasworks and also the old canal, which was the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal. It’s a song about about Salford, Lancashire, England, in the city where MacColl was born and brought up. That started a dispute over the royalties which didn’t end until his family were paid some of what was owing in 2006.ĭirty Old Town is a song written by Euan MacColl in 1949 and recorded by many groups, including the Dubliners and the Pogues. A Zulu tribesman, Solomon Linda, wrote the song and performed it on a 78 rpm record cut in 1939. 1 single in 1961 to its featured role in the hugely popular Disney film and Broadway musical The Lion King, the song has been enjoyed by different generations and sold millions of copies. For the last 50 years, that happy little word has been a universally recognized shorthand for the song known as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” From Pete Seeger’s version in 1952 (titled “Wimoweh”) to the Tokens’ No. We want to hear the “Weeeee eeeee eeeeeee’s” loud and clear in Wimoweh. Yvonne is his “ma cher amio”, which is Cajun French for “my good friend” or more likely to mean “my girlfriend.” If you’ve never cooked it, Jambalaya is a very yum dish – give it a go. At the feast they have Cajun cuisine, notably Jambalaya, crawfish pie and filé gumbo, and drink liquor from fruit jars. The narrator leaves to pole a pirogue (small dugout canoe) down the shallow water of the bayou, to attend a party with his girlfriend Yvonne and her family. The song is about life, parties, and the famous Cajun dish. The melody is based on the old Cajun song, Grand Texas. Jambalaya (on the Bayou), is a song written by country singer and guitarist Hank Williams, and released in 1952. The very first Lost Chords bracket – seems so long ago that we put this together. It’s a great place, plenty of parking, good food and drinks, and we hope you will all come along and join us there for that night.īuses number 75, 781, 751 and 755 pass along 320 Remuera Road, Stop 8538 and then it is a short walk down Ohinerau Street. ![]() We were asked to do a one-off gig at The Remuera Club (formerly known as the Commercial Travellers Club). Our next Ceili will be at a different location. There were 68 strummin’ and pluckin’ there – and with some of our fav songs – Black Magic Women, Sailing, Hotel California, Big Yellow Taxi.
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