Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Juluka: Scatterlings: 1982: Lyrics and Video

This is a special dedication to all my brothers and sisters from the Precast Informal Settlement (Ward 8 Lenasia)

I see the inhumane conditions that you live under. I understand your plight.

“Some people have nothing, some people have hopes and dreams , some people have ways and means”

I understand your hopes and dreams and I’m convinced that you do have “ways and means!”

I know you ask:
"Who made me, here and why? --
Beneath this copper sun."

I am a scatterling of Africa and so are you. ‘United we stand, divided we fall.’

Copper sun sinking low
Scatterlings and fugitives
Hooded eyes and weary brows
Seek refuge in the night
They are the scatterlings of Africa
Each uprooted one
On the road to Phelamanga
Beneath the copper sun
And I love the scatterlings of Africa
Each and every one
In their hearts a burning hunger
Beneath the copper sun
Broken wall, bicycle wheel
African sun forging steel, singing
Magic machine cannot match
Human being human being
African idea
African idea
make the future clear
make the future clear
They are the scatterlings of Africa
Each uprooted one
On the road to Phelamanga
Beneath the copper sun
And for the scatterlings of Africa
The journey has begun
Future find their hungry eyes
Beneath the copper sun
Ancient bones from Olduvai
Echoes of the very first cry
"Who made me, here and why? --
Beneath this copper sun."
My very first beginnings
Beneath the copper sky
Lie deeply buried
In the dust of Olduvai
And we are scatterlings of Africa
Both you and I
We are on the road to Phelamanga
Beneath a copper sky
And we are scatterlings of Africa
On a journey to the stars
Far below we leave forever
Dreams of what we were
Hawu beke Mama-ye! Mama-ye!
In the beginning
Beneath the copper sky
Ancient bones
In the dust of Olduvai
Who made us, here, and why
Remember!

Video source: Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-o7Kfqbuw

[Citizen X]

Music trivia

What instrument is used at the end of Bob Marley’s song “Stir it Up?”

For several years I was under the mistaken impression that the sound at the end of the song “Stir it up,” emanated from an electric guitar. I was wrong!!!!

That ‘wow,’ sound at the end of the song was created by a clavinet

“The premise behind the people of Island Studios tendered to be based more on the musical aspect of recording rather than the technical excellence of the recordings. But, even technically these recordings were fabulous.” Tony Platt –Overdub and Remix Engineer Stir it up.[1]

“The experiment was for Chris Blackwell to help Bob break into America, so we needed to add a little something that Americans were used to such as clavinets. So, Bob was ready for that. But, the thing that we were trying to do by bridging the gap between purist reggae and Americanized reggae which Americans could pallet was NOT PURIST. My parts on “ Catch a Fire,” are no- where near purists, they are an imitation of what Bob thought me to do.” John 'Rabbit,' Bundrick [2]



Video source[3]

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[1] Documentary: Catch a Fire: 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAiJP8wwz8 (Date of use 6 June 2017)

[2] Documentary: Catch a Fire: 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAiJP8wwz8 (Date of use 6 June 2017)

[3] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6U-TGahwvs. (Date of use 6 June 2017)

[Citizen X]

Bob Marley: Rastaman Vibration Live: Santa Babara County Bowl: 25 November 1979: Lyrics and Video

The concert at Santa Babara County Bowl in 1979 is my favourite live performance of Bob Marley and the Wailers. The way he introduced the concert was remarkable! It took me many years to figure out where he got the mesmerizing words that introduced this concert. Fairly recently, I learnt that the origins of his introduction is from Psalm 87 of the Bible.

He introduced the concert by saying:

His foundations is in the Holy Mountans, Jah loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things have being spoken of the Old City of God. I’ll make men shine to Rahab and Babylon to them that know I.
With the OLD Philistia, Tyre and Ethiopia, it shall be said, that this man was born there and THE HIGHEST HIMSELF SHALL ESTABLISH THE EARTH.

Compare this to:

Psalm 87 NIV

“He has founded his city on the holy mountain.
2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of you,
city of God:[a]
4 [B]“I will record Rahab and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me—
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush[c]—
and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”[d]
5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her.”
6 The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
“This one was born in Zion.”
7 As they make music they will sing,
“All my fountains are in you.””

Live if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That's what we got to give!
(I'n'I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)

If you get down and you quarrel every-day,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wo-oh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)

Say you just can't live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day,
'Cause it's news (new day) news and days
New time (new time), and if it's a new feelin' (new feelin'), yeah!
Said it's a new sign (new sign):
Oh, what a new day!

Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Jah love - Jah love (protect us)
Jah love - Jah love (protect us)
Jah love - Jah love (protect us)

Rastaman vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
I'n'I vibration, yeah! (Positive!) Uh-huh-huh, a yeah!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! (Irie ites!) Wo-oo-oh!
Positive vibration, yeah! (Positive!)

Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love )
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?

Video source[1]

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[1] Daily Motion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj0...-bowl-hd_music. (Date of use 6 June 2017)

[Citizen X]

Music trivia

What instrument is used at the end of Bob Marley’s song “Stir it Up?”

For several years I was under the mistaken impression that the sound at the end of the song “Stir it up,” emanated from an electric guitar. I was wrong!!!!

That ‘wow,’ sound at the end of the song was created by a clavinet

“The premise behind the people of Island Studios tendered to be based more on the musical aspect of recording rather than the technical excellence of the recordings. But, even technically these recordings were fabulous.” Tony Platt –Overdub and Remix Engineer Stir it up.[1]

“The experiment was for Chris Blackwell to help Bob break into America, so we needed to add a little something that Americans were used to such as clavinets. So, Bob was ready for that. But, the thing that we were trying to do by bridging the gap between purist reggae and Americanized reggae which Americans could pallet was NOT PURIST. My parts on “ Catch a Fire,” are no- where near purists, they are an imitation of what Bob thought me to do.” John 'Rabbit,' Bundrick [2]



Video source[3]

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[1] Documentary: Catch a Fire: 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAiJP8wwz8 (Date of use 6 June 2017)

[2] Documentary: Catch a Fire: 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAiJP8wwz8 (Date of use 6 June 2017)

[3] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6U-TGahwvs. (Date of use 6 June 2017)

The actual scene, the making of 'Stir it up.' Towards the end of this video, you'll see how the clavinet was magically used to make a sound that I personally haven't seen or heard before this song. It's one of those unique pieces of music history and what can take place when a band works together' The actual scene and explanation of the clavinet is at 3:22 to 4:14 in the video below:-[1]

" After RECORDING THEM, Bob himself, TOOK the A Tracks TO LONDON where he remixed and dubbed them with Chris Blackwell." Bunny Wailer 1973

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[1] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyYN0aBfo68. (Date of use 9 June 2017)

Stir it up; little darlin', stir it up. Come on, baby.
Come on and stir it up: little darlin', stir it up. O-oh!
It's been a long, long time, yeah!
(stir it, stir it, stir it together)
Since I got you on my mind. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Oh-oh!
Now you are here (stir it, stir it, stir it together), I said,
it's so clear
There's so much we could do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Just me and you.
Come on and stir it up; ..., little darlin'!
Stir it up; come on, baby!
Come on and stir it up, yeah!
Little darlin', stir it up! O-oh!
I'll push the wood (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
then I blaze ya fire;
Then I'll satisfy your heart's desire. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Said, I stir it every (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
every minute:
All you got to do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Is keep it in, eh!
(Stir it up) Oh, little darlin',
Stir it up; ..., baby!
Come on and stir it up, oh-oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up! Wo-oh! Mm, now, now.

Quench me when I'm thirsty;
Come on and cool me down, baby, when I'm hot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Your recipe is, - darlin' - is so tasty,
When you show and stir your pot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

So: stir it up, oh!
Little darlin', stir it up; wo, now!
Come on and stir it up, oh-ah!
Little darlin', stir it up!
[Guitar alone]
Oh, little darlin', stir it up. Come on, babe!
Come on and stir it up, wo-o-a!
Little darlin', stir it up! Stick with me, baby!
Come on, come on and stir it up, oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up
AND THEN the clavinet

[Citizen X]

Music Trivia
Which artist played the guitar solo at the beginning of Bob Marley and the Wailers “Concrete Jungle,” with the 3 octave feedback at the end of the song?

Wayne Perkins
“And, I had this pedal on at the end of the solo, as I recall, which was a sustained pedal from Manny’s, that I bought in New York. And, you hit this thing and it just held a note forever. It would hold a note for 3 minutes. And it held that one note and would start to feedback in an octave higher and then two octave notes higher and when that happened, Blackwell or somebody hit the echo on that thing and it just rang across the whole room and it gave me goose bumps. It was one of those magic moments!” Wayne Perkins 1973

AT 2:06 IN THE VIDEO BELOW:-

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Concrete Jungle: 1973: Album –Catch a Fire: Video and lyrics

No sun will shine in my day today (no sun will shine)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play (that high yellow moon won't come out to play)
I said darkness, darkness has come and covered my light has covered my light,
(And has changed)
And has changed (my day into night) my day into night, yeah.
Where is the love to be found?
Won't someone tell me 'cause
Life (sweet life) must be (got to be) somewhere to be found (out there somewhere out there for me)
Instead of concrete jungle (Jungle, jungle, jungle!),
I said where the living is hardest (concrete jungle!).
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle)
Man, you got to do your best (concrete jungle!)
Wo-ooh

No chains around my feet
But I'm not free
I know I am bounded in captivity; oh now
(Never known) Never known (what happiness is) what happiness is;
(Never known) I've never known (what sweet caress is) what sweet caress is yeah
Still, I'll be always laughing like a clown; (oooh-oooh-oooh)
Oh someone help me 'cause I (sweet life) -
I've got to pick myself from off the ground (got to be, out there somewhere out there for me)
In this ya concrete jungle (Jungle, jungle, jungle!):
I said, what do you got for me (concrete jungle!) now?
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle!), why won't you let me be (concrete jungle!) now?
Ohhh yeah

[Guitar solo]

I said that life (sweet life) must be (got to be) somewhere to be found (out there somewhere for me)
Oh, instead: concrete jungle (jungle!) - collusion (concrete jungle!) -
Confusion (confusion).
Concrete jungle (jungle!): we've made it, We've got it.
In Concrete jungle (concrete jungle!), now.
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle!).

What, what do you got for me (jungle, jungle!) now?

Video 1 source[1]
Video 2 source[2]

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[1] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8tCBI3LneI. (Date of use 10 June 2017)

[2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inWHusa6tso. (Date of use 10 June 2017)

[Trickzta]

Here's a few of the mellow songs from yesteryear that I like. Great platform for music here and it's good to see a post where you aren't trying to make money selling skyspy pics, accommodation, old phones and the like. But then some of us have a life.

Donovan 'The season of the witch.' https://youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0

Jimi 'The wind cries Mary' https://youtu.be/ATDEtzAcTg0

Marianne Faithfull 'The eyes of Lucy Jordan' https://youtu.be/d0NxhFn0szc

Percy Sledge 'I been loving you a little too long' https://youtu.be/7tgYOCxxiAE

Frankie Miller 'It's good to see you.' https://youtu.be/omG7sIDHD8Y

[Trickzta]

Hope you enjoy these as much as I did. I'm not often in a mellow mood so this is unusual.

*https://youtu.be/O0oosnKV5rk

https://youtu.be/Q4oInT79CUk

*https://youtu.be/_pXB1Mathqk

*https://youtu.be/3TkitGRoGM8

*https://youtu.be/cVRbajsztig

[Citizen X]

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Duppy Conqueror: Album-Burning:1973: Lyrics and Video

This song in particular represents for me, the change in the musical form from ska to reggae. The recognisable sound of reggae (chuckum) emanates from a rhythm guitar.

What really changed it to reggae was the riff action with the guitar. It’s just basically a rhythm change in terms of what the guitar used to play like ‘chuck,’ ‘chuck,’ ‘chuck,’, THEN it start playing ‘chuckum,’ ‘chuckum,’ ‘chuckum.’ Sometimes some of these things happened out of accident, someone would be doing something, and the producer would say ‘HEY, I like that!’ Carlton ‘Santa’ Davis- session drummer

Coxsone had bought a piece of equipment from the United States, and it was in the studio for a long time, and nobody knew what to do with it. They decided to hook it up, and when it was hooked up they realised it was a tape delay, so, when you make one strum, it comes back at you at the same time ‘chuckum.’

The guitar in reggae usually plays the chords on beats two and four, a musical figure known as skank or the 'bang'. It has a very dampened, short and scratchy chop sound, almost like a percussion instrument. Sometimes a double chop is used when the guitar still plays the off beats, but also plays the following 16th or 8th beat on the up-stroke. Depending on the amount of swing or groove, this next secondary stab is often the 16th note sounding closer to an 8th placement in the rhythm. An example is the intro to "Stir It Up" by The Wailers. Artist and producer Derrick Harriott says, "What happened was the musical thing was real widespread, but only among a certain sort of people. It was always a down-town thing, but more than just hearing the music. The equipment was so powerful and the vibe so strong that we feel it." [1]

Video source[2]

Yes, me friend, me friend
Dem set me free again
Yes, me friend, me friend
We in the streets again

The bars could not hold me
Force could not control me now
They try to keep me down
But God put I around

Yes, I've been accused
Wrongly abused now
But through the powers of the most high
They've got to turn me loose

Don't try to cut me off on this bridge, now
I've got to reach Mount Zion, the highest region
So if you a bull-bucka, let me tell you that
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror

Yes, me friend, me good friend
Dem set me free again, mm
Yes, me friend
Dem turn me loose again

Don't try to cut me off on this bridge, now
I've got to reach Mount Zion, the highest region
So if you a bull-bucka, let me tell you that
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror

Yes, me friend Me friend, me friend, me friend
We deh a street again
Yes, me friend, me friend, me friend
Dem set me free again.

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[1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_guitar. Accessed 2 September 2017

[2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VQRFXgEnjc. Accessed 2 September 2017

[Citizen X]

Here’s another textbook example of the flawless use of a rhythm guitar. This is the live performance of “Sweet Sensation,” with Ali Campbell playing the rhythm guitar.

[Blurock]

The right blending of instruments can make a song great.
I've always been a fan of a the 12 string guitar. Here we have a good example from the 60's.

[Blurock]

An all time favourite by Peter Green, one of the best guitarists of our age. Pity he flew too close to the psychedelic sun.

Fleetwood Mac - Man of the world 1969

Shall I tell you about my life
They say I'm a man of the world
I've flown across every tide
And I've seen lots of pretty girls

I guess I've got everything I need
I would't ask for more
And there's no one I'd rather be
But I just wish that I'd never been born

(Instrumental)

And I need a good woman
to make me feel like a good man should
I don't say I'm a good man
Oh, but I would be if I could

I could tell you about my life
And keep you amused I'm sure
About all the times I've cried
And how I don't want to be sad anymore
And how I wish I was in love

[Citizen X]

Kylie Minogue: Locomotion: 1988: Album –Kylie: Lyrics and Video

For Miss V, simply cause you appreciate good music from the 80’s.

Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier than learning your a b c's
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now
Come on baby, jump up, hmmm jump back
Oh well I think you got the knack


Now that you can do it
Let's make a chain now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
Yeah

Chug chug


Move around the floor in a loco-motion
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Do it holding hands if you got the notion
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
There's never been a dance that's so easy to do
It even makes you happy
When you're feeling blue
So come on come on do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now


Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
Yeah
Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now

Video source[1]
Album cover[2]

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[1] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAhzVvgY-c. Accessed 19 September 2017 17:45

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_(album). Accessed 19 September 17:45

[Citizen X]

Wet, Wet, Wet:Love is all around: 1994: Lyrics and video..and much more!!!

This is cyber space, so whatever is confirmed to the record stays here! I have being apprehensive about this particular post, as it exposes me!??!

After all, all the best secrets are hidden in plain view. I’m going to be forthcoming with you??? I started this whimsical thread “Old School Music Is Cool,” to relive my youth. MG , this montage is “especially for you!” “It’s a feeling, it’s a heartbeat.” At the very least, short, succinct and to the very point, this is incalculably ME. Perhaps this sounds a little bit far –out, you’ll have to be refreshingly open minded. I on the other hand, am just a hobo masquerading as a gentleman!! I do a pretty splendid job of it though! So, MG, there’s a lot of good memories in this specific thread. I hope it flatters you rather than annoy you?? So, I'm just going to say "something stupid," and leave it at that......

Lets go..

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Love is all around me
And so the feeling grows
It's written on the wind
It's everywhere I go, oh yes it is
So if you really love me
Come on and let it show
You know I love you, I always will
My mind's made up by the
Way that I feel
There's no beginning,
There'll be no end
'cause on my love you can depend
I see your face before me
As I lay on my bed
I kinda get to thinking
Of all the things you said, oh yes I did
You gave your promise to me and i
Gave mine to you
I need someone beside me
In everything I do, oh yes I do
You know I love you, I always will,
My mind's made up by the
Way that I feel
There's no beginning,
There'll be no end
'cause on my love you can depend
Got to keep it moving
Oh it's written in the wind
Oh everywhere I go, yeah, oh well
So if you really love me, love me, love me
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it
Come on and let it (come and let it show, baby)
Come on, come on, come on let it show baby
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show, baby
Come on and let it show

By bit (bit by bit, bit by bit)....

AND.....

[Citizen X]

If I can’t have you: Bee Gees: !977:Lyrics and Video

Allow me to build on this montage.."You give your promise to me, and I give mine to you."

Don't know why
I'm surviving every lonely day
When there's got to be
No chance for me

My life would end
And it just don't matter how I cry
My tears of love
Are a waste of time
If I turn away

Am I strong enough to see it through
Go crazy is what I will do

If I can't have you
I don't want nobody baby
If I can't have you, oh oh oh oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody baby
If I can't have you, oh oh oh...

Can't let go
And it doesn't matter how I try
I gave it all so easily
To you my love

To dreams that never will come true
Am I strong source enough to see it through
Go crazy is what I will do

If I can't have you
I don't want nobody baby
If I can't have you, oh oh oh oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody baby
If I can't have you, oh oh oh...

Video [1]

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[1] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sL9YgCBKNg. Accessed 21 September 2017

[Citizen X]

Kylie Minogue: Tears on my pillow: 8 January 1990: Lyrics and Video

Still working on this montage MG



You need a sensational lady to deliver this original song, from the movie “GREASE.” Remember the original scene with this song from “GREASE?”
Ingenuous Miss Minogue! There's some innocent, puppy love , and yet "up skirt," scenes in here, which you do so innocently! "Ooh baby baby"

Full marks for you Miss Minogue

Tears on my pillow was recorded by Little Anthony and the Imperials in 1958.

It became hugely popular when Sha Na Na sang this song in the movie Grease(1978)

You don't remember me

But I remember you
T'was not so long ago
You broke my heart in two


Tears on my pillow
Pain in my heart
Caused by you


If we could start anew
I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back
And tempt the hand of fate



Love is not a gadget
Love is not a toy
When you find the one you love
She'll fill your heart with joy

Caused by you

Video source[1]

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[1] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-EcqOCRkI. Accessed 21 September 2017