Billybob Dylan wrote:Quaco wrote:And his version of "Lies" totally works
That isn't The Knickerbockers' Lies by any chance, is it?
Nancy Sinatra did a good version of that.
Billybob Dylan wrote:Quaco wrote:And his version of "Lies" totally works
That isn't The Knickerbockers' Lies by any chance, is it?
A. wrote:Bump.
So what should the next band in this series be?
the science eel experiment wrote:Jesus Christ can't save BCB, i believe i can.
Quaco wrote:Listen! was particularly interesting to me, as it was I guess meant to be sort of his Revolver. The songs get stranger, and hearing normal Gary singing them both makes him seem more normal and the songs seem even stranger. "Bring the Whole Family" (a song about a family that obsessively gambles together) is somehow totally wrong for him, but all the weirder for it. It sounds like something Sharon Tate would have listened to. And yet, Lewis excels at wistful teenage stuff like "Young and Carefree", one of his many Beach Boys-type tunes.
Jimbo wrote:Gary Lewis and the Playboys is the band that comes first to my mind when I think of the Tom Hank's movie, That Thing You Do.
Billybob wrote:Quaco wrote:And his version of "Lies" totally works
That isn't The Knickerbockers' Lies by any chance, is it?
Sir John Coan wrote:Nolamike is speaking nothing but sense here.
Loki wrote:Mike is Hookfinger's shill.
Snarfyguy wrote:DougR wrote:Their set consisted of a few originals and covers of an assortment of Beatles songs and 60's hits.
It really disappoints me when I see an older band and they play lots of covers they weren't known for.
GoogaMooga wrote: The further away from home you go, the greater the risk of getting stuck there.
Snarfyguy wrote:Snarfyguy wrote:DougR wrote:Their set consisted of a few originals and covers of an assortment of Beatles songs and 60's hits.
It really disappoints me when I see an older band and they play lots of covers they weren't known for.
As long as things are coming and going around again in this thread, it's funny to see this grouse above, from a couple of years before I nearly had a coronary about the very topic at an Association show.
Muskrat wrote:Warning: the Hoffman forum is a hotbed of Gary Lewis fans. Your ultimate resource if you want info in mono-stereo, non-album b sides and the like.
Lord Rother wrote: I’m with Googs.
Charlie O. wrote:Quaco wrote:Listen! was particularly interesting to me, as it was I guess meant to be sort of his Revolver. The songs get stranger, and hearing normal Gary singing them both makes him seem more normal and the songs seem even stranger. "Bring the Whole Family" (a song about a family that obsessively gambles together) is somehow totally wrong for him, but all the weirder for it. It sounds like something Sharon Tate would have listened to. And yet, Lewis excels at wistful teenage stuff like "Young and Carefree", one of his many Beach Boys-type tunes.
This is about to be released as a stereo/mono two-fer (yay!) on Now Sounds (a Cherry Red imprint). I may have to pick it up.
Charlie O. wrote:(D'you think the Beatles heard this album? I'm probably just reading into it, but this version of Tim Hardin's "Don't Make Promises" sounds almost like a missing link between "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Dear Prudence"... and look, here's a song called "Look, Here Comes The Sun", two years before Abbey Road!)
Nolamike wrote:
I have a ridiculously disproportionate amount of love (quality to love) for that flick.
Jimbo2 wrote:Nolamike wrote:
I have a ridiculously disproportionate amount of love (quality to love) for that flick.
Well then you will just have to kiss my ring when i tell you that two nights ago I went to see Fountains of Wayne here in Tokyo and the opening act was a guy I never heard of named Mike Viola. It was just he and his guitar doing some really good, original (power) pop songs. For his last number Adam Schlesinger came out with his bass and they performed "That Thing You Do." I read later Viola co-wrote the song and was the singing voice in the film.
Charlie O. wrote:No, I don't remember it being particularly sweet.
Lord Rother wrote: I’m with Googs.
Muskrat wrote:Inndicentally, the old group was the Candy Butchers.
When Neil Young left the Buffalo Springfield temporarily last summer, he worked with arranger Jack Nitzche. Jack had to arrange a Gary Lewis album in one day, so he gave half the job to Neil. One of the songs Neil arranged was "Jill" and it became a hit for Gary...
Charlie O. wrote:Just read this brief item in the February 1968 issue of Hit Parader (in the "Granny's Gossip" column - italics hers):When Neil Young left the Buffalo Springfield temporarily last summer, he worked with arranger Jack Nitzche. Jack had to arrange a Gary Lewis album in one day, so he gave half the job to Neil. One of the songs Neil arranged was "Jill" and it became a hit for Gary...
Hmmm.