Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Back to Summer 1970, Fifty Years Ago-- Part 3: "Woodstock"


These were songs on your radio and in your record collection fifty years ago.

COMING INTO LOS ANGELES--  Arlo Guthrie
WOODSTOCK--  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
GET READY--  Rare Earth    Blue-Eyed Soul with an old Tempts song.

WHISKEY TRAIN--  Procul Harum
MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME--  Three Dog Night
LIAR--  Argent     One of my two songs in the Marine Corps summer 1971, but by Three Dog Night.  The other one was "Take Me Home (Country Roads) by John Denver.  Our platoon song was "Fixin'-To-Die-Rag" but on the sly.  Man, if those sergeants heard us, it wasn't pretty.

RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE--  Blues Image
TEACHER--  Jethro Tull
UP AROUND THE BEND--  Creedence Clearwater Revival   My favorite 60s band here in the 70s.

MAKE ME SMILE--  Chicago
LOVE LAND--  Watts 103rd Street Band
THE LETTER--  Joe Cocker

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Want Some Whiskey In Your Water, Sugar In Your Tea?"    Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Mama Told Me"



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