C&L's Late Night Music Club with Edwin Starr
By Andy K Wednesday Jan 07, 2009 8:00pmPlease allow me, with your help, to conduct an impromptu survey:
Can you listen to this song without feeling the urge to bob your head, tap your fingers and/or toes, or shake your hips and/or caboose? Please record your reactions in the comments section. Thank you.
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Sure I can.......Hey, wait a minute....what's that?? Oh Crap!
Got to keep on walkin'..... man that was a great song then and still is... as I chair dance....HUH!!!
Good song but I think, as a Vietnam veteran, that his recording of War will always be a timely reminder of the futility and stupidity of what war is which, as the song reminds us:
War? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing ... Say it again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7V6FAoTLc
Head's a bobbin: check
Fingers/toes are a tappin: check
Hips/caboose are shakin: check
YEAH, baby! I love that tune, Andy K!
You're welcome.
:)
I wiggle at just about any music that has any type of beat. I do love this song...extra wigglin' goin' on. Head, shoulders, hips and feeties. And I am lying down!
Made me think of the Pelvic Thrust
One of my favs, to be sure! Thanks!!
A classic!
It seems just as relevant now as it did then.
Stands the test of time as well.
Then there's this timeless classic.
to this one: Sexual Healing.
I was reluctant to go there Ms. uhhhhh,ummmmmmmm,uhhhhhh.
It's a killer song! Just because it has a great beat to, uhm, well, uh, wiggle to... :-D
a long version of What's Going On ... it has been added to my Fave list.
Thanks, mudshark!
"Running Back and Forth", "Stop Her on Sight", "I am the Man for You Baby"
Sure, I can keep from moving to it, but only with some effort. I imagine it might have been played on, like, 1972-era "Soul Train" so I picture lots of bobbing afros, hot pants, and stretch boots working the floor to it.
...when any of Edwin's stuff is playin' or any Motown: the Temps, the 4 Tops, the Supremes - all of my favs from the 60's into 70's.
We should be blasting "War: what is it good for?!" every day.
smoke a gagger and dig this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7-VzJGSmpU&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqKvwPNLikk&fe...
Waiting for Columbus is in my opinion one of the best live albums ever recorded. As regards Edwin Starr I was practically raised on Motown. It was the soundtrack of my youth. Thanks for posting this one Andy.
OK, THANKS A LOT. I think I just broke this chair because of the late, great Mr. Starr. Too much booty shaking.
Find The Cost of Freedom
listening to that!
But try this.
Slippin into Darkness. War.
and I still have to listen to Green Day! haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa5C6bEByNU
in bar scenes when mixed with Cisco Kid, Low Rider, etc. Kind of a buzz kill, but a good song to play if you had shitty service and don't plan on returning.
I don't think I can do better than that one. CSNY made that song.
This song always puts me in a deep contemplative mood..
I was just trying to keep in the theme of the music thread.
American Idiot.
Green day
Welcome to Machine.
U2
Refugee.
You gotta turn it UP !
With this one.
War/ No more Trouble. Bob Marley.
Good Night Folks. Be Well.
I must bid adieu myself. Peace to all.
But, Frankly. I do give a damn.:)
Life During Wartime. Talking Heads.
No, Really. I mean it this time.
I said I didn't think I could top "Find The Cost of Freedom" by C,N,and Gilmour. But I think this one just might.
Credit has to go to John Amato. He posted this one quite awhile ago on the music thread. And it stuck to me.
Barber's Adagio in Strings.
Check out Starr's "Agent Double-0 Soul." It's as good as or better than "Twenty Five Miles."
I had forgotten about that number.
When I saw the name Edwin Starr I thought of War.
Great choice thanks.
I have it as one of the songs I play while heading to a destination on a road trip. Thanks for sharing this Love it!
It is virtually impossible not to move to that song. I didn't think so when you posed the question but as soon as the music started, Damn if I didn't' start bobbing.
Detroiters watched Robin Seymour and "Swingin' Time". Unless my memory fails (which it can, on occasion) I was Edwin Starr on that show which I believe was broadcast out of Windsor, Ontario. Sweet memories.
i'm often not myself...but I've never been Edwin Starr.
for about 7 seconds.
My 4-year-old son bobbed the whole way through and then asked, "Can we listen to that song again?".
I hang around with a great 7 year-old, and I bounce my oldies off of him so I can figure out if the songs of my childhood really were that good, or whether I'm attached to them for sentimental reasons. So far it seems- gauging by Newman's reactions- that the pop music of the late '60's through the late '70's was, indeed, really good.
Will It Go Round In Circles
Bounce this one off your 4 year-old, jiminut!
Every band should have such a horn section. They sound like what every British band wishes they could sound like. Perfect soul.
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