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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Stones sax/Fabs vs Stones/Cowbell/LIB
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2013
Time: 11:48:16 PM
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We enter week 722 of our Stones poll with this question: What is the best Saxophone heard in a Stones song? Yes, there are still some very good questions after 722 weeks of running this poll that we still haven’t asked yet, and this is one of them. In about 2 weeks a question asking for the best sax in rock music will be asked, and the top four picks chosen from this week’s Stones poll will be included in that Rock poll.
When you think of the Stones and a saxophonist, you think of Bobby Keys, no question about it, and he has been around for all but one tour since 1970 - or is it ’72? But anyway, although he plays sax on more Stones studio songs than anybody else (he’s credited on 14 of the 26 songs listed), several others have played sax since the first time Bobby blew sax for them. Of course, hardnosed Stones fans know that before he formed the Stones, the main instrument Brian Jones played was the sax, not the guitar. Yet with all of the many different lead instruments he played for the Stones – the sax never was one. He does show up on the list 4 times, but his sax, for the most part on those songs, are in the background, or only briefly heard.
As long as a song has a sax in it, it gets listed, and since I rushed putting this poll together, I’ll guess that I might have forgotten one or more songs when making up the list. If so, please let me know ASAP so I can add what I might have forgotten, thanks.
Oh, and just remember, the question isn’t asking for your favorite song listed, but whatever song you feel that the sax fits in the song best.
Just click here to vote: Stones Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Stones poll, we asked a rare non-Stones question: Are you on Facebook, or Twitter, or both? Well, well, well, I was very shocked to see the final results that came from this question. I through I was in a very small minatory as far as me not belonging to either of these 2 social sites, but it turns out that my thinking was way off, as the top pick was: “ No, I've never been on either”, with 34.7% of the vote! I had no clue so many of you were like me when it came to those places. Still, 60.1% of those who voted are on one or the other – or both.
You can view the full, final results from this poll by clicking here: Stones Weekly Poll – week 721 – poll results.
Okay, now to the Classic Rock Weekly Poll, where it’s week 364, and this week, after a one week break, we return to what has become the norm for this poll, 2 poll questions in one week. Here’s this week’s first question: What rock song contains the best use of a cowbell? (Part 1 of 3) The old cowbell, it goes real good with a rocking tune, no question. Only thing with rock songs and cowbells are they usually are not heard through the entire song, and if they are, they are in the back ground. But there are a few songs in each part of this poll that yes, the cowbell is heard throughout and is right up front. Plus very funny, right at this very moment as I type this, the song “Hold Your Head Up” is playing on the radio – and yep, it has a cowbell - and no, I didn’t have it listed. But I’ll now list it for next week’s part 2 poll. It is impossible to remember every song that can make the list of any poll, so it is cool when something like this happens.
I highly suggest visiting YouTube and play any of the songs listed in this week’s poll that you don’t know well enough, since remembering which song has the best cowbell, isn’t easy unless you know the song real good. And like with the Stones poll, please don’t pick your favorite songs listed; we aren’t looking for that.
So, which song with the best cowbell will you vote for? To make your pick, click on Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
This week's second Rock Poll question is the usual “VS” poll series of questions, with a Beatles vs Stones question: “'Boys” (by The Beatles) vs “I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys” (by The Rolling Stones), which song is better? Two old songs from the early (Fabs) and mid (Boys) 1960s, and two songs that sounded very gay, even if only one was. With the Beatles cover, well, “Boys” was a B single for the girl group, The Shirelles in back in 1960, and the Beatles began to play it live the very next year with Peter Best singing the lead vocals. The funny thing was that Ringo was also singing it live with his band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, and when he replaced Best in the Beatles, he continued to sing it live for the Fabs. McCartney said that the band didn’t care if some though it was a gay song, since it wasn’t meant to be one, and it was a fan favorite at their night club gigs. They then recorded it in 1963 and it appeared on the Please Please Me LP.
The Stones song was a gay song – in fact, it was the very first gay rock song recorded by anybody (in February 1965), but since it sat unreleased for 10 years (until used on Metamorphosis) it doesn’t carry the title of being the first gay rock song, as many such songs were released before 1975.
The song was written about songwriter/producer Bob Crewe, who wrote most of the hit songs for the Four Seasons, and for a few other bands. Crewe was still in the closet in the ‘60s, like most gays in the US were at the time, and he dated girls who he didn’t want to really go out with, and that is exactly what the lyrics to the song are about. The song was not a Jagger/Richards song, but first written by ALO and finished up by Keith, making it one of only 2 Oldham/Richards compositions.
I do have up YouTube links to both songs at the voting page in case you wish to listen to both of them before you vote. To see those links and/or to vote in the poll, click on Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
In last week’s lone Classic Rock Poll, the question was: The Grateful Dead vs The Rolling Stones vs Buddy Holly, who cut the best version of 'Not Fade Away'? I have a strong feeling that if there were not so many Stones fans who vote in this poll each week, that the final results would have been way different. The Stones had a nice size lead early in the week when most of us Stones fans vote, but by mid-week when mainly non-Stones fans showed up to vote, things changed fast, and by Friday the 2 cover songs were neck and neck, with a tie for first place in the very end.
To see the full, final results from this VS poll, click on: Classic Rock Poll week 363 .
Now let’s check out the Beatles weekly poll, where it’s week 117. This week’s question is: Let It Be vs Let It Be... Naked, which version of the album is better? The last of a series of questions run in the last few weeks about the LIB LP ends with a question I’m sure most of you expected.
The Let It Be album was of course, never supposed to be. When the songs were record, the Fabs were working on a new album that was supposed to return them to the way they used to work in the early days, and the songs would include no overdubs, etc, and the album would be titled Get Back. They also would film the entire process of making the album for a new movie, but as we all know, things went bad real fast for the Beatles while recording the songs, with George and Paul getting into an argument on film that lead to George leaving the band for a few days, and after a few months, with most of the songs completed or near completed, they gave up and ditched the entire album. After a few more months, Phil Spector was hired to clean up the mess, and he changed around many of the songs, and not until after the band had broken up for good, the retitled album Let It Be was released as their final studio LP, even if their last recorded studio album was Abbey Road, which had already been released.
But Paul hated the LIB album and in 2003 he finally got his say when he redid, or in some cases, just reused rejected takes of some of the songs and released his version of the album and titled it Let It Be….Naked.
So, which version of this album do you like better? Click on Beatles Weekly Poll to let us know.
In last week’s Beatles poll, we asked: Which version of “Across the Universe” turned out the best? In a landslide, the Phil Spector re-done version on the song won big, with 43.1% of the vote.
To check out the full, final results from last week’s Beatles poll, click on this link:
Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 116.
Regardless of which poll you vote in, be it only one - or all four each week, I thank you for taking a part in the voting process!
Keno
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