This is my favorite version of the song. Somewhat obscure unless you're really into Disney music and/or Mannheim Steamroller, but really good either way. I picked this album up at a Disney Store at a local mall around the time it was released. I love Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas music so I couldn't pass this one up.

Michael, I listened to it and found it to be interesting "spacey" kind of music, but I didn't get the Disney connection? 

Quote from: Marilyne on October 05, 2024, 12:36:47 AMMichael, I listened to it and found it to be interesting "spacey" kind of music, but I didn't get the Disney connection? 

It's a cover of "When You Wish Upon A Star". Here's another one from the same album that sounds closer to the original.

Since I'm going to be down near Bowling Green this coming weekend (Thursday through Monday - going to Mammoth Cave and exploring other sites in the area such as the Corvette Museum), this song keeps popping into my head. The brothers were born in Central City, KY - about 43 miles (69km) northwest of Bowling Green. There is a monument to these guys in Central City, but I probably won't visit as it's an hour from Bowling Green and almost an hour and a half from where I'm staying in Cave City, KY.

Their biggie I remember from way back then was. -

   Oldiesmann - Enjoy the trip.

Or   (From a GOOD year)

Take what was supposed to be a normal, sentimental ballad, get the singer and band all liquored up before the recording session and you get this instead.


And if you're wondering what it was supposed to sound like, here's a version Hawkins recorded the previous year with a different label. This version remained unreleased until 2006.

What a trip down memory lane. Wake Up Little Sue was a favorite since one of my sisters is named Susan and she always prefers Sue. Of course before that came...


And yes, My Little Margie the TV show was also a favorite.
I don't thing Barb ever had a song, but she did have the Barbie Doll.

Going back to The Everly Brothers, here's the original version of a song that would later become a huge hit for Scottish hard rock band Nazareth in 1974. This was written by Boudleaux Bryant, who wrote quite a few songs for the Everlys with her husband Felice. This was never released as a single by the Everlys though, due to a disagreement between them and their manager/publisher.

Oops! It's Wake Up Little Suzie, not Sue. So, on to an early rock and roll star I grew up with. How about Chuck Berry?

or Jerry Lee Lewis?

Then there are Fats Domino and Little Richard:



Do you remember dancing the Jitter Bug?

Mars - So many songs with the name Sue or Susie, in  the title or within the lyrics. "Sweet Sue", "Run Around Sue", and of course, "A Boy Named Sue", by Johnny Cash.  My favorite Sue lyric, was in "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John . . . Me and Susie had so much fun.)  Your sister Barb, had a huge hit by  The Beach Boys . . . "Barbara Ann".  (I do remember seeing your real name in Senior Learn, many long years ago.) 

Forget about Barbara Ann.

Sue just heard from our cousin in Florida. He says he is out of the hurricane cone, but does expect rain and winds, just not hurricane winds. That reminds me, when I was watching some of the hurricane damage left from Helene, I marveled that many of the houses' roofs seemed intact while the rest of the house was pretty much gone. I know they have strict laws for roofing down that way, but didn't know it would be that good.

Lookin' around for Hurricane music, found this.

Here's a more famous one that mentions hurricane in the title, from 1984. This was pretty popular in the US, peaking at #5 on the mainstream rock chart and #25 on the Hot 100. It remains a staple of classic rock stations.

Michael, sounds like a nice weekend ahead for you. I'm sure you'll have a great time, and will enjoy Mammoth Cave as well as the Corvette Museum.  I've always liked the song,  "Bowling Green". Whenever I hear it I get a visual picture in my head of a wide sloping green lawn, with someone rolling a bowling ball across it.  I always thought I'd like to visit  there someday, but too late now.

Found this a while back. Don't know anything about Monty Sunshine, but he was apparently quite talented. Also features Lonnie Donegan (of "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor ..." fame) on banjo.

Yesterday -

So many great songs in that video. Reminds me of the local oldies station that I listened to all the time as a kid. They've since moved on to "classic hits" (similar format but with music from the 70s through early 90s now instead of 50s and 60s), though there is another smaller station playing the oldies format now.

Back to the spooky/crazy stuff, here's one I found last night. Rose & The Arrangement (known as Possum at the time of the single's release) became famous for a song about a fake horror film called "The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati" back in 1973. Apparently they recorded a similar song in 1988, this time involving Tijuana. Unfortunately I can't find any info on an album or single for this, but it's still funny.

Got back from my trip about an hour ago. I had a lot of fun and crammed a whole bunch of stuff into a short amount of time (6 cave tours at 5 different caves, a couple of short hiking trails at the national park, two museums, a trip to Buc-ee's, a 90-minute trolley tour where they drive you around to different parts of Bowling Green and explain some of the history of the area and a brief stop in a small town near the Tennessee state line), but it's good to be back home.

Hope you brought some pix back to share, Michael.

Michael, what a wonderful vacation you had.  I never knew there were five caves . . . I thought there was only one.  Sounds like a lot of fun and a lot of history . . . a  real piece of Americana. 

Quote from: MarsGal on October 15, 2024, 08:46:40 AMHope you brought some pix back to share, Michael.

They're all on Facebook at the moment. I'll get them uploaded to Flickr soon and share the link here. I took way too many to upload them all here

Quote from: Marilyne on October 15, 2024, 11:17:50 AMMichael, what a wonderful vacation you had.  I never knew there were five caves . . . I thought there was only one.  Sounds like a lot of fun and a lot of history . . . a  real piece of Americana. 

There are actually two or three caves at the national park, though I only saw the big one that the park is named for. There are six other privately-owned caves in the region as well. I did tours at 4 of the 6 (in addition to Mammoth, I did Lost River Cave in Bowling Green, Hidden River Cave in Horse Cave, Crystal Onyx Cave in Cave City and Diamond Caverns in Park City).

@MarsGal and anyone else who's interested, here are all the photos taken on my trip. I grouped them into albums according to where they were taken, and each album is sorted from oldest to newest. I didn't add titles or descriptions to most of them though. https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldiesmann/collections/72157723201076878/

Great pix, Michael. I especially liked the Corvette and Rail shots. Those two-seater Corvettes were very popular around here in the 60's and early 70's. Never saw a medical railcar before. The second and third pix in you Crystal Cave folder look like some kind of bird-like mud creatures. What caught my eye most in Mammoth Caves were the several pictures showing what looks like a big bore-hole. Very straight and even. Was it a magma-tube or a bore-hole?

Quote from: MarsGal on October 16, 2024, 07:30:47 AMGreat pix, Michael. I especially liked the Corvette and Rail shots. Those two-seater Corvettes were very popular around here in the 60's and early 70's. Never saw a medical railcar before. The second and third pix in you Crystal Cave folder look like some kind of bird-like mud creatures. What caught my eye most in Mammoth Caves were the several pictures showing what looks like a big bore-hole. Very straight and even. Was it a magma-tube or a bore-hole?

Not a magma tube as there aren't any volcanoes in that part of the country. I'm not sure if it's a bore hole or not.

Getting back to the music, I recently found this great rendition of the classic country song "For the Good Times" by Chilean singer German Casas. This was written and originally performed by Kris Kristofferson and was a huge hit for Ray Price.

Quotethere aren't any volcanoes in that part of the country.

Brain wasn't engaged. Should have thought of that.

Here is a singer I haven't heard in a long time. I discovered her back in the 60's when George Harrison made the sitar popular. This is not one I remember having heard before.


 

A cover of an ELO classic by British band Duran Duran. This group had success on both sides of the pond in the mid 80s ("Hungry Like the Wolf", "Rio", "The Reflex" and the theme from the James Bond film A View to a Kill among others) and scored two more top 10 hits in the US in 1993 ("Ordinary World" and "Come Undone").

My younger daughter was a big fan of Duran Duran, in the 80's.  I remember hearing all those songs playing on the stereo in her bedroom.   She had the nick-name "Rio" for many years.   

A classic one-hit-wonder from 1963. This hit #16 in the US in late September of 1963. It has been covered by several artists, most notably by British rock and roll revival group Rocky Sharpe & The Replays in early 1980.

The odd things you stumble across on YouTube... "... cuz you're the coolest little monster that ever put the spook on me!". This is from 1960.