Things I should have known about my favorite artists

[mandrix]

I read a while back that he wrote it for her to sing. I hadn't realized it was about her.

I may well be dumber than a box of rocks, but the implications are clear to moi.
Vaguely remember perusing at work many years ago, a colleague's print of Playboy with BS on the cover. lol.
But, Dylan being Dylan, who knows. very private guy. Doesn't really matter anyway. People compose songs in showers and planes.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Due to an technical error, I deleted my post.

 

[mandrix]

Due to an technical error, I deleted my post.

We don't care about no tech errors, only individual thoughts matter. We are one.

 

[Fourplay]

One of my favorite bits of hidden music trivia is the case of Electra Glide in Blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_Glide_in_Blue

This 1973 movie was directed by James William Guercio, who was also the producer of the band Chicago's first eleven studio albums. He also founded Caribou Ranch, the famous recording studio in Colorado at which many a hit album was recorded. The studio was closed after it was damaged in a fire in March 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou_Ranch

The film starred the actor Robert Blake, once of Baretta fame and more infamously accused in the 2001 murder of his second wife.

The soundtrack of the film features several uncredited performances by the band Chicago, and any fan of that band might wish to seek out the soundtrack, which I have loved since seeing the movie in the theater in 1973.

Here is one clip from the film with some of the music by Chicago.



Also, several band members appear in the film in bit parts including:
Peter Cetera as Bob Zemko
Terry Kath as Killer
Lee Loughnane as Pig Man
Walter Parazaider as Loose Lips

Finally, this is the third time I have posted about the film on QQ, including this post in 2015:

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/threads/movie-music-and-music-in-movies.20681/post-250725

I have been enjoying this thread, thanks for all the fun contributions!

 

[gvl_guy]

Carole King didn't think she was much of a singer, although she did have a medium size hit with "It Might As Well Rain Until September" in 1963. She really didn't make her own splash until she released her "Tapestry" album in '71.

I learned so much about Carole King from seeing the show, Beautiful. Spectacular. She has an amazing story

 

[dabl]

James Taylor is the banjo player on Neil Young's 'Old Man' from the Harvest album. Great feel.

 

[esimms86]

No. It's on Dad Loves His Work album, and vinyl liner notes list background vocals J.D., but I heard it on the radio when it came out and I knew right away who it was. I always liked his voice. He was big friends with Graham Parsons and that whole group.

The JT one I loved the best was City Lights with his brother Livingston, and it was on Liv's album. You can't miss their brothers when you hear them sing separately. He's a music professor at Berkley in California and I sent him my album cover and I suggested that he should have a Taylor Family record with his bother Liv and his sister Kate. Unfortunatey his older brother Alex died from alcoholism many yeas ago and he had one album. If you close you eyes and imagine it you can hear a JT similarity.

The one that shocked me was Bob Dylan as the vocalist for Lay Lady Lay. Wow!

Actually, Livingston Taylor teaches at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.