Therefore CLASSIC.
― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
[chorus]Indiana wants meLord, I can't go back thereIndiana wants meLord, I can't go back thereI wish I had you to talk to
If a man ever needed dyin', he didNo one had the right to say what he said about youAnd it's so cold and lonely here without youOut there the law's a-comin'I'm scared and so tired of runnin'
[repeat chorus]
It hurts to see the man that I've becomeAnd to know I'll never see the morning sun shine on the landI'll never see your smiling face of touch your handIf just once more I could see you, our home and our little baby
I wish I had you to talk to
I hope this letter finds its way to youForgive me, love, for the shame I put you through and all the tearsHang on, love, to the memories of those happy yearsRed lights are flashin' around meYeah, love, it looks like they found me
[repeat chorus twice to fade among sound effects of a shootout]
-- Rickey Wright (rrricke...), September 2nd, 2004.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I heard'ja knockin' but I got nothin' for ya here. "Indiana" is a classic, but I've never heard another note from him (and don't know how integral he was to the Supremes' later hits).
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Neil Young, if you count the signed, but never released, Mynah Birds.
His Canadianness gets him decent airplay here in Canada, but all the heavy rotation songs have been mentioned, and I can't think of any other. He's definitely classic on the basis of "Gotta See Jane" and "There's a Ghost in My House".
― Vic Funk, Sunday, 16 October 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Also contains an atrocious cover version of The Beatles'Two of Us.
― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 17 October 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, "Gotta See Jane" is rad. Esp. the Fall version. I have some Dutch-issued Canadian Rockabilly anthology Vol. 3 that has early RDT on it.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
The back cover of His I Think, Therefore I Am proclaims that Taylor plays everything on "Indiana Wants Me." Presumably not the strings. It also informs me that he wrote "Love Child," "I'm Livin' In Shame," and a Temptations song called "All I Need." Huh!
The record is really promising on Side A - in addition to "Indiana" you get "Gotta See Jane" and something called "Woman Alive" which sounds exactly like "Indiana Wants Me" and is therefore fantastic. Side B is comparitively sluggish, and his covers in general seem to miss the point of the originals entirely - "Fire and Rain," "Two Of Us," and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" have never felt so overblown.
Anything else worth tracking down? Besides this video, of course?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 January 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Get the Spectrum comp mentioned above - apart from the three stone cold classic singles it has the startling Candy Apple Red on it, which is a must have.
― Guilty_Boksen, Saturday, 19 January 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The only white dude on Motown, wasn't he?
Not including R Dean Taylor, there was also Bobby Darin, Tommy Good, Rare Earth and lots of others that no one remembers. Plenty of white women as well.
― musically, Saturday, 19 January 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
If you've ever seen a Motown discography, you'll know that there were enough white artists to fill a box set. Not just ten or twelve, more like 100 (maybe more). Besides the white rock bands on the Rare Earth roster, Motown also had a couple of country subsidiaries - Melody in the sixties, later revived in the seventies as Melodyland, then Hitsville.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Sunday, 20 January 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris Clark being one obvious standout.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 January 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Look at this: http://www.rareearthworld.co.uk/rareearthlabel.html
The Pretty Things, The Easybeats and Love Sculpture.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 January 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that Bobby Darin albums starts out with a cover of "Sail Away."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 January 2008 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Motown also had a couple of country subsidiaries - Melody in the sixties, later revived in the seventies as Melodyland, then Hitsville.
Ha, Mike Curb cut some records on Pat Boone on Melodyland/Hitsville.
http://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/3190/2286.html?1046103674
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Kiki Dee was on Motown for a bit in the late sixties.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, problem with Motown is that in white music, they always got the stars on their way up, or just as they were coming down - never in their prime.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I <3 "There's a Ghost in My House".
― Neil S, Monday, 20 October 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Not talking about the guitarist from the BJM, then?
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Monday, 20 October 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope, Canadian northern soul guy.
― Neil S, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
One cool thing about R. Dean Taylor is that he made stuff that sounded downright twee psych. Which is something that no other Motown act did.
And this is not meant as an attack on Motown in general, as they provided the world with some marvellous pop music, but they sounded a bit out of date during the psychedelia explosion in 1967-68. The orchestrated arrangements on some Four Tops singles were getting close, but sadly there aren't a lot of sitars, mellotrons or phasing to be heard in 67-68 Motown recordings. No lyrics about pink elephants flying through marshmallow skies either.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"Shadow" is creepy and gross enough that I can't help but feel that it colors my perception of the rest of his output.
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Sunday, 19 October 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link