Today's feature covers that favorite topic of pop songwriters everywhere, Root Beer. I know this subject has been done to death, in such classics as "(I Can't Get No) Sarsaparilla", "My Heart Belongs to Dad's", "Lucy in the Mug with Root Beer", "Oh, Black Cow, Bambalam" "The A & W(inding) Road" and "I Want to Take You Hires". But despite that familiarity, give this one a chance.
It's called "Bubbly, Bubbly Root Beer", and it's from everyone's favorite Tin Pan Alley warbler, Mike Thomas. It's got all of the hallmark's of the era's TPA releases - the three piece band, the off-the-cuff sounding performance by everyone involved, and the idiosyncratic lyrics of yet another wishful thinker. Hoist a glass and have a listen!
Download: Mike Thomas - Bubbly, Bubbly Root Beer
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On the flip side, we have a ponderous piece of navel-gazing, titled "Questions of Flight". What starts as (and spends much of its time as) a series of open ended questions about the flight of various birds, eventually ends up at its real point, which is that the singer doesn't understand why his beloved chooses to "fly" away from him. If nothing else, this record is worth it for the awful note that Mike Thomas misses at 2:55, during the fade out.
Download: Mike Thomas - Questions of Flight
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Oh, man. Up to 2:55, he was handling that pretty well. Although "Questions of Flight" sounds like it ought to be a Moody Blues title, it's a pretty spare, decent little track. The a-side, however...
Thank you for posting these!!
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