HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
What better way to welcome the new year, song-poem style, than with Rodd Keith, here in his Chamberlin assisted persona of "Rod Rogers and the Film City Orchestra", with a tribute to an iconic, if little praised, car of the 1950's and 1960's, the Rambler. The song-poets (and Rodd) clearly had "In My Merry Oldsmobile" in mind for at least the opening lines of this song. See if your toes don't start tapping and you don't start singing along with "Ramblers Dream":
Download: Rod Rogers and the Film City Orchestra - Ramblers Dream
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(And yes, regarding the title of this post, I do know that by the 1960's, when this was recorded, it was no longer the "Nash Rambler" that the Tokens sang about, but it was too good a reference to pass up.)
Fred Zak, co-poet of "Ramblers Dream" teamed up with a different partner for the flip side, "Western Ghost Trail". This is a rather tuneless, meandering record with very little to recommend it. Not only that, but somehow, the pressing of this record manages slow down and drop a half step or so, during the last half minute (that's not a problem with my turntable - I played it on two players with the same result).
Download: Rod Rogers and the Film City Orchestra - Western Ghost Trail
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1 comment:
This is kinda ridiculous! Thanks for posting.
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