{"id":892,"date":"2011-10-18T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2011-10-18T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:38:35","slug":"tunesday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Tunesday 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal musical history today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hot Smoke and Sassafras&#8221; by The Bubble Puppy was a big hit when I was in high school down in the San Antonio area. I hadn&#8217;t realized how regional the song&#8217;s popularity was until some years later, when I was only able to find one other person among my friends and acquaintances who&#8217;d ever heard of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qja2ptq_p7I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was their only big hit, and they played it when they were inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame this year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YN_f_9pZCs0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I was in the Navy and stationed in Connecticut in the late 1970s, some friends turned me on to Renaissance. I really loved their music, so I bought every LP of theirs that was available, and then some. That&#8217;s right, I picked up a Renaissance LP that they hadn&#8217;t recorded &#8211; there was another group trying to use the name, and after I bought the LP, I discovered that the liner notes stated that they couldn&#8217;t use the name anymore. Ah, well. My friends saw the group in concert in NYC, but as I recall, I couldn&#8217;t go that weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Renaissance had a distinctive sound; Annie Haslam, the lead singer, was operatically trained, and they would sometimes perform and record with a backing orchestra. Some of their music borrows from classical music, as well. For example, they borrow from Debussy&#8217;s <em>The Sunken Cathedral<\/em> here.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vODfYjbLxY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JAVyKDDsM3s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I liked their longer pieces a lot. I can recall listening to this one while driving wooded back roads at night.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4x6aImd63g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Raitt was starting to make it big around that time, and I loved listening to this song when it came on the radio.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2Kf-BZw1eI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I was in the West Indies with the US Navy (my last duty station before I left the Navy), we had a few LPs available to play in the watch area. One of them was &#8220;Now We Are Six,&#8221; by Steeleye Span. This was my favorite tune on the LP.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D-mix36SjZY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because of that LP and one a friend stationed there with me let me tape from <a href=\"http:\/\/recordrelics.ecrater.com\/p\/1236073\/barde-images-vinyl-lp-record\">a Canadian band called Barde<\/a>, I started to get into Celtic-flavored music and picked up a Lindisfarne LP. The only song I can name off it is this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dF5xVnTo8gs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My musical tastes started to really diversify around that time, but I don&#8217;t want this post to get any longer, so I&#8217;ll leave it for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal musical history today. &#8220;Hot Smoke and Sassafras&#8221; by The Bubble Puppy was a big hit when I was in high school down in the San Antonio area. 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