Keepers:
Wipe Out
Surfer Joe
Scatter Shield
Murphy the Surfie
Hot Rod High
Point Panic
Waikiki Run
I Wanna Take a Trip to the Islands
Catch a Little Ride With Me
Burnin’ Rubber
Beat ’65
Boss Barracuda
Hiawatha
Big Surge
Karen
Surf Scene
As an adult I’ve listened to a lot of Jamaican music but it’s hard to “get” music that you didn’t grow up with (for me that would be country, surf, rockabilly, Motown, British Invasion and all of the sub-genres that followed).
Here’s hoping that listening to the roots of a particular style of music (thank goodness “Pioneer” was in the title of this one or I wouldn’t have known) will afford greater appreciation of what came later.
Just for the record, I pretended to be 10 years old while I listened to this… played with baseball cards and read comic books.
What do you know?
Boom! 25 songs, 25 keepers.
Keepers:
Ghana Independence (They Got It)
Mas Charlie (Prisoner Song)
Nebuchadnezzar
Baba Kill Me Goat
Tribute to Collie Smith
West Indian Cricket Test
Aitken’s Boogie
Come Back Jeannie
Mary Lee
Yea Yea Baby
If It’s Money You Need
Low Down Dirty Girl
Railroad Track
Going Back to Kansas City
Judgement Day
Mash Potato Boogie
Bossa Nova Hop
Zion City
Mary Don’t You Weep
Bachelor Life
You Was Up
We Shall Overcome
Green Banana
Looking for My Baby
I Believe
Keepers:
Back In The Old World (Gypsy)
Los Angeles Theme (Another Private Dick)
On The Other Side Of The World
Good Old World (Waltz)
Keepers:
Wild Weekend
The End of the World
Walking the Whippet
An Die Musik
The Hour Before Dawn
Pyramid of Night
Ride of the Valkyries
Ride of the Valkyries (Live Rehearsal)
Walking the Whippet (Live Rehearsal)
Keepers:
Over Your Head
A Little Bit of Bad
Designated Driver
Ramona
Nothin’ Wrong With Me
Everybody’s Smokin’
Keepers:
That Summer Feeling
This Kind Of Music
The Neighbors
Somebody To Hold Me
Those Conga Drums
Not Yet Three
You’re The One For Me
Keepers:
The Long Riders
I’m A Good Old Rebel
Seneca Square Dance
Archie’s Funeral (Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand)
I Always Knew That You Were The One
Better Things To Think About
Escape From Northfield
Leaving Missouri
Jesse James
Keepers:
Mystery Train
You’re Free To Go
Sweetheart Of The Pines
Just Somone I Used To Know
My Father’s House
Lacassine Special
Today I Started Loving You Again
When I Was Yours
I Had My Heart Set On You
Your Long Journey
Keepers:
Continuing
Some Of Shelly’s Blues
Release
Winonah
The Back Porch And A Fruit Jar Full Of Iced Tea
Prairie Lullaby
I guess this is one big, long keeper.
Attention spans must’ve been different in the early ’70s, though… I doubt anyone could get away with this kind of thing now simply because nobody has multiple 40 minute segments of time to aurally invest in it.
Keepers:
How Could You Say No
I Will Arise and Go To Jesus
King of My Heart
My Psychiatrist
Mystery Love
Song to the Devil (I’m Through With You)
You Knew the Way to My Heart
Keepers:
Somethin’ Stupid
I’ve Gotta Feeling
Tennessee Me
Do You Love An Apple?
Sliver And Gold
