The Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer Episode 40

One of my favourite covers of Another Saturday Night by Cat Stevens is the first number two song on our Quest for Silver podcast.  Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters preceeds John Lennon's Number nine dream.   Leanne Womac is next with her song I hope you dance.  Stuck in the Middle with you by Steeler's Wheel is just ahead of our next silver selection by Donny and Marie Osmond, I'm leaving it up to you.  There's more - let us know what you think.

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This is the Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer on Lifestyles 55 Podcasts.

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Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody. I got some money, cause I just got paid. Now how I wish I had someone to talk to. I'm in an awful way. I got him down a month ago. I've seen a lot of girls since then. I can beat 'em, I can get 'em, but yet I haven't met 'em. That's how I'm in the state I'm in. Oh, another Saturday night. I ain't got a lot of. I got some money, cause I just got a side How I wish I had someone to talk to. I'm in an offer. Another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine. It's gonna be a man deliverance, he had a string and fellows to work and stuff. Another side of him, I hate I got some money because I just got a baby.

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I always I like someone I'm in the way It's hard on a fella When he don't know his way around I don't find me a honey to help miss.

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I'm gonna help his cow I know I'm on a spell I got some money, I just got to pay I got some money to talk, I'm gonna stop.

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We have an hour to quest for silver on lifestyles fifty-five with me, Mr. T. I'll be your host, Christopher, as we play those great songs from the previous century of outstanding as well as influential songs that did not make it to the top of the chart. Remain some of our favorites. We started the hour with Kat Stevens and another Saturday night. The year is 1974. And Mr. Stevens has been around the block and back. And it was the song he's trained that held him onto the top of the chart. And then our opening song, written and performed first by Sam Hulk a decade earlier. Another Saturday night saw him amidst the top ten once more. Well, rainy days and Mondays by the Carpenter's painted number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending seven weeks in the top ten. And since we are on a quest for silver, it is perfect to place this song on our proverbial turntable and listen to the sweet voice of Karen Carpenter with instrumentation by the wrecking crew.

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Walking around some kind of lonely cloud Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. No need to talk it out. We know what it's all about hanging around to rainy days and wonders always get me down funny, but it seems that it's the only thing to do Run and find the one who loves me. What I feel is coming gone for No need to talk it out. We know what it's all about Hang in around to do the cry Rainy dance one days always get me down.

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Hang in a ride around to do the cry.

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Rainy dance one does always get When I learned about the backstory of this next song from John Lennon, who awoke from a dream and wrote this next hit from his Wall and Bridges album. It was ironic to me that I thought of playing the song on my next L Fifty Five show after a wee nap one afternoon. Here is the fanciful and somewhat reflective song entitled Number Nine Dream. Because it can speak to so many circumstances in life. As Leanne Womack said about it herself, with a reporter for Billboard magazine. It made me think about my daughters and the different times in their lives. But it can be so many things for so many different people. Certainly it can represent everything a parent hopes for their child, but it can also be for a relationship that's ending as a fond wish for the other person's happiness, or for someone graduating, or having a baby, or embarking on a new path. It fits almost every circumstance I can think of.

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You get your feeling, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handy. I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dare.

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Stealer's Wheel Stuck in the Middle with lead singer Jerry Rafferty is a song I fondly remember playing for the first time back in 1973 on a Western Canadian radio station one night. And I was thinking about a particularly infamous friend of mine, and hence the title of this song made me wonder about the juxtaposition of me stuck in the middle with you.

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Well I came here tonight. I'm so scared in kids, I'll fall off my chair. And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you. Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you. And I wonder what it is I should do. It's so hard to keep the smile from my face. I'm all over the place. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you. When you started out with brother, and you're gonna join several mail. And your family are gonna cover.

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Slap me on my back and say don't make some sense of it all.

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But I can see it makes no sense at all. Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor? You don't think that I can take anymore? Crowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

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Here I am, stuck in the middle of you And you started all with nothing, and your brother's out in there And your friend did all the father, settle on my back and stage Free Yeah, I don't know why I can read tonight.

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I got a feeling something right. I'll just kid in case I fall off my chair and I'm wondering I won't get down the stairs. Bounce to the left of me, joke gets to the right, here I am, stack in the middle with you.

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Stack in the middle with you. Here I am, stack in the middle with you.

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I'm leaving it all up to you, as a loyal listener of the quest for silver on L55DR, to ponder the origin of this song. Never mind, I'll ease your anxiety. Originally it was recorded by Don Harris and Dewey Terry in 1957, and then later by Dale and Grace in 63. And still, one more time it reached the top ten by Donnie and Marie Osmond a decade later. You know how it is with a great song, it gets refurbished and around it goes again and again. Which is a difficult word to translate from French, but loosely it is similar to amorous. And so it is a romantic song, but most certainly not erotic. It is clearly a passionate song about a relationship that is possibly not going forward. The song describes the contradictory feelings of passion and fear of a woman involved in a new love affair.

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Can my life ever be the same? Should have been together when we love the love. I remember turn the key to love. So my fantasies will turn to love. I will give him anything.

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was written by the Englishman Albert Hammond, but it was the rendition of the Hollies that made an impact of significant proportions on both sides of the Atlantic. It was a major hit for them in early 74, reaching number two in the UK singles chart. It was the Hollies' last major hit.

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No street, no lights, no sound, nothing to be, no bugs to link in love with you, has left me peaceful and time. So sleep, silent, go to sleep.

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All I need is the bad weather.

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During the relatively long run by this American man named Climax, they submitted modest hits like Rocky Road and four other top five records Precious and Few, Life and Breath, Walking in the Georgia Rain, and Caroline This Time. It won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocalist in 73. And if you know the song at all, you will be aware that there is this very deep sexy voice, which is from the vocal chords of Mike Sands, singing the bass vocal harmony of the song.

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Wherever you go, wherever you may wander alive, surely you know. And standing by to catch you never seeing you through everything you do. Let me be there in your morning. Let me be there in your night. Let me change whatever's wrong and make it right. Let me take you through that one and then you can share. Watching you grow, I'm going through the changes in the life. That's how I know. I always want to be there. Whenever you feel you need a friend to lead on here I am whenever you call No, I'll be there. Let me be there in your body. Let me be there in your back. Let me take my phone. I'll make it right. Let me take the one that don't get all that too. Let me do the pick that we got. Let me pick that. Let me take one. Let me take the land I don't need to catch it. All I have to do. Let me be dead. Let me be dead.

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Simon and Garfunkel, who met in school and were friends for many years and performed some great songs together, however, split from singing together for personal reasons. But the pair have occasionally reunited in the years since. Both men, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, have experienced success in solo careers in the years following the duo's breakup. Art Garfunkel is with us now to perform his second secondary hit after his breakup with Paul, called I Shall Sing from 1973.

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I shall sing La La La La La La Lay.

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I shall say she might song.

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I don't know what it is.

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Uh what is uh prejudice?

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I think it's when from my head.

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We interrupt this program to bring you a special bulletin. Dallas, Texas. The flash, apparently official. President John F. Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time.

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Anybody here? See my old friend Martin. Can you tell me where he's gone? He's feeling a lot of people, but it seems good they die young.

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Because I've been to the mountaintop. Like anybody, I would like to live.

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No one can be certain who next will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed.

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And you tell me what you're audience just sent me a message that we've been here too long already.

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Like it or not, we live in times of danger and uncertainty. That is the way he lived. That is what he leaves us. My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. To be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others, will someday come to pass for all the world. As he said many times in many parts of this nation, those he touched and who sought to touch him. Some men see things as they are and say why.