The Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer Episode 55

Hi folks welcome to our Quest for Silver with Sly and the Family Stone and Dance to the music, a great number two song followed by The Beatles with Lady Madonna.  Next is Gene and Debby from Nashville with Playboy.  Here now with another number two song called The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde is by Georgie Fame.  Our next selection of silver songs is Kenny Rogers with I just dropped in.   The Intruders have the centre stage now with Cowboys to Girls.  Please let us know what you think of our Quest this time around.

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This is the Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer on Lifestyles Fifty Five Podcasts. It's time for the quest for silver. With me, Mr. T, on Lifestyles 55. Hi folks, Christopher here, with our show that just got the kickstart by Sly and the Family's own and dance with the music. Feel free to let your proverbial hair down and dance as if no one is watching. It's cathartic, let me tell you. Now, let's keep the virtual turntable turning with the Fab Four from Liverpool and their number two song, which did not happen very often. Lady Madonna, written by Paul McCartney, and of course, also credited to John Lennon.

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Lady Madonna, children at your feet. Wonder how you manage to make ends meet. Who finds the money when you pay the rent? Did you think that money was heaven sent? Friday night arrives without a suitcase. Sunday morning creeping like a nun. Monday's titles learn to tie his booth base. Wednesday morning papers didn't come. Thursday night your stuffings needed mending. See how they run. We need another children and your feet. Wonder how you managed to make ends meet.

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They had some brief successes on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and they launched a career at Acuff Rose Music, singing romantic country-style pop melodies. After hitting the charts with this song entitled Playboy, which is about to invade your ears, they both faded into chart obscurity.

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To me you're just a play, boy. Never mean a word you say, boy. I'm so afraid you'll go away and leave me lonely.

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Do you believe a lie, girl? Why can't you see you're my world? Believe me what I say to you. I love you only. I never knew that love could have me like this till you came along with your kids.

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Then I failed and do you spare knowing quite well that you would only hurt me.

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Just what you mean to me, girl. Then you would know I'd never go away without you.

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Oh boy, I wish that I could know you, boy. If what you say is oh boy, then I would never care what they may say about you. I never knew that love could hurt me like this.

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Do you came along with your kids? That someone would tell you I would only hurt you now. Doesn't matter what they say now.

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If you ain't gonna try together, I hope we'll buy love.

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What can we say about two of the most infamous robbers and murderers circa 1932 for a couple of the Depression years? Bonnie and Clyde. Well, since we tend to focus on songs from the 60s and 70s, let's note that in 1967 a film was released which was directed by Arthur Penn and starred Warren Bailey and Ray Dunaway in the title role. It was a commercial and critical success which revived interest in the criminals and glamorized them with a romantic aura. But let me state here unequivocally that there most certainly, as a matter of fact, was nothing glamorous or romantic about the true life robbers and murderers named Bonnie and Clyde. But this is the most famous song about them, sung by Englishman Georgie Fame.

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Bonnie and Clyde were pretty looking people, but I can tell you, people, they were the devil's children. Bonnie and Clyde began their evil doing one lazy afternoon down savannah away. Got clean away in a stolen car, and waited till the heat died down. Barney and Clyde advanced their reputation and made the graduation into the banking business. And the Jew like back. Now one brave man, he tried to take them along. They left him lying in a pool of blood, and laughed about it on the way home. I got to be public enemy number one Running, hiding from every American lawman's gun They used to laugh about dying But deep inside them they knew The British and they be lying Beneath the ground together, pushing up there's just a walk on the sun and the morning Acting upon reliable information A federal deputation later deadly ambush went on in quiet, came walking in the sunshine, a half a dozen carbons opened up on there.

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The first edition produced a few songs very unlike the sound that he embraced throughout the remainder of his singing life. Case in point is this song entitled I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In. It was a song that was intended to be a sort of warning about the dangers of using LSD. While the song was the group's second single from their debut album in the first edition, the producer Mike Host reversed a few riffs to create the intro. The guitar solo played by Glenn Campbell was heavily compressed, and the tremolo effect was used to achieve its sound. Kenny Rogers on L55DR in the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition was in.

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I woke up this morning with the sundown shining in. I found my mind in a brown paper bag within. I tripped down a cloud and fellow eight miles. I tore my man on a jagged sky. I just dropped in see what condition my condition was in.

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Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition was in.

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I pushed my soul in a deep drop hole and then I followed it.

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I watched myself calling up as I was crawling in. I got up so tight, I couldn't saw so much. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in the middle. Someone in it, yes, I left my mouth and I got the mouse downtown. I've just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in.

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Who are the intruders? Well, let me fill you in. The intruders are notorious for having twenty-four RB chart hits, including six RB top tens, and fourteen chart hits in the Billboard Hot 100, including their signature song, The Million Selling Top Ten Hit, Cowboys to Girls. Other notable songs include Love is Like a Baseball Game, Together, I'll Always Love My Mama, United, and I Wanna Know Your Name. The original members, all natives of Philadelphia, were Samuel Little Sonny Brown, Eugene Bird Dowtree, Phil Terry, and Robert Big Sonny Edwards. Cowboys to Girls by the Intruders.

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I remember, I remember when I used to play shoot 'em up, shoot 'em up. I might favor. I remember when I chased the girls and beat them up.

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But I was young and didn't understand. But now I'm a grown-up mate.

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I'm no girls to make what you say. When I used to see it, jumping road. Jumping roll, up and down, and I remember When you got your first baby coach But you are young and let's say the big C Lady Ladies Latin.

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To make the United States' first racially integrated duo, and the backup singer Sweet Inspiration to record storybook children. The record made it onto the US RB chart as well as the pop chart. And it was seen as the first interracial duo recording for a major label in the USA.

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You got your word.

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Like story of children in a wonderland where the things play for tomorrow.

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You got his ring, you got his heart, you got his baby, and Billy, it's too late to turn away and start all over again.

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Oh no, don't tell me it's too late, baby. Why can't we be like story for children running through the rain?

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Across the meadow.

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Why can't we be like story of children?

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In a wonderland, in a wonderland where nothing's play for tomorrow.

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Manfred Mann had a long and varied musical career, and it took almost two dozen hits to get to the point of this popular song, entitled The Mighty Quinn in 1968. You might remember some of his previous notables, especially Do Wa Diddy, Shalala, and Ha Ha the Clown. Quinn the Eskimo, the Mighty Quinn, is a folk rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan in 1967 during the basement tape session. The song's first release was in January 1968 as Mighty Quinn, in a version by the British band Man for the Man, which became a great success. It has been recorded by a number of performers, often under the title Mighty Quinn.

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Come on without come on, you'll not see nothing like a mighty wind.

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Everybody's doing just down the boat. Everybody's in this bed, everybody.

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When Quinn the Eskimo gets dear, everybody's gonna jump for joy.

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Come on, come on with them. You understand nothing like the mic, Quinn.

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I like to go just like the rest. I like my shoulders tweet. Jumping cubes and making haste to take my cold meat. Everyone's beneath the tree, speeding pigeons on the limb. When Quim the Eskimo gets dear, all the pigeons gonna run to him. Come on with him. You gotta see nothing like the mighty quim.

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Come on with it.

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You gotta see nothing like the mighty win. Let me do what I wanna do.

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I can't decide at all. Tell me what I put, and I'll tell you who can go.

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Nobody can get no sleep, someone on everyone's nose. When the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna doze.

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You gotta see nothing like the mighty wind.

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Come on with it. You're gonna see nothing like the mighty quint.

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Come on with him. You gotta see nothing like the mighty wind. Come without come along with him.

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This next recording, You Better Sit Down, Kids, was laid down by Cher, and is one of those numbers that evokes a response by the many who can relate to what it's like when a marriage is ending and the children pay the price. It is a poignant song written by her former husband Sonny Bono in 1967. We are Lifestyles 55 when I am Christopher on a quest for silver.

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I'll tell you why. You might not understand here. Now, how should I put this? I've got something to say. Your mother is staying, but I'm gone away. No, we're not mad, kids. And it's hard to say why your mother and I killed. Don't see eye to eye. Say your prayers before you go to bed. Make sure you get yourself a school on time. I know you'll do the things your mother asks. She's gonna need you more to stay in line. Keep in mind your mother's gonna need your help a whole lot more than she ever did before. Number fight over little things, cause I won't be here to stop them anymore. I know you don't want this, and neither do we but sometimes things happen that we can't foresee. Now try to become kids and don't look so sad just because I am me. I'll still be your damn just remember I love you although I'm not here. Just call if you need me, and I'll always be in need. Keep in mind your mother's gonna need your help a whole lot more than she ever did before. Number five over little things, cause I won't be there to stop them anymore. Well, I have to go now. Kiss me goodbye. I'm too fish to cry.

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Written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham. The song reached number two in April 1968 on the Billboard Hot One Hundred card composition and held for two weeks. It was kept out of the hotel by Bobby Goldenburros of Honey, which stayed at number one for five weeks. Cry Like a Baby also reached number two on Cashbox for one week. It stayed on the Hot One Hundred for 15 weeks, and Cashbox for 14. It was awarded a gold disc for selling over one million copies in the US. 1968.

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I'm living without you driving me crazy. I can't I could be Why don't I play them? Not a toy or a straw Now that I don't think color looks so sweet now. I can't like the baby I know now that you're not a play thing now at all Today we pass on the street with the pleasure, but Charlie What the Troll I was like that all the day, oh no, so sweet I can't be a cow running back.

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The theme song from the movie Valley of the Dolls by Dion Warwick entered the Hot 100 in its own right and reached number two, where in February and March it remained for four weeks, stuck behind two blockbuster singles, Paul Morriath's Love is Blue, and Otis Redding sitting on the dock of the day. It also reached number two on the easy listening chart, and number two on the cash box, top one hundred. The band was originally called Gary and the Night Light before adopting the name The American Breed in the 67. The band had a number of charting songs in the two years of 67 and 68, the best known of which was Abend Me, Shape Me. The band broke up in 1970.

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You are the woman I need, and baby, you know, you can make this better a king, a clown of the home.

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I'll give you all the home. You got me lying out of the gold.

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On me to love me, it's all right. Anyway you want me. You got the power to turn on the light Everybody tells me I'm wrong. Do you want yourself badly? But that's a force driving me on. I follow the black leader, I don't care. All the water, all it's on, it's all right, and you want to turn on the light one, it's all right, and you want to turn on the light, yeah, okay, yeah.

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Spooky was originally an instrumental song performed by saxophonist Mike Shapiro. It was also written by Shapiro along with Harry Middlebrook, Jr., which first charted in 1967, hitting number 57 on the US pop charts and number 55 on the Canadian charts. Its best known version was created by James Cobb and producer Buddy Bewey for the group Classics IV. And when they added lyrics about a spooky little girl, the vocalist was Denny Yost. And by the way, the song is noted for its eerie whistling sound effect depicting the spooky woman.

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And if we fellow sick, I will be awake. I get confused. I don't know what I step and then smile. And oh my love! Is it for the spooky little like you spooky? Stop a still game that you are playing. I'm gonna tell you how and my heart's gonna die into the same Just like a ghost you can hunt my name so I propose Love can She'll the spooky little like you Spooky Spooky Oh the Foundations recorded and released the song Baby Now That I Found You and it was lyrics that plea for an unnamed subject not break out with the singer.

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On the 25th of August 67, the Foundations released the song as their debut single. It was a finger, and for ten weeks it wasn't doing anything. Luckily for the Foundations, their song was not being played on the Pirate Station after that age. And because the newly launched BBC Radio One was avoiding those singles that were being played on the Pirate Stations, it consequently made it big.

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I need you so, baby, even though you don't need me, you don't need me, baby, not I don't mind you, I can let you go, fill my work around you, I need you so, baby, even no, you don't need me, you don't need me. Baby, baby, some first we met. I knew in this heart of mine. I wanna tell you the love we had could not be better, played it right, and bad my time. Then my life comes in for somebody to give me love like you. Now you tell me that you wanna leave me. Not that I found you I can let you go. I need you so, baby, even though you don't need me, you don't need me, baby, not out of mind, I can let you go, fill my world around you, I need you so, baby, even though you don't need me, you don't need me. So give me love like you Now you told me that you wanna leave me.

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Don't I just get ready for you?

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I can let you go. I need you so baby no, you don't need it, you don't need it, fame, that I don't mind you, I can let you go, but I tell my word around you, I need you so baby, you don't need it, you don't need this, baby, I don't mind you I can let you go, but I put my world around you, I need you so baby even go, you don't need it, you don't need it, baby.

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Tommy James and the Shondells put out quite a few top ten hits in the 60s. They were an American rock band formed in Niles, Michigan in 64. They had two number one singles in the US, Hanky Panky in July 66, their only certified gold record, and Crimson and Clover in February 1969. They also charted 12 other top 40 hits, including five in the Hot 100's top ten, I think we're alone now, Mirage, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion, and this one. It was released as a single, which turned out to be the band's last American top 10 head. Their last to receive from their television series. I'm Christopher, and I'm hoping that you will always be cool and stay warm.