It’s a catchy song, but on reading about it, I found Chan dedicated the song to the memory of his deceased wife, Eleanor, the daughter of Walter Mondale, who died at 51.
Monday morning, Stevie Wonder at the age of 22 killing it on Sesame Street, of all places, with “Superstition.” Still great.
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“Superstition”
Very superstitious, writings on the wall, Very superstitious, ladders ’bout to fall, Thirteen-months-old baby broke the lookin’ glass Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain’t the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands, Rid me of the problem, do all that you can, Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin’ strong, You don’t wanna save me, sad is my song
When you believe in things that you don’t understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain’t the way, yeah, yeah
Very superstitious, nothin’ more to say, Very superstitious, the devil’s on his way, Thirteen-months-old baby broke the lookin’ glass, Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand, Then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no
Monday morning after sifting through literally dozens of versions, band configurations, and covers, we settle on this 2013 version of the 1981 Toto song.
Dave Paich: lead vocals, keyboards and writer
Simon Phillips: drums
Nathan East: bass
Steve Lukather: lead guitar
And because here at Shalblog Industries® we use every part of the buffalo, expect more versions of it posted this week.
Mary Wells performing her 1964 hit, the first solo female hit for Motown. Smokey Robinson was the writer. She knocked The Beatles out of first place on the May 1964 charts.
It’s Monday morning, summer of 1961, Evergreen Avenue in Bradley Beach, New Jersey to be exact, and the kid across the street has hauled out his record player to the front porch and is playing Curtis Lee’s “Pretty Little Angel Eyes,” over and over, far into the night, the fireflies flashing in syncopated time, stopped only by the sound of the approaching ice cream truck …
Josh Turner with friends Carson McKee, Reina del Cid on lead vocals, and Toni Lindgren. They just did a great gig at Rockwood Hall in NYC last night and closed with this.
The MonaLisa Twins with another summer British invasion hit of the 60s, Chad and Jeremy’s “Yesterday’s Gone.” Ever-Reliable Wikipedia tells us it was Chad’s first published song.
Monday morning, the theremin calls, and you’re swept into one of the most innovative and influential popular rock songs of the 60s.
Carl Wilson on lead vocals. The song was produced by the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson from countless short pieces of tape, and many session musicians were used as well.
There’s an excellent description of the song’s history, as well as a musical deconstruction, and how the song changed the history of the pop single, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Vibrations
The woman in the video is Liz Brewer who was once married to the lead singer of the McCoys, Rick Derringer.
Who was Sloopy? So far I’ve tracked down four stories:
One of the credited co-writers claims that he wrote the song while in Cuba, and any attractive woman there would be called a Sloopy.
Sloopy was the nickname of jazz singer Dorothy Sloop who was a girlfriend of one of the writers.
Jean Sloop was the name of an Ohio waitress who claims to be the inspiration.
A businessman in St. Louis claimed that when he was just a kid in high school he wrote the song and sold it on the cheap to the credited writers. Rick Derringer seems to most believe this story—but he still doesn’t know why the high school kid used the name Sloopy.