Rivers songs playlist

[WashYourHands]

magical creeks

 

[william_kent]

lol, the narration on this must be a joke


sounds alike "On Cripple Creek", fake YouTube clip fools nam vets?



I haven't got into my "who was Rod McKuen" routine but here is a taster of his style

"dudes with blue jeans
no shirts,
long hair,
VW micro buses"

"cars
so many cars
people started parking"

"my friends were deadheads,
one of them made a flag,
..
he made a big deal about unfurling it"

"it was the first time I was in upstate new york
and it was beautiful
there was Bruce..
and Bobby
...
RICK


he's a retired mailman!
...
*

I fucking love Rod McKuen, he is hilarious, he was also best selling poet of all time (well, the 1970s )




edit: highly recommended

 

[WashYourHands]

Winnebago Creek

 

[blissblogger]

Okay, this is a really nice one


The song title "Rheinita" fuses Klaus Dinger's "two great loves – the river Rhein, which flows through Düsseldorf, and Anita Heedman, his girlfriend who had moved to Norway in 1971."

Released as a single. this was big hit in West Germany, despite being an instrumental - I think it got to #2 in the charts. So perhaps people picked up on the feelings coming off it.

 

[blissblogger]

A paean to the River Charles in Boston - the singer tells of strolling its banks, “along with lovers, buggers, and thieves”

 

[blissblogger]

Astonishingly absent so far

 

[blissblogger]

Remember this lot as a shameless rip-off of Bow Wow Wow.... but listening for the first time in 40 years it was more entertaining than I expected -Tenpole Tudor-ish pop nonsense

 

[blissblogger]

What must surely be the greatest song whose storyline takes place on a river

Ol' Neil's finest moment? "Cortez The Killer" runs it close but I think "Powderfinger" edges it.

 

[william_kent]

Remember this lot as a shameless rip-off of Bow Wow Wow.... but listening for the first time in 40 years it was more entertaining than I expected -Tenpole Tudor-ish pop nonsense

Bow Wow Wow did have that pastiche photo of them by a body of water that could be considered to be a a river based on some famous painting


Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country