🥂 50th Rudy's "Pick One Per Hour" Thread: A&M Traveling Songs

[Harry]

"The Trolley Song" - Pete Jolly, GIVE A DAMN

 

[Rudy]

Emitt Rhodes: "Come Ride, Come Ride" (from American Dream)

 

[Mike Blakesley]

Pacific Coast Highway, Burt Bacharach

 

[Harry]

"Fly Me To The Moon" - Chris Montez, THE MORE I SEE YOU

 

[Rudy]

Chuck Mangione: "Come Take a Ride With Me" (Bellavia)

 

[Dave]

"Road Ode", The Carpenters

 

[Brasil_66_Fan]

"Some Journey" - Suzanne Vega, Suzanne Vega

 

[Harry]

"Freight Train" - Canadian Sweethearts, SP4106

 

[Steve Sidoruk]

"Back To Cuernavaca" - BAJA MARIMBA BAND - SP104

 

[Harry]

"Up, Up And Away" - Bossa Rio

 

[Captain Bacardi]

"Fallin' Lady" - Punch

I'm not sure how this one fits?

 

[Harry]

I'm not sure how this one fits?

The only thing I can figure is the repeated "...to be free" and "...to be loose" lines, but really, if you were going to pick a Punch song in this theme, I'd think "Traveling Boy", the Nichols/Williams song would be a better fit.

 

[Captain Bacardi]

"K-4 Pacific" - Gerry Mulligan (The Age Of Steam) which is about a train line that was one of Mulligan's favorites.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[mikeargo]

"The Sea Is My Soil" -- Herb Alpert & TJB (happy birthday, Herb)

Mike A.

 

[Dave]

"The Drifter" -- Sandpipers (Come Saturday Morning album)


-- Dave

Also Pisano & Ruff (though their version I don't find as moving...)

 

[Mr Bill]

Phil Ochs: "One Way Ticket Home" (Greatest Hits)

I sure could go for a one way ticket home right about now!

But I'll add Och's "My Kingdon For A Car" from the very same Greatest Hits album...

 

[Brasil_66_Fan]

"Road Hog" - Humble Pie, Street Rats

 

[Rudy]

Pete Jolly: "Prairie Road" (Seasons)

 

[Steve Sidoruk]

Cat Stevens: "On The Road To Find Out" TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN SP4280

 

[Harry]

"Which Way You Goin' Billy?" - The Poppy Family, GREATEST HITS, CD 69998, A&M Canada

 

[Rudy]

Tamba 4: "The Hill (O Morro)" (We And The Sea)

("The Hill" refers to the slums, aka favelas, in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.)

 

[Captain Bacardi]

"High Gear" - Neil Larsen

 

[Dave]

Also Pisano & Ruff (though their version I don't find as moving...)

Well, how many "drifters" can I stand???? A&M had THREE!!!!

The non-LP Single, by Roger Nichols Trio...

Otherwise, for a change of pace, why not "Sail Away" (the Randy Newman song) by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee...!!!!


-- Dave

 

[Mike]

"I Don't Want To Walk Without You" Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band

Mike

 

[Rudy]

Jack Daugherty: "La Costa Drive" (Class of Nineteen Hundred and Seventy One)