Supply-Side Soul

Junior Parker sings "Taxman."

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[Jim Walsh]

The Peter Herbolzheimer version of “A Day In the Life”…begins innocuously enough with Don Adams on vocals doing a super-slowed down, ballad-y version.

In my mind’s ear I hear Maxwell Smart intoning: “I heard the news today, Oh Boy…”

[Rick Barton]

In the 70’s I attended a Lefty meeting, mighta been SDS, in Boulder which featured a speaker complaining about pop music’s reactionary corrupting influence on “movement consciousness”. Among the examples he cited were the Beatles’ songs “Taxman”, and “Revolution” with the lyrics:
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow

I’m thinking that he and Tipper Gore mighta found some common ground.

[NoStar]

This is what my mind heard:
He blew his mind out in a car…Would you believe he missed it by that much?

[GILMORE]

Kudos to H&R for shouting out funky music blogs!

JG
(recovering record collector)

[dead_elvis]

Tangentially related to old records, I was thinking that this would make a good Friday Fun Link:

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/

[Mr. F. Le Mur]

Junior Wells’ version of “Satisfaction” is a LOT better than Junior Parker’s version of “Taxman.”