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Post by beth on Feb 23, 2013 0:25:47 GMT -5
Newbury most often wrote songs that were recorded and, sometimes, made popular by other artists. I'm going to post a short sampling of his music, recorded by Mickey himself. I haven't been able to define his music as country, western or folk. You'll have to call them what they seem to you.
Wish I Was (Willow Tree) Oh I wish I was a willow tree Leanin' on a lazy breeze Movin' like a midnight train Through rainy Georgia
Wish I was a grain of sand Playin' in a babys hands Fallin' like a diamond chain Into the ocean
Oh a willow tree is strong enough to bend Never like the oak that lives in fear of the wind A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be Lay me down let the water Wash right over me wash over me
Oh I wish I was an old guitar Sittin' in a beat-up car Hittin' every two-bit bar From here to Texas
Then I wouldn't be ashamed To look up my old friends And they would be so proud To see me strung up again
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Post by beth on Feb 23, 2013 0:30:09 GMT -5
I Just Dropped In
I woke up this mornin’ with the sundown shinin’ in I found my mind in a brown paper bag within I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in (Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in) I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawlin’ out as I was a-crawlin’ in I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind I saw so much I broke my mind I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in (Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in) Someone painted “April Fool” in big black letters on a “Dead End” sign I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in I said: I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in Yeah yeah oh-yeah
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Post by beth on Feb 23, 2013 0:41:04 GMT -5
Newbury's song that reached highest in popularity wasn't really a composition but an arrangement of three, traditional Americana, songs .. recorded and performed by Elvis Presley and others.
Here, Mickey sings his major hit.
Old Grey Whistle Test 1972
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