hey proff, sorry no tab but it's a great tune. i've been playing it out for a couple years now. i would love to hear rays version but can't find it. good luck _________________ www.davidducharmejones.com
hey proff, sorry no tab but it's a great tune. i've been playing it out for a couple years now. i would love to hear rays version but can't find it. good luck
Yeah, I've been looking for that one, too! Great song! _________________ Regards, Dave Orban
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:35 am Post subject: Fakebook tab
There is guitar tab for this song in the Just Blues Real Book (C Edition Fakebook/2001) on page 102-103. Tab for "You Cut Me To The Bone" is in this book as well. _________________ Travelling by train of thought
The original song from Ray is beautiful and superior to Robben's version.
Lefty, I don't share your opinion, these strings and choir on the original you could also call Kitsch. I love what Robben made out of this song, it made me recognize it as a good song, before it just went in and out of my ear without leaving any traces. The melody in Robben's version comes just stronger. I miss the added lick in the original version ever since I know Robben's
Ed
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject:
edpesco wrote:
Leftbender wrote:
The original song from Ray is beautiful and superior to Robben's version.
Lefty, I don't share your opinion, these strings and choir on the original you could also call Kitsch. I love what Robben made out of this song, it made me recognize it as a good song, before it just went in and out of my ear without leaving any traces. The melody in Robben's version comes just stronger. I miss the added lick in the original version ever since I know Robben's
Ed
I've got Ray's version on The Genius Of Ray Charles. It was $9.95 in the cutout bin. I love both versions but I have to agree with Leftbender. The strings and choir are beside the point. No matter how you feel about Robben's singing, it doesn't compare to Ray's voice and phrasing. The rest of the album is great, too. Great versions of Come Rain Or Come Shine, Just For A Thrill, When Your Lover Has Gone and Tell Me You'll Wait For Me.
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject:
I bought the Genius album because it had Come Rain Or Come Shine on it and it was an Atlantic Ray Charles album for less than $10. I love Ray's Atlantic stuff. Don't Let The Sun... was an added bonus. But I did hear Robben's version first.
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:
edpesco wrote:
OK, chacun a ses gouts.....(BLOBBIE, correct my French please...)
But what I wanted to say: did anyone of you ever take notice of this song before Mr. Ford covered it?
Ed
I didn't Ed. But that's the way it goes with old songs. Robben's choise of old songs for his own repertoir is fabulous. But hey,,, ,, I always happen to get sentimental of strings and choirs from the old boxes. _________________ "Don't play what's there, play what's not there" Miles Davis
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:
edpesco wrote:
But what I wanted to say: did anyone of you ever take notice of this song before Mr. Ford covered it?
I was unaware that Robben was even familiar with this song until I bought my Ricky 12 stringer awhile back and showed it to him. I played a few chords of the obvious "Mr. Tamborine Man", to which Robben joined in with the guitar he was holding and began singing. After we laughed, we shared a verse & chorus of "Needles & Pins". But, when I then broke into a few chords of "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying", Robben sang right along!
Pleasantly surprised, I asked him how he knew of this song?
(I have often been amazed when Robben unexpectedly expressed total unfamiliarity with a style, song, or artist who was, at some point in the mid 70's to late 90's, so huge that you would have thought that the entire world would have heard of it or them.
He has told me in the past how, when he discovered Blues and Jazz, he became so absorbed and 'tunnel-visioned' in it for so many years that he pretty much lost interest in, and completely missed, the rest of the musical world for the next couple of decades.
So, now I tend to forget that there actually WAS a period of Rock & Pop for Robben before he caught the Blues and am more often surprised by who Robben IS familiar with than by who he's never heard of.)
He explained that his introduction to it was the same as mine, around 1964 when it was a Top-5 hit for it's writer, Gerry Marsden, with his band Gerry & The Pacemakers during the 1st wave of the "British Invasion".
It was one of the songs in our formative early teens that fueled our love of music in general and an interest in particular in the English rock of the Beatles, Searchers, Pacemakers, DC5, Kinks, etc (For those newcomers to Robben's live shows, listen carefully as Robben loves to throw occasional "tags" from many songs of this period into his playing).
Gerry's smooth Mersey voice, with the lush George Martin orchestration of piano, strings, and French Horns, was so haunting that it quickly became a favorite "broken-heart" tune for me, helping me to survive my emotionally twisted teen years.
It's difficult for me to even imagine the song recorded without orchestration!
This was before the later 'Psychedelic' period of the 60's/70's transition, when Robben was finally exposed to Cream/Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Gibson 355's, and the whole R&B thing... which, threw an entirely different shade on Robben's musical focus, influences, and direction from that point on. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
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But what I wanted to say: did anyone of you ever take notice of this song before Mr. Ford covered it?
Ed
I didn't Ed. But that's the way it goes with old songs. Robben's choise of old songs for his own repertoir is fabulous. But hey,,, ,, I always happen to get sentimental of strings and choirs from the old boxes.[/quote]
Now that you are so honest Lefty dear I confess me too I have a sentimental heart.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject:
Daved wrote:
edpesco wrote:
But what I wanted to say: did anyone of you ever take notice of this song before Mr. Ford covered it?
He explained that his introduction to it was the same as mine, around 1964 when it was a Top-5 hit for it's writer, Gerry Marsden, with his band Gerry & The Pacemakers during the 1st wave of the "British Invasion".
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Wow Daved, we are getting mixed up here. There are two songs with that name. One is, indeed, from Gary &The Pacemakers. The other one is from Ray Charles. Very different tunes, though. Robben plays Ray's song for quite a few years now. _________________ "Don't play what's there, play what's not there" Miles Davis
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: Joe Greene's song
The tab I have in Fake Book is the Joe Greene version (same lyrics/melody as Ray Charles, Robben Ford songs).
Funny enough, the authors of Fake Book also made the same mistake and listed the author as Marsden... but the tab & lyrics are for the Joe Greene song. _________________ Travelling by train of thought
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:48 am Post subject:
Leftbender wrote:
Wow Daved, we are getting mixed up here. There are two songs with that name. One is, indeed, from Gary &The Pacemakers. The other one is from Ray Charles. Very different tunes, though.
Oops! Silly me.
Thanx for correcting me, Lefty.
I've never heard Robben's recording (duh... obviously) and he doesn't do the song in his live shows, so I've assumed (Yeah, yeah, I know what they say...) that, because of the experience with Robben mentioned above, the two songs were the same.
Now I know better. Damn glad I washed this tasty foot today! _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
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tune for me, helping me to survive my emotionally twisted teen years.
Silly me.