Music Break

I think it's time to roll out another set of songs.  First up is You Got The Silver by the Rolling Stones, from their Let It Bleed album, released in 1969.  This one is sung by guitarist Keith Richards, who also plays all the guitars.  In my opinion, this is Richards's best lead vocal on any RS songs.  Fellow guitarist Brian Jones plays the autoharp.  As usual, Bill Wyman plays bass and Charlie Watts plays drums.  Guest musician Nicky Hopkins plays piano and organ.  On the album, both Jones and his replacement Mick Taylor appear, but only on two songs each.

I've always liked Tanya Tucker's cover of Not Fade Away, originally by Buddy Holly and the Crickets, which she included on her 1978 album TNT.  Come to think of it, the above-mentioned Rolling Stones also covered this one.

Def Leppard's 2008 album Songs from the Sparkle Lounge included Nine Lives, featuring co-lead vocals by country singer Tim McGraw.

In 1985, the short-lived pop duo Sly Fox released their only hit Let's Go All the Way, which was also the title song of their only album.  The group consisted of singers Gary "Mudbone" Cooper and Michael Camacho, who were backed up by studio musicians.  Cooper, who wrote this song, was an alumnus of Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band, while Camacho had been a protégé of David Bowie.  Toward the end, the vocal line sounds somewhat like Back Off Boogaloo by Ringo Starr.  The video features Cooper, Camacho, and their respective mini-me's.

The last song is why this post gets the "humor" label.  Styx's third album The Serpent Is Rising includes the "hidden track" Plexiglass Toilet.  It is sung by original guitarist John Curulewski and allegedly written by him and original drummer John Panozzo.  That's right, two guys named John wrote a song about a john.  Chuck Panozzo plays bass, but keyboardist Dennis DeYoung and guitarist James Young do not appear on the song, reportedly wanting to have nothing to do with it.  However, Chuck and the two Johns are joined by backing vocalists collectively known as the "Plexiglass Toilet Choir".  When I saw Styx in 1981, this song was most definitely not on their set list.

So whatever you do, please do not sit on any plexiglass toilets.