Big O Week Number 6 - Careless Heart / Leah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-bvVp0JDZM Sometime in the late 1980's I was at a really tacky post wedding party and the entertainment...
Big O week Number 5 - Communication Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJD1i73bGI In June 1965 after six years of phenomenal success with indie Monument record label, Roy was...
Big O Week Number 4 - So Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZwdTkBJxcU When I was 15 I saw the film Zabriskie Point, a sprawling rambling road movie supposed to...
Big O Week Number 3 - Goodnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCQGcHvrOA A year ago youtube was awash with the original version of this song as released by Orbison on...
Big O Week Number 2: The Only One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgcWpQ_uV6c The Only One - a meditation on the relationship between romantic literature and life Late...
Big O Week Number 1: Ride Away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFzr8RX9hM In 1963, when the Beatles were having their first big successes, Orbison had 4 UK top twenty...
Buckskin Stallion Blues - Townes Van Zandt
In a futile attempt to be topical, here's another track by the immortal Townes (see Dec 5th post). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuegzu...
(Don't Fear) the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg This is a weird track in that Blue Oyster Cult were (or even are) a heavy metal band,...
I fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtQj8O92eI What makes this track is the tone of the great guitar chords. This is the original of the one...
Good Lovin' - the Rascals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy625sZAHN8 After the epitaph to Eddie Cochran we need something quick rather than dead and there's...
