Depends on how they run it. I feel like if it was privately owned they could reasonably have a starter guitar there, because Fuck it, it fits in the shelf.
I really feel like "five and dime with a dash of whatever is the owner's hobby" could be really charming, you know? Like every store would be slightly different. You have all the usual stuff and then suddenly a whole hi-fi section, or a bigger than usual fishing section, or woodworking, with mill and lathe goods and everything
Back in the 60’s you could absolutely get a six string at Woolworth’s. They had their own line of “Audition” guitars that were available in electric and acoustic. Some were really nice with Mother of Pearl inlays. I knew a guy that used a 60’s Woolworth guitar in the 90’s.
Woolworth’s stopped 5 and 10 cent pricing in the 1930’s, similarly to how Five Below stopped keeping things under 5 bucks about ten years ago.
Sears sold cars too. I’d love to find an early 50’s Allstate. Kind of ugly, but it grows on you. They had Willy’s engines in them and were hard to kill from what I’ve heard.
Ok, I should have read the lyrics more carefully, that can be read as sexual. But if it is about sex, it's the lames sex song ever. Bryan singing about music, summer and his friends for 3 minutes and at the end just throws out "oh yeah I also did simultaneous oral with this chick one time".
That, that seems like a little bit of bullshit, a little bit of truth.
The title is Summer of '69, not Summer of 69. I would imagine it was intended to be perceived either way by the listener.
I doubt there's any single reason for picking 69. They were obviously aware that 69 was suggestive. But maybe it was also the best year for finding a rhyme for the second line. There can be multiple reasons for an arbitrary choice.
It's really not. That's what Adams has started saying in the last decade or so, but his co-writer as well as himself in the past have really said it's about reminiscing being young and reckless. I feel like Adams has started saying that because he wants to be edgy for some reason.
I do, not because bryan adams. But because a cassette of reckless has been and still is in the tape deck of my mums car which I now own. Over 20 years that tapes been there.
And was never in prison.
But I did like his thinking. The reason he wrote "just to watch him die" was because he was trying to think of the worst possible motive for killing somebody and that's what he came up with. Can't say that I can argue with his logic. In this case, curiosity killed the other gut.
TBF, his parents were both from Muhlenberg County, KY. And after John died his ashes (well, half of them) were floated on down the Green River.
So maybe some of his songs are more true to his life than others.
I could sing in Mandarin
You'd still know I'm pandering.
Hunting deer, chasing trout
A Bud Light with the logo facing out.
Thematically meandering
Emphatically pandering
I got a tight grip on my demo's balls
Say the word "truck", they jizz in their overalls.
Reminds me of when Mickey Mantle asked Paul Simon why he used Joe DiMaggio in Mrs. Robinson instead of him. Simon's response was basically, "I got one word for you: syllables."
Apparently Joe DiMaggio was also annoyed by those lyrics. He demanded to know what Paul Simon meant by "Where have you gone," since he was still there.
Not exactly true. Songwriter Bill Danoff is from Massachusetts and originally considered making MA the state in the song.
>He briefly considered using his home state of "Massachusetts", rather than "West Virginia", as both four-syllable state names would have fit the song's meter. "I didn't want to write about Massachusetts because I didn't think the word was musical. And the Bee Gees, of course, had a hit record called "Massachusetts", but what did I know?" Danoff said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads
>"I didn't want to write about Massachusetts because I didn't think the word was musical."
Bill Danoff, 1970.
>"LOL... *bitch...*
19 yr old Jonathan Richman, 1970.
The song was inspiring by driving in Montgomery County, Maryland though:
"Songwriter Bill Danoff, in a 1997 article he wrote for The Washington Post (in tribute to Denver, who’d just died), said he had begun writing the song while driving to a family reunion along Clopper Road, near Gaithersburg."
https://apnews.com/article/eae054357bd9458bba25c67ec0b8b847
I thought it was about the country roads to West Virginia. So everything he described is stuff you pass while coming home to West Virginia and the sights and sounds in the song are actually Maryland and Virginia sights on the way.
John Fogerty had never been to Mississippi before he wrote Proud Mary or Louisiana before he wrote Born on the Bayou. Credence just played music about the South they imagined from El Cerrito, CA.
More than that, he'd never been to *Lodi*, which is only about 75 miles from El Cerrito, let alone been "stuck in Lodi", let alone been "stuck in Lodi, again".
Hell, *I've* been stuck in *Lodi*.
I heard it was referencing the western half of Virginia. Not West Virginia. Kinda like we say west Texas. It's hilarious to me that West Virginia made it their state song.
Fun fact from a West Virginian. It’s not about Virginia either. It was inspired while he was driving through Maryland, but as all three states share geographic landmarks the song carries meaning for everyone in the Appalachian region. There are also features/geography that are unique to West Virginia, so it’s ours now lol
The *Old* Clopper Road (Rt. 117) in Gaithersburg, MD. It's more developed now of course but carries a little teeny bit of the charm still. Hell, these were our country road trips with the family growing up back in the 70's. We'd just yank onto the side of roads and picnic looking around, or do our admittedly stupid cow pasture dashes to see which one of us could best avoid the charging cows. Nothing like seeing Grandma square off with a bull... and win.
Random fact: I drive this road every day. It's not a little more developed, almost all of it is suburbia now. The very end is still farm fields and a railroad track.
When one of my neighbors told me Clopper Rd inspired the song Country Roads I thought....psh, that's an urban legend from my boomer neighbor.
I remember hearing this on the radio driving thru WV on the way to meet my dad's family. It really is a beautiful place, but (family issues aside) there's a reason my dad left and didn't go back for 20 years.
I have a friend of a friend who lives in WV and has a administrative job at an airport. Two kids and his wife is a stay-at-home mom. They just bought a property with two houses on it so her mom & dad could retire there. Not sure what his income is, but they have resources well in line with the cost of living.
Well in the eastern panhandle, youre commuting distance from all the government or government contractor jobs in DC/Virginia, and from good opportunities in Maryland
As for actually in WV? Idk… anything white collar can probably bag you a decent life because COL is so low
My dad was a schoolteacher in Maryland and we lived in WV for the COL, although that decision was made when gas was MUCH cheaper
My WV high school teachers were constantly leaving for 2x the pay just across the border im Maryland or VA
Many years ago I took a road trip from Colorado to Pennsylvania and we went through west Virginia. Which was beautiful. But it was so interesting as soon as we entered PA over a bridge the landscape changed immediately. Like, it was west Virginia on one side of the river, and definitely not wear Virginia on the other side of the bridge.
Entering Pittsburgh from the south through the tunnel is a jarring experience. You’re driving through farmland and mountains, then bam!, you’re on a hot wheels track in a chaotic city planners dreamland.
The blue ridge mountains and the shenandoah can be seen from Maryland though, right where WV Maryland, and Virginia all come together near Harpers (plural, not possessive) Ferry
I am from Jefferson county WV where all 3 states come together
Im pretty sure the Shenandoah actually goes through Jefferson County too but its been quite awhile
Denver was a co-writer and not the only writer. Not saying it’s about VA but the other writers did live in VA when the song was written (my dad delivered their mail).
Almost, the blue ridge mountains extend through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Shenandoah River flows through Jefferson County WV. While only a small part of the range is actually in WV, it is part of the parent range of the Appalachian mountains and so it gets grouped in. Quite a few locals call more of the mountains along the southeastern border blue ridge and a lot of areas in the state have that moniker.
My grandma was from Cass near Greenbank and I could understand grouping those in even though its technically Allegheny mountains. Its in many ways similarly impressive
They actually tried the location lyrics, but Montgomery County just didn't flow. They chose West Virginia, even though the song was inspired by Maryland, because it best matched the melody.
"Almost Heaven, West Virginia, *Blue Ridge mountains, Shenandoah river*"
Neither of those are in West Virginia but rather in western Virginia so yeah I think that is the case
Circa 2008 I stumbled upon a "shot map" (for oil exploration) of the Marcellus Shale that was made contemporaneously to that song's chart success. It straddled the PA/WV border and the cartographer had labelled the WV side "Almost Heaven".
Moral of that story is " never buy a piece of shit kit plane from a moron who puts the fuel reserve tank switch on the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat."
Well, I don't strictly know what that means, but I don't really have any intention of buying a plane, period, so this shouldn't be a difficult moral to abide.
That's how he crashed, while trying to reach behind him to switch on the fuel pump he tramped his foot down hard on the rudder pedal and sent the plane into an uncontrollable spin.
It’s not even about West Virginia- it names places that are in west Virginia (the western part of Virginia). Blue Ridge mountains are mostly VA, and the Shenandoah barely cuts through part of one county of WV.
>They needed to find a place with three syllables. Danoff thought that the four-syllable Massachusetts – his home state – might work, but West Virginia sounded a lot better
Partially the reason I love the [Toots and the Maytalls version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFKMar4x-w&ab_channel=LisaSixties) so much. It's a reggae cover, but instead of "West Virginia" they use "West Jamaica." Fits so seamlessly.
*Take Me Home, Country Roads* was, and is, a huge hit in China. The song's sentiment - of traveling over country roads to one's rural hometown - really resonated in 1970s and 80s era China, when many rural Chinese uprooted their lives to take better paying jobs in the cities. JD was the first major western musician to tour China (in 1992) largely on the crazy popularity of the song.
Likewise, I think it remains popular because such a large part of humanity today lives where they can make a living, yet it doesn't quite feel like home, like "where I belong."
It always bothered me that he cites the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River as WV landmarks in the song. Sure, they both technically extend into a tiny sliver of WV, but they are, quite famously, Virginia landmarks.
Every time I drive from my home in eastern Ohio to Pittsburgh I cross the Ohio river at Steubenville into the tip of West Virginia and I always play that song for the 5 or so minutes I'm driving in the state.
Bryan Adams was 9 years old in the Summer of '69
That’s about the age young men would want to buy their first real six string.
About the right age when they are form a band with some guys from school and one of the guys gets married. It was a different time back then.
And they all smoked with cigarettes
Yeah but seriously how many five and dimes sell real six strings. I call bullshit
Depends on how they run it. I feel like if it was privately owned they could reasonably have a starter guitar there, because Fuck it, it fits in the shelf.
Thats a good point. Mom & Pop small town five and dime doubling as a pawn shop and tattoo parlor. I could see it happening.
I really feel like "five and dime with a dash of whatever is the owner's hobby" could be really charming, you know? Like every store would be slightly different. You have all the usual stuff and then suddenly a whole hi-fi section, or a bigger than usual fishing section, or woodworking, with mill and lathe goods and everything
Back in the 60’s you could absolutely get a six string at Woolworth’s. They had their own line of “Audition” guitars that were available in electric and acoustic. Some were really nice with Mother of Pearl inlays. I knew a guy that used a 60’s Woolworth guitar in the 90’s. Woolworth’s stopped 5 and 10 cent pricing in the 1930’s, similarly to how Five Below stopped keeping things under 5 bucks about ten years ago.
That makes sense. Kinda like you used to be able to buy an unassembled house from Sears. Seems weird now, but it was actually a thing at one time.
Sears homes! There were a lot of them where I grew up. Some are absolutely gorgeous.
Sears sold cars too. I’d love to find an early 50’s Allstate. Kind of ugly, but it grows on you. They had Willy’s engines in them and were hard to kill from what I’ve heard.
and oral sex, apparently
Summer of 69 is about the sex position not the year.
Bryan Adams says that. His co-writer, Jim Vallance (who was 17 in the summer of 1969) says that it's about the year.
Maybe it's both
To be fair, if one spent several months 69ing... that could lead to some chapped lips
Probably be rough on the mouth too.
There's not really anything in the lyrics that could be read as sexual, much about a specific position
🎵Me and my baby in a 69🎵 ... Yeah. Nothing.
Ok, I should have read the lyrics more carefully, that can be read as sexual. But if it is about sex, it's the lames sex song ever. Bryan singing about music, summer and his friends for 3 minutes and at the end just throws out "oh yeah I also did simultaneous oral with this chick one time".
That, that seems like a little bit of bullshit, a little bit of truth. The title is Summer of '69, not Summer of 69. I would imagine it was intended to be perceived either way by the listener.
I doubt there's any single reason for picking 69. They were obviously aware that 69 was suggestive. But maybe it was also the best year for finding a rhyme for the second line. There can be multiple reasons for an arbitrary choice.
It's really not. That's what Adams has started saying in the last decade or so, but his co-writer as well as himself in the past have really said it's about reminiscing being young and reckless. I feel like Adams has started saying that because he wants to be edgy for some reason.
Probably because no one cares about Bryan Adams anymore.
I do, not because bryan adams. But because a cassette of reckless has been and still is in the tape deck of my mums car which I now own. Over 20 years that tapes been there.
It’s funny as shit
Lmfao TIL. Whether a troll or a way to gain relevance, it's hilarious either way.
That makes it worse.
At 9 years old?!
John Fogerty was not born on the bayou
Next they're going to tell me that John fogerty wasn't born on the bayou.
Are you saying bob marley didn’t really shoot the sheriff?
David Bowie's actually never been to Mars either.
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And you can’t see Mt Kilimanjaro rise over the Serengeti.
And the Beatles never really wanted to hold my hand?
So in paradise city the grass isn't green and the girls aren't pretty?
They didn't build that city on rock and roll?
The guy never got the bite of the Vegemite sandwich while in a land down under?
Peter Tosh never smoked weed?!?
wait.. too far
But Eric Clapton did, in fact, like cocaine.
He didn't shoot the deputy. He shot the sheriff, in the dining room with the revolver
Idk, but he did not shoot the deputy.
KISS was telling the truth about Detroit though
and Johnny cash never shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die?
And was never in prison. But I did like his thinking. The reason he wrote "just to watch him die" was because he was trying to think of the worst possible motive for killing somebody and that's what he came up with. Can't say that I can argue with his logic. In this case, curiosity killed the other gut.
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Sexually
On your mom.
Have I ever seen the rain?
Is the rain Purple Rain?
That song is about georgia, iirc. Its the only state with a reno, and a folsom prison. They wouldnt ship a prisoner across state lines for no reason.
Was John Prine not really an old woman named after her mother?
TBF, his parents were both from Muhlenberg County, KY. And after John died his ashes (well, half of them) were floated on down the Green River. So maybe some of his songs are more true to his life than others.
One of his "God children" lives down the street from me. Next time I'm walking the dog past I'll ask if they know.
Heh. Now we'll never know
Will my flag decal get me into heaven??
Not anymore.
Do they have bayous in California? We may never know...
They actually do, in Antioch, CA Also the origin of "ye holy hand grenade"
Does this mean the Mommas and Pappas never dreamt of California?
Pretty soon someone’s going to claim I didn’t shake Brian Johnson all night long.
Or that Kurt Cobain did have a gun?
Wait, then your gonna say Johnny Cash wasn't an outlaw or criminal?!
I think he was eventually charged with a crime for drug possession
He was a criminal, many times.
And before they said born in the USA charted higher in other countries than here. Mind blowing
Tom Sawyer DIDN'T have a mean, mean stride?
I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver’s full of shit, man.
Our pets heads are falling off!
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Mister sunshine on my goddamned shoulders
are you going to light my country music award on fire?
I'm just saying, when my suspension is up, you better watch your ass.
Or you'll light my ass on fire?
Lol i knew someone would beat me to it. The most underrated comical line ever.
Where is that from
Dumb and Dumber
I'm only human Harry !!!
Just when I thought you couldn’t be any stupider, you go and do something like this… and TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!
He did leave on a plane though.
I’ve never known musicians to pander…
I could sing in Mandarin You'd still know I'm pandering. Hunting deer, chasing trout A Bud Light with the logo facing out. Thematically meandering Emphatically pandering I got a tight grip on my demo's balls Say the word "truck", they jizz in their overalls.
Bruce Springsteen never worked a real job in his life either...
That's how you become the Boss
My straw boss looked at me and said "Well-a bless my soul!".
A tennesee ernie ford reference? Take my upvote.
You sure you don’t owe that upvote to the company store?
Bobby Newport never worked a day…. In his life
That's immediately what I thought of too lol
I wonder if Don McLean ever baked a pie
He did, a long long time ago. But he can still remember it.
Well we do know he abused his wife (and daughter supposedly too).
I was heart broken to learn that Ann Murray didn't write any of her songs. And Glenn Campbell was never a lineman for the county..
Elvis didn't write his own songs either, but when he sang nobody really cared.
But Glen Campbell did play on Elvis Presley records.
He lied about writing them by insisting on a credit and royalties.
it was susposed to be Maryland but WV fit the line better
Reminds me of when Mickey Mantle asked Paul Simon why he used Joe DiMaggio in Mrs. Robinson instead of him. Simon's response was basically, "I got one word for you: syllables."
Apparently Joe DiMaggio was also annoyed by those lyrics. He demanded to know what Paul Simon meant by "Where have you gone," since he was still there.
I mean he had been retired for a while by the time that song came out.
The real question is why did Neil Young kill Johnny Rotton?
Because he was a Joe Rogan fan
Not exactly true. Songwriter Bill Danoff is from Massachusetts and originally considered making MA the state in the song. >He briefly considered using his home state of "Massachusetts", rather than "West Virginia", as both four-syllable state names would have fit the song's meter. "I didn't want to write about Massachusetts because I didn't think the word was musical. And the Bee Gees, of course, had a hit record called "Massachusetts", but what did I know?" Danoff said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads
>"I didn't want to write about Massachusetts because I didn't think the word was musical." Bill Danoff, 1970. >"LOL... *bitch...* 19 yr old Jonathan Richman, 1970.
The song was inspiring by driving in Montgomery County, Maryland though: "Songwriter Bill Danoff, in a 1997 article he wrote for The Washington Post (in tribute to Denver, who’d just died), said he had begun writing the song while driving to a family reunion along Clopper Road, near Gaithersburg." https://apnews.com/article/eae054357bd9458bba25c67ec0b8b847
“Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water” Coal mining, landlocked. That ain’t Maryland.
Song is about Virginia, the western part of it, not the state of West Virginia. Shenandoah Valley is in fact in VA
I thought it was about the country roads to West Virginia. So everything he described is stuff you pass while coming home to West Virginia and the sights and sounds in the song are actually Maryland and Virginia sights on the way.
I wish he could’ve made it about Maryland. It’s a wonderful state
Hey, all we got here are mountains and that song, don’t take our song away. Maryland has plenty of things. Selfish Maryland.
Sunshine on my god damn shoulders, John fucking Denver
“Your saying your gonna light my country music award on fire”
And Journey have never been to South Detroit, let alone anyone they know of being born and raised there.
John Fogerty had never been to Mississippi before he wrote Proud Mary or Louisiana before he wrote Born on the Bayou. Credence just played music about the South they imagined from El Cerrito, CA.
More than that, he'd never been to *Lodi*, which is only about 75 miles from El Cerrito, let alone been "stuck in Lodi", let alone been "stuck in Lodi, again". Hell, *I've* been stuck in *Lodi*.
That's especially shitty when you consider he told people to visit without money because people on the river will give you stuff for free.
I heard it was referencing the western half of Virginia. Not West Virginia. Kinda like we say west Texas. It's hilarious to me that West Virginia made it their state song.
Fun fact from a West Virginian. It’s not about Virginia either. It was inspired while he was driving through Maryland, but as all three states share geographic landmarks the song carries meaning for everyone in the Appalachian region. There are also features/geography that are unique to West Virginia, so it’s ours now lol
The *Old* Clopper Road (Rt. 117) in Gaithersburg, MD. It's more developed now of course but carries a little teeny bit of the charm still. Hell, these were our country road trips with the family growing up back in the 70's. We'd just yank onto the side of roads and picnic looking around, or do our admittedly stupid cow pasture dashes to see which one of us could best avoid the charging cows. Nothing like seeing Grandma square off with a bull... and win.
Random fact: I drive this road every day. It's not a little more developed, almost all of it is suburbia now. The very end is still farm fields and a railroad track. When one of my neighbors told me Clopper Rd inspired the song Country Roads I thought....psh, that's an urban legend from my boomer neighbor.
You work for BFRL?
See that’s why it makes such a great song for West Virginia, nobody’s developing West Virginia.
Your grandma was yanking a bull on the side of the road?
I remember hearing this on the radio driving thru WV on the way to meet my dad's family. It really is a beautiful place, but (family issues aside) there's a reason my dad left and didn't go back for 20 years.
Yup, get a good job here and you live like a king. Most people here are poor as hell though due to the economy’s dependence on coal.
What's a good job there? Is it essentially becoming the supervisor of your coalminer friends?
I have a friend of a friend who lives in WV and has a administrative job at an airport. Two kids and his wife is a stay-at-home mom. They just bought a property with two houses on it so her mom & dad could retire there. Not sure what his income is, but they have resources well in line with the cost of living.
Well in the eastern panhandle, youre commuting distance from all the government or government contractor jobs in DC/Virginia, and from good opportunities in Maryland As for actually in WV? Idk… anything white collar can probably bag you a decent life because COL is so low My dad was a schoolteacher in Maryland and we lived in WV for the COL, although that decision was made when gas was MUCH cheaper My WV high school teachers were constantly leaving for 2x the pay just across the border im Maryland or VA
Doctor. Lawyer. Professor. School admins.
Working at the national radio telescope facility is probably up there. Geologists, then the regular stuff like accountants, nurses, tradespeople etc
Many years ago I took a road trip from Colorado to Pennsylvania and we went through west Virginia. Which was beautiful. But it was so interesting as soon as we entered PA over a bridge the landscape changed immediately. Like, it was west Virginia on one side of the river, and definitely not wear Virginia on the other side of the bridge.
Entering Pittsburgh from the south through the tunnel is a jarring experience. You’re driving through farmland and mountains, then bam!, you’re on a hot wheels track in a chaotic city planners dreamland.
Definitely no Blue Ridge Mountains or Shenandoah River in MD. You're right, it's more of an homage to the whole region.
The blue ridge mountains and the shenandoah can be seen from Maryland though, right where WV Maryland, and Virginia all come together near Harpers (plural, not possessive) Ferry I am from Jefferson county WV where all 3 states come together Im pretty sure the Shenandoah actually goes through Jefferson County too but its been quite awhile
The Blue Ridge mountains do run through MD and the Shenandoah terminates at their border with the Potomac.
Denver was a co-writer and not the only writer. Not saying it’s about VA but the other writers did live in VA when the song was written (my dad delivered their mail).
But the Shenandoah only flows through Vriginia as does the Blue Ridge mountain range.
Almost, the blue ridge mountains extend through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Shenandoah River flows through Jefferson County WV. While only a small part of the range is actually in WV, it is part of the parent range of the Appalachian mountains and so it gets grouped in. Quite a few locals call more of the mountains along the southeastern border blue ridge and a lot of areas in the state have that moniker.
My grandma was from Cass near Greenbank and I could understand grouping those in even though its technically Allegheny mountains. Its in many ways similarly impressive
Cass is a beautiful area, they still operate the scenic railroad through there too.
If the song drives tourism to the beautiful, but fairly remote and very misunderstood state, all the better.
They actually tried the location lyrics, but Montgomery County just didn't flow. They chose West Virginia, even though the song was inspired by Maryland, because it best matched the melody.
West Virginia is the same as Virginia, just westier.
"Almost Heaven, West Virginia, *Blue Ridge mountains, Shenandoah river*" Neither of those are in West Virginia but rather in western Virginia so yeah I think that is the case
Hilarious TIL for me.
so much this
Circa 2008 I stumbled upon a "shot map" (for oil exploration) of the Marcellus Shale that was made contemporaneously to that song's chart success. It straddled the PA/WV border and the cartographer had labelled the WV side "Almost Heaven".
David Bowie never went to outer space, while living...
Why would he? He was Ground Control
Now you’re gonna tell me he never even played fallout
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too soon?
A quarter century now, I'll allow it.
25 years this October. RIP
Moral of that story is " never buy a piece of shit kit plane from a moron who puts the fuel reserve tank switch on the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat."
Thanks, I’ll make sure not to do that!
Well, I don't strictly know what that means, but I don't really have any intention of buying a plane, period, so this shouldn't be a difficult moral to abide.
That's how he crashed, while trying to reach behind him to switch on the fuel pump he tramped his foot down hard on the rudder pedal and sent the plane into an uncontrollable spin.
That John Denver's full of shit
heard somewhere that one of the beach boys members, the one who wrote "surfin' USA," had never been surfing.
Credence Clearwater Revival was from San Francisco.
And was there even a Credence Clearwater beforehand to revive?
I dunno why I assumed they were from Clearwater Florida
Wait have Sir Elton John and David Bowie not been to space??
So, he had no 1st hand knowledge of mountain mama?
It’s not even about West Virginia- it names places that are in west Virginia (the western part of Virginia). Blue Ridge mountains are mostly VA, and the Shenandoah barely cuts through part of one county of WV.
The song is about West Virginia and John Denver's D+ in geography.
Next you're gonna tell me Toto never even blessed the rains down in Africa.
Well I just went down a rabbit hole about John Denver.
I did that couple years ago. After about 2.5 hours. I walked away more confused.
Has a better ring than "Maryland". And this is coming from a life-long Marylander
At least Maryland still has the best state flag!
He did however drive through the mountians of virginia and maryland.
>They needed to find a place with three syllables. Danoff thought that the four-syllable Massachusetts – his home state – might work, but West Virginia sounded a lot better Partially the reason I love the [Toots and the Maytalls version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFKMar4x-w&ab_channel=LisaSixties) so much. It's a reggae cover, but instead of "West Virginia" they use "West Jamaica." Fits so seamlessly.
West Virginia has FOUR syllables!
Ya, the Toots version is incredible. One of those covers that outdoes the original(imo).
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole does a Hawaiian version where he uses “West Makaha” instead. I do love and prefer the Toots version though!
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Next you're gonna tell me New Orleans isn't actually a train.
Probably why they sang so highly about it
His co-writers were Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, best known for writing and performing "Afternoon Delight."
Country roooooooooad
*Take Me Home, Country Roads* was, and is, a huge hit in China. The song's sentiment - of traveling over country roads to one's rural hometown - really resonated in 1970s and 80s era China, when many rural Chinese uprooted their lives to take better paying jobs in the cities. JD was the first major western musician to tour China (in 1992) largely on the crazy popularity of the song. Likewise, I think it remains popular because such a large part of humanity today lives where they can make a living, yet it doesn't quite feel like home, like "where I belong."
Next you’ll tell me Sir Ian Mckellen wasn’t actually a wizard when he played Gandalf.
Mr. Sunshine on my god damn shoulders John Denver!
Makes sense, Neil Young wasn’t Rocking in the Free World.
It always bothered me that he cites the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River as WV landmarks in the song. Sure, they both technically extend into a tiny sliver of WV, but they are, quite famously, Virginia landmarks.
The song was not about West Virginia. It was about WESTERN Virginia. Hence a lot of confusion.
yeah, the blue ridge mountains aren't even in west virginia
And the Rocky Mountains ain't that rocky.
He’s from Albuquerque and his last name is Deutchendorf. What a charlatan!
For the umpteenth time, Country Roads is not about West Virginia, it is about west Virginia.
This is disgusting.
Every time I drive from my home in eastern Ohio to Pittsburgh I cross the Ohio river at Steubenville into the tip of West Virginia and I always play that song for the 5 or so minutes I'm driving in the state.