All-Time Favorites (ATF)

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands upon (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection to the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

By the way, I plan on only including two at a time in this series, but this first edition has three.  Furthermore, there is really no connection between them—other than I came to love each one during the 1970s.  However, they do display just how varied my musical tastes are.

To provide some not-so-obvious background on the first one.  I was part of the overall Missouri state champion and nationally-recognized Cassville High School Concert Band that featured it during the 1973 competition season.  If you can make it through the flowery opening, it picks up considerably around the 4:00 mark.  Next comes a passage that might sound rather familiar to [Looney Tunes] fans, and make sure you have a firm grasp on your reality around the 8:46 mark.  Hey, the video even comes with a warning about the possibility of seizures for epileptics!  Although, this has to do with the flashing lights in the video—not the music.

The second was an all-time favorite of mom, and one of my most pleasant memories of oh so very long ago (to me) is of watching her become something other than a rather rigid authoritarian whenever that song started playing on the radio.  Therefore, it had to be included in this series.

Link: [GioachinoRossini]

Link: [Sue Thompson]

Big Mable Murphy

Sue Thompson

Way back in '29

Somewhere in Coffeeville

Was a honky-tonk

Named Big Mable Murphy's

She had a sweetheart

Named Little Melvin

And hair would fly

Between them every night

They say Little Melvin

Got wild on bathub gin

Cause it made him grow to

Almost twice his size

He'd try to take over

And sass Big Mable

And her great big fist would

Black Little Melvin's eyes

Big Mable Murphy

She loved Little Melvin

But he never did learn

To do just what she said

Cause poor Little Melvin

Woke up every morning

With two black eyes

And knuckle bumps on his head

Then late one rainy night

Scarface Mouzziola

Came in and started

Shovin’ folks around

Big Mable Murphy

Was back in the kitchen

So just for fun

He shot Little Melvin down

Early next mornin’

Down by the river

Scarface Mouzziola

Was found real short of breath

They say that Scarface

Had died from a whoopin'

He had two black eyes

And knuckle bumps on his head

Big Mable Murphy's place

Raved on until she died

And they say sometimes

A tear would fill her eye

And then she'd whisper

Lord I'd give anything

If once more I could

Black Little Melvin's eyes

Link: [The Raspberries]

Go All The Way

The Raspberries

I

Never knew how complete love could be

‘Til she kissed me

And said

Baby

Please

Go all the way

It feels so right

Being with you

Here tonight

Please

Go all the way

Just hold me close

Don't ever let me go

I

Couldn't say what I wanted to say

‘Til she whispered

I love you

So

Please

Go all the way

It feels so right

Being with you

Here tonight

Please

Go all the way

Just hold me close

Don't ever let

Me go

Oh

Before her love

I was cruel and mean

I had a hole in the place

Where my heart should have been

But now I've changed

And it feels so strange

I come alive when she does

All those things to me

And she says

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

I need you

Come on

I love you

Come on

I need you

Come on

Come on

Please

Go all the way

It feels so right

Being with you

Here tonight

Please

Go all the way

Just hold me close

Don't ever let

Me go

Oh

No

Go on baby

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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