As much as I love Toots, John Denver for me. My dad was a big fan and I've got fond memories of him playing his records on a Sunday morning when I was a kid. Then at lunchtime he'd take me and my uncle off to The Woodman in his Austin Cambridge for a couple of pints before dinner.
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
How weird! Similar thing for me and the missus. Driving down the Shenandoah Valley back in 2003 and it came on the radio! Have always been a massive JD fan and went to see him in concert whenever he came over.
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
How weird! Similar thing for me and the missus. Driving down the Shenandoah Valley back in 2003 and it came on the radio! Have always been a massive JD fan and went to see him in concert whenever he came over.
Far out man!!
We drove down the Shenandaoh Valley SO we could sing the song!
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
Anything by Toots Hibbert floats my boat, but having said that this was the first song I ever learned to play on guitar and will always watch JD play it when the chance arises.
I always preferred the Mike Masters and the Music Makers lyrics - Take me home Jonty Rhodes To the veldt of Transvaal Orange Free State Good oold Joburg Take me home Jonty Rhodes
Not as easy as many of these for me. I much prefer generally Toots and the Maytals style but on this track, the Denver original takes me back to my dad’s LPs and the female counter harmony does it for me every time.
C&W is another easily dismissed and underestimated musical genre, like jazz maybe, both wrongly in my view. However this is an easy pick, Toots is irresistible and wins this one for me.
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
Weird coincidence. There was a UB40 documentary on a couple of weeks ago, which I recorded. I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago. Interesting documenatry btw.
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
Weird coincidence. There was a UB40 documentary on a couple of weeks ago, which I recorded. I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago. Interesting documenatry btw.
Seeing them at the O2 next Saturday - well Ali's half (bit more than half!).
Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
Weird coincidence. There was a UB40 documentary on a couple of weeks ago, which I recorded. I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago. Interesting documenatry btw.
Seeing them at the O2 next Saturday - well Ali's half (bit more than half!).
They are/were all bankrupt/skint brassic. All the money went and no one knows where.
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As much as I love Toots, John Denver for me. My dad was a big fan and I've got fond memories of him playing his records on a Sunday morning when I was a kid. Then at lunchtime he'd take me and my uncle off to The Woodman in his Austin Cambridge for a couple of pints before dinner.
How weird! Similar thing for me and the missus. Driving down the Shenandoah Valley back in 2003 and it came on the radio! Have always been a massive JD fan and went to see him in concert whenever he came over.
Far out man!!
Take me home
Jonty Rhodes
To the veldt of Transvaal
Orange Free State
Good oold Joburg
Take me home
Jonty Rhodes
A reluctant John Denver.
However this is an easy pick, Toots is irresistible and wins this one for me.
I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago.
Interesting documenatry btw.
All the money went and no one knows where.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b084j56n/promises-lies-the-story-of-ub40