Well how many of U remember the old S S President paddlewheeler @ the foot of Canal St., N.O.,La., we were aboard one nite @ a concert Irma had and she did a lead in "rap" to "Hip Shakin Mama" about wat men want or ask for of a woman, well my wife was like 7 months pregnant, we were young and Ms. Thomas made reference to big thighs, the 1st thing he pushes aside, she looked @ me and my wife (standing side by side) and pointed to my wife and said, ...huh honey, ain't that how that happened, he darn show ain't asked U for no thighs... everyone turned and looked n laughed, and I was trying to dig a hole in the floor, and she said way U going, cant run now, there,ll be mo of them thighs wen this one is done!! Um just funnin honey, good luck with Ur basketball team, ....that son was over 10 lbs @ birth!, always loved her, ALWAYS put on a great show, seen her many times all over NOLa, including her 50 yrs performing, concert @ Harrah's, NOLa.
Mary was the first in a long line of my crushes on female vocalists. I was 9 years old when PPM released Blowin’ in the Wind and it altered the arc of my life.
They had such great vocal harmonies. This was a turning point of acoustic instruments meeting electric instruments, technologies. Folk music meeting rock. Recently, our country's troubles make me hear this song in my head. Mindless gerbal activities & infinite stupidity's .
She is too cute in this video ! Really hamming it up! Even she had to laugh when the door didn’t open. 😂 Gonna have to see if I can find the part with Vince. ❤️
Kind of like when and why he was pissed when The Byrds changed that one line in their cover of Dylan’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere to open their pioneering Country Rock album Sweetheart of the Rodeo in 1968 (the same year Peter, Paul and Mary recorded Too Much of Nothing) from “Pick up your money and pack up your tent” to “Pack up your money and pick up your tent” lol.
The most underappreciated and overlooked artist in the history of rock & roll. Irma Thomas can provoke every imaginable feeling inside of me to shine brightly. There's no covering up my feelings when she's in charge of the atmosphere. Thank You Irma 🌹 Appreciate the video posting also!
This was taped on the Smother Brothers show the year after Tet 68 and the Chicago police riots, Nixon has been inaugurated in January and Woodstock would occur in August after Apollo 11. I first say PP&M in 1963. Mary was a total babe and the difference between her and Phyllis Schlafley tells the tale of the difference between the on-campus liberals and the Movement Conservatives who had campaigned for Goldwater, campaign for CREEP and come to town with Reagan in 1981 PP&M played at Indiana University in May 1969 in a venue that had held a protest against Dupont's role in the war and, for some reason, the acoustics of the hall amplified the "NAPALM" chant of the protesters. At the end of their concert, there was a 45 minuet standing ovation after their final encore. Everybody there just wanted to hold on to the hope and fraternity in the room, like clapping for Tink.
