I saw him in grand rapids in 1971. He was the warmup band for some flash in the pan group. I hadn't heard of him before. He was WAY better than the group I went to see.
Yesterday I walked by a children's playground, a young boy aged about 6 stood by the gate, crying for his mother. I tried to comfort the kid, and thought of this song: 'I thought I heard a young boy crying for his mother ... you wouldn't hear a young boy crying for his mother'. HAD to play it today, got stuck in my head .... RIP Long John Baldry.
It's July of 2020, and this is the first time I've ever heard this version of the classic "Morning Dew"....My gosh, how much great music does a person miss in his or her lifetime?!!!
This version is by far my favourite and personally relevant. As it relates to the time when I had the difficult task of informing my two young sons (4&6) their mother (36) had died of Cancer. Planning to use LJB's "FLYING" at my Funeral.
Ik moet het toegeven: dit is gewoon de beste uitvoering van dit nummer...Deze stem is in dit nummer niet te evenaren... Respect for Mr. Long John Baldry..
Long John Baldry, the man who was a phenomenon among the British blues and rock scene. Loved and admired by the best true musicians and artist of the day: Elton John, Rod Stewart, Led Zepp, Rolling Stones, Animals. He and Joe Cocker are true geniuses of there music. Never to be forgotten and a big part of my life.
Still a really great song to listen to. It reminds me of the good old days back in the early 70's when we were young and beautiful. We didn't have much only a vinyl LP player and this single we played on daily bases over and over again.. This one was one of my favorite and still is in 2020.
When he played my campus pub in 88 I was on security and sat and chatted with him for about 45 minutes before his set. I think he was surprised that a kid from Canada knew so much about him. This was the album that turned me on to him. Unlike the Rolling Stones, I did not get discovered!
Instead of the Elton John movie coming out, this man is the one we should memorialize! What he did for all the old bluesmen that influenced him and he repaid the survivors by producing a European tour for them so they could earn some money to live out their lives in comfort and peace. RIP John!
@@davidratcliffe1 I've read that the John in Elton John's name came from his affinity for the WC. Apparently, his sister confirmed that to the press. What a world we live in.
@@squirrelbutler2119 In 1965, the Hoochie Coochie Men became Steampacket with Baldry and Stewart as male vocalists, Julie Driscoll as the female vocalist and Brian Auger on Hammond organ. After Steampacket broke up in 1966, Baldry formed Bluesology featuring Reg Dwight on keyboards and Elton Dean, sax player, later of Soft Machine, as well as Caleb Quaye on guitar. Dwight, when he began to record as a solo artist, adopted the name Elton John, his first name from Elton Dean and his surname from John Baldry.
@@squirrelbutler2119 Thanks for the reply. As I have copied this information from some forgotten source, I cannot vouch for it's accuracy. I don't believe that the line about Elton Dean states that he played a guitar. It merely says he was in the band along with Caleb Quaye on guitar. I guess it's all in the way the words are interpreted. Thanks again for the information. Victor
Wauw , kan niet stoppen naar deze versie te luisteren. De opbouw van de muziek !!! Die stem prachtig. Nog nooit eerder gehoord , geweldig zoals dit nummer vertolkt wordt.
I saw him at the East Coast Jazz Festival in 1966. I was 15 and really should not have been there. He was on with his "Steam Packet" with a very youthful Rod Stewart and Julie Driscoll. He was the tallest man I had ever seen. He walked like he was on stilts. Great voice, great guy who made some bad choices..... don't we all?
Yep... Ik herinner me nog goed hoe ik ervan genoot toen ie in onze hitlijsten stond. Gek genoeg hebben wij Nederlanders om e.o.a. reden altijd een neusje gehad voor het vinden van super talenten. Waarin een klein land groot kan zijn... :-).
@@karyndavidson3136 Autotuned all to fuck and back, that's where. Before autotuners allowed poor singers to sound good, singers needed good voices. A musician with a mediocre voice could carry it if their musicianship was good enough. Also back in Baldry's day record companies invested real money in musicians and they had to be convinced that they would get a return on their investment so they invested in talent. Often that talent was refined over many months - years of practice. Today any twat can download a programme from the internet, "sing" over it, release it online and call themselves a musician. Perhaps the egalitarianism of that should be welcomed, but I'd call such people computer programmers, not musicians.
Prachtig nr. herinnert me aan lang vervlogen tijden ( begin 80 er jaren), ik testte daar samen met mijn vader die conciërge was op school, de nieuwe geluidsinstallatie en de akoestiek in de kantine met dit geweldige nummer.
never forgot, on gard in the army 1980, 05.30 in the morning, all quiete everybody sleeps. small old raddio with 1 earplug. Sun is comming up a bit fog and hearing this for the first time. great
Aren’t we lucky to have these memories of incredibly special moments of private joy and authentic life? Jon Baldry has given me these moments over and over again, this song, and especially the songs where Elton plays the piano. I am so grateful, and your post reminds me of it, thank you. Keep up your secret smile.
It's Summer, 1972 and LJB's first, seductive album graces the turntable of a young man crying recently returned from combat in Vietnam. This is truly an anthem of those sad days.
Mid sixties Long John Baldry formed a band with Elton Dean and a certain Reginald Dwight named Bluesology. After the split of this band, the artist name Elton John was formed out of Reg's adoration for Long (he was 2.01m) John Baldry (his native name).
God what a great record this is, this has always been one of my favorite records.I had a copy of this as a teenager and proceeded to literally wear out the groove pattern it was played so much by me at all hours of the day and night much to my parents displeasure.
Exactly - I have to versions of this record. They differ in a couple of ways. For example the piano intro on Morning Dew is omitted on one of them. So whish for this masterpiece to be released on CD
We only hear a small part of what we are able to come cross, I was very lucky to be a backing singer in the 90”s house and garage music,be for that I was a front man in several rock bands wow what a trip, worked with mr G micheals. Amazing
This version of the song was in an old 80s mp3 playlist of mine, put together early 2000s. Hadn't listened to it for about 10 years, until I wanted to convert that 2000+ songs long playlist to spotify. Came across this song, but the versions on spotify (even the live one) can't hold a candle to this one. Maybe it's nostalgia getting in the way, I know. But maybe it's the arrangement, maybe it's the amazing piano solo at the start, but most of all, maybe it's the way Long John's amazingly peculiar voice in the lower registers, changes into another beast of a voice halfway through the chorus. And while listening to it again, what about that depth of his voice during the outtro! What an amazing rendition this is. Just wow
I was in a band called The Acme Repossessing Company and we the did our own version of this song back in 1969.I love the piano intro in John Baldry 's version.
