If Rob Tyner of MC5 was here, he’d simply yell, “Kick out the jams,” but he isn’t here so we’ll just have to let Grand Funk do the honors with our opening song.
I chose that song because the first four songs (and the last) are organ-driven memories from the past. The rest of the songs? Well, they certainly are all memories from the soundtrack of your life, too, only minus the organ wizardry of Mark Farner, Alan Price, Matthew Fisher, and Steve Winwood, respectively.
We have four Grammy Award winners (every one of them at the expense of The Beatles), an iconic Chuck Berry song, a misunderstood tune from Steely Dan, and a failed attempt to recreate the CCR sound but became a smash hit anyway.
We close out with a Double A-side record from The Beatles before finishing with more keyboard skills demonstrated by John Paul Jones, the much too often overlooked member of Led Zeppelin.
Memories … That’s What We’re All About
Play buttons are on the left … Volume sliders are on the right
It’s Long, But What Can I Say?
Grand Funk – Animals
Procol Harum – Spencer Davis Group
Steely Dan – Chuck Berry
Statler Brothers – Roger Miller
Frank Sinatra – Anita Kerr Quartet
Hollies – Beatles
Beatles – Led Zeppelin
