King Harvest

[zzmoore]

This tune Was/Is such a nice song. Any of you guys ever cover this tune.?
The guy had a pretty nice voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8

 

[Reddog]

I played bass in a bar band when I was in College (70's) and we covered this tune. I always dug this song...

 

[zzmoore]

Yeah, you do not hear a Wurlitzer too often these days.

 

[gmann]

Great song. I always thought they would do more and wondered why they didn't.

 

[Bassomatic]

Yes, we've covered.

Great song from album by a great band. Manuel really got the vibe of the lyric across (RIP), and the Levon vocals complement greatly.

 

[Bodhisattva]

great song. That one instantly takes me back to my childhood. It's almost eerie.

 

[Frank Prince]

Doing it in one of my current cover bands. Very nice tune!

 

[mango]

Yes, we've covered.

Great song from album by a great band. Manuel really got the vibe of the lyric across (RIP), and the Levon vocals complement greatly.

King Harvest the band,not King Harvest the song .

 

[zzmoore]

King Harvest the band,not King Harvest the song .

An honest mistake I suppose.
Not a popular thread any way I guess.
So what the heck.....
Never seen this The Band video anyway.
best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKD1Vdarnw

 

[phillygtr]

Dude, I became obsessed with that tune out of the blue a few months back. Great song & record. My Morning Jacket has covered that in concert.

 

[Telebluze]

Yes, we've covered.

Great song from album by a great band. Manuel really got the vibe of the lyric across (RIP), and the Levon vocals complement greatly.

I initially thought it was a thread about "King Harvest" by The Band too.......then I clicked on the link

 

[zzmoore]

I initially thought it was a thread about "King Harvest" by The Band too.......then I clicked on the link

Maybe we should just see how many different ways we can spin this.?

 

[splatt]

yeah..... i played it a few times with my drummer-friend, wells kelly.....
who was in boffalongo & king harvest..... and in orleans.

 

[zzmoore]

yeah..... i played it a few times with my drummer-friend, wells kelly.....
who was in boffalongo & king harvest..... and in orleans.

Did not his brother write that song DITM.?
And he has passed away I believe.?
Quite awhile ago I guess.

 

[Member 1963]

Tunes like that, the really catchy ones from 1 hit wonders back in those days really bring me back to my youth like nothing else can. I have a folder on my PC filled with those late 60's and early 70's hits mostly by 1HW's and when i need something to bring me out of a depression i dump them all into a player and listen to them all. That song is in there. What i love about stuff like that is it's just catchy nice tunes made without pretentiousness. No hot guitars solos, no worry about sounding bubble gum, etc. Today if you wrote something like that kids would make fun of anyone who listened to it. But that was what music was about back then.....no categories, just good music. Zep would rock harder than most anyone one moment then the next track would be a acoustic fingerpicking tune. It was about what sounded good with no other considerations.

 

[doublee]

^

One Hit Wonders? The Band? I am still confused, is there a band called King Harvest that I am unawares of?

To this old guy King Harvest can only mean one thing...THE Band

 

[zzmoore]

Tunes like that, the really catchy ones from 1 hit wonders back in those days really bring me back to my youth like nothing else can. I have a folder on my PC filled with those late 60's and early 70's hits mostly by 1HW's and when i need something to bring me out of a depression i dump them all into a player and listen to them all. That song is in there. What i love about stuff like that is it's just catchy nice tunes made without pretentiousness. No hot guitars solos, no worry about sounding bubble gum, etc. Today if you wrote something like that kids would make fun of anyone who listened to it. But that was what music was about back then.....no categories, just good music. Zep would rock harder than most anyone one moment then the next track would be a acoustic fingerpicking tune. It was about what sounded good with no other considerations.

Yeah, born in 1960, and that is how I remember growing up.
All through the 60's and 70's there was great music on the radio (AM and FM) all the time.
It just kept coming.
Tom Petty is a fluke of nature, but is indicative of song writers from days gone by.
Think of all the Hal David/Burt Bacharach songs you can hum.?
What happened to all of that.?

 

[zzmoore]

^

One Hit Wonders? The Band? I am still confused, is there a band called King Harvest that I am unawares of?

To this old guy King Harvest can only mean one thing...THE Band

Yeah.
You need to start at the beginning, and sort of follow closely.
There is kind of 2 threads going on here.
It just sort of happened.
Probably my fault.
best

 

[doublee]

Yeah.
You need to start at the beginning, and sort of follow closely./QUOTE]

Wait a second NO one EVer reads the whole thread before commenting around here...

 

[TNO]

I was 11 years old in '73. My family would go to Pizza Hut every Wednesday night and give me quarters for the jukebox. "Dancing in the Moonlight", "Mandy, You're A Fine Girl", all that fun, hooky stuff really got me as a kid... still does.

As for that live in Woodstock clip of The Band doing "King Harvest"- WHY hasn't that whole thing ever been put out????? That was ground zero for some of the best music ever made.