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  1. "No No Song" is a 1974 song by English musician #RingoStarr. Written by #HoytAxton and David Jackson, it appeared on Starr's 1974 album, #GoodnightVienna. It was released as a single in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with "#Snookeroo," and reached No. 1 in #Canada, #3 in the #BillboardCharts, becoming his 7th and last top 10 hit. It also reached No. 1 on #CashBoxCharts in the US. In the song, the narrator meets a woman from #Colombia who offers him #marijuana.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Ag6wyMNLv_A

  2. Ted Tocks Covers

    Lay Lady Lay

    Originally posted on February 13, 2018

    On this day in 1969 Bob Dylan released ‘Nashville Skyline’.

    “Why wait any longer for the world to begin?
    You can have your cake and eat it too
    Why wait any longer for the one you love
    When he's standing in front of you?”

    #bobdylan #thebyrds #HoytAxton  #duranduran

    tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

  3. "Never Been to Spain" is a song written by #HoytAxton, originally released on his 1971 LP Joy to the World and later that year performed by #ThreeDogNight, with #CoryWells on lead vocal. It was featured on their 1971 album #Harmony. The recording was produced by #RichardPodolor.
    youtube.com/watch?v=dm6qw_yeo6o

  4. "Joy to the World" is a song written by #HoytAxton and made famous by the band #ThreeDogNight. The song is also popularly known by its opening lyric, "#Jeremiah was a bullfrog". Three Dog Night originally released the song on their fourth studio album, #Naturally, in November 1970, and subsequently released an edited version of the song as a #single in February 1971. The song, which has been described by members of Three Dog Night as a "kid's song" and a "silly song".
    youtube.com/watch?v=EVcpKjXYa5c

  5. "Never Been to Spain" is a song written by #HoytAxton, originally released on his 1971 LP Joy to the World and later that year performed by #ThreeDogNight, with #CoryWells on lead vocal. It was featured on their 1971 album #Harmony. The recording was produced by #RichardPodolor.
    youtube.com/watch?v=v8zGryHWZE0

  6. Musical Interlude: All the news about deportations....and the callous attitude toward the safety of those being deported...brought this song to mind. The lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie, and set to music by Martin Hoffman. It's about a real-life disaster in 1980; look up the Los Gatos crash and you'll read the horrid details.

    "Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos)," performed by Arlo Guthrie and Hoyt Axton.

    youtube.com/watch?v=qu-duTWccy

    #MusicalInterlude #FolkMusic #ProtestSong #SadlyStillRelevant #WoodyGuthrie #ArloGuthrie #HoytAxton #LosGatos #Deportations

  7. > Among [Hoyt Axton's (the father from Gremlins)] best-known songs are "Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer" and "Never Been to Spain".
    > [...]
    > His mother Mae Boren Axton, a songwriter, cowrote the song "Heartbreak Hotel", which became a major hit for Elvis Presley.

    #WikiWeird #ElvisPresley #HoytAxton #Gremlins

  8. Ted Tocks Covers

    Pancho and Lefty

    Originally posted and recently edited from March 7, 2018

    Remembering Townes Van Zandt on what would have been his 80th birthday.

    “You weren’t your momma’s only boy
    But her favorite one, it seems
    She began to cry when you said goodbye
    And sank into your dreams”

    #TownesVanZandt #SteveEarle #EmmylouHarris #HoytAxton #MerleHaggard #WillieNelson #DavidGans

    tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2