#Simon Robertson

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Song: Toys for the Boys Artist: Simon Robertson, Stephen Root, Larry Lush, Phil Earl, Dominic Glynn (individual track composers unable to be identified) From: Re-Volt

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Jewish musicians of the 1960s

✡︎ Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941)

✡︎ Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein; May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015)

✡︎ Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016)

✡︎ Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942)

✡︎ Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald; January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018) and Jorma Kaukonen (born December 23, 1940) of Jefferson Airplane

✡︎ Robby Krieger (born January 8, 1946) of The Doors

✡︎ Paul Simon (born October 13, 1941) and Art Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) of Simon & Garfunkel

✡︎ Phil Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976)

✡︎ Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974) of The Mamas & The Papas

✡︎ Mary (December 28, 1948 – January 19, 2024) and Elizabeth Weiss (born November 27, 1946) of The Shangri-Las

✡︎ Neil Diamond (born January 24, 1941)

✡︎ Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951)

✡︎ Robbie Robertson (born Jaime Royal Robertson; July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) of The Band

✡︎ Gary Hirsh (March 9, 1940 – August 17, 2021), Barry Melton (born June 14, 1947), Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (born January 1, 1942), and David Cohen (born August 4, 1942) of Country Joe and the Fish

✡︎ Manfred Mann (born Manfred Sepse Lubowitz; October 21, 1940)

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Ok hi I HAVE SOOOOO MANY BETTER ONES COMING UP but I liked this a lot! im gonna post a what to expect this week post in a few.

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Dollar Bin #38:

Carly Simon's Hotcakes

I'll bet you've never sampled Carly Simon's Hotcakes.

You've certainly never listened to the record and you've passed it by in the Dollar Bin a few dozen times in your life because, dude, the record is by Carly Simon and it's called Hotcakes.

Even so, I know you, you hipster, and I'll bet you believe, deep in your soul, that you could ace a brief true/false quiz on the record anyway.

Well, here you go, True or False:

Hotcakes includes the only Simon song you or I can actually sorta sing along to, You're So Vain.

Simon was married to Manasas frontman / bongo lord / and friend of Stephen Stills, Joe Freakin' Lala, at the time of Hotcakes and he does significant and brilliant work on the record.

My famous brother, whose complex taste is secondary to none, swears by Hotcakes, calling it "Simon's space-jazz-country-metal condemnation of the American soul."

But in actuality, the album sucks; that's why it's forever in the Dollar Bin.

Final question, for the win: Simon had no qualms whatsoever about using her curvaceous body to sell records; for proof check out the cover of the record after Hotcakes, below. But Hotcakes's comparatively conservative cover has a salacious back story: the record company airbrushed more clothes on Simon's otherwise naked form so as to avoid a censor's brown paper protection wrapper.

Pencils down, people. And stop staring at the above image already. Well, how'd you do?

I'm rooting for you, I really am, but I'm also guessing that you got a straight up zero because none of that stuff above is true.

This blog will not engage in whispered theory about the object of Simon's ire in You're So Vain. (Sure, maybe she was tasking an oblivious Mick Jagger with singing about himself; or perhaps the song is about my distant cousin Kris Kristofferson, cuz didn't you and I see that written somewhere? Or maybe about it's about one of the two hetero-male-70's-swinging-single-Austen-Powers-types-only-they-were-American, both of whom were pursuing Simon's peer and better, Joni Mitchell at the moment Hotcakes came out 50 years ago: Warren Beaty or Jack Nicholson.) Any of those theories may be correct but we will not go there because, well, you're wrong. You're So Vain is on her previous record.

And no, Joe Freakin Lala, who plays on every bad 70's record, doesn't appear on Hotcakes, which is part of what makes Hotcakes kinda great, nor were they married, though Lala certainly was working on making it happen because did we mention her curvaceous body? Simon was married instead at that point to Sweet Baby Sensitive himself, otherwise known as James Taylor, and he's all over this record.

Their marriage didn't last, however. One wonders how Jamesie felt about Simon's general lack of clothing on her album covers during their marriage; one also hopes she dumped his ass because she's actually a really great songwriter who went to Julliard and who wants to be married to the guy VH1 was essentially created for? But I'm getting ahead of myself...

When it comes to the third question, no, my famous brother does not sing the praises of this record; indeed he claims to have never listened to all of a single Carly Simon record in all of his august life.

And he's a dope for not doing so because Hotcakes is totally (or maybe I should say kinda) good! In fact, maybe it's time for a Carly Simon Renaissance, one that does not stoop to objectifying her for her looks even though this entire blog post has already fallen for that trap. She deserves better!

But we're not done grading your test yet so let's talk about the whole airbrushing thing. No one touched up Hotcakes; Simon's dress on the cover is real. Indeed, she donned clothes for this cover at least in part because of her "situation" as Jane Austen would put it; she was pregnant at the time. It seems that James Taylor was once good for helping to give birth to something other than Blue and early Carole King records.

But the airbrushing thing did actually happen on another Simon record, Boys In The Trees. She posed topless then the label covered her up.

Relax, of course, I'm gonna let you see that cover.

The airbrusher did some clever work here, no? Damn the airbrusher!

But look at me, here I am objectifying her all over again. Simon overcame childhood trauma, dyslexia and a stutter; she deserves more from me, dammit.

She was also the victim of some tough timing: Hotcakes was released simultaneously to both Planet Waves and Court and Spark.

I can relate. Every time I write a cool post about Gordon Lightfoot my brother posts something revelatory about Stereolab and then my wife walks from Point A to Point B; both their acts leave me gnawing on distant third place bronze.

I know, Dylan and The Band's Planet Waves is underrated and unappreciated. But it's also a big deal Bob Dylan record and Court and Spark is, obviously, one of the greatest pop records of all time. So Simon couldn't compete with either title at the time and she still can't compete today.

(Speaking of Planet Waves, hopefully its full sessions will benefit from a big Bootleg Series box at some point this year so as to avoid entering into the public domain, just as Dylan recently did with Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. Oddly this release has not happened yet even though it would be a great excuse to celebrate the recent passing of Robbie Robertson; what the hell is Dylan waiting for, A Series of Dreams?)

(And here's one related extra test question; I think you need the chance for extra credit: Name the only musician who appears on Hotcakes, Planet Waves and Court and Spark. Yeah, someone played on all three records. Come on, you've got this: he's better looking than Taylor and Richard Thompson used his playing as a basis for his own approach on I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight. Please tell me you don't need another hint. You do? He just died and he's mentioned in the paragraph above. That's right, Robbie Robertson: a busy guy in 74.)

Anyway, no one has ever - until now! - considered Hotcakes as a piece of thoughtful art. And maybe that's fine; we don't need everything on our shelf to signal abrupt changes in the popular culture.

Artistic merits aside, Hotcakes still sold like, well, hotcakes; your mom bought a copy and so did mine. And then we all turned around and ignored our mom's sweet style. Damn us!

So let's talk about the record already...

Hotcakes opens with Simon strumming admirably and singing about strange times in Portland, Maine, dancing lobsters and the Chinese divorce rate before giving way to a sweet chorus.

Klaus Voorman, one of several candidates for the title of 5th Beatle, and one of the more oddly named of 70's musicians - he and Hugh McCracken should have got together back in the day and started a pretty sweet cult; I woulda joined up and renamed myself Cheesesteak Murphy in their honor - lays down some super fat and sweet bass and the always admirable Paul Buckmaster, the guy behind the string sections on everything from Tiny Dancer to Moonlight Mile, offers up warm, complimentary tones.

This song is weird and good! I wish the whole album centered around naked motorcycle gangs.

But sadly, no dice. The rest of Side 1 is a bit dull: Simon has her mind on her mustachioed VH1 man, she busts out a soft rock strut to announce that she's pregnant, she reminds us that she has a sister, and so on. Fairly flatulent horns are increasingly prominent; Buckmaster clearly was not consulted.

Happily, Side 2 brings things back into form. Simon's Misfit is a fitting prequal to Neil Young's own bizarro track of the same title; Simon's song seems directed at Taylor and tells him to chill the heck out and be a reasonable husband.

The tone is familiar to me; this is what it sounds like when your wife is a genius and you are not worthy:

Seriously, my wife might benefit from singing this to me every night around 8:45. I'm no longer young and I've never been an intellectual so I should not be miserable, even if Trump seems likely to reenter the White House in a few short months. Rather I could show her an itch I'd like scratched while Buckmaster supplies fifes and swirls. Sounds amazing.

But things go to an even lovelier level with the lyrically straight-forward Forever My Love. Sandy Denny was off making Like an Old Fashioned Waltz around this same time and a song like Forever My Love sits comfortably alongside Denny's more timeless and majestic ballads: sure Joni was making high art at that point; but Sandy and Carly were singing about love in lovely ways.

I'm going to go on the record here and make the claim that Brandi Carlile had this song, with its full tilt rock opera fade out, in mind when she called up Buckmaster at the very end of his long and productive life and asked him to arrange the strings for much of her record By the Way, I Forgive You. Take a listen:

Wow, intense video. I wish the whole thing were the old white grandpa lip syncing. Where were we? Oh yeah, the Buckmaster touch: it's a good thing.

Finally, Hotcakes ends with a pretty good quality 70's pop anthem. I bet my mom listened to this while I was in utero: it sounds pretty damn familiar and I feel like I need the message in it far more than I need any of the news currently swirling around us.

No pain! Happy Tuesday everyone.

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The Band - The Weight (1968) Robbie Robertson from: "Music From Big Pink" (LP) "The Weight" / "I Shall Be Released" (Single)

Roots Music

Snuhfiles (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Levon Helm: Lead and Harmony Vocals / Drums Rick Danko: Co-Lead and Harmony Vocals / Bass Guitar Robbie Robertson: Acoustic Guitar Richard Manuel: Hammond Organ / Harmony Vocals Garth Hudson: Piano

Produced by John Simon

Recorded @ A&R Recorders (Studio A) in New York City, New York USA January, 1968

Album Released on July 1, 1968

Single Released: on August 8, 1968

Capitol Records

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Video: The Band w/ The Staple Singers - The Weight (1978) from Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz https://youtu.be/Z2eTW8qZBtk

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