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176. SAVE IT FOR ME-THE FOUR SEASONS (1964)
Album: Rag Doll

When naming the highlights of the group's many hits, this one is usually overlooked. Too bad, because I think it
has one of their nicest melodies. Along with the Supremes, this was my dad's favorite group amongst the rock
era acts. He had their Rag Doll and second collection of hits albums and played them often. He loved this song, as do I.





THIS marks the halfway point of our song list.....



175. DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE-THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS (1967)
Album: The Mamas and Papas Deliver

It's not often I vastly prefer a cover version of a song to the original. Such is the case here, however. I never cared
much for the Shirelles performance of the song. This, though, is magic. The vocal arrangement is pure gold, and I
love the saloon-style piano in the midsection. Leaves the Shirelles in the dust as far as I'm concerned.

So glad to be able to say "saloon-style piano" from now on!

I'd called some ABBA song riffs "that part that sounds like a player piano" but never felt good about it.

The first song reminds me that while "Jersey Boys" is loaded with profanity and I can't actively recommend it to anyone sensitive to that, it does a decent job of showing the songwriting process from the angle of the fellow who did most of the composing work (Bob Gaudio) while Valli got most of the attention.

Ritterskoop wrote:The first song reminds me that while "Jersey Boys" is loaded with profanity and I can't actively recommend it to anyone sensitive to that, it does a decent job of showing the songwriting process from the angle of the fellow who did most of the composing work (Bob Gaudio) while Valli got most of the attention.

We saw the touring company production and loved it. The movie was ok, too, but didn't give me the emotional wallop that the stage version did.

Ritterskoop wrote:So glad to be able to say "saloon-style piano" from now on!

I'd called some ABBA song riffs "that part that sounds like a player piano" but never felt good about it.

If it makes you feel any better, I struggled for a while before settling on that description. There is a technical term for the type of piano but I can't recall it. It's the same type of sound the Beatles used in "Rocky Raccoon", sounding like the piano being played in an Old West saloon.

T_Bone0806 wrote:

Ritterskoop wrote:So glad to be able to say "saloon-style piano" from now on!

I'd called some ABBA song riffs "that part that sounds like a player piano" but never felt good about it.

If it makes you feel any better, I struggled for a while before settling on that description. There is a technical term for the type of piano but I can't recall it. It's the same type of sound the Beatles used in "Rocky Raccoon", sounding like the piano being played in an Old West saloon.

Ragtime?

Estonut wrote:

T_Bone0806 wrote:

Ritterskoop wrote:So glad to be able to say "saloon-style piano" from now on!

I'd called some ABBA song riffs "that part that sounds like a player piano" but never felt good about it.

If it makes you feel any better, I struggled for a while before settling on that description. There is a technical term for the type of piano but I can't recall it. It's the same type of sound the Beatles used in "Rocky Raccoon", sounding like the piano being played in an Old West saloon.

Ragtime?

Now I remember.."Tack Piano".

Roomie also suggests "honkeytonk" for the piano description, but that has other flavors to it also.

Ritterskoop wrote:Roomie also suggests "honkeytonk" for the piano description, but that has other flavors to it also.

Honkytonk is an appropriate description as well I think.