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re: Songs about Rock and Roll Stardom

Posted on 3/31/25 at 7:29 pm to
Posted by Kafka
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Posted by TFTC
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Posted on 3/31/25 at 7:33 pm to
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/31/25 at 7:40 pm to
Country rather than R&R but...

Joe Carson - "The Last Song I'm Ever Gonna Sing" (1963)



One of the lost masterpieces of country music, a surprisingly early anti-Nashville piece (6 yrs before "Lodi") written by Crickets Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis. Curtis himself cut it soon afterward, as did The Everly Brothers. But this version is definitive, Carson perfectly capturing the pathetic sense of disappointment in the lyrics.

Carson is one of country's great might-have-beens. A few months after this record's release he was killed in a car wreck at age 27.









FWIW producer Tommy Allsup is the guy who lost a coin toss and gave up his seat on the plane to Ritchie Valens.
Posted by Crow Pie
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Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:06 pm to
It's Only Rock N Roll "bookleg demo" from Ronnies house in 1974
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Posted on 3/31/25 at 9:15 pm to
Top Jimmy

Posted by FightinTigersDammit
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Posted on 3/31/25 at 9:30 pm to
Country division:
John Anderson: Would you Catch a Fallin' Star?
Waylon Jennings: Are you Sure Hank Done it This Way?
Merke Haggard: Footlights
Kinky Friedman: Sold, American
Bobby Bare: Rough on the Livin'
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 1:14 am to
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 8:54 am to
Joe’s Garage - Zappa
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 9:09 am to
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Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 9:18 am to
There's debate on this one because of the obvious drug angle, but I like to think at least one part fits here.

Posted by Lonnie Utah
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 10:06 am to
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 10:09 am to
Hank Williams - Lost Highway
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Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music

Posted by Lonnie Utah
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 10:13 am to
Because of the popularity of the music video, I'm sure everyone's Dire Straits go to on this topic would be money for nothing. But that wasn't their first song on the topic...

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing...
Posted by Lonnie Utah
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Posted on 4/1/25 at 10:15 am to
Jukebox hero already posted.

Replaced with this one..
Run DMC - Can you Rock it Like this?
This post was edited on 4/1/25 at 10:19 am
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