I just tripped across a really fun music web site: Songfacts. If you like music trivia as i do, you will love this site. Having just found it, I have not had a chance to explore all of its myriad features, but the “Random Songfact” button is a gasser. A great number of the random facts deal with unfamiliar (to me) groups and songs, but a plethora of great stuff pops up more often than not. For instance, here is the result for “Me and Bobby MeGee” (sung by) Janis Joplin. Of course we are reminded right away that Janis did not write the song – it was Kris Kristofferson. And, among many other fascinating facts we learn that Kris got the title (originally “Bobby McKee) from the founder of his record label (Fred Foster) before he even started writing the song, and that the “hook” was to be that Bobby was a she. Also, as should be obvious, Kris thought Fred had said “McGee” instead of “McKee.”
How can you not love this stuff?
Let me know of any great “Random Songfacts” you unearth in Songfacts – I’m all ears.
~ tom
1 comment:
I don't know if it's on songfacts, but I'm pretty sure the line "freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" or else it was "oh god won't you buy me a mercedes benz" (hmmm, a little brain op reverb going on) at any rate, one of the classic lines from that song was contributed by Bobby Newirth who is a painter and singer/songwriter guitar player etc. who was Dylan's main man back in the day (you can see him in most of the early docs and in Renaldo And Clara etc.).
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