6 thoughts on “Friday Jams Fest”

1. Owned this album in college.
   Played it a zillion times.
   Loved Herb Alpert's music as I played the cornet in band.

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   1. Fun stuff.

      Plus, one of the most parodied album covers. It took me only a couple of minutes to discover this example online, from the URL above:

      

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      1. So that's what whipped fracking fluid looks like?

         Hick: "I tell ya, it's safe. My girlfriend loves this look on me.  And this  outfit alone created 5,000 high-paying jobs in Colorado."

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   2. Still own a couple albums.  Music is crappy, but the cover is a classic.  Trivia, the model was three months pregnant at the time. easy way out with a wiki link.

      Dave Brubeck had Angel Eyes out at the same time.

      http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/angeleyes62.jpg

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2. I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes
   I slept on the ground in the light of the moon
   On the edge of the city you’ll see us and then
   We come with the dust and we go with the wind

   California, Arizona, I harvest your crops
   Well it’s North up to Oregon to gather your hops
   Dig the beets from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine
   To set on your table your light sparkling wine
   
   The Secretary of the Interior
   Washington
   April 6, 1966
   Dear Mr. Guthrie,
   It gives me great pleasure to present you the Department of the Interior’s Conservation Service Award. In conjunction with this award we are also naming a Bonneville Power Administration substation in your honor. It will be known hereafter as the Woody Guthrie Substation in recognition of the fine work you have done to make our people aware of their heritage and the land.
   You sang that “this land belongs to you and me,” and you sang from the heart of America that feels this about its land. You have articulated, in your songs, the sense of identification that each citizen of our country feels toward this land and the wonders, which it holds. You brought to your songs a heart as big as all outdoors, and we are fortunate to have music, which expresses the love and affection each of us feels, though we are unable to express it so eloquently, toward this land…”from California to the New York Island-from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.”
   Yours was not a passing comment on the beauties of nature, but a living, breathing, singing force in our struggle to use our land and save it too. The greatness of this land is that people such as you, with creative talent, worked on it and that you told about that work-told about the power of the Bonneville Dam and the men who harnessed it, about the length of the Lincoln Highway and the men who laid it out. You have summarized the struggles and the deeply held convictions of all those who love our land fight to protect it.
   Sincerely yours,
   (Signed)
   Stewart L. Udall
   Secretary of the Interior
   Mr. Woodrow W. Guthrie
   Brooklyn State Hospital
   681 Clarkson Avenue
   Brooklyn, New York

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3. This album brings back so many memories.  My mother was a big Herb Albert fan, and I remember listening many hours to this album…many many years back.

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