* - On their 7th album, 'Street Corner Talking' // * - Click on Link above/ left, to watch thi ENTIRE show of July 6, 1973, also with Johnny Winter, Tower of Power, Staple Singlers, etc ...
Time:
4:11
Artist:
Canned Heat [Adolfo de la Parra {their drummer} *]
This song was an original performed live by Canned Heat, but not officially released on an album at the time. / * - Assembled by their drummer, Adolfo de la Parra (the only remaining original member), and Canned Heat collector Walter de Paduwa. // Click on Link above/ left, to watch the performance.
* - Assembled by their drummer, Adolfo de la Parra (the only remaining original member), and Canned Heat collector Walter de Paduwa. // ** - On their fifth album 'Future Blues'
FUN factoid: the intro is an almost direct copy of the intro of Horace Silver's jazz classic "Song for My Father". / MORE fun factoids: John Lennon, in a 1974 interview discussing recent hit songs, said "I liked "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," that was a good commercial record.. "
* - 'Salty Dog' or 'Salty Dog Blues" is a folk song from the early 1900s. First recorded by Papa Charlie Jackson in 1924, it was also recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, Lead Belly, Kokomo Arnold and Rambling Jack Elliot.
After Green left Fleetwood Mac in 1970, he worked with Watson on two English-only solo singles, "Heavy Heart" {Reprise, June 1971} and "Beasts of Burden" {Reprise, Jan 1972} ; He was also conga player with Fleetwood Mac on a US tour, in Feb/ March of 1971. At the time Watson was the brother-in-law of Fleetwood Mac's manager Clifford Davis. //
Click on Link above/ left, to view the CD.
Any resemblance between this, and 'Can't Explain' by The Who, is prob-ab-ly totally and completely intentional / * - Full title: 'Relics (Collector Obscurities From The First Psychedelic Era '66-'69)' - Hand-numbered limited edition of 500 copies
* - He was the lead guitarist on this album / In 2013, the English music mag NME {"New Music Express"} ranked this album #217 on their "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
Sinatra's recording of this became closely associated with the "Apollo" space program; it was played on a Sony portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon, and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon. Also released as a 7-inch, 33 1/3rpm record // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original album