{"id":942,"date":"2014-06-13T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=942"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:18:58","slug":"music-friday-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>My goal with this week&#8217;s Music Friday &#8211; Yellow Brick Road Edition was to find an artist who is virtually a household name and perhaps introduce you to a few of his more obscure songs from my formative years, which are? \u00a0Anyone? \u00a0 Bueller? \u00a0That&#8217;s right, the 70&#8217;s! \u00a0And by way of maintaining the connection to progressive or alt rock, I can tell you that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elton_John\" target=\"_blank\">Elton John<\/a>, while he was still known by his real name Reginald Dwight, once auditioned for lead singer of King Crimson. \u00a0And you can&#8217;t get any more prog or alt than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_Crimson\" target=\"_blank\">King Crimson<\/a>. \u00a0Obviously, he did not pass the audition. \u00a0Though he teamed up with lyricist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Taupin\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Taupin<\/a> in the 60&#8217;s and his debut album <em>Empty Sky<\/em> was released in 1969, it was his 1970 album <em>Elton John<\/em> that established his style and contained his first US Top 100 single, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/szeP3jxXP9U\" target=\"_blank\">Your Song<\/a>. <\/em>\u00a0Anyhoo..<em>. <\/em>back to<em> Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. \u00a0<\/em>The double album was released in early 1973 to instant critical acclaim, and yielded the hits <em><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_8ch87hRnwQ\" target=\"_blank\">Bennie and the Jets<\/a>,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WkmrMtILPqo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Candle In The Wind<\/em> <\/a>as well as the title track, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EgkBx8csEws\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0If you click on those titles, the link will take you to YouTube where you can listen to those songs. \u00a0For my purposes today, I will feature three \u00a0songs you may not be familiar with if you haven&#8217;t listened to the album tens of thousands of times like I have. \u00a0You think I&#8217;m exaggerating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First up: \u00a0<em>Harmony<\/em> (not hominy as someone suggested in the YouTube comments)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qh123TonnOc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next up: \u00a0<em>This Song Has No Title<\/em>. \u00a0Actually is does have a title &#8211; that is the title.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZdDxR_IDgk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally we&#8217;ll ride off into the sunset with <em>Roy Rogers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGIds7cSf3U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elton John and Bernie Taupin collaborated on something like 30 albums, and they did not work together. \u00a0Taupin would write a set of lyrics and then send them, usually through the mail, to John wherever he was. \u00a0John would then put the lyrics to music. \u00a0Well.. whatever works. \u00a0And this <em>works!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet My goal with this week&#8217;s Music Friday &#8211; Yellow Brick Road Edition was to find an artist who is virtually a household name and perhaps introduce you to a few of his more obscure songs from my formative years, which are? 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