The Best Of Webb Wilder LIVE! was compiled from three shows in Lyon France, Paris France, & Milwaukee Wisconsin, & single tracks from appearances in Cambridge Massachusets & Bordeaux. This collection covers almost as much ground as Webb does.
I'm partial to his psychedelic-tinged stuff like Please Don't Go, Tough It Out, I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, & Slow Death.
There are also bluesier numbers you may know better by Rockpile (Oh What A Thrill) & The Fabulous Thunderbirds (Powerful Stuff, Sugar Coated Love), and the nuts-and-bolts rockabilly of Move It, Make That Move, & Rockin' Little Angel.
Any fan of Wilder's knows to expect funny intros & The Webb Wilder Credo, & his originals like Hoodoo Witch, Poolside, Dance With Daddy, & Tough It Out, as well as songs he didn't write that have become associated with him; How Long Can She Last (Going So Fast?)
And when The Last Of The Full-Grown Men goes full country with a song like Steve Earle's Devil's Right Hand, you have to wonder why country radio doesn't have him in heavy rotation.
There are few acts that I enjoy more. I got Wilder's autograph when I saw him perform solo one night a few years ago, & he couldn't have been nicer.
There's a great write-up here: Webb Wilder
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ReplyDeleteI've listed some of the fantastic covers WEBB WILDER does above.
What I'd like to know is the song that has been covered a LOT (more than 20 times lets say) that you dislike so much, you can't even believe it got published.
For me, it's HI-HEEL SNEAKERS (sometimes HIGH HEEL SNEAKERS) written by Tommy Tucker under the pseudonym Robert Higginbotham. If I had never heard the song, I feel my life would be improved, but Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee, Chuck Berry, & Paul McCartney all recorded versions. Even Stevie Wonder got into the act!
What's YOUR Hi-Heel Sneakers?
Here's the link to THE BEST OF WEBB WILDER LIVE!:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/DsxSqW5c
Never had a problem with Hi-Heel Sneakers. I like to picture a woman accessorized with said footwear, a wig hat, a red dress, and boxing gloves (in case some fool might want to fight). Maybe she will challenge the Devil With A Blue Dress to ten rounds with no holds barred.
DeleteTrying to think of a song that I deeply dislike. "My Ding-a-Ling" is a good candidate. Chuck Berry was an American rock & roll poet, but his most successful song was written by someone else, a trifle of locker room juvenalia. Compared to that, "You Never Can Tell" is Shakespeare, and "Hi-Heel Sneakers" is Hemingway.
You & I almost always agree on music, Jon, but I've always liked My Ding-A-Ling. It IS a travesty that it's Chuck's only #1 hit--but I'm sure he enjoyed the money.
DeleteMore about Hi-Heel Sneakers:
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Heel_Sneakers
Unchained Melody, I do not want to know a version that might be allright. And also almost every song Eva Cassidy has covered. I don't like her versions, nor most of the originals of the songs, better cut them out of my memory. Mwah, she did "what a wonderful world", and the accapella version by Joey Ramone is worth saying: Fuck The Rest, Ramones Are The Best
ReplyDeleteInteresting one, Richard. Did you hate the song the very first time you heard it, or was it that it was omnipresent?
ReplyDeleteI said: "What is this crap?" the very first time I heard Hi-Heel Sneakers--done by one of my heroes: Jerry Lee Lewis.
High Heeled Sneakers was as omnipresent in my youth as was Unchained Melody. I liked HHS, or better I never disliked it that much. But as soon as I heared The Righteous Brothers I hated that song. When I started to buy singles and elpees, I saw Elvis' version with a b-side that was even more disturbing. I had to buy it.
ReplyDeleteA little typo there from you, I think, Tucker is the pseudonym and not the other way around
Makes sense about Unchained Melody.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about Tommy Tucker being the pseudonym, but you knew what I meant. Are you a retired proofreader or something? ;)
No Stinky, I am a part-time precision pooper
DeleteI agree with Jonder, "My Ding-a-Ling" is a travesty compared to most of Chuck's own songs. And since we're talking about him, Rockpile's "Oh What A Thrill" is actually a Chuck cover as well!
ReplyDelete"Going Down" by Don Nix, which seems to have replaced "Red House" as the de rigeur concert-ending jam for multitudes of axe-wielding plonkers since it was written.
ReplyDeleteApologies if you have a copy of Webb doing it. I wouldn't bat an eye if you added it to this stellar setlist.
No worries, Dr. Zhivago Feelgood, I don't have a version of Don Nix's Going Down by Webb Wilder.
DeleteBut I am going to have to include his original version to one of my KNOW IT? I WROTE IT collections.
You made me aware of who wrote it, so please enjoy this NO-PRIZE:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/gh1ihqh5gw6l2d5/Marvel_No-Prize.jpg/file
It's going on my mantle. 😁
DeleteWonderful! Right next to your autographed photo of Randy Mantooth?
DeleteAnd I on the other side, a spittoon once used by Mickey Mantle.
DeleteSadly, he didn't use it to spit.
SWEET! :)
DeleteAgain, the precision pooper strikes, Stinky's question, dear boys, was which Frequently Covered song did you dislike from the first hearing.That's why I chose UM. and not Ebony & Ivory, I Just Called, The Lady In Red, Dur dur d'être bébé, How Much is That Doggy, or the smurfsong or Everything I Do
ReplyDeleteI'm specifically interested in what often-covered song that our visitors dislike. Hundreds of artists recorded my pick: Hi-Heel Sneakers, for instance.
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