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Roger's old flame Joan Baez doing Byrds

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69byrds

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Apr 19, 2009, 11:12:50 PM4/19/09
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LightByrd

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Apr 20, 2009, 9:27:10 AM4/20/09
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"69byrds" <c19...@bsnow.net> wrote in message
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Putting the cart before the horse?
John Riley is a centuries old ballad which has been performed by many
folkies.
I myself played it in clubs in the early sixties. Joan recorded it at about
the same time.

Plane Wreck at Los Gatos was written in the forties. It too has been covered
by many folkies,
including Judy Henske, Cisco Houston and the Kingston Trio.
Perhaps the best known cover is by Judy Collins, who recorded it in 1963.
Her lead guitarist was a Mr. McGuinn.

Joan and Roger are friends -- never an "item."


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Richard Harison


69byrds

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Apr 21, 2009, 12:53:09 AM4/21/09
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> Joan and Roger are friends -- never an "item."

Roger liked her more than as a friend at one point years ago and maybe
during Rolling Thunder.. He always preferred women with dark hair you
know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwv9DBOB0mQ&feature=PlayList&p=E49C13DFAB9AE1E6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMfioWV5p0


Robert Broughton

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Apr 21, 2009, 11:33:51 AM4/21/09
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LightByrd wrote:

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> Plane Wreck at Los Gatos was written in the forties.

And, for the sake of providing appropriate credit, it was written by Woody
Guthrie.


> Perhaps the best known cover is by Judy Collins, who recorded it in 1963.
> Her lead guitarist was a Mr. McGuinn.
>

Cool.

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Bob Broughton
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Even on [finance] terms, we have never been a company that tolerates
facts." - Robert Murdoch, Feb. 5, 2009

69byrds

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Apr 22, 2009, 1:30:52 AM4/22/09
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"Perhaps the best known cover is by Judy Collins, who recorded it in
1963. "

Not even close to Joan Baez.... and not even close to the BYRDS
version.
I absolutely love Roger's vocals and Clarence's guitar work on that
track.
What a classic!

As far as giving credit, let's leave that to Arlo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyz_uQ8s8wc

Robert Broughton

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Apr 22, 2009, 10:57:58 AM4/22/09
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69byrds wrote:

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> As far as giving credit, let's leave that to Arlo:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyz_uQ8s8wc

I went to see the Guthrie Family when they came to my town a year or two
ago. Thanks for this.

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