70's Electric Guitar & Yodel Song
J. Gross
It was redone by Gary Hoie a few years ago without the yodelling part.
I remember seeing the original band do it on Don Kirshner's Rock
Concert.
Damn you!
Cheers,
- Jeff
Shibumi wrote:
>
> I've been trying to remember a song that I used to hear on the radio
> once in a while in the mid-to-late 70's. It primarily consisted of a
> guy yodeling while accompanied by an electric guitar. Any info on
> artist/song title would be greatly appreciated.
J. Gross
I saw them on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in maybe 1975.
After seeing this post, I found about 1000 copies on Crapster.
Get your today!
Dan Stanley
"J. Gross" <j...@null.net> wrote in message news:3A99BFD7...@null.net...
> Hocus Pocus, by Focus. One hit wonder.
Jan Ackerman ( I probably spelled that wrong) was the guitarist.
You should probably amend that to "one AMERICAN hit wonder"...I'm pretty
sure he had a string of hits in Europe.
Gary Hooey did a cover a few years ago. I thought it was pretty good.
Nebuchadnezzar
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> "J. Gross" <j...@null.net> wrote in message
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> > Hocus Pocus, by Focus. One hit wonder.
>
> Jan Ackerman ( I probably spelled that wrong) was the guitarist.
> You should probably amend that to "one AMERICAN hit wonder"...I'm pretty
> sure he had a string of hits in Europe.
Yes, he had some success.
> Gary Hooey did a cover a few years ago. I thought it was pretty good.
I couldn't tell whether the answer to the original question was Focus, or
Slim Whitman.
Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt
mike pritchard
"one hit wonder." True, in the USA, the following was small, but
dedicated...but it Europe, they were quite popular in the '70s. I've got
most of their albums and can say the guitarist (Jan Akkerman--SP?) was
VERY good! Tasty, jazz influenced playing with an edge.
Mike
Daniel R. Haney
Thijs van Leer was the writer, vocalist, and bandleader
for Focus. Recording output was one album yearly from
1970-77 with what may have been a reunion album in the
mid 90's.
Jan Akkerman is still an active guitarist; more info
at <http://www.janakkerman.com>. He is esteemed enough
that a dutch luthier, Catalyst Instruments, sought his input
and named a guitar model after him, the "Jakkerman" at
<http://www.catalyst.nl/products/jakkerman.htm>
-drh
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J. Gross
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> "J. Gross" <j...@null.net> wrote in message news:3A99BFD7...@null.net...
> > Hocus Pocus, by Focus. One hit wonder.
>
> Jan Ackerman ( I probably spelled that wrong) was the guitarist.
> You should probably amend that to "one AMERICAN hit wonder"...I'm pretty
> sure he had a string of hits in Europe.
I didn't know that. He was certainly a shredder for his day.
I have always been impressed with the playing on that song - even with
the yodelling. ;^)
Were these other hits by his own name, with Focus or others?
>
> Gary Hooey did a cover a few years ago. I thought it was pretty good.
I kept waiting for the flute & yodelling to start when I first heard his
version.
Cheers,
- Jeff
Doug Serota
Steve Wachowski
It the other way around! The band is Focus, the song is Hocus pocus.
Not A Speck Of Cereal
[] "J. Gross" <j...@null.net> wrote in message news:3A99BFD7...@null.net...
[] > Hocus Pocus, by Focus. One hit wonder.
[]
[] Jan Ackerman ( I probably spelled that wrong) was the guitarist.
[] You should probably amend that to "one AMERICAN hit wonder"...I'm pretty
[] sure he had a string of hits in Europe.
Without reading ahead, I would like to point out that Focus put out
several LPs in America that were fairly well received, even if they
didn't produce "hits". They were the darlings of the early '70s prog
rock crowd and put out a few FM favorite cuts.
Ackerman was a co-founder of the Windham Hill label, wasn't he?
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> Thanks to all who remembered Hocus Pocus by Focus. I searched for it
> with Napster and it was the very song I've stuck in my head for the
> last month.
My band plays that tune, and I even know what "shibumi" is. How about that!
Bob Clayton
>It the other way around! The band is Focus, the song is Hocus pocus.
>
Focus!? Bof'us?
Bob (old jokes my speciality) C.
Quality music since 1963.
cjt & trefoil
Miker
> BTW How do your audiences like the tune?
They are somewhat mystified. It's not a dance number, that's for sure. :)
Our singer is especially good at doing opera sounding things, cartoon
voices, and other weirdness. So we have sections like that as opposed to
accordian. I think everyone is pretty much entertained, but we are moving it
to beginning of set when no one dances anyway.