John Fogerty: Centerfield

Sting: I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying

"Your Lonely Heart" Natalie Cole from her "I Love You So" album, 1979.

MickyDolenz said:

Commodores: Sail On

MickyDolenz said:

http://prince.org/msg/8/3...?&pg=4

Was btw penned by Kenny Rogers iirc?

From The LP/CD Elvis Country:

Shango said:

Was btw penned by Kenny Rogers iirc?

According to the record I have, Lionel wrote Stuck On You by himself.

MickyDolenz said:

Commodores: Sail On

Thank you~ For years I thought I was the only one

Prince's songs "The One U Wanna C", "When You Were Mine", and "Raspberry Beret". I'm surprised no country singers have done covers of these. The only Prince country cover song I can think of is Le Ann Rimes doing "Purple Rain".

Zapp & Roger - Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)

http://www.youtube.com/wa...1It4rNbOCM

I don't hear anything country in Doo Wa Diddy & Who'd She Coo. I wouldn't even call them country funk. If you're talking about the harmonica in Doo Wa Diddy, that sounds like blues style to me, not country.

MickyDolenz said:

I don't hear anything country in Doo Wa Diddy & Who'd She Coo. I wouldn't even call them country funk. If you're talking about the harmonica in Doo Wa Diddy, that sounds like blues style to me, not country.

The guitar lick in "Who'd She Coo" is really twangy and country sounding to me, and there's even some jangly acoustic guitar in the background, too

I always thought "Do Wa Diddy" sounded more blues-influenced than country, too.

DerekH said:

MickyDolenz said:

I don't hear anything country in Doo Wa Diddy & Who'd She Coo. I wouldn't even call them country funk. If you're talking about the harmonica in Doo Wa Diddy, that sounds like blues style to me, not country.

The guitar lick in "Who'd She Coo" is really twangy and country sounding to me, and there's even some jangly acoustic guitar in the background, too

I always thought "Do Wa Diddy" sounded more blues-influenced than country, too.

It's kinda rockabilly, but the other song not at all.

MickyDolenz said:

Shango said:

Was btw penned by Kenny Rogers iirc?

According to the record I have, Lionel wrote Stuck On You by himself.

Yep his frasing in that song always reminds of Kenny's work.

I sometimes borrowed Lionel's "Can't Slow Down" lp from my sister, and always after having heard the closing guitar chords from "Stuck On You" fast-flipping the a-side, looking out listening to "Love Will Find A Way" lol.

Shango said:

MickyDolenz said:

According to the record I have, Lionel wrote Stuck On You by himself.

Yep his frasing in that song always reminds of Kenny's work.

I sometimes borrowed Lionel's "Can't Slow Down" lp from my sister, and always after having heard the closing guitar chords from "Stuck On You" fast-flipping the a-side, looking out listening to "Love Will Find A Way" lol.

Lionel wrote Lady and a few other songs for Kenny, and Kenny also sang on We Are The World which was co-written by Lionel with Mike Jackson.

MickyDolenz said: Lionel wrote Lady and a few other songs for Kenny, and Kenny also sang on We Are The World which was co-written by Lionel with Mike Jackson.

Yeah, now that you mention it

That reminds me about reading it somewhere before. Saw some cool footage of behind the scenes of "We Are The World" on youtube a while back. Rolling Stone magazine had an extended article printed too. Great photo btw of Kenny with Kim Carnes and James Ingram in the albums & singles topic

Shango said:

MickyDolenz said: Lionel wrote Lady and a few other songs for Kenny, and Kenny also sang on We Are The World which was co-written by Lionel with Mike Jackson.

Yeah, now that you mention it

That reminds me about reading it somewhere before. Saw some cool footage of behind the scenes of "We Are The World" on youtube a while back. Rolling Stone magazine had an extended article printed too. Great photo btw of Kenny with Kim Carnes and James Ingram in the albums & singles topic

Endless Love was written for The Commodores, but was turned down by the rest of the group, and I think Lady was a rejected Commodores song too. Kenny asked Lionel to write a song for him, and Lionel gave him Lady and I think Lionel produced it too. At least Kenny said Lionel was in the studio with him.

MickyDolenz said: Endless Love was written for The Commodores, but was turned down by the rest of the group, and I think Lady was a rejected Commodores song too. Kenny asked Lionel to write a song for him, and Lionel gave him Lady and I think Lionel produced it too. At least Kenny said Lionel was in the studio with him.

Tina Turner: What You Get Is What You See

Shango said:

MickyDolenz said: Endless Love was written for The Commodores, but was turned down by the rest of the group, and I think Lady was a rejected Commodores song too. Kenny asked Lionel to write a song for him, and Lionel gave him Lady and I think Lionel produced it too. At least Kenny said Lionel was in the studio with him.

Aha, I see. Always interesting to read the back story of a song. Tried to find online the musician's lineups for "Endless Love" and "Lady", but couldn't yet find any more details about them for the soundtrack and the compilation.

Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers Hang in a Tent, Recall the Birth of 'Lady'

June 20 2012, 4:54 PM ET
by Luke McCormick

SPIN went backstage with Das Racist, chauffered the Black Lips, pitched a tent with EMA, and visited the campgrounds w...anny Brown at Bonnaroo this year, but we weren't knocked nearly speechless until we were standing in a small tent with Kenny Rogers and his special guest, R&B legend Lionel Richie. We sent a few nervous texts to our parents (mom freaked, dad wondered if Richie remembered meeting him in Vegas a few years ago), fiddled with cameras, and remarked on the Tennessee mist. Then we realized these dudes are old friends and they pretty much interviewed themselves.

Today on Richie's 63rd birthday, we'd like to give you a gift. Read on for the tale of how the two first met.

Kenny: "He's Lionel. People get us confused all the time."
Lionel: "Ahhh my little brother here just has a little problem."

SPIN: "How did you two first meet?"
Kenny: "I called him on the phone 32 years ago, it was 1979."
Lionel: "Goddang!"

Kenny: "I asked him to write me a song and he said he didn't really do that. So I told him it would sell 5 million copes and well, that changed his mind."
Lionel: [Laughs] "I said I'd be right over. When I did show up it was so strange because I had never pitched a song before."

Kenny: "He comes to me and says the he tried to do this with the Commodores and starts playing 'Lady' and I told him I couldn't believe they turned that song down!"
Lionel: "All I really played were the first few notes and he just looks and tells me to finish it and meet him in the studio in a week."

Kenny: "So we're in the studio and I'm doing the first verse and I'm looking to…"
Lionel: "Oh, I knew he was going to bring this up!"

Kenny: "I'm saying, 'Where's the second verse?' Then someone tells me Lionel's in the bathroom writing it because he works best under pressure."
Lionel: "Do you hear what he's saying? Do you hear what he's saying to the world? Well the answer to that is that it's true. The most important part was that I didn't know we would do 'Lady' that night so I was warming up a second song called 'Going Back to Alabama' and Kenny walks in the studio and tells me he doesn't feel like doing that one and he wanted to do 'Lady.' Well that's great, but I hadn't finished the record! So when the time came to do the second verse I wasn't ready so… I had to go down the hall and finish it."

Kenny: "There was another song you wrote me, too."
Lionel: "I made the mistake of telling this brother I had another song I wrote for him that I produced with James Carmichael…"

Kenny: "You didn't bother telling me about James Carmichael!"
Lionel: "It was 'Endless Love.' "

Kenny: "He tells me I'll love it and then two weeks later he's on the air with Diana Ross and that song!"

Lionel: "If that wasn't bad enough I then wrote him a second song, it was 'Stuck On You.' "

Kenny: "I didn't get that one either!"
Lionel: "I made that mistake with him now he's gonna use that until my grave and let everyone know that should have been his song."

Kenny: "I'm offended."

Lionel: "To redeem myself I have to come back now with a hit record for Kenny. I'm putting this out there, it's coming soon!"

Kenny: "I don't even care if it's a hit. Just write me a song!"
Lionel: "Oh Kenny you care if it's a hit. C'mon, let's not get careless!"

Lionel & Kenny 2012

MickyDolenz said:

Shango said:

Yep his frasing in that song always reminds of Kenny's work.

I sometimes borrowed Lionel's "Can't Slow Down" lp from my sister, and always after having heard the closing guitar chords from "Stuck On You" fast-flipping the a-side, looking out listening to "Love Will Find A Way" lol.

Lionel wrote Lady and a few other songs for Kenny, and Kenny also sang on We Are The World which was co-written by Lionel with Mike Jackson.

Kenny also sang background vocals on Lionel's, "My Love".

shorttrini said:

MickyDolenz said:

Lionel wrote Lady and a few other songs for Kenny, and Kenny also sang on We Are The World which was co-written by Lionel with Mike Jackson.

Kenny also sang background vocals on Lionel's, "My Love".

Isn't this what broke up the original version of the Commodores? Lionel kept writing ballads and they wanted to be a funk band, but the ballads became hits for other people?

I just can't get you off of my mind.

Lenny Kravitz.

Cheers Micky, shorttrini and DerekH for your posts

I'll read the chat of Kenny and Lionel tomorrow with cup of

MickyDolenz said:

David Lee Roth: Jump

Wait a second--there's an album of this?

EddieC said:

Wait a second--there's an album of this?

Yep, it's from 2006 bluegrass tribute album:

Okay, well, it's not all Roth. That's a relief. At least from the performance in the clip, he had no idea how to adjust his vocal to make it work. I might enjoy some bluegrass veresions of Van Halen songs, but I don't think he could make it work.

MickyDolenz said:

EddieC said:

Wait a second--there's an album of this?

Yep, it's from 2006 bluegrass tribute album:

MickyDolenz said: Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers Hang in a Tent, Recall the Birth of 'Lady'

June 20 2012, 4:54 PM ET
by Luke McCormick

Lionel & Kenny 2012

Fun read cheers!