"Tar and Cement" w/Lyrics- Verdelle Smith
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2018
- "Tar and Cement" by Verdelle Smith in 1966, became a regional hit in some places (#6 week of June 27, 1966 WKNR Detroit).
The song peaked nationally at #38 Summer 1966 on U.S Billboard Hot 100.
Left new Zealand in the late 70s.. only to come back in 2016 to look at where I was born and raised.. plastered with house's.. I could just about cry.. I can listen to this song over and over again and still just about cry and ask myself where is this world going to end up 😭
Hi Dave. I'm also a NZer. The farm I grew up on as a kid now predominantly houses. The breaking in of scrub land by my grandfather, father, my sister and I. Gone. The native bush, the paddocks, the stream where we played. Gone. I haven't been back now for 50 years, and I'm not going to. I think this hit song from 1966 sort of sums it all up.
Totaly hearing you enjoy your past memories i need mine just to cling to a world was close to normal
The poor sheep
whoever listen this on 2022 is a legend.
Oh how can I relate to this song!
This was the first single I bought from Keller's Record Shop in Overbook (West Philly). I also loved the "b" side, "(All Alone) In My Room)."
An excellent tune, with great video! Yes I remember hearing it on Keener, WXYZ, and The Big 8 CKLW in the Motor City.
You bet! Summer of 1966. I was like, so depressed. Didn't get invited to my cousin's cottage near Bayfield,, Ont all summer. Spent the summer helping my dad paint my grandmother's house across from the Plymouth plant on Mt Elliott. This song is a fave though. 50 yrs later I finally got my tall grass fields (and woods, and lilacs, etc). Keener, lol!
Summer of 1966. Detroit.
Summer of 66,
Port Huron.
Good video
Great video. Thank you very much.
Fantastic
It is so good to see a HQ video paired up so perfectly with a great song of yester year. Great work, thanks.
I wonder how many people are brought to tears hearing this song, remembering what they left behind, only to find it all gone. Even before I left home for the first time, this song made me cry. My little home town is now a city, all it's natural beauty gone.... Hurts to think about how much is lost.
Fantastic voice. Great song and video!!
Few songs become even more relevant to the destruction of the planet long after they are a hit - this is one of those....so sad to ponder what we have done to our spaceship...
Have you ever heard the saying "you can never go home"? That's what this song is about, not the environment. The woman gave up the things she loved for dreams that meant nothing.
Never heard that saying before. But I like what you said about the Woman.
@@1957robertjohnson While you may read "6 lanes of highway had taken their place" as a psychological metaphor if you like, the original title "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" is about a poor lad from a "happy street" on the green countryside. He does the similar journey reluctantly, and returns to find his old home literally torn down, the childhood friends literally gone and the countryside grass replaced by concrete. He rhetorically asks what will happen in the end, if "they" keep building concrete cities, leaving no place for the grass.
Great long forgotten song
Summer, 1966. CKLW 800 played this. Painting my grandmother's house (for assessment purposes). It would be demolished in 6 months for - a freeway overpass.
CKLW was the best station, a legend!! Listened from Detroit.
@@CEngineering-pv8uw And powerful, too. Came in even in Mackinaw City.
Is there no actual video with her singing this tune she had such a fantastic voice , would love to see her singing this?
yes I wish there was too would love to know how Verdelle is doing
You can't even get her singing the original song on Itunes in 2024 - l've looked everywhere.
I believe the original is an Italian song called " IL RAGAZZO DELLA VIA GLUCK".
Tis song is not the exact translation but great lyrics.
all most the same
Yes, by adriano celentano.
There is also a follow up
Serafino
The best performance of Adriano was in 2012 in Verona: ua-cam.com/video/iMxOluEwfVw/v-deo.html
@@honeybeesinstatham1384Serafino is a different story.
My cousin played this over and over one day then got killed by a drunk driver so special memories of him
JAMES CHANT so sad to read this xxx
To Whom it might be interested. I grew up in Italy with the italian version of Adriano Celentano - Il ragazzo della Gluck. Part on my DNA I can say.
And the best performance of Adriano was in 2012 in Verona: ua-cam.com/video/iMxOluEwfVw/v-deo.html
Great song which predated Big Yellow Taxi,
While i was residing in NZ/Auckland from 1967-1979. In early 1968 it began playing on the tv with a video of a young girl [5] swiveling in the grass meadows and it was in b/w. does anyone know if i could find this video. i think that it must have been a local one or from Australia. i immediately bought the single from ECHO RECORDS in Christchurch then.
I think this song.was.the inspiration for.another song that.came out in.1992 by a woman whose name.starts.with.a.M. I.will.let.you figure out.the.singer.amd.the.song
Pretty decent paraphrase of Adriano Celentano's 'Il ragazzo della via Gluck', same year, but because of his multi-octave voice the original is way better...
Listen to Talking Heads Nothing but Flowers and all will be better...
Awful, complete awful....nowhere near the original
Not as muted as the original. But good enough.
It's not awful at all. That is the original: ua-cam.com/video/_sYDfESbJAY/v-deo.html
@@stefanoiovinelli9652 didn't know that the music was from another song. Maybe because it was in another language.
Are you nuts ?
@@stefanoiovinelli9652 The live performance of 2012 in Verona is still the best ( ua-cam.com/video/iMxOluEwfVw/v-deo.html )