Sailing music playlist- CP Style

[Bob23]

While sailing alone, I tend to sing Italian opera...or what I think might be Italian opera. Some other favorites are "Row, row, row your boat" (normally performed while rowing) or "The Ballad of Rueben Clamso" by Arlo Guthrie.
When not singing, I talk to the seagulls...or myself!

[HenryC]

Oooh, vintage Jay Fersuson from back in my radio days..Shakedown Cruise

The same Jay Ferguson who used to sing with the experimental LA fusion outfit "Spirit" back in the early 1970s?  My favorite rock band of all time.  There is another artist with the same name out there, but he's not the same guy I'm talking about.  JF went on to a successful solo career with Jo Jo Gunne.  He is still working, but he composes musical soundtracks for TV shows now.  "Spirit", alas, is now gone forever. What a loss...

Randy California (guitar& vocals)
Ed Cassidy (drums)
John Locke (guitar)
Keith Andes (bass)
Jay Ferguson (vocals & keyboard)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsTK2LHZKPQ

Their best albums (the original personnel).  If you can get all four you have a real heirloom on your hands. Play them back-to-back for a real treat.

Spirit
The Family that Plays Together
Clear
The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus.

[Bob23]

What a flashback, Henry! I saw Spirit way back in the day at a place in NJ called "The Joint in the Woods". it was, ahem, appropriately named and I think got closed down in a less tolerant day than the one in which we now live.
"It's natures way" still rings in my head. I always wondered it "California" was really Randy's last name. We also saw Gentle Giant there. Great times!!

[Reighnman]

I saw Arlo at the Keswick in 1997 ( plus or minus a year), he's a great performer. Last weekend we listened to something very new, the sound of a tree (clam stake in local tongue) running the length of the boat! It's very unique. My nieces were very impressed with my skills and upon returning to shore immediately told their mother "Uncle Ryan hit a tree just like Pop Pop!".

[HenryC]

I always wondered if "California" was really Randy's last name.

Yo, Bob

Randy's surname was "Wolfe". He got the moniker when he was just a teenager from Jimi Hendrix, who he briefly played in a band with before either of them made the big time.  Apparently, there was another "Randy" in the band and Jimi gave them nicknames based on their home states so he could tell them apart.

Randy was a great talent, and he died a hero rescuing his son from a rip tide in Hawaii many years later.  Here is my tribute to Randy, playing one of his signature tunes many years after Spirit broke up.  There are a lot of famous players here helping out in this session (no doubt you will recognize some of them.)  Only John Locke and Ed Cassidy (the bald drummer,Randy's stepfather) remain from the original band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aKNhvMd_5U

Are these guys having a good time, or what? AH-ooo-Hooooooo.

[Bob23]

Such interesting information...I was not aware of most of this. Thank you and yes, they were having a blast!!

[wes]

Well, there is certainly a great deal of hair in that video. There are things about the 80s that I don't miss at all.

[HenryC]

It needs more cowbells.

[belybuster]

Here's one I just heard for the first time; "Strong Winds For Autumn" by Emily Smith.