"Hey Joe" ad libs?

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On 10 Apr 2005 14:47:02 -0700, "rickymix" <snovak2@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>Hey y'all,
> Aloha from Hawaii!

Howdy yall from redneck country, er, The South.

>I'm here visiting my brother, and as brothers
>tend to do, we're arguing about silly stuff to pass the time between
>surf sessions. Currently we're debating an ad lib in the outro of
>Hendrix's "Hey Joe", and I was hoping y'all would lend us you're expert
>ears and settle this for us. It's where Hendrix sings;
>
>"I'm goin' way down south
>Way down where i can be free
>Ain't no one gonna find me".
>
>That's what the lyric websites say it is, but they can also be
>notoriously wrong at times. My brother swears he hears, "Ain't but one
>little ride", instead of "Ain't no one gonna find me". Which one of us
>is right?

I remember the song well, but haven't heard it in a while and I
can't be sure about the lyrics.
Have your brother google for the lyrics, to see what he can find
anything to support his position. And make sure he hasn't sneaked
around and set up a Geocities Hendrix lyrics page in the meantime.
That would be SO easy to do

That song was an earlier hit by someone else (who was it? Probably
a one hit wonder), and was on something like a "Best of '65[?]" LP
that I recall listening to in the early '70's. It was a much faster
tempo than Hendrix' version, and seemed to go by fast.
Jimi did a lot of covers, but he really made many of them his own.

>Thanks, Rick.

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:27:59 GMT, LJM <ljmax@NOwhere.net> wrote:

>Ben Bradley wrote:
>
>> That song was an earlier hit by someone else (who was it? Probably
>> a one hit wonder), and was on something like a "Best of '65[?]" LP
>> that I recall listening to in the early '70's. It was a much faster
>> tempo than Hendrix' version, and seemed to go by fast.

>I think the band you are referring to would be The Leaves.

I googled and found more than anyone would want to know, all on a
single site. I thought Louie, Louie had a long history:

http://www.heyjoe.org/


I thought of making a joke about Harvey asking Jimi what the lyrics
are, but after reading some of the history, Harvey may have played the
song also. It appears a lot of people did that song.

>Jim
>--
>it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your
>mouth and remove all doubt....

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There's a plethora of "miss-heard Hendrix lyrics" around, so much so that
one site even takes a nod toward Purple Haze ...."excuse me while I kiss
this guy"
www.kissthisguy.com The site has a lengthy explication of the origins of
this lyric.

Endless fun for those with limitless time........
Ray
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"Ben Bradley" <ben_nospam_bradley@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> On 10 Apr 2005 14:47:02 -0700, "rickymix" <snovak2@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Hey y'all,
> > Aloha from Hawaii!
>
> Howdy yall from redneck country, er, The South.
>
> >I'm here visiting my brother, and as brothers
> >tend to do, we're arguing about silly stuff to pass the time between
> >surf sessions. Currently we're debating an ad lib in the outro of
> >Hendrix's "Hey Joe", and I was hoping y'all would lend us you're expert
> >ears and settle this for us. It's where Hendrix sings;
> >
> >"I'm goin' way down south
> >Way down where i can be free
> >Ain't no one gonna find me".
> >
> >That's what the lyric websites say it is, but they can also be
> >notoriously wrong at times. My brother swears he hears, "Ain't but one
> >little ride", instead of "Ain't no one gonna find me". Which one of us
> >is right?
>
> I remember the song well, but haven't heard it in a while and I
> can't be sure about the lyrics.
> Have your brother google for the lyrics, to see what he can find
> anything to support his position. And make sure he hasn't sneaked
> around and set up a Geocities Hendrix lyrics page in the meantime.
> That would be SO easy to do
>
> That song was an earlier hit by someone else (who was it? Probably
> a one hit wonder), and was on something like a "Best of '65[?]" LP
> that I recall listening to in the early '70's. It was a much faster
> tempo than Hendrix' version, and seemed to go by fast.
> Jimi did a lot of covers, but he really made many of them his own.
>
> >Thanks, Rick.
>
> -----
> http://mindspring.com/~benbradley

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LJM <ljmax@NOwhere.net> writes:

>Ben Bradley wrote:
>> That song was an earlier hit by someone else (who was it? Probably
>> a one hit wonder), and was on something like a "Best of '65[?]" LP
>> that I recall listening to in the early '70's. It was a much faster
>> tempo than Hendrix' version, and seemed to go by fast.
>> Jimi did a lot of covers, but he really made many of them his own.

>> http://mindspring.com/~benbradley


>I think the band you are referring to would be The Leaves.
>Jim
>--

.... and Tim Rose was the 1st to slow it down IIRC. Never got AM play,
but it got played a lot on local underground radio in the day.

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Ben Bradley <ben_nospam_bradley@frontiernet.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:27:59 GMT, LJM <ljmax@NOwhere.net> wrote:
>
>>Ben Bradley wrote:
>>
>>> That song was an earlier hit by someone else (who was it? Probably
>>> a one hit wonder), and was on something like a "Best of '65[?]" LP
>>> that I recall listening to in the early '70's. It was a much faster
>>> tempo than Hendrix' version, and seemed to go by fast.
>
>>I think the band you are referring to would be The Leaves.
>
> I googled and found more than anyone would want to know, all on a
>single site. I thought Louie, Louie had a long history:
>
>http://www.heyjoe.org/
>
>
> I thought of making a joke about Harvey asking Jimi what the lyrics
>are, but after reading some of the history, Harvey may have played the
>song also. It appears a lot of people did that song.
>
>>Jim
>>--
>>it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your
>>mouth and remove all doubt....
>
>-----
>http://mindspring.com/~benbradley

The earliest version I remember hearing was David Crosby's version. He
sang it when he was in the Les Baxter Balladeers. I think he got it
directly from Billy Roberts. That's my earliest recollection of the
song. I never played it or sang it myself, IIRC.

Harvey Gerst
Indian Trail Recording Studio
http://www.ITRstudio.com/

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Harvey Gerst <harvey@ITRstudio.com> writes:
>The earliest version I remember hearing was David Crosby's version. He
>sang it when he was in the Les Baxter Balladeers. I think he got it
>directly from Billy Roberts. That's my earliest recollection of the
>song. I never played it or sang it myself, IIRC.

I saw Billy Roberts perform it at the Stone (SF) in the late 80s.
He sat in as a guest at a Gene Clark show IIRC ... to date his was
the most rousing version I've ever heard.

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In article <nhqj51hjsbiv43je34voj995ehjj3kif90@4ax.com> ben_nospam_bradley@frontiernet.net writes:

> I googled and found more than anyone would want to know, all on a
> single site. I thought Louie, Louie had a long history:
>
> http://www.heyjoe.org/

Oh, that's not such a long story. Bill Roberts was living in
Washington DC in the early '60s and hung around the coffee houses
there (as did I) singing Hey Joe as well as many other original and
traditional songs. I believe it was in 1962 when I gave him a lift
over to the Library of Congress so that he could register his
copyright to the song.

He claimed it was original, I had no reason to doubt it. People who
make up songs, particularly in the folk idiom, often "steal" songs,
changing words and melodies. He said, she said, but he registered a
copyright before any of the popular versions were recorded, and years
before Hendrix' version.


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lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me here: double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

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On 4/11/05 9:57 PM, in article
1113271061.279290.97460@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "meandeanmachine"
<deanbowlus@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>
>> one site even takes a nod toward Purple Haze ...."excuse me while I
> kiss
>> this guy"

Well he DID take great fun in singing it that way LIVE...