i do not know who is responsible for my two favorite songs on oldies radio

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1) a mournful pedal steel (i think) and the only memorable lyrics being what sounds like 'lady elaine', for some reason i think it's by the same guy who did desperado but it's probably not.

2) 'sha-la-la-lalalalaa, live for today'. psychedelic brilliance!!

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the second one might be the byrds.

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Have no idea what the former is, but the latter is "Let's Live for Today" by the Grass Roots.

― J, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the first one sounds like beta band!

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The grass roots were corporate studio manufactured hippes and thus better than the real thing! For one thing, not as smelly.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they had that new hippy smell

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they're like the byrds' very own monkees!

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lay Lady Lay", by Bob Dylan?

The "guy" that did "Desperado", by the way, was the Eagles. Don Henley, to be exact.

― Daver, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'So You Wanna Be A Rock'n'Roll Star' by The Byrds is abt The Monkees.

P.F.Sloan wrote/produced some of The Grass Roots' singles - he's a good name to follow...

― Andrew L, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did someone cover that Grass Roots song recently?

― Daver, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lay Lady Lay", by Bob Dylan?

Yeah, that's got to be it! Nice sleuthing daver.

― J, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ew ew ew i liked a bob dylan song!!

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, "Let's Live for Today" was covered by the Ramones.

― Sean, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ew ew ew i liked a bob dylan song!!
Maybe this is a sign that another irrational prejudice is about to bite the dust? ;)

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Temptation Eyes" was also a good Grass Roots song, and it was covered by Blake Babies (and Paul Westerberg on an unplayable bootleg I have).

― nickn, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry Ethan - 'Lay Lady Lay' is one of the songs that 'TRUE' Dylanologists don't really like - it's too pop, too smooth, too much of a sell-out. Bob had briefly giving up smoking when he recorded it, which is why his voice sounds different from the glorious norm.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it sounds fantastic!!

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"lay across my big brass bed" is the line that makes me want to smack him

― mark s, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

he just says lady elaine a bunch!

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

boomerang, toomerang, soomerang!

― matthew m., Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

matt what does that even mean?

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Let's Live for Today" was also covered a while back by the Lords of the New Church (fronted by the late Stiv Bator)

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't tell me you've never watched Mr Roger's, jeez.

― matthew m., Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh okay, was the evil puppet's name lady elaine or something?

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

With one off-hand remark Ethan makes me feel really, really old...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How sure are we that number one is Dylan? No way that sounds like "lady elaine"!

― Mark, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well i read a thing about the album it's from (fuckin 'nashville skyline'!!) and it was talking about the melancholy slide guitar and stuff so i'm pretty sure that's it.

― ethan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/auralsynthesis/lady_elaine.jpg
Lady Elaine Fairchilde: The butch, takes-no-BS alcoholic curator of the Land of Make-Believe's
Museum-Go-Round. Patron puppet of 5yo budding homosexuals.

And DeAnne P (no relation, I'm sure) disagrees with you, Mark.

― matthew m., Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually the Beta Band thing makes me think Dylan, too. That's an interesting comparison for "Lay Lady Lay."

― Mark, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I seem to recall Sylvia Miles claiming Dylan wrote "Lay Lady Lay" for her. I guess they used to play chess in the big brass bed.

― Arthur, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

HAW HAW HAW ethan in "ninotchka" SHOCKA

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, Here I am to solve number one.

1) Dear Elaine - Roy Wood.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I was going to say "Lady Eleanor" by Lindisfarne - but it doesn't have a pedal steel on it, it is however utterly fantastic and deserves immediate rehibilitation.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

lay lady elaine, haw

― pplains, Thursday, 4 September 2014 03:21 (eleven years ago)

sha la la la la lady elaine

― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 September 2014 03:31 (eleven years ago)

mocha chocolata ya-ya
creole sweet lady elaine

― pplains, Thursday, 4 September 2014 03:51 (eleven years ago)

getcha getcha sha-la-la-lalalalaa

― pplains, Thursday, 4 September 2014 03:52 (eleven years ago)

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