Gamma you remember a song named "In the

[Islandman]

Ghetto"

On a cold and grey Chicago morn
Another little baby child was born
In the ghetto

Me just a find out that it was originally an Elvis Presley song. I don't think I ever heard his version of it.

I always loved that song , it is so sad and yet so true.

[Gamma]

...and his momma cried
cause if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another little hungry mouth to feed....in the ghetoo

yup... elvis did the original and far as i know. candi staton did a cover of it too...i prefer hers.

[Islandman]

Thats the one I am familiar with. I just found the Elvis version on youtube, its OK, but the Candi Staton version has a lot more passion and soul for a song like that.

Great sone though, brilliant writing.


Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw

Candi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVEy...om=PL&index=15

[Gamma]

you know who wrote it?!! it would probably surprise you...

[Islandman]

I just hunted it down. Not too surprising still, Mac Davis wrote some good country songs. I am not a coutnry fan but i do like some of his songs.

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Song Facts

This song is about poverty, describing a child who can't overcome his surroundings and turns to crime, which leads to his death. It was the first song Elvis recorded with a socially-conscious message. He was reluctant to do it for that reason, but knew it would be a hit.

This was written by Mac Davis, who entered the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 2006. At the ceremony, Davis explained: "It's a simple matter of growing up with a little boy who's father worked with my father. He lived in a part of town that was a dirt-street ghetto. I grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and it was a ghetto in every since of the word, but we didn't use that word back then. I was trying to come up with a song called 'The Vicious Circle,' how a child is born, he has no father, and the same thing happens. The word 'Ghetto' became popular in the late '60s to describe the poor parts of town. A friend of mine, Freddy Weller, who used to play guitar for Paul Revere And The Raiders, showed me lick on the guitar one day. I went home and fiddled around with it, I wrote the song and called him up at 4 in the morning and sang it to him. He knew I'd written a hit with his lick, but that's the way it goes."

[Hortical]

At first glance mi taught you were referring to a Bounty Killa tune.
Down in the Ghetto...

[Gamma]

nice industry.... a shocker to me was the author of "baltimore" which was covered by nina simone and later by the tamlins

[MdmeX]

I've heard the Elvis version.

[Islandman]

I don't know that one.

The Tamlins did a great cover of that song.

[Gamma]

randy newman who wrote the song "short people"

[Assasin]

Josey Wales and Briggy had their version that they use to get lots of "weel" for in the dancehall back in the days.

[Islandman]

I think i remember that..something like

try to run but him don't get far
babylon shoot him down wid a SLR

[Assasin]

yeah. said one.

[TDowl]

He was critized for saying all a Black man could do for him is to clean his shoes, so he made this song in the latter part of his career, one of his last TV apperance when he sang that song, was to have two Black girls as backup on that song.

This from a Dude who had his early hits written by a Black song writter in Brooklyn, matter of fact, he sang the songs the same way the writer lay it down on the demo, check those dance moves eh?

Try listening to Big Mamma May Thorthon's Hound Dog.

[Mosiah]

Speaking of Nina Simone, Michael Buble did a simply great version of a Nina Simone original called Feeling Good. Didn't know she had done the original, but Buble certainly took it to another level.

And the Tamlins version of Baltimore is also a reggae classic! The rhythms are extremely tight!