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#152-Silvertone Transistor Radio (1994)
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Dedicated to 60's radio, this song is really done up well on Men From When's CD available on cdbaby.com
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
Peak #381
Peak in subgenre #43
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1994
Uploaded
May 18, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.3 MB 128 kbps 4:44
Story behind the song
Silvertone combines childhood memories of music and family. Memories of "simpler days" with turquoise and orange houses and Ramblers and Studebakers. Men From When do a dynamite version of this song rocked out with Lessick on lead vocal. Go to cdbaby.com and search for Men From When. Mp3 Club listeners gave it a 3.6 out of 5.0. Comments included: "Much better version on the Men From When CD" "Great Men From When song but I still like it here" "Kind of drags; like to hear full rock version"
Lyrics
It’s the summer of ’65 and I’ve got somewhere to go Walking past the burning bush with my music box in tow Got my Silvertone transistor radio Everything’s in there I used to know The girls are singing in the street “Stop in the Name of Love” The boys are playing two-hand touch the skies are blue above Somewhere its a five o’clock world I know a place where Plymouth Valiants unfurl My brother’s entertaining friends my dad is laughing long I have to turn the volume up so I can hear my song It had a silver speaker, silver dial with knobs of gold It still sits inside my drawer tucked away from days of old The boys are playing two-hand touch the skies are blue above The girls are singing in the street “Stop in the Name of Love” To the turmoil days of innocence To the turquoise days of happiness Ford Falcons Unfurl Somewhere
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