Paul Revere, reknowned supercool co-founder and leader of Paul Revere & the Raiders, takes the singing lead in their way cool rendition of “New Orleans”! 🙂 All of the members of this supercool group sang lead on a few songs each, although Mark Lindsay’s voice was the regular lead on most of their songs. Great quality vocals from each of these super-talented artists who not only sang great, but also played their instruments at the topmost level. 😎
“New Orleans”, the eleventh track from their 1965 album, “Just Like Us!”, is jam-packed with solid musical grandeur! 🙂 I love it! 🙂
Smitty’s awesome drumming rolls us right into “New Orleans”, soon joined by cool, beat-keeping hand claps by the rest of the group. 😎 Paul starts singing moments later, “Hey, hey-ey, hey, yeah!” Then Mark, Smitty, Drake and Phil echo him with their own great voices. This sound truly appeals to my Tsalagi (Cherokee) heart; it’s got tribal routes, you can hear it. 😎 Paul repeats his opening line, adding the words, “I said!” to the forefront, the others echoing again. Paul didn’t need to repeat himself anytime other than in this song; he’s a natural-born leader. 😎
With his next words he invites us to take a trip with him down the Mississippi to New Orleans, Mark Lindsay’s amazing sax swinging into the song in great New Orleans style! 😎 The rest of the group adds their two shekel’s worth with enthusiastic words of agreement. 😎 Paul sings about the wonderful honeysuckle flowers and vines blooming there all of the time, of the magnolia blossoms smell so sweet in the air, a heavenly scent. 😎
Good music is one of the many great blessings the Creator blesses us with every day. 😎 A song in our heart. A good song playing on radio, or other media. The birds outside cheerily praising the Creator for His love and care for us all.
More chorus time begun with Mark’s sax, backed by the rest of the guys on instruments and vocally, singing great and undoubtedly dancing to that Dixieland beat! 🙂 The chorus is repeated several times as the song finishes up, Smitty going to town on those drums, drawing a comment from Paul. As producer Terry Melcher ends the recording, it is perfectly timed with Paul (saying in a voice that fades in volume poetically 🙂 ) saying that he thought it might be time to fade the song to a close now. 🙂 It’s a great, fun tune and it’s no wonder Smitty kept at it…even as the recording stopped. 😉 Never quit a good thing. 🙂 😎
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