Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 08, 2024

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    gocubzgo  about 1 month ago

    Losing Kris is really a difficult one for a lot of us.

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    SpacedInvader Premium Member about 1 month ago

    RIP Kris, a life well done. I can’t think of him without thinking of “Why Me”. I saw an interview of him on how the song came about.

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    Rhetorical_Question   about 1 month ago

    Amazing!

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    Da'Dad  about 1 month ago

    Yesterday a few comments questioned how Mr. Johnson could have the “lead time” to honor Kris Kristofferson just nine days after his death but Arlo’s musings today leave little doubt that was just what JJ was doing. A couple years ago Willie Nelson summed up the kind of force Kris was. “Everything he writes is a standard and we’re all just going to have to live with that.”

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    cracker65  about 1 month ago

    That’s my favorite one Arlo. I’ve played Me and Bobby Mcgee in bar bands. Very fun song to play.

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    eromlig  about 1 month ago

    It must be Earworm Season.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 1 month ago

    Gonna miss Kris Kristofferson. Johnny Cash did him proud.

    I do that song quite a bit although it’s usually just Send In The Clowns.

    Anyhoo:

    Well, I woke up Sunday mornin’

    With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt

    And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad

    So I had one more for dessert

    Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes

    And found my cleanest dirty shirt

    Then I washed my face and combed my hair

    And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

    I’d smoked my mind the night before

    With cigarettes and songs I’d been pickin’

    But I lit my first and watched a small kid

    Playin’ with a can that he was kickin’

    Then I walked across the street

    And caught the Sunday smell of someone’s fryin’ chicken

    And Lord, it took me back to somethin’ that I’d lost

    Somewhere, somehow along the way

    On a Sunday mornin’ sidewalk

    I’m wishin’, Lord, that I was stoned

    ‘Cause there’s somethin’ in a Sunday

    That makes a body feel alone

    And there’s nothin’ short a’ dyin’

    That’s half as lonesome as the sound

    Of the sleepin’ city sidewalk

    And Sunday mornin’ comin’ down

    In the park I saw a daddy

    With a laughin’ little girl that he was swingin’

    And I stopped beside a Sunday school

    And listened to the songs they were singin’

    Then I headed down the street

    And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin’

    And it echoed through the canyons

    Like the disappearin’ dreams of yesterday

    On a Sunday mornin’ sidewalk

    I’m wishin’, Lord, that I was stoned

    ‘Cause there’s somethin’ in a Sunday

    That makes a body feel alone

    And there’s nothin’ short a’ dyin’

    That’s half as lonesome as the sound

    Of the sleepin’ city sidewalk

    And Sunday mornin’ comin’ down

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    Cat02  about 1 month ago

    Season depression ?

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    wetidlerjr  about 1 month ago

    Kris Kristofferson was a musical genius…

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    zenarmour  about 1 month ago

    This is a reference to Kris Kristofferson who died recently, not earworms in general.

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    dwgerb  about 1 month ago

    Songs of Kris Kristofferson all, no doubt.

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    gawaintheknight  about 1 month ago

    RIP Kris. If you’ve never heard Johnny Cash sing this one, take a few minutes and do it.

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    Jim   about 1 month ago

    Well, it ain’t Arlo Davy, but Johnny Cash….

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    mountainclimber  about 1 month ago

    A poem of loneliness by Kris, one of his best.

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    RonMcCalip  about 1 month ago

    …I wish it Lord that I were stoned!Cause there’s somethin in a SundayThat makes a body feel alone…

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    j_e_richards  about 1 month ago

    Kris Kristopherson…the music of our lives…

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    BobMcK Premium Member about 1 month ago

    Johnny Cash did it proud but the best ever was Vicki Carr on the album “Nashville by Carr”

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    wschott  about 1 month ago

    " I got a brand new pair of roller skates…" Ha, I got you started.

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    Just-me  about 1 month ago

    Thanks again to Kris Kristopherson and to Johnny Cash. Good music in my opinion.

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    HST  about 1 month ago

    Janis Joplin died October 7th in 1970. Kris Kristofferson died 11 days ago on September 28th.

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    DawnQuinn1  about 1 month ago

    Kris Kristofferson was more than a singer. He was a poet and a story teller, and a good one at that.

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    mjpalmer  about 1 month ago

    old songs bring memories

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    cherylmcmanners  about 1 month ago

    Kris K. was worthy of remembering. Thanks!

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    timzsixty9  about 1 month ago

    Tribute to and RIP, K.K.

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    rugeirn  about 1 month ago

    I have long thought that there’s a place in the world for a new profession: song exorcist. I think it could probably be practiced either in person or remotely.

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    lorez.1 running on solar energy and batteries  about 1 month ago
    I find the more you work by yourselves, the more the earworms take up that missing human audio input
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    BJDucer  about 1 month ago

    I am purposely not reading any comments for A&J today because I don’t want to run across someone else’s least favorite earworm and have that in my head all day!

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    Emperor Rick  about 1 month ago

    Homes bring back memories, memories bring back songs.

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    paranormal  about 1 month ago

    I hate it when I get a song or tune in my head and can’t get rid of them…

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    Lynnjav  about 1 month ago

    Kris will be missed.

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    brianpesci  about 1 month ago

    another legend lost forever except in the words of his songs

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    scinticat  about 1 month ago

    Who would have ever thought Willie would be the last Highwayman standing? RIP Boys. This world misses you.

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    Ontman  about 1 month ago

    One of Cash’s best.

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    Kidon Ha-Shomer  about 1 month ago

    Why Me Lord?

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    Jimmyk939  about 1 month ago

    It’s been a tough year, not just for music

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    Raven OKeefe Premium Member about 1 month ago

    and now only Willie is left, the last of the Highwaymen ….

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    Enoi  about 1 month ago

    Arlo is feeling the passing of time.

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    russsc  about 1 month ago

    That is a great song. Kris was never really mainstream. His songs became hits for others and nobody knew or cared who wrote them.

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    MatthewJB  about 1 month ago

    “I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,And was blowin’ sad while Bobby sang the blues.With them windshield wipers slappin’ timeAnd Bobby clappin’ hands, we finallySang up every song that driver knew.”

    You’d never know the man graduated from Pomona summa com laude and was a Rhodes Scholar.

    (Deliberately misspelled the middle Latin word: GoComics has little grasp of context and other languages.)

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    Durak Premium Member about 1 month ago

    I hope that his passing was peaceful.

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    Kim Metzger Premium Member about 1 month ago

    For me, lately, the earworm has been “Mr. Bojangles.” Couldn’t tell you why.

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    Heelboy 12  about 1 month ago

    At least Arlo didn’t have the theme song to George of the Jungle stuck on his mind this morning…..

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    Skeptical Meg  about 1 month ago

    Now spend the next two weeks watching KK movies.

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    sincavage05  about 1 month ago

    Bet youre glad you didn’t buy that house on the coast right now.

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    davedude205  about 1 month ago

    Me, too, Arlo. Me too.

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    crazeekatlady  30 days ago

    Don’t know that one off hand.

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    Aardvark17  30 days ago

    Kris Kristofferson played in my home town in 2013, my wife got to shake his hand. RIP Kris, your songs will live forever.

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    kdubuque  30 days ago

    Kris Kristofferson was a poet.

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    vacman  30 days ago

    I got up at 1:30 am today to Google alligator lizards in the air!?%

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    brigidkeely  30 days ago

    Oof. No wonder Janis sang “Me and Bobby McGee” yesterday.

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    Cathy P.  30 days ago

    Let’s not wait until our favorite artists have passed away. Honor them whilst they’re still alive to know how we feel and/or what their music has meant to us. One of my favorites singers is Grace Slick (and Jefferson Airplane).

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    lindz.coop Premium Member 30 days ago

    Me too.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  30 days ago

    “I’ve had a lot of songs on my mind the past few days.”

    Could be about the many songs Kris blessed us with. Reasonable.

    It could also be about the increasing demise of singers and other artists integral to our youths, creators of fond memories, bits of our pasts coming to an end.

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    exitseven  29 days ago

    “Waking in the morning to the feeling of her fingers on my skin.Wiping out the traces of the people, and the places that I’ve been”

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    mafastore  24 days ago

    Our local township has (or at least had as we have not looked to see the concerts in the past 5 or so years) free summer concerts at one of the town beaches. They will have a variety of different music over the season.

    One year they had Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash, their song and I think one of their daughters and maybe someone else. That was a great concert and one of the ones which stands out in my mind.

    The other one which stands out was Peter Noone and a couple of the Hermits from when he was Herman’s Hermits. In the 1960s everyone was crazy for the Beatles, I was enamored of Herman (Peter) and his hermits. I finally got to see them at one of these beach concert when I was in my 40s or 50s. My husband is always upset that I don’t want anything and won’t let him buy me anything – but him finding out about and taking me to that concert was more valuable to me than anything he could have bought me.

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    David  8 days ago

    Kris Kristofferson on their minds, I guess

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