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1971 NEXT 100 songs Number one with a bullet/hammer - Layla · Derek & The Dominos (1 Viewer)

Bracie Smathers said:
One hit wonder of a song that almost never happened.

Released November 1971

The story behind this song is amazing because it was a last minute throw-in after the producer screwed up and erased a track that was supposed to be on Jon's debut album.  In a panic he churned out this hit.  He never charted in the top-100 the rest of his career.

This horror story is similar to Billy Joel's debut album where the producer of Joel's first album 'Cold Spring Harbor' screwed up the master by running it too fast which made Joel's voice sound a semitone too high.  Joel had a fit when he first heard it and saying he sounded like Alvin of the Chipmonks and smashed the record the first time he heard it. 

Joel went back a decade later to fix the production error by re-recording every song to the right speed and 'She's Got A Way' charted in 1982 over a decade after its original release.  

Jonathan Edwards one-hit wonder where the producer's error made him famous and another producer error that delayed and 'probably' lit a fire under Billy Joel.  Serendipitous producer errors made lemonade out of a 'lemon' situation.   
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Missed this earlier.

You may have plans for this one so I’ll keep it under the spoiler wrap.

One hit wonder but has what must be one of the all-time best regional cult hits. Every. Single. Friday. AOR stations around the Midwest would play “The Friday Song.” Almost 50 years later, they still do.

Shanty
 
Although the nuns from my parochial school days liked and encouraged us to listen to JC Superstar it was originally banned in England for being sacrilegious.  Their were a few songs to choose from the Andrew Loyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera.  

The singer is Carl Anderson not Murray Head as Judas Iscariot.

Released September 1970

A reminder that am going back to September of 1970 since those songs were still charting in 71 so this song falls within that range.

 
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Bracie Smathers said:
Although the nuns from my parochial school days liked and encouraged us to listen to JC Superstar it was originally banned in England for being sacrilegious.  Their were a few songs to choose from the Andrew Loyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera.  

The singer is Carl Anderson not Murray Head as Judas Iscariot.

Released September 1970

A reminder that am going back to September of 1970 since those songs were still charting in 71 so this song falls within that range.
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OK, now I am really starting to love your 1971 list!

I always thought that the Broadway JCS album I heard was not nearly as good as the film version, the main reason being the lack of Carl Anderson.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Although the nuns from my parochial school days liked and encouraged us to listen to JC Superstar it was originally banned in England for being sacrilegious.  Their were a few songs to choose from the Andrew Loyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera.  

The singer is Carl Anderson not Murray Head as Judas Iscariot.

Released September 1970

A reminder that am going back to September of 1970 since those songs were still charting in 71 so this song falls within that range.
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I have been trying to watch JCS for years from start to finish.  

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Although the nuns from my parochial school days liked and encouraged us to listen to JC Superstar it was originally banned in England for being sacrilegious.  Their were a few songs to choose from the Andrew Loyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera.  

The singer is Carl Anderson not Murray Head as Judas Iscariot.

Released September 1970

A reminder that am going back to September of 1970 since those songs were still charting in 71 so this song falls within that range.
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Was this a single? Just curious.

Yvonne Elliman (Mary Magdalene) released “Everything’s Alright” in 1971 and it charted #92.

Ellman and Helen Reddy each released another single off the the album and both versions charted concurrently in 1971. But I presume might be revealing that one later.

The title song was released in 1969 and charted in 1970.

 
I made an off-hand mention that I thought Burton Cummings had one of, if not thee best vocal range of singers from the 60/70s era.  I was wrong.  Someone actually charted the vocal range of the best singers and Burt came in 5th of singers of that era and 34th in rock history but that includes both male and females from every era.

This is his vocal range.

Burton Cummings - 4 octaves, 1 note (C2 to D6)

Released July 1971

I always wondered what this song was about.  Found out.  Here's the lyrics and the story behind the lyrics.

Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?

Fifi said to Don the baker
"Can ya show me how to bake another bun, Don?"
And I'm still sittin' with my next-door neighbor, saying
"Where'd ya get the gun, John?"

Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?

Christopher was asking the astronomer
"Can your telescope tell me where the sun's gone?"
And I'm still sittin' with my next-door neighbor, saying
"Where'd ya get the gun, John?"

Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?

Changin' just a few things
Laughin' while the bell rings on the door
Changin' just a few things
Shootin' when the bird sings

Changin' just a few things
Laughin' while the bell rings on the door
Changin' just a few things
Shootin' when the bird sings

Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?

Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?
Don't ya want to rain dance with me?

The Guess Who are from Winnipeg, Canada. Every verse in Rain Dance has a connection to Winnipeg.

Fifi is a reference to Eiffel Tower Bakery.

Don is a reference to Don's Bakery which were two Winnipeg landmarks.

"Where'd you get the gun, John?", refers to John Gunn school in Winnipeg.

Winnipeg was experiencing flooding back in the 60's. A Floodway (aka Duff's ditch) was built at great expense. Almost immediately after completion, a drought hit Winnipeg. The citizens began joking that they would be doing a rain dance to end the drought in order to get some use/value out of the Floodway.

 
With his soulful voice and a virtuoso on the Hammond organ Lee would typically come out on stage with only the Hammond and his drummer Frosty (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost) but on this tune he used Joel Larson (Grass Roots).

The song is about what you intuitively think, Lee losing his girlfriend.  Its autobiographical and that emotion comes out in the song especially the part where he asks her and she 'just stares'.  Do ya know what I mean?

Released May 1971

 
i KNEW mr timmy would miss this one and it should probably be higher here. again, i experienced most of 1971's music as a homeless hippie hitchhiker digging car radios throughout the land and this'n had a good 6 wks of dial ubiquity and was prominent thru the year, d'yanowutimean?

 
Learning a lot making this list because I always thought he said the F-word.

The Kinks caused some controversy, because in the line "...the air pollution is a-foggin' up my eyes...", the word "a-foggin'" sounded too much like "a-#######'"...he again had to fly back to London to re-record this line, dubbing over with a more clear "a-foggin'" prior to its single release, in turn causing a delay in the US single release of the song.

I went back and carefully listened and lol... well you be the judge.

Released 16 December 1970

More fun trivia from this song.  The Kinks added a piano player (John Gosling) to the group.  Side note, they went through band members like 'Spinal-Tap'.  Well this guy got a bit full of himself thinking he had made the big time so the band decided to take him down a peg by making a musical video. 

Guess which band member is in the gorilla suit?

 
Bracie Smathers said:
With his soulful voice and a virtuoso on the Hammond organ Lee would typically come out on stage with only the Hammond and his drummer Frosty (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost) but on this tune he used Joel Larson (Grass Roots).

The song is about what you intuitively think, Lee losing his girlfriend.  Its autobiographical and that emotion comes out in the song especially the part where he asks her and she 'just stares'.  Do ya know what I mean?

Released May 1971
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Great tune, always loved this one.  It's a great example of how you can get like 80% of the way to a funk feel just by playing behind the beat a tad. The little pause in the middle of the song and the sort of stumble break towards the  end always grab me too.

Smathers is on a bit of a roll here with these last 3 songs.

 
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King got inspiration from the Book of Ruth from this line:  Ruth 1:16: "whither thou goest, I will go..."  King later would not feel comfortable singing the tune.  

King spoke about why she didn't feel comfortable playing "Where You Lead." "After I recorded it for the Tapestry album, we women decided that we didn't actually need to follow our men anymore," she said. "But then it got a new lease on life."

That new lease came in the form of Gilmore Girls in 2000. 

Full disclosure.  I've never seen  the Gilmore Girls so I have not heard their theme song but I guess they changed it to a more estrogen empowering crowd.  This wasn't released as a single but its worthy as the melody is tight.  

Released 10 February 1971

 
Bracie Smathers said:
King got inspiration from the Book of Ruth from this line:  Ruth 1:16: "whither thou goest, I will go..."  King later would not feel comfortable singing the tune.  

King spoke about why she didn't feel comfortable playing "Where You Lead." "After I recorded it for the Tapestry album, we women decided that we didn't actually need to follow our men anymore," she said. "But then it got a new lease on life."

That new lease came in the form of Gilmore Girls in 2000. 

Full disclosure.  I've never seen  the Gilmore Girls so I have not heard their theme song but I guess they changed it to a more estrogen empowering crowd.  This wasn't released as a single but its worthy as the melody is tight.  

Released 10 February 1971
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The Gilmore Girls re-boot is sung as a duet with her daughter Louise Goffin.

 
The first album produced the fist big hit by the writing tandem of Bernie Taupin and Elton John who began with the intention of writing songs and making polished demos that would get picked-up by other artists.  Three Dog Night liked the song a lot but saw the potential of John as a solo artist of his own work and encouraged him to release it as part of his own album.  Nice debut:  In 2003, the album was ranked number 468 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. On 27 November 2012, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as an album cited as exhibiting "qualitative or historical significance".

Released 26 October 1970

John Lennon heard the song and he was... in the Carry-on understated English manner - 'pleased'.

 John Lennon recalled, "I remember hearing Elton John's 'Your Song', heard it in America—it was one of Elton's first big hits—and remember thinking, 'Great, that's the first new thing that's happened since we (The Beatles) happened.' It was a step forward. There was something about his vocal that was an improvement on all of the English vocals until then. I was pleased with it."

 
Bracie Smathers said:
First Cat Stevens song to chart in the US originates from the 208th album on Rolling Stones top-500 rock albums of all-time.

Released September 1970
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But, but...Tim say nothings counts for anything for 1971 unless it was actually released that year...except of course Joy To The World and other songs where the most popular or hit version was actually released in 1971.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
I made an off-hand mention that I thought Burton Cummings had one of, if not thee best vocal range of singers from the 60/70s era. 
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Is this the guy who sang the Scooby Doo theme? I was thinking that might’ve been done by the Guess Who. 

 
From Stills first solo album with fellow CSN members, David Crosby and Graham Nash providing backing vocals.

#64 Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills

Released November 1970

Seems like the entire Laurel Canyon gang played on this album, its like a who's-who of the R&R HOF that played on this one.  EC, Hendrix, Mama Cass, Booker T, Ringo star, John Sebastian, Nash, Crosby, Rita Coolidge and is the only album that had Clapton AND Hendrix supplying guitar licks.  Stills was going out with Coolidge at the time and the picture on the album cover shows Stills in snow covered Colorado scene playing the guitar with a red polka dot stuffed giraffe which was rumored to be a secret sign to Rita.

 
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This list has had ukulele and Greek lyrics with the bouzouki so how about a bit of yodeling with a touch of eefing in the same song?  What you never heard of eefing?  ----  Eefing (also written eeephing, eephing, eeefing, eefin,[1] or eefn'[2]) is an Appalachian (United States) vocal technique similar to beatboxing, but nearly a century older.

The Jeopardy question would be.  What do you get when you take a lead singer named Thijs van Leer and a guitarist named Jan Akkerman?

Hint.  Come-on people >>  FOCUS.

This was released in 1971 in Europe since they were a Dutch group but not in the US till they upped the tempo and released Hocus Pocus-2.  This is the original and the one I remember so I'm claiming it for 71.

Released 1971 

 
Bracie Smathers said:
This list has had ukulele and Greek lyrics with the bouzouki so how about a bit of yodeling with a touch of eefing in the same song?  What you never heard of eefing?  ----  Eefing (also written eeephing, eephing, eeefing, eefin,[1] or eefn'[2]) is an Appalachian (United States) vocal technique similar to beatboxing, but nearly a century older.

The Jeopardy question would be.  What do you get when you take a lead singer named Thijs van Leer and a guitarist named Jan Akkerman?

Hint.  Come-on people >>  FOCUS.

This was released in 1971 in Europe since they were a Dutch group but not in the US till they upped the tempo and released Hocus Pocus-2.  This is the original and the one I remember so I'm claiming it for 71.

Released 1971 
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Love the comment at the bottom of the clip: "2:38 Channeled his inner Popeye there."

Very underrated band and Akkerman is one of more unheralded guitarists in classic rock history. 

Love this old Midnight Special performance from 1973 with Van Leer going spastic.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Released 1971 
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i could not have argued if this was #1 on either countdown. i am transported w delight by every hearing

zamboni said:
Very underrated band and Akkerman is one of more unheralded guitarists in classic rock history. 
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almost 50 yrs as an A&R guy (only 1 yr f'real, but...), Akkerman is the guitarist i pick first in a dream band. insanely imaginative & sponatneous. for years i prayed he would get a shot at one the Steely Dan solos

 
wikkidpissah said:
i could not have argued if this was #1 on either countdown. i am transported w delight by every hearing

almost 50 yrs as an A&R guy (only 1 yr f'real, but...), Akkerman is the guitarist i pick first in a dream band. insanely imaginative & sponatneous. for years i prayed he would get a shot at one the Steely Dan solos
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I love Becker.  Maybe if they traded floors or something but I love Becker.

 
shuke said:
How in the world did Tim miss these?
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Tim got first shot at the top-100 songs from 71 and he only took songs that were released in 71.  To make things a bit fair and to get to 100 on my list I used songs that could also go back to September of 70 in addition to songs released in 71.  

It wasn't completely arbitrary because songs released in the last months of 70 were charting and sometimes just beginning to chart in 71.  I'm pretty sure a few of the songs you listed were released in 70 so they would not qualify for Tim's list.   

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Tim got first shot at the top-100 songs from 71 and he only took songs that were released in 71.  To make things a bit fair and to get to 100 on my list I used songs that could also go back to September of 70 in addition to songs released in 71.  

It wasn't completely arbitrary because songs released in the last months of 70 were charting and sometimes just beginning to chart in 71.  I'm pretty sure a few of the songs you listed were released in 70 so they would not qualify for Tim's list.   
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He also loaded up on a handful of albums, which took up a fair amount of bandwidth.

 
From yodeling and effing to a hoedown with Bonham playing spoons.

Zep retreated to Plant's family cottage Bron-Yr-Aur, Welsh loose translation meaning 'golden hills' without running water and most importantly no electricity to chill.  That led to acoustic improvisation and the music generated made it two albums.  This notes a historic turning point in the band expanding from hard rock.

This is about Bob taking a walk with his dog Strider. 

Released 5 October 1970  

Page has explained that:

Robert (Plant) and I went to Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970. ... we took our guitars down there and played a few bits and pieces. This wonderful countryside, panoramic views and having the guitars ... it was just an automatic thing to be playing. And we started writing.[4]

According to the guitarist, the time spent at Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970

...was the first time I really came to know Robert [Plant]. Actually living together at Bron-Yr-Aur, as opposed to occupying nearby hotel rooms. The songs took us into areas that changed the band, and it established a standard of travelling for inspiration... which is the best thing a musician can do.[5]

 
Bracie Smathers said:
I love Becker.  Maybe if they traded floors or something but I love Becker.
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Becker's a great mind & player, but a lot of the iconic guitar solos were shopped out to, sometimes, 3 or 4 different session guys like Larry Carlton, Skunk Baxter, the immense Elliot Randall at a time, with the best offering winning out

 
wikkidpissah said:
Becker's a great mind & player, but a lot of the iconic guitar solos were shopped out to, sometimes, 3 or 4 different session guys like Larry Carlton, Skunk Baxter, the immense Elliot Randall at a time, with the best offering winning out
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Steely Dan is basically Fagen and Becker, the rest are basically session players and backup vocalists.

 
    - #61 Not Gettin It At All - Flash Flood & the Sandbags

ETA - released in 1953, but i heard it emanating from a passing car in 1971

 
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Getting back on track with a breakup song from the album rated 30th best in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (Blue).  The spotlight got to Joni so she went on a trip to Europe (skating away on a river to escape the "crazy scene").

Nash and Mitchell were a big deal and the relationship made its way into another famous song.  In Crete, she sent (Graham) Nash a telegram to tell him their relationship was over.  Months later she wrote 'River' while she was with James Taylor, must have taken time to process the split which she owns up to her part.

In 'River', she admits to being "hard to handle" and blames herself for losing "the best baby I ever had."

Released June 22, 1971

Getting dumped via telegram from Crete.  For some reason my mind goes to this quote of Vazzini from Princess Bride.

'And YOU: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed, in Greenland?'

 
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Bracie Smathers said:
From yodeling and effing to a hoedown with Bonham playing spoons.

Zep retreated to Plant's family cottage Bron-Yr-Aur, Welsh loose translation meaning 'golden hills' without running water and most importantly no electricity to chill.  That led to acoustic improvisation and the music generated made it two albums.  This notes a historic turning point in the band expanding from hard rock.

This is about Bob taking a walk with his dog Strider. 

Released 5 October 1970  

Page has explained that:

Robert (Plant) and I went to Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970. ... we took our guitars down there and played a few bits and pieces. This wonderful countryside, panoramic views and having the guitars ... it was just an automatic thing to be playing. And we started writing.[4]

According to the guitarist, the time spent at Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970

...was the first time I really came to know Robert [Plant]. Actually living together at Bron-Yr-Aur, as opposed to occupying nearby hotel rooms. The songs took us into areas that changed the band, and it established a standard of travelling for inspiration... which is the best thing a musician can do.[5]
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I enjoy the live version from 1975 -- with Bonham doing the backing vocals.

 
The only album by this group.  Short version.

Pattie Boyd.

.. responsible for some classic rock songs. 

In this case she was married to George Harrison which was bad for Eric Clapton since he was in love with her. 

We'll reveal more on Boyd later in the list but for now...

Released 1971

The album was all about unrequited love (Boyd) but Bell Bottom Blues was not about Pattie.  

Derek and the Dominos formed after Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon worked on George Harrison's solo album, All Things Must Pass. They went to England and played a bunch of small clubs all over Europe, with Clapton and Whitlock writing songs along the way. The band was in France when the inspiration for this song hit. Whitlock told us: "Eric met this girl, she was like a Persian princess or something, and she wore bell bottoms. She was all hung up on him - he gave her a slide that Duane (Allman) had given him and he wrapped it in leather and she wore it around her neck. She didn't speak a word of English and they had to date through an interpreter. That relationship did not last but a week. He started the song over there, then when we got back to England, we finished it up in his TV room in Hurtwood Edge."

 
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Written by Kenny’s older brother Dan with aid of a friend.  About a sailors memories of sailing off to a fictitious paradise island called "Vahevala."

Released November 1971

Jimmy (Messina) was an independent record producer.  Kenny (Loggins) had tried and failed earlier in the year to put out songs before he met Jimmy.  The debut album is entitled Kenny Loggins with Jimmy Messina 'Sitting In'.  Later shortened to 'Sitting In'.  So it sounds like Kenny was experimenting to see if he'd continue to work with Messina but they hit big and a duo was formed.

 
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i went to as many L&M concerts as possible in my road days because many of them were outdoors and, if you found yourself next to an unattached girl when "Vahevala" came on, there was a danged good chance you were gettin lucky. everybody had the album because, for some reason, Columbia priced it a dollar cheaper than any other album. only the Dwight Yoakam concert experience has lowered the morals of goodgirls more effectively, to my knowledge

 
wikkidpissah said:
i went to as many L&M concerts as possible in my road days because many of them were outdoors and, if you found yourself next to an unattached girl when "Vahevala" came on, there was a danged good chance you were gettin lucky. everybody had the album because, for some reason, Columbia priced it a dollar cheaper than any other album. only the Dwight Yoakam concert experience has lowered the morals of goodgirls more effectively, to my knowledge
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Dwight?  He lowered Sharon Stone's morals.  I bet he only played places that were 1,000 miles from nowhere.  🤠

Kidding as I luv me some Dirt Sandwich.

 
This list has had a lot of different sounds and this one is a throwback to a very-raw sound.  The song is a cover from an old tune from 1953 when Smiley Lewis put out the original.  >>  Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'  Edmonds 'literally' gives Smiley a shout out with other great Rock and Roll legends in the song.

If you've ever gone back to the 'raw' stone age era of Rock and Roll when Cleveland DJ Allen Freed was coining the term it sounded something like this:

Released November 1970

...Edmunds' version features prominent guitar lines and a stripped-down, straight-quaver rock-and-roll approach.[17] In an interview, John Lennon commented, "Well, I always liked simple rock. There's a great one in England now, 'I Hear You Knocking'".[18]

Edmunds plays all the instruments (except possibly bass guitar) and AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine suggests that the song "has a mechanical rhythm and a weird, out-of-phase vocal that qualifies as an original interpretation"

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Written by Kenny’s older brother Dan with aid of a friend.  About a sailors memories of sailing off to a fictitious paradise island called "Vahevala."

Released November 1971

Jimmy (Messina) was an independent record producer.  Kenny (Loggins) had tried and failed earlier in the year to put out songs before he met Jimmy.  The debut album is entitled Kenny Loggins with Jimmy Messina 'Sitting In'.  Later shortened to 'Sitting In'.  So it sounds like Kenny was experimenting to see if he'd continue to work with Messina but they hit big and a duo was formed.
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This was a near miss for my top 50 favorite all time songs. So many interesting sounds in this one.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
This list has had a lot of different sounds and this one is a throwback to a very-raw sound.  The song is a cover from an old tune from 1953 when Smiley Lewis put out the original.  >>  Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'  Edmonds 'literally' gives Smiley a shout out with other great Rock and Roll legends in the song.

If you've ever gone back to the 'raw' stone age era of Rock and Roll when Cleveland DJ Allen Freed was coining the term it sounded something like this:

Released November 1970

...Edmunds' version features prominent guitar lines and a stripped-down, straight-quaver rock-and-roll approach.[17] In an interview, John Lennon commented, "Well, I always liked simple rock. There's a great one in England now, 'I Hear You Knocking'".[18]

Edmunds plays all the instruments (except possibly bass guitar) and AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine suggests that the song "has a mechanical rhythm and a weird, out-of-phase vocal that qualifies as an original interpretation"
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Dave Edmunds was in the band Rockpile with Nick Lowe. I heard Lowe on a podcast tell a story about Rockpile playing a gig in Toronto. They received word that Keith Richards was a big fan, he was in town and wanted to join the boys onstage. The band was excited to hear about Keif, except for Edmunds. He said "eff him, he can't be up here with us".

Keith showed up played a few songs with the band and Edmunds shot death glares at Richards all night. At the end of the night Lowe asks Edmunds, wtf?

Edmunds explained that in his younger years he was in a band that was the talk of Northern England. Until the Rolling Stones did a tour up there. After the Stones left, Edmunds' band had a hard time booking gigs and drawing crowds. Edmunds said he has hated the Stones ever since.

 
wikkidpissah said:
i KNEW mr timmy would miss this one and it should probably be higher here. again, i experienced most of 1971's music as a homeless hippie hitchhiker digging car radios throughout the land and this'n had a good 6 wks of dial ubiquity and was prominent thru the year, d'yanowutimean?
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Hey, he was no Judie Sill.

 
Page wrote this when he was in the Yardbirds about his girlfriend at the time but it got rejected.  Robert Plant would sometimes introduce this at concerts by saying: "This song is for our families and friends and people we've been close to. It's a song of love at its most innocent stages." 

Soothing mellow tune with a false start.  Zeppelin had the Lemon Song earlier then this citrus fruit.

Released 5 October 1970

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Page wrote this when he was in the Yardbirds about his girlfriend at the time but it got rejected.  Robert Plant would sometimes introduce this at concerts by saying: "This song is for our families and friends and people we've been close to. It's a song of love at its most innocent stages." 

Soothing mellow tune with a false start.  Zeppelin had the Lemon Song earlier then this citrus fruit.

Released 5 October 1970
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Great song. One of my favorites from Zep. Supposedly written about the lovely and talented Jackie DeShannon -- she and Page had a brief but torrid affair in 1964-65 and some say that Jimmy never got over her.

Here is the 1968 Yardbirds song which served as the basis for the song.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
This list has had a lot of different sounds and this one is a throwback to a very-raw sound.  The song is a cover from an old tune from 1953 when Smiley Lewis put out the original.  >>  Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'  Edmonds 'literally' gives Smiley a shout out with other great Rock and Roll legends in the song.

If you've ever gone back to the 'raw' stone age era of Rock and Roll when Cleveland DJ Allen Freed was coining the term it sounded something like this:

Released November 1970

...Edmunds' version features prominent guitar lines and a stripped-down, straight-quaver rock-and-roll approach.[17] In an interview, John Lennon commented, "Well, I always liked simple rock. There's a great one in England now, 'I Hear You Knocking'".[18]

Edmunds plays all the instruments (except possibly bass guitar) and AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine suggests that the song "has a mechanical rhythm and a weird, out-of-phase vocal that qualifies as an original interpretation"
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A glaring omission on Tim's list, but not surprising in the sense that I have never got the feeling he likes that kind of raw Rock n Roll.

 
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