Quickie #5
Here’s a quick one to get a couple of songs out that may well turn out to be simple guilty pleasures. I may not like them a year from now, but for right now, I listen to them a lot.
April 25, 2006
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Cover To Cover Numero 4
The song for Cover To Cover #4 is ‘The Wizard’ by Black Sabbath. This was on the first record the band released (Friday the 13th, 1970). I’m not an expert on the band, but though much credit is due to bands like Led Zeppelin for creating heavy metal, I tend to think that they laid the foundation for what Black Sabbath built. No one was doing what they did during that time. As the music starts, enjoy Ozzy playing harmonica (something I didn’t know he did until I started to research the song), and there hear a couple of folks move it to another (don’t read that as “better”) level.
I was inspired to choose The Wizard when I found a clip of it being done on Conan O’Brien by unlikely conspirators.
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