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Ted Tocks Covers Sea of Love Originally posted on August 21, 2018On this day in 2020 Phil Phillips died. He wrote ‘Sea of Love’ in 1959....

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Sea of Love

Originally posted on August 21, 2018

On this day in 2020 Phil Phillips died. He wrote ‘Sea of Love’ in 1959. It was famously covered by Robert Plant and The Honeydrippers in 1984.

“Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I wanna tell you just how much I love you”

#PhilPhillips #TheHoneyDrippers #RobertPlant

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Ted Tocks Covers For Your Love Originally posted on March 13, 2019On this day 60 years ago Eric Clapton quit The Yardbirds. Here is the song...

Ted Tocks Covers

For Your Love

Originally posted on March 13, 2019

On this day 60 years ago Eric Clapton quit The Yardbirds. Here is the song that drove him from the group.

“For your love, for your love
I would give the stars above
For your love, for your love
I would give you all I could”

#TheYardbirds #FleetwoodMac #TheGregKihnBand

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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 20After the Gold RushOn this day 55 years ago Neil Young recorded ‘After the Gold Rush’. “There was a...

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 20

After the Gold Rush

On this day 55 years ago Neil Young recorded ‘After the Gold Rush’.

“There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
Thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie”

#neilyoung #prelude #nanamouskouri #theflaminglips #lindaronstadt #dollyparton #emmylouharris #nataliemerchant #thomyorke #KDLang #garyjules #pattismith #choirchoirchoir #billycorgan #firstaidkit #margoprice

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Ted Tocks Covers It’s Not Unusual Originally posted on March 11, 2019On this day 60 years ago, Tom Jones hit #1 for the first of 16 times...

Ted Tocks Covers

It’s Not Unusual

Originally posted on March 11, 2019

On this day 60 years ago, Tom Jones hit #1 for the first of 16 times with ‘It’s Not Unusual’.

“It happens every day
No matter what you say
You'll find it happens all the time
Love will never do what you want it to
Why can't this crazy love be mine?”

#tomjones #thesupremes #FlorenceBallard

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Ted Tocks Covers The Sound of Silence Originally posted on March 10, 2018On this day in 1964, Simon and Garfunkel recorded the acoustic...

Ted Tocks Covers

The Sound of Silence

Originally posted on March 10, 2018

On this day in 1964, Simon and Garfunkel recorded the acoustic version of ’The Sound of Silence’.

“And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence”

#simonandgarfunkel #disturbed

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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 19How Many More Times A collaborative Ted Tocks with looking back at ‘Led Zeppelin I' with special...

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 19

How Many More Times

A collaborative Ted Tocks with looking back at ‘Led Zeppelin I' with special attention to the blues inspired closing track.

“I was a young man, I couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it over, just what I had missed”

#ledzeppelin #howlinwolf #albertking #AlexisKorner #robertplant #jimmypage #johnpauljones #johnbonham #dreadzeppelin #laguns #pattravers #joebonamassa

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Ted Tocks Covers Subterranean Homesick BluesOriginally posted on May 24, 2021Bob Dylan’s first Billboard Top 40 hit came on this day 60...

Ted Tocks Covers

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Originally posted on May 24, 2021

Bob Dylan’s first Billboard Top 40 hit came on this day 60 years ago.

“Johnny’s in the basement mixin’ up the medicine
I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government
The man in the trench coat, badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough, wants to get it paid off”

#bobdylan

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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 18Fame Fifty years ago today, David Bowie released his ‘Young Americans’ album. “Fame, "Nein!...

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 18

Fame

Fifty years ago today, David Bowie released his ‘Young Americans’ album.

“Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to... crime
Fame (fame)”

#davidbowie #johnlennon #carlosalomar #theflares #duranduran #georgemichael #tommylee #Eurythmics #scottweiland #davidbyrne #kimbra #theroots #thekillers

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Ted Tocks Covers My GirlOriginally posted on March 23, 2018On this day 60 years ago ‘My Girl’ became The Temptations first #1 single....

Ted Tocks Covers

My Girl

Originally posted on March 23, 2018

On this day 60 years ago ‘My Girl’ became The Temptations first #1 single.

“I’ve got sunshine, on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl”

#TheTemptations  #SmokeyRobinson

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Ted Tocks Covers Billie JeanOriginally posted on November 30, 2018On this day in 1983, Michael Jackson began a 7 week run at #1 with...

Ted Tocks Covers

Billie Jean

Originally posted on November 30, 2018

On this day in 1983, Michael Jackson began a 7 week run at #1 with ‘Billie Jean’.

“She was more like a beauty queen
From a movie scene
I said, "Don't mind, but what do you mean
I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round?"
She said I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round”

#michaeljackson  #thecivilwars

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Ted Tocks Covers I Shall Be Released Originally posted on March 4, 2019Remembering Richard Manuel!A song with an interesting history that...

Ted Tocks Covers

I Shall Be Released

Originally posted on March 4, 2019

Remembering Richard Manuel!

A song with an interesting history that has links to not only the man who wrote it, but a man who lent his voice to make its most famous delivery one of the most renowned songs when it comes to music’s ability to rise against oppression, in whatever form.

“I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released”

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Ted Tocks Covers Mercury Blues Originally posted on March 3, 2024Remembering David Lindley!“If I had my money tell you what I’d doI...

Ted Tocks Covers

Mercury Blues

Originally posted on March 3, 2024

Remembering David Lindley!

“If I had my money tell you what I’d do
I would go downtown and buy a Mercury or two
‘Cause I’m crazy ’bout a Mercury
Yes I’m crazy ’bout a Mercury
I’m gonna buy a Mercury and cruise up and down the road”

#kcdouglas #cannedheat #davidlindley #alanjackson #stevemillerband #dwightyoakam #meatloaf

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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 17Son of a Preacher ManRemembering Dusty Springfield w/ this signature song. “Being good isn't always...

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 17

Son of a Preacher Man

Remembering Dusty Springfield w/ this signature song.

“Being good isn't always easy
No matter how hard I try
When he started sweet-talkin' to me
He'd come and tell me "Everything is alright"

#dustyspringfield #jerrywexler #arethafranklin #nancysinatra #ErmaFranklin #nancywilson #bobbiegentry #mavisstaples #chetatkins #melbrown #TinaTurner #jannarden #susantedeschi #dollyparton #SteveCropper #melissaetheridge

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Ted Tocks Covers The Top Three Posts for February and a few bonus songs.Enjoy some quality music from #BobGeldof #Queensryche #pearljam...

Ted Tocks Covers

The Top Three Posts for February and a few bonus songs.
Enjoy some quality music from #BobGeldof #Queensryche #pearljam #robertaflack #ledzeppelin #thetragicallyhip #robertjohnson #jimmypage plus a whole lot more.

Have a grateful day!

#musicislife

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Ted Tocks Covers Streets of Philadelphia Originally posted on March 1, 2022On this day 30 years ago, Bruce Springsteen won three Grammys for...

Ted Tocks Covers

Streets of Philadelphia

Originally posted on March 1, 2022

On this day 30 years ago, Bruce Springsteen won three Grammys for this heart wrenching song.

“The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia?”

#brucespringsteen #neilyoung #RichieHavens #melissaetheridge #mollyjohnson #eltonjohn  #toriamos

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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 16Welcome to My NightmareIt was 50 years ago today that Alice Cooper welcomed us into his nocturnal...

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 16

Welcome to My Nightmare

It was 50 years ago today that Alice Cooper welcomed us into his nocturnal dreamscape. This prescient album has stood the test of time and then some.

“Welcome to my nightmare
I think you're gonna like it
I think you're gonna feel you belong
A nocturnal vacation
A necessary sedation
You wanna feel at home 'cause you belong”

#alicecooper #bobezrin #dickwagner #vincentprice

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Ted Tocks Covers Around and AroundOriginally posted on February 27, 2019On this day in 1977 Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg were...

Ted Tocks Covers

Around and Around

Originally posted on February 27, 2019

On this day in 1977 Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg were arrested on multiple drug charges in Toronto. It was the beginning of a wild week.

“They say the joint was rockin'
A goin' 'round and round
Yeah reelin' and a rockin'
What a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rockin'
Till the moon went down”

#chuckberry #therollingstones

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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 15She Just Satisfies Taking a look at the early days of Jimmy Page’s prolific career. “Good, good...

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 15

She Just Satisfies

Taking a look at the early days of Jimmy Page’s prolific career.

“Good, good lovin'
She gives me it, don't you know, oh
I'm gonna take her every place I go”

#jimmypage #jetharris #tonymeehan #BARRYMASON #jackiedeshannon #thekinks #jeffbeck #thecrawdaddys #thewaistcoats #Donovan #JoeCocker

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Ted Tocks Covers Killing Me Softly With His SongOriginally posted on February 24, 2018Back to the early days of Ted Tocks Covers…On...

Ted Tocks Covers

Killing Me Softly With His Song

Originally posted on February 24, 2018

Back to the early days of Ted Tocks Covers…

On February 24, 1973 Roberta Flack began a five-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles charts. On the very same day 52 years later she died peacefully at home following several years of battling ALS.

“Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song”

#lorilieberman #robertaflack

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Ted Tocks Covers My WayOriginally posted on February 13, 2018Back to the early days of Ted Tocks Covers…On this day 30 years ago Frank...

Ted Tocks Covers

My Way

Originally posted on February 13, 2018

Back to the early days of Ted Tocks Covers…

On this day 30 years ago Frank Sinatra performed live for the final time.

“I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way
Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way”

#paulanka #franksinatra  #elvispresley

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