David Bromberg - Summer Wages (Live at WFUV, 2012)
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... and the original album version ...

David Bromberg - Summer Wages (1976)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer
For you know those odds won't ride with you
And never leave your woman alone with friends around to steal her
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages

So we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver
And a woman that I love is living there
Oh it's been six long months and more since I've seen her
Maybe gambled and lost like summer wages

In all the beer parlors all down on Young Street
The dreams of the seasons all spilled down on the floor
All the big stands of timber are ready for falling
And the hustlers sitting watchfully as they wait there by the door

So, I'll work on those towboats in my slippery city shoes
Which I swore I'd never do again
Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand watching
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages

And in all the beer parlors all down upon Young Street
The dreams of the seasons spill down on the floor
All the big stands of timber are ready for falling
And the hustlers sitting watchfully as they wait there by the door

For she's a woman so fine
I might never try to find her
For the memories are all we had before
They should never ever be changed
Cause they're all I'll take with me
Now I've gambled and lost my summer wages

Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer
For you know the odds won't ride with you
And never leave your woman alone with friends around to steal her
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages
...

Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (1985)
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Ms Jones was an interesting performer.

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (1982)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Songwriter George Kooymans of Golden Earring was inspired not by the TV show "Twilight Zone", but by the (at that point obscure) novel The Bourne Identity, which years later would be made into a successful movie.

In the book, the Jason Bourne is discussing a failed Federal judge with his associate Conklin, who says the judge is able to function quite effectively despite drinking a lot, and wishes he could have done that as well.

Bourne points out that Conklin quit drinking. Conklin replies:

If I could have managed better in that twilight zone, I might not have. There's something to be said for the grape on many occasions.

[Verse 1]
It's two a.m., the fear has gone
(It's two a.m., the fear has gone)
I'm sitting here waitin', the gun's still warm
(I'm sitting here waitin', the gun's still warm)
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances
Yeah, there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
Cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy

[Chorus]
Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

[Post-Chorus]
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

[Verse 2]
I'm falling down the spiral destination unknown
Double crossed messenger all alone
Can't get no connection, can't get through
Where are you?
Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hitman comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated
...

Fiddle Fever - Ashokan Farewell (2016)
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[instrumental, so no lyrics]

[and a great instrumental at that, imo]

Benefit concert for the Citizens Committee on Mental Health. Bill: Weather Report, Blue Oyster Cult, Tom Rush and David Bromberg. (1974)
www.weatherreportdiscography.org

fwiw, in addition to Mr Bromberg, Blue Oyster Cult also had a great performance.

All that aside, one of the reasons I enjoy Mr Bromberg's music, aside from the talent of the studio musicians he employs, is that his music is an amalgam of rock, jazz and bluegrass.

Animaniacs - Wakko's America
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Wishbone Ash - Personphene (1974)
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James Gang - Midnight Man (1971)
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Impressive for me in the song is the vocal contribution of Ms Mary Sterpka later on in the song. Her voice is great.

Country Dick Montana - Little Balls of Yarn (1987)
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Not surprisingly, lyrics do not seem to be readily available.

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - The Look of Love (1967)
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Alabama 3, or as they were known on the local college station, A3.

"Too Sick To Pray."

Excellent tune, imo.

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
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... "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is a song written by American singer-songwriter John Prine and originally recorded on his 1986 album German Afternoons.

The song was later covered by American singer-songwriter Kim Carnes, who released it as a single from her 1988 album View from the House. Carnes' version reached number 70 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.[1]

The song gained further fame with a duet recording by Prine and American singer Nanci Griffith on the latter's 1993 album Other Voices, Other Rooms[2] and the release of the track as a single. ...

Nanci Griffith - Lone Star State Of Mind (1987)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Your phone call took my by surprise
Gee, it's been a long, long time
Since those hot and humid Texas nights
When we went swimm'n in the tide

Corpus Christi seems so far away
And I'm not talkin' 'bout the miles
And there ain't much I wouldn't give today
Just to see one of your smiles

But here I sit alone in Denver
Sippin' California wine
And I've got all night to remember you
I'm in a lone star state of mind
...