Story Songs

[oldapple]

Harper Valley PTA.

A looked-down on mother ruffles the feathers of a smug panel on the school PTA:

I only remember Dolly Parton singing it but she wasn't the original singer.

Lyrics :- https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dollypa ... eypta.html

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZSlOZAxzI

Moderator Message:
Lyric text removed due to potential copyright issues - replaced with a link to lyrics, and also added a link to the song on Youtube - Itsallaguess

[AndyPandy]

Was going to post the Ballad of Lucy Jordan, Marianne Faithfull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc

but listened to it and it's not really much of a story. Got reading the comments and apparently it was written by Shel Silverstein.

Shel Silverstein also wrote "A boy named Sue" as sung by Johnny Cash which does seem to fit the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4

[nmdhqbc]

The Beatles - She's Leaving Home

[kempiejon]

Fancy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfoK5Ap0FA by Bobbie Gentry

[panamagold]

Was going to post the Ballad of Lucy Jordan, Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
but listened to it and it's not really much of a story.

Wow? I listened to it and heard a helluva poignant and bittersweet story ramed full of emotion - but there you go. Anyway thanks for posting.

As I'm here.

Not the original. I think this may have been filmed at a TMF USA (Brooklyn) Ladies Social back in the late '90s.

Whiskey In The Jar.

[CommissarJones]

"The Battle of New Orleans"

Written by Jimmy Driftwood and recorded many times, but probably most associated with Johnny Horton, whose version went to #1 in Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1959.

[Slarti]

Mountain, Nantucket Sleigh Ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqWqCuHR0Og

The older amongst us will recognise the middle instrumental break from another place


Slarti

[nmdhqbc]

Pulp - Common People

[AndyPandy]

Was going to post the Ballad of Lucy Jordan, Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
but listened to it and it's not really much of a story.

Wow? I listened to it and heard a helluva poignant and bittersweet story ramed full of emotion - but there you go. Anyway thanks for posting.

What I meant to say was that it doesn't really take you on a journey from start to finish (which is what this thread is asking for). It's Lucy Jordan ruminating on what might have been. As told in a poignant and bittersweet story rammed full of emotion way As a song/ballad, it's fantastic. I can (and do) listen to it several times in a row.


OB story. A history of women's shoes, as told by the Poozies, supplemented by some interesting photographs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JURSSxN8wLU

[melonfool]

This one always makes me cry - I don't think the actual story is agreed upon, but it's thought that the girl had a baby with BJ in secret, they drowned it and BJ couldn't cope and killed himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMF_mSeWJo

Ode To Billy Joe

And, sort of a story - well, it has a 'reveal' so it is one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU

Lola. Excellent song.

It wouldn't be a music post from me without a James song - not exactly a story, but about a homeless person, really worth listeeing to as it's also a statement on social issues and the human condition to some extent:

In my top ten James tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLCE5KDBcmc

Of Monsters and Heroes and Men.

Mel

[Wuzwine]

Hi all,

Too many good songs being suggested!
if Ebony Eyes is not the classic story song how about

Ferlin Husky - The Drunken Driver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-kykDYQw0

Wuz

[CommissarJones]

"Hot Rod Lincoln," Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1o

"It's My Party," Lesley Gore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXIui8sa2U

[PinkDalek]

Mountain, Nantucket Sleigh Ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqWqCuHR0Og

The older amongst us will recognise the middle instrumental break from another place


Slarti

I’d forgotten which it was but it was the ending which clinched it, rather than the middle. That’s also a track I used to mention at TMF. You probably did as well. I used to be under the impression that Mountain were Canadian, given the whaling etc. Eventually put right at TMF.

[poundcoin]

Then there's The Shangri- Las - Remember ( Walking in the Sand)

https://youtu.be/V5YxtweUxrA

Can't really leave out Leader Of The Pack

https://youtu.be/Q8UKf65NOzM

[redsturgeon]

Who can forget these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo

John

[redsturgeon]

I'm on a roll...

The incomparable Sinatra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydcUaTpiHgQ

and my favourite Abba song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnOFwqpLRQ

John

[Slarti]

Dire Straits-Telegraph Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wp2ASqyxI

And a slightly oddball choice
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Bannd - Death Cab for Cutie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rCc2bzFAs


Slarti

[PinkDalek]

Who can forget these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo

John

When you say “these”.

[panamagold]

Who can forget these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo
John

When you say “these”.

RS probably posted the link twice so we could all enjoy it in stereo.

As I'm here and in view of the thread title THIS surely must have a place in the mix.

[redsturgeon]

Who can forget these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo

John

When you say “these”.

I meant that one and this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLom-87AmO8

John