So tonight I listened to some of the while maybe not forgotten, at least some vinyl albums that I haven’t listened to in a long while. First up is an album when it was released in 1970 was just called Kristofferson but by the time I bought it in 1971 it had been renamed Me and Bobby McGee (I can’t imagine why?). Anyway, that album had a lot of songs that had been recorded by others including Janis Joplin, Ray Price and Roger Miller and Ray Stevens but I didn’t listen to those performers (except for Joplin) so I worn this album out! What a great collection of songs, including “To Beat the Devil”, (always a favorite), “Help Me Make it through the Night”, “Just The Other Side of Nowhere” “For the Good Times” and probably my favorite “Sunday Morning Coming Down”. My favorite line from that song:
Then I crossed the empty street,
‘n caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin’ chicken.
And it took me back to somethin’,
That I’d lost somehow, somewhere along the way.
The second album is also by someone who has written a lot of hits for other people 
and one of those songs just happens to be “Wild Thing” other pop hits include” “Angel of the Morning”, “Anyway You Want Me” and a lot of country hits. and the artist would be Chip Taylor and the album Chip Taylor’s Last Chance I think most of the time I only listened to the first side of this album because I only really remember the first few songs on that side: (I Want) The Real Thing”, “Son of a Rotten Gambler” and “I Read it in The Rolling Stone”. I must admit that I haven’t listened to much of his current stuff like the albums that he has done with Carrie Rodriquez. The other day I did hear a track that sounded interesting on XM Radio so I will have to look up some of his new music!
The next artist you may know more from his TV commercials including the jingle for NBC “Just Watch Us Now” for which he won a Clio Award in 1983. He co-wrote All Aboard America for Amtrak, and did work for Burger King, JC Penny, and the US Postal Service. To me he is just David Buskin who on his debut album entitled Compton and Batteau no wait that’s the other half of Buskin and Batteau, no his debut album was just David Buskin (you can only be so creative) who wrote one of the great songs about travelin’ on “Come With”
oh won’t you come with
jump in the back
we’ll go to Memphis and Fargo
and places like that
and I’ll promise you go times
I’ll promise you friends
and you’re welcomed along till you ask where it ends
But in listening to this album, I realized how much I liked the whole first side of this album which included the tracks “When I Need You Most of All”, “Come With”, “The Winter Song” a song about the homeless, “Softly Rocking” about losing children to the war and “After All”. All in all a great re-listen! These days David records with Robin Batteau and their last release is Red Shoes and Golden Hearts . David also works with Rob Carlson and George Wurzbach in the group “Modern Man
– filling the void between The Three Tenors and The Three Stooges.” “With the release of their third CD, “Assisted Living,” the somewhat musical group known as Modern Man continues its assault on the out-moded idea that only those persons not yet manifesting symptoms of senile dementia should perform in public “
Check out their live album The Wide Album by Modern Man very funny stuff!
Here’s a video of David and Robin performing David’s “When I Need You Most of All” which is the first track on David Buskin
