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Rick Beato Breaks Down One of the Greatest Storytelling Songs of All-Time

Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 22:55 BFH Uncategorized 36

36 Comments on Rick Beato Breaks Down One of the Greatest Storytelling Songs of All-Time

  6. I’m 46, but being a former “C&P, A Bell Atlantic Company” tech… also the fact that I was born in ’76 and still have dial telephones that I used to work on…

    The song is sentimental without being saccharine.

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  14. That song was inspired by Croce’s time in the Army. On their days off the GI’s would line up to use the pay phones. As Croce waited, he saw other guys have “Dear John” phone calls.

    I’ve always thought it was unfortunate that Croce was known mainly for his novelty songs. The songs he wrote were about everyday people experiencing the things that they experienced.

    That was one of Beato’s best videos, and that is a pretty high bar. It was something to see him having trouble playing the song. I have tried to play it, although Beato has more talent in his fingernail clippings then I have in my entire body so I should not feel bad if even he had trouble.

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  16. I actually remember where I was when I heard of his death. Listening to the radio at the engineering office I worked at in Sherman Oaks, CA. My coworker, Mike commented that he felt bad because he had just the day before, taped over his Jim Croce collection. 49 years ago. Sand sure flies when you have a big glass.

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  22. Eh. Better than “Sylvia’s Mother”, I guess. Or “Run, Joey, Run”. But I do like songs that tell a story, or “ballads” as we used to call them. When did they start calling silly love songs “ballads”? That’s just wrong.

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  28. I was 11 years old when he died. I loved his songs!
    I cried when he died.
    The poetry of his songs hit my heart every time.
    Another favorite:
    If I had a box just for wishes
    And dreams that had never come true
    The box would be empty, except for the memory of how
    They were answered by you

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  29. Seaoh, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of my all-time favorites. I remember the “Big Fitz” from when I was a child in Lorain, Ohio. Awesome memories of those huge ore carriers.

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  32. The Barney Song!
    Man ……. that always brings tears to my eyes ………..
    the Depth! the Power! the Emotion!

    I aways had that on when I made Hunter and Ashley kiss Rodney …. my ….. uhh
    …….. finger puppet ….

  36. Check out Rick’s YouTube channel. His analysis is phenomenal!

    Watch his analysis of Boston’s More Than a Feeling. It will give you chills hearing Brad Delp’s isolated voice!

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