Year of The Cat (Al Stewart)

[nrgbeat]

Was this played at the Trocadero?

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

[keefelc]

Oh NRG, yes it was, well at least once. I remember so well the morning the song was played in 1982 at the "All Night Long" party (there's an ad for this party in the Troc Memorabilia section of the RtP website). Bobby Viteritti was spinning an exquisite morning set and I had to leave around 6:30 am to go get in line to buy tickets for a Bette Midler concert at the Golden Gate Theatre (De Tour - remember that?). I left behind a couple of friends including Karen from Aloha.

Later that day, she raving about the music after I left and that Bobby played Year Of The Cat!!

Decades later, a friend gave me a copy of a couple of hours of this party, and sure enough, Year of The Cat is on it. Sounded particularly haunting and I knew why Karen was so excited about hearing the song!

[remicks]

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What in the world was it mixed in and out of ??? Dan Fogelberg and Christopher Cross ? ;-):p

Gotta give Bobby credit for his variable spinning creativeness ....... but that's one play that would've given me the right excuse for some fresh evening air outside ......


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[tony98]

I totally agree with Remicks in that Year of the cat is so bland.In the late 90's a house club in Liverpool called Cream pulled in 3 or 4000 every saturday on sunday morning they wouldn't go home ,so they played music by a guy called Des O'Conner who's the equivelent of Wayne Newton,everybody left quickly.Maybe that was the idea of playing Al Stewart.

[all*that*glitters*]

does anybody remembers the version of 'year of the cat' by Dionne Warwick??
I do and I think it was a great dance version too, with catsounds in the first opening bars, and an excellent vocal interpretation of the song.

for me, Dionne's voice and the dance arrangement of the song worked much better than the original
all*that*glitters*

[nrgbeat]

I think is the perfect example of how morning music was explored and expanded at these clubs.

[QUINNY]

does anybody remembers the version of 'year of the cat' by Dionne Warwick??
I do and I think it was a great dance version too, with catsounds in the first opening bars, and an excellent vocal interpretation of the song.

for me, Dionne's voice and the dance arrangement of the song worked much better than the original
all*that*glitters*

TRACK Of The Cat was released in '75 and a truly beautiful number. PURE CLASS all the way.

[remicks]

I totally agree with Remicks in that Year of the cat is so bland.In the late 90's a house club in Liverpool called Cream pulled in 3 or 4000 every saturday on sunday morning they wouldn't go home ,so they played music by a guy called Des O'Conner who's the equivelent of Wayne Newton,everybody left quickly.Maybe that was the idea of playing Al Stewart.

:lol:
I think you hit the nail on the head....
Keefelc said it was already 6:30 AM when he left . Bobby was probablyabout done and was trying to send everyone on their way . When he put this snoozer on and still they danced he probably said "Look they're so tweaked ......they'll dance to anything ....."


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[markydefad]

as i recall. Viteritti used an Alan Parsons Project instrumental with "Year Of The Cat"--I had to play all the LPs to find it was "The Gold Bug" ....I can't recall what the song on the other side was--but I can find out.


It was very haunting in this context---something I would never have thought of--but Viteritti did and it worked very nicely....this was in the early Eighties as I recall --not 1977 when "Year Of The Cat" was a pop hit...Viteretti liked mixing the rock and the soul and the jazz and the reggae and you-name-it--he played it.:-D

[markydefad]

from AMG: LP "Turn Of A Friendly Card" (1980)- Alan Parsons Project

As in every Parsons album, an instrumental is included, in this case an interesting number aptly titled "The Gold Bug." Like most of the band's instrumentals, its flow and rhythm simulate the overall tempo and concept of the album, acting as a welcome interlude.

[keefelc]

Now remicks, you know that 6:30 am was still early for Troc on a weekend! Bobby was just getting started! ;-)

Mark is right about that Bobby enjoyed mixing up different styles of music. I think that came to be what we hoped for in one of his morning sets - kept his sets fresh!

BTW, Dionne Warwick's Tom Bell produced "Track Of The Cat" album was an overlooked masterpiece (IMHO)!

[Nano]

from AMG: LP "Turn Of A Friendly Card" (1980)- Alan Parsons Project

As in every Parsons album, an instrumental is included, in this case an interesting number aptly titled "The Gold Bug." Like most of the band's instrumentals, its flow and rhythm simulate the overall tempo and concept of the album, acting as a welcome interlude.

OMG Marky! Remember those years when we thought Alan Parsons was hip? :oops:

I was a fan of those instrumentals. "Hyper-gamma spaces" in Pyramid, "I robot", you name it! Very useful for cool TV ads also!

[markydefad]

I found the playlist for that section of Viteritti's "All Night Long":

YOU STEPPED INTO MY LIFE - Melba Moore
SOMEDAY WE'LL BE TOGETHER - Diana Ross & The Supremes
IT'S A BETTER THAN GOOD TIME - Gladys Knight & The Pips (not the Walter Gibbons remix--oops Keefe says it is and he should know!!!)
TONIGHT- YOU + ME - Phyllis Hyman
HARMONY - Suzi Lane
RITMO DE BRAZIL - Ultimate
SHINE ON SILVER MOON - Marilym McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
LOOK ME UP - Blue Magic
LORELEI (instrumental) - Tom Tom Club
LUST - Rinder & Lewis
CHANGIN' - Esther Phillips (yep, not Sharon Ridley!!!)
DYIN' TO BE DANCIN' - Empress
SIGN OF THE TIMES - Terry Callier
YEAR OF THE CAT - Al Stewart
THE GOLD BUG - Alan Parsons Project
SOMEBODY'S EYES - Viola Wills

[keefelc]

Mark, what do you mean this set doesn't include the Walter Gibbons remix of Gladys??? It most certainly is, in fact, he's playing a portion of the rare acetate!

[markydefad]

sounded just like the LP version to me!!!!

[remicks]

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Nice playlist .

I was under the impresion that YEAR OF THE RAT ( the heavy b-beat ghetto version ) was played on top of GOLD BUG ......no ????


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[markydefad]

no, he mixed into APP from YEAR OF THE RAT. I realize it sounds odd on paper--but it works very nicely in the musical flow ...it was a surprisiing highlight!!! Al Stewart??? odd but true...at least to me.

[nrgbeat]

Ahhh that Bobby V, if he was still djing he'd probably throw in a little Eminem, followed by Ruben Studdard and end it with some Keith Urban.

Those Troc queens will dance to anything. With the right drugs of course.

[keefelc]

Those Troc queens will dance to anything. With the right drugs of course.

Well, there were limits - like any Lime record!!! :p