There’s not much to say about this song, Youdopia, other than it’s one of the best songs ever performed (in my opnion). This song was recorded live in the studio, on one of the first eight track recorders, back in the late 1950′s. If you can hear the original with headphones, you’ll hear Ray slapping his pant leg with the music, as the Raelettes sing with him.

This song was improvised at a concert, and they went with it. Tom Dowd (the same fellow who recorded Derek and the Dominos) caught lightning in a bottle (as he was wont to do) with this song. It’s awesome. It’s also long, and filthy (that’s what she said). It was split into two parts, for radio play. Part two was the naughty, sexual part.

So, enjoy. Perhaps you remember the old SNL skit with John Belushi as Beethoven, taking a little toot of… snuff.. and then playing this. Good stuff.

Howdy youdopia. My friend Gus, who goes by August, now that he’s in the September of his years, says Youdopia hasn’t been updated since January. He is, of course, lying because I told him cold fusion doesn’t work. Anyhoo, this last month has been … how do you say… shitty and amazing.  So I blog Led Zeppelin. One of the reasons I love Zeppelin so much, and Jimmy Page in particular, is that they would cover almost any song. I never, ever, in my wildest dreams, would expect the boys to launch into Ray Charles’ Georgia On My Mind, but they did. And it’s good. Jimmy Page is absent, which leads me to believe that this was an off the cuff vamp while Jimmy changed a string.  Listen to the soul in John Paul Jones’  Fender Rhodes.  That’s a band, ladies and gentlemen, and I think it’s the Coolest Shit Ever. God, I love music.