[philmont] Packing in Music

I think the Coverdale podcast was last summer and here is want I found on Me
and My Uncle. I feel the Judy Collins version is the best. I have the
podcast downloaded and will try to locate a link for it.

Doug

"Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle", is a song composed by
John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead
and Judy Collins.

Origins

John Phillips originally wrote "Me and My Uncle" at a drinking session in a
hotel room with Judy Collins and Neil Young (among others) in 1963.
According to Grateful Dead Lyric & Song Finder[1]

John often used to tell the story behind "Me and My Uncle". Years ago he
began receiving publishing royalties from a song on a Judy Collins record
with which he was unfamiliar. It was titled "Me and My Uncle". He called
Judy to let her know of the mistake because he hadn't written any such song.
She laughed and told him that about a year before, in Arizona after one of
her concerts, they had a 'Tequila Night' back at the hotel with Stephen
Stills, Neil Young and a few others. They were running a blank cassette and
John proceeded to write "Me and My Uncle" on the spot. The next day, John
woke up to the tequila sunrise with no recollection of the songwriting
incident. Judy kept the cassette from that evening and then, without
informing John, recorded the song for her own record. Over the years the
song was recorded by several people, and eventually became a standard of the
Grateful Dead. John used to joke that, little by little, with each royalty
check, the memory of writing the song would come back to him.

Performances

"Me and My Uncle" was first recorded by Judy Collins at some point in 1964,
and performed at The Judy Collins Concert.

It was later heard by the Grateful Dead, who adopted it as one of their
standard performances. Bob Weir is reported to have learned it from Curly
Jim Cook, a member of the Bay Area A.B. Skhy Blues Band. According to
Deadbase X, the Dead's first playing was in late 1966. The first available
performance of it is from the Electric Theater in Chicago, on April 26,
1969, and is available on Dick's Picks, Vol 26.[2] Their best-known version
is from the 1971 live Skull & Roses album. The song continued to be
performed regularly until Jerry Garcia's death and the end of the band in
1995. Indeed according to Deadbase X, it was the most-played song of all in
the Dead's long concert career, with 613 performances.

Later performances were made by reunited The Dead and Bob Weir's band Ratdog
starting in 2003 with the latter performing the song into 2006.

"Me and My Uncle" has also been performed by John Denver, Dino Valente, Mike
Wilhelm and by John Phillips himself.

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There was a Coverdale podcast a couple of years ago, where Rod Taylor
actually talked about how this song was written, and rights were assigned.
If you are interested, I'll see if I can find it again.

Chas. Clifton
Assoc. Advisor - Crew 177
Port Neches, Texas
Advisor 708G2001
Philmont Training Center faculty in 2005
I used to a Bobwhite...SR-357, and then a Staffer...SR-439, SR-613, SR-683

Remember : We are in this program for the boys.......let them lead

In a message dated 5/22/2007 8:30:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
js1864@gmail.com writes:

Me and My Uncle was actually written by John Phillips (I wonder if he was a
relation to Waite?), and performed by Joni Mitchell a year before the Dead.
You can hear her sing it here
(http://www.proper.com/lookit/archives/Music/MeAndMyUncle-JoniMitchell.mp3)
from 1965 CBC television show "Let's Sing Out".

A Scout/Philmont/Dead connection. Strange indeed.

Joe Simonis
ASM T6
West Chester, PA
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if
you look at it right"

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