Ellis Paul Discussion

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:37 am**

Each of the following characters is featured in an Ellis Paul song – can you guess who appears where?

Name the song (or songs) that feature the particular individual - you can have as many goes as you like as long as you do not answer questions consecutively.

1. Hank Williams
2. Einstein
3. Gene Kelly
4. Natalie Wood
5. Thomas Alva Edison
6. Judy Garland
7. Picasso
8. Rembrandt
9. Buddy Holly
10. Marie Antoinette
11. Ben Franklin
12. Betty Ford
13. Marvin Gaye
14. Gershwin
15. Freud
16. James Dean
17. Fred Astaire
18. Vance (Gilbert)
19. Elvis
20. Ferlinghetti
21. Jesus
22. Moses
23. Charlie Chaplin
24. Jim Morrison

Have fun,
Jela

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:33 am**

Jela,

Thanks for making me put my thinking cap on. I better jump in here before Herve beats me to it.

Jim Morrison is mentioned in "Paris in a Day".

Who's up next?

KarenZ

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:15 am**

Oooh, how fun! Some of these are going to be tough...

So I'll go now:
Thomas Alva Edison is in "Midnight Strikes Too Soon"

Thanks Jela!

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:25 am**

A wonderful way to start off the week....thanks Jela!

Say, isn't Ellis thinking of writing an album's worth of songs about famous people in history?

"If you could paint her she'd be a Picasso."

Here She Is

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:05 am**

Great quiz Jela, some characters have me stumped...

I'm going with James Dean, from Look At The Wind Blow!!

More than standing in one place, waiting for the next James Dean

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:23 am**

Here she is, again! :wink:

she's a poem by Ferlinghetti

Here She Is

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:11 pm**

though I'm known for Freudian slips

Self Portrait

One of my favs!!!!

Thanks Jela for the cool quiz!

p.s. Oh My, I forgot Looking for My Friends

Or put me on some couch like Sigmund Freud

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:59 pm**

Musicians pull over looking over their shoulders
at Hank Williams, Buddy Holly lighting the flame

Blacktop Train

ooooh...oooh....ooooooh.....oooooooh...oooooh

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:12 am**

Great going guys and gals - keep it up!

I've edited my original post so you can see, in red, the ones which have been guessed.

Jela

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:23 am**

Okay.....I'll reveal another one. Gene Kelly - one of my favorite Pittsburghers - (along with Mr. Rogers

) appears in "I Lost a Day to the Rain" from Dragonfly Races.

KarenZ

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:44 am**

It's near freezing here in Philadelphia...with rain in the forecast for Thursday. I'll probably lose a day to it, myself.

Now Ben Franklin air-lifted up a big old kite
With a small gold key on a stormy night
But I'll strike up a candle when I need a light
I lost a day to the rain

I Lost a Day to the Rain

From the award winning family record "The Dragonfly Races"

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:51 am**

and from my "signature file" song Translucent Soul

I get a call from Vance he's an old friend...

Vance Gilbert...!!

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:23 am**

just for fun -- and bonus points!!! :wink:

If I could talk to Ghandi, talk to Christ
Talk to Mohammed, ask advice
Oh Saint Theresa, MLK
We need your advice
Cause it's judgement day

from Citizen of the World
on Ellis and Vance's record Side of the Road

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:57 am**

Paddy,

Who else besides you and I would be up shortly after 6am nearly cross-posting about the same song! Thankfully we both chose a different character from the song.

Here's another. Natalie Wood appears in "Goodbye Hollywood".

KarenZ

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:39 am**

Karen.....darn few, I'm sure. I was happy to see your post early this morning -- allowed me another shot at the list. Figured one good turn deserved another, especially since with I Lost a Day to the Rain -- Ellis and Jela dropped a couple of names on us. :wink:

I do believe Moses, appropriately, appears in Deliver Me.

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:17 am**

Thirteen down, Eleven to go!

Keep going guys and gals!

Jela

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:23 am**

Gershwin appears in "Maria's Beautiful Mess":

Now she puts on some music,
She asks you to choose it
You sang her back a Gershwin line.

(this is FUN, Jela!)

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:44 am**

I think Mr. Einstein makes an appearance in "Bring Me Backwards" from Translucent Soul.

KarenZ

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:27 am**

wendy wrote:Gershwin appears in "Maria's Beautiful Mess":

Now she puts on some music,
She asks you to choose it
You sang her back a Gershwin line.

(this is FUN, Jela!)

Say, didn't someone once ask about the Gershwin line? Anyone recall the discussion or know the line?

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:35 am**

Paddy,

It was a question that Dean asked in the Clarity forum last December.

(And EP replied!) :shock:

KarenZ

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:44 am**

Cool beans....I'll go check it out! Thanks Karen, and of course, Dean.

Jesus dropped by the Martyr's Lounge......

Now Jesus don't need no introduction
He's got a famous old man
And a party for twelve, I see Cobain, He's well
He's in the Angels that Fell,
A local touring bar band.

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:36 pm**

Ella was supposedly singing 'Our Love is Here to Stay' was the response to my question about Maria's Beautiful Mess.

Thanks for the flashback.

Dean

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:28 pm**

Dean, always happy to help!

Of the few remaining names on the list, only one is obvious to me now.

Can anyone guess which name that is?

Dying to have someone solve this mystery. :wink:

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:52 am**

Paddy - I'm guessing that the obvious one left for you is 'Marvin Gaye'?????

Keep guessing folks!

Jela

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:52 am**

Some of the remaining ones are hard! I'll take the easy one.

Fred Astaire dances his way into "The World Ain't Slowing Down".

I just want Mr. Paul to know I'm disappointed that Barry Manilow didn't make it to the official list...although we know Mr. Manilow has made random appearances on occasion....

KaernZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:48 am**

From everyone's favorite sing along!!

We did Paris in a day,
what would Marie Antionette say?

For me a few more are obvious, but Betty Ford, puzzling???

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:06 am**

Patti, I'm drawing a blank on Betty Ford too.....or am I getting my songs mixed up?

OK....I can hear the line in my head about Judy Garland in the land of Oz.....I'm pretty sure that must be:

"All my heros were junkies".

But I'm not sure. :oops:

KarenZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:09 am**

Ah, Betty Ford is in "All My Heros Are Junkies"!
(along with a few other pertinent famous names.....

)

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:21 am**

Charlie Chaplin also appears in Goodbye Hollywood.

I've seen you walk like Charlie Chaplin
I've seen you cry like Natalie Wood

What a fun thread this is!

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:41 am**

Jela,

I knew someone would be able to solve it.......

Marvin Gaye is one of several artists available in Jukebox on my Grave.

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:57 am**

I think we're down to:

Elvis
Rembrandt

I swear I am drawing a complete blank. :oops:

Elvis? Oh gosh.....I better up my dose of Aricept....

KarenZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:19 am**

Rembrandt - New Light On Your Halo

There's cracks in the walls in the town of Jericho, Sirens blaring out a lifetime never told Rembrandt at the wall his palate's small, his hopes are tall He writes his name, his claim to fame

Just listened to End Construction yesterday. Great timing on my part!

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:24 am**

Good golly Miss Molly you guys are good!!!

Elvis has me stumped for the most part, too.

I'll venture half a guess, tho, and say he appears in that song about the Magazines?

It's a rare rocker for Ellis........fitting I suppose!

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:33 am**

Paddy - you have me stumped - magazines?

Jela

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:36 am**

Jela,

That one I know! "Breaking Through the Radio" is the song about the Magazines - a band out of New Orleans.

I don't think Elvis appears in that song......

KarenZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:38 am**

Folks,

I think Elvis has left the building......

KarenZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:39 am**

Oh but he does - the King of Graceland! But Elvis does appear in another song............

Jela

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:04 am**

WOW!!!

I can't believe I made the connection........between Elvis and that song, when Ellis merely aludes to Elvis.

By the way -- at the lyrics for Breaking thru the Radio just now.....nice Van Morrison references, too!

I hitched a ride down to Tupelo
With a caravan of gypsy souls
Dancin’ in moon shine
Every song pulled me in like a life line

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:04 am**

KarenZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:21 am**

Nevermind the old kid's game "Where's Waldo?"

Where's Elvis? :lol:

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:25 am**

When ya got it.....ya got it!

I went over to the lyrics page and wouldn't ya know the first song I clicked on was the one!!!

Before I found Elvis there I noticed Ronald Reagan there in an earlier verse!

Who's gonna close out this fine, fun,and "not so trivial pursuit" :?:

Thanks again, Jela.....this exercise was fan-tastic!!!

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:00 pm**

Oh wow. Now with the clues I'm even more :oops:

Wait till I tell BeckyG......this is the song that Ellis has asked Becky and I for lyrical help on more than once.....and we always get stuck on the last verse.

But we always know the Elvis line! Yoy! :cry:

KarenZ

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:04 pm**

I swear I grew up on coke and shake and bake........

There's alot going on in that song, so I can see where lyrics would be hard for Ellis to grab outta thin air.

For anyone, even the most devoted of devotees, to have a clue what lyrics are due, is amazing.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:33 am**

Well is anyone actually going to 'name that song' ???

....and here's a bonus question - Hank Williams appears in another song as well, you've guessed one correctly with 'Blacktop Train' but where else does he make an appearance?

Jela

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:31 am**

I was hunting for Elvis and found the other Hank Williams!

Here's a hint: it was a cold and snowy night.....

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:40 am**

"Parker Evans and his bride
with Elvis by their side
got married in a chapel in Vegas."

I'm sorry to jump in so late...this was a very cool quiz...thanks, Jela! I don't think I would have been able to answer this, though, without that clue from Karen.

Becky

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:41 am**

Oops..just realized I didn't post the song title...

"Bad, Bad Blood"

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:14 pm**

Good going Becky!

Wendy..........."are you sure Hank done it that a way?" .............sorry, couldn't help myself! :wink:

Great weekend everyone............thanks again, Jela!

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:14 am**

So we just have Hank Williams to find in that other song.

Who's going to get it?

Jela

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:24 am**

Jela

I'm stuck! :oops:

Pretty sure it's not "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" since that's a Johnny Cash song Ellis covers.

Right?

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