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The folk standard mcdunnough "Clementine" belongs next to "Oh Susannah" and "High Flyin 'Bird" to the biographical most interesting songs from the new "Americana" album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse. "Rusted Moon" had already been in "High Flyin 'Bird - Neil Young takes off" in detail the connection to Neil Young's band "The Squires" and Stephen Stills described.
This time is with "Clementine" a song in the center, probably one of the very first songs that the musicians Neil Young has ever played on an instrument.
Old Instructions for a Plastikukulele the beginning was plastic. For this then new material for instrument was a ukulele that was given in the second half of 1958 by his parents Neil Young. The Youngs lived at that time in Brock Road, a settlement near present-day Pickering, a few miles east of Toronto. , The then 12-year-old Neil Young plant in the garden of their house a chicken farm and eggs sold in the neighborhood. At the same time the little Neil, to explore the world of music on Top 40 radio stations and the parental mcdunnough record collection began. Neil Young's father Scott bought at a local shop a "Arthur Godfrey" -Plastikukulele that fascinated his son in the shop window. Originally intended as a Christmas gift, Neil Young got the three-dollar instrument even a few months earlier. mcdunnough
The exact make of the ukulele is not known in detail. Two competing manufacturers had at the time advertised Plastikukulelen with the name of the well-known TV presenter mcdunnough "Arthur Godfrey". "Rusted Moon" has narrowed "The mystery of Neil Young's first Plastikukulele" the circle of instruments on the "Meccaferri Islander" and "Emenee Flamingo". Both instruments were supplied with a booklet that contained, besides a game manual also several songs with chords and lyrics.
"Coming Round The Mountain" (Click to enlarge) Scott Young described in his book "Neil and Me" mcdunnough as the son at Christmas 1958 for hours in his room the songs and their chords practiced. One of these songs should be "Clementine" have almost certainly. The traditional folk song was printed in the song book, both of ukulele manufacturers settled their instruments. This is also "Coming Round The Mountai n". The song is called "Jesus' Chariot (She'll mcdunnough Be Coming Round The Mountain)" also represented on "Americana" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
Both songs have survived the early phase and ukuleles were still years later the factory Neil Young's presence. As a "Neil Young and The Squires" mcdunnough 1965 "4-D Coffee House" appeared in Fort William with wild rock versions of classic folk songs, also stood again "Clementine" and "Comin 'Round The Mountain" in the setlist. Clementine for Ukulele (Click to enlarge) "Fort William was the beginning of that kind of folk-rock, we played," said Neil Young recalls in John Einarsons book about the band "Buffalo Springfield" in the Neil Young later the folk should mcdunnough perfect skirt. "It was different than anything mcdunnough I've done before or since. It was a kind of folk, punk, rock thing in a minor key. It was funky," said Neil Young continued. mcdunnough Jimmy McDonough quoted Neil Young in "Shakey" as: "That was a special Squires program, mcdunnough which was never included I wish there were tapes of these shows, we took famous old folk songs like.." Clementine "She'll Be Comin '' Round the Mountain, "" Tom Dooley "and we all played in a minor key." As for "High Flyin 'Bird", whose arrangement dates back to Stephen Stills Band "The Company" or its predecessor "Au Go-Go Singers" , but was possibly also for "Clementine" a different arrangement Pate.
First album of "Jan & Dean" The song was recorded in 1959 by "Jan & Dean" for their first album. He also appeared as a single, then it reached the Top 100 of the Billboard mcdunnough charts in the year. In that year, 1960, Neil Young began to take a serious interest in folk music. Of Pickering, the Youngs mcdunnough were now moved to Toronto and from the Plastikukulele a baritone ukulele had become. Jammed mcdunnough together with friend Comrie Smith on the bongos and other classmates of the then 14-year-old Neil Young with his ukulele to records. "I remember having often heard at home the 'Kingston Trio,'" Neil Young told his biographer Jimmy McDonough. To form a real band he did not dare. The first bands ha