Tulsa Turnaround

April 24, 2010 2:25 PM

SLYT: Helen Reddy and Kenny Rogers sing 'Tulsa Turnaround' in 1972 on the First Edition's Canadian musical variety show, Rollin' on the River.
posted by box (10 comments total)

This is pretty cool too, from the same show. Badfinger's Baby Blue.
posted by philip-random at 2:29 PM on April 24, 2010 [3 favorites]

Kenny's hair is exactly how I wanted mine to look back then. It didn't.
posted by davebush at 2:50 PM on April 24, 2010

"singing a duet of the Larry Collins and Alex Harvey (they also wrote Helen's No. 1 smash "Delta Dawn") composition"

So, wait, Larry Collins and Alex Harvey get together, and they write Delta motherfucking Dawn!?

Oh, apparently it was another Alex Harvey altogether—phew! Still, colour me 50% surprised.
posted by Sys Rq at 3:20 PM on April 24, 2010

Kenny: Ready, Reddy?
Helen: Roger, Rogers
and a one and a two and...
posted by hal9k at 3:39 PM on April 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

Oh lord, I wish I'd never been stoned,
'cause when I get high, I can't leave the women alone.

I thought of Kenny Rogers as a singer my grandmother would listen to. This is making me rethink who my grandmother may have been.
posted by idiopath at 5:41 PM on April 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

Interesting... Without external verification, I wouldn't have identified that as Kenny Rogers.... but..yep...

Gotta love youtube for the archives of some classic/rare music...
posted by HuronBob at 6:26 PM on April 24, 2010

Very nice. Heavy Muscle Shoals influence there.
posted by wsg at 7:57 PM on April 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

Kenny lays the groundwork for The Big Lebowski.
posted by Knappster at 10:01 PM on April 24, 2010

Heavy Muscle Shoals influence there.

So ... wiki tells me that both Staple Singers "I'll Take You There" and Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock'n'Roll" were recorded under the same roof, one of my all time faves and probably my all time most HATED single song. It's the visions of Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear, I think.
posted by philip-random at 11:33 PM on April 24, 2010

Las Vegas Turnaround
posted by timsteil at 12:14 PM on April 25, 2010