BALI HAI
I have also been reading about another CD that came out more recently which featured a lot of the same music, called It’s a Happening! Texas Girls of the 60’s. Because the CD features the Heart Beats and Linda Pierre King, I assumed that it was basically a reissue of the earlier CD that I had. Actually, the 26-track album mostly features other bands; but more importantly from my standpoint, there are four songs by King that did not appear on the We Had the Beat CD: the South Pacific chestnut “Bali Hai”, the traditional ballad “Jack-A-Roe” (“The Train” is another traditional song that is on the earlier CD), an original song called “Where Are We Going?”, and a second Bob Dylan song, “Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright)”. That’s a total of 12 songs and is enough for a full-blown album for Linda Pierre King herself. I guess I’m going to need to track down that CD also!
(April 2012)
