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From a CUNY student project page on Brooklyn Heights: “Montague Street was also a place for musicians where live music made Brooklyn Heights a destination for those seeking lively nightlife. Bob Dylan in his song “Tangled up in Blue” sings of the street’s lively cafes and air of revolution:”

“I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs
There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air”

– “Tangled Up In Blue” – Blood On The Tracks (1975)

Check out the interesting discussion on Brownstoner…

LINK: Did Bob Dylan Really Live in Brooklyn Heights? [Brownstoner]

“Love, American Style” is a great song by The Cowsills, a band much better known for recording the song “Hair.”

The “Love, American Style” song was the theme for a TV show of the same name name. According to TV.com, the hour-long show debuted on ABC in the fall of 1969 with “stories about common people finding love in all walks of life. Each hour-long show would give us either one, two, three, or four stories of love.”

THE PROBLEM: The full lyrics to this song do not seem to exist online, even on the Cowsills’ own website. At best, you can find a transcription of the ~30 seconds used as the intro to the TV show. So as a public service, Daily Heights presents the only page on the Internet where you can find the full lyrics to “Love, American Style.” Including chords. After the break.

Love, American Style

La-hove, love, … (clap) la-ha-hooove …
Love, American style, truer than the red, white and blue
Love, American style, that’s me and you
And on a star-spangled night my love, (My love come to me)…
Read more …

Here’s my new favorite acoustic streetcorner Hank Williams cover band, caught live this past Saturday afternoon at Grand Army Plaza:

The band is called The Merles, and they’ve played small Park Slope clubs and bars, including Cafe Steinhof. They told me they have no upcoming gigs. If anyone knows how to get in touch with The Merles, please send the contact info our way, K?
The Merles – Long Gone Lonesome Blues (Hank Williams) [.AVI VIDEO, 0:43 sec, 11MB]

MAC PEOPLE: Is there seriously no way to watch an .AVI video on a Mac?

Louise Crawford writes on OtBKB about her son’s band: “They’ve been practicing for months but he’d made it clear that he’d tell us when he was ready for us to come to a rehearsal … Cool and Unusual Punishment is the name … they rehearse every Friday night in the drummer’s apartment. The drummer’s parents are extremely good natured about the noise. They actually keep the drum set in the living room.”

“The people in their apartment building are good natured too. Apparently last week they called while the group was rehearsing a song called ‘Where is My Mind?’ by the Pixies. the drummer’s mother came into the living room holding the telephone: ‘The woman downstairs would like to speak with you,’ she said ominously. The kids got nervous, of course, sure that she was calling to complain about the noise. But it turned out that she loves the song … and just wanted the band to play it again.”

“It would be virtually impossible for the band to rehearse in our building what with Mr. Persnickity downstairs … “

Link: Cool and Unusual [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]

Now is the time that DAILY HEIGHTS engages in the time-honored tradition of pandering to advertisers and pretending it’s unbiased editorial content:

In my opinion, the proper response to the phrase “Open Mic Night” is to run in the opposite direction, screaming. So it was with great trepidation that I accepted an ad from Muk, a ProHo resident and self-described quasi-alt-country- insurgent-folk-americana artist who was once in a band that shared the stage with both the Dead Milkmen and Phish (different shows).

Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that Muk is actually a talented musician and songwriter–in fact, I can honestly recommend a visit Muk’s elegantly simple, no-nonsense website (see ad links, to your right) to download some absolutely free MP3s from a man who has “carefully honed his craft of marrying folk and Americana melodies to evocative lyrics.”

It didn’t hurt that Muk said some very flattering things about our non-blog: “I am true to the site’s name, reading it on a daily basis, usually a few times a day, actually … I have never bought ads anywhere, and thought why not give it a shot where the money at least goes to something that I want to support.”

APPROVED.

Finally, it was surprising to discover that this was the same Muk we met about 2 months ago at Soda Bar when we crashed his baby’s 1-year birthday party.

Small world. But that’s the point of Daily Heights, right?