The Hollies – Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Just great!
Can remember this blasting out over the speakers at pool parties my senior year at my fraternity
I never knew the title to that song. Can’t quote a lyric other than “lets get it on”. Yet I knew it instantly when it started.
Steve, Memory is playing tricks. These are the lyrics
Saturday night, I was downtown
Working for the FBI
Sitting in a nest of bad men
Whiskey bottles piling high
Bootlegging boozer on the west side
Full of people who are doing wrong
Just about to call up the DA man
When I heard this woman singin’ a song
A pair of 45s made me open my eyes
My temperature started to rise
She was a long cool woman in a black dress
‘Bout a 5’9″, beautiful, tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
‘Cause that long cool woman had it all
Whoo!
I saw her heading to the table
Well, a tall walking big black cat
When Charlie said, “I hope that you’re able, boy
Well, I’m telling you she knows where it’s at”
Well, suddenly we hear the sirens
And everybody started to run
A-jumping under doors and tables
Well, I heard somebody shootin’ a gun
Well, the DA was pumpin’ my left hand
And a-she was a-holding my right
Well, I told her, “Don’t get scared ’cause you’re gonna be spared”
I’ve gotta be forgiven if I wanna spend my livin’
With a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a 5’9″, beautiful, tall
Well, with just one look I was a bad mess
‘Cause that long cool woman had it all
Had it all, had it all
Had it all, had it all
Had it all, mmm
Had it all
Ah, she had it all
Yeah, she had it al
She was probably Jessica Rabbit in a different dress
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&hs=GjF&sca_esv=7085e96b5b715798&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWII7DDkacyX-NhHlxPREUbVcSjr5Cg:1724346035702&q=Jessica+Rabbit&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0A-5VTqs5rweptgTqb6m-Eb3TvVcv4l7eCyod9RtZW9874wvsYjTfpwMQKGHqKPG-IB7j9flyfH28tJSLVuVdcT1tesPpIhTR_8sOQ3FQrQWiVTfWhoIplDgGh5JzUv9F4u3riMB636EHR41DrkNY_uSRk347tLZsVeJqqyuWPTyXrtg-EYkFQYZqw6rWM1khGHS26HrYFGhj2QeE1uCS-2MrLbBw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi48LXHiYmIAxXmk4kEHXaZHpcQtKgLegQIEBAB&biw=1170&bih=574&dpr=1.56
Bob, I’d like to recommend Chi Coltrane’s 1972 “Thunder and Lightning” which blew me away the first time I heard it and still sends tingles down my spine. https://youtu.be/0IefcDO2s9Q
I love this song. One of the first lead licks I learned on my Guild T-100 back in the 70’s. But the original release had Allan Clarke on lead vocals and lead guitar who also co-wrote this with Roger Cook. This version has Terry Sylvester (I believe) on vocals and someone else on lead guitar. Allan Clarke had left the band just before his song started moving its way up the charts to the #2 slot (destined to be the band’s only platinum release). Clarke returned for a year or two and then departed again to start his “solo career”. Allan Clarke’s vocals and guitar are clearly the reason this version lacks that edge.