Edit for headphones, April 2022. A song from the 1999 album "The Lovin' Spoonful Live at the Hotel Seville". (I have this only in 192kbps mp3, so not the best sound quality, sorry).<br />The songs were recorded in 1999 during a great, real live performance at the Hotel Seville in Harrison, Arkansas USA.<br />The original release of "Nashville Cats" was a 1966 USA no. 8 hit, UK no. 26 hit. January 1967 it entered the Dutch Top 40, reaching no. 14.<br /><br />Personnel on the live album:<br /><br />Jerry Yester - guitars, vocals;<br />Joe Butler - vocals, guitars, autoharp, percussion;<br />Lena Yester - keyboards, vocals;<br />Steve Boone - bass;<br />Mike Arturi - drums.<br /><br />NASHVILLE CATS<br />(John Sebastian)<br /><br />Nashville cats, play clean as country water<br />Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew<br />Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies<br />Nashville cats, get work before they're two<br /> <br />well, there's thirteen hundred fifty-two<br />guitar pickers in Nashville<br />and they can pick more notes than the number of ants<br />on a Tennessee anthill<br /> <br />yeah, thirteen hundred fifty-two<br />guitar cases in Nashville<br />and any one that unpacks his guitar could play<br />twice this better than I will<br /> <br />when I was just thirteen you might say I was a<br />musical proverbial knee-high<br />when I heard a new-sounding set of tunes on the tubes<br />that blasted me sky-high<br /> <br />the record man said every one was a yellow sun *<br />record from Nashville<br />and up north here nobody buys them<br />and I said, but I will<br /> <br />and it was<br />Nashville cats, play clean as country water<br />Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew<br />Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies<br />Nashville cats, get work before they're two<br /> <br />Nashville cats, play clean as country water<br />Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew<br />Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies<br />Nashville cats, get work before they're two<br /><br />well there's sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-one<br />mothers from Nashville<br />and all their friends play music and they ain't uptight<br />if one of the kids will<br /> <br />'cause it's custom made for any mother's son<br />to be a guitar picker in Nashville<br />and I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about<br />the music and the mothers from Nashville<br /> <br />and Nashville cats, play clean as country water<br />Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew<br />Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies<br />Nashville cats, get work before they're two<br />pick it...<br /><br />®© UMG<br />®© SME<br />®© Kontor New Media Music<br />®© SME on behalf of BMG Special Products <br />®© therock&rollingsixties<br /><br />(All rights reserved by the copyright owners. This nonprofit fan-made video is solely to promote awareness and interest in the artists and the music.)<br /><br />* The lyrics refer to the Sun Records company. While Sun was best known for first recording Elvis Presley, it also released songs by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.
