Mongooses & Elephants

Yesterday a  fellow sports cyber chatter mentioned this old tune    Gimme gimme good lovin- Crazy Elephant to remind me of the fashions and dancing of the late 60's and early 70's.


So I started thinking about another band from that time period Elephant's Memory, who also backed up John Lennon from time to time. This tune Mongoose- Elephant's Memory has been one of my favorites for a long time.

Mongoose are not immune to venom, some species attack and kill poisonous snakes by cracking the skull with a powerful bite.

Mongooses is the plural according to various dictionary sources although we  want to say mongeese .


I wasn't in a mood to chat about guns, Boston bombings, etc.

10/20/13

Vapor's  spirited sunday morning oldie: I got a line on you-Spirit

12/14/13

just to irk any sensitive readers   Fat Man- Jethro Tull

6/26/14

An  ornery tune  nEIGHBORS-jonathan richman

9/14/14

War everywhere on the planet but I'll  revisit

11/19/14

felt like re-visiting the song Mongoose  "As the cobra turned its head, Mongoose caught it"

9/5/15

A passage in James Lee Burke's Light on the World about a wolf  sizing up horses  took me back to some of these song titles.

7/10/16

Historical reminder: thx Tragically Hip for covering it and bringing it to my attention since I misssed the original by Gordon Lightfoot released when I was a tyke. Take it any way you want. black day in july

8/5/16

I came across the phrase "drinking canned heat",  a nasty  "alcoholic beverage" made from straining alcohol from Sterno, while reading  Ghostheart  by RJ Ellory.  Wonder if this was the source of this 1960's blues band's name. canned heat- going up the country

1/7/17

Goodbye Big toke (harvey), thanks for the  mid 1960' tune reminders

2/10/18

Viewing the headlines and thinking about the song #mongoose . It's time for a re-spin

5/25/18

Hey #bobseger please re-work  "Get out of Denver" to #Seattle. cuz  the tax crazy city "looks just like a commie"
get out of denver

6/30/18

" As the cobra turned its head Mongoose caught it." short lines from "Mongoose" by Elephant's Memory

8/3/19

Re-visiting Gordon Lightfoot's  Sundown

aug 19, 2019

RIP larry "the mole" taylor of Canned Heat

march 28, 2020

  Re-spinning tune Mongoose and noting that mongoose can get sick or die from a cobra bite, but they make a glycoprotein that binds to the protein in the venom so a moderate amount of snake venom won't hurt them.

June 12, 2021

Ever felt like this?  "Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up"         Locked in the trunk    

May14, 2022

Enjoying the fat food police getting upset that Great Britain will delay by a year new rules banning multi-buy deals on foods and drinks high in fat, salt, or sugar.  So I'll re-spin "Fat Man" by Jethro Tull. Yes, I"m aware  that Ian Anderson says I'd rather be a thin man in the tune.

June 25, 2022

While editing a short story about the 1980s in Bmore, I came upon this “corina, corina, an old blues tune that Steppenwolf covered in 1968. corina corina