There was a folk singer just outside of Detroit, in the 60's by the name of Ron Coden, who did a more dramatic and powerful version of this song/poem. Phil's version is wonderful but Ron's is very emotionally provoking.
Have not seen a Phil Ochs post.. use to like his music a great deal *)o(* Listen to his version of the HIGHWAY MAN.. it is a poem by
Alfred Noyes.. the poem is fantastic much better then the tune but my Mom use to read me that poem as a bedtime story when I was really young and it still brings back great memories of her.. Just wanted to share that.. you can google the poem read it as it is much stronger then the tune but PHIL is the only one I know that did a musical version *)o(*
@singray7 - Phil detested liberals. He was a co-founder of YIPPIE, the Youth International Party. Listen to his song, "Love me I'm a Liberal." Peace, BluzCat
Billy Bragg and Tom Morello are probably the closes thing we have today to Phil Ochs. His demons got the better of him in the end, but what a ride it was.
I am old now and understand what as a youth I only wantonly felt. Yes I still believe. Follow your hearts young people, listen to the songs, dream our dreams, make them real, There are mistakes..make them and continue. Life is a journey and your map is for YOU to chart.
@cassandra4146 I think there is a very good reason my public education was so poor when compared to that of my parents. The power brokers know that a well educated young person is much more difficult to ship off to war, harder to lie to and take advantage of. Your generation was empowered with good education paid for by the fruits of a booming economy and rich that were taxed at a decent rate. Not so with the younger generations....schools produce workers and soldiers now.
@naruhinarulez I'm 17 and I cry. Partly because I look at that generation and see all the spirit and creative compassion in it, then look at ours and see nothing. I cried all through the last chaper of "On the Road" by Kerouac.
@Directx45000 Well I feel slightly better that I am not the only one...I cry because I wonder where all that spirit and compassion went and if it is possible to ever get it back...also because of how the majority of our generation has just stop believing in it
girlfriend and I 'borrowed' her parents car to drive from NY to Philadelphia to see Phil. Not enough $ to get home we picked up a hitchhicker from Ft Dix in New Jersey. We fought off the unwanted attentions for gas money. We were so naive. So naive....
Thank you so much for posting this! I learned the song from a friend over 30 years ago, but I never knew where she'd learned it (the music, not the poem). Imagine my elation to find this today and to finally know the source of this wonderful melody! :-)))
This was actually a very early song from his coffee-house days, of which many recordings survive. His performance was better then, but think of his output in the approximately four years between. Miss me some Ochs...
Phil Ochs sang "The Highwayman" at a 1970 benefit concert in Vancouver (now dubbed the "Amchitka Concert"). He opened the show, which also featured James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, and literally launched Greenpeace. Unfortunately that song didn't end up on the Greenpeace Amchitka Concert CD for technical reasons, but eight others he sang did, including the haunting version of "No More Songs" that closes Kenneth Bowser's fascinating documentary, "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune".
He died.....about twenty years before I was born. Yesterday I saw a documentary about the man. "There but for Fortune." He is missed. We need his voice in this world.
@friend839 I was at that concert. He was absolutly amazing!!! i was soaked through to the skin,i told my daughter about that concert,she,s a phil ochs fan,but i could,nt find the concert in the list of his c0ncerts,now i know where it was,thanks a lot
For just a moment I was 16 again, and it was was 1964. Sitting front and center at the Gaslight on MacDougal Street nursing the hot apple cider I bought for my two drink minimum.
Thank you Phil, Thank you Gaslight, and thank you antiprocon!
I'd like someone with Phil's balls to be our president. Someone who was willing to tell the truth, fight the good fight, and let the pieces fall where they may. Someone with a feeling for mankind, a liberal to silence the big bad wolves and preach peace instead of war... unity, love, need and desire. End capitalism and destroy the republican party... let it be!
@ourglasslake The term "liberal" in the 1960's had a bit of a different meaning than it does today. As you can tell from the song, they were somewhat more right wing than what we might consider to be progressive liberals today. Phil self-identified as a Social Democrat, but in ''68 he supported Democratic candidate Gene McCarthy, although he changed his support to Robert Kennedy shortly before Kennedy's murder, perhaps as a result of a chance meeting with him on a plane.
@ourglasslake No, he despised fake liberals. Did you just look at the song title? The lyrics tell the real story. He is making fun of liberals who are only liberals when it suits them. They don't have any stake in the ideas, and when it comes down to it, they'd abandon their ideals if a better opportunity came up.
@ourglasslake He didn't despise liberals you didn't get it. He despised go along and get along mainstream liberalism, which is really moderatism, support for the main stream by only supporting those causes which are safely liberal. Phil wished liberals would actually be liberal. He wasn't calling out liberalism, he was calling out poseurs.
@singray7 Generally you're never going to see someone as strong in non mainstream belief be president. It sucks we can't have Phil Ochs for president...but its the same reason Rick Santorum has no chance to be president. balances out I think. Which is why its so hilarious when liberal thought Obama was going to ride into Washington like a knight; and conservatives think he's some radical...if either were true he would never have become president.
One of my favorite singers and songwriters of all time. His lyrics are better than Noyes .. by a little bit and Noyes couldn't sing and play like Phil. OK, I don't know for sure. Not in any order: Phil Ochs. Neil Young 66 to 1980. Paul Westerberg of The Replacements. John Lennon with the Beatles (not solo). Those 4 are on my Mount Rushmore. Forget Cleveland's Hall of Fame. Phil was against bombing but he would OK bombing Cleveland's Hall of Fame if no one is in the building ..I'm sure.
Interesting how Phil never opted for the long hair. He had the Elvis flip and the radical sensibility.
What I liked most about Phil was his ability to spot the hypocrisy within his own circles. I own all of Phil's songs.
I disagree with most of what he stood for, but it was his sense of individuality in songs like "Time Was" that appeal to the libertarian in me. Great songwriter.
If I could have him over for dinner and play guitar, I would in a heart beat.
Got his recording of this years ago, and still makes me weep for a long time even after it's over...for a while I took to plaiting a dark red love knot into my own long dark hair, but nobody ever got it...I met him in the Chicago trainwreck--tear gas really doesn't make a good ambiance for...uh, well, for anything, not for anything...We'd carry Vaseline, bandanas, wet cloth in a plastic bag, erecting again our useless talismans against our doom...
@jaundicedi I'm an old hippie/yippie chick--only lately it's kinda been looking like I may have "stayed too long at the fair"--nobody much left to not remember the 60's with me! My friends & lovers, real people, now seem reduced to some footnote in Fairytale Land. See what happens? Lose track for a decade or 3, and the world's changed! Did we do any good at all, or just irritate the system enough to make things worse yet? Oops! Sorry! A little edgy, but I did earn it! Hahaha! Thanks 4 yer post!
@ohyppest1 Your words toughed me and reminded me of a great song from one great poet of our time back then. In the song, Both Sides Now, Joni wrote: "I've looked at life from both sides now, from up and down and still somehow, It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all." Keep the faith!
@ohyppest1 Your words touched me and reminded me of a great song from one great poet of our time back then. In the song, Both Sides Now, Joni wrote: "I've looked at life from both sides now, from up and down and still somehow, It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all." Keep the faith!
Wow. This is by far the best poem ever, and I absolutely adore Phil Ochs. Great childhood memory listening to this song, OFTEN. We are missing great icons like Phil & Johnny Cash in our society! Beautiful.
@thegnomeidentity - The lyrics are the same as the poem except that he substituted Trudeau's Men for King George's Men. After the show, I asked him what's with Phil Ochs Greatest Hits. He said he's going back to his roots.
I saw him once or twice at the Riverboat too and my friend saw him at Massey Hall in '65. Then, about 3 yrs ago we saw that young guy from Vancouver do a one-man play about Phil Ochs. It was fantastic.
I'll come to thee by moonlight...I came back on here just to listen to Phil - thanks to You Tube. I know Dylan must come on here to listen to his old friends.
Phil had more influence on 1960's folk music that anyone else. He even had a nice voice, if you get my meaning!!!! There will always be some of us that will never forget! We miss you! Thank you for the time you gave us!
I did some folk singing in my youth & always liked/admired him. Wish he was still around today to help us make some sense of this often confusing world.
Great song Phil. Celia is coming to free you from your prison cell. Man you are handsome. Phil , I know your dead, but can you get someone to put up some of your really great songs that need to be heard.
Admittedly it was odd, but years ago when my kids were little this was one of their favorite bedtime songs that I'd sing to them. It was a captivating story with memorable musical hooks. To this day I miss Phil Ochs and his intelligence, passion and compassion.
Phil Ochs was the greatest. I had the privilege of seeing him sing live back in the late 1960s/early 70s. I always preferred him to Dylan. I did a bit of folk singing myself and Phil was definitely my hero and inspiration. He is sadly missed.
Phil Ochs fans, help me out. Does anyone have an extra $150.00 if so you could get the DVD footage of Phil Ochs with his backup rock band. It's a dream to see Phil's 3 David Frost episodes, and his 1 Mike Douglas show. If you have the spare cash to buy one episode, please email me. They're for sale from the people who have the shows films. They'll put any episode on DVD. Live footage of Phil playing Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends, and Elvis/Buddy Holly Melodies with a rock band!
We had a local folksinger in a suburb of Detroit (back in the 60's) who sang this song. His name is Ron Coden, who sang at the "Raven Gallery." Ron sang with a great deal more emotion, but Phil's voice is quite lovely. Thought I'd never hear this song again. Thanks. 10+ stars!
I first heard Phil Ochs when I was a teenager, just a couple of years after he died. I read comments here by people who saw him performing live and envy them, and wish all the more that Phil had found his way to the other side of the Lonesome Valley and stayed with us for awhile longer.
Phil Ochs must rate among the great of the 60/70's musician/poets. The Highwayman remains one of my favourite PO recordings and this post is the very first time I've ever seen him performing. So, double, double thanks for posting.
Only Phil could hit those sweet notes with such grace and feeling.. what a singer and also a social activist... he give a generation hope and enlightightent in doing so of the some of the youth were informed not to go and shed their blood in foreign fields for old mens imperial dreams... Phil may not have changed the world ...but he changed many peoples view of the world forever.....
Amen to all of that! I consider myself one of the people he changed for the better. Just wish I had seen him in person - I did see many of the singers from that time including dylan, baez, van ronk, patrick sky and many others but somehow I missed Phil to my everlasting regret!
What a talent, and such an amazing voice. Tragic about his demise.
Broblem12 3 weeks ago
phil's biggest problem was phil, he killed himself
iltis1985 1 month ago
There was a folk singer just outside of Detroit, in the 60's by the name of Ron Coden, who did a more dramatic and powerful version of this song/poem. Phil's version is wonderful but Ron's is very emotionally provoking.
jsbach15 1 month ago
Have not seen a Phil Ochs post.. use to like his music a great deal *)o(* Listen to his version of the HIGHWAY MAN.. it is a poem by
Alfred Noyes.. the poem is fantastic much better then the tune but my Mom use to read me that poem as a bedtime story when I was really young and it still brings back great memories of her.. Just wanted to share that.. you can google the poem read it as it is much stronger then the tune but PHIL is the only one I know that did a musical version *)o(*
VOICEofMemphisMusic 2 months ago
@singray7 - Phil detested liberals. He was a co-founder of YIPPIE, the Youth International Party. Listen to his song, "Love me I'm a Liberal." Peace, BluzCat
dadzbluz 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Phil Ochs
Billy Bragg and Tom Morello are probably the closes thing we have today to Phil Ochs. His demons got the better of him in the end, but what a ride it was.
leftys408 2 months ago
a very disturbed man... yet a profound man...
Hamporkcheese 5 months ago
So,
I am old now and understand what as a youth I only wantonly felt. Yes I still believe. Follow your hearts young people, listen to the songs, dream our dreams, make them real, There are mistakes..make them and continue. Life is a journey and your map is for YOU to chart.
cassandra4146 5 months ago
@cassandra4146 I think there is a very good reason my public education was so poor when compared to that of my parents. The power brokers know that a well educated young person is much more difficult to ship off to war, harder to lie to and take advantage of. Your generation was empowered with good education paid for by the fruits of a booming economy and rich that were taxed at a decent rate. Not so with the younger generations....schools produce workers and soldiers now.
:(
BlameRepublicans 5 months ago
@cassandra4146 I will, sister. I will carry that torch. Thanks.
TheMfmccarthy 1 month ago
I keep returning to this.. and it keeps reaching to me..
C
cassandra4146 5 months ago
am i the only 17 year old who cries when they listen to Phil Ochs?
naruhinarulez 6 months ago in playlist Phil Ochs and others
@naruhinarulez I'm 17 and I cry. Partly because I look at that generation and see all the spirit and creative compassion in it, then look at ours and see nothing. I cried all through the last chaper of "On the Road" by Kerouac.
Directx45000 5 months ago
@Directx45000 Well I feel slightly better that I am not the only one...I cry because I wonder where all that spirit and compassion went and if it is possible to ever get it back...also because of how the majority of our generation has just stop believing in it
naruhinarulez 5 months ago
@naruhinarulez
I know a 67 year old who still does .....
soucyhj 2 months ago
Phi possessed such a powerful yet sweet voice... One of a kind... such an Amazing Talent.
OMGDeBest 6 months ago
he was better than dylan
zobielamouche1 6 months ago 2
@zobielamouche1 more courageos
zobielamouche1 6 months ago
Phil was a regular player at the GASLIGHT in Greenwich Village.
Thanks
We miss you
cassandra4146 6 months ago
an old memory...
girlfriend and I 'borrowed' her parents car to drive from NY to Philadelphia to see Phil. Not enough $ to get home we picked up a hitchhicker from Ft Dix in New Jersey. We fought off the unwanted attentions for gas money. We were so naive. So naive....
Thank you Phil.
cassandra4146 6 months ago in playlist Phil Ochs
Thank you so much for posting this! I learned the song from a friend over 30 years ago, but I never knew where she'd learned it (the music, not the poem). Imagine my elation to find this today and to finally know the source of this wonderful melody! :-)))
cinrit 7 months ago
This was actually a very early song from his coffee-house days, of which many recordings survive. His performance was better then, but think of his output in the approximately four years between. Miss me some Ochs...
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loved what he could do with words but we Don't need anymore communists destroying America.
paragtime 9 months ago
@paragtime Maybe you would like to learn a bit about Phil Ochs before you start attaching political labels to him or anyone else.
funnybleh 8 months ago 2
Phil Ochs sang "The Highwayman" at a 1970 benefit concert in Vancouver (now dubbed the "Amchitka Concert"). He opened the show, which also featured James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, and literally launched Greenpeace. Unfortunately that song didn't end up on the Greenpeace Amchitka Concert CD for technical reasons, but eight others he sang did, including the haunting version of "No More Songs" that closes Kenneth Bowser's fascinating documentary, "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune".
builtinbc9 9 months ago
He died.....about twenty years before I was born. Yesterday I saw a documentary about the man. "There but for Fortune." He is missed. We need his voice in this world.
kb866825 10 months ago
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I was blessed to see him live once in England back in 1966 (?) at the Beaulieu Folk Festival. Great time but awful rain!
friend839 10 months ago
I was blessed to see him live once in England back in 1966 (?) at the Beaulieu Folk Festival. Great time but awful rain!
friend839 10 months ago
@friend839 I was at that concert. He was absolutly amazing!!! i was soaked through to the skin,i told my daughter about that concert,she,s a phil ochs fan,but i could,nt find the concert in the list of his c0ncerts,now i know where it was,thanks a lot
MrPaddyburke 8 months ago
beautiful
balocha 11 months ago
the best
MrVampiredog 11 months ago
Phil Ochs, I miss you.
lesfromnj 1 year ago 3
Oh, thank you.
For just a moment I was 16 again, and it was was 1964. Sitting front and center at the Gaslight on MacDougal Street nursing the hot apple cider I bought for my two drink minimum.
Thank you Phil, Thank you Gaslight, and thank you antiprocon!
DLMinton 1 year ago 12
@DLMinton you lucky person.
bobwaits 11 months ago
I'd like someone with Phil's balls to be our president. Someone who was willing to tell the truth, fight the good fight, and let the pieces fall where they may. Someone with a feeling for mankind, a liberal to silence the big bad wolves and preach peace instead of war... unity, love, need and desire. End capitalism and destroy the republican party... let it be!
singray7 1 year ago 13
@singray7 Phil Ochs despised liberals, friend. Check out his song "Love Me - I'm a Liberal".
ourglasslake 2 months ago
@ourglasslake The term "liberal" in the 1960's had a bit of a different meaning than it does today. As you can tell from the song, they were somewhat more right wing than what we might consider to be progressive liberals today. Phil self-identified as a Social Democrat, but in ''68 he supported Democratic candidate Gene McCarthy, although he changed his support to Robert Kennedy shortly before Kennedy's murder, perhaps as a result of a chance meeting with him on a plane.
robertemmet321 1 month ago
@ourglasslake No, he despised fake liberals. Did you just look at the song title? The lyrics tell the real story. He is making fun of liberals who are only liberals when it suits them. They don't have any stake in the ideas, and when it comes down to it, they'd abandon their ideals if a better opportunity came up.
RidingHellforLeather 4 weeks ago
@ourglasslake He didn't despise liberals you didn't get it. He despised go along and get along mainstream liberalism, which is really moderatism, support for the main stream by only supporting those causes which are safely liberal. Phil wished liberals would actually be liberal. He wasn't calling out liberalism, he was calling out poseurs.
Twistednerver 2 weeks ago
@singray7 Generally you're never going to see someone as strong in non mainstream belief be president. It sucks we can't have Phil Ochs for president...but its the same reason Rick Santorum has no chance to be president. balances out I think. Which is why its so hilarious when liberal thought Obama was going to ride into Washington like a knight; and conservatives think he's some radical...if either were true he would never have become president.
Twistednerver 2 weeks ago
One of my favorite singers and songwriters of all time. His lyrics are better than Noyes .. by a little bit and Noyes couldn't sing and play like Phil. OK, I don't know for sure. Not in any order: Phil Ochs. Neil Young 66 to 1980. Paul Westerberg of The Replacements. John Lennon with the Beatles (not solo). Those 4 are on my Mount Rushmore. Forget Cleveland's Hall of Fame. Phil was against bombing but he would OK bombing Cleveland's Hall of Fame if no one is in the building ..I'm sure.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
Interesting how Phil never opted for the long hair. He had the Elvis flip and the radical sensibility.
What I liked most about Phil was his ability to spot the hypocrisy within his own circles. I own all of Phil's songs.
I disagree with most of what he stood for, but it was his sense of individuality in songs like "Time Was" that appeal to the libertarian in me. Great songwriter.
If I could have him over for dinner and play guitar, I would in a heart beat.
pitbull103 1 year ago
I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night, alive as you and me. Says I to Phil "You're 40 years dead,"
"I never died," says he.
cloudbroken 1 year ago 5
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elzona 1 year ago
My favorite singer/songwriter of all time. Phil, all of your loyal fans miss you today, now, more than ever!!!
mandernu 1 year ago 2
Got his recording of this years ago, and still makes me weep for a long time even after it's over...for a while I took to plaiting a dark red love knot into my own long dark hair, but nobody ever got it...I met him in the Chicago trainwreck--tear gas really doesn't make a good ambiance for...uh, well, for anything, not for anything...We'd carry Vaseline, bandanas, wet cloth in a plastic bag, erecting again our useless talismans against our doom...
ohyppest1 1 year ago 2
@ohyppest1 " erecting again our useless talismans against our doom..." very nice phrase that.
jaundicedi 1 year ago
@jaundicedi I'm an old hippie/yippie chick--only lately it's kinda been looking like I may have "stayed too long at the fair"--nobody much left to not remember the 60's with me! My friends & lovers, real people, now seem reduced to some footnote in Fairytale Land. See what happens? Lose track for a decade or 3, and the world's changed! Did we do any good at all, or just irritate the system enough to make things worse yet? Oops! Sorry! A little edgy, but I did earn it! Hahaha! Thanks 4 yer post!
ohyppest1 1 year ago
@ohyppest1 Your words toughed me and reminded me of a great song from one great poet of our time back then. In the song, Both Sides Now, Joni wrote: "I've looked at life from both sides now, from up and down and still somehow, It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all." Keep the faith!
70076NUD 1 year ago
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@ohyppest1 Your words touched me and reminded me of a great song from one great poet of our time back then. In the song, Both Sides Now, Joni wrote: "I've looked at life from both sides now, from up and down and still somehow, It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all." Keep the faith!
70076NUD 1 year ago
Fantastic to find this on Youtube! Be sure to turn it up to catch Phil's guitar part - it adds to the urgency and drama of the lyric.
I was fortunate enough to meed Phil when I was 17 and to have a long conversation with him - he gave me excellent advice and changed my life.
cellokenno 1 year ago 5
THIS IS THE BEST VERSION
MrVampiredog 1 year ago
I just heard this song in school today, and I love it now. Too bad he's gone. You'll be missed Phil!
sslundgren 1 year ago
Wow. This is by far the best poem ever, and I absolutely adore Phil Ochs. Great childhood memory listening to this song, OFTEN. We are missing great icons like Phil & Johnny Cash in our society! Beautiful.
joyfulvoice2 1 year ago
Loreena McKennit created a much better melody, and setting, for this poem.
lundehund44 1 year ago
I saw him sing this at Scarborough College during the October Crisis and he sang it as "Trudeau's men came marching".
He wanted to stop the concert for awhile and have a political discussion which would have been fun but the organizers said no.
canadianheadhunter 1 year ago 2
@canadianheadhunter wow that gives me a chill does a bootleg exist, or even the lyrics?
thegnomeidentity 1 year ago
@thegnomeidentity - The lyrics are the same as the poem except that he substituted Trudeau's Men for King George's Men. After the show, I asked him what's with Phil Ochs Greatest Hits. He said he's going back to his roots.
I saw him once or twice at the Riverboat too and my friend saw him at Massey Hall in '65. Then, about 3 yrs ago we saw that young guy from Vancouver do a one-man play about Phil Ochs. It was fantastic.
canadianheadhunter 1 year ago
Oh my..I can see him now. How lucky we were, tho little we knew it then how short a time he'd be with us.
leeward46 1 year ago
I'll come to thee by moonlight...I came back on here just to listen to Phil - thanks to You Tube. I know Dylan must come on here to listen to his old friends.
margarita6022 1 year ago
Phil had more influence on 1960's folk music that anyone else. He even had a nice voice, if you get my meaning!!!! There will always be some of us that will never forget! We miss you! Thank you for the time you gave us!
disconcertedd 1 year ago
Phil, you were one of a kind...
thanks for the Gaslight and the Second Fret
leeward46 1 year ago
I did some folk singing in my youth & always liked/admired him. Wish he was still around today to help us make some sense of this often confusing world.
markt133 1 year ago
caralho q da hora...
bucktkd 1 year ago
A poet with a guitar, never heard him when he was alive :(
dottslash 1 year ago
Great song Phil. Celia is coming to free you from your prison cell. Man you are handsome. Phil , I know your dead, but can you get someone to put up some of your really great songs that need to be heard.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
Admittedly it was odd, but years ago when my kids were little this was one of their favorite bedtime songs that I'd sing to them. It was a captivating story with memorable musical hooks. To this day I miss Phil Ochs and his intelligence, passion and compassion.
argylesox 1 year ago
Phil Ochs was the greatest. I had the privilege of seeing him sing live back in the late 1960s/early 70s. I always preferred him to Dylan. I did a bit of folk singing myself and Phil was definitely my hero and inspiration. He is sadly missed.
dlobron 1 year ago
Phil Ochs is eternal.
bonjourdadou 2 years ago 3
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Phil Ochs fans, help me out. Does anyone have an extra $150.00 if so you could get the DVD footage of Phil Ochs with his backup rock band. It's a dream to see Phil's 3 David Frost episodes, and his 1 Mike Douglas show. If you have the spare cash to buy one episode, please email me. They're for sale from the people who have the shows films. They'll put any episode on DVD. Live footage of Phil playing Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends, and Elvis/Buddy Holly Melodies with a rock band!
philochs 2 years ago
@philochs
Could you give me a little more information? Is everything you mention on the DVD? Do you have any footage of Phil alone?
ohyppest1 1 year ago
We had a local folksinger in a suburb of Detroit (back in the 60's) who sang this song. His name is Ron Coden, who sang at the "Raven Gallery." Ron sang with a great deal more emotion, but Phil's voice is quite lovely. Thought I'd never hear this song again. Thanks. 10+ stars!
jsbach15 2 years ago 2
Love You Phil.
RobRogers1968 2 years ago 3
This song ends the first side of Phil's brilliant album "I ain't marching any more". He credits Alfred Noyes as the poet in the liner notes.
7677876 2 years ago
i have been looking for this version for the longest.
fabooluzz 2 years ago
I first heard Phil Ochs when I was a teenager, just a couple of years after he died. I read comments here by people who saw him performing live and envy them, and wish all the more that Phil had found his way to the other side of the Lonesome Valley and stayed with us for awhile longer.
doctorpsycho1960 2 years ago 3
Albert, are you out there. Remember Phil and his gold jacket at the Electric Company. BC
slowpokecat 2 years ago
Phil Ochs must rate among the great of the 60/70's musician/poets. The Highwayman remains one of my favourite PO recordings and this post is the very first time I've ever seen him performing. So, double, double thanks for posting.
dalesman4 2 years ago 4
Thanks for this footage!
discussislam 2 years ago 4
After thirty years we still miss him, and we need him more than ever.
pedonbio 2 years ago 54
Phil Ochs is greatly missed. Words by Sir Alfred Noyes. This is beauty in every sense of the word.
margarita6022 2 years ago 32
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malachy1847 2 years ago
I thought it was Noyes - guess I'll have to google it. Anyway, we know for sure it's Phil Ochs right?
margarita6022 2 years ago
Only Phil could hit those sweet notes with such grace and feeling.. what a singer and also a social activist... he give a generation hope and enlightightent in doing so of the some of the youth were informed not to go and shed their blood in foreign fields for old mens imperial dreams... Phil may not have changed the world ...but he changed many peoples view of the world forever.....
malachy1847 2 years ago 5
Amen to all of that! I consider myself one of the people he changed for the better. Just wish I had seen him in person - I did see many of the singers from that time including dylan, baez, van ronk, patrick sky and many others but somehow I missed Phil to my everlasting regret!
margarita6022 2 years ago 3
@margarita6022
Noyes, yes
ohyppest1 1 year ago
No it was a poem by Alfred Noyes
IrishandFolkmusic 2 years ago 3
@IrishandFolkmusic Your right ... wish i was around as a young man to see Phil in concert....
malachy1847 1 year ago
@malachy1847
No, it was Noyes--
ohyppest1 1 year ago
I don't know how you found this, but thank you so much!
jnf91 2 years ago 7
Hey Phil...
You were the best,,,,,,
Carol and Sue
leeward46 2 years ago 4
A beautiful interpretation of a beautiful song from a special talent. Thanks for letting us share in this.
scottishcalv 2 years ago 2
très beau!
gerardvallerey 2 years ago 2
such a beautiful revision of the original poem, not many songwriters like this guy - now or ever. even dylan said he could never touch ochs.
ecracker44 2 years ago 4
Fabulous. I teach this in my poetry unit with my 7th graders. They love it. Loreena Mc Kinnett does a marvelous job with this as well.
Thanks for posting this.
TragicIndeed 2 years ago 2