This is so unique and so a part of a time that will never be again. I'm so glad I experienced this all when it was new and happening. I almost feel sorry for this generation for what they have missed, but they don't care anyway, so my sympathy stays within, resting, waiting for a generation worthy of it.
sweet...sweet...sweet... sounding sentiments... yes, the wind is my love... who knows the wind... who knows my love... where blows the wind... the wind is my love...
Great tune, long submerged in my subconscious. Thanks for posting this. I loved jazz even before I knew I did, thanks to the beauty and mystery of this song--and the fact that something like this could actually get serious airplay in a much more creative era.
Such a haunting melody. They used to play this on WABX in Detroit when i was a kid.I loved it then, and i love it now. It was one of the first "jazz" songs i heard. Makes me realize there's only so many years left. Where did all the time go?
This song transcends the Sixties... it's Timeless. I heard it ONCE in the seventies and it took me 20 years to find it again. Never forgot that melody. Epic Jazz Poem.
I can still hear Scot Muni playing this almost every evening ... and it makes me think of the hours we spent listening to the (your words are priceless) "glory days of WNEW-FM." And Alison Steele playing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida each night around 10:15.
@1946don - I remember alison steele playing it too on WNEW. those were the days they could play what they wanted - not what the advertisers wanted. It's a beautiful song. Can't believe it was 1967
@misspyefinch - Since my musical interest stops in the mid to late 70's, 1967 is only about ten years ago. :) Seriously though, songs like this i.e. White Bird (It's a Beautiful Day), Flute Thing (Blues Project), You Set the Scene (Love) etc etc ... they just don't make 'em like that anymore.
@1946don Man, you mentioned every song that brings back the WNEW-FM/late 1960's early 1970's days back to me in every detail. I love all those songs. All unique, all with an atmosphere of their own. Great days in music. What happened????
I agree ... 'what happened????' My I-pod Nano has the same songs on it now that I would have loaded onto it 40 years ago. If I had a nickel for everytime I've listened to Mixed Bag, In Search of the Lost Chord, Child is Father to the Man, Highway 61 ... do I need to go on?
Well said - I like to tease my wife sometimes saying that while she was in the back seat of some guys car listening to "Yummy, yummy, yummy" I was in so and so's basement, playing Disreali Gears and Surrealistic Pillow.
@1946don I'm here with you all on this one, I graduated HS in 69 and always loved when this tune would come on NEW with Scott, Allison , Dennis Elsis etc, etc..... Just found this after doing some searching and how great to hear it again.... Wow
Finding songs on YouTube is an excellent passtime. Sometimes I can spend two or three hours in YouTube going from memory to memory. Then toggle over to I-Tunes and buy 'em. Ain't technology great?
Wow. For some reason this song popped into my head tonight. First time I've heard it in 40+ years. (I still have the vinyl version somewhere.) Delicious.
Such special memories. I was the Electric Circus, Fillmore East, etc, etc, Allison Steele, Symphony Syd. I feel very fortunate to have lived through those years. Only we can understand what that means. Good stuff!
When I started working in the Light Show at The Electric Circus on St. Marks Place in NYC Circus Maximus was the house band. They played a lot and I was there like eight nights a week all night. ('67). Jerry Jeff in it and Gary White, the bass player. There were other great songs, one about things they like. I think Gary wrote that. It was an exciting time with all kinds of emerging talent flying around the Village.
The world is a better place because of WNEW-FM and the DJ's that shaped my musical heritage from then right till now and Meg on Sirius...this is one of favorite songs and one of the first songs I searched for in the Napster days. Salute to Jerry Jeff!
Oh so beautiful, this song. Jerry Jeff Walker's first band if I remember correctly. WKNR, Detroit was my station. It takes me back to early summer mornings, a humid breeze just before the rain. and someone special who loved me, and I loved in return. Haunting melody.
WNEW-FM (specifically Pete Fornatale) played this song during his various air shifts plus the other songs from this album- it was due to this airplay I became a big fan of this song & the entire album- its in my IPOD & I play it often I never get tired of playing over & over- it is a great song!!!
Great Scott !! I have not heard this song in decades !!!! They used to play this rock classic on radio station WNEW-FM in New York City ! We don't have music like this much anymore. We don't have radio stations as WNEW-FM anymore, at least not here in the big apple. Tonight for some reason I suddenly thought of this song and sure enough, YOU TUBE had it !!!! Thankyou Zoodden !!!!
in the very early '70s WAAF out of Framingham had this in heavy rotation. The Vanguard vinyl cost a fortune used, but since there was a specific time and day 'AAF always played it -- someone will remember -- everyone had an off-the-air cassette version.
Hadn't heard this in thirty years -- an instant time machine. Made me want to drive in the dark uo and down Rt 9, past Spag's and White City, over the hills to Shoppers' World....
This song stirs up sad memories of a chaotic childhood. I think this song gave me hope. Absolutely loved it back then and definitely now!! So glad I found it again.. Sheila
Thank you SO much for posting this audio. I googled it a year ago and purchased the CD and listen to it often while driving in my car, and it never ceases to amaze me and take me to that place of wonder and bliss. My favorite song of all time. I remember hearing it on FM way back in the day and it just stopped me in my tracks.
This hidden gem always rests in the back of my mind. A piece of the soundtrack of my life. Days of youth and unfettered happiness. The youngest of four watching the world unfold before him. Parents still young and hip, unmarked by time unvisited by tragedy. Guiding and gliding us along the road of life. The table always set for fun. Sounds of Miles, Monk and Ella float in the air, Sunday mornings stretched out forever in the light of the sun. The wind was our love..
@jivetalkin03 I love whar you said. The Wind to me was New York City in the late Sixties. What an amazing time in history...hair, music, fashion , politics....revolution, ..anachy....Viet Nam War.. Life has been incredibly dull by comparison....pretentious people....pretentious lives....reality shows...annoying cell phones...no innovation in films...music...everything has deteriorated.....oh for the amazing sweet innocent exciting passionate summer of 1969 again!!!!!!!
@jivetalkin03 So beautifully said., and I can fully relate. What a time this was. A unique, very special, one of exploration, freedom, extreme political upheaval. The very pure, less electronic, sound of the amazing, innovative Sixties easily lulled us into revelation and wonder and marvelous creativity. Too bad the future turned out to be such an uncreative flat line.....
Thanks SO MUCH for posting this gem. Truly one of a handful of songs that showed the potential of late-60's alternative music to meld various styles and elements of music. Up to now, my only copy had been a reel to reel recording made from radio airplay on WNEW-FM [NYC] in early 1970. And yes, the DJ was Allison Steele, The Nightbird.
This song was one of the favorites of the REAL underground FM radio stations in the late sixties. And a year or two in the 70's. FM stations like KSAN in San Francisco and KZAP in Sacramento and KMET in Los Angeles. When the stations were bought out in the early seventies by the corporations....they all pretended there was no such thing as underground music. Sad. A great loss.
Admittedly, I'm here because I kept stumbling across this Circus Maximus while I was looking for stuff from the Norweigian Circus Maximus, and knowing that this Circus Maximus is prog as well, I finally caved in and decided to give them a listen.
Listen to Hansel and Gretel by Circus Max.. Jerry Jeff wrote and sang....Listen to the piano and the drums in background.....Paints a mental picture of the lyrics...Both are wonderful songs
This song has a repeating drum track:ultimate restrane,perfect! while jazz piano,and guitar support great lyrics.They were ahead of time.Still sounds perfect today.What ever happened to the music scene today?It takes guts to put out music you love,in spite of so much media oriented values of success.
the jazzy chords in this just blew me away at the time, it was a staple of late 60s FM radio, don't think I ever heard any other track on the LP. It still holds up well. . .
When I first heard this in '67 Jerry Jeff Walker was still a year away from his great success with "Mr. Bojangles." So Circus Maximus was a prominent band before Jerry ever made it because of this one brilliant tune. You'll see Bob Bruno himself has posted here. He's the genius who wrote this and formed Circus Maximus. Bob's easy to contact via e-mail, seems like a really nice man and is delighted to respond to those of us who truly admire this work.
@annaLaPointehis name was Dave Dixon (RIP Dave) turned me on to this when I was 13 and it was cold winter nights on WABX 99.5 FM a few years prior to his last job at WDET...
Great song. Haven't heard it since the late sixties. Always thought Jimmy Page may have borrowed some of it for his "Stairway to Heaven". Also reminiscent of Greg Lake, Emerson Lake and Palmer's "From The Beginning". Anybody else hear the similarities? Are those solos in Dorian mode? Gary I.
Funny u all are mentioning the Nightbird. I remember Scott Muni playing this nearly every Friday afternoon when I got home from school!!!! How wonderful to have it here, thanks!
I forgot all about this song until I was running a search for WNEW-FM. The "NightBird's" program was wonderful to listen to during those late hours. I can remember drifting off to this song. What a phenomenal time that was.
hard to believe this song is almost 40 years old,still has the same magic ,great vibe ,another spring,full circle,music that defies time and style ....one of my alltime favorites..thankyou Circus Maximus ,from a fellow Vanguard artist,Mario
Pete Rienschmidt is the dude in the lower left. I used to work for him as a sign painter's apprentice. I knew him for at least 5 years before he broke out his guitar one night and played and told me he used to be in this band. I was astounded.
Loved all the comments. Such good memories of a great era. "Come, fly with me" and we did. And then there are some Blues Project vids. Man, I'll be up half the night listening, and the other half remembering. Then I'll have to dust off some LP's and start the morning right! Thanks!!!!!!!!
@kennykenny5 There will never be that most amazing of innovation in fashion...music.. films ...rock and jazz time again........people were real and life was so incredibly sweet and exciting...now everything is boringly predictable, electronic, sound board life......so monotonous ...boring.., sad and predictable....
For the zillionth time; that is Bob Bruno on piano, 12 string electric guitar, and vocals.
He also composed the song, played all the solos and was the leader of Circus Maximus.
That's him in the center of the LP cover. The reason this still holds up is because Bob is a jazz musician who plays valve brass instruments, upright bass and organ , in addition to all the instruments he plays on this song.
I've exchanged emails with him several times- a great musician and human being.
I grew up in North jersey and first heard this around 1971 on NYC FM radio station 102.5..Allison Steele, "The Nightbird" and Jonathan Schwartz..does anyone remember that era??
whoops..just scrolled down thru the comments and saw how many remember the era of great NYC radio..I even remember Murray the K...hey..anyone remember dude that read The Giving tree every night on WNEW???
Oh yeah, and long live WBCN...the Rock of Boston for so many years. Sorry to say: Talk Rock Ruined 'BCN!
Screw you Howard, is see how your career is going. You got the money screw everyone who was on your side all the bad years.
Anthony and whoever, bite the evil nail, and Doucher and Bitch...you all screwed Boston rock. All you a-holes played was crap from 10-20 years. Where is the new Rock d-bags? WhereTF is it? You'll never know because you weren't looking bitches!
I think it was a overnight chick DJ on that night. I called and was wondering about this music. She said that "BCN got the tape form some SF area radio.
I've always love this, even with the either intentional or unintentional pitching on the keys.
Ironically I first heard this song on the same radio station in San Jose....one of the first FM stations in the Bay Area. I loved it then and still do 40 yrs later!!
Been lookin' for this one 40 years. ITunes won't sell it individuallly, you have to buy the whole album, which, as someone pointed out, ain't worth shit. Didn't know JJWalker was on the band. . .
it's been forever since i heard this song. alwaya a favorite usually when i search i get the heavy metal guys. firt heard it in ny on what was then progressive fm. had the album once a long time ago but this really is the only good song on it.
many times the line "you see a bird as she flys by where it's at and she says where the wind blows" runs through my head all these years later.
What a great song !Thanks for posting ! Actually Bob Bruno, the composer, is on youtube . Try 'robertmbruno' ..... I was pleasantly surprised to find him!
I have not heard this song since 1974...thank you , you tube for letting me hear it again...This song has haunted my memory for many years...I thought I would never hear it again. What lovely music.
Bob is stll making music. He has a couple of youtube videos, including a version of this song played on acoustic guitar. "Neverland" had some nice moments and I think that it was a better album overall than the 1st album, but nothing on "Neverland" was as good as this. Few songs were/are.
this song is genius. great singing and solos. I thought this song would launch Bob Bruno's carerr but things don't always work like that in this businesss even with all his talent.
Every person who wrote a positive comments on this song has great taste! Love this album...it never left my turntable back in the days when great music was everywhere and FM radio was cool!
First heard this on WDHA Dover, NJ in the early 80's. I actually got Alison Steele to play this on WPDH as well. I also love "Travelin' Around" from this album. You'll hear it on the Blacklight Room on XM40 Friday nights at 10 once in awhile.
I'd like to play this song played on an oldies radio station, not a classic rock station. Maybe a shortened version without the long solo. Do any of you think the oldies audience might remember it and enjoy hearing it?
I know a guy who met allison at a party she was wearing leather pants ,she said roscoe made some people angry [what she meant was he was fired when he complained on air that wabcfm was going to pick songs by computer]
I also remember hearing this from Alison Steele as well. I managed to find the album and bought it. It's almost thirty years since I last heard this song. It seems like it was yesterday. It's a great song.
I'm right with you on that one. "The Nightbird" as she was known would more than often put this one on at the top of thehour, to be able to get all of it in. What a voice she had. RIP Alison Steele.
@wygakyl I remember a couple of her standards were John Mayall's 'Room to Move' , Nights in White Satin was a staple ...and Mac's 'Hypnotized' The night she passsed, Vince Skelsa played a tribute to her with Siberry's 'Calling All Angels' (which seems harder to locate on youtube than these earlier tunes)
I'm another one who grew up in/near New York in the late 60's early 70's, (near in my case). I spent many an hour listening to WNEW and Alison Steele. And I remember haring this song a number of times. Great stuff!
This song had been haunting my mind for days - I didn't know the name of the song or who did it. Looked up some lyrics to find out. Ah yes, WBAI, and in those days WNEW-FM - that's where I had heard it and never forgot it. Bizarre the direction Jerry Jeff Walker took after this album.
Heard this on XM the other day. Had almost forgotten how much my band and I loved this in suburban Detroit in the late 60's! Still sounds amazing after 40 years.
This is so unique and so a part of a time that will never be again. I'm so glad I experienced this all when it was new and happening. I almost feel sorry for this generation for what they have missed, but they don't care anyway, so my sympathy stays within, resting, waiting for a generation worthy of it.
psychospeakempire 1 week ago
sweet...sweet...sweet... sounding sentiments... yes, the wind is my love... who knows the wind... who knows my love... where blows the wind... the wind is my love...
RoseMarieRaccioppi 1 week ago
Great tune, long submerged in my subconscious. Thanks for posting this. I loved jazz even before I knew I did, thanks to the beauty and mystery of this song--and the fact that something like this could actually get serious airplay in a much more creative era.
DLJStahl 2 months ago
Goosebumps! I loved this song then and I love it now!
PLWare1 2 months ago
Goosebumps! I loved this song then and I love it now!
PLWare1 2 months ago
Such a haunting melody. They used to play this on WABX in Detroit when i was a kid.I loved it then, and i love it now. It was one of the first "jazz" songs i heard. Makes me realize there's only so many years left. Where did all the time go?
bezzarguy 3 months ago
This was soooo ahead of its time! Mesmerizing and jazzy! They made some great music in 1967!
aalbertnyc 3 months ago
Hard to believe that Jerry Jeff Walker was in this band.
spofcher1 4 months ago
This song transcends the Sixties... it's Timeless. I heard it ONCE in the seventies and it took me 20 years to find it again. Never forgot that melody. Epic Jazz Poem.
JIM2oob 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Circus Maximus
Anyone who remembers the glory days of WNEW-FM in New York City has a very pleasant memory of this song as well.
PR46797 5 months ago
@PR46797
I can still hear Scot Muni playing this almost every evening ... and it makes me think of the hours we spent listening to the (your words are priceless) "glory days of WNEW-FM." And Alison Steele playing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida each night around 10:15.
1946don 4 months ago 4
@1946don - I remember alison steele playing it too on WNEW. those were the days they could play what they wanted - not what the advertisers wanted. It's a beautiful song. Can't believe it was 1967
misspyefinch 3 weeks ago
@misspyefinch - Since my musical interest stops in the mid to late 70's, 1967 is only about ten years ago. :) Seriously though, songs like this i.e. White Bird (It's a Beautiful Day), Flute Thing (Blues Project), You Set the Scene (Love) etc etc ... they just don't make 'em like that anymore.
1946don 2 weeks ago
@1946don Man, you mentioned every song that brings back the WNEW-FM/late 1960's early 1970's days back to me in every detail. I love all those songs. All unique, all with an atmosphere of their own. Great days in music. What happened????
psychospeakempire 1 week ago
@psychospeakempire
I agree ... 'what happened????' My I-pod Nano has the same songs on it now that I would have loaded onto it 40 years ago. If I had a nickel for everytime I've listened to Mixed Bag, In Search of the Lost Chord, Child is Father to the Man, Highway 61 ... do I need to go on?
1946don 6 days ago
@misspyefinch Yes. Wow this is like finding a long lost family here. I love you all. i was there too.
psychospeakempire 1 week ago
@psychospeakempire
Well said - I like to tease my wife sometimes saying that while she was in the back seat of some guys car listening to "Yummy, yummy, yummy" I was in so and so's basement, playing Disreali Gears and Surrealistic Pillow.
1946don 6 days ago
@1946don I'm here with you all on this one, I graduated HS in 69 and always loved when this tune would come on NEW with Scott, Allison , Dennis Elsis etc, etc..... Just found this after doing some searching and how great to hear it again.... Wow
tomwas1 1 week ago
@tomwas1
Finding songs on YouTube is an excellent passtime. Sometimes I can spend two or three hours in YouTube going from memory to memory. Then toggle over to I-Tunes and buy 'em. Ain't technology great?
1946don 6 days ago
Just a terrific blast from the past. Great sound!
joeybug69 5 months ago
talk about reperative behavior being an indicator of senility! But thank you, thank you, thank you for the info...
20092u 5 months ago
This has to be ultraremastered! no way this sound could exist in the 60s. Other than that they sound great!!
Hayacafrita 5 months ago
brings me right back
dukes6868 6 months ago
That's a very touching recollection above.
sgcim 6 months ago
Wow. For some reason this song popped into my head tonight. First time I've heard it in 40+ years. (I still have the vinyl version somewhere.) Delicious.
mjm2615 7 months ago
@mjm2615 I loce your description as Delicious...wasn't it though...sweet, sensual, delicious, amazing?
sohooded 4 months ago
Loved their cover of "Hey, Joe".
rejerce 8 months ago
For the millionth time, you senile hippies, Bob Bruno wrote, sang , and played the piano and guitar solos on this song!!!!!
Check his web sites out- he's still creating!
BTW, did anyone ever see Mel Torme do this song on the TV show "Run For Your Life" in the 60s?
sgcim 8 months ago
@sgcim Get lost...we dont' need your instruction. WE know...
sohooded 4 months ago
A true classic... a rare dusky jewel. It was always on the turntable @ 122 Yorkville circa 1968. I love this...
swamper849 9 months ago
First hear this ripped on acid in the 70's. It possessed me ever since. Never found the vinyl - but in the you tube era you can find anything.
squidface333 9 months ago
Such special memories. I was the Electric Circus, Fillmore East, etc, etc, Allison Steele, Symphony Syd. I feel very fortunate to have lived through those years. Only we can understand what that means. Good stuff!
equinina 9 months ago
When I started working in the Light Show at The Electric Circus on St. Marks Place in NYC Circus Maximus was the house band. They played a lot and I was there like eight nights a week all night. ('67). Jerry Jeff in it and Gary White, the bass player. There were other great songs, one about things they like. I think Gary wrote that. It was an exciting time with all kinds of emerging talent flying around the Village.
wmsward 10 months ago
The world is a better place because of WNEW-FM and the DJ's that shaped my musical heritage from then right till now and Meg on Sirius...this is one of favorite songs and one of the first songs I searched for in the Napster days. Salute to Jerry Jeff!
sronzino 10 months ago
Oh so beautiful, this song. Jerry Jeff Walker's first band if I remember correctly. WKNR, Detroit was my station. It takes me back to early summer mornings, a humid breeze just before the rain. and someone special who loved me, and I loved in return. Haunting melody.
burchtree48 10 months ago
WNEW-FM (specifically Pete Fornatale) played this song during his various air shifts plus the other songs from this album- it was due to this airplay I became a big fan of this song & the entire album- its in my IPOD & I play it often I never get tired of playing over & over- it is a great song!!!
Thanks for posting this song !!!
rjc1060 10 months ago
The cover of this LP freaks me out!
NymphZoic68 10 months ago
wore out my album - played it over and over and over
nhbright 10 months ago
Great Scott !! I have not heard this song in decades !!!! They used to play this rock classic on radio station WNEW-FM in New York City ! We don't have music like this much anymore. We don't have radio stations as WNEW-FM anymore, at least not here in the big apple. Tonight for some reason I suddenly thought of this song and sure enough, YOU TUBE had it !!!! Thankyou Zoodden !!!!
fairnorth 11 months ago
in the very early '70s WAAF out of Framingham had this in heavy rotation. The Vanguard vinyl cost a fortune used, but since there was a specific time and day 'AAF always played it -- someone will remember -- everyone had an off-the-air cassette version.
Hadn't heard this in thirty years -- an instant time machine. Made me want to drive in the dark uo and down Rt 9, past Spag's and White City, over the hills to Shoppers' World....
quocumque1 1 year ago
wow - i thought i was the only one in the world who remembered this song and I find all of you and this song here. Gotta get it
AncientNina 1 year ago
top left reminds me of ron jeremy...
axisdrummer24 1 year ago
@axisdrummer24 .....a VERY FAT Ron Jeremy!!!
opus3361 1 year ago
This song stirs up sad memories of a chaotic childhood. I think this song gave me hope. Absolutely loved it back then and definitely now!! So glad I found it again.. Sheila
skyguy1956 1 year ago
@skyguy1956 ditto- it has that sad far off quality but covers a range of emotions and is psychodelic
"The more you learn the less you know"
nhbright 10 months ago
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gorsq 1 year ago
Thank you SO much for posting this audio. I googled it a year ago and purchased the CD and listen to it often while driving in my car, and it never ceases to amaze me and take me to that place of wonder and bliss. My favorite song of all time. I remember hearing it on FM way back in the day and it just stopped me in my tracks.
joelleyji 1 year ago
Does anyone know where one can get the audio, MP3, WAV, anything? I've searched but haven't found anything I can download. Thanks.
Grayorg 1 year ago
@Grayorg RealPlayer has a download component which will download any You Tube video...
taceymg13 1 year ago
@taceymg13 That worked great - I was able to download the video and convert it to MP3. Thanks!
Grayorg 1 year ago
This hidden gem always rests in the back of my mind. A piece of the soundtrack of my life. Days of youth and unfettered happiness. The youngest of four watching the world unfold before him. Parents still young and hip, unmarked by time unvisited by tragedy. Guiding and gliding us along the road of life. The table always set for fun. Sounds of Miles, Monk and Ella float in the air, Sunday mornings stretched out forever in the light of the sun. The wind was our love..
jivetalkin03 1 year ago 13
@jivetalkin03 I love whar you said. The Wind to me was New York City in the late Sixties. What an amazing time in history...hair, music, fashion , politics....revolution, ..anachy....Viet Nam War.. Life has been incredibly dull by comparison....pretentious people....pretentious lives....reality shows...annoying cell phones...no innovation in films...music...everything has deteriorated.....oh for the amazing sweet innocent exciting passionate summer of 1969 again!!!!!!!
sohooded 4 months ago
@jivetalkin03 So beautifully said., and I can fully relate. What a time this was. A unique, very special, one of exploration, freedom, extreme political upheaval. The very pure, less electronic, sound of the amazing, innovative Sixties easily lulled us into revelation and wonder and marvelous creativity. Too bad the future turned out to be such an uncreative flat line.....
sohooded 4 months ago
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jivetalkin03 1 year ago
Thanks SO MUCH for posting this gem. Truly one of a handful of songs that showed the potential of late-60's alternative music to meld various styles and elements of music. Up to now, my only copy had been a reel to reel recording made from radio airplay on WNEW-FM [NYC] in early 1970. And yes, the DJ was Allison Steele, The Nightbird.
SpencerSpats 1 year ago
This song was one of the favorites of the REAL underground FM radio stations in the late sixties. And a year or two in the 70's. FM stations like KSAN in San Francisco and KZAP in Sacramento and KMET in Los Angeles. When the stations were bought out in the early seventies by the corporations....they all pretended there was no such thing as underground music. Sad. A great loss.
spudwas 1 year ago 2
Admittedly, I'm here because I kept stumbling across this Circus Maximus while I was looking for stuff from the Norweigian Circus Maximus, and knowing that this Circus Maximus is prog as well, I finally caved in and decided to give them a listen.
And I'm glad I did.
Foxer35 1 year ago
I just got this LP 2 weeks ago in an auction lot. First time I ever heard it. Great unknown album.
JohnCougarMellowChim 1 year ago
I have the LP this song first appeared on.
MintMickeyDotCom 1 year ago
Listen to Hansel and Gretel by Circus Max.. Jerry Jeff wrote and sang....Listen to the piano and the drums in background.....Paints a mental picture of the lyrics...Both are wonderful songs
TheUnclestan 1 year ago
This song has a repeating drum track:ultimate restrane,perfect! while jazz piano,and guitar support great lyrics.They were ahead of time.Still sounds perfect today.What ever happened to the music scene today?It takes guts to put out music you love,in spite of so much media oriented values of success.
marioaranda711 1 year ago
Great song. Thanks for posting this.
GWPuffer 1 year ago
the jazzy chords in this just blew me away at the time, it was a staple of late 60s FM radio, don't think I ever heard any other track on the LP. It still holds up well. . .
Rabidburt 1 year ago
When I first heard this in '67 Jerry Jeff Walker was still a year away from his great success with "Mr. Bojangles." So Circus Maximus was a prominent band before Jerry ever made it because of this one brilliant tune. You'll see Bob Bruno himself has posted here. He's the genius who wrote this and formed Circus Maximus. Bob's easy to contact via e-mail, seems like a really nice man and is delighted to respond to those of us who truly admire this work.
boblpage 1 year ago
A former DJ at WDET FM in Detroit used to play this song on windy days. Definitely calmed me down when it got gusty.
annaLaPointe 1 year ago
@annaLaPointehis name was Dave Dixon (RIP Dave) turned me on to this when I was 13 and it was cold winter nights on WABX 99.5 FM a few years prior to his last job at WDET...
taceymg13 1 year ago
@annaLaPointe Would that be Dave Dixon?
Pfaendtner 1 year ago
@piercethevale Yup . I heard it plenty on KSJO or KMPX. Where has the time gone, I was a teen in the late 60s growing up in Campbell.
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Great song. Haven't heard it since the late sixties. Always thought Jimmy Page may have borrowed some of it for his "Stairway to Heaven". Also reminiscent of Greg Lake, Emerson Lake and Palmer's "From The Beginning". Anybody else hear the similarities? Are those solos in Dorian mode? Gary I.
TheGaryi 1 year ago
Not bad, but I prefer the progressive metal version of Circus Maximus :-) This is not exactly my kind of music...
dagbli 1 year ago
And here I was looking for prog metal... :) I enjoy this aswell anyway.
MrSilentDoubleA 1 year ago
This was Jerry Jeff Walkers first Band up in the Massachusetts area.
escorzelli 1 year ago
Funny u all are mentioning the Nightbird. I remember Scott Muni playing this nearly every Friday afternoon when I got home from school!!!! How wonderful to have it here, thanks!
lilccaddy 1 year ago
Check out Jerry Jeff Walker and the gang! What a great band they were! Formerly known as 'Lost Sea Dreamers'.
jbrider10 1 year ago
NICE !!!!!!
cuntaroma 1 year ago
I forgot all about this song until I was running a search for WNEW-FM. The "NightBird's" program was wonderful to listen to during those late hours. I can remember drifting off to this song. What a phenomenal time that was.
Thanks for those memories Alison (RIP)
dlevination 1 year ago
@dlevination Thats why WNEW FM was the best of what they did back then. I met Allison in 71 at a Dead concert. She was AWESOME
ecrocker1 1 year ago
@ecrocker1 seriously dude? you're legend, we are not worthy
theachtungtree 1 year ago
This song brings back memories. Listen, close your eyes and you can do a lot of soul searchin...Thanks for the trip back in time.
Bacmaster 1 year ago 2
This sounds like Jim Morrison! :)
KarenEng 1 year ago
Very nice. Jazzy feel. Sad but nice rhythm. I heard this in WFMU a few months ago. Thanks for posting this.
duke1138 1 year ago
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tonkehar 1 year ago
I played this song and it made me feel nostalgic for the incredible Sixties...
sohooded 1 year ago
hard to believe this song is almost 40 years old,still has the same magic ,great vibe ,another spring,full circle,music that defies time and style ....one of my alltime favorites..thankyou Circus Maximus ,from a fellow Vanguard artist,Mario
marioaranda711 1 year ago
Pete Rienschmidt is the dude in the lower left. I used to work for him as a sign painter's apprentice. I knew him for at least 5 years before he broke out his guitar one night and played and told me he used to be in this band. I was astounded.
fivelblunker 1 year ago 4
I remember first hearing this in my younger days, I loved it then and I love it now.
Some music stikes upon an eternal vibe that blurs the notion of time , always in the
present! Thank you Bob Bruno and Circus Maximus ...who knows the WIND ?
Mario Aranda PS .....glad I finally found this song.
marioaranda711 1 year ago 2
if you like this song check out the Mark-Almond Band.
wacco54 1 year ago
Similar feel to the band "It's A Beautiful Day".
(A good flip side for this fine tune is King Crimson's "I Talk To The Wind".)
voidforpurpose 1 year ago
Jonathan Schwartz and Pete Fornatele played the crap out of this in the late 60s. Beautiful
peterzang 1 year ago
@peterzang You can hear Pete's Mixed Bag program every saturday on WFUV in NYC
jeph1953 1 year ago
Do recall J William Weed as a DJ...the concerts at the Fairgrounds?....Montalvo?.....
Behutet93 2 years ago
Late 60's. Teenager back then. Heard this being played on KSJO, San Jose. What a time, if I could go back......
Behutet93 2 years ago 3
ron jeremy in the top left corner of the sht
itchyscratcher 2 years ago
timeless songs sound fresh every time you listen
brilloart 2 years ago 3
timeless songs sound fresh every time you hear them
brilloart 2 years ago 2
Loved all the comments. Such good memories of a great era. "Come, fly with me" and we did. And then there are some Blues Project vids. Man, I'll be up half the night listening, and the other half remembering. Then I'll have to dust off some LP's and start the morning right! Thanks!!!!!!!!
kennykenny5 2 years ago 7
Definitely flew with her. I really would like to see a number of her shows on youtube or somewhere.
sdgakatbk 1 year ago
@kennykenny5 There will never be that most amazing of innovation in fashion...music.. films ...rock and jazz time again........people were real and life was so incredibly sweet and exciting...now everything is boringly predictable, electronic, sound board life......so monotonous ...boring.., sad and predictable....
sohooded 4 months ago
It was Jerry Jeff Walker singing, but who played piano?
Bob Bruno played guitar i think...?
yesfan621 2 years ago
For the zillionth time; that is Bob Bruno on piano, 12 string electric guitar, and vocals.
He also composed the song, played all the solos and was the leader of Circus Maximus.
That's him in the center of the LP cover. The reason this still holds up is because Bob is a jazz musician who plays valve brass instruments, upright bass and organ , in addition to all the instruments he plays on this song.
I've exchanged emails with him several times- a great musician and human being.
sgcim 1 year ago
I was listening to this back in the late sixties on wbz am on "Dick Summer's Sunday Night Subway Show"
TheDirving 2 years ago 2
I grew up in North jersey and first heard this around 1971 on NYC FM radio station 102.5..Allison Steele, "The Nightbird" and Jonathan Schwartz..does anyone remember that era??
yesfan621 2 years ago
whoops..just scrolled down thru the comments and saw how many remember the era of great NYC radio..I even remember Murray the K...hey..anyone remember dude that read The Giving tree every night on WNEW???
yesfan621 2 years ago
that was ++ 102.7 ++ WNEW-FM. Scott Muni was the program director, and for a while, John Zacherle did mornings. yes, it was a GREAT station.
flychomperfly 1 year ago
Man, whatta memory you have! I have not lived near NYC for decades..do they still have radio like they did back in the day?
yesfan621 1 year ago
I agree with most of the comments. I heard this back in the early 80's (it was ancient then) from an older friend and it has haunted me ever since.
The mid fifties to the mid 70's will be recognized as the golden age of music.
mfgroove27 2 years ago
Oh yeah, and long live WBCN...the Rock of Boston for so many years. Sorry to say: Talk Rock Ruined 'BCN!
Screw you Howard, is see how your career is going. You got the money screw everyone who was on your side all the bad years.
Anthony and whoever, bite the evil nail, and Doucher and Bitch...you all screwed Boston rock. All you a-holes played was crap from 10-20 years. Where is the new Rock d-bags? WhereTF is it? You'll never know because you weren't looking bitches!
bluecat4usa 2 years ago
I heard this 1st on WBCN Boston.
I think it was a overnight chick DJ on that night. I called and was wondering about this music. She said that "BCN got the tape form some SF area radio.
I've always love this, even with the either intentional or unintentional pitching on the keys.
And yeah, I still have the original vinyl album.
Jerry Jeff Walker...a good memory!
bluecat4usa 2 years ago
@piercethevale
Ironically I first heard this song on the same radio station in San Jose....one of the first FM stations in the Bay Area. I loved it then and still do 40 yrs later!!
chelscolly 2 years ago
This came on late at night in Toronto on eary 70's CHUM FM. I was an acid come down treat.
squidface333 2 years ago
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
i was 12 the first time i heard this song...
turned me to jazz forever...
dejagrace 2 years ago
Is tha ron jeremy in the top left hand corner?
flavadaveflynn5 2 years ago
Been lookin' for this one 40 years. ITunes won't sell it individuallly, you have to buy the whole album, which, as someone pointed out, ain't worth shit. Didn't know JJWalker was on the band. . .
Rabidburt 2 years ago
it's been forever since i heard this song. alwaya a favorite usually when i search i get the heavy metal guys. firt heard it in ny on what was then progressive fm. had the album once a long time ago but this really is the only good song on it.
many times the line "you see a bird as she flys by where it's at and she says where the wind blows" runs through my head all these years later.
thanks to whoever
cuneo1950 2 years ago 2
This song has been in my heart and soul since I first heard it in the 60's. Just found it a few days ago................Heaven!
violet852 2 years ago
this song holds up over 40 years later. Bob Bruno lives!
angeloamericano 2 years ago
One of my favs. I was 15 in 67. Hearing this on KSJO San Jose. Great composition. Five stars.Thx for posting.
Behutet93 2 years ago 2
What a great song !Thanks for posting ! Actually Bob Bruno, the composer, is on youtube . Try 'robertmbruno' ..... I was pleasantly surprised to find him!
mostlybossa 2 years ago 2
Yup, a true fave of the progressive rock radio format. Still holds up well.
scaldera96 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I've got it on mp3, if anyone wants it. Leave an email I can send to.
jondoe8889 2 years ago
this group put out 2 albums . I am still looking for the second album. God so many great songs ...........
bxnyc99 2 years ago
Great music from a good era in American popular culture.
DWClinton68 2 years ago
This was the only good song on that LP, and what a great masterpiece of rock/pop/jazz music it is! Great music lives on forever!
mrkeysfla 2 years ago
I remember hearing this back in the late 60's on WABX, a free form radio station in Detroit. It still holds up 40 years on.
Longlakedreaming 2 years ago
Thanks for putting this on. Was always surprised it didn't become more popular than it was.
jthombeck 2 years ago
Thanks, maida1982a.
He should put it up on piano. It's too hard on solo guitar.
I spent the entire day yesterday on his website. The 2 LPs are there and a lot more.
I'd post a link, but I've tried 3 times and youtube won't post it for some reason(?).
Do a search and it will turn up.
You won't believe it!
I knew he was a lot more than just a rock musician, but I didn't think it went this deep.
sgcim 2 years ago
I have not heard this song since 1974...thank you , you tube for letting me hear it again...This song has haunted my memory for many years...I thought I would never hear it again. What lovely music.
bamathful 2 years ago
I love this song!
bamathful 2 years ago 2
The chords are kind of hard to figure out because of that steady D drone by the bass, but I've been playing it for years by memory.
It's great to hear it again.
I heard their other LP "Neverland", and there wasn't anything nearly as good as "Wind".
I've always wondered, what became of Bob Bruno? Did he ever do anything like this again? What's he doing now?
A sax player covered this once, doing an instrumental version- anyone know who that was?
Nothing on the rest of this LP was as good.
sgcim 2 years ago
Bob is stll making music. He has a couple of youtube videos, including a version of this song played on acoustic guitar. "Neverland" had some nice moments and I think that it was a better album overall than the 1st album, but nothing on "Neverland" was as good as this. Few songs were/are.
maida1982a 2 years ago
Poetry in motion.
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GeneralTrousers 2 years ago
this song is genius. great singing and solos. I thought this song would launch Bob Bruno's carerr but things don't always work like that in this businesss even with all his talent.
angeloamericano 2 years ago
Awesome song...so melancholy and sublime...moving...Genius! Jerry Jeff Walker
Dannoga 2 years ago
Song was written and sung by Bob Bruno.
maida1982a 2 years ago
Not Jerry Jeff Walker? Was that a later (or earlier) version?
chowderhead 2 years ago
no-it's Bob's tune.
maida1982a 2 years ago
Matts Haugen played a great solo here :)
mikxer 2 years ago
Every person who wrote a positive comments on this song has great taste! Love this album...it never left my turntable back in the days when great music was everywhere and FM radio was cool!
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tonkehar 2 years ago
one of the best things to have come out of the sixties ... great trip and beautifully done
dybbuk4640 2 years ago
this shit is so old
speaker3600 2 years ago
I remember this one! Beautiful and so sophisticated. There's nothing going on today that wasn't done back then, and better.
caraphyllis 2 years ago 2
Simply sublime...... beautiful.
jonsilence 2 years ago
I will always think of Allison Steele the Night Bird on WNEW-FM when i jear this
rerene321 2 years ago
Love this song, it always me think of Greenwhich Village in the late 60's. God, how I miss those days.....
oxlotol 2 years ago
me too
dybbuk4640 2 years ago
First heard this on WDHA Dover, NJ in the early 80's. I actually got Alison Steele to play this on WPDH as well. I also love "Travelin' Around" from this album. You'll hear it on the Blacklight Room on XM40 Friday nights at 10 once in awhile.
dreamwithinadream68 2 years ago
I'd like to play this song played on an oldies radio station, not a classic rock station. Maybe a shortened version without the long solo. Do any of you think the oldies audience might remember it and enjoy hearing it?
fadguru 2 years ago
yes I would. I also know a local group that was an opening act for ten years after that did an even longer version of this song.
spacepatrolman 2 years ago
This great song was my regular request to Alison Steele, "The Night Bird" on her WNEW-FM
overnight show. Really miss her and that time in my life.
Jimtbird 2 years ago 2
Oh my goodness, I am so glad I found this!! I too, remember this on Alison Steel'es Night Bird program on WNEW FM
What great music and times they were!!
herasfolly 2 years ago
I know a guy who met allison at a party she was wearing leather pants ,she said roscoe made some people angry [what she meant was he was fired when he complained on air that wabcfm was going to pick songs by computer]
spacepatrolman 2 years ago
I also remember hearing this from Alison Steele as well. I managed to find the album and bought it. It's almost thirty years since I last heard this song. It seems like it was yesterday. It's a great song.
jalan17 2 years ago
I'm right with you on that one. "The Nightbird" as she was known would more than often put this one on at the top of thehour, to be able to get all of it in. What a voice she had. RIP Alison Steele.
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sdgakatbk 2 years ago
@wygakyl Allison was the best. Her voice was so soothing. Come Fly with me Allison Steele "the night bird"
ecrocker1 1 year ago
@wygakyl I remember a couple of her standards were John Mayall's 'Room to Move' , Nights in White Satin was a staple ...and Mac's 'Hypnotized' The night she passsed, Vince Skelsa played a tribute to her with Siberry's 'Calling All Angels' (which seems harder to locate on youtube than these earlier tunes)
hocuspocusfocusable 9 months ago
I'm another one who grew up in/near New York in the late 60's early 70's, (near in my case). I spent many an hour listening to WNEW and Alison Steele. And I remember haring this song a number of times. Great stuff!
sdgakatbk 2 years ago
Never, never thought I'd find this classic on YT! Thanks, man! I still have my copy, too. Will hafta give it a spin, now.
*****
cjthemusicman 2 years ago
omg- first time I heard this it was 1971-I thought if I sampled it again it wouldn't feel as it did then, but it does!!
how amazing that music gets into your bones, blood and skin and never really
leaves- makes life worth living-
piscean60 2 years ago
I still have my vinyl lp copy of the album!
bggilzow 2 years ago
wow this song is so sweet that my elbows hurt
billyhay 2 years ago
This song had been haunting my mind for days - I didn't know the name of the song or who did it. Looked up some lyrics to find out. Ah yes, WBAI, and in those days WNEW-FM - that's where I had heard it and never forgot it. Bizarre the direction Jerry Jeff Walker took after this album.
gsbito 2 years ago
This song was written and sung by Bob Bruno -
This band was atypical for JJ- his pre-CM and post CM-days really more connected.
maida1982a 2 years ago
first heard this on wbai in new york on the show in the moment ,it has become a part of my playlist ever since
barzilla187 2 years ago
Heard this on XM the other day. Had almost forgotten how much my band and I loved this in suburban Detroit in the late 60's! Still sounds amazing after 40 years.
boblpage 2 years ago
this song has a lot of signifigance for me! It is just about jazz. Bob Bruno is great! is he the pianist? he really sings well!
angeloamericano 2 years ago
Nice one Zoo :P
micr0cosm 2 years ago
Love this song! Havent heard it for 8 years but feels like yesterday...
matsoaka 2 years ago
no video for this one, aye? Jerry jeff walkers solo work never achieved the emotional resonance of this classic...
peterchoyce 2 years ago
bob bruno wrote this one-
maida1982a 2 years ago
anyone know if bob bruno is still alive?
also, this band played Carnegie Hall!!
maida1982a 2 years ago
Happy to report that Mr. Bruno is alive and well!!!
maida1982a 2 years ago
@maida1982a thanks so much
giacblanc 1 year ago
I'm blown away...I've been looking for this since 67. My humble thanks
squidface333 2 years ago