As a painfully shy teenager I lived in my Elton John albums, in my yellow room. They were the only thing that seem to understand a profound sensitivity.
Il vertice creativo, picco artistico difficilmente eguagliabile. A parte la melodia sublime, notare l'arrangiamento globale degli archi e questo suono quasi medievale rendono questa canzone una meraviglia per noi dal palato fine in fatto di Musica Pop. Quando Elton era Elton John e non ancora trasformatosi in ...coccodrillo.Rock On!!!
This and Love Song (with Lesley Duncan) are the star tracks for me, then listen to First episode at Hienton and 60 years on from his 1st album. All are on here, all are beautiful and take this bloke of 60 back to my first concerts with EJ, The Rolling Stones, Led Zep, those were the days.
beautiful and heartfelt ending lyrics..... there are women women and some hold you tight...... while some leave you counting the stars the in the night!
Wow. Still hard to believe this song is over 40 years old. Not only high quality, but no 'datedness' , as fresh sounding today as the day it was written. What a talent is Elton John. Truly immortal.
Oh my God I had forgotten about this tune. So absolutely soulfull and beautiful, reflective, uplifting. I was 15 years old at the time, somewhat confused and lost. Absolutely overlooked masterpiece.
I love this song. Probably one of his best! If you like Elton John, please visit my video, a cover of Elton John's Border Song. Please comment! Lets keep the good music alive! /watch?v=dPtXGmXPSU4
Forse la più bella canzone scritta da Elton.Forse.Certo Your Song è fantastica ma qui convergono la cristallina purezza di un diamante in Musica, archi che evocano Cieli azzurri e se volete tutti i sogni ...di noi lovers....
The bass playing on this tune is so damofino fine, it is almost By God INSANE! Much the same can be said of all the musicians on this awesome tune, and Elton's vocals are nothing short of spectacular! And Bernie Taupin's lyrics are indeed the stuff of which rock anthems are made! Thanks to: manic89 for the upload and You Tube for both the space and leaving the light on for the rest of us!
Reminds me of a girl I was crazy about in high school but never could muster the balls to tell her. I'm afraid I was the one that left myself counting the stars.
Found out later that she would have held me. Haven't thought about her much til now.
One knows a great artist when they create a sound that no one is able to imitate. These songs were recorded 40 years ago, and yet they sound as fresh today as the day they were released. That's partly because nothing since has sounded anything like it. The sound is forever unmistakably Elton John.
Tumbleweed Connection was the best of all the albums he did with Bernie Taupin. Just amazing. This song is one of my favorite songs of all time. I know the words by heart.
11xzxzxz, I too get very emotional listening to this song. Part of my emotion for it is a sadness that he didn't continue his career making more of this kind of music.
@lauralexco What a great phrase, I never really realized that phrase till you wrote it. I will bet my day that you are a very nice person and very thoughtful.richgreenchampion@yohoo.com
And there, sitting in an unremarkable apartment in Sacramento; living an unremarkable life, listening, thinking: "there's a war going on (Viet Nam) There's music, there's pot, there's free love and yet some thirty plus years later, Love is a more mellow vintage and that which was too quickly consumed is now priceless... This music tells of that first drink...
Quite right what you say. Ive long been a aware of the cold facts of life, and how we chose a partner based on cleverly inbuilt data in our instincts as well as consciously calculated decisions.
In fact, Love is our most self-dedicated emotion, made for mating, bonding and survival.
But no matter what the facts are, nothing can equal the feel of love. It gets even richer as we get older. Yet it also gets harder, when sex and total attraction become less urgent than the need for a soulmate
@123ThisIsMe Sad. There is no easy answer. We are biologically and environmentally programmed to seek certain traits in others and if we don't perceive them in abundance then we move on. Mindsets seem wrong but that is due to evolutionary forces that make the human race survive but has nothing to do with love. I am sad about this too and I don't mean to be so analytical about it - I feel the emotional turmoil of knowing how hard love is to find.
I just got your reponse to my post via normal email. Thank you for responding. It's hard to believe (to me)..but I do NOT have "MadMan...". It's the only one other than maybe some of those real late releases post 'greatest hits' versions. Don't know why. My brother was an EJ Freak. Wore the gear, recorded the songs...it's what i GREW UP WITH
I got stood up on a date over the summer and this song came to mind....even at 39 I felt like I was in high school again....it never gets any easier does it
If you like this check out "The Earliest Discovery" Video on U-Tube. Search for Elton John - The Greatest Discovery ('70 LIVE at BBC studios - You will see a live in studio version by a young Elton with Bernie T looking on.
One of my favorite early pieces by Elton John I never understood why this did not get more air play... I have the vinyl version of Tumbleweed and 11XZXZXZ asked about the other intsrument - Its an Oboe played by Karl Jenkins according to a web site. Brilliant production on this and the earlier Elton John. The band in these days with Gus D, Paul B and Co ... If you have the chance look at the original album cover with the pages of pics, the lyrics etc .
Excellent information. Someone else had posted that it was a modified oboe. Is there a french horn in there too? Anyway..if you don't have time to reply thank you for posting this. Steve.
Hard to tell. Do you thing that's a french horn in there too? In any case, I searched this particular song out. Have a huge EJ Album online now. Wish I could copy the whole swoop to CD..LOL
if you`ve got the whole, don`t miss indian sunset from madman`s, & of course his untitiled "your song" album, which was his second . for he made a first unknown one before.
but frankly speaking i am no more interested in what he does nowadays.
I have read the somewhat sparse amount of comments here...and reveled in the understanding of beauty of some of you. I stumbled across this album while young (born 1952). I didn't know (really didn't realize) what I beheld. I liked it. NowIKnow. The beginning swells my soul and the end just fits.....life.
Summer, yes, August in fact, listening in wondrous focus to the record collection of a woman I had just met, but then as now the memory the song evokes is from August of the year before and the woman I encountered in the midnight full-moon mist of a water meadow beyond a rural commune. Taupin's lyrics and John's musicianship perfectly capture the magical aura of that once-in-a-lifetime meeting -- and all it yet portends.
This is the most poignant Elton and Bernie song ever written. I too discovered it on a magical summer night--- waiting for my beloved of 15, to come rescue me from a home with a dieing father, my tormented insecurities of teenage love-- raw and on the surface, and the fear he would never show---- i waited listening to this in the still summer night air.
I am not an Elton John fan but this work has haunted me since I first heard it on a magical night in 1971. It is a truly exquisite poem, unmistakably the story of a genuine encounter with the Muse, its instrumentation evocative of the lost ages when her grace and loveliness were publicly acknowledged. Yet beyond the poignancy of its closing verse there is the comfort of a line from Robert Graves that perfectly describes her ultimate faithfulness: "nothing promised that is not performed."
This is my favorite song and has been since it came out in the 70s. Adrienne Barbeau sang a beautiful, haunting version of it on the Tonight Show in the 70s and I've never been able to find it. Does anyone know if that show is on YouTube anywhere? I can't find it.
What a incredible,absolutely beautiful song.If you don't cry when you get through listening to it,you are not human!I wish Manilow would cover it since he has redone lots of classics of the 50',60' and 70's it would be the perfect song to include on one of his nostalgic remakes he seems to be doing these days.
@11xzxzxz It's been a year since you gave this a listen.
It has the same affect on me.
"I can still hear her say," what she used to.
Now, after all these years, she's talking to me again.
She always held me tight, as we lay beneath the stars, counting until it became funny. Now we know when the moon is out, we are both gazing it's way, just from different places, for now.
@rockinroller7 Really man you cry to it or just feel like it is more accurate. I can't remember the number of hold back the tears. Best Bernie lyrics. Nah, he didn't write them I'm thinking Lennon and Young helped. Later Penn no myth added something to the 20th anniversary rerecording .. nah kidding. Well I hope it's not always gonna be from different dark sides of the moon. If I quote a band I don't really like then you know something is howling at the moon or it's a great song.
@rockinroller7 What other Taupin's lyrics do you like as much or more? You concurrently globalized and internalized my use of the word "help" which is a syntactical mythical crime of proportionality. Was it really a few generations later? Because that is an untimely affront to the Bridge School to bridge time that way .. or a few generations before at The battle of Little Big Horn.
Thinking,"Not just anybody's Help! everything up to and including "Funeral for a friend/Love Lies Bleeding," with the rest of that album totally escaping me.
While "Mad Man," was burned up on the radio, with the short version, anyone who owned the album heard the great orchestral music, blending with Elton's very well paced, beautifully written piano notes.
The battle of Little big Horn has been a generational "Myth," with a new story with each new history book.
@rockinroller7 Yeah I need to find time to hear that orchestral Mad Man. Ha not just anyone's help! Yeah Big Horn is a myth .. just watch the movie with Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man. The bathtub scene with Fay Dunaway explains the big part.
@rockinroller7 (Continental continuational driftwood) Sorry to Harp on your uncharacteristic mis-characterizations. Situational crying huh? The blues before and after, give or take an generation or so? Hey sorry to be obnoxious .. I would like to be your friend, for the world to see? Oh I see you have Neil's pic up too .. the one that ran over Old King? Hey what does the line "between the line of ages" mean? .. I am not sure of someone&somethings and you seem like the right person to ask.
@11xzxzxz Understandably so, it seems you your being obnoxious, most often comes across as humerous,,for those of us who know that while you may be serious you also possess, perhaps, even unknown to yourself, a keen sense of humor, "between the lines of your age," as you age.
Actually the line is, "between the lines of age," and it is my interpretation, within the context of all the lyrics, Neil is getting new, "Messages,"/"presents" from his 'friends,' with each passing year.
@rockinroller7 I hope my writings come across as humorous or thoughtful and as you know logic comes first with me "between dem lines of age". OK Neil gets presents and messages but being Neil, don't you think he is hesitant to receive them and prefers less attention (and human contact). Back then anyway.
Also I rarely think I am obnoxious, but thanks for making pointing this out, you bastard. Kidding.
@11xzxzxz Now that's it. From the beginning to the end Neil seems to be 'watching' the whole "song,' seeming disinterested, keeping his distance. "Someone and someone, were down by the pond. Looking for something, to plant in the (his) lawn. Out inthe fields they were turning the soil. I'm sitting here hoping this water will boil. The last four lines of the verse: "whe I look through the window, and out on the road. They're bringing me presents, and saying hello," Cont.
@11xzxzxz Yeah! He is watching the whole song unfold, looking through his window. "Someone and someone, were down by the pond. Looking for something, to plant in the lawn. Out in the fields, they're turning the soil, I'm sitting here hoping, this water will boil LOL! When I look through the windows, and out on the road, they're bringing me presents, and saying hello. (Or, "I think I should go." The rest is a "dream." Would you buy a used car from this guy? Peace. Rock
@rockinroller7 Right .. I was just on the phone with J and finally J admitted that "Come down in time" was a timeless song. Damn I spend a lot of precious (the dog in Silence of the Lambs) half-minutes boosting Elton who sold out. When Elton when public on gayness who the hell cares? But about when Benny and The Jets came out of the closet (it was probably the start of disco years so glam rock was already around and everyone but Neil Young sold out) . Man you analyzed that song well, my ...
@11xzxzxz Yeah, elton and bernie clicked for a few years, but E. decided he wanted to be a R&r star,,and we all know how that worked out, Re: "Disco".
Boy he sure did, 'go breaking our hearts."
It's just my anylyization?, but I'm sure many others see it differently, seeing only a birthday party, and missing everything else going on outside the window.
@rockinroller7 Yeah that's good analyzing. Bernie my hero! Don't go breakin was a cute song .. that didn't bother me..ha. But the big glasses was the mark of a sellout. I think John needs everyone to love him. He just should have just continued his better earlier work and done both. I say that of Neil and others.
@rockinroller7 I would buy a used souped-up super-charged good for the economy car from Neil as his "dream" car got to be worth millions. If John Len was alive on his birthday he would sing "Instant Car-ma" to Neil. "Better recognize a fan, everyone you meet" The guy is very comfortable on Letterman talking about cars but ask for an autograph ("Go to Hell to you") .. and sure he is alienated and "hello" is too long a conversation for him.
@rockinroller7 I wouldn't bother him. I am talking of the way he treated friends but I don't know his side. I think on the first of 40 years he wasn't answering questions and I understand that but don't go on Dave Letterman and brag about soup cars and not talk a minute about music. You know his people told Dave's people if Dave mentioned music Neil would "walk on" and tell Dave to take a hike. I really don't think about that much but YT brings out the worst in us all.. back to the music.
@11xzxzxz All I can say about the car issue is that Neil has had a life long facination wih cars: See "Chrome Dreams."
And now, having at least 2 scientist's living on his ranch, working on a V-8 engine that may get 75-100 miles per gallon of gas is pretty amazing stuff.
Not be short, a jerk, smart alleck, horse's ass, or anything else that seems like I'm jst cutting you off, but Neil has always been a "difficult,' interview, and he has been talking about music for over 45 years,
@rockinroller7 Yeah I know he talked about his song early songs but was pissed off that Rolling Stone ignored his first great solo record. Don't cut me off .. bad mileage move. I am sure Neil is plenty nice at times. He probably found a lot of peace with Peggy. And his compassion for Ben.. Oh and if you are me are going to be jerks of any order just write from this epic site. Thanks to manic88.
I've been wondering for days why someone hasn't asked us what the fuck we are talking about, but then it hit me, as it usually does, sooner or later, just look at the number of views in over 2 years, for a song that so many haven't heard and perhaps never will.
Didn't mean to cut you off, but you were driving so slow, and this new car with a
V-8 engine, built on neil's ranch,,,oh what the hell, this has to stop.
@rockinroller7 CONT As Clarice Starling said to Hannibal Lecter "why not turn that high power laser of insight on yourself Dr Lecter?" We all rarely do that .. I do it more but mostly I miss if I am obnoxious until I get a letter from a stupid person trying to take me down a notch .. at least then I have insight into how this boy is perceived but also as to how most people attack people all the time for the "fun or thrill of it all" which is not what I mean to do.
@11xzxzxz You're not the only. This is such a sad and wistful song. Reminds me of Steve the chef at Pinnacle insurance. I wish I'd learned his last name.
A perfect song. Elton's voice was so wonderful back then and Bernie Taupin's lyrics, ah, terrific. What a team! Thanks for posting this terrific tune. (I have heard Sting's version, and I'm sorry, though I own several of POLICE and Sting solo cds, and I love Mr. Sting, he did a terrible and inadequate cover of this song. His voice doesn't work for this and the arrangement did not surpass this original.)
Tumble Weed Connection is without a doubt Elton's best album. I thought it was when it came out and I haven't changed my mind in all these years. "Where to Now St. Peter" is my second favorite:
oh yes, without a doubt. Come down in time and Where to now St. Peter. Was given this album as an Easter gift from my mom at the age of 16-17. That was a long time ago, also Love song on here is another favorite.
I love Where to Now, St Peter! And this song--so sadly romantic. Elton was at his primo in the seventies, no question. After that, I lost interest in his music. But his early stuff--it will be special for me forever.
I want to thank Kenny Lattimore for exposing a new generation to a beautiful piece of music on his appropriately titled new cd "Timeless" I love listening to this song.
hi, just hearing this song for the very first time today (where have i been ???), since kenny lattimore just remade it......it is so pretty......thanks for sharing the words.....take care
I used to play this over and over until that ol' vinyl didn't play any more! What a blast from the past and one of his very best. Thank Bernie for the fab lyrics.
I first heard this song about 10 years ago. I couldn't believe what a great song this was...and still is. Amazing that is has probably never been played on radio.
Is this a re-master? It's hard for me to tell, because even though I listened to this album in 1972 (on that hot new audio format, cassette!) perhaps 500 times, it was on a downmarket self-installed player in my 1964 Ford Falcon...with original 4-inch cardboard speakers.
So I really have no idea what it's supposed to sound like. I only know this album and Madman are by far his finest work, and find them light years ahead of the crapola the EJ/BT team started churning out around 1975.
Haaahaa...I agree. I hate to say it, but EJ's voice is going too. Ahh but who cares...they wrote some beautiful stuff...not easy to sustain. This music will last forever.
You do realize it's more accurate to say, "Elton's singing of Bernie Taupin's plaintive lyrics", don't you?
And I agree it continues to shine. It's almost embarrassing to stack this (or anything on Tumbleweed) up against the silly foo-foo stuff he's been doing for the last, oh, 33 years.
"Tumbleweed connection" is undoubtedly one of his best albums, with a country-rock sound influenced by the group "the band", and some texts of Bernie Taupin on legends and myths of far-west.
As a painfully shy teenager I lived in my Elton John albums, in my yellow room. They were the only thing that seem to understand a profound sensitivity.
napoleonlouisxiv 1 week ago
The Sting version is better
macbeth870 2 weeks ago
lovely song. And Elton still outdoes Sting on this one.
zzyyxxo 3 weeks ago
Il vertice creativo, picco artistico difficilmente eguagliabile. A parte la melodia sublime, notare l'arrangiamento globale degli archi e questo suono quasi medievale rendono questa canzone una meraviglia per noi dal palato fine in fatto di Musica Pop. Quando Elton era Elton John e non ancora trasformatosi in ...coccodrillo.Rock On!!!
Perfidia4ever 1 month ago
"A true love like hers" - For my first best friend Mary Elizabeth McG. Love you for nearly 40 years and still do. I miss you wherever you are. Joe
1forlooker 4 months ago 2
The tears are flowing. God Bless Elton.
SunnyDays951 5 months ago
Thank you for posting this. I haven't heard this song in years. I had forgotten how beautiful it is.
kiffenlover 5 months ago in playlist More videos from manic89
Ther are women (women), and, some hold you tight,
(while) Some leave you counting....the stars in the night....
AceDharma 6 months ago
The best song I know by Elton and probably close to perfect. Best use of a stutter-sing ever too.
11xzxzxz 6 months ago
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This and Love Song (with Lesley Duncan) are the star tracks for me, then listen to First episode at Hienton and 60 years on from his 1st album. All are on here, all are beautiful and take this bloke of 60 back to my first concerts with EJ, The Rolling Stones, Led Zep, those were the days.
terryneale 7 months ago
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terryneale 7 months ago
absolute favourite childhood song,,
6562willow 7 months ago
i knew this song..the Sting version but never heard the original..what a shame..
alinn71 8 months ago
In a couple more days, I will tell you how many stars there are.
92752dlm1 8 months ago
The Musical Gods could not have made a better match than Elton John & Bernie Taupin. What beautiful sounds they contributed to this world.
Msdistarr 9 months ago 4
One of his first songs I learned how to play on the guitar. You should see the look in the eyes of young women when you sing it....
huston3 10 months ago
beautiful and heartfelt ending lyrics..... there are women women and some hold you tight...... while some leave you counting the stars the in the night!
irarube 10 months ago
shite what a great vocal performance. This is Elton in top form. wow
aaqilian 11 months ago
BEAUTIFUL
1deborahlena1 11 months ago
Well I don't know if I should have heard her as yet
But a true love like hers is a hard love to get
And I've walked most all the way and I ain't heard her call
And I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all...
Ferguccio 11 months ago
I have this direct from the original master recording, it is without question one of the most beautiful albums of all time.
kilbarchanstation 11 months ago 2
Wow. Still hard to believe this song is over 40 years old. Not only high quality, but no 'datedness' , as fresh sounding today as the day it was written. What a talent is Elton John. Truly immortal.
manjv5665 11 months ago 7
One of the greatest albums of all time.
dave53ize 1 year ago
some songs have passages that are timeless. I call them the T parts. This one has a few.
seanthorntonAZ 1 year ago
Oh my God I had forgotten about this tune. So absolutely soulfull and beautiful, reflective, uplifting. I was 15 years old at the time, somewhat confused and lost. Absolutely overlooked masterpiece.
SunnyDays951 1 year ago
One of the best remarkable, and most beautiful songs..get into it
JoggynSmyler 1 year ago
MAY THE LIGHT OF ENGLISH ROCK CONTINUE.
FRANCECHILD 1 year ago
Play at my Funeral. ET
formine56 1 year ago
My Funeral Song! ET
formine56 1 year ago
@IPrayTheGayAway, now that's what your lord Jesus christ would say, would he? Idiot!
mcdonaldold1 1 year ago
Every time I hear this album I get chills - amazing only 38,639 views.
The oboe and harp are brilliant
jafjaf007 1 year ago
@IPrayTheGayAway Another hating Christian.
greensea4 1 year ago
I love this song. Probably one of his best! If you like Elton John, please visit my video, a cover of Elton John's Border Song. Please comment! Lets keep the good music alive! /watch?v=dPtXGmXPSU4
blake1484 1 year ago
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bassmanjoe 1 year ago
1 dislike??????????????
bassmanjoe 1 year ago
@bassmanjoe ya I wonder who that could be
juls0220 1 year ago
Forse la più bella canzone scritta da Elton.Forse.Certo Your Song è fantastica ma qui convergono la cristallina purezza di un diamante in Musica, archi che evocano Cieli azzurri e se volete tutti i sogni ...di noi lovers....
Perfidia4ever 1 year ago
Still have the vinyl LP . . .
bambopbam 1 year ago 2
1978...3am in a club in south jersey...a lover sang this song to me
specializedrider3 1 year ago
The bass playing on this tune is so damofino fine, it is almost By God INSANE! Much the same can be said of all the musicians on this awesome tune, and Elton's vocals are nothing short of spectacular! And Bernie Taupin's lyrics are indeed the stuff of which rock anthems are made! Thanks to: manic89 for the upload and You Tube for both the space and leaving the light on for the rest of us!
redsfanstu 1 year ago
The Religion Of Politics
I have worked past the religion of politics
I am now into the politics of peace
We cannot buy freedom
We cannot purchase our own release
Only by working out what is free
can we achieve our own believes
M. S. Morrison
michaelsmorrison 1 year ago
The Religion Of Politics
I have worked past the religion of politics
I am now into the politics of peace
We cannot buy freedom
We cannot purchase our own release
Only by working out what is free
can we achieve our own believes
M. S. Morrison
michaelsmorrison 1 year ago
Reminds me of a girl I was crazy about in high school but never could muster the balls to tell her. I'm afraid I was the one that left myself counting the stars.
Found out later that she would have held me. Haven't thought about her much til now.
randomscience1 1 year ago 2
I absolutely love the strings in this song, so beautiful! This whole song is great.
psychodelicide 1 year ago
Haunting...
aramosmd4201 1 year ago 2
there are women who hold you tight,
while some leave you counting the stars in the night!
counted them aged 16 and still counting them
thebatstrikesback 1 year ago 10
@thebatstrikesback And some will leave you countin' the stars in the night..it's just the way they are..lol..
roehmig 9 months ago
@thebatstrikesback I had the same one
HBsongwriter 3 weeks ago
Elton's new album The Union with Leon Russell is excellent
mizofan 1 year ago
One knows a great artist when they create a sound that no one is able to imitate. These songs were recorded 40 years ago, and yet they sound as fresh today as the day they were released. That's partly because nothing since has sounded anything like it. The sound is forever unmistakably Elton John.
manjv5665 1 year ago
I love elton's voice in this beautiful song. the music is also great
Thank you for the posting
johncuschieri 1 year ago
OMG the memories of this tune.......good times
montcas 1 year ago
yep. definetly triggers a heartache.
and I do recall feeiing sorely disapointed when he morphed into a pop creature.....
toodance 1 year ago
Elton John's best song. And it has one of the greatest bass lines ever.
jmdurant2000 1 year ago
What can you say, Elton at his absoulute best!!!!!!!!! Primo, baby.
garydemaio 1 year ago
elton john in the early 70's. words can't express how I feel listening to this magic.
WintersWar 1 year ago 2
This is the absolute best of Elton John you'll ever hear, the whole album is mesmerizing.
TheDaddyPops 1 year ago
Tumbleweed Connection was the best of all the albums he did with Bernie Taupin. Just amazing. This song is one of my favorite songs of all time. I know the words by heart.
cyberlucy 1 year ago 2
@cyberlucy I agree, i think Captain Fantastic is his best record in my opinion. We All Fall In Love Sometimes is amazing...
bassmanjoe 1 year ago
This song makes me cry too. So many memories associated with it. Beautiful song that hits the heart and soul.
lesstrat01 1 year ago
11xzxzxz, I too get very emotional listening to this song. Part of my emotion for it is a sadness that he didn't continue his career making more of this kind of music.
teerexable 1 year ago
@lauralexco What a great phrase, I never really realized that phrase till you wrote it. I will bet my day that you are a very nice person and very thoughtful.richgreenchampion@yohoo.com
insaneinmclean 1 year ago
This was my favorite song from the album. I was 16 when it came out...I have the orignial album. Thanks for posting.
cjfriend22 1 year ago
Peace is hard to find...
michaelsmorrison 1 year ago
@11zxxxz no brusin from me
does the same thing to me too
deniseguzzardo 1 year ago
beautiful...............
fuckoffndie1 1 year ago
M A G N I F I C A . . .
Gnaulz 1 year ago 2
To be played at my Funeral. Elder Tom. SASS
formine56 1 year ago
Stunning song,
NephilimFree 1 year ago 2
And there, sitting in an unremarkable apartment in Sacramento; living an unremarkable life, listening, thinking: "there's a war going on (Viet Nam) There's music, there's pot, there's free love and yet some thirty plus years later, Love is a more mellow vintage and that which was too quickly consumed is now priceless... This music tells of that first drink...
buckdowner 1 year ago 14
"some keep you counting stars"
AUS10TEX 2 years ago
pensare che questo brano ha 40 anni è incredibile!!
E' di una dolcezza straordinaria, a mio parere uno dei più belli di Elton
grazie per il testo.
911gt3MK1 2 years ago
I haven't heard this song in years. Hauntingly beautiful.
beffie1963 2 years ago 2
@beffie1963 Hauntingly beautiful is a great discription
zdrumdude 2 years ago
Quite right what you say. Ive long been a aware of the cold facts of life, and how we chose a partner based on cleverly inbuilt data in our instincts as well as consciously calculated decisions.
In fact, Love is our most self-dedicated emotion, made for mating, bonding and survival.
But no matter what the facts are, nothing can equal the feel of love. It gets even richer as we get older. Yet it also gets harder, when sex and total attraction become less urgent than the need for a soulmate
123ThisIsMe 2 years ago 2
@123ThisIsMe Good points you make as usual.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Nice Gab. Come down in time and I will meet you half-way.
A true love like her's a hard love to get
I'm getting to thinking is she's comin' at all
So clear in my ear
There are some women who keep you counting the stars in the night.
But not you - you are a wonderful person, G
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Beautiful sad song ....
...listening to this makes me wonder once more why so many of us never find our 'real love' ....
I wondered so many times before -
(what's the answer ..? Do we maybe not see them ... are our minds set on wrong ideals ...?)
123ThisIsMe 2 years ago
@123ThisIsMe Sad. There is no easy answer. We are biologically and environmentally programmed to seek certain traits in others and if we don't perceive them in abundance then we move on. Mindsets seem wrong but that is due to evolutionary forces that make the human race survive but has nothing to do with love. I am sad about this too and I don't mean to be so analytical about it - I feel the emotional turmoil of knowing how hard love is to find.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
What a glorious song. Brilliantly composed and perfectly performed. Amazing. TC remains my favorite EJ album.
Entertainmentwriter 2 years ago
After 35+ years, I still think this song is one of the "sexiest" ever written. Kudos to Bernie.
mattjackleroy 2 years ago 3
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This is special to me thank you
Lisahofman 2 years ago
The true essence of a deep talent about naive melodies ...Elton is the king of pop.
Perfidia4ever 2 years ago 2
I just got your reponse to my post via normal email. Thank you for responding. It's hard to believe (to me)..but I do NOT have "MadMan...". It's the only one other than maybe some of those real late releases post 'greatest hits' versions. Don't know why. My brother was an EJ Freak. Wore the gear, recorded the songs...it's what i GREW UP WITH
sponsler 2 years ago
Always makes me remember Laurence and her glass Yes, I would like some... Tea
ic751a55 2 years ago
I fell in love with the oboe in this song
TracyG1981 2 years ago
I got stood up on a date over the summer and this song came to mind....even at 39 I felt like I was in high school again....it never gets any easier does it
dyonker 2 years ago
No..it never does. Trust me..I'm 49 and will soon hit the big 5-0 in about 3 1/2 weeks. Still feel 27 for life.
sponsler 2 years ago
Tears Come, but with Throrns there are Roses!!
formine56 2 years ago
@formine56 I still draw breath! But wish this played at my Funeral!
formine56 1 year ago
My mum's beautiful soul song ...
starseedenergy 2 years ago 2
If you like this check out "The Earliest Discovery" Video on U-Tube. Search for Elton John - The Greatest Discovery ('70 LIVE at BBC studios - You will see a live in studio version by a young Elton with Bernie T looking on.
jafjaf007 2 years ago
One of my favorite early pieces by Elton John I never understood why this did not get more air play... I have the vinyl version of Tumbleweed and 11XZXZXZ asked about the other intsrument - Its an Oboe played by Karl Jenkins according to a web site. Brilliant production on this and the earlier Elton John. The band in these days with Gus D, Paul B and Co ... If you have the chance look at the original album cover with the pages of pics, the lyrics etc .
jafjaf007 2 years ago 3
Excellent information. Someone else had posted that it was a modified oboe. Is there a french horn in there too? Anyway..if you don't have time to reply thank you for posting this. Steve.
sponsler 2 years ago
A perfect song even if Elton purposely stutters through this song and to great effect.
I ain't heard her call and I'm gettin' to thinkin' she ain't comin' at all.
The instrumentals? I know there is a harp but I am not sure what that other haunting instrument is used in the 2 instrumental solos are .. help?
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
probably a modified lute for your info
MrJasonroy 2 years ago
Thank you.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Hard to tell. Do you thing that's a french horn in there too? In any case, I searched this particular song out. Have a huge EJ Album online now. Wish I could copy the whole swoop to CD..LOL
sponsler 2 years ago
it`s definitely an "oboe".
i had the vinyl album amongst.
MrJasonroy 2 years ago
if you`ve got the whole, don`t miss indian sunset from madman`s, & of course his untitiled "your song" album, which was his second . for he made a first unknown one before.
but frankly speaking i am no more interested in what he does nowadays.
those were the days!!
MrJasonroy 2 years ago
not to mention "song for guy" & "funeral for a friend"
MrJasonroy 2 years ago
Elton, Bernie, Paul Buckmaster, and Gus Dudgeon really hit the ball out of the park with this one. It is so beautiful...
billyjoeboomboom 2 years ago 2
I have read the somewhat sparse amount of comments here...and reveled in the understanding of beauty of some of you. I stumbled across this album while young (born 1952). I didn't know (really didn't realize) what I beheld. I liked it. NowIKnow. The beginning swells my soul and the end just fits.....life.
JJJZANESVILLE2 2 years ago 3
I love your comment; love this album, I'm only a year before you (53) but these songs made me feel as if I were 1000 years old...
mullah06 2 years ago
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God i love this song.
ithastobe 2 years ago
such a lovely song...the arrangements are perfect...such a good work!
diablocor1 2 years ago 3
i have loved this song for years.. what a true masterpiece
jma64 2 years ago 2
this is one beautifull song -- nice late night music .
ILOVEMINCEPIES 2 years ago 14
Summer, yes, August in fact, listening in wondrous focus to the record collection of a woman I had just met, but then as now the memory the song evokes is from August of the year before and the woman I encountered in the midnight full-moon mist of a water meadow beyond a rural commune. Taupin's lyrics and John's musicianship perfectly capture the magical aura of that once-in-a-lifetime meeting -- and all it yet portends.
learnedobserver 2 years ago 2
This is the most poignant Elton and Bernie song ever written. I too discovered it on a magical summer night--- waiting for my beloved of 15, to come rescue me from a home with a dieing father, my tormented insecurities of teenage love-- raw and on the surface, and the fear he would never show---- i waited listening to this in the still summer night air.
rademos 2 years ago 7
@rademos Beautifully expressed...
thanksforthemusic 1 year ago
An amazingly classic poem. If you read this in a book you'd never imagine the musical version, but you would love the words. Wonderful.
Entertainmentwriter 2 years ago
This song is almost 40 years old and I remember it clear as day... Listening to it in my sister's pink room with red shag carpeting!
kevinehart 2 years ago 13
I in my room with Elton John poster all over the wall!
TracyG1981 2 years ago
I am not an Elton John fan but this work has haunted me since I first heard it on a magical night in 1971. It is a truly exquisite poem, unmistakably the story of a genuine encounter with the Muse, its instrumentation evocative of the lost ages when her grace and loveliness were publicly acknowledged. Yet beyond the poignancy of its closing verse there is the comfort of a line from Robert Graves that perfectly describes her ultimate faithfulness: "nothing promised that is not performed."
learnedobserver 2 years ago
My favorite album, I still have the vinyl. Thanks for posting!
truckerdave505 2 years ago
A one of a kind combo ~ Bernie Taupin and Elton John. I grew up listening to them. Love them and this haunting song! Thanks for posting it...
IaMoDiNaRy 2 years ago 4
the beginning is so haunting it's beautiful
peanutboy2pro 2 years ago
I used to have this album, what a great song!!!!
heavnnnsent 2 years ago
This is my favorite song and has been since it came out in the 70s. Adrienne Barbeau sang a beautiful, haunting version of it on the Tonight Show in the 70s and I've never been able to find it. Does anyone know if that show is on YouTube anywhere? I can't find it.
phatboy0743 2 years ago
By the way, I am still crying and it's a month later. ...
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
What a incredible,absolutely beautiful song.If you don't cry when you get through listening to it,you are not human!I wish Manilow would cover it since he has redone lots of classics of the 50',60' and 70's it would be the perfect song to include on one of his nostalgic remakes he seems to be doing these days.
rogumshagum 2 years ago
I guess I am going to get a bruising for admitting this - but I cry most anytime I hear this song.
11xzxzxz 3 years ago 19
@11xzxzxz It's been a year since you gave this a listen.
It has the same affect on me.
"I can still hear her say," what she used to.
Now, after all these years, she's talking to me again.
She always held me tight, as we lay beneath the stars, counting until it became funny. Now we know when the moon is out, we are both gazing it's way, just from different places, for now.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 Really man you cry to it or just feel like it is more accurate. I can't remember the number of hold back the tears. Best Bernie lyrics. Nah, he didn't write them I'm thinking Lennon and Young helped. Later Penn no myth added something to the 20th anniversary rerecording .. nah kidding. Well I hope it's not always gonna be from different dark sides of the moon. If I quote a band I don't really like then you know something is howling at the moon or it's a great song.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz Yeah, I did cry when I was so much younger, due to the situation at he time.
Not necessarily Taupin's best, but close to it for me.
Lennon and Young helped, but they did it with their own music, and Penn became 'a partner in their crimes,' a few generations later.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 What other Taupin's lyrics do you like as much or more? You concurrently globalized and internalized my use of the word "help" which is a syntactical mythical crime of proportionality. Was it really a few generations later? Because that is an untimely affront to the Bridge School to bridge time that way .. or a few generations before at The battle of Little Big Horn.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz .
Thinking,"Not just anybody's Help! everything up to and including "Funeral for a friend/Love Lies Bleeding," with the rest of that album totally escaping me.
While "Mad Man," was burned up on the radio, with the short version, anyone who owned the album heard the great orchestral music, blending with Elton's very well paced, beautifully written piano notes.
The battle of Little big Horn has been a generational "Myth," with a new story with each new history book.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 Yeah I need to find time to hear that orchestral Mad Man. Ha not just anyone's help! Yeah Big Horn is a myth .. just watch the movie with Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man. The bathtub scene with Fay Dunaway explains the big part.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 (Continental continuational driftwood) Sorry to Harp on your uncharacteristic mis-characterizations. Situational crying huh? The blues before and after, give or take an generation or so? Hey sorry to be obnoxious .. I would like to be your friend, for the world to see? Oh I see you have Neil's pic up too .. the one that ran over Old King? Hey what does the line "between the line of ages" mean? .. I am not sure of someone&somethings and you seem like the right person to ask.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz Understandably so, it seems you your being obnoxious, most often comes across as humerous,,for those of us who know that while you may be serious you also possess, perhaps, even unknown to yourself, a keen sense of humor, "between the lines of your age," as you age.
Actually the line is, "between the lines of age," and it is my interpretation, within the context of all the lyrics, Neil is getting new, "Messages,"/"presents" from his 'friends,' with each passing year.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 I hope my writings come across as humorous or thoughtful and as you know logic comes first with me "between dem lines of age". OK Neil gets presents and messages but being Neil, don't you think he is hesitant to receive them and prefers less attention (and human contact). Back then anyway.
Also I rarely think I am obnoxious, but thanks for making pointing this out, you bastard. Kidding.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
rockinroller7 1 year ago
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 Right .. I was just on the phone with J and finally J admitted that "Come down in time" was a timeless song. Damn I spend a lot of precious (the dog in Silence of the Lambs) half-minutes boosting Elton who sold out. When Elton when public on gayness who the hell cares? But about when Benny and The Jets came out of the closet (it was probably the start of disco years so glam rock was already around and everyone but Neil Young sold out) . Man you analyzed that song well, my ...
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz Yeah, elton and bernie clicked for a few years, but E. decided he wanted to be a R&r star,,and we all know how that worked out, Re: "Disco".
Boy he sure did, 'go breaking our hearts."
It's just my anylyization?, but I'm sure many others see it differently, seeing only a birthday party, and missing everything else going on outside the window.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 Yeah that's good analyzing. Bernie my hero! Don't go breakin was a cute song .. that didn't bother me..ha. But the big glasses was the mark of a sellout. I think John needs everyone to love him. He just should have just continued his better earlier work and done both. I say that of Neil and others.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 ... friend
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 I would buy a used souped-up super-charged good for the economy car from Neil as his "dream" car got to be worth millions. If John Len was alive on his birthday he would sing "Instant Car-ma" to Neil. "Better recognize a fan, everyone you meet" The guy is very comfortable on Letterman talking about cars but ask for an autograph ("Go to Hell to you") .. and sure he is alienated and "hello" is too long a conversation for him.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz gotta ses that movie!!!!
Then buy the car, or whichever comes first.
I get the 'too long conversation,' thing.
Hell, he's been answering the same questions for 40 years.
As I've mentioned, if I saw him on the street, I wouldn't 'bother,' him.
(and good luck with ever seeing him on the street.)
Peace.
Rock.
Back to the music.
Peace
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 I wouldn't bother him. I am talking of the way he treated friends but I don't know his side. I think on the first of 40 years he wasn't answering questions and I understand that but don't go on Dave Letterman and brag about soup cars and not talk a minute about music. You know his people told Dave's people if Dave mentioned music Neil would "walk on" and tell Dave to take a hike. I really don't think about that much but YT brings out the worst in us all.. back to the music.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz All I can say about the car issue is that Neil has had a life long facination wih cars: See "Chrome Dreams."
And now, having at least 2 scientist's living on his ranch, working on a V-8 engine that may get 75-100 miles per gallon of gas is pretty amazing stuff.
Not be short, a jerk, smart alleck, horse's ass, or anything else that seems like I'm jst cutting you off, but Neil has always been a "difficult,' interview, and he has been talking about music for over 45 years,
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 Yeah I know he talked about his song early songs but was pissed off that Rolling Stone ignored his first great solo record. Don't cut me off .. bad mileage move. I am sure Neil is plenty nice at times. He probably found a lot of peace with Peggy. And his compassion for Ben.. Oh and if you are me are going to be jerks of any order just write from this epic site. Thanks to manic88.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz
I've been wondering for days why someone hasn't asked us what the fuck we are talking about, but then it hit me, as it usually does, sooner or later, just look at the number of views in over 2 years, for a song that so many haven't heard and perhaps never will.
Didn't mean to cut you off, but you were driving so slow, and this new car with a
V-8 engine, built on neil's ranch,,,oh what the hell, this has to stop.
'I see a stop sign ahead.'
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
@rockinroller7
Maybe someone just wasn't interested ...
Beautiful song. I already posted a comment with my thoughts 8 months ago.
( if you want to click on ' View all comments' )
123ThisIsMe 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 CONT As Clarice Starling said to Hannibal Lecter "why not turn that high power laser of insight on yourself Dr Lecter?" We all rarely do that .. I do it more but mostly I miss if I am obnoxious until I get a letter from a stupid person trying to take me down a notch .. at least then I have insight into how this boy is perceived but also as to how most people attack people all the time for the "fun or thrill of it all" which is not what I mean to do.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@rockinroller7 Not a year at all .. I don't always have to write something .. probably heard it 30 times.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz You're not the only. This is such a sad and wistful song. Reminds me of Steve the chef at Pinnacle insurance. I wish I'd learned his last name.
ana1sninja 1 year ago
@ana1sninja Thanks but I started crying Sept 2 1985 to Oct 22 2009 and that's a long long time. Steve the chef at Pinnacle??
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
I don't like all that much of Elton but this song is a good as it gets.
11xzxzxz 3 years ago
I recommended this song to my band director because of the awesome oboe in it.
BigEltonFan 3 years ago
A perfect song. Elton's voice was so wonderful back then and Bernie Taupin's lyrics, ah, terrific. What a team! Thanks for posting this terrific tune. (I have heard Sting's version, and I'm sorry, though I own several of POLICE and Sting solo cds, and I love Mr. Sting, he did a terrible and inadequate cover of this song. His voice doesn't work for this and the arrangement did not surpass this original.)
Mirtika 3 years ago 5
Tumble Weed Connection is without a doubt Elton's best album. I thought it was when it came out and I haven't changed my mind in all these years. "Where to Now St. Peter" is my second favorite:
"I took myself a blue canoe
And I floated like a leaf
Dazzling, dancing
Half enchanted
In my Merlin sleep".....
It just doesn't get any better than this.....
bond00752 3 years ago 4
oh yes, without a doubt. Come down in time and Where to now St. Peter. Was given this album as an Easter gift from my mom at the age of 16-17. That was a long time ago, also Love song on here is another favorite.
Karen9084 3 years ago
I love Where to Now, St Peter! And this song--so sadly romantic. Elton was at his primo in the seventies, no question. After that, I lost interest in his music. But his early stuff--it will be special for me forever.
Mirtika 3 years ago
I want to thank Kenny Lattimore for exposing a new generation to a beautiful piece of music on his appropriately titled new cd "Timeless" I love listening to this song.
iamastylist 3 years ago
Ever hear Elton at Radio City Music Hall, with James Newton Howard, what a great video. This song is worth the price alone.
gaspo218 3 years ago
hi, just hearing this song for the very first time today (where have i been ???), since kenny lattimore just remade it......it is so pretty......thanks for sharing the words.....take care
hellen706 3 years ago 2
Elton and Bernie's early stuff was the best...
ZIPPTPH77 3 years ago 3
I used to play this over and over until that ol' vinyl didn't play any more! What a blast from the past and one of his very best. Thank Bernie for the fab lyrics.
onemoreterm 3 years ago 5
I first heard this song about 10 years ago. I couldn't believe what a great song this was...and still is. Amazing that is has probably never been played on radio.
valenzuala 3 years ago 2
Is this a re-master? It's hard for me to tell, because even though I listened to this album in 1972 (on that hot new audio format, cassette!) perhaps 500 times, it was on a downmarket self-installed player in my 1964 Ford Falcon...with original 4-inch cardboard speakers.
So I really have no idea what it's supposed to sound like. I only know this album and Madman are by far his finest work, and find them light years ahead of the crapola the EJ/BT team started churning out around 1975.
jum1801 3 years ago
Haaahaa...I agree. I hate to say it, but EJ's voice is going too. Ahh but who cares...they wrote some beautiful stuff...not easy to sustain. This music will last forever.
blisstobliss 3 years ago 2
One of my all time favourites.
Scribe66 3 years ago 3
Elton's plaintive lyrics and the French horns made this song an instant classic. Thirty-eight years later, it continues to shine.
NanMatau 3 years ago
You do realize it's more accurate to say, "Elton's singing of Bernie Taupin's plaintive lyrics", don't you?
And I agree it continues to shine. It's almost embarrassing to stack this (or anything on Tumbleweed) up against the silly foo-foo stuff he's been doing for the last, oh, 33 years.
jum1801 3 years ago
You're right. I stand corrected.
I'm also one of those who believes there is a distinct dichotomy between "Early Elton, Pre-1974" and what came after.
NanMatau 3 years ago 3
"Tumbleweed connection" is undoubtedly one of his best albums, with a country-rock sound influenced by the group "the band", and some texts of Bernie Taupin on legends and myths of far-west.
manic89 3 years ago