May 27, 2018 - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Water Sly Meets Bill Bailey (1968)

Listen to that slippery bass during the opening 0:20, how it sneaks away from the other instruments when they pause. That is probably my favorite element of Water Sly Meets Bill Bailey, by the British group Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. The second half of the opening segment is a quasi-Bouree guitar part while the bass steps in time.

From 0:55 - 0:58, and this is kind of a stretch, in that snippet of melody I can hear Tragedy by the Bee Gees and The Night Owls by the Little River Band. Can you hear it? I know, I'm weird. A guitar solo start in earnest at 1:10.

At 1:36 there is the sudden intrusion of (Won't You Come Home) Bill Beetle Bailey, a tune originally published in 1902. (haha, I was writing this with my phone and after I typed Bill, the suggested next word was Clinton). I can only hear Bill Bailey won't you please come home, the other words are hard to decipher. At 2:06, uh-oh, Bill Bailey is being sucked down the drain by the sly water creature, Charybdis, along with Elmer Gantry and the rest of his gang. Down down down...echo echo echo.