Jonathan Sings...Live!

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"Jonathan Sings" is about loving life.
I know that most everything that JOJO does is about loving life, but
Jonathan Sings is REALLY about loving life!

When I was 14 (where have I heard that phrase before?)
one summer day I was in my fathers car. He played "That summer feeling". No, not the I, Jonathan version,
the REAL version... The Jonathan Sings version. ( no offense to anything on the simply superb I, Jonathan album)

The second I heard the "ohhs" from the rockin' robins I was hooked. 
This was the feeling that I yearned for my whole life!!!

When I heard "Jonathan, what's happin-in?, I knew this was the hidden piece of the puzzle
I had been trying to connect from my Beatles days, to my first introduction to raw punk days.
There were some other songs that had the feeling but this album 
flaunted that feeling like it was assumed! It was natural!

Of course songs like tag game, your the one for me, when i'm walkin', and 
the neighbors enhanced the overall charm.

So here I present a new "nugrape" official compillation.

ITS NOT AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL. How could it be? But while perfection can be 
a rare thing, I think that these live versions have enough feeling to even
enhance your next listen of the album on an early spring day where it feels
like winter just loosened it's grip a little and decided to dance to those conga drums.
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2011-01-01 Pepe In Spain. It was probably around 1988sh. Live, great concerts...
2010-12-02 Wayne Found it at a record fair in Melbourne for $5 round 2002 & that $5 was the best investment i made. I think it was my first Jonathan solo album I owned, the cover excited me, but when i wacked it on the turntable it was like love at first listen & I can relate totally to the feelings of summer, when i smell the lawn being cut, this LP springs to mind!
2010-04-19 Mark My very first introduction to Jonathan Richman was during the early-90s when the wonderful, dearly missed Melbourne band Hurdy Gurdy would cover "Hey There Little Insect". I loved that song, and was intrigued by this Jonathan Richman character. Eventually, fishing through the second-hand tapes in Batman Records, my buddy Marty pulled out a copy of Jonathan Sings! I immediately snatched it from his grasp and ran off with my new all-time favourite album. Magically, my little Honda's car stereo refused to eject that tape, so I drove my friends around all summer living and loving Jonathan Sings!
2010-03-26 nugrape I like how you said that this album made you promptly learn to appreciate summer. It did the same for me
2010-03-26 arielle gosh, i must be much younger than the rest of you! i first heard this wonderful album last year, and promptly learned to appreciate summer.
2010-03-25 Leo bought it on vinyl in Cambridge 10-83 AND saw him live there on my 23rd birthday!!! These old versions with Ellie Marshall are sweet!!!!
2010-03-21 peagumbo 1995
2010-03-21 nugrape Thanks for catching that Inaki! I fixed the link
2010-03-21 Alberto Too late. In 98 or 99, when I found a CD copy at a second hand store.
2010-03-21 Inaki the link to "those conga drums is wrong. Should be http://icecoldnugrape.com/jonathansingslive/thoseCongaDrums.mp3
2010-03-20 DMD In 1990, soon after I discovered Jonathan and was rapidly buying up every tape, record, CD I could find! In one of my first letters to Jonathan, I asked him why he didn't sing more of the great songs on Jonathan Sings! live [early 90s]. He replied: "Yeah, they were good songs, but I sang bad." Wish I had been there for more of those 80s [and 70s] shows, but glad for the many live shows I have enjoyed in Northern California! I love most every song on this album, especially That Summer Feeling and The Neighbors, but also Sombeody to Hold Me, Not Yet Three, and When I'm Walking! paz y amor, DMD
2010-03-20 Yves in 83, when it was first issued. Loved it instantly.
2010-03-20 Jerry B. Sometime in the mid 90's or so when I beleive it was reissued on CD.

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