In Ten Tracks is not a best of or greatest hits or even necessarily a list of favorites. They're songs by an artist that stuck with me for various reasons through the years. Mix tape/playlist staples
Great list! I like that you included some deep tracks and forgotten singles (like Empty Garden!) Here are a few more I like that either weren't released as singles or weren't big hits:
(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket - from Captain Fantastic
Harmony - from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Simple Life - from The One
Porch Swing in Tupelo - from Peachtree Road
Love Song - from Tumbleweed Connection
The Emperor's New Clothes - from Songs from the West Coast
Very pleased to see Empty Garden here. Wife and I saw EJ at the Boston Garden in 1982 and he performed this song. He cried, the band cried, I cried, the wife and entire audience cried! An incredible performer my whole life (67). Thanks for your work here.
Bell had the Spinners cut a different version of "Are You Ready For Love?" soon after working with Sir Elton, and it was a minor R&B hit for them.
It's a pity John and Bell didn't end up getting along. Another track from those sessions, "Nice And Slow", shows exactly how comfortable Elton was in a soul music setting (though I suspect those familiar with "Bennie And The Jets" and "Philadelphia Freedom" already knew that).
I am impressed that I haven’t heard of five of these tracks. I have wrestled with playlists as an odd-on to my own ‘stack, but decided to leave that to the people who live with and by playlists. But I will listen to these Elton tunes I don’t know, because your recommendations are always interesting, Marshall.
It's hard to choose just one but "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" has to be my favorite EJ song.
Great list! I like that you included some deep tracks and forgotten singles (like Empty Garden!) Here are a few more I like that either weren't released as singles or weren't big hits:
(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket - from Captain Fantastic
Harmony - from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Simple Life - from The One
Porch Swing in Tupelo - from Peachtree Road
Love Song - from Tumbleweed Connection
The Emperor's New Clothes - from Songs from the West Coast
Birds - from Songs from the West Coast
Very pleased to see Empty Garden here. Wife and I saw EJ at the Boston Garden in 1982 and he performed this song. He cried, the band cried, I cried, the wife and entire audience cried! An incredible performer my whole life (67). Thanks for your work here.
Another amazing deep dive into a fantastic artist, with quite a few tracks I don’t know. Thanks so much Marshall!!
Bell had the Spinners cut a different version of "Are You Ready For Love?" soon after working with Sir Elton, and it was a minor R&B hit for them.
It's a pity John and Bell didn't end up getting along. Another track from those sessions, "Nice And Slow", shows exactly how comfortable Elton was in a soul music setting (though I suspect those familiar with "Bennie And The Jets" and "Philadelphia Freedom" already knew that).
I am impressed that I haven’t heard of five of these tracks. I have wrestled with playlists as an odd-on to my own ‘stack, but decided to leave that to the people who live with and by playlists. But I will listen to these Elton tunes I don’t know, because your recommendations are always interesting, Marshall.