“I thank the Lord, for the people I have found…” I live by this every day. Fantastic song.
@AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js2 ай бұрын
One of his best vocal performances in my opinion. The vibe of the song is just out there.
@jeanniedebartolo59652 ай бұрын
Not one of Elton’s songs that received much radio air time but it’s my favorite tune of his❤
@michaellebow74202 ай бұрын
Hard to argue that this is Elton's most underrated song. Majestic top to bottom.
@John_Locke_1082 ай бұрын
It's a dang masterpiece of a song that's for sure; from an equally amazing record.
@barbaracollins3852 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Elton John songs. Maren Morris, a country singer, did a rendition of this song that will bring tears to even Elton's eyes.
@tinalinge27822 ай бұрын
Heart does a version also. ❤
@tombigelow89052 ай бұрын
I agree with you about his early music being so good!
@lesblatnyak59472 ай бұрын
Can you imagine Elton had a short visit with Gentle Giant. As I got gray with Elton, I've come to love all his old songs all over again ✨️🎶✨️
@user-gu1zb6cw6t2 ай бұрын
Bernie Taupin is one of the great lyricists, and it is amazing how Elton John interprets them so brilliantly.
@dansteichen46672 ай бұрын
I believe it is a mandolin
@AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js2 ай бұрын
I was a huge Elton John fan in the early to mid seventies and this was a favorite. Nice choice, thanks! ✌️❤️🤟🥁
@jbach43112 ай бұрын
Heart Does an Amazing Rendition of this!! Nancy singing Lead and strumming a 12 string Guitar. Live in Seattle 2002
@leannlaplante36432 ай бұрын
I'll check that out. I like her. I didn't know she did it. Thank you.
@ozmaile79382 ай бұрын
One of my favorites ... also love Madman Across the Water
@Cynthia...2 ай бұрын
I think this is one of my favourite Elton John songs. I just love it thank you DJ and Harri.
@davidsibley73292 ай бұрын
In my opinion his early stuff was his absolute best. The entire Madman across the water album is nothing but classics!
@iandowney46302 ай бұрын
Thanks very much for submitting this song, DJ. This is from my favorite Elton album. It’s a beautiful song and he keeps it simple with limited accompaniment. I think the instrument Harri you’re wondering about is the mandolin, I’m not positive. Another great early song from EJ!
@DJBilodeau2 ай бұрын
I have to come back to this one again, Harri. Of all his songs, this is such a powerful one.
@leannlaplante36432 ай бұрын
It's my favorite Elton song. Thank you. First listened to this album on a rainy day in Oregon many years ago. It always hits deep. Thank you again for reacting to this.
@brendamilloy25572 ай бұрын
This is my favorite Elton tune. Love the mandolin.
@Enfield-18532 ай бұрын
For unless they see the sky. But, they can't and that is why. They know not if its dark outside or light. Bernie was my favorite lyricists in my 64 years on earth. My favorite Elton John songs never made the radio. Talking Old Soldiers, Indian Sunset, Blues for Baby and Me, Harmony, Salvation, My Father's Gun, Sweet Painted Lady, Come Down in Time, Country Comfort, Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters. I want Goodbye played at my funeral.
@DJBilodeau2 ай бұрын
As usual, an incredible program. We bring you our jewels and you put them in the most beautiful settings! Thanks again Harri!
@ChuckHackney2 ай бұрын
My God but my generation was so blessed musically. Almost too much greatness. What the hell has happened to music today?? I guess it has gone like a candle in the wind.
@IrishKack2 ай бұрын
My all time favorite Elton John song.
@debbiechang57812 ай бұрын
Harri, I wholeheartedly agree with you about the early Elton John’s voice, tone and piano. I think his first encounter with Taupin was a match made in heaven😂. What an amazing songwriting team! Thanks Harri and DJBilodeau 🌺🌺✌️
@DJBilodeau2 ай бұрын
Heavy hitting Elton John song with one of the best set of lyrics by Bernie Taupin in their whole catalogue! Now we just need to apply a little bit of the Harri Best magic in this reaction! Can't wait to experience this masterpiece!!!
@robin_the_red_fox40822 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, my dad introduced me to this song. There was another song of Elton's that I was listening to from the Reg Strikes Back album that was actually called Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Part 2, and my dad said that there was another song I should listen to. So, he out on the Honky Tonk Chateau album and this song came on. It sings of a British man's first visit to New York City and his impressions of the city. And it is this song and Empty Garden that help me feel the connection between my dad and I a little stronger.
@ryanr53192 ай бұрын
Adore this song. Ty for reaction!
@Candolad2 ай бұрын
For the sheer length and consistency of his career, Elton John is perhaps the greatest songwriter ever. There can't be any one of his tracks that isn't liked by anyone anywhere. His backstory is extremely interesting too.
@RickeyWilkersonVoices2 ай бұрын
Elton has SO many great songs and here are a few more that are sure to please! "Ticking" "Salvation" "Country Comfort" and "Someones Final Song"
@CuriousGeorge11112 ай бұрын
I agree with you, Harri--the early, direct, bluesy, acoustic Elton is my favorite. His best attributes are front and center, on his early albums: in chronological order: Elton John, 17-11-70 (a live recording of a radio broadcast), Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across The Water, and the album Mad Hatters is from--Honky Chateau. IMO these are Elton's heart and peak, and stand head and shoulders above his later work, great as it is. A particular favorite of mine from HC is Susie (dramas). It's more of a roots rocker, and shows Elton in his muscular prime. Peach and joy to you and yours.
@lauraallen552 ай бұрын
One of my top five of Sir Elton.
@tinalinge27822 ай бұрын
Old Elton is the best Elton. Adore this song. Have you listened to Mad Man Across the Water as of yet? If not, you must. He was so great before he sold himself to Disney. Then it was just mundane.
@Al-eb5tv2 ай бұрын
I think I heard this song for the first time 22 years ago, when I watched on television as Elton John performed it during The Concert for New York City. It’s astonishing to think he and Bernie Taupin wrote it 30 years before that, not knowing how its haunting lyricism and melody would strike just the right note-so many years later-for everyone in the audience that night. Powerful and classic.
@Raittway26 күн бұрын
Tumbleweed Connection is my fav Elton album. I started piano at 7, so I'm a huge fan ❤
@ls19592 ай бұрын
Some of Elton John's greatest songs weren't his hits. I don't believe this one ever was in the top 100, and yet among Elton John fans, this has to be near the top of many lists. Such a beautiful song.
@markcummings94672 ай бұрын
Harri, love your reactions and how you describe your emotions about the songs. I think that may be mandolin you are hearing also. Thanks!
@yamforlife2 ай бұрын
Awesome tune!!!
@ThistleAndSea2 ай бұрын
My favorite Elton John song. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing this one Harri. 🙂
@davidmasullo59192 ай бұрын
I’m 64. Listened to this guy throughout the 70s This is a song I never had patience for Was too slow for my teenage mind. Would change the station when it came on. I love this song
@lourenzi88202 ай бұрын
Some of Bernie's finest lyrics
@JD_Cool2 ай бұрын
Elton's voice never sounded as sublimely elegant as this. My absolute favorite Elton tune. And as a New Yorker, I love his lyric about the rich and poor sharing the subway.
@cjdesign57002 ай бұрын
Early Elton=PRICELESS
@brandonjones13492 ай бұрын
Im a sucker for piano Especially Sir Elton John. Ty Harri and DJ. Slainte ☘️ 5:29
@danielkelleher24192 ай бұрын
This was used effectively in the movie Almost Famous!
@14gilbertst2 ай бұрын
It's a pretty hard song to sing! There's a live version out there and he absolutely nailed it......maybe even better than the studio version. Just beautiful. (I think that's a mandolin?)
@dalemcmillan72312 ай бұрын
Excellent ❤
@ScottDeBerg2 ай бұрын
My favorite Elton John song. Thanks as usual for choosing to react to this.
@Mezza-ld3bq2 ай бұрын
Love this song ❤
@patricklemeur46072 ай бұрын
encore un titre magnifique !...
@dorothystorry17332 ай бұрын
Marion Morris singing Mad Hatters is also amazing to hear…
@richardmather19062 ай бұрын
He was at his best on this kind of number in this time period.
@jerrybourland33462 ай бұрын
The title song from Mad Man Across the Water is a must! Nothing like it since!
@jonathanmurphy31412 ай бұрын
A favorite Bernie T.-Elton J' epic poem. (Discovered through the fictional/true Rock film "Almost Famous -before getting the album of Honky Ch')
@riggermorpus2 ай бұрын
Such a beautiful song. Just add a little mandolin accompaniment and it takes it over the top imo. A lot of my favourite songs seem to have mandolin included in them. Just seems to give a song nostalgia or something. Also o agree with you about voice in this era was amazing.
@GeekGinger2 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure that a mandolin, but no matter what it is it's beautiful just like everything in this song.
@Mehwei2 ай бұрын
Love this song, nice choice
@michaelz98922 ай бұрын
His best song.
@ronaldbolton73382 ай бұрын
So glad you discovered this song. Always one of my top 5 Elton songs, unknown to most. It's a fun and difficult song to sing but I can sing it because it's in my range and key. Keep exploring Elton, his older albums are incredible, most without a bad track. If you haven't heard them yet try "Talking Old Soldiers" and "Burn Down the Mission." Thanks Harri!
@dragonfly11532 ай бұрын
Thanks for making my day!
@kevinfarrell31212 ай бұрын
One of my top 3 EJ songs
@lourenzi88202 ай бұрын
Nothing better than early Elton. I sughest My Father's Gun off of Tumbleweed Connection.
@kmar64662 ай бұрын
Bernie Taupin wrote the words after his first visit to New York. He was amazed how the tall buildings blocked the sun and it looked dark or cloudy all the time. Thus the lyrics, "they say good morning to the night, for unless they see the sky, but they can't and that is why, they know not if it's dark outside or light."
@johnthegreek58362 ай бұрын
One of his best songs and albums
@kendalltaylor70092 ай бұрын
You should also listen to Blue Eyes
@UncleQue2 ай бұрын
I believe that is neither a banjo nor Ukulele but a mandolin.
@andrewpatrick91032 ай бұрын
I've seen a couple of people mention it, but you really should check out Maren Morris's cover version of this song. As good as Elton's original is, I think the Morris cover is even better.
@alicericcardi31992 ай бұрын
One of his bests🩷.
@pattyg84642 ай бұрын
This is such an underrated album.
@dalenikolitch46272 ай бұрын
Bernie Taupin❤❤
@trevorreid9852 ай бұрын
Harri you must listen to : Blues for baby and me: and : Roy Rogers : two underrated EJ songs
@ChuckHackney2 ай бұрын
Does anyone feel like it has an almost gospel, spiritual feel to it. Least, that is what my ears hear.
@Chr1sWaterous2 ай бұрын
Neither ukulele nor banjo, it's a mandolin.
@pete38832 ай бұрын
We listened in High school, didn't understand ?
@pokerface196724 күн бұрын
MANDOLIN
@DJBilodeau2 ай бұрын
I'm going to infer that the instrument you are calling out is actually a mandolin?
@double00spy2 ай бұрын
Actually, it sounds like a mandolin to me - no banjo or ukelele.