Chip Taylor is one of those people who has been on the edge of famous but not quite for a long time. Probably his most famous songwriting credit is "Wild Thing" from early in his career, but at least a dozen of his songs were chart hits for other people in the '60s, '70s and '80s. In addition to that he is Jon Voight's brother, therefore Angelina Jolie's uncle.
Until the oughts, if I came across his name, he registered as vaguely familiar but not quite known, since I am a bit of a music nerd and a former record store manager (back in the '80s). It was in that decade that he paired up with singer/fiddler Carrie Rodriguez for a series of really good roots/Americana type records for which he did most of the writing. By that point at least, he had become a pretty skilled lyricist, but even in his early work there were strokes of strong insight. I saw them play live at medium-small venue in, iirc 2007. He was a good raconteur with a sly wit. All this is to say, the idea that it is there as a hidden subtext in the song is not something I would put past him. It does seem a stretch though reading all the lyrics -- I would expect there would be more to put that point across. Sure never occurred to me.
On another note, I have amused, annoyed and eventually bored most of my family with jokes about small businesses with "morningstar" in the name as being fronts for devilish goings on. Morningstar Bakery, Morningstar Montessori, etc have always amused me, especially given how very innocent and cheery their logos and decorating schemes were.
Another musician I think of for that is Harry Nilsson. He's obviously a good bit more popular that someone like Chip Taylor, but for the number of famous songs he's written there are a lot of people who have never heard of him.
Without a writer's transcription of the lyrics, there is also a problem of where the quotes belong. "Call me 'Angel of the morning'" is sensible, but not "Call me 'Angel' of the morning." "Call me 'Angel' in the morning" is also sensible and has a different meaning. Writing is superior to speech!
To be fair, some of it may just be legit paranoia. I know one guy who regularly talks of seeing certain politicians as actual demons, or at least the presence of such in them (for the fun of the reader, I won't say which politicians!).
Which itself can be a very unhealthy and downright devilish habit, since it becomes easy to dehumanize folks that way and thus no longer seeing Christ in them either.
Great points here about filtering things through our own worldviews, often without realizing it. Elites and experts do this too but are probably far less likley to be aware of it then most! And that can cause some serious problems, especially when such elites are themselves seriously divided into apposing factions as is increasingly the case in the United States today...
I would say that tipping points in both inequality and and political segregation were crossed last decade and that combined with existing underlying tendencies got us to where we are in US politics today.
And speaking of worldviews, for many religious conservatives, whatever the broader or even their own reality, lyrics such as those of Angel of The Morning can still seem highly relavent today, as they reflect ideals that are taken seriouslly even when not always fullfilled. They also reflect nostolgia and longing for a world from the past, and at times a desire to recreate a bit of it today, or for what parts of it remains.
Chip Taylor is one of those people who has been on the edge of famous but not quite for a long time. Probably his most famous songwriting credit is "Wild Thing" from early in his career, but at least a dozen of his songs were chart hits for other people in the '60s, '70s and '80s. In addition to that he is Jon Voight's brother, therefore Angelina Jolie's uncle.
Until the oughts, if I came across his name, he registered as vaguely familiar but not quite known, since I am a bit of a music nerd and a former record store manager (back in the '80s). It was in that decade that he paired up with singer/fiddler Carrie Rodriguez for a series of really good roots/Americana type records for which he did most of the writing. By that point at least, he had become a pretty skilled lyricist, but even in his early work there were strokes of strong insight. I saw them play live at medium-small venue in, iirc 2007. He was a good raconteur with a sly wit. All this is to say, the idea that it is there as a hidden subtext in the song is not something I would put past him. It does seem a stretch though reading all the lyrics -- I would expect there would be more to put that point across. Sure never occurred to me.
On another note, I have amused, annoyed and eventually bored most of my family with jokes about small businesses with "morningstar" in the name as being fronts for devilish goings on. Morningstar Bakery, Morningstar Montessori, etc have always amused me, especially given how very innocent and cheery their logos and decorating schemes were.
Another musician I think of for that is Harry Nilsson. He's obviously a good bit more popular that someone like Chip Taylor, but for the number of famous songs he's written there are a lot of people who have never heard of him.
Nilsson is one of my pop music heroes. Thanks for mentioning him, I wonder what he would have done had he lived into the 21st century.
Without a writer's transcription of the lyrics, there is also a problem of where the quotes belong. "Call me 'Angel of the morning'" is sensible, but not "Call me 'Angel' of the morning." "Call me 'Angel' in the morning" is also sensible and has a different meaning. Writing is superior to speech!
In the spirit of this post, I take the phrase "hidden in plain site" to be your sneaky nod to urbanism.
Meanwhile, I think it's high time we recognize that the Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts version is superior to Juice Newton's
To be fair, some of it may just be legit paranoia. I know one guy who regularly talks of seeing certain politicians as actual demons, or at least the presence of such in them (for the fun of the reader, I won't say which politicians!).
Which itself can be a very unhealthy and downright devilish habit, since it becomes easy to dehumanize folks that way and thus no longer seeing Christ in them either.
Great points here about filtering things through our own worldviews, often without realizing it. Elites and experts do this too but are probably far less likley to be aware of it then most! And that can cause some serious problems, especially when such elites are themselves seriously divided into apposing factions as is increasingly the case in the United States today...
I would say that tipping points in both inequality and and political segregation were crossed last decade and that combined with existing underlying tendencies got us to where we are in US politics today.
And speaking of worldviews, for many religious conservatives, whatever the broader or even their own reality, lyrics such as those of Angel of The Morning can still seem highly relavent today, as they reflect ideals that are taken seriouslly even when not always fullfilled. They also reflect nostolgia and longing for a world from the past, and at times a desire to recreate a bit of it today, or for what parts of it remains.