Twist of Fate #1 - while they were in the process of recording the "Tarkio" album, they performed as an opening act for the folksinger Melanie at Carnegie Hall. They had no thought of performing it live (and imagined that their record company probably wouldn't allow it, anyway). but relegated it to simply being a warm-up tune backstage before shows. In only an hour, they developed music and actual lyrics for it. B&S have stated that its message came (in time) to mean "excess of any kind" (which you will see used in essays to this day, not necessarily about drugs). However, it was never intended to see the light-of-day: B&S said the song came to them as a lark while rehearsing backstage - if someone flubbed a chord change, they'd say "One toke over the line" with a laugh.Īnd while the word toke indicates its primary meaning. One of the songs that appeared on the album became a hit: One Toke Over the Line has a less-folk and more-country music sound, along with a catchy melody. Named after a (now-defunct) college in their newly-adopted state of Missouri, it was recorded in the Bay Area: and many of the region's musicians helped contribute to it. It was their 1970 album Tarkio that helped them reach stardom - which also proved to be their high-water-mark. The A&M top brass liked their sound so much, they offered to record them: and their debut album Down in LA saw them backed-up by Jim Messina and Leon Russell. Oklahoma native Mike Brewer ( right in first photo below) and Ohio native Tom Shipley ( left in first photo below) tried their hand at co-writing songs, and some were recorded by the performers at A&M Records (including Glenn Yarborough, Noel Harrison and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) where they both worked. and (apparently) the Nixon Administration.
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Yet a series of incredible coincidences enabled this song to have a lasting impact on music. It's not unfair to describe them as a one-hit-wonder - but the duo of Brewer & Shipley ("B&S" for short) have as an old-age pension a song that was never intended to be performed publicly. Among others writing diaries on the subject since then was my fellow Top Commenteer, Puddytat.īut when I went to the Brewer & Shipley website, I found an interesting back-story about how the song was never meant to see the light of day: and I wrote about it five years ago in this space.Īnd so what I’d like to do is (1) reprise the story (for the benefit of newer readers) as well as (2) add a new development - in which we may yet learn the answer to the $64,000 question ….
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