Luyện nghe bài hát Simple Pleasures (narration)

Okay, this next song is really, really buried
in digging up all these lost for you to hear
A couple of were buried so deep that
even I couldn't remember writing them, much less them
Until Milton gave me some

Once I this story, it did unlock my own buried treasure
locked away somewhere in that way back machine part of my brain
The unique thing simple pleasures is
that it really features Rick Hirsch on a lead solo
It also is a song that got
inspiration more from Neil than Gordon Lightfoot

I'd been turned on to Fred Neil by Bob Cooke who included
of his songs in his in the Bayou Room days
Candyman which became a Roy Orbison hit, side of this life,
A bit of rain, The dolphins
Were all coffee house standards that came from his classic
and McDougall and from Bob's repertoire to mine

Then in the Summer of '69, the movie Midnight came out
and featured Harry version of Everbody's Talkin'
That became a hit
As a solo performer and in band I have played in since that time
Everybody's Talking has been of my go-to list
I met in Coconut Grove in 1971 when I went down to play in Miami
for the time and was living with
Jerry Jeff but a whole other story,

Fred was a great inspiration and became a friend
We and played gigs together at the Flick in Coral Gables
and on many dolphin
benefits in Coconut in the early 70's
I stayed in touch with him in my comings and goings from Key
and God where
he kinda dropped out of sight just after the millenium
Sadly he passed alone on Summerland Key
the list of Fred's is long and loaded with famous names
I'm proud to be one of the singers that spent time
in the shadow of his great

So this little Simple Pleasure, out to Fred Neil