{"id":21750,"date":"2022-07-30T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21750"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:49:34","slug":"episode-620-aint-no-sunshine-now-shes-gone-at-benares-july-29-2022-the-midnight-hour-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21750","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 620 “AIN’T NO SUNSHINE NOW SHE’S GONE” at Benares July 29, 2022, the Midnight Hour band"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 620    ‘AIN\u2019T NO SUNSHINE NOW SHE\u2019S GONE\u201d\u2026the Midnight Hour band at Benares<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
july 30, 2022<\/div>\n

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I WAS LATE.<\/div>\n

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\u201cALAN, you missed Midnight Hour and three other great R and B songs.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHad to get camera battery damnit.<\/div>\n
\u201cthe guys are great.   Can we dance?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAlone?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAin\u2019t no sunshine \u2026.when they\u2019re gone Alan\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThis band looks like the rebirth of the Blues Brothers.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLoved them.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cMidnight Hour lyrics are very suggestive, you know.\u201d<\/div>\n

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MIDNIGHT HOUR<\/div>\n

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I’m gonna wait ’til the midnight hour<\/span><\/div>\n
That’s when my love come tumbling down<\/span>
I’m gonna wait ’til the midnight hour<\/span>
When there’s no one else around<\/span>
I’m gonna take you, girl, and hold you<\/span>
And do all things I told you, in the midnight hour<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another \u2018midnight\u2019 song\u2026but not part of this evening\u2019s selections.   Could be next year.<\/div>\n

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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL<\/div>\n

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Well, you wake up in the mornin’<\/span>
You hear the work bell ring<\/span>
And they march you to the table<\/span>
You see the same old thing<\/span>
Ain’t no food upon the table<\/span>
And no pork up in the pan<\/span>
But you better not complain, boy<\/span>
You get in trouble with the man<\/span><\/div>\n
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me<\/span>
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me<\/span>
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me<\/span>
Let the Midnight Special shine an ever-lovin’ light on me<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY<\/div>\n

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Everybody needs somebody<\/span>
Everybody needs somebody to love (everybody)<\/span>
Someone to love (needs somebody)<\/span>
Sweetheart to miss (everybody)<\/span>
Sugar to kiss (needs somebody)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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JANE JANE JANE<\/div>\n

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Woah Jane you’re playin’ a game<\/span>
But why I don’t see<\/span>
Jane you’re playin’ for fun<\/span>
But I play for keeps, yes I do<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
That’s a game on me, yeah<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
So plain to see<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
Janie, Janie, Janie, Janie, Janie<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
Why you foolin’ with me, me, me<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span>
(Jane, Jane, Jane)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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MIDNIGHT HOUR<\/div>\n

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I’m gonna wait ’til the midnight hour<\/span><\/div>\n
That’s when my love come tumbling down<\/span>
I’m gonna wait ’til the midnight hour<\/span>
When there’s no one else around<\/span>
I’m gonna take you, girl, and hold you<\/span>
And do all things I told you, in the midnight hour<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AIN\u2019T NO SUNSHINE WHEN SHE\u2019S GONE<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone<\/span>
It’s not warm when she’s away<\/span>
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone<\/span>
And she’s always gone too long<\/span>
Anytime she’s goes away<\/span><\/div>\n
Wonder this time where she’s gone<\/span>
Wonder if she’s gone to stay<\/span>
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone<\/span>
And this house just ain’t no home<\/span>
Anytime she goes away<\/span><\/div>\n

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BENARES front porch makes me feel I am privileged to have a special concert just<\/div>\n
for my friends on a summer evening.  Perhaps close to one hundred people arrived<\/div>\n
July 29, 2022 to hear the Midnight Hour rhythm and blues band bring back memories of<\/div>\n
Ray Charles, the Blues Brothers, Wilson Picket\u2026others.  Listeners will correct me<\/div>\n
because the band did not play Midnight Special but rather play the sexy Midnight<\/div>\n
Hour.  Nor did they play Georgia on my Mind, the Ray Charles R and B favourite.<\/div>\n
The band only had a two hour window at Benares\u2026wish it was more.  I kept hollering<\/div>\n
Midnight Hour! in the hope they would do an encore.  I did hear the song as I hustled <\/div>\n
across the Benares field with my camera charged and ready.<\/div>\n

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Perhaps the most powerful of their songs was a rendition of  ‘Ain\u2019t Know Sunshine when she\u2019s Gone’\u2026a song<\/div>\n
that really hurts.  As Dean Fulton, lead singer shows below.<\/div>\n

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WHO WAS RAY CHARLES?<\/div>\n

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Who Was Ray Charles?<\/h2>\n

Ray Charles was a legendary musician who pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s. Often called the “Father of Soul,” Charles combined blues, gospel and jazz to create groundbreaking hits such as “Unchain My Heart,” “Hit the Road Jack” and “Georgia on My Mind.” He died in 2004, leaving a lasting impression on contemporary music.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Early Life<\/h2>\n

Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. His father, a mechanic, and his mother, a sharecropper, moved the family to Greenville, Florida when he was an infant. One of the most traumatic events of his childhood was witnessing the drowning death of his younger brother.<\/p>\n

Soon after his brother’s death, Charles gradually began to lose his sight. He was blind by the age of 7, and his mother sent him to a state-sponsored school, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida \u2014 where he learned to read, write and arrange music in Braille. He also learned to play piano, organ, sax, clarinet and trumpet. The breadth of his musical interests ranged widely, from gospel to country, to blues.<\/p>\n

GEORGIA  ON MY MIND<\/div>\n

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Georgia, Georgia<\/span>
The whole day through (the whole day through)<\/span>
Just an old sweet song<\/span>
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
I said Georgia<\/span>
Georgia<\/span>
A song of you (a song of you)<\/span>
Comes as sweet and clear<\/span>
As moonlight through the pines<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
Other arms reach out to me<\/span>
Other eyes smile tenderly<\/span>
Still in peaceful dreams I see<\/span>
The road leads back to you<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
I said Georgia<\/span>
Oh Georgia, no peace I find (no peace I find)<\/span>
Just an old sweet song<\/span>
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 620    ‘AIN\u2019T NO SUNSHINE NOW SHE\u2019S GONE\u201d\u2026the Midnight Hour band at Benares alan skeoch july 30, 2022 I WAS LATE. \u201cALAN, you missed Midnight Hour and three other great R and B songs.\u201d \u201cHad to get camera battery damnit. \u201cthe guys are great.   Can we dance?\u201d \u201cAlone?\u201d \u201cAin\u2019t no sunshine \u2026.when they\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}