Edit for headphones, April 2022. A song from the 1999 album "The Lovin' Spoonful Live at the Hotel Seville". (I have this only in 192kbps mp3, so not the best sound quality, sorry). The songs were recorded in 1999 during a great, real live performance at the Hotel Seville in Harrison, Arkansas USA. The original release of "Nashville Cats" was a 1966 USA no. 8 hit, UK no. 26 hit. January 1967 it entered the Dutch Top 40, reaching no. 14.
Personnel on the live album:
Jerry Yester - guitars, vocals; Joe Butler - vocals, guitars, autoharp, percussion; Lena Yester - keyboards, vocals; Steve Boone - bass; Mike Arturi - drums.
NASHVILLE CATS (John Sebastian)
Nashville cats, play clean as country water Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies Nashville cats, get work before they're two
well, there's thirteen hundred fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville and they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennessee anthill
yeah, thirteen hundred fifty-two guitar cases in Nashville and any one that unpacks his guitar could play twice this better than I will
when I was just thirteen you might say I was a musical proverbial knee-high when I heard a new-sounding set of tunes on the tubes that blasted me sky-high
the record man said every one was a yellow sun * record from Nashville and up north here nobody buys them and I said, but I will
and it was Nashville cats, play clean as country water Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies Nashville cats, get work before they're two
Nashville cats, play clean as country water Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies Nashville cats, get work before they're two
well there's sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-one mothers from Nashville and all their friends play music and they ain't uptight if one of the kids will
'cause it's custom made for any mother's son to be a guitar picker in Nashville and I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about the music and the mothers from Nashville
and Nashville cats, play clean as country water Nashville cats, playin' wild as mountain dew Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies Nashville cats, get work before they're two pick it...
* The lyrics refer to the Sun Records company. While Sun was best known for first recording Elvis Presley, it also released songs by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.
