Tears streaming down from my 72 year old eyes. I've been listening to Ramblin Jack Elliott almost my entire life. I'm transported back to my teenaged years hearing this - every. note is seared into my memory. I never missed a show - I even drove 200 miles to hear him once. He entertains on so many levels and he is spellbinding. When you. see him, you aren't thinking of one other thing. They say he followed Woody Guthrie around the country - studying. Then Bob Dylan followed Ramblin Jack around learning his folk singing ways.
Same with me Elizabeth...Rambling Jack was awesome...we saw him in Toronto few years back. In 1970 during my art college years bunch of us actually follow this song's directions and drove down to New Orleans. Ended up finding the place on Toulouse Street, knocked on the door and told them everything we knew about their place. They could not believe it! We spent the day with them drinking tea and telling them about Rambling Jack and this song, which they didn't know. Great day..."did you ever stand in shiver"...I did and loved it!☮
I learned about busking with my old Gibson J-50 on the street in Seattle in maybe '72 or '73. I was playing Farewell to Nova Scotia from an Ian and Sylvia record. I played the Danville Girl and Diamond Joe. I probably made 10 or 12 bucks, which was a nice chunk of change in those days. Several folks came up and joined me with a bit of harmony. It was truly great fun. I don't sing much anymore, but if there is a John Prine song called Paradise or Grandpa was a Carpenter, I'll join in with everybody else. Fun is not even close to what it is!!
I first heard this talking song on Skip Weshner's radio show in the late 1960's in Los Angeles. To this day the phrase Now you're up, now you're over, is one of those things that mean something to my husband Jim and me that don't mean anything to other people but us, and make us smile. Some time in that era we went to see Ramblin' Jack at the Ash Grove too.
Just saw Ramblin' Jack in Ann Arbor, Michigan at The Ark. At 83 years of age, he's still going strong -- drove himself from San Francisco, picked up three of his pardners and played in Wisconsin, then Chicago at the Old Town School of Folk Music (my old territory). So great to see and hear him again after too many years have gone by. Saw him in Saginaw, Michigan once many years ago after I used to see him now and again in Chicago where I lived for 7 years. I'd fallen in love with him and his music from the first time I heard and saw him. God bless you, Jack. Keep on ramblin'.
I've tried to find this recording before. I had very little to go on. I used to remember "912 Toulouse Street" but I'd since forgotten that part. I only remembered "Billy Fair" and "New Orleans" and that's all I Googled on, led me to this video. I'm another one who heard this a couple of times on WHFS in the 70's and never knew who it was. And only later I realized I'd love to hear it again. Thanks a ton for posting it!
We saw Tom Russell last week at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley CA. Jack was front and center in the audience and the comments that flowed back and forth between tom and Jack made the evening very special. A unique look at Americana. Would love to see these two on stage together.
Honored to have met him in Fort Worth in 1997 when he performed an unforgettable show for "art-will-break-your-heart productions" UPSTAIRS at the WHITE ELEPHANT. Certainly a night I'll never forget. A gentle man and gentleman. He told me after the show, "Johnny, I think that was the best show I ever did!" He may have beer correct.
This possibly the greatest song ever written..... this song changed the way i listened to music ..... 1st heard it in the spring of '69 on KSJO ....." did you ever ..... stand and shiver ..... just because you were lookin' at a river "
I first "met" Ramblin Jack in the OSU Corvallis bookstore in 66. I figured that anyone trowin a loop off a good sorrel and naming the album after that good sorrel couldn't be all bad. I want to believe this song on the album was titled 912 Toulouse Street.... but that was many years ago. Thanks for the music Jack. Thanks for posting Billy.
I was in Tahoe City in the 60s when a friend was playing Young Bingham on his stereo...912 Greens instantly became one of my all-time favorite songs and almost 50 years later nothing's changed.
+richard wysham 69 just graduated from sanjose state finally you tube, i only remembered the stripper dancing in the rain , and jacks name, lived in santa cruz then and later after usaf went to canada, still here, but really miss the usa especially the people, nice to see your post richard
I first heard this after I had left home at age 17 in the sixties. I began to meet people like this. I would drive my crank start car over to see friends who had church organs in their lving rooms...they wouldn't be home..so i would sleep wrapped in a rug in their front yard till dawn. Did a lot of all night rambles walking from Hall st to Love field in Dallas. Had not heard this song again until now. Damn it was good to hear. I read "On the Road" ..stayed up all night reading and as the sun came up, quit my job and wandered the world for 3 years. Dancing in the Sahara, quicksand in Greenland, conning the Carino icebreaker thru pack ice. Love this song and the effect it had on me many years ago.
Poet Ruth Weiss' pad in New Orleans' French Quarter, 912 Toulouse Street, A drag queen & poet named Randi Ray was the one who helped ruth find a place to live shortly after she arrived, hitchhiking from Chicago in July '50. Later that summer, ruth met poet & saxophonist Bruce Lippincott who also lived in the French Quarter at 826 Dumaine Street. At that time Bruce was the publisher of a weekly called Old French Quarter News and Bruce asked ruth if he could publish some of her poems in his magazine. This was the first time ruth had ever been published. In fact, ruth would become a regular contributor to Bruce's magazine while she lived in New Orleans. What's more is ruth "the girl with green hair" became one of the French Quarter's most loved poets; not only for her amazing poetry and sure-fire spirit, but also for the notorious parties that took place almost nightly at her place. 912 Toulouse was recently restored last year. This information is from Dave Brinks, poet, historian and neighbor to Miss Ruth.
Todd Snider said this is where he developed his style when he started to perform. Also, Todd mentioned this tune was the inspiration for Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. September/2018
thank you for your reply Mr Ortiz. KPFA is the very radical Pacifica station that began in Berkeley Ca. sometime in the 1940s. I'm not sure where KSJO is, but it must be west of the continental divide since it begins with a "K". I associate the song in particular with "the Beats," writers and musicians, mainly, who operated out of San Francisco, LA, New York and Mexico City at the time. I was just a kid on the brink of adulthood. I'd never heard of people who partied all night and then danced naked in the rain under a banana tree, but I looked forward to an adulthood where i could participate in such goings on. Hearing that song reminds me of all that.
I've always loved this song. Great music, playing, story, storytelling and a real sweet payoff. I think it's my favorite Ramblin' Jack Elliott song. (2nd favorite is Guabi Guabi.) Thanks for posting this, Billy.
His Martin has the soul of us and our time. He is a funny, kind, humble and gracious man. He'll talk to you. I last saw him in Flagstaff, AZ. It's the experience of him . . . and you want all of his soul. He has been driving Land Rovers all these years. That should explain a lot. . .
this is a wonderful song. i heard it once years ago on kpfa; it must have been kpfa. i never knew its name or that ramblin jack did it. i am so grateful to have heard it again. thank you.
I wish I could write songs like this. Thanks for posting. perfect match of lyric to music. A person could understand where Jack was coming from even if they didn't speak English.
I had this song, untitled, on a cassette tape well over 25 years ago. I lost the tape and have been trying to find it ever since. Horray! Thanks for posting it. It brings back many memories of sitting on a friend's porch on a summer evening, watching the trees, the birds and the skies.
+Billy Peck I heard it on the radio about that time one morning in Boston, Massachusetts when I was waking up to my clock radio. I remembered the title and bought the record some time that week and have enjoyed it very much ever since.
The album title is actually "Young Brigham," which I believe was the name of Jack's horse at the time. "912 Greens" is available on a Rounder compilation "Me & Bobby McGee," the best of Jack's Warners albums.
loved this song for ever but didn't know the singer or the title then googled "Billy fair ... now you're up and now you're over" and GOT IT - thanks for posting
I have been trying to find this song since hearing it on an alternative rock FM station out of Washington, DC in appx 1969. I cant remember their call letters but they called themselves "the apple in the eye of the FCC". "Look out for that rusty nail"
Reminds me of that folk singer in the Family Guy episode - the one where the he's on campus, sitting under a tree, surrounded by hippies, and singing meaningless words with great earnestness.
please also catch a link called -- RAMBLIN JACK ELLIOT. 912 Greens (can also search Minor Wilson) -- this is the longer version which starts in Nashville rather than New York - it's in the spirit of the song that a longer version would start in a location closer to New Orleons. There are laugh out loud moments in it.
Billy ..so many thanks for this , such classic unique Jack picking , perfectly breathing the emotions of life and sweet memories through those bits of wire....we are old time fans way back from u.k.but never got to see him...
Bliss. Finally someone posted the recording I first heard this by and the first I ever heard of Jack either around 1969 or 70. I love this song...and I mean that in a way that I can't describe as it is unlike the love I have for any other piece of music. It ends with words that have haunted me ever since...that stir some sort of ...!?! Thank you for sharing, I think I Shall go outside now and look at the river below. {:-{i>
Fullständigt värdelös sång (hrmm) egentligen. Ändå så otroligt charmig och jag blir lika berörd nu som då på 70-talet när jag hörde den för första gången. Inte förrän nu i och med internet har jag lyckats få höra den igen. Min favoritreplik: "...and the rain came...". Fråga mig inte varför. Ha dé.
I guess you know Billy Faire passed away out in Marathon Texas about a year ago. There are a couple of videos of him on you tube playing out there. I took up banjo myself (at 69 years old) about a year ago. Jack, I sure would like to hear you again.
Ditto that. It's such a unique version too, isn't it? The way he stutters on the word "Banana" and stumbles verbally immediately afterword is something that makes this particular recording so endearing to me.
Thanks Jack, Billydon. ⚓️ Have you heard the story about Jack & wife?/girlfriend? busking at a train station in ‘50s London? And who saw him there? ...Mick! 😎
What album is this version on? This is my favorite recording of this song and I first heard it back in the 60's, but the only album I can find is Kerouac's Dream, which is a different, later, version.
What up, PecK? I've found some good stuff in the interem that you might like: early Janis Joplin performances, a folk music person Jody Stecher, and Gary Davis and Italian folk music guy whose channel is called frankie12string. Take a breath and let the world go by. Peace
Tears streaming down from my 72 year old eyes. I've been listening to Ramblin Jack Elliott almost my entire life. I'm transported back to my teenaged years hearing this - every. note is seared into my memory. I never missed a show - I even drove 200 miles to hear him once. He entertains on so many levels and he is spellbinding. When you. see him, you aren't thinking of one other thing. They say he followed Woody Guthrie around the country - studying. Then Bob Dylan followed Ramblin Jack around learning his folk singing ways.
Same with me Elizabeth...Rambling Jack was awesome...we saw him in Toronto few years back. In 1970 during my art college years bunch of us actually follow this song's directions and drove down to New Orleans. Ended up finding the place on Toulouse Street, knocked on the door and told them everything we knew about their place. They could not believe it! We spent the day with them drinking tea and telling them about Rambling Jack and this song, which they didn't know. Great day..."did you ever stand in shiver"...I did and loved it!☮
I'm 70 and if i said my eyes were dry I would be a damn liar
I learned about busking with my old Gibson J-50 on the street in Seattle in maybe '72 or '73. I was playing Farewell to Nova Scotia from an Ian and Sylvia record. I played the Danville Girl and Diamond Joe. I probably made 10 or 12 bucks, which was a nice chunk of change in those days. Several folks came up and joined me with a bit of harmony. It was truly great fun. I don't sing much anymore, but if there is a John Prine song called Paradise or Grandpa was a Carpenter, I'll join in with everybody else. Fun is not even close to what it is!!
This is one of my favorite by Ramblin Jack 😊
I first heard this talking song on Skip Weshner's radio show in the late 1960's in Los Angeles. To this day the phrase Now you're up, now you're over, is one of those things that mean something to my husband Jim and me that don't mean anything to other people but us, and make us smile. Some time in that era we went to see Ramblin' Jack at the Ash Grove too.
This song is so beautiful it just makes me cry
Just saw Ramblin' Jack in Ann Arbor, Michigan at The Ark. At 83 years of age, he's still going strong -- drove himself from San Francisco, picked up three of his pardners and played in Wisconsin, then Chicago at the Old Town School of Folk Music (my old territory). So great to see and hear him again after too many years have gone by. Saw him in Saginaw, Michigan once many years ago after I used to see him now and again in Chicago where I lived for 7 years. I'd fallen in love with him and his music from the first time I heard and saw him. God bless you, Jack. Keep on ramblin'.
I just returned from seeing Jack, play, he played for a couple of hours. When he goes, so goes the best part of America.
I've tried to find this recording before. I had very little to go on. I used to remember "912 Toulouse Street" but I'd since forgotten that part. I only remembered "Billy Fair" and "New Orleans" and that's all I Googled on, led me to this video. I'm another one who heard this a couple of times on WHFS in the 70's and never knew who it was. And only later I realized I'd love to hear it again. Thanks a ton for posting it!
We saw Tom Russell last week at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley CA. Jack was front and center in the audience and the comments that flowed back and forth between tom and Jack made the evening very special. A unique look at Americana. Would love to see these two on stage together.
My favorite Ramblin Jack song. Whenever I'm looking at a big river, I think of the coda. Sometimes I actually do shiver.
Honored to have met him in Fort Worth in 1997 when he performed an unforgettable show for "art-will-break-your-heart productions" UPSTAIRS at the WHITE ELEPHANT. Certainly a night I'll never forget. A gentle man and gentleman. He told me after the show, "Johnny, I think that was the best show I ever did!" He may have beer correct.
This possibly the greatest song ever written..... this song changed the way i listened to music ..... 1st heard it in the spring of '69 on KSJO ....." did you ever ..... stand and shiver ..... just because you were lookin' at a river "
I first "met" Ramblin Jack in the OSU Corvallis bookstore in 66.
I figured that anyone trowin a loop off a good sorrel and naming the album after that good sorrel couldn't be all bad.
I want to believe this song on the album was titled 912 Toulouse Street.... but that was many years ago.
Thanks for the music Jack. Thanks for posting Billy.
Santa Cruz Mountains,1969,when I first heard this song. 45 years gone and a person that could never had seen what he became.
I was in Tahoe City in the 60s when a friend was playing Young Bingham on his stereo...912 Greens instantly became one of my all-time favorite songs and almost 50 years later nothing's changed.
How I've wished to dance around a banana tree in the rain with a naked ex ballet dancer.
richard wysham with a woman who used to be ex-ballet dancer...
+richard wysham 69 just graduated from sanjose state finally you tube, i only remembered the stripper dancing in the rain , and jacks name, lived in santa cruz then and later after usaf went to canada, still here, but really miss the usa especially the people, nice to see your post richard
I first heard this after I had left home at age 17 in the sixties. I began to meet people like this. I would drive my crank start car over to see friends who had church organs in their lving rooms...they wouldn't be home..so i would sleep wrapped in a rug in their front yard till dawn. Did a lot of all night rambles walking from Hall st to Love field in Dallas. Had not heard this song again until now. Damn it was good to hear.
I read "On the Road" ..stayed up all night reading and as the sun came up, quit my job and wandered the world for 3 years. Dancing in the Sahara, quicksand in Greenland, conning the Carino icebreaker thru pack ice.
Love this song and the effect it had on me many years ago.
Stand and shiver
Thank you. I'm an old hippie and love this stuff.
Reminds me of the idle, dreamy days of youth - the whole world a head....
Story telling of a special time...Days gone by.
This song is so beautiful: it just makes me cry each time I hear it! Many Many thanks 🙏
For sharing it Bleess you
Poet Ruth Weiss' pad in New Orleans' French Quarter, 912 Toulouse Street,
A drag queen & poet named Randi Ray was the one who helped ruth find a place to live shortly after she arrived, hitchhiking from Chicago in July '50.
Later that summer, ruth met poet & saxophonist Bruce Lippincott who also lived in the French Quarter at 826 Dumaine Street. At that time Bruce was the publisher of a weekly called Old French Quarter News and Bruce asked ruth if he could publish some of her poems in his magazine.
This was the first time ruth had ever been published. In fact, ruth would become a regular contributor to Bruce's magazine while she lived in New Orleans.
What's more is ruth "the girl with green hair" became one of the French Quarter's most loved poets; not only for her amazing poetry and sure-fire spirit, but also for the notorious parties that took place almost nightly at her place.
912 Toulouse was recently restored last year.
This information is from Dave Brinks, poet, historian and neighbor to Miss Ruth.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
Thank You now your up now your over
Watch out for that rusty nail...!
One of the all-time great story songs.
Frank Hamilton and Guy Carawan. Mesmerizing. Every time I hear it.
Todd Snider said this is where he developed his style when he started to perform.
Also, Todd mentioned this tune was the inspiration for Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
September/2018
thank you for your reply Mr Ortiz. KPFA is the very radical Pacifica station that began in Berkeley Ca. sometime in the 1940s.
I'm not sure where KSJO is, but it must be west of the continental divide since it begins with a "K".
I associate the song in particular with "the Beats," writers and musicians, mainly, who operated out of San Francisco, LA, New York and Mexico City at the time. I was just a kid on the brink of adulthood. I'd never heard of people who partied all night and then danced naked in the rain under a banana tree, but I looked forward to an adulthood where i could participate in such goings on. Hearing that song reminds me of all that.
grew up on this mans songs and music in the 60`s Still gives me a deep feeling He gave us dreams to dream Thanks Jack
I've always loved this song. Great music, playing, story, storytelling and a real sweet payoff. I think it's my favorite Ramblin' Jack Elliott song. (2nd favorite is Guabi Guabi.) Thanks for posting this, Billy.
His Martin has the soul of us and our time. He is a funny, kind, humble and gracious man.
He'll talk to you. I last saw him in Flagstaff, AZ. It's the experience of him . . . and you want all of his soul.
He has been driving Land Rovers all these years. That should explain a lot. . .
I never, ever tire of this story in all of its various tellings, a Master Storyteller - thanks for posting ....
Alive and a Treasure. A lovely humble soul with some special gifts for his fellow men.
Such vivid images. Story telling at its best. A bard
this is a wonderful song. i heard it once years ago on kpfa; it must have been kpfa. i never knew its name or that ramblin jack did it. i am so grateful to have heard it again. thank you.
heard it on KSJO many years ago ....when it first came out
I wish I could write songs like this. Thanks for posting. perfect match of lyric to music. A person could understand where Jack was coming from even if they didn't speak English.
I had this song, untitled, on a cassette tape well over 25 years ago. I lost the tape and have been trying to find it ever since. Horray! Thanks for posting it. It brings back many memories of sitting on a friend's porch on a summer evening, watching the trees, the birds and the skies.
This is originally from his Young Bingham album released in the late 60s of early 70s
+Billy Peck I had the Young Bingham album in the late sixties ,wore it out .
+Billy Peck
I heard it on the radio about that time one morning in Boston, Massachusetts when I was waking up to my clock radio. I remembered the title and bought the record some time that week and have enjoyed it very much ever since.
The album title is actually "Young Brigham," which I believe was the name of Jack's horse at the time. "912 Greens" is available on a Rounder compilation "Me & Bobby McGee," the best of Jack's Warners albums.
loved this song for ever but didn't know the singer or the title then googled "Billy fair ... now you're up and now you're over" and GOT IT - thanks for posting
I have been trying to find this song since hearing it on an alternative rock FM station out of Washington, DC in appx 1969. I cant remember their call letters but they called themselves "the apple in the eye of the FCC". "Look out for that rusty nail"
it was WHFS
Best station ever
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I was born in 1953! Good on ya Ramblin' Jack.
I knew some of the work of Jack Elliot for many years, but tanks for your share, we never knew all. Yes, it´s a great man.
thank you
Beautiful songs those simple chords make me cry! It’s so melancholic
Reminds me of that folk singer in the Family Guy episode - the one where the he's on campus, sitting under a tree, surrounded by hippies, and singing meaningless words with great earnestness.
please also catch a link called -- RAMBLIN JACK ELLIOT. 912 Greens (can also search Minor Wilson) -- this is the longer version which starts in Nashville rather than New York - it's in the spirit of the song that a longer version would start in a location closer to New Orleons. There are laugh out loud moments in it.
Billy ..so many thanks for this , such classic unique Jack picking , perfectly breathing the emotions of life and sweet memories through those bits of wire....we are old time fans way back from u.k.but never got to see him...
Bliss. Finally someone posted the recording I first heard this by and the first I ever heard of Jack either around 1969 or 70.
I love this song...and I mean that in a way that I can't describe as it is unlike the love I have for any other piece of music.
It ends with words that have haunted me ever since...that stir some sort of ...!?!
Thank you for sharing, I think I Shall go outside now and look at the river below.
{:-{i>
beautiful, billy! jack's an old friend -- this really touched my heart. bravo!
From 1968's "Young Brigham" on Reprise Records.
Fullständigt värdelös sång (hrmm) egentligen. Ändå så otroligt charmig och jag blir lika berörd nu som då på 70-talet när jag hörde den för första gången. Inte förrän nu i och med internet har jag lyckats få höra den igen. Min favoritreplik: "...and the rain came...". Fråga mig inte varför. Ha dé.
My Friend Olden showed Me this Song, I'm glad He did.
Thank you for this share. Hadn't heard it before but am so grateful I had the chance to hear it now.
Maybe the best song ever.
Agreed
Nice collection of pictures of Jack. This affects me deeply
Thank you. I've been listening to him for at least 50 years.
I guess you know Billy Faire passed away out in Marathon Texas about a year ago. There are a couple of videos of him on you tube playing out there. I took up banjo myself (at 69 years old) about a year ago. Jack, I sure would like to hear you again.
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I've been searching to hear this again for many years. THANK YOU FOR POSTING!
Ditto that.
It's such a unique version too, isn't it?
The way he stutters on the word "Banana" and stumbles verbally immediately afterword is something that makes this particular recording so endearing to me.
Awesome!
my favorite person
Jack at his best, young and fresh, Huck Finn with a Guitar and a nice restful voice...
..much,"THANKS"- been A Fan of His for years. 🎵🎶🇺🇸😜🎲. BOBZGT
God Bless Rambling Jack Elliot
memories - end line knocks me out - days long ago
love this song.....
it just doesn't get any better then this;
Thanks Jack, Billydon. ⚓️ Have you heard the story about Jack & wife?/girlfriend? busking at a train station in ‘50s London? And who saw him there? ...Mick! 😎
Beautiful
So great
Wowwww
What album is this version on? This is my favorite recording of this song and I first heard it back in the 60's, but the only album I can find is Kerouac's Dream, which is a different, later, version.
Young Brigham...came out in the early to mid 70s
I found it as a downloadable mp3 on Amazon. It cost 99 cents, worth much more than that to me.
Hey, my brother. Are you feeling all right? We love youl
shame I don't do the rambling
Jack Elliott
Nothin' to it but to do it. 😎🤙🏿
Dont care how you Brigham, just Brigham young.
I’m a guitar geek and I love older ladder braced guitars. Anyone know what kind of guitar he played?
best Jack Elliott! i'll take Jack over Bob any time.
I’m that girl that dances in the rain
...🎼🎵🎶🇺🇸😅. Thanks. BOBZGT🏁🐾🔮🍀
What up, PecK? I've found some good stuff in the interem that you might like: early Janis Joplin performances, a folk music person Jody Stecher, and Gary Davis and Italian folk music guy whose channel is called frankie12string. Take a breath and let the world go by. Peace
(🐝🇺🇸)..