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How Many Songs Mentioning Errol?

02 Jun

It seems that there are many songs mentioning Errol in them.

 

Here is one by Bob Dylan:

You Changed My Life

I was listening to the voices of death on parade
Singing about conspiracy, wanted me to be afraid
Working for a system I couldn’t understand or trust
Suffered ridicule and wanting to give it all up in disgust

But you changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed
You changed my life

Talk about salvation, people suddenly get tired
They got a million things to do, they’re all so inspired
You do the work of the devil, you got a million friends
They’ll be there when you got something, they’ll take it all in the end

But you changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
I was under the gun, clouds blocking the sun
You changed my life

Well, the nature of man is to beg and to steal
I do it myself, it’s not so unreal
The call of the wild is forever at my door
Wants me to fly like an eagle while being chained to the floor

But you changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
From silver and gold to what man cannot hold
You changed my life

I was eating with the pigs off a fancy tray
I was told i was looking good and to have a nice day
It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite
Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet

But you changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
From silver and gold to what man cannot hold
You changed my life

You were glowing in the sun while being peaceably calm
While orphans of man danced to the beat of the palm
Your eyes were on fire, your feet were of brass
In the world you had made they made you an outcast

You changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
From silver and gold to what man cannot hold
You changed my life

There was someone in my body that I could hardly see
Invading my privacy making my decisions for me
Holding me back, not letting me stand
Making me feel like a stranger in a strange land

But you changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
You come down the line, give me a new mind
You changed my life

My Lord and my Savior, my companion, my friend
Heart fixer, mind regulator, true to the end
My creator, my comforter, my cause for joy
What the world is set against but will never destroy

You changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
You came in like the wind, like Errol Flynn
You changed my life

— errolsfan1130

 
 

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10 years ago

Hello May, in order to make your posts appear on the front page, you have to publish them without clicking any category. I allowed myself to edit this so that it can be seen.
Here are two more songs: on her album “The shocking Miss Emerald”, Caro Emerald mentions EF in two songs: Coming Back As a Man (Line: I’ll hide behind the Errol Flynn Moustache… ); Excuse My French (Line: Today you think you’re Errol Flynn sharing stories where you think you’ve been)

10 years ago
Reply to  Inga

Here is another very nice song by Amanda McBroom! Her father David Bruce played in several Errol movies. In a few he was uncredited like in Don Juan. He played Count D’Orsini with who Errol had the duel. When Errol said:”History repeats itself”

Here is her song:

There two versions

And here are the lyrics:

In a hall, on a wall, in a house in Reseda
There’s a poster held up by two nails and a pin
It’s my Daddy, the actor, ’bout to die with his boots on
He’s the man standing up there, beside Errol Flynn

He got third or fourth billing at the end of each picture
“But that don’t mean much”, he would say with a grin
But he’d hold my hand tight as he pointed his name out
Only four or five names down below Errol Flynn

Now, fame, it is fleeting and stars, they keep falling
And staying right up there, that’s the business of art
And luck kisses some and she passes by others
Disappointment and bourbon are hard on the heart

Now, the women and beers, and the years with old Errol
They took their toll, they took me from his side
He kissed me goodbye at the old Union Station
That’s the last time I saw him, the last time I cried

Now I’m sitting alone in a house in Reseda
Watchin’ the Late Show as the moonlight shines in
And up on the screen, well, here comes my Daddy
It’s a sad, funny feeling, now I’m older than him

So, you daddies and daughters, you sons and you mothers
Remember life’s over before it begins
So love one another and stand close together
As close as my Dad did to old Errol Flynn

10 years ago

Excellent, errolsfan. I’ll see your Dylan, and raise you a McCartney, who devoted a whole verse to Our Man Flynn -tiger skin, motor home and all! Move Over Busker!

Press to Play! youtu.be/wMNPgzpQNvE…

[img]http://www.giginjapan.com/folder60/paulmc-alternate.jpg[/img]

10 years ago

And then there’s this heart-rending masterpiece,May – a tribute to David Bruce, from his daughter, Amanda Broom, who also wrote The Rose. This song confirms beyond any doubt how extraordinary Errol was regarded, even by other actors, in his own day – much as Reagan (on the opposite side of Errol from David Bruce in the photo below) regarded him so Very highly even after 50 years and being the most powerful man in the world. Flynn was something we may never see again!

Amanda McBroom: Errol Flynn: youtu.be/jW7gy42n-k0…

[img]http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mP5rjWU4ghAiTfOSTGWhZbw.jpg[/img]

Barbara Cook does it wonderfully, too:

Barbara Cook sings ‘Errol Flynn’: youtu.be/85IxNVwpKrs…

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

Yes, isn’t that a wonderful song & tribute, errolsfan. … I found it very interesting that the daughter references They Died with Their Boots On. That could be deliberate, for the story being told, or it could be the result of confusing Santa Fe Trail with Boots, as is often done, of course. Matters not really – the song & sentiment is sublime.

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Hi Tim;
I didn’t see your entry – anyway they say double hold better!
I posted the same song too with lyrics. I love this song, ever so touching!

10 years ago
Reply to  Tina

Thank you, Tina. That’s very generous of you. BUT, as I dug deeper into the history of this wonderful song, I learned that I was not hours ahead of you, RATHER – as YOUR link below shows – I was over four YEARS behind!!! And not only did you let the EFB know of this back in 2010, you actually communicated with David Bruce’s songwriting daughter, Amanda McBroom, about the song!!! How cool is that!!!!!!

So, thank YOU, Tina!

“Beside Errol Flynn”

Here’s Amanda’s Dad, David, going a bit Flynn, and looking pretty dang good at it!

[img]http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/dead/davidbruce1.jpg[/img]

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Hi Tim;
That is very kind of you! When posting this song I thought that I made a post years ago but I was not sure anymore. Thanks for reminding me!
Seeing the post again made me look at the picture and found I made a mistake then, which I corrected now. David Bruce is on the left of the picture not on the right. On the right is William Lundigan. David Bruce plays Phil Sheridan!

10 years ago

Elton John’s “Teacher I Need You” from his 1973 album, “Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player.”

10 years ago

Let Us Not Avoid “Errol” by Australian Crawl. Though we should all most assiduously avoid the dentist who worked on the MC who introduced them in the video below!

Australian Crawl – Errol (Live Priority One Conce…: youtu.be/WHZC8vdMkxo…

And the more “unplugged” version by James Reyne:

James Reyne – Errol: youtu.be/RIsCmP6ngjY…

Originally on the Down Under hit album “Sirocco”!

[img]http://eil.com/images/main/Australian+Crawl+-+Sirocco+-+LP+RECORD-423117.jpg[/img]

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

What a shame. With lyrics like that, if he’s truly one of the most influential people in the world, there’s serious trouble on the horizon.

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

Let me just put it this way, errolsfan. I’ve rarely if ever seen lyrics more crude, dissolute and dispiriting by any songwriter of such supposed stature. This man is friends with The Prez, I believe. When was the last time you’ve seen a songwriter hangin’ in that kind of company writing lyrics like this? He’s not Adolph, Stalin, or Caligula, but, at least this side of him, is a very bad influence on whoever’s listening to him – which, according to what you posted, must be a huge number of people. Hence my observation and belief.

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Wow – what a lyric! I am with you Tim!

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

A connection to The Byrds,

The song is Citizen Kane:
but written by Skip Battin, Kim Fowley

Fat ugly fat man swam
In a red tire made of stone,
A painted lady paddled next to him
With two poodles on her lap.
Garbo quietly picked a flower
While the chauffeur won his check again,
And Barrymore took a noon day nap
And diamonds fell like rain.
Cisco Kid had a bald-headed waitress
Trapped ‘neath a bed of brass.
The French cook served them chocolate ants
And some cold cuts on the grass.
Louella ripped her zebra pants
In the Polo Lounge
And Errol Flynn was not let in
Cause he was coming down

Up in Xanadu diamonds fell like rain.
Citizen Kane was king, poor Citizen Kane!

Valentino suddenly appeared
In his midnight blue tuxedo
Had a falcon on his shoulder
Eating chicken from his hands,
And Fatty Arbuckle waddled by
On way to the bath house green.
Frankenstein ate the leading lady
And licked the carcass clean

Up in Xanadu diamonds fell like rain
Citizen Kane was king, poor Citizen Kane

10 years ago
Reply to  twinarchers

Thanks for that one, tw! I once had an incredible dealing with Kim Fowley. It involved a song I co-wrote that he wanted to record. For now, I’ll just say I was not impressed – quite the opposite. He ended up with black coal (something he’ll likely remember well if he reads this.) Fowley had a reputation for claiming songs. I don’t know the history of this one, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if he didn’t write a word or note of it. Skip Batten probably wrote it.

timerider
10 years ago

“You changed my life” I think this was written in 1981 at the time of Bobby’s spiritual changes. I never heard it, it is a rare unreleased song until the bootleg series. As someone has said here, Errol is in the very fabric of our society and known the world over. A very human HUMAN! What we all saw is what we got! Everyman and their sins and righteousness portrayed!
Inspiration to be and burn bright.However I want to burn it all slowly and live to 120! LOL!

10 years ago

There is a local man in Tassie and it is. If you live your life like Errol Flynn
Everybody’s hero everyone’s friend . To lazy to write out all the rest . Love Genene.

10 years ago

Here’s a song that almost was, errolsfan:

On November 25, 1947, Paramount Pictures requested permission from Warner Bros. to use Flynn’s name in lyrics to be recorded for use in the film “A Foreign Affair.” The memo from Paramount read:

“Two G.I.s are riding thru Berlin on Tandem with Heroine (Jean Arthur) sitting between them. They are singing to the tune of ‘Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do.’
Joe: ‘Fraulein, Fraulien, wilst du ein Candy Bar
Schoen, fein, Fraulein, you like G.I.s nicht wahr?
At home, though you won’t believe us
The girls could take or leave us.
But in Berlin, we’re Errol Flynn
Auch, du Wunderbar Candy Bar!'”

On December 1 Paramount’s request was turned down.

(from “Errol Flynn-An Illustrated Life Chronology”)

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

There is a song on this documentary “Oh Errol, what I’ve give just to be like him” or something of that sort.
A wonderful documentary…..
About an hour long (two gin and tonics for me)
worth a view, thanks to Jack Marino:

10 years ago
Reply to  The Zaca

Ahoy to The Zaca! I believe that recording – which you can hear through the end credits of the fabulous Fast & Furious Flynn film you kindly posted up – may be a studio recording of “Errol” by Australian Crawl. A live version is posted above. … For a female cover of “Errol”, may I present the lovely Miss Ellie Cullington:

Errol Australian Crawl classic sung by Ellie Cull…: youtu.be/e2VYCd8_Eck…

[img]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/e2VYCd8_Eck/mqdefault.jpg[/img]

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

Jinja Safari – Errol Flynn: youtu.be/-wEFG2ACDAU…

ReverendEric
10 years ago

Hello all!

First post ever. Been reading for years, but thought I’d pipe up since I’ve got a playlist of Flynn-related songs I’ve gathered over time. Already got some new additions from this thread, so thanks!

The highest charting song to mention him in passing was probably “Last Cigarette” by Dramarama: “It’s been so long since I’ve written with a pen, you know it’s sharper than a saber, I don’t feel like Errol Flynn”

There’s also a pretty good song (despite unfortunately cheesy keyboard) by Danny Kortchmar called “The Ghost of Errol Flynn”.

He pops up in “Blood on the Rooftops” by post-Gabriel/pre-80s Genesis: “Blood on the rooftops, Venice in the Spring, Streets of San Francisco, a word from Peking, The trouble was started by a young Errol Flynn”

A French band called Arcahuetas has an album called “À la Errol Flynn”. It would be interesting to translate at least the title song, but I can’t find the lyrics. Cool band! www.youtube.com…

Willie Loco Alexander has a sort of jazzy spoken word song “Errol Flynn & David Niven”.

Andrew Johnson does a kind of weird funky thing called “Errol Flynn”.

Jeff Dahl does an acoustic version of the Dogs d’Amour song, as does The Poet & The Dragon.

The Boxmasters do an interesting country version of Amanda McBroom’s song. Lots of people have covered that one.

A band called Nassau has an EP with remixes of a song called “Errol Flynn”, but it’s all just instrumental electronica, so no lyrical mentions.

Tom Mason has an Irish-ish instrumental called “Errol Flynn”. Again no lyrics, but a catchy tune.

Most of those are on iTunes, though they’re certainly not all worth having.

10 years ago
Reply to  ReverendEric

That is Awesome Eric! Thanks for Rev-ing the post & site up even further with all that Great info!!

Being that you collect or keep track of all these recordings – big, small, worthy & unworthy! – I will send you one of two I’ve done. This first one, “In Like Flynn”, can be heard (minus some synthesizer and background vocals tracks) in the following video. To meet the 75th Anniversary of Robin Hood deadline, I had to rush a bit, and still need to tweak some things, most notably the opening narration, which I laid a quick guide track for. I will be redoing the narration with someone with a more apropos, “international” voice later this year I believe.(Steve Hayes would be GREAT!)

The second song is a ballad, originally titled “Sailing for Home”, but I’m not inclined to post that up yet.

Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy it!

ReverendEric
10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Hey, that’s good stuff! Well done.

10 years ago
Reply to  ReverendEric

Thank you so much, Kind Sir Eric! … I had supreme subject matter and superlative musicians to work with! … The exceptional drumming, as one example, is a tremendous drummer/percussionist who has played for Rick Derringer, Magellan, the soundtrack of Usual Suspects, numerous video game soundtracks, (like Sonic the Hedgehog), among many others.

[img]http://www.bkdrummer.com/Playing_Timpani.jpg[/img]

ReverendEric
10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

Word is that Alice owns one of Flynn’s old swords, and managed to stab himself in the foot with it onstage once. I’ve seen him play a couple times recently and he’s waved around a likely candidate – I always wonder if that’s the one.

10 years ago
Reply to  ReverendEric

He was definitely a big fan of Errol, Reverend Eric:

m.fasterlouder.com…

[img]http://www.concertlivewire.com/jpegs/alice1.jpg[/img]

10 years ago
Reply to  errolsfan1130

Hi Errolsfan1130,
thanks for posting my all times favs. Here to top the pops another Hollywood hymn of theirs,. Though Errol is not in there it catches the spirit of the golden perfectly
:www.youtube.com…

10 years ago
Reply to  shangheinz

Thanks, Shanks. Great stuff! Flip side of Hot Potato, right? … One serious kink, however – being a bit thin on Flynn, we may have to move it in to the Thinly Flynn bin. No big sin. but then again … Maybe we can get Ray Davies to dump George Brent and put in Flynn. Errol will elevate the song even higher, and no one will ever miss George Brent.

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Dear Thin Tim,

thinly related maybe, but bull`s eye nonetheless! I suggest Billy Joel should substitute James Dean in his song “We didn`t start the fire” and the lyrics would go like this: …Errol Flynn…Brooklyn`s got a winning team…

10 years ago
Reply to  shangheinz

Right you are, Shangrila. (Except for the Thin Tim greeting. … Those days are long gone, my friend!)

Billy got just about everybody & everything in there. Flynn wasn’t in, though, cause the song commences in ’49. I’m not sure how Errol would have made it in. Perhaps with “Flynn’s hanging out with Castro … With the Cuban Rebel Girls of the Sierra Maestro”

Fat chance of that lyric, right? Or, should I say thin chance, Shang? Sometimes I get them confused.

10 years ago

Looks like David posted some very cool Errol-inspired songs a while back – including new additions here, I believe, “Wicked, Wicked Ways” & “Beam Ends” – with Robert adding one by Brian Wilson, called California Role, referencing Errol, not the sushi.

Songs about Errol Flynn…

Thankfully, the Beequeen cover photo for Wicked, Wicked Ways is dramatically better than that mst unfortunate one you posted above of the barebreasted hiker. As The Beatles (a musical group from Northern England) once sang: “Take a sad sarong and make it better.” (from their song “Hey Dude”, I think.)

[img]http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3655705718_10.jpg[/img]

10 years ago

Then, of course, there’s the Blue Buccaneers, featuring Tom Mason and Errol Flynn the Pirate Dog (aka the Sea Dog):

Errol Flynn, The Singing Pirate Dog of Tom Mason …: youtu.be/ha-KY5i0L8I…

Errol Flynn, The Singing Pirate Dog: youtu.be/EUtszgAOvW8…

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Errol Flynn, the Singing Sea Dog.

[img]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ha-KY5i0L8I/hqdefault.jpg[/img]

10 years ago

10 Don’ts for Honeymooners!

The Monochrome Set – Avanti (Ten Don’ts for Honey…: youtu.be/cM2LyC-AMGI…

[img]http://www.eyeplug.net/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tms_13.jpg[/img]

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

P.S. I think Adam Ant may is/was in that band.

Here are the lyrics:

songmeanings.com…

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10 years ago

“Alright, My Hearties, Follow Me” – from “Captain Dread”

– An Errol Line Also Used in ‘The Goonies’

[img]http://eil.com/images/main/DreadZone-Captain-Dread-430215.jpg[/img]

10 years ago

“Pencil Thin Mustache” by Jimmy Buffett.

Influenced in part by Flynn, referencing him in the lyrics, right before The Sheik of Araby. … This unofficial video, along with others, includes several head shots.

Pencil Thin Mustache Jimmy Buffett: youtu.be/cXQS4S3vgGA…

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Pencil_Thin_Mustache.jpg[/img]

9 years ago

“Between Us” by The Streetwalkers

featuring Errol, Niven, Audie Murphy and The Duke vs. Mussolini, Schicklgruber and Hiro Hito.

en.musicplayon.com…

www.musicline.de/de/player_flash/5017261206695/0/5/50/product…

evanomaly
6 years ago

Hey ya’ll! Just found this great one!

The Kazu Matsui Project – Sail Into The Sun
Marine Fantasy (1985)

6 years ago
Reply to  evanomaly

Errol Flynn Marine Fantasia! With Olivia, too!! Flynntasiastic find, evanamoly!!!

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