Jonathan Sings…Live!
1 That Summer Feeling (1986, Unknown Location) more
2 This Kind of Music (7-84, Barcelona) more
3 The Neighbors (3-81, Bookies, Detroit MI) more
4 Somebody To Hold Me (1980, WBCN Radio) more
5 Those Conga Drums (5-87, Scottsdale, AZ) more
6 Stop This Car (7-12-84, Lyon, France) more
7 Not Yet 3 (2-21-81, Mt. Vernon, NY Left Bank) more
8 Give Paris One More Chance (5-87, Scottsdale, AZ) more
9 You’re the One For Me (3-19-83 Santa Monica, CA McCabes) more
10 When I’m Walkin’ (3-2-88 Paris, France New Morning) more
11 The Tag Game (1985 St. Louis, Heartbreak Club) more
12 Dick Gregory (5-13-82, Cambridge, MA, Jonathan Swifts) more
13 Baby Boss Me Around (3-81, Detroit, MI Bookies) more
14 My Heart Was Won By A Girl (5-13-82, Jonathan Swifts) more
“Jonathan Sings” is about loving life.
I know that most everything that JOJO does is about loving life, but Jonathan Sings is REALLY about loving life!
When I was 14 (where have I heard that phrase before?) one summer day I was in my fathers car. He played “That summer feeling”. No, not the I, Jonathan version, the REAL version… The Jonathan Sings version. ( no offense to anything on the simply superb I, Jonathan album!)
The second I heard the “ohhs” from the rockin’ robins I was hooked. This was the feeling that I yearned for my whole life!!! When I heard “Jonathan, what’s happin-in?, I knew this was the hidden piece of the puzzle I had been trying to connect from my Beatles days, to my first introduction to raw punk days. There were some other songs that had the feeling but this album flaunted that feeling like it was assumed! It was natural!
Of course songs like tag game, your the one for me, when i’m walkin’, and the neighbors enhanced the overall charm.
I think that these live versions have enough feeling to even enhance your next listen of the album on an early spring day where it feels like winter just loosened it’s grip a little and decided to dance to those conga drums.