i really like this! But could we get some more up beat stuff... Just a couple songs! 

I too am a floyd fan and ive not heard this?? early gilmour vocals, 4 sure....
havent heard of the album either?                   1

I just love how the Pink Floyd spectrum is so strikingly varied...always worth a listen, always puts the mind somewhere far away...NICE!

well it has been awhile .... good song still . I like it

I love that I keep discovering Pink Floyd, thanks to RP.

 islander wrote: 
Play Misty for me.

 bam23 wrote: 
I also thought this was the Moody Blues the first time I heard it!

I don't remember this album but I like it.

 islander wrote: 
Was she stoned every time she called? That's dedication. 

This song sounds like the B-side to Traffic's "40,000 Headmen." 

This is Pink Floyd? I love this.

This is Pink Floyd? I hate this.

 crockydile wrote: 
Nonsense, I must say. I have an old bootleg LP with this tune as part of a live performance and it has always stood out as a fine example of what this band could do in concert in their early days, not in their bombastic period. This reminds me of their show in Cleveland in 1970; truly transforming music. Also, the alleged Moody Blues similarity is all in your mind.

amazing, an old pink floyd song I've somehow missed all these years...

Interesting time in PFs development; can't imagine having the floyd do your movie soundtrack

 jagdriver wrote: 
I'd like to see it again, if only for the scene near the begining where the American woman meet's our hero and makes him a margarhita.  When she licks the rim of the glass and dips it in the salt you know she's going to do him wrong!  IMO one of the most sensual movie scenes ever.

Terrific soundtrack, forgettable movie (except perhaps for the young lass who spends a good portion of the film topless).

Again,,1969,the best of R&R year !

Still one of my most favorite old 'Royd songs - just love it!

"What is a Mellotron?"

From Wiki:-

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's firstsample-playback keyboard. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tape strips. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. Each of the tape strips has a playing time of approximately eight seconds, after which the tape comes to a dead stop and rewinds to the start position.

Very unreliable and almost impossible to tour with, needed continuous TLC.
Originally used to provide string sounds with out having an orchestra.
 

After that Robot nonsense by Mangan put my auditory sensors in a full nelson, this is a welcome change.

The years have not been kind to this piece. Big Floyd fan, this sounds like Moody Blues of the same period. Blech!

 westslope wrote: 
I think it's a Farfisa organ through Leslie rotating speakers.

I always felt real sorry for the roadies who had to hump Leslies around on tour back in those days. They are big and heavy!

Personally, I don't associate the Mellotron with Floyd and Rick Wright; it was more popular with King Crimson, (Wakeman-era) Yes, and (early, good) Genesis.

One of my favorite Royd songs..Just love it!

Would be perfect for David Bowie/Brian Eno to cover!

 MickMan wrote: 

AMEN to that Brother!

When I played late night DJ on the college radio station in Durango, I had some completely stoned girl calling all the time requesting this song. It took me about a month before I figured out what song she actually wanted, but I kept it handy afterwards - there are so few loyal listeners at 3:00 am.

 dionysius wrote: 
Yes, that song from Cymbeline.  It was later highlighted in Sondheim's The Frogs, an hilarious musical takeoff on the original by Aristophanes.  In the modern one, none other than Dionysius stages a competition between Shakespeare and G.B. Shaw, who hurl quotes and invectives at one another taken directly from their plays.  Toward the end, Shakespeare breaks out the secret weapon and sings "that song from Cymbeline," which is the above poem beautifully set to music.  Shaw responds, "A hit, a very palpable hit!" (now quoting Shakespeare, from the death scene in Hamlet) and concedes defeat.

Great post, Dio.