{"id":558,"date":"2016-03-09T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T03:21:02","slug":"way-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/way-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Way Out There\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRU3AYuDB7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the lead song on one of my favorite Pete Seeger albums, <em>3 Saints, 4 Sinners and 6 Other People<\/em> &#8212; <em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-559 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-3-saints-300x300.jpg?resize=243%2C243\" alt=\"Seeger 3 saints\" width=\"243\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-3-saints.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-3-saints.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-3-saints.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/em>though when I recorded the video I misremembered it as being on <em>Favorite American Folksongs<\/em>. I also remembered the parenthetic note &#8220;yodel learned from the Sons of the Pioneers&#8221; as being attached to this title, though it was actually how he labeled the same yodel on his recording of &#8220;The Goofing-Off Suite.&#8221; Such are the vicissitudes of memory.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I always liked this one, and tried for many years to do the yodel at least competently, but failed&#8230; so I never performed it, because the yodel is kind of basic to the arrangement. But, damn it, I like the song, so I picked it up again for this project and decided to play the yodel sections as instrumental breaks &#8212; not a perfect solution, but better than dropping the song completely.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of my spoken introduction is accurate: When I was learning songs from Pete&#8217;s records, I had no idea who the Sons of the <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-563\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sons-of-the-pioneers-way-out-there-1-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"sons of the pioneers - way out there\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sons-of-the-pioneers-way-out-there-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sons-of-the-pioneers-way-out-there-1.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Pioneers were, and when I first heard them I didn&#8217;t appreciate them. I liked Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston (who apparently taught this song to Pete), and their Hollywood cowboy sound was too slick for my taste. (My film tastes were similar, since I had grown up in the later era of westerns, when cowboys no longer harmonized between gunfights.) I still don&#8217;t have any of their records and can&#8217;t think of a mood when I&#8217;d toss one on if I had it, but they harmonized beautifully and Bob Nolan, who formed the group with Tim Spencer and Leonard Slye, wrote some classic western-pop songs, including &#8220;Tumbling Tumbleweeds,&#8221; &#8220;Cool Water,&#8221; and this one. Plus, I just found out that he spent his middle school years in Boston, en route from his Canadian birthplace to high school in Tucson.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of nice videos online of Pete singing this, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BXVi1nwidek\">one where he and Arlo Guthrie do harmony yodeling<\/a>, and I still really like the way he does it.\u00a0 But if you want to go back to the roots, here&#8217;s a clip of the Sons themselves doing the yodel and a couple of verses\u00a0 in one of their earliest films, just before Leonard Slye left the group to make a solo career as Roy Rogers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sons of the Pioneers - 1937 - Way Out There\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFM5x3J_dFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another I got from Pete Seeger, who got it from Cisco Houston, who got it from the Sons of the Pioneers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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