They Call The Wind Maria by The Kingston Trio

It is just after 5 PM here in the Boston Area and it has finally cleared up nicely... and I think Charlie finally got off the M.T.A. LOL! This next song will be my unofficial last song in today's Music Interlude for today! I selected one last Kingston Trio Song titled "They Call The Wind Maria" and it is one of my favorites! This is not a LIVE song, but there are some nice graphics within the backdrop.... However, The SOUND is awesome and in full HD stereo... So make sure you have the volume up a bit! I am listening to it on my Yamaha powered speakers and it is fantastic...

Song Background:
"They Call the Wind Maria" is an American popular song with lyrics written by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical, Paint Your Wagon, which is set in the California Gold Rush. Rufus Smith originally sang the song on Broadway, and Joseph Leader was the original singer in London's West End. It quickly became a runaway hit, and during the Korean War, the song was among the "popular music listened to by the troops". Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra recorded the song in 1951, and it was among the "popular hit singles at the record stores" that year. It has since become a standard, performed by many notable singers across several genres of popular music. A striking feature of the song in the original orchestration (also used in many cover versions), is a driving, staccato rhythm, played on the string instruments, that evokes a sense of restless motion.

The song gained renewed popularity during the American folk music revival. In 1959, it was included on the Kingston Trio's first live album,... From the Hungry I, which reached #2 on the Billboard Pop chart and won a RIAA gold record in 1960. It was also included on the Smothers Brothers first album, The Songs and Comedy of the Smothers Brothers! Recorded at the Purple Onion, San Francisco, released in 1961. Other folk singers who performed the song include Josh White and Burl Ives. Musical historian John Bush Jones wrote that the song "so evokes the American West that during the folk singing craze of the later 1950s countless Americans thought 'They Call the Wind Maria' was a folksong, not a show tune!" "Read more at WIkipedia.com

LYRICS:

"They Call The Wind Mariah) by The Kingston Trio

Away out here they've got a name
For rain and wind and fire
The rain is Tess,
The fire's Joe
And they call the wind Maria

Maria blows the stars around
Sets the clouds a-flyin'
Maria makes
The mountains sound like folks was out there dyin'
Maria (Maria)
Maria (Maria)
They call
The wind
Maria

Before I knew
Maria's name
And heard her wail and whinin'
I had a gal
And she had me
And the sun
Was always shinin'

But then one day
I left my gal
I left her far behind me
And now I'm lost,
So gol' darn lost
Not even God
Can find me
Maria
Maria
They call
The wind
Mariah

Written by: ALAN JAY LERNER, FREDERICK LOEWE

I hope you liked this rendition of "They Call The Wind Maria"
Kerry
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