"Take a Pebble" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

This was one of those convoluted things.  I was searching for "Carl(a)" the movie on Wikipedia last night (see yesterday's post) and Carl Palmer (of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame) was among the search results:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Palmer

I had no idea Carl Palmer was in the band "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown":

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crazy_World_of_Arthur_Brown

I posted their big hit "Fire" back on 3-Mar-2013 as one of the tracks on one of my old cassettes that I was listing (see my post from the day before yesterday).

Anyway, I was intrigued and read some more that Carl Palmer was also in a band called "Atomic Rooster" until he left in 1970 to form Emerson Lake and Palmer.

I was like: "oh wow there was some song I liked by Atomic Rooster, what the hell was it?".  I looked through all of the track listings for their albums and re-issues, to no avail, no songs jumped out at me as being familiar at all.  That started to drive me crazy.

I searched my old "Scott's" blog for "Atomic Rooster" because I was certain I had posted the song in it.  Nothing turned up, so this really started to bug me.

Then, I remembered it was on that CD that Skinny Johnny Mitchell (a DJ from KCPX radio back in the 60's and 70's) made back in the early 2000's.  I went out to the garage and dug through boxes trying to find that CD of songs that were only hits in Salt Lake City.  No luck, I didn't see it in any of the boxes I dug around in.  Now I was getting really frustrated!

I decided to try some Internet searches, and see if I could find any information about that CD, hopefully a track listing.  I found a copy of the CD in a "for sale" list, but no track listing.

I finally found an article about the CD in the Deseret News:

Deseret News: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/674363/Oldies-music-continues-its-strong-comeback-in-1999.html

It talked about it being for sale at Starbound Records (where I bought my copy) that used to be out on 3500 South in West Valley City.  I think about Starbound almost every time I drive past there.  The whole area has been torn down now.

In my searching I also found an "Air Check" video on YouTube of Skinny Johnny Mitchel from 1977.  It's kinda fun:

YouTube (Air Check 1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5BYyX0jvjQ

Anyway, it finally dawned on me that the song I was trying to figure out was by just the "Roosters", NOT "Atomic Rooster".  Then of course I found it in my old blog as my post for 20-May-2012.

So after all of that I decided to post one of my favorite Emerson, Lake and Palmer songs.

Cool that there is a karaoke version of this song, but I don't like to do longer songs at karaoke.  I felt a little weird about "Copacabana" when I did it a few weeks ago because it was the album version with a longer bridge instead of the single version.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVz35uXqFYw
YouTube (live 1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaYsgjn82GA
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwFpwTFyeBM
YouTube (karaoke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvxKWayC8o