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hi everyone. my name's robert, a friend of mine suggested this might be a good forum to get answers to the very hardest (ok, very most obscure) questions. my thanks in advance to anyone reading this and inclined to answer.

i have 3 questions, this post is question #1:

who's in the section on draggin the line? as far as i can determine dtl is post-shondells. it's possible that the bassist is a guy named bob king and furtherly possible that him & tommy james are the only 2 people in the entire group, not counting the horns (added later) but i've found it very tough to nail this down for certain.

however it was, they should have been knighted... but we don't have that here.

― robert dennis, Friday, 27 August 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

from Tommy's site, here's the credits for "Christian of the World"-

CHRISTIAN OF THE WORLD
1971 - Roulette Records

MUSICIANS
Electric/Acoustic Guitars: Tommy James, Al Giaggone, Charlie Brown
Keyboards: Paul Watson, Tommy James
Bass: Joe Macco, Bob King, Don Payne
Drums & Percussion: Bernard Purdy, Russ Leslie
Baritone Sax: Artie Kaplan
Horns: Big City Horn Section
Background Vocals: The Stephentown Singers

PRODUCTION
Produced by: Tommy James and Bob King
Arranged and Conducted by: Jimmy "Wiz" Wisner
Engineer: Bruce Staple

Recorded at Allegro Sound Studios
1650 Broadway, NYC

― bobo, Friday, 27 August 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ok i don't know or care who played on that record but let me just say YES and once again YES to this almighty steamroller. this is what it's all about.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't Tommy near death or something when he did this?

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

awesome tune

― Stormy Davis, Monday, 25 August 2008 05:13 (seventeen years ago)

summer jam

― clotpoll, Monday, 25 August 2008 05:18 (seventeen years ago)

huggin a tree when you get near it

― andrew m., Monday, 25 August 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

He's the high prince of bubblegum Gnostic!

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 25 August 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

draggin' the line and spirit in the sky is the best 2 song genre in rock history.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 25 August 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

Wikipedia:

In early 1970 the illegal drugs that Tommy James injected into his system, took its toll when during a concert, James collapsed, and was pronounced "Dead" at the scene, however, James cheated his death, and for a while, refused to perform. He survived by vegetating and moving to the suburbs, hating the recording studio, therefore, James decided that there would be no future to the Shondells, since his semi-retirement. Tommy James and The Shondells broke up in 1970. James went solo and had two further chart hits with "Draggin' the Line" (#4 in 1971) and "Three Times In Love" (#19 (Adult Contemporary #1) in 1980).

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

he refused to perform while dead...for a while.

― andrew m., Monday, 25 August 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

from same wiki:

The song "Mirage" uses the chords and structure of "I Think We're Alone Now" in reverse. It was created when the original was played backwards during a writing session.

like "rape me" to "smells like teen spirit"! ha.

― andrew m., Monday, 25 August 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

draggin' the line and spirit in the sky is the best 2 song genre in rock history.

...and The Guess Who's "Rain Dance" completes this trilogy! (All three of those songs remind me of one another = they're in a pigeonhole all their own)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

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