Obviously covers don’t count.
The earliest I can find is “Footsteps” by Hoelderlin, from their 1979 album New Faces. Two references to PFM (“Chocolate kings” and “paper charms”) appear in the lyrics.
Obviously covers don’t count.
The earliest I can find is “Footsteps” by Hoelderlin, from their 1979 album New Faces. Two references to PFM (“Chocolate kings” and “paper charms”) appear in the lyrics.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
The version of Moon in June recorded by Soft Machine for John Peel's Top Gear show on BBC Radio on 10th June, 1969, & first broadcast on 15 June 1969, references Caravan, Kevin Gilbert & the Pink Floyd:
Playing now is lovely
Here in the BBC
We're free to play almost as long and as loud
As a jazz group, or an orchestra on Radio Three
There are dancehalls and theatres
With acoustics worse than here
Not forgetting the extra facilities
Such as the tea machine, just along the corridor
So to all our mates like Kevin,
Caravan, the old Pink Floyd
Allow me to recommend 'Top Gear'
Despite its extraordinary name
Yes, playing, playing now is lovely
Here in the BBC
We're free to play almost as long and as loud
As the foreign language classes... and the John Cage interview...
And the jazz groups... and the orchestras on Radio 3
Mamas and The Papas, 1966, "Dancing In The Street":Mamas and The Papas, 1967, "Creeque Alley":Or Long Barn they do that Riverdale, Cream you know (Yes, I know) Manchester?John and Mitchie were gettin' kind of itchy
Just to leave the folk music behind
Zal and Denny workin' for a penny
Tryin' to get a fish on the line
In a coffee house Sebastian sat
And after every number they'd pass the hat
McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher in L.A
You know where that's at
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
I told you about strawberry fields
You know the place where nothing is real
Well here's another place you can go
Where everything flows.
1968
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^^Doesn't count. John was referencing himself.
I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with a Syd Barrett lyric, or a Bob Dylan lyric, from 1965-6. Of course there were LOTS of folkies and blues singers who referenced other acts, clear back into the '40s, '30, '20s. And classical composers stole from each other all the time.
Okay, I stand corrected. The OP says “other prog” not other prog groups. Could’ve meant other prog songs.
Well, if there are no rules, does King Crimson referencing themselves in "The Court of the Crimson King" count? (1969)
On soft gray mornings widows cry
The wise men share a joke;
I run to grasp divining signs
To satisfy the hoax.
The yellow jester does not play
But gentle pulls the strings
And smiles as the puppets dance
In the court of the crimson king.
Okay, it's not a "prog" song but it's the best I could do under these difficult conditions:
All summer long we were dancing in the sand
Everybody just kept on playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers 1967
This one just came to me and is better, but a little later in the game:
But Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple 1972
Peter, Paul & Mary, 1967, "I Dig Rock and Roll Music":
I dig the Mamas and the Papas at "the trip"
Sunset strip in L.A.
And they got a good thing goin'
When the words don't get in the way
And when they're really wailing
Michelle and Cass are sailin'
Hey! they really nail me to the wall
Donovan kind of in a dream-like, tripped out way
His crystal images tell you 'bout a brighter day
And when the Beatles tell you
They've got a word "love" to sell you
They mean exactly what they say
These earlier references are more and more dubious re: the whole prog thing. Just sayin'.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Barclay James Harvest's A Tale Of Two Sixties has references to psychedelia-era acts like Zappa/The Mothers (specifically 'Flower Punk') and Love.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Barclay James Harvest - Poor Man's Moody Blues.
Oh, for the reference to the 19th-century German composer of operas such as Hansel and Gretel? But, is that prog?
Well, if this thread is getting loose enough to allow 19th century composers (Engelbert Humperdinck) and his 60's and 70's crooner namesake, then for sure, English 17th century agricultural inventor, Jethro Tull, and his 20th century rock band namesake should also be allowed.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Genesis on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, reference "On Broadway", and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" ("It's Only Knock And Knowall").
Non-prog being referenced in prog.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground...
Release date: March 25, 1972
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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Pink Floyd's "Let there be More light" (1967) mentions "Lucy in the Sky," but neither are prog.
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