Grass Roots Songs : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Temptation Eyes” (The Grass Roots Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Sunday, July 20th, 2008

    By Jim Fusco:

    Tonight’s video blog entry is from yet another “new” band to the Laptop Sessions: The Grass Roots.

    Chris and I have loved this song since my mini-obsession with it back in mid-high school.  For some reason, we equated someone I had a crush on to this song.  It was when I was first learning piano and learned how to play this song, which I was pretty impressed with.

    I actually got to see the Grass Roots in concert a few years ago at the North Haven Fair here in CT.  Actually, I’ve seen a lot of great bands there, including America and Herman’s Hermits.  I always love getting to see a show there- you get to see some great acts and it’s just part of the general admission.  During my schooling years, the North Haven Fair was truly the only good thing about September.

    This song, “Temptation Eyes”, is a bit “campy”, but I still love it and think it’s got a great tune.  It’s always a candidate for getting stuck in my head at a moment’s notice.

    I hope you enjoy tonight’s Laptop Session here on the Fusco-Moore Productions music video blog.  We’re happy to have all of you new fans here to listen to us!  Also, if you have an iPhone (like Chris and I sport), you’ll be happy to know that all of our videos will play on it!  Before, there was no option to play videos from the Laptop Sessions page.  But now, it shows a still of the video and a play button over it.  Tap the play button and the YouTube player will come up, letting you watch the video.  Plus, if you add us to your iPhone web clip home screen, you’ll see our great new Laptop Sessions iPhone logo!



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Grass Roots Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

The Grass Roots are an essential sixties new rock music band. Releasing “Mr. Jones (Ballad of a Thin Man) – a Bob Dylan cover song and their first single – in 1966, they quickly developed their knowledge of how to write a song and ended up songwriting and recording a string of hits, such as “Sooner or Later,” “Let’s Live for Today,” and “Temptation Eyes.” They quickly distinguished themselves not only as songwriters but also as performers, appearing on over 50 national television shows since their advent in the mid-1960s, including morning shows, late shows, and the major music video stations VH1 and MTV. In addition to their songwriting and performance abilities, the Grass Roots have had their new rock music featured in films such as Good Morning, Vietnam and on radio shows such as “Don and Mike.” Creed Bratton even guest starred on The Office as an exaggerated version of himself. The Grass Roots continue to perform new music and cover songs to this day, although their series of hits really ended in the very early seventies. The Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music blog has only begun to post recordings of unplugged music videos as free videos for Grass Roots fans to enjoy.