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Post by erik on May 13, 2017 20:01:21 GMT -5
Elvis, with a 2-sided hit from 1970 saluting mothers on this Mother’s Day weekend 2017:
“The Wonder Of You”, recorded live in Las Vegas in February 1970, and a #9 hit for the King for three weeks in late June and early July 1970:
“Mama Liked The Roses”, recorded at American Studios in Memphis in January 1969, and released on the B-side:
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Post by erik on May 27, 2017 21:32:39 GMT -5
"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition; and it lies between the pit of Man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone."
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Post by goldie on Jun 4, 2017 18:29:27 GMT -5
If you want to feel good when the world seems awful then take a listen to this guy.
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Post by erik on Jun 4, 2017 19:39:40 GMT -5
A big #7 hit from 1961, from Bob Moore and his Orchestra called "Mexico", which is pretty much self-explanatory with the Mariachi brass on it:
Basically, this is one of my many ways of saying "Up yours, Trump!" when it comes to our southern neighbor.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 18:54:28 GMT -5
Gypsy punk with a dash of philosophy anyone? From their upcoming album..
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Post by sliderocker on Jun 9, 2017 15:54:16 GMT -5
Here is a stunning and very haunting remake of the Bee Gees' timeless classic, "I Started a Joke" by Becky Hanson, from the "Suicide Squad" soundtrack. Becky's devastating remake knocked me for a loop. After I played one of the videos for the song for the first time the other night, I just sat in silence for a few minutes, even though the original version by the Bee Gees is one I have played for years. Be forewarned, if certain music makes you emotional and teary eyed, this cover is one that will have you reaching for your hankies or tissues.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 22, 2017 5:57:51 GMT -5
Rebekah is one of the best vocalists out there today. Like Linda, she has the "horn" or brass in her voice and can do things few other singers can do with that instrument. Check her out:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUMq4sB5dsC_iNuR8_V_3lIcBNS8msm7s
Rebekah Del Rio - "No Stars" (Twin Peaks 2017)
Published on Jul 16, 2017 Rebekah Del Rio performs "No Stars" in Part 10 of Twin Peaks: The Return.
Purchase this soundtrack on iTunes: hyperurl.co/3leo3j Pre-order the Vinyl on Amazon: hyperurl.co/xk55p0 Mullholand Drive - Rebekah del Rio "Llorando"Damned Rebekah Del Rio - En mi cieloRebekah Del Rio "Sweet Dreams" Rebekah Del Rio performs La Bamba @ Carnegie Hall! Rebekah Del Rio - Nobody's Angel (Preview)
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Post by erik on Jul 25, 2017 19:37:14 GMT -5
Giorgio Moroder's "Chase", from the 1978 Oscar-winning film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, in its uncut form:
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 26, 2017 3:32:06 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 30, 2017 0:59:03 GMT -5
Fun test to take: www.outofservice.com/music-personality-test/
other tests: www.outofservice.com/
My results:
Here's what your music says about your personality! Your music preferences have been broken down into four categories. Detailed explanations are below. You can also read answers to common questions.
41 % 41 % enjoys reflective and complex music 43 % 43 % enjoys edgy and aggressive music 67 % 67 % enjoys fun and simple music 12 % 12 % enjoys energetic and upbeat music
These dimensions are relatively independent, which means that you can be high on one dimension and low on others, or high on all of them, or low on all of them, etc.
Your score will tell you whether you are high or low on each dimension. The characteristics associated with high or low scorers on each dimensions are described below. If you are especially high or low on a dimension, these descriptions should be particularly characteristic of you. If you fall somewhere in the middle, the descriptions probably characterize you less well. For example, if you have a moderate score on the reflective and complex music dimension then you would probably be quite high in openness to new experiences, but not as open to new experiences as a person with a high score on the reflective and complex music dimension.
The feedback is based on the responses of thousands of people tested in our research. Obviously, we can only draw generalizations so it is quite likely that some aspects of the feedback will fit you better than others and it is even possible that none of it will fit you very well.
As you go through the feedback, you will find some questions asking you how accurately our feedback captures what you are like. These questions are designed to test the quality of our feedback and to allow us to improve it. Please select your answers and click Submit at the bottom of this page. Thanks!
Fun & Simple
People high on this dimension tend to enjoy Pop, Religious, Country, and Soundtrack music. On the Fun & Simple Dimension you fell in the 67 percentile. This score is quite high. 67 % 67%
Based on your responses, you scored above average on the fun and simple music-preference dimension. Research in our laboratory indicates that people high on this dimension, like you, often have the following characteristics:
People with high scores on the fun and simple music-preference dimension tend to be sociable, forgiving, happy, reliable, and athletic. When it comes to morals and values, they tend be conservative, and consider family, salvation, and discipline important life values. On those days when the cable's on the fritz, they enjoy reading fashion or sports magazines, and watching a major motion picture, musical, western movie, or comedy movie.
Overall, how well does the feedback capture what you are like? (Click for choices)Not at allSomewhatMostlyExactly
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Post by erik on Aug 14, 2017 18:58:40 GMT -5
Beethoven's increasingly popular "Choral Fantasy" in C Minor/Major, in a live performance from the Schauspielhaus in Berlin on New Year's Eve 1991
Piano: EVGENY KISSIN
Soprano: CHERYL STUDER Soprano: KRISTINA CLEMENZ Mezzo: CAMILLE CAPASSO Tenor: JOHN ALER Tenor: HIROSHI OSHIMA Bass: FRIEDRICH MOLSBERGER
Radio In American Sector (RIAS) Chamber Choir
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/CLAUDIO ABBADO
And yes, if any parts of the melody in the finale sound familiar, it is because this work is regarded as a dry run for the composer's giant Ninth Symphony.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 26, 2017 10:23:48 GMT -5
fun stuff...
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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Aug 26, 2017 14:50:09 GMT -5
I listened to Helen Reddys catalog. I liked these songs:
I dont know how to love him
How
Peaceful
This masquerade
Delta dawn
Lovin you
Long hard climb
Songs
Music music
Bluebird
Gladiola
Minute by minute
Optism blues
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 15, 2017 17:37:15 GMT -5
LADILIKAN by Kronos QuartetIntroducing Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
September 13, 2017 The first reviews of Ladilikan, our forthcoming album with Trio Da Kali, are in…
EDITOR’S PICK “A bold fusion of the musical traditions from the West and those of Africa: Western tempered scale instruments blend seamlessly with traditional African instruments, creating a wonderful musical hybrid that is engaging, fascinating and irresistible… If it is true that music crosses all boundaries and connects all of us with our common humanity, regardless of the usual divisions, then Ladilikan shines brightly as a wonderful example of putting that idea into practice. Perhaps collaborations like this can, in their own small way, show the road ahead for all of us.” – Folk Radio UK
“Spellbinding… This encounter with three outstanding Malian musicians dazzles; and Nick Gold’s production has a winning vibrancy.” – The Guardian
“Delightful… makes a repertoire of music that is centuries old sound vital and new; unlike anything you may have heard before” – The Economist’s 1843 Magazine
“Entrancing… Trio Da Kali and the Kronos Quartet feel like a match made in heaven: musical soulmates. It’s a melodic, fairytale union, and Ladilikan is a sweet, soulful album… This is intercontinental hybridization at its most enchanting, an enjoyable cross-genre exploration filled with heart, harmony, and a vital energy that takes old traditions and makes them into something wonderful and new.” – PopMatters
www.kronosquartet.org/
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet - Eh Ya Ye (Official Music Video)
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 9, 2017 16:58:52 GMT -5
I think we are witnessing the beginning of something great.Andra Day Biography
Retro-soul singer and songwriter Andra Day performed in church and enrolled at San Diego's School of Creative and Performing Arts. After she graduated, she leaned toward contemporary R&B and pop, but was eventually drawn back to the classic jazz and soul vocalists she heard as a youngster. Aligned with the Buskin label, headed by music industry veteran Adrian Gurvitz and Jeffrey Evans, Day built up a YouTube following and eventually signed with Warner Bros. After some singles, as well as a version of "Mississippi Goddamn" contributed to Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone, Day released her debut album, Cheers to the Fall (2015), for which she collaborated with Raphael Saadiq. ~ Andy Kellman
Andra Day - Strange Fruit [Official Music Video]
Published on Sep 15, 2017 To hear more stories on America’s legacy of racial injustice, visit lynchinginamerica.eji.org, a project from the Equal Justice Initiative with support from Google.
Andra Day - Rise Up [Official Music Video] [Inspiration Version] Alicia Keys sings Rise Up w/ Andra Day - 2017
Published on Mar 3, 2017 Alicia Keys and Andra Day are singing "Someday at Christmas", "Holy War" and "Rise Up".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 11:53:16 GMT -5
Speaking of covering Billie Holiday, Audra McDonald virtually channels her...
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Post by erik on Oct 10, 2017 12:44:29 GMT -5
Halloween is almost upon us, so here is a pair of tracks from the soundtrack of director Stanley Kubrick's epic 1980 horror film classic THE SHINING:
Main Title (Dies Irae)--Wendy Carlos/Rachel Elkind:
Bela Bartok: Music For Strings, Percussion, & Celesta (3rd Movement)--Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan:
WARNING: Do not listen to either one of these with the lights off.
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Post by erik on Nov 12, 2017 13:28:36 GMT -5
Alice Wallace, the SoCal-based alt-country/Americana artist who did an (in my opinion) impressive acoustic version of "Long Long Time" (shown in another YouTube video), has a new album out called Echo Canyon, and here's the title track of it--very Western, and, in terms of its C&W/rock sound, very much in the Linda/Emmy tradition:
This was Alice's take on "Long Long Time", from June 2016 in Pennsylvania:
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2017 23:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 29, 2017 5:31:09 GMT -5
Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence [Official Music Video]
DISTURBED - DAVID DRAIMAN SPEAKS ON "THE SOUND OF SILENCE"
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Post by erik on Dec 21, 2017 15:55:27 GMT -5
A New Wave X-Mas song from 1981 that has been played a lot on the radio during this holiday season--"Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses:
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 2, 2018 22:49:23 GMT -5
This has been my favorite song for a few years now. Love the video as well. I suppose we love the things that speak to us on many levels and this song speaks to me on all of them. I don't know much about Delouise who wrote and performs the song. Definitely European, maybe German or Dutch...don't recognize the language from some of her other videos. I am guessing this video is from her own family collection and it is very endearing. The real thing. She clearly is a Linda fan. I tried to write the words down as I could understand them and posted below.
Home Is Where You Are *Delouise*
HOME IS WHERE YOU ARE SO MANY LINES I WROTE TRYING HARD TO REACH YOU COULDN’T FIND THE RIGHT WORDS TO LET YOU KNOW I NEED YOU STAYING HERE STAYING HOW’S THE WAY YOU ARE AND IF YOU’RE READY LOOK TO ME AND YOU’LL FIND MY ARMS ARE WIDE OPEN
HOME I AM HOME I’M ALREADY HOME I AM HOME HOME IS WHERE YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE
ALL THE SCARS THAT WE’VE GOT SOMETIMES IT BRINGS YOU DOWN COULDN’T FIND THE RIGHT WORDS BUT THAT IS OVER NOW I’LL PLAY YOU LOOSE LET GO, THIS IS YOUR ZOO WE ARE IF YOU’RE READY LOOK TO ME AND YOU’LL FIND THAT MY ARMS ARE WIDE OPEN
HOME I AM HOME I’M ALREADY HOME I AM HOME HOME IS WHERE YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE I AM HOME I AM HOME WHEREVER YOU ARE I AM HOME I’M ALREADY WHEREVER YOU ARE YOU ARE I AM HOME WHEREVER YOU ARE YOU ARE I AM HOME WHEREVER YOU ARE YOU ARE I AM HOME WHERE YOU ARE I AM HOME
Delouise The Farm Sessions
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Post by erik on Jan 3, 2018 10:09:40 GMT -5
Sting narrates one of the great children's stories, "Peter And The Wolf", which was conceived by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 as a musical teaching tool for children--a fairly important thing at the time, given who was actually running Russia at the time (the tin-eared Joseph Stalin). This CD, on which Claudio Abbado conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, includes the composer's witty 1944 "March In B Flat Major"; the 1919 "Overture On Hebrew Themes" (written while the composer was in America, and composed for Russian musicians of Jewish ancestry; the orchestral version was done in 1934)), and the ever-popular Classical Symphony (#1) of 1917, a work conceived of as a way of creating a symphony of the kind that Haydn or Mozart might have done if they had lived in the early 20th century instead of the late 18th century.
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Post by cymru56 on Jan 21, 2018 14:18:18 GMT -5
From the Wailin' Jenny's album "Fifteen"
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Post by cymru56 on Jan 21, 2018 14:38:50 GMT -5
That led me to revisit this
Taffy on lead vocals had a great voice but the personal nature of Emmylou's original still wins out.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 26, 2018 22:08:24 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Jan 26, 2018 22:31:26 GMT -5
Elmer Bernstein was one of Hollywood's great composers. but not all of his film scores are so well known. Case in point: this overture for chorus and orchestra that he wrote for the 1965 John Sturges-directed comedy Western THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL, with lyrics by Ernie Sheldon. The Arizona State University Concert Choir is featured here with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra under James Sedares, from a CD that also contains the complete score that Bernstein wrote for Sturges' 1960 Western classic THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 26, 2018 23:47:44 GMT -5
Sam is being compared to John Prine but I would compare him and his music to another favorite of mine, Mickey Newbury.
Linda recorded one of Mickey's tunes early on:
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Post by erik on Feb 19, 2018 10:20:30 GMT -5
On this second President's Day, for everyone's consideration, two by John Williams:
"The Peterson House + Finale", from his score to LINCOLN:
"Prologue", from his score to JFK:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 14:06:38 GMT -5
Thanks Erik;
JFK is my favorite work of John Williams; it is most impressive how it captures every mood of a complex movie perfectly.. My favorite singer songwriter had a birthday yesterday; this is a bit of a 'deeper cut'..
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