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Post by the Scribe on Nov 8, 2012 16:49:59 GMT -5
visually she kind of resembles Linda but vocally her style and voice is more Mariahish?
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 9, 2012 0:24:54 GMT -5
Listening (and sometimes watching) to a lot of songs on youtube, including the following - youtube links provided:
1. Gayle McCormick and the Klassmen - Without You. Pre-Smith, pre-Baby It's You and not the Badfinger song that Nilsson had a hit on. Gayle was only about 17 or 18 when she recorded this song in 1967. It was on a regional or local label and not a hit. Gayle would hit it big with Smith on Baby It's You and as a solo artist have a modest hit song It's A Cryin' Shame in 1971 which missed out on the Top 40, which was very odd as it was written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, who wrote several hit songs for others that same year including the Grass Roots and Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds. They also produced and it should've been a top ten and it's a mystery as to why it wasn't. Gayle kept making music for a while but eventually retired and moved back to Missouri. A shame, really, as she had one of the best voices in rock.
2. Bernadette Peters - Pearl's A Singer, live performance. Bernadette had a minor hit in the 80s with Gee Whiz and Pearl's A Singer was on the same album and meant as a follow up single, but it wasn't a hit. Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with a kind of 1940s feel and also maybe a countryish feel to it. I could've seen Linda doing this one, but Bernadette offers a very moving performance.
3. Bee Gees - Harry's Gate. Unreleased song from 1973. Originally scheduled for release on A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants, the album's release was scratched when the initial single, Wouldn't I Be Someone failed to chart. Harry's Gate ended up being a casualty of that decision, which was regrettable as the song was personal: about their childhood days and playing at a friend's house, and swinging on a gate at the friend's house.
4. Eva Cassidy - Danny Boy. Eva's version is just her vocal and her guitar, a very moving performance by the late singer. Possibly her best photo graces the video from start to finish. It's sad that fame eluded her in life and came only after she died from cancer(!) at 33, but there is her music (mostly covers) to remind you she was here for a short time.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 9, 2012 11:09:45 GMT -5
Nice to see there is more stuff with Gayle. Mad Mad Love is certainly happy I am sure. Can't say enough about Eva Cassidy. What a wonderful singer she was!
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 9, 2012 13:15:51 GMT -5
Nice to see there is more stuff with Gayle. Mad Mad Love is certainly happy I am sure. Can't say enough about Eva Cassidy. What a wonderful singer she was! Gayle could've been a casualty as I believe there was a story in 1969 or 1970 that she was at a party said to have been thrown by singer Graham Nash and someone gave her a drink that was spiked with LSD, and she ended up in the hospital as a result. She survived, luckily. I think she talked about the episode on American Bandstand. I read a couple of years back that she had been working at a K-Mart in St Louis and that she was recognized by people who had been her fans. The accounts I read said she was approachable and friendly and didn't mind talking about her life in music. Those fans were lucky. I sometimes wonder if Eva would've broken through, eventually and achieved fame if she hadn't passed at such an early age? I know of other performers who are out there and who likewise toil in relative obscurity despite being greatly talented. They have albums out but never have million sellers - in fact, some never even sell 5,000 albums. Eva's death brought the spotlight and sales to her that should've been hers all along. It's sad that it took death for music fans to discover Eva and sadder still she wasn't here to enjoy that success.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 9, 2012 13:26:56 GMT -5
I have no doubt Eva would have broken through and would have become hugely popular.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 17:31:22 GMT -5
I have no doubt Eva would have broken through and would have become hugely popular. She did hit #1 in the UK posthumously.... where they have taste!
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Post by erik on Nov 9, 2012 18:31:06 GMT -5
James Horner (who later did AN AMERICAN TAIL and APOLLO 13) conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in his original score for the much-underrated 1983 sci-fi/suspense thriller BRAINSTORM. The score varies between quasi-classical, mysterious, and terrifyingly avant-garde, depicting as it does the story of a device that can transfer the thoughts, sights, and senses of one person to another, and how that device is about to be misused.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 9, 2012 18:58:35 GMT -5
Wasn't this Natalie Woods last movie?
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Post by erik on Nov 9, 2012 19:04:09 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz re. BRAINSTORM:
Unfortunately, yes.
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Post by erik on Nov 19, 2012 22:36:08 GMT -5
Franz Schubert from Down Under--the composer's 5th and 6th symphonies, performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra under the late, great Sir Charles Mackerras (from 1986). Song cycles by Maurice Ravel and Henri DuParc, along with Debussy's cantata "La Damoiselle Elue", featuring Elly Ameling, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, led by Edo De Waart (from 1983).
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Post by erik on Nov 22, 2012 10:38:27 GMT -5
For today's purposes: John Williams' score for Oliver Stone's 1991 magnum opus JFK. Recorded live at the Kennedy Center in January 2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration, this recording includes, among other things, a work for narrator and orchestra by Peter Lieberson, "Remembering JFK", with Richard Dreyfuss narrating. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C.
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Post by musicaamator on Jan 17, 2013 12:47:56 GMT -5
Besides a lot of Linda , I listen mainly to classic rock: Rush Led Zeppelin The Who The Beatles The Stones etc. Some heavy stuff like: Metallica (early ones especially) Rage Against The Machine Opeth as well as 60's, 70's and 80's music. Some 90's in there as well. Female singers: The Carpenters for one--always loved Karen's voice. Pat Benetar was a favourite during high school Chrissy Hynde of The Pretenders As for today's artist, the only ones I dig are: Foster the People The Foo Fighters Mumford & Sons The Black Keys Tool
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Post by cymru56 on Jan 17, 2013 20:41:56 GMT -5
Looking forward to the upcoming debut album from LA sister group Haim as I absolutely love " Don't Save Me". Currently listening to British singer /songwriter Kate Walsh, Caroline Herring, and revisiting Hem.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 21:00:26 GMT -5
Listening to my current favorite Regina Spektor show her classical piano background via a compilation graciously compiled by a fan:
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Post by MokyWI on Jan 18, 2013 14:40:18 GMT -5
Hell On Heals, a CD by the Pistol Annie's. FINALLY some good country music instead of that mall crawler stuff that rules country radio today.
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Post by erik on Jan 24, 2013 20:51:38 GMT -5
The soundtrack to one of the strangest and most bizarre sci-fi/horror film hybrids ever made, concerning space vampires who, instead of sucking blood, instead drain the lifeforce from their victims. What is even more bizarre is that this film's massive orchestral score should be composed by the same man who composed the music for such films as BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. But it's true, it's Henry Mancini's genius at work here.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 25, 2013 11:58:17 GMT -5
Ok, now Lifeforce sounds like something worth seeing.
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Post by erik on Jan 25, 2013 12:49:41 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
It's out on DVD, I believe; the film was originally released theatrically in July 1985. It is really a strange film, sometimes wildly overscripted and overacted, and quite violent in places (and very graphically so at one point; you'll know it if you see it). But besides Mancini's music score, it benefits from the superb visual effects work of John Dykstra, who worked on the original STAR WARS in 1977. It is based on British writer Colin Wilson's 1975 novel The Space Vampires, and is directed by Tobe Hooper (he of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and POLTERGEIST fame).
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Post by erik on Mar 29, 2013 9:08:14 GMT -5
As of late: Best album of 2013 so far, especially as the womenfolk are concerned (IMHO): One of the best of 2012 (thanks to Robert for getting me interested in this artist): And a pair of CDs I picked up for rent from my local library: Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic in this 1990 recording of Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring" (the very work that caused an actual riot in Paris when it premiered 100 years ago this year), and the composer's 1945 "Symphony In Three Movements." A recording made in 1995 by Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic of the choral version of Mussorgsky's most famous work, "St. John's Night On Bald Mountain", plus a suite from his opera "Khovanschina", the Scherzo In B Flat, the Symphonic Intermezzo In The Classical Mode, and the Festive March from "Mlada."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2013 9:21:27 GMT -5
glad you are enjoying the album, Erik.. I would recommend Regina's now classic 2006 'Begin to Hope'... a nice mixture of an alternative artist moving more into the pop mainstream.. I next plan to pick up Caitlin's album.. thanks!
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Post by erik on Mar 29, 2013 9:57:44 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel:
You may have an interesting time trying to find her. Even though she is frequently categorized as "country" (which, given the presence of T-Swift, is a relative term), I found The Stand-In in the Pop section, rather close to where Linda's CDs would be situated.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2013 10:19:10 GMT -5
amazon makes it very easy ; and Cheap Seats is in my car CD player.. appropriate cause my car also has cheap seats (nyuck, nyuck, nyuck)
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Post by MokyWI on Mar 29, 2013 13:34:40 GMT -5
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell's release, Old Yellow Moon. Brian Ahern produced it.
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Post by cymru56 on Mar 29, 2013 20:57:39 GMT -5
It 's Caitlin's "The Stand In" for me as well, plus the excellent new album from Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison - "Cheaters Game"
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Post by erik on Apr 1, 2013 17:56:09 GMT -5
This one I got from Amazon a couple of days ago--a rare chance to listen to two different scores from the same film: This rather violent 1976 western, which may be considered a sagebrush version of CAPE FEAR crossed with Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone, was originally intended to have a fairly modern score by Leonard Rosenman, whose many credits included EAST OF EDEN, A MAN CALLED HORSE, and the adaptation of period music for Kubrick's 1975 opus BARRY LYNDON; but, when a huge disagreement arose over the scoring of one particularly violent scene, that was dropped in favor of various cues cobbled from previous Western scores done by Jerry Goldsmith (whom Rosenman was very close friends with). Both the cobbled Goldsmith cues, and Rosenman's complete original score are on this CD for a fiercely interesting comparison. Just for the record, the film, based on the 1971 novel Gun Down by Brian Garfield and set in Arizona circa 1908, stars Charlton Heston as a former Arizona lawman forced to confront a vicious half-breed (James Coburn) that he sent to prison and who, after having broke out, is out for extreme payback. Andrew McLaglen (who directed various John Wayne westerns in the 1960s and 1970s) helmed THE LAST HARD MEN, which was filmed near Tucson.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 8, 2013 16:09:58 GMT -5
The Ecstasy of Gold (from the film: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966). Composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone. Live in concert. Picture: Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco (the Ugly).
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Post by musicaamator on Apr 10, 2013 7:39:55 GMT -5
The Ecstasy of Gold (from the film: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966). Composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone. Live in concert. Picture: Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco (the Ugly). That is one hell of a theme song! Great all around and really sets up a mood for the scene in the film. Interesting to note, for you non-hard rock fans, that Metallica has used this theme song as their concert intro (up to the 1:45 mark, at least) before they hit the stage for many years. Also, they did a metal-fied version of it for the Ennio Morricone tribute album some years back. Just a fyi...
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Post by erik on Apr 13, 2013 22:14:13 GMT -5
I have come to feel that the term "collaboration" is a verboten one in today's music business, especially when the collaborators are from radically different sides of the music track, as Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt are. This is, of course, one reason why I heartily recommend this eclectic collaboration to say "F**k You!" to the bean counters in those fancy-schmancy office cubicles who laugh at the very notion of collaboration. The second reason, of course, is that it just so happens to be a really great piece.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2013 8:18:58 GMT -5
Nice choice, Erik.... Tift of course is one of the most overlooked, talented artists on the scene today and this is but one example of the breadth of her ability..
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Post by erik on Apr 14, 2013 12:25:05 GMT -5
I would love it if Tift would get some appreciation on corporate radio; but what she would probably have to do to make that happen would not be anywhere near as interesting (IMHO). I'm glad she collaborated here with Simone on this eclectic project.
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