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jp1

2-23-23, 12:35am

I love watching music videos on youtube. New, old, foreign, whatever. And over the years that I've been doing this youtube has started to get a sense of what I enjoy so it serves up lots of videos that I didn't know I wanted to watch. This song, for instance, is one I remember from my childhood because my dad listened to the country music radio station in the car when there wasn't any interesting sports on. Watching the video all I could think was "dang. I must be old because this is from a whole different world from today." And then my next thought was "I wonder if I can find a video of "Don't it make my brown eyes blue?"" And so youtube will get to know me just a little bit better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRis1kfzD-I

rosarugosa

2-23-23, 7:09am

Sorry, but I could only take about ten seconds of that one!

littlebittybobby

2-23-23, 1:56pm

Okay----there is no old music, only old renditions by old artists. I too, like YT, and I spend some time in the late hours looking for improved covers of music that were popular, at one time. But yeah---there are old geezers who aren't willing to retire from performing "new" music. Check the photo--it says geezers Mick & Carts are forming up an ad hoc duo for a music project. So anyway--why don't they just call in Willie Nelson & Saul Pieman, and make it a quartet? Maybe perform at the Stoopid Bowl at halftime, while Muh-donna does a strip tease. You betcha. Ha. Hope thatt helps you some. Thankk Mee. 5209

littlebittybobby

2-23-23, 2:07pm

Sorry, but I could only take about ten seconds of that one! Now THAT'S Country! So, how about Harper Valley PTA, by Jeanne Riley? Or: Ode To Billy Joe, by Bobby Gentry? Actually though, they are all very melodic; it's just that the lyrics are kind of cringy. See? But yeah--I'm not a lyric person, especially when they sometimes get in the way of a good tune. Actually, one of MY favorite 60's albums was "A Tramp Shining" with Irish tenor Richard "Dumbledore" Harris singing and much orchestra music. Songs by OK composer Jimmy Webb. That's the one with the "someone-left-the-cake-out-in-the-rain" song. Yup. I even went to see "A Man Called Horse"(featuring Harris) at the Fireweed Theater in Anchorage. Hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

2-23-23, 2:20pm

Okay---another one from the 70's(which was generally a music wasteland IMHO) that I liked, though the lyrics were too weighty, is "Shannon" by Henry Gross and all the accompanying instrumentalists.

ToomuchStuff

2-23-23, 6:15pm

https://youtu.be/NjRxJxak4qA Old music? I was singing this the other day.

Or late bosses ex's grandfather that he screwed up with, before moving here. (Pistol Packing Mama)

ToomuchStuff

2-23-23, 6:16pm

Old?

https://youtu.be/TD6I9PTxjEI
Define old?

littlebittybobby

2-23-23, 11:08pm

Okay---TMS--Now you got me going on Medieval Music, and there is a ton of it on YT. It is, what I would classify as "Classical Ambient" music. Yup.

Portuguese John Here

2-25-23, 8:24am

https://youtu.be/oAKfy2W70Qg

To me, the deltas have a dept I rarely can find in the classical music, and this is probably my favorite.
I'm not interested in learning to listen to music, learning to listen to Jazz, learning to listen to the music of the centuries.
The same way, I don't enjoy most things that are done has a profession, as a role, a path.
I like poets that write in the recess from the factory shift, it's honest, it's unimportant, uncommitted, which makes it valuable.

rosarugosa

2-26-23, 4:08pm

I am surprised by how much I enjoyed some of these old music clips. I was especially enchanted by the hammered dulcimer music.

Now I'm going to segue into a weird post in which my new cat, old music, recent discussions on censorship, and LBB's disdain for lyrics all intersect to some degree.
Since I first saw Louie's profile on Petfinder, the song "Brother Louie" by the Stories has been stuck in my head. I didn't really mind because it's a pretty good song.
https://youtu.be/C6yLdrkP-Bk
I mentioned this to DH, and he thought I meant this song by the Kingsmen:
https://youtu.be/3EqzTiDc-1k
Nope, that wasn't the one I was thinking of, but our soon-to-be cat sure has a popular name. DH said something about obscene lyrics, so that sent me down the rabbit hole where I found this rather amazing article:
https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/2019/01/02/kingsmen-louie-louie-richard-berry-song-lyrics-dirty-version-fbi-investigation-indiana-teens/2240339002/
The TLDR version in a nutshell is that an awful lot of people who had no idea what the lyrics were, nevertheless seemed pretty well convinced they must be obscene.
I'm pretty sure there is something more productive I was supposed to be doing rather than this important research . . .

littlebittybobby

2-26-23, 5:30pm

Okay---Jp1---of course there is a YT vid of the Crystal Gayle song! The piano accompaniment is VERY enjoyable; I like that and have been looking for popular music that also uses the same style from the 80's & 70's. But yeah---another YT goodie is Ronni Rae Rivers' cover of the old Conway Twitty song, "It's all only make believe". The video is VERY entertaining too. Ronni is AU, and also there's the AU group Hindley Street Social Club and their awesome and amazing note-for-note rendition of "Into The Night" which was a chart hit TWICE for Benny Mardones, which is a rarity. One of my spendthrift case studies, whom I told you kids about before, went to a concert here at the opera house, featuring a touring musical called "Hamilton" and the tickkicks were $100@, m/l, and you just know they visited restaurants (before AND after)as part of their evening. I went on YT to listen to a clip of the show, and it is very stooopid & trite. Money for nothing. Thumbs down. Yup.

littlebittybobby

2-26-23, 5:54pm

Okay----I know you kids know who Carts is, all too well. But do you kids know of two of his contemporaries, Cliff Richard, and Alan Price? Well, all three are extremely well-known in the UK, but Richard is not a household name in the USA and Price hardly at all. But yeah--Clirff Richard has sold millions of records and Price is very wel;l-respected and successful---in the UKJ Price was the original organist for the Animals. RE: House of the Rising Sun. And lots of other projects. Yup. The Beatles released an instrumental tribute---kind of like surf rock--called "Cry For A Shadow". See---The "shadow" alluded to was Cliff Richards' band in England, and at the time, they were friendly competitors. Yup.

pony mom

2-27-23, 9:52pm

I thought you meant old music. I love these channels that play vintage music for the different seasons and holidays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrhINSNwTw&t=3351s

The artwork that goes along with them are great too.

jp1

2-28-23, 10:04pm

Ok, lets go a little older than what I started this thread with. When I was six my mom bought my grandmother's old Zenith record player at the garage sale after Grandma passed away and then gave me her (mom's) collection of 45 rpm big band records from when she had been a teenager in the '40's. My favorites were the Benny Goodman records. He ended up being the inspiration for me deciding to take up the clarinet in 4th grade. Most of my music training was classical so the closest I came to playing like Benny was learning the Artie Shaw Concerto for Clarinet when I was a senior in high school. In hindsight I wish I had asked my college clarinet professor to work with me on that piece. My high school clarinet teacher was excellent (he was the retired principal clarinetist from the Denver Symphony) but my college professor was even better. Truly an amazing musician and teacher and would have taken my knowledge of this piece to a whole new level.

Mine was the blue version of this model record player.

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Sing! Sing! Sing! is probably my all-time favorite Goodman tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k

And my favorite version of the Artie Shaw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhm3UqRJFBc

Rogar

3-1-23, 9:55am

I played cornet through high school and early college before my ambitions were redirected. Just a couple of years ago I donated my horn to a school program. It sort of sad that music programs have been cut from a lot of public schools and that wind instruments have fallen out of favor in popular music.

I was reviewing some big band music not long ago and actually listened to the jp1 Goodman performance. It a classic. In my formative years Al Hirt was an idol and I heard him in concert once.

My pick is Cab Calloway which includes some big band music, but Calloway was an amazing entertainer in his day. Minnie the Moocher (she was a low down hoochie coocher).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE

littlebittybobby

3-5-23, 11:59pm

jp1

3-10-23, 9:32pm

Okay---Yah, Rogar---Music Education in public schools is pretty essential. Ramping it down, while investing even more in Competitive Sports or other programs is not good. Music Education seems to build character and open doors for students. It may give them a lifelong path to follow. It bringsa out the best in youngsters, in the prime, formative years of their lives. So yeah--you bet. Hope that helps you some. Thank Mee. And Thankk You.

Absolutely. And elementary school music concerts tend to be unintentionally humorous for the audience! My parents loved coming to those. Junior high concerts on the other hand were miserable to them. The music is lousy because no one's any good yet, but they lack the hilarity that naturally comes from little kids on stage. It was only once I got to high school that concerts became enjoyable again for my folks. By then I, and my fellow students, had gotten good enough that the concerts were actually enjoyable for the quality of the music.

Rogar

3-11-23, 8:31am

In the day there was still some carryover popularity from the jazz and big band era and stars like Al Hirt or Acker Bilk or even some wind instruments in bands like Chicago. And some jazz greats like Miles and Coltrane. I suppose now there is not a lot of popular inspiration for young people to take up band instruments. Defunding of music programs is still a loss and I blame rap, which really isn't music, as one result.

I have thought that the sour notes and unruly kids drove my school music teachers out of the career, as none seemed to last long. Marching band was sort of a necessary evil, but some of the other groups I was in remain some of the fondest memories of my formative years. In my college days I played in a profession city band. My town had two major parks. One had a gazebo and the other a band shell. We played one week in the band shell and the next in the gazebo on Sunday evenings during the summer. Families would bring lawn chairs and blankets and sometimes a picnic basket, and sit on the lawns to hear the concert. It's sort of sad those sorts of days days are gone.

Now, the Big City nearby still has a free jazz in the park schedule, but it's required a large security presence and a history of violence incidents.

littlebittybobby

3-23-23, 10:44pm

Okay--In case you kids didn't know, a VERY brilliant cover band on Youtube is The Au-based Hindley Street Country Club. They specialize in power-pop ballads of yesteryear. My favorite is "Into The Night", which holds the distinction of being on the Top 40 twice, years apart, by the original artist, Benny Mardones. But yeah--. It's Golden. Yup.

ToomuchStuff

3-23-23, 11:37pm

Tuesday, with all the Trump hoopla, I had to laugh because coming up in my Youtube recommendations was Etta James, arguably most famous song, At Last.

littlebittybobby

3-26-23, 1:35pm

Okay---I already told you kids that the local-yokel music scene here is lousy. Yup. For example: an upcoming show at the fancy-schmancy opera house over here features the old and moldy Jackson Browne, with tickkicks ranging from $80 up to $250. I wouldn't walk across the street to see him for FREE, so much IU detest his "music". Ugh. But yeah---These People figure he's a good, solid brand name from AM radio. Well, I useta change the channel when they'd play his records, so annoying was he. But yeah---I'm staying home. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.

Rogar

3-26-23, 7:27pm

I saw Jackson Browne back in the day. Never a big fan, but went with a group of admirers. I fell asleep.

littlebittybobby

3-27-23, 11:00am

I saw Jackson Browne back in the day. Never a big fan, but went with a group of admirers. I fell asleep. Yup. Point well taken. Reminds me o' the time I went to a (free) shakespeare play at Droopy Drawers U, when I worked there. But yeah--I fell sound asleep during the play, and went home during the intermission. So anyway---I got to give them collige kidz credit for mem-o-rizing their lines from the archaic script. Bo-ring. Yup.

littlebittybobby

3-27-23, 11:05am

Okay---another listening project. Trying to find good covers o' Jethro Tull. Kind of scarce, though there are a handful o' good good ones. The prollem may be a lack of involved rock-oriented flute players. But yeah---hopefully there will be some nice renditions of their music, as time goes by.

dado potato

3-27-23, 7:37pm

I have been reading Elijah Wald's book, Escaping the Delta

The book is subtitled "Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues".

Reading the book brought back memories of an audio (AM radio) world that I lived in during my teen years. Then I went on Youtube to listen again to some of the same recordings.

Radio exposed me to a certain mass market genre: such as in 1960 Buster Brown "Fannie Mae". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVNcqb2a3KA

pony mom

3-28-23, 8:38pm

There's a lot of YouTube videos showing people listening to different artists for the first time. I really enjoyed seeing their reactions to anything by The Carpenters. Most had never heard of them but almost all fell in love with Karen's gorgeous voice and the arrangements. Such a diverse group of listeners; a few left speechless or even in tears.

jp1

3-29-23, 9:43pm

jp1

3-29-23, 9:59pm

And from a different part of music history (and JP life) my favorite organ piece. The Widor Toccata from his Fifth Symphony. My first boyfriend, in the early 90's shortly after I'd gotten out of college, was a very talented church organist. I still have the bible he stole from the church he worked at at the time. (He gave it to me because he was worried about my soul after learning that I am an atheist. For better or worse a stolen bible didn't change my lack of belief in religion. Perhaps if it hadn't been stolen from Jesus...) Sadly he died much too soon (10 years ago or so), after becoming a meth addict and committing suicide by not taking his HIV meds. So many happy memories. And so much sadness that he was never able to find his place in the world and is no longer a part of my life.

This is an interesting rendition of the piece, performed slower than it typically is, but who am I, or anyone else, to say what's right since it's being performed by the composer himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8vz1D_L_OE

Rogar

3-29-23, 10:18pm

I was somewhat impressed with a utube video of a girl band called Zepparella that does cover Led Zeppelin songs. When the Levee Breaks. It's just classic rock to me, but might be old to bobby.

jp1

3-29-23, 11:14pm

Youtube just served up a song from high school JP life, Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy. I wouldn't call it one of my all-time favorites, but it was fun remembering blasting it from the single speaker in the dashboard of my family's 75 Nova as my friends and I were driving aimlessly around Denver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXnulANF8g

Oh god. Youtube just served up one of the most dreadful songs from my high school time. I saw an interview of Grace Slick some years back where she commented that a lot of older rockers should have called it quits a decade before they did. And I immediately thought of this song from their Starship days. It was another one that we were blasting on the mono speaker of the Nova my senior year of high school but man, what a crappy song compared to their earlier stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

jp1

3-29-23, 11:37pm

Youtube just served up a song from high school JP life, Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy. I wouldn't call it one of my all-time favorites, but it was fun remembering blasting it from the single speaker in the dashboard of my family's 75 Nova as my friends and I were driving aimlessly around Denver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXnulANF8g

One of the things I love about this song is that the english horn (cor anglais or bent horn even though the instrument is neither english nor a horn) is one of the key instruments in the song. Youtube just reminded me that my other favorite double reeded instrument, the bassoon, was a key part of Smokey Robinson's most famous song, Tears of a Clown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcd9N62nOLg

One of the things I don't love about "new" music is that it often doesn't include actual musical instruments.

littlebittybobby

3-30-23, 12:35pm

Okay--Yah, I liked "Life In a..."by Dream Academy. Yup.
It was choral, it was orchestral. The lyrics mean nothing to me, except I am aware of a reference to those Beatpools. But yeah, yeah, yeah---Say what you want about covers of music past varying greatly in meeting your tastes, it meets my needs when I search through the Toob to find the ones I really like. But yeah--IMHO, the best Bob Dylan songs ever recorded have ALWAYS been covers! Ha. And they've been greatly re-interpreted by the producer/artists, as well. Same goes for many--no most-- o' those 60's Brill-Building composers. See? But no---a good cover doesn't necessarily have to be a departure from the original, nor does it have to be a note-for-note. Somewhere in between, but close to the original. Yup.52975297529852985298

dado potato

3-31-23, 12:04am

AM radio WNAX or maybe KIJV (We are talking about South Dakota on the air!)

Sons of the Pioneers, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?

Still a valid question!

www.youtube.com/watch?v= CB_E3WDSXWg (www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB_E3WDSXWg)

littlebittybobby

3-31-23, 2:29am

Okay--1947. Glad I wasn't around then.

jp1

3-31-23, 9:06pm

Okay--1947. Glad I wasn't around then.

1947. Geez. That was when my daddy was a senior in high school in southwest Missoura. Judging from the stories he told I imagine he did his share of aimless driving like my friends and I did in the 80's, but beyond that similarity I can barely comprehend.

littlebittybobby

4-3-23, 2:30pm

1947. Geez. That was when my daddy was a senior in high school in southwest Missoura. Judging from the stories he told I imagine he did his share of aimless driving like my friends and I did in the 80's, but beyond that similarity I can barely comprehend. Well---the old days did have its good points as well as bad. I enjoy looking at old photos of places in Zurra, and the NOW photos of the same zact spot on googel mapps. Yup. But still-- being that much older mighta got me sucked into one o' our do-gooder foreign wars. O' course---our Great Demmacrat Leader--FDR---he was in a wheelchair, most o' the time. So, he was exempt from all that.

jp1

4-5-23, 11:42pm

Ok. Now lets move into my young adulthood. Years ago I talked about how I had a friday afternoon solo work dance party when pandora served up Evelyn Thomas's "High Energy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNI-1bYpm4 I'm not sure where that song came from in my history since it was released in 1984 when I was a sophomore in high school, but whatever. I remember and love it. Today's songs (for your enjoyment? curiousity?) are from the early 90's. I graduated from college in 1990 and the next several years I was living in NYC and as a single gay man loving every minute of it. (at least I was loving it as much as I remember of it. I'm in bed by 10:00 seven days a week now and can't imagine anything different, but back then I could stay out all night dancing at clubs with the best of them and still be at my desk by 9am.) C&C Music Factory were the soundtrack of my life then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo3kp5BLF6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTGrV58wec

jp1

4-6-23, 12:19am

Well---the old days did have its good points as well as bad. I enjoy looking at old photos of places in Zurra, and the NOW photos of the same zact spot on googel mapps. Yup. But still-- being that much older mighta got me sucked into one o' our do-gooder foreign wars. O' course---our Great Demmacrat Leader--FDR---he was in a wheelchair, most o' the time. So, he was exempt from all that.

Truman was president by the time dad got drafted and sent to germany as a peacekeeper during that korean conflict thing. I'm thankful that I didn't get drafted during the early 90's into the Iraq thing that baby Bush felt we needed to do, but in hindsight dad viewed his time in the army as one of the unexpectedly most important experiences of his life. While he was there he became friends from a couple of fellows from Boston who convinced him of the value of a college education. He instilled that belief in me and I have never regretted it.

littlebittybobby

4-7-23, 11:35pm

Okay----yeh, yeh, yeh--shrub 1 & shrub 2 were neo-con, big-oil-backed hawks. I did not vote for either one; used the opportunity to cast my ballot for a 3rd-party candidate. And yeah---Jimmah did not invade any place, except for his failed hostage rescue. That being said, the current state of the demmacratz movement is all about this change-for-changes-sake and nutty, simple-minded idealism. So anyway---one of my case studies is a local emigre' who just happens to be from Ukraine, who frequently places bikes and bike components on the local bikes-for-sale site, and his stuff is veryx4444 high-end. Like $8,000 bikes, with aftermarket weelz for another 2k and so on! One of his weelz cost more than my whole bike! Yup. So yeah--you're saying whaaaaa??? bobby aren't you being awful judgy? Well, yeah---I sure am! It says something about the unabashed values of someone taking refuge in the USA, from that particular country. I've been studying geography a lot as I websurf, and guess what? The USA already has plenty o' people! And---I've concluded that as population densities increase, they reach a point in the curve where the quality of life steadily decreases. See? So, nooo--we don't need boatloads of 'em coming here. We already have our share of problem citizens. Hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

4-8-23, 11:25am

Okay---While summa my case subjects have proudly wasted money on concert tickets to oldie shows, I utilized the cash for pet food and sat-n-watched videos o' some 60's music that were quite contrived, yet entertaining. Very poppy tunes, a sound track produced in the studio, and the young men lyp synching, while young girls screamed. The "groups" were a valuable commodity, when just 20 years prior, guys like them were conscripted and their lives thrown away, in a serious instance of Govverment overreach. See? But yeah---steda the smoke-screen issues, citizens should be concerned about which politician is less likely to take away your rights and make you pay for a war? But see--it's all about transgender abortions or absolute-equality absurdities, as well as who paid who for sex, when the truth is, EVERYONE pays for sex! Now you kids know. Thankk Mee.5331533153325332

littlebittybobby

4-11-23, 6:15pm

Okay---0Here's an oldy that I've liked, since it was a current tune. Yup. Late 90's. So anyway, I been listening to covers on youtube, and there are a coupla renditions that're pretty good. There's even a Leo Sayer version, that has him playing harmonica. So then---I go doing some reading, and it turns out that at one point, the Bidens---THOSE Bidens---hijacked it as their theme song! But no--as usual I never paid attention to the lyrics, only the music sound. See? But yeah---I still like the tune; it is not the first time a recording I like has been used by an entity I do not care for. Anyway--it's "You get what you give", originally by an ad hoc group called "the New Radicals". Nooo, as far as I know, they aren't touring 50 cities this year, filling arenas with nostalgic middle-aged tickick buyers. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

4-17-23, 11:44am

Okay---I suddenly decided I don't like the type of music I've liked, and now ONLY like the kind of so-called "music" I've always disliked! But yeah---there's an Americana artist---or was--the late, great Red Sovine. He's went to be with the lord many years ago, after having a hard attackt while driving along in Nashvull, running a red light & hitting another car, and dying on account of his injuries. So anyway---his "music" is what you call "spoken word", where he clearrly enunciates mawkish lyrics to generic background music prolly borrowed from summa Elvises' backups in his gospel music. But yeah---some people might think its' corny and sappy, but thats way way I like my music, now. Yup. There's some red Sovine on youtube, if that interests you. Thank mee.

littlebittybobby

5-4-23, 9:15pm

Okay---I came back to reality. Don't like that Americana type o' music I was talking about. So anyway---I was youtubing awhile back, tryin to think of one from about 30 years ago. But then---yesterday---I remembered. See---the vocalist, who gets the credit for being the main thing in this recording, died in an unfortunate incident involving the po-lice in LA, shortly after making this record. But yeah--that's another story for another time. It was a one-hit wonder, and prolly the record producer & session musicians deserve credit, as was definitely a group effort. It's kinda synth-pop jazz infusion R&B. Great recording. But, it's called: "Drowning In Your Eyes", by Ephraim Lewis. That said, it isn't the lyrics that I appreciate; it's the musical sound. S-o-u-n-d. Not sappy lyrics. See?

littlebittybobby

5-9-23, 8:53pm

Okay---In the world of Youtube, which features everyone showing what they can do, you have Musicians that record play-alongs. What they do is, play along at home with a studio recording of a popular song. A lot of them are drummers, many are electric bassists. Some, are guitar players. Well, the record I mentioned previously doesn't have any covers, but it does have a play-along by a guitar player, which greatly enhances the tune. I will say that even though that guitar-player definitely gets-into the song, it could use more wore work. But, that said. it does enhance the original recording. I recommend that you take a look at it.

littlebittybobby

5-9-23, 9:08pm

Okay---One thing about the music in THIS hick town is---they HATE synth music. Gotta be bankos and string bass and acoustic guitar. The closest thing acceptable is steel guitar. I realize that way too much of todays' NEW music that you hear on the radio is electro-hip-hop garbage, with the vocalists put through the electronic shredders, to make it very un-natural. It's just fake, fakje, fake. But, I think it is very useful--to a point. Your idol, 'Carts, played the Mellotron very well on summa the Beatpools recordings, like strawberry fields. Or maybe--it was George Martin, incognito. Yup. That being said, the other night, I fell asleep listening to youtube letting them pick the songs, and woke UP to shut it off, after hearing a very third-rate rendition of some old Beatpools song. It was way poor by youtube garage-band standards. Well, what it was was a LIVE performance by 'Carts in NYC, prolly 15 years ago, with some band he put together to tour with, minus the three other Beatles and
George Martin. If the old Beatpools sounded that bad, back in the day---they'da never made it! But yeah---only a sucker wants to attend a 'Carts concert. No wonder Dems get the idea they can tax these fools heavily; they have money to burn. Hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

5-9-23, 10:52pm

Okay---For you kids that just know I;m always wrong(ha), I can recommend a contemporary rockabilly group that rivals Stray Cats and Buddy Holly & The Crickets, among others. In their own way, of course. They're called: Lara Hope and the Ark-tones. But yeah--scads of youtube videos of them. Listen a minute, like I do, and you'll admit they're good. VBut, that's about all. Wonder if they tour? No doubt. Morer on this later. Thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

5-10-23, 1:15pm

Okay-----Look at this photo. This just turned up, today. But yeah--See what I mean? 5429

littlebittybobby

5-18-23, 6:36pm

Okay----I was snooping on summa Those People who set the standards, around here, ta see what kind o' dumb music they like. So anyway---this one local who seems to like everything that I DON'T like(ha), is a big fan of Jamey Johnson. He has gone to one a Johnsons' concerts, and all the other locals envy him. But yeah---who is Jamey Johnson? Well, he's a down-south type who performs Music for VERY conservative Hippies. It's all sappy lyrics, clearly and slowly enunciated, while he strums along. His Fans(VERY conservative hippies) in the concert hall are mesmerized. Yup. But not me. File Under: Music I can't stand. Hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

5-18-23, 10:42pm

Okay---Another one I stumbled across & tripped is the music of Mary Heather Hickman. So anyway--she has this brassy voice, & sings in a monotone with a cultured suthun' accent. But yeah---it's like white female Rap, where all she does is lament on the mess she's in, on account of um--makin' the wrong life choices. Yup. But yeah--she's got a VERY studio-contrived mix of accompanying instruments--the fiddles &^ banjos, etc. , which ius the sorta-good part. Plus--doing duets with herself. They all do it, nowadays. Yup. No melody, though. Who needs it, when you've got her prollems? Ha. See?

littlebittybobby

5-21-23, 10:02pm

Okay---Two of my cases, who are "nice people", but um--unsophisticated ho-heads, traveled alllll the way to Trashville,a distance of 800 miles, one-way, 'cause they had tickkicks to see two 70's has-beens, live, and karaoke-ing to songs they had MUCH help recording, back in the day. But yeah--the double feature of TWO mega-stars that are each well into their 70's cost $100 and UP to see! Well, my test cases(attendees) said it was "awesome & amay-zeen" and sounded great. Plus, you know they ate their way all the way. They've already had perfessional weight-loss help, that cost $$$$. Prolly paid for by her gommmint pension. Ha. Sure--you betcha. What-everrrr.

jp1

6-1-23, 12:40am

catherine

6-1-23, 6:16am

So youtube somehow knew that I read, years ago, "Young Men with Unlimited Capital" and served up this video of Woodstock. It's crazy to me to think that every person in this video is either dead or 75+ years old. But ya gotta love the vocals by Kermit the Frog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6v8cpMIHk

Those were definitely interesting times. I was 17 during "The Summer of Love." Thanks for sharing this!

nswef

6-1-23, 8:57am

Our cable has music and yesterday I put it on the golden oldies....what fun it was to hear all those songs from junior high and high school. It was a treat.

Rogar

6-1-23, 2:24pm

So youtube somehow knew that I read, years ago, "Young Men with Unlimited Capital" and served up this video of Woodstock. It's crazy to me to think that every person in this video is either dead or 75+ years old. But ya gotta love the vocals by Kermit the Frog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6v8cpMIHk

probably a generational thing, but the Woodstock generation was pretty much the apogee of contemporary music in my book. Not that there haven’t been greats since.

jp1

6-1-23, 8:39pm

probably a generational thing, but the Woodstock generation was pretty much the apogee of contemporary music in my book. Not that there haven’t been greats since.

I couldnt disagree with that. But then I think I’m pretty close to your age. All that schlock from the 80’s/early 90’s when I was a teenager/young adult is dreadful. Some more current stuff is good but not as much as the music from back then.

ewomack

6-3-23, 10:30pm

Though I agree that musical tastes tend to lean heavily towards the generational, I have to say I've always liked the music of the 60s far more than music of the 70s, 80s and 90s. I was not even around for the 1960s. I was one of those who, sometime in the late 1980s when I first bought Beatles' albums, sat in amazement and said continually "I didn't know that was them" for hours. Pop music seemed much more experimental, daring and innovative then. Even a lot of the innovative, strange stuff seemed to make it on the airwaves. Most of the music of the late 1970s and 1980s sounded very much the same to me (though it did produce some good music). It lost its experimentation, daring and creativity and focused more on working within a more rigid form (i.e., looking for the safe "money making" format). I think that trend has continued inexorably to the present day, at least in mainstream music. YouTube and other websites probably hold numerous musical treasures from bands who would never get signed, but who has the time to find them? I don't.

Rogar

6-4-23, 10:17pm

PBS has been featuring Carole King live in Central Park, 1973. She had or has a powerful voice aside from being a great song writer and performer. One of those generational, they don't make them like that any more, uniqueness.

littlebittybobby

6-5-23, 3:10pm

Okay----I am one a the Carol-King-for hall-o' Fame advocates. Did they let her in, finally? I just had previously assumed she was a charter member, as many records as she's sold plus other people who also recorded her music. But anyway--lately, I been reviewing summa the best-known songs o' the late-sixties "Sunshine Pop" group, The Association. But yeah--though the group had it's recording heydey in the late-1960's, and sort of disbanded, they reformed off and on, with personnel changes, so they could tour and perform at smaller venues for the sake of nostalgia. Because yeah---their live performances don't even measure up to the sound of their records on a good stereo. See? They were at their very best on a record. Yup. One of my case studies(who is a car jock/drive-n-eat type, took his wife to see them, at a live concert several years ago. But yeah---he claimed they sounded just great. By the way, one o' the songs was a one-hit-wonder for their composer. One song(Windy), they sung it, and it was all over the radio. After that, no more fame, no more hits. Actually, I kind of tend to like one-hit songs. Not all this stuff from people that gets really bad after awhile, like the Beatpools, for example. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.

jp1

7-20-23, 12:51am

Today's stroll down memory lane involved Guns' N Roses and Jon Bon Jovi. The former was a bit more hard edged. The later a bit more to my liking. In college my first two years were in a dorm with the two rooms with a bathroom in-between thing going on and our suitemate used to sing (loudly) in the shower. He didn't have talent (Dirk was a business major) but he had heart. My roommate was a voice music education major and one day, towards the end of our sophomore year he had to go to one of the schools near campus to help the choir director with a sectional (a rehearsal of a subset of the whole choir). Before he started that he asked them who their favorite musicians were, favorite songs, etc, to break the ice. Living on a prayer was the unanimous winner of the favorite song of the moment so my roommate apparently gave them his best singing in the shower Bon Jovi impression "WHOAH UH LIVING ON A PRAYER! TAKE MY HAND, WE'LL MAKE IT I SWARE-UH" Apparently it worked because he was able to get them to focus on the actual lesson after that. Thank god neither of us had Bon Jovi's hair... Mine was kind of close and maybe I'll share that one day but not today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk

rosarugosa

7-20-23, 6:54am

JBJ was never really my jam, but I really love G&R!

jp1

8-9-23, 11:20pm

Jethro Tull. I've seen them in concert twice. Really love Ian Anderson. And today Youtube served up the "official" video of Aqualung. Way ahead of it's time. Not a typical "here the group is performing on stage" video. Much more like the "Take on Me" video by aha from 13 years later. My understanding is that it's about a homeless guy but the images, with the vultures seemingly ready to attack, feels so much more like DeSantis and Abbot and their hate toward immigrants. And I'm curious who the suit is. Since Ian was British I assumed he was the prime minister at the time but he doesn't look like Edward Heath, the PM at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyZe0Uc78q7aEA7bFKtZ-oA

frugal-one

8-10-23, 3:56pm

When son was about 3, he would lay on the floor, put on the headphones and listen to Jethro Tull and FALL ASLEEP!!! Ha! Haven't thought of that in a long time!

Tybee

8-10-23, 4:20pm

Jethro Tull takes me back to high school, living in New Jersey and going to the beach every day.

rosarugosa

8-11-23, 6:27am

I really like Jethro Tull, especially the Aqualung album. I saw them in concert at the Boston Gardens many moons ago.

jp1

8-11-23, 8:07pm

Both times I went to see jethro Tull live they did like 20 minute extended versions of aqualung that were amazing. Definitely among my top concert experiences.

jp1

8-16-23, 11:28pm

So this week I went looking for my inconsistent "song of the week." Praise You by Fatboy Slim. One of my favorite coworkers when I first started at my previous mega corp job back in 2009 absolutely LOVED this song, which was already 10 years old by that point. She was a marketing person and had a company car because most of her work life was driving around to appointments with insurance brokers bringing underwriters to tell the brokers about whatever new and exciting commercial insurance products we were offering. One day, maybe a year into that job, I was in the car with her going to an appointment and the song came on the radio and she squealed with delight and turned it up full blast and started seat dancing as she was driving. It was reminiscent of the solo dance party I had while working from home four years ago when the song High Energy came on pandora. Anyway, it was such a fun moment that now every time I hear the song Praise You I think about that afternoon. A few days ago I was listening to the radio while working and it came on. So of course I turned the volume all the way up and had a one person, three minute dance party remembering that day.

I've not seen the video before five minutes ago. It's pretty renegade and low budget, but I am in love with the guy in the striped shirt with the glasses. I wish I could dance as well as him. Since I can't I'll probably stick to solo dance party work breaks from time to time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAi4VBoBSM

iris lilies

8-16-23, 11:55pm

I hadn’t heard this song Praise You. It is a catchy tune and fun. This seems like something that would be performed in churches all over the country with in churches that have dance ministries. I didn’t know there was such thing as a “dance ministry” until some years ago. That might cause me to go to church.

beckyliz

8-25-23, 1:59pm

Gosh - I haven't heard that song for ages! It is a great song. I'll put it on my play list.

catherine

8-25-23, 3:15pm

I've heard that song, but I have to admit, I looked up the launch date, and, shoot! That song should be in the "new music" thread! :) I could come up with plenty of "old music"--

Seriously, the 90s was the decade I started to re-enter the music scene, after being totally out of it in the 80s, while I was raising 4 young kids. But in the 90s, my kids became teens and turned me on to songs by Nirvana, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Now that they are grown up, I'm back in the Billboard black hole.

jp1

9-13-23, 11:46pm

So, a couple of weeks ago I was down in LA for work and took thursday off before coming home to hang out with my best friend. He had bought a complete remake by the Moody Blues' of "Days of Future Past". I don't have links but it was quite enjoyable to first listen to the new one and then listen to the original and compare and contrast them. Overall I thought the new one was better, but not by a wide margin. Much of the improvement had to do with improved recording technology making everything just a bit crisper and the mixing of the tracks a bit more interesting. One of the notable quirky differences was that on the new version they paid much more attention to diction when singing. On "Another Morning" the new version diction was crazy crisp with ending T's and D's that just POPPED, versus the diction in Nights in White Satin, where the end consonants were all swallowed up. I assume that was intentional since people are alert and "crisp" in the morning and in the evening not so much, especially if an alcoholic drink or two is involved. The other thing that was notable to me was that the orchestra on the original seemed to be tuned to A 440 whereas the orchestra on the recent redo seemed to be tuned to A 442, ever so slightly higher. Not surprising since pitch inflation is a real thing because higher standard pitches generally have a "brighter" sound. I don't have perfect pitch so that impression may just be me hearing the music as more crisp because of the improved recording techniques.

It was also a joy to listen to because my friend has an absurdly expensive stereo system with speakers taking up the entire area that was intended for the dining room in his 900 square foot 3 bedroom house. We also listened to a remastered version of the Beatles' White Album that he'd gotten which was amazing. At one point I was standing in the sweet spot between the speakers where the effect was the same as headphones and the drum set went from one side to the other and it happened in the recording! Astounding the quality and thoughtfulness that gets put into these things.

(If you want to understand what I was talking about about the Beatles' drums listen to Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" on headphones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8

Ok, so apparently there are videos for the original Days of Future Past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mvV_JWYXM And the diction in the original is also pretty crisp, but just not at all on the level of the remake.

Rogar

9-14-23, 1:41am

I will follow up on a few of your observations, JP1. I subscribe to Amazon Music and they seem to have virtually everything and most in high quality streaming.

Our local theater had a recent performance of a Carole King musical. I couldn't tell you the top albums of the last 15 or more years, but the Tapestry album is an all time favorite. It might be one to check on a remaster. The recording equipment back then was relatively primitive.

jp1

9-14-23, 8:28pm

The other thing we noticed is that the new version came in at about 42 minutes vs 37 for the original.

jp1

9-14-23, 8:29pm

I agree with you rogar that the Tapestry album was wonderful. Definitely one of my all time favorites.

Tradd

9-14-23, 10:37pm

jp1

9-14-23, 10:41pm

I’m a child of the 80s. That’s my favorite pop music. I have an Apple Music subscription now. I’m taking a road trip this weekend and was looking at the 80d music. I was delighted to find that they have hits for each year by genre. I downloaded 1982-85 to my phone as I don’t want to chew up my data streaming music.

When you get back tell us what we’re your favorite songs that you heard over the weekend. I love comparing oldie favorites with people.

Tradd

9-14-23, 10:42pm

When you get back tell us what we’re your favorite songs that you heard over the weekend. I love comparing oldie favorites with people.

Will do!

iris lilies

9-15-23, 7:41pm

I agree with you rogar that the Tapestry album was wonderful. Definitely one of my all time favorites.
Without looking at the best selling album of all time charts, Tapestry was up there.

I think Purple Rain by Prince was number one.

Dark Side of the Moon was in the top 10.

I know because I used to be the music buyer for the public library I worked for, and we were forever replacing these albums.

ewomack

9-24-23, 1:42pm

Some albums from my youth that I find myself recently revisiting:

Police - Synchronicity
Mari Boine Persen - Gula Gula
XTC - Black Sea
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen-Shah

Tradd

9-24-23, 2:27pm

When you get back tell us what we’re your favorite songs that you heard over the weekend. I love comparing oldie favorites with people.

Michael Jackson and Prince hold up really well, as does Lionel Richie. A lot of 80s stuff is ugh looking back at it.

jp1

9-25-23, 8:41pm

Michael Jackson and Prince hold up really well, as does Lionel Richie. A lot of 80s stuff is ugh looking back at it.

It's fascinating the stuff that holds up well and what doesn't. Michael Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie, Pink Floyd and various others from that era do all hold up really well despite being played relentlessly for my entire life since then.

When my friend in Southern California bought his absurdly expensive stereo system I dug out a bunch of CD's from the 80's that exemplified that change from vinyl to CD's. Stuff like Peter Gabriel's SO album that really takes advantage of the super bright, super crisp sound, and also the super quiet silent moments, none of which are as exquisite on vinyl. Gabriel's song Red Rain exemplifies the sound I'm trying to describe. David Sanborn's "Slam", and in fact the entire "Close Up" album is another example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOzVMviRw5s&list=PLn7zWXDH8Vf5QhkF-a97aiuKX9kLcMN6A All of the stuff I took to his house sounded FANTASTIC on his stereo. To me much of it sounded fairly dated though. My friend had not gone through a phase of being fascinated by this type of music as I did when it first came out and consequently was unfamiliar with any of it and actually quite enjoyed it.

ApatheticNoMore

9-25-23, 8:46pm

XTC - Black Sea

brilliant band

KayLR

9-26-23, 6:02pm

I listen to a satellite radio music channel in my car. It plays primarily stuff from the 70's but not pop-ish stuff. Rather tunes you would have heard on FM. The other day I was coming home from the grocery store and as I came into the driveway they played "We've Got Tonight," by Bob Seger. Oh my sweet Lord---for some reason it got me. I sat there in the driveway and cried my eyes out. (It's complicated.)

Now THERE's a voice.

jp1

9-26-23, 9:17pm

I was on a call with my coworkers today and before we got down to the business at hand we were discussing music in cars (it was actually sort of the business at hand because it was a conversation about whether rental car places are responsible for wiping the infotainment systems of people’s cell phone data if they have linked the phone to the car and what the car retains. But it devolved when my boss stated that his car doesn’t have a modern infotainment system and I said that mine doesn’t either.). It got me thinking that the only cd player I own anymore is in my car so maybe I should carry around the notebooks of discs and listen to them instead of our mediocre npr station when I’m going places. That might be interesting since I haven’t listened to any of them except the ones I took to LA and left at my friend’s house.

Rogar

9-26-23, 9:37pm

I recently discovered the full concert live at the Royal Albert Hall, "Concert for George", 2002 on uTube. It has a bunch of famous guys from the day, Clapton, Ringo, Sting, etc. What reminded me of it is Billy Preston's version of My Sweet Lord. I see where they have referred to him as the other Beatle. Not exactly tears to my eyes, but maybe a goosebump. He gets into it. It's pretty easy to search up the whole concert, but this is just Billy Preston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8nuDxyeJs

jp1

9-28-23, 12:09am

Apparently the Moody Blues made music videos back before that was common. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mvV_JWYXM&pp=ygUjbW9vZHkgYmx1ZXMgbW9ybmluZyBhbm90aGVyIG1vcm5 pbmc%3D

Today on the way home from the dentist in the city they were interviewing Barbara Kingsolver on the radio and one of the interesting things she said was that people younger than you don't really understand that you were once a kid, a teenager, a young adult, etc. The younger folks only think of you as what you are now, (an old person in most cases). And she's right. I never thought of my grandmother or my mother or my dad as once a young person until fairly recently, after they had died in the case of my parents. It was kind of a profound thought that she just tossed off as not a big deal.

jp1

10-12-23, 12:37am

Love this song and all the contradictions it presents. Long ago, back when I was single, I had a VERY fun fling for a few months with an Israeli couple who were fans of this artist and song. I've long since lost touch with them. I have no idea what they think about current events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH-GepDymiA

iris lilies

10-12-23, 8:33am

littlebittybobby

11-1-23, 5:52pm

Okay--last evening, I listened to. "Thank the lord for the night time" by Neil Diamond, and I realized that the part I liked most was the guitar part by a guy from Arkansas named Louie Sheldon. He lives in Australia, now. But yeah--Louie is also noted for guitar on the Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville". Isn't that interesting?

Rogar

11-2-23, 8:04pm

Anyone listened to the much publicized new/old Beatles song? It didn't impress me as anything close to any of their classics of any era. It was still sort of interesting to hear and not too bad.

iris lilies

11-2-23, 8:20pm

Anyone listened to the much publicized new/old Beatles song? It didn't impress me as anything close to any of their classics of any era. It was still sort of interesting to hear and not too bad.
NPR featured it today and I heard part of the song. It was OK. It was Beatles.

littlebittybobby

11-3-23, 12:38pm

Okay-In response to all of this beatlization by big media, I viewed several Rutles parody videos, I using "All You Need Is Cash". Ha. But yeah--it is pathetic when you let the likes of NPR choose your music for you. Hope that helps you some. Thanks mee.

catherine

11-4-23, 12:14pm

Cleaning the mudroom and asked Alexa to shuffle Billy Joel. I heard one of his songs on the radio yesterday and remembered how much I used to love him. Playing now: Vienna Waits For You... so good!

littlebittybobby

11-8-23, 3:09am

Okay---what I like is searching YouTube for the best cover of a great song. For instance: a rendition of "There is something about you"(Level 42), covered by Neville 42. Yup.

nswef

11-8-23, 11:02am

Listening to the oldies station on our cable Soundscapes "Oldies".

pony mom

11-9-23, 9:23pm

My favorite band playing my favorite cover ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HRcoHGmi4

rosarugosa

11-10-23, 7:44am

Good one, Pony Mom.

pony mom

11-10-23, 9:06pm

Ooh, I have another favorite cover. It was originally recorded by Eddie Arnold, but I love how Ray Charles sings it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N68S7Oyt4

catherine

11-10-23, 9:33pm

Ooh, I have another favorite cover. It was originally recorded by Eddie Arnold, but I love how Ray Charles sings it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N68S7Oyt4

That is a good one for sure..

Alan

11-10-23, 9:55pm

Ooh, I have another favorite cover. It was originally recorded by Eddie Arnold, but I love how Ray Charles sings it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N68S7Oyt4
Oh yeah,,,,Ray Charles could sing the back of my cereal box and make it wonderful.

Tradd

11-10-23, 10:53pm

I was listening to Motown on the way home.

littlebittybobby

11-17-23, 11:39pm

Okay---been listening to a couple Katy perry songs. Also, two oldies by The Critters and two by The Cowsills. Yup.

jp1

11-29-23, 11:32pm

It's been a few weeks since I've had time to explore old favorites but man, youtube doesn't disappoint. Who doesn't love The Cars and The Police? At least if you were a teen in the 80's....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJwTcvO5Jbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

jp1

11-29-23, 11:48pm

OMG. And now the Little River Band and Supertramp... This evening is golden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIle_6Vzm5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kln_bIndDJg

"Watch what they say. They'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal, oh won't you sign up for me ,we could be so acceptable, respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable."

Rogar

11-30-23, 1:43am

Breakfast in America might be in my top five or ten albums or all times.

jp1

12-1-23, 12:10am

Breakfast in America might be in my top five or ten albums or all times.

I agree completely. And I absolutely love the cover art. It's such a funky but awesome concept of what manhattan looks like. I've never looked up who the artist was but they were seriously genius.

littlebittybobby

12-6-23, 12:31pm

Okay--I been online, listening to Jimi Hendrix rendition of All Along The Watchtower. Also several covers of it, and reading some background on the record. You kids prolly don't like that one, because it really is not a folk song, even though it is original by Bob Dylan. But yeah--I have a 45 rp. Of it that I bought at Penneys in Fairbanks in 1968, that I wore out, listening to it with headphones in the language lab at school. Yup.

littlebittybobby

12-6-23, 12:33pm

Yeah--Even in the quietest moments by Rodger of Supertramp is my favorite of that band. Yup.

rosarugosa

12-7-23, 7:35am

I spent some time at our local hospital Monday waiting for DH to have his colonoscopy. I settled into a pleasant light-filled space outside the cafeteria with my (excellent) book. A man (I believe a hospital volunteer) came in and started playing the piano. He was really good. There were only about 6 of us in the room, so it was kind of like a private concert. Then he started playing Christmas music. I loathe and despise Christmas music, so my first inclination was to leave, but I was comfy sitting there with my book, so I stayed and it wasn't so bad. I think the fact that it was just instrumental with no vocals made it more tolerable, no horrible Brenda Lee or Peggy Lee or whoever she is/was. He also played the Charlie Brown Christmas song - I think it is called Linus and Lucy - and I actually like that one. There is nothing really Christmassy about it.

iris lilies

12-7-23, 10:08am

Rosa, I am the same way about Christmas music although I can tolerate it better than you, and even look forward to certain pieces. But I cannot stand vocals of popular Christmas music.

I like popular instrumental classics, things performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for instance. But spare me dumb vocal Christmas songs.

Vocal music by trained church choirs are a different animal and can be wonderful.

that Charlie Brown song is terrible. In fact, I was in the goodwill store yesterday mulling over something that took some time, and that damn song was playing in an arrangement that seemed deliberately slow and off key. It seems to have only eight bars that are repeated over and over in exactly the same way. Oh God, it was awful.

rosarugosa

12-7-23, 10:32am

iris lilies

12-7-23, 10:46am

IL: That is pretty funny that we have similar feelings about Christmas music, and one of the ones I find the most tolerable, you find the least tolerable.

This is my absolute favorite by Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors. It actually makes me feel, dare I say it, a bit merry!

https://youtu.be/Ouk6kBtXy60?si=71bDIH8JgxRJ2pkw

by “the Charlie Brown song I was listening to last night, I meant the one that has the vocals called “Christmastime is here. “. It’s horrible. It’s what the torturers will play to drive me insane. They just repeat the same phrases over and over in this slow, ponderous dirge.

Maybe by the Charlie Brown song you meant that one with all the piano.

edited to add: I listen to your cheerful Christmas song with vocals, and I agree “la la la la la “is as good as any words for a vocal Christmas song

littlebittybobby

12-7-23, 11:48am

Okay----I like to pretend I'm Bing Crosby, from back when music was really bad, and. Croon white Christmas by Oiving Berlin. Yup.

jp1

12-7-23, 9:19pm

I'm not really a fan of Christmas music either. We have a few friends that LOVE it and will excitedly have it playing when they host Christmas parties. As long as the playlist doesn't include that dreadful Paul McCartney song "Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time" I can tolerate it. And no, I will not provide a link like I usually do for songs I mention since that would require actually listening to a snippet of it. And besides, everyone knows that damn song...

Tradd

12-7-23, 11:54pm

I like instrumental stuff. I have a couple of albums of Christmas music that is lute, guitar, and Celtic harp. Awesome. I also enjoy stuff like the Nutcracker. I also have an album of carols from a brass ensemble.

Apple Music has a bunch of nice playlists of holiday music. I like the sentimental one that’s from the 40s through the 60s. All the great classics.

rosarugosa

12-8-23, 7:20am

IL: This is the one I meant. I think I know the one you hate, and I agree it is truly dreadful.

https://youtu.be/WT_qp-bAc3c?si=3ZY6ueZzNj9IpWcI

rosarugosa

12-8-23, 9:19am

IL: I think the detestable song is "Christmas Time is Here," but I think it would be more appropriately named "The Children's Dismal Christmas Dirge." The lyrics should be about sitting on Santa's lap after waiting in a long line, and he is scary and he smells bad, and you didn't get the one thing you wanted the most for Christmas, and you could tell that your mom hated the gift you made her, even though she said she loved it, and you found out your parents had been lying to you about Santa all those years. Stuff like that.
I may have to come out of retirement to produce holiday music. I've got ideas. :devil:

Tradd

12-8-23, 9:47am

I thought he meant the Mariah Carey song!

iris lilies

12-8-23, 1:57pm

pinkytoe

12-8-23, 4:52pm

If you've ever worked in retail, you will despise all Christmas holiday music.

iris lilies

12-8-23, 5:14pm

If you've ever worked in retail, you will despise all Christmas holiday music.
Oh boy yes, I can see that!

littlebittybobby

12-13-23, 2:22pm

Okay--I was in the store, and Rock around the Xmas tree, featuring 13 y o Brenda Lee was playing on the PA. Yup

rosarugosa

12-13-23, 2:38pm

Okay--I was in the store, and Rock around the Xmas tree, featuring 13 y o Brenda Lee was playing on the PA. Yup

Good reason to leave the store!

iris lilies

12-13-23, 3:49pm

Good reason to leave the store!
God I hate that song.

There used to be a radio host here in St. Louis who always made a big deal of one of the phrases in that Brenda Lee song. He had a raunchy show, and each year would claim this line “later we’ll make a pumpkin pie” was in fact “ later we’ll make a f.u.c.k.i.n,g pie.”

Good ol’ Frank O. Pinion, he’s an old guy whose radio show was full of sex and innuendo. I was up for it.

littlebittybobby

12-13-23, 4:30pm

Okay---Brenda Lee has her sfd,mo & cinti, connection. How do you like that? But yeah---that song kinda go off to a slow start, but has made her a Lotta moolah, over the years. Back in 62, she was on-tour in Germany, and the mop-topped foursome was the opening act. Yup. So---LEARN to like it. Thanks mee.

littlebittybobby

12-13-23, 9:39pm

Okay--I'm not lyrics listener. What matters is the musical sound. So, I don't pay attention to the words A recording.from 1984 that I like to hear occasionally is: Wouldn't it be good", credited to Nik Kershaw. It's very dependant on the instrumentals. Yup. But you kids'd prolly hate it. Ha. Hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

12-14-23, 10:55pm

Okay---here's real classic pop-rock recording from 1959, that was brilliant, by mistake. Yup It is called "The Big Hurt", and credited to Toni Fisher. It was ahead of its time.

jp1

12-23-23, 12:25am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIle_6Vzm5A

Shared this with SO this evening and his comment was "Wow, a song about the OG incel..."

jp1

1-4-24, 1:11am

Goodness. I did not see this Aerosmith video back when it was first made. SO MUCH going on here. So much of the lyrics just wafted past me back in 1990. This is amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Yrhv33Zb8

jp1

1-11-24, 1:24am

And now I'm going to steer this conversation in a completely randomly new direction. The Widor Toccata is my favorite organ piece of all time. I've mentioned on this board before that my very first BF, all those many many years ago (over 30) was a church organist. He never played the Widor Toccata at the church he served when I first met him (Lamington Presbyterian in Lamington NJ) because the organ wasn't capable of doing the piece justice. But eventually he left that church and served several others. The first time I heard him play this piece was at the Princeton University Chapel, where he spent what I would guess was the happiest year of his much too short life. He's been dead for nearly a decade now but I will never forget standing beside the organ and watching him play this at Princeton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdrwazpZvAQ&pp=ygVFSmFtZXMgS2VubmVybGV5IHBsYXlzIFdpZG9ycyBUb2N jYXRhIGF0IFdhc2hpbmd0b24gTmF0aW9uYWwgQ2F0aGVkcmFs

jp1

2-1-24, 1:41am

Ok, today I'm going to drift from old music to one of my favorite youtube "personalities" for lack of a better word. Danny MacAskill. He's adorably cute. And I completely fell in love with him when he made his "Danny Daycare" video a few years ago. (look it up...) But now he's made a love video of my second favorite city in the world and I just can't stop watching it. But seriously, a dude that can ride a bike across a tennis net??? Dang...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIBldkWO9a4&t=188s

rosarugosa

2-1-24, 7:37am

Wow, that's some crazy cycling action!

jp1

2-8-24, 12:22am

Ok, today we go into the absurd for old music. Or at least a true period piece of an early 80's music video. Texting with a friend about something completely unrelated he said "Or you may end up in 9 pound town." I asked "9 pound town? Is that like Funky Town???" And then looked up this gem of disco nostalgia... My friend is about seven years younger than me, so a kindergartner/first grader when this came out, and had never heard it before. At 13 I hadn't started going to dance clubs yet but my guess is that I first heard it at school. Every friday afternoon our sixth grade teacher would take us to the lunchroom for an hour long dance party and all the black girls in my class would bring in their favorite records. This video may replace High Energy as my new workday afternoon dance party break song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc

Tradd

2-8-24, 8:26am

Wow. The eyes on the woman in pink are scary! LOL.

happystuff

2-8-24, 9:46am

Yeah, that would be a decent workout - IF I could learn all the moves. LOL

catherine

2-8-24, 12:14pm

jp1

2-8-24, 7:19pm

Yeah, that would be a decent workout - IF I could learn all the moves. LOL

I bet I could be a TikTok sensation if I did a remake! I’ll have to up
My video editing skills before I could do that though. All that high tech background stuff! (:

Rogar

2-11-24, 10:20pm

catherine

2-12-24, 8:05pm

The twelfth of this month is the 100th anniversary of the the first performance of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". I think it has been called kaleidoscope American. I was amazed by this recent piano performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-IXWaapx4

Wow. wowowow. I love George Gershwin, and my favorite piece of his has always been Rhapsody in Blue. This performance was incredible. That pianist!! Spine-tingling, goose-bumping, eye-tearing beautiful stuff.

Thanks for sharing!!

Rogar

2-12-24, 10:36pm

Thanks for sharing!!

I'm glad someone else liked it. I actually got a tear in my eye the first time I saw/listened. Not everyone likes that style of music these days.

jp1

3-7-24, 12:43am

Ok, I feel like I must've mentioned this Moody Blues song before since I know we talked about the remake of the album a while ago But my quick (and admittedly sloppy) search through this thread didn't find it. But it's totally one of my favorites. The video is just so "future" for the time it was released. Which is kind of odd/curious since the album was "Days of Future Past" and in today's world it's very much from the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mvV_JWYXM&pp=ygUabW9vZHkgYmx1ZXMgbW9uZGF5IG1vcm5pbmc%3D

KayLR

3-7-24, 12:56am

I had that album. I think I probably played the grooves smooth on it. One of our first dates (DH & I) was a Moody Blues concert in Portland.

happystuff

3-7-24, 9:55am

If memory serves, one of my first concerts was one of their last. Went with a couple older sisters so it was a very magical event all around.

jp1

3-14-24, 12:33am

So I had noted the hubub about Taylor Swift leading up to the super bowl but hadn't really paid too much attention. The only song of hers I knew was Shake It Off. While I was at at the library a couple months ago they had the CD that included this song. Repeatedly I played it at full volume in the Hondu. (dad didn't care for music but the car came with a really awesome sound system as stock). Today I decided to look up the video. Are you ready for it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIft-t-MQuE

happystuff

3-14-24, 12:35pm

My favorite version of Shake It Off. :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3tUOJ9yv4

littlebittybobby

3-16-24, 11:50am

okay----not using caps much anymore to save energy----one oldie but goodie that has become a supermarket staple on the p.a. is the late b.j. thomas. he had a lotta songs on the radio over a 15-year time span. he wasn't known as a song-writer, but a singer with a kind of i've-got-a-cold-voice. though he was a southern boy, a nashville-r, summa his songs were from Noo-Yawk-sitty. noo yawk sitty!!?? yup, thats right. okay---lemme name some: hooked on a feelin' ; raindrops keep fallin' on my head; and one---can't recall the title--that had a faux beach boys backup chorus. yup. yes---i know the hippies among you think thomas was 'too square, man", but his studio recordings were pretty good, and sold well. hope that helps you some. thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

3-16-24, 11:58am

edited to add: the b j thomas song i was thinking of was called: rock and roll lullaby. yup. he had a number of others, but i'll not list them. you can find 'em on youtube---or in the grocery store p.a. system. yup

jp1

3-18-24, 9:02pm

My favorite version of Shake It Off. :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3tUOJ9yv4

Ok. I'll admit that was hilarious!

happystuff

3-19-24, 9:33am

Ok. I'll admit that was hilarious!

:D

littlebittybobby

4-4-24, 3:57pm

okay----still not using caps, as it has saved a lot of energy! yup. but anyway----i havent posted anything in honor of my old college perfesser, sr dorthie, lately. so yeah----here goes. i know alla you kids have hear the song by debby boone that made her much moolah called you light up my life. like me---you prolly hear it waaay too many times. ha. so anyway----that song was the theme song of the 1977 mooo-vveee of the same name, only guess what? d. boone did not sing the theme song, a gal by the fake name kasey cicyk sang it, and also----the director of that film composed it and his real name was joseph kaplan, and that figures cause the song has that eastern european typa vibe to it, if you get my drift. kasey cisyk though was ukrainian----you kidses all-time favorite country! just like volodimyr the truck driver who was blamed for the biker crash up in NH several years ago. But, unfortunately, kasey died 20+ years ago of cancer and joseph kaplan died by suicide, before he was to go on trial for some harvey weinstein-type hijinks. so, yeah---it's a pretty sad song, isn't it? try not to cry, next time you hear it on the grocery store p.a. system. hope that helps you some. thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

4-15-24, 4:14pm

okay-----Billy Joel tickkicks. I asked my AI what the price range was for them, and the answer was between $150-$1500. Okay----then I watchta coupla youtube videos of Billy Joe in concert and well----um, let me put it this way--he'da never made it to the big-time if he sounded the way he does now. Nope. Clearly, hes an old guy way past his prime, in it for the $$$$. Not an energetic, ambitious starving artist. But yeah----even more pathetic are the maniacs in the audience at his concerts. Maybe, if congress had the courage, they'd pass a consumer-protection law forbidding credit card companies from allowing cardholders to charge concert tickkicks. Yup. Hope thatt helps you kids some.

littlebittybobby

4-15-24, 10:06pm

okay----that guy--Barry Manilow, maker of tv ad jingles & pop songs---will bee appearing here, this year at one a the biggest venues in town. but no----not gonna go. are you kidding? so anyway----i just know you kids are thinking---lbb doesn't like anything, does he? yup. but yeah---steve vai & some other guy willbe appearing at the old, restored theater, downtown. a nice-sized venue, but guess what? tickicks are too high! tell ya something else, tho---sometime later this year----Robin Trower will be appearing at that same old theater, and though tickickicks have not gone on sale, balcony seats(where you want to be for loud rock shows) are well under $100 at other venues he is appearing at. so yeah---it may be worth it. i'll think about it. Trower usually has a drummer and one or two or three other players with him. very listenable, tho. hope that helps you some. thankk mee.

ToomuchStuff

4-16-24, 8:29am

So your not taking Mandy and trying to get the feeling?:laff:

littlebittybobby

4-17-24, 1:10pm

okay----too Much--knowing the perfectionist you are, i;m shocked-n-supprised that you left the comma out of "you're". ha. but no---no way can i afford ta see 80-year old barry rehash all those songs he's prolly VERY tired of, by now. i know i am. ha. but, there are zealot consummers who hafta waste time n money on concert tickicks for something to "do". maybe drive-n-eat, in the process. yup. thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

4-21-24, 3:13pm

okay----old songs--relatively speaking. disclaimer---i dont listen to music to hear lyircs; if it's words i want, i'll read a book. see? so anyway, two pieces in particular that i like are in my so-called hispano-pop genre, from prolly 20+ years ago. one, is Genie in a bottle, credited to christina aguilera, and another is Fergie, credited with "big girls don't cry". they both are the lead vocalists and do a remarkable job. very catchy tunes. BUT, there is much instrumental accompaniment that make the pieces very listenable. plus, you've got to give the record producer credit, as well. yup. hope that helps you some. now, go listen on youtube. thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

4-27-24, 6:51pm

okay----nother old song you kids would prolly hate tho i like it is one from the disco era by electric light orchestra, called "last train to london". yup as i've said before, i could not care less about the lyrics. nope.

rosarugosa

4-28-24, 6:07am

My husband has always been a big ELO fan and I like quite a bit of their stuff, but I'm not too crazy about that one, sorry.

littlebittybobby

4-30-24, 6:47pm

okay-----you kids might not be anywhere nearly old enough to recall these two instrumentals that got a lot of play on the radio way-back-when. so anyway: the titles are: Theme from a summer place, by the Percy Faith orchestra and then: our winter love by Bill Purcell (& the orchestra accompanying him.. but yeah----i do like those two recordings & listen to 'em, every now & then. yup. thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

5-19-24, 12:59am

okay---here's one that's only about 30 years old, tho summa you kids were just toddlers then. so anyway---it's "Avalon", by Roxy Music, which is really a guy named Brian Ferry & his various cohorts & session players. It's a studio act, though I'm told he did tour. Anyway, they produced a video which is very entertaining and view now and then. But, I was unhappy to learn that the hot chick in the video is a les & not as hot anymore, and that the female soloist at the end of the recording has passed of cancer. I listen to it, now and then. But the other day, I was in wallymart, and heard "Avalon" on the PA. Yup. Edit to add: I like a fair amount of dreamy pop music.

littlebittybobby

5-21-24, 10:28pm

okay---another one by Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music from waaay back before you kids were born is called "More Than This;' yeah---Bryan wrote & recorded it, with his usual "high production values" which SOME people dislike, but anyway---i'm not partial to the Bryan rendition, because his voice isn't a good fit, and i believe other people realized it. but guess what? all is not lost, because it has been covered by others--the best-known is by(i believe) 10,000 Maniacs. that being said, my very favorite cover of "More Than This" is by Nora Jones; her voice and style nails it. Yup. But, don't worry; i'm just sure Bryan derives income when Nora performs it. no great loss, there. but yeah---hope that helps you some. thankk mee.

rosarugosa

5-22-24, 6:25am

I just heard "More than This" by Brian Ferry on the radio the other day and thought it was pretty good. "Love is the Drug" is my favorite by him though.

littlebittybobby

5-27-24, 11:12pm

okay----several months ago, in was in some place & hear over the PA a record I hadn't heard in awhile, tho i have it around here on a 45. yup. it's from about 1986 or 7, and called "Digging Your Scene". So, yeah--i went home and watched the Video, which was very entertaining. it's this guy Dr Robert & his band, he calls The Blow Monkeys. Well, even though i just like the music, i think what their thing was, to imitate/emulate the likes of Dave Bowie, and they do it pretty well. But yeah, I'll remember to listen to it, once in awhile. thankk mee.

iris lilies

5-30-24, 5:50pm

littlebittybobby

6-3-24, 11:27pm

okay---one more thing about that particular video. maybe two. Dr Robert & his bow monkeys(ha), including the awesome sax player, have appeared live & in person at various outdoor concerts in the last several decades. but guess what? they kinda lack the polish of that old video from 1986. yup. so, no way would i pay umpteen hundred bucks to see them, now. So anyway--another sad fact--the enthusiastic gem of a fan in the video(see photo) musta been 65 or 70 back then; so yeah--i just assume she's departed, by now, or else the oldest person in England.5925

littlebittybobby

6-4-24, 2:22pm

okay---from waaaay back in 2011, on yoo-toob: Ariane Brunet: aime-moi acoustique. see what you think. thankk mee.

Rogar

6-9-24, 2:42pm

I was recently reminded of a song from a high point in the movie Apollo 11 and in real life was on their tape mix as they returned to earth. John Steward was a favorite back in the day. He played with the Kingston Trio and later a solo career as something of a folk/rock singer. "Mother Country".

https://youtu.be/oF0XBlW_L6s

littlebittybobby

6-9-24, 6:16pm

okay---yes, yes, rogar---john stewart & stevies nicks recorded the rock ballad "Gold" which sounded pretty good once you heard it a few times, even though it shouldn't have. if, i'm thinking of the "john steward" you mentioned. yup.

Rogar

6-9-24, 6:38pm

littlebittybobby

6-9-24, 10:07pm

okay---then there's the British group from ca. 1990 called The Sundays. They had an album that sold well, but were kinda one-hit-wonders. but, that' okay. the song was: "Here's Where The Story Ends" yup.

littlebittybobby

6-25-24, 2:24pm

okay---for summa you kids, this is new music. but yeah---for summa you other kids---this is OLD musaic. ha. you decide. anyway---my song o' the day is a instrumental w/vocal accompanyment called: Cruel Summer. credited to Bananarama. but yeah--Bananarama actually was an all-girl touring band with little success, until this studio recording was made. yup. About oh, 1986 or so.

littlebittybobby

6-29-24, 10:21pm

okay----i was in the grocery store tonight and they were playing all the good stuff on the intercom. yup. so anyway---they had "Summertime" by The Sundays from about 30 years ago. but yeah---The Sundays were an English Alterna-Pop group that had several "hits" and at least three LPs. but yeah(or no) you can't purchase $350 seats ta hear 'em in a mega-ampitheater, cause they're a defunct group and even if they were, prolly not consumer-cool enough. see? so anyway---you can hear their masterpieces online, the way they sounded in the studio 30+ years ago. hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

7-23-24, 12:50pm

Okay---I was at the Tree the other day, where the elites do their shopping. Ha. but yeah---they had blu-tooth headphones for $5, and door mats made from recycled rubber for 5, also. But yeah---the phones work great with my sail fine to listen to music & stuff, and save wear n tear on my Puter. Plus, this setup is portable and private. I use the door mats inside as mini throw rugs. Sweet. Hope that helps you kids. Thanks mee.

littlebittybobby

8-17-24, 9:43pm

okay---coupla things. i got my phone, and my $5 headphones, and wanted to listen to music. okay---first stop---scarborough fare by pieman & gar****le. but guess what? the video i selected was one from the andy williams show, where andy, one of my lest favorite singers, barged in & made it a trio. whats a goodf word for bad? andy was a twerp, a successful, unlikeable twerp. okay---another song i like, not because of the lyrics, but because of the melodic/instrumental possibilities, is: "suavecito" by Malo. but yeah--i really like the melody & harmony ideas, but it needs to be re-done. i suspect that there's a cover band out there that has covered it, and done it justice. that one goes through my head, but Malo did not perfect it. that happens, a lot. hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

8-21-24, 11:40am

okay----i happened onto another video by a recording studio session musician named Leland Sklar. An electric bassist, he says his 1st real professional gig was for a record called: "Gypsy Woman". The singer was Bryan Hyland, who also sung "Itsy Bi8tsy Teeny Weeny Polka Dot Bikini" as a teen, a few years prior. But yeah---all the AM Radio stations played his records, at the timew. I know you kids were busy listening ONLY to the Beatpools(Mop-topped Foursome) or the 'Stones or Pieman & Gar****le or going camping up at Bethel, NY on that certain weekend in 1969. But yeah--I was not as sophisticated, so in late 1970, i was working on a car at the hobby garage at Elmendorf, Anchorage Ak., to get in out of the cold, and the radio played: "Gypsy Woman" and also "My Sweet Lord", by onof the Beatpools---I believe it was Harry Harrison(Mop-topped and maybe bearded by then), enough times that I recall it. Hairryson got sued by a group of girls outta dee-troit, who contended that Hairryson "borroed" the melody from THEIR song, called: "He's So Fine". But yeah---after many years, they gots a seddelmint. Yup. Where was I? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah: Leland Sklar was the recording studio bassman for "Gypsy Woman", which i liked. The record had a rather mournful, subdued melody & vocals but an upbeat, heavy rhythm bass & drums and keyboards--all dubbed in, of course. Anyway---Sklar recollects that he went into the studio, did as required(played bass guitar), without hearing the song until quite awhile after it was released to the public. Someone approached him with a Bryan Hyland record album, and asked him to autograph it, and he claims he had not heard the song on the record. Isn't that interesting? Hope that helps you some. Thankk Mee.

Alan

8-21-24, 12:50pm

I was not as sophisticated, so in late 1970, i was working on a car at the hobby garage at Elmendorf, Anchorage Ak., to get in out of the cold.....I replaced the clutch in my future wife's car in that very same garage a few years later. Small world huh?

KayLR

8-22-24, 11:38pm

littlebittybobby

8-23-24, 12:01am

I replaced the clutch in my future wife's car in that very same garage a few years later. Small world huh?What kindava car was it, Al?

littlebittybobby

8-23-24, 12:54am

I remember Bryan Hyland's Gypsy Woman. I liked it! I wonder if Leland Sklar did any of the backing vocals.

BTW, my then boyfriend, now husband, was stationed at Elmendorf too...twice. First time in 1972. As far as I know, Leland Sklar simply played bass guitar. It doesn't sound to me as if there were any vocalists other than Bryan Hyland on that recording. But, there was a guy named Max Crook who played an electronic keyboard instrument on there who also did so on numerous recordings throughout the 60's; most notably Del Shannons' "Runaway", back in '61. This was the decade the mellootron & the Moog synthesizer came along, as well, displacing the Hammond & other keyboard organs. Yup.

Alan

8-23-24, 8:16am

What kindava car was it, Al?
A Datsun.

iris lilies

8-25-24, 10:17am

I replaced the clutch in my future wife's car in that very same garage a few years later. Small world huh?
Wow, small world indeed!

Alan

8-25-24, 10:25am

Wow, small world indeed!
Yep! Elmendorf AFB hosted an auto hobby shop on base where service members and their dependents could reserve a service bay and check out whatever tools and service manuals they may need for their repairs. I'm sure it was used by thousands of people over its existence so I'm not surprised to find others 50 years later who used it, I'm only surprised that littlebit was able to do so. I'm guessing he was hosted by a friend with a military ID.

rosarugosa

9-4-24, 6:04am

littlebittybobby

9-4-24, 12:24pm

Apologies in advance for those I might offend, but DH somehow discovered this yesterday (he has very eclectic taste) and I thought it was the best thing EVER!

https://youtu.be/mkMJKqG_SDw?si=b21YFLWIiIzujlhrokay------THAT is one of THE most wonderful songs I have ever heard! But yeah---if only they'da sampled the Mop-topped foursome from Beatpool in jolly olde England by preceding the poignant phrase "that looks fxxxing ugly, baby" with a round of "Yeah, yeah, yeahs", why---it would be even better. Yup. Hopefully, that group will be selling tickicks to their show up there in KC, so I can get me one. I know they won't be comin' here, because we are too ray-ciss. Yup.

littlebittybobby

10-6-24, 5:03pm

okay----this is old; older'n you kids prolly. over 50 years! Yup. But anyway--I heard a song in the grocery store, and of course it was by the late Helen Reddy. Well, mosta her songs had lyrics of a libberistic-type themes, so I usually did not pay much attentionb to her, back then. But this one was not a libber song, but one she covered, called: "Peaceful", by Kenny Rankin. Well, I put on my headphones and listened to the Reddy & Rankin renditions and come to find out there was also one each by Bobby Gentry AND a guy named Georgie Fame. Both prior to the Helen Reddy version. I think the Georgie Fame version was prolly filler material for an album, no less. . But, it ties with hers for most-listenable. You also may've heard Georgie singing
"The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde", which got lots of radio airplay in 1968. So there's that.

littlebittybobby

10-7-24, 12:52am

okay---it's not real old, or real new. Take your pick. So anyway---on youtube, you can hear the Capitol Childrens Choir at Abbey Road Studio(where your idol 'Carts useta sing yeah, yeah, yeah, mee-shell, coo coo ca-joo!......)perform their rendition of "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns n' Roses, which I know you'd pay $300 for a tickick to a HUGE arena ta see. But yeah---Capitol Childrens Choir. Excellent. Hope that helps you some.

littlebittybobby

10-9-24, 12:12am

okay----here's another good one by Alan Price. He is versatile and very talented and has been involved in a lot of projects at home in England, where he's a star. But yeah--in this 1965 recording, he puts Joe Bonamassa to shame. Price collaborated with Georgie Fame, too on other records. England is really the place, for real music, I must admit. Still---not gonna go there. They can come here, to America. But, it's a youtube vid of "I put a spell on You", a cover by Alan Price. Yup. Better listen to it, or else. Thank mee.

littlebittybobby

10-14-24, 8:47pm

okay---I hadta stop listening to music on my hi-fi(cell phone & bluetooth heaphones) for awhile, due to the fact that I developed an earworm from several of the old pop music tunes I've listened to. Another one that infected me was one from about 25 years ago, called "Genie In a Bottle". Well, even though Christina Aquilera is given top billing on that one, it really is a group effort by a record company to produce a pop-ular song. See? But yeah--it got played on the ray-dio and of course hippies hated it because it wasn't "heavy" enough, like Slipknot or whoever. Or the lyrics weren't sentimental enough, like ole whats-his-face. But yeah--it was a VERY good composition, musically, if you ask me. Hope that helps you kids. Thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

10-20-24, 8:24pm

okay----the old, remodeled theater downtown in which the projectionist of 36 years died suddenly on New Years Eve, 1962, recently sent me a facebook notice that Iris Dement was playing an upcoming concert date. Well, that name sounded vaguely familiar, so I looked 'er up on youtube, and there was a video of her & the late John Prine singing some song about how "she don't like her egg all runny" AFTER Mr Prine gave a rambling monologue about something-or-another. But yeah: More Ohio Valley Americana Stuff. I don't call it "music" because to me it isn't music. I cannot stand hillbilly bluegrass STUFF. But guess what? It's very popular here, with These People. Ha. So, no---ain't gonna waste money on tickkicks ta see Iris. Nope.

Alan

10-20-24, 9:09pm

The name of that song is 'In Spite Of Ourselves'. I posted a YouTube video of it here a few years ago so now I'm concerned that you don't read my every post if you've only just now discovered it. :(

Edited to add: Found a link to my old thread in case you want to watch the video again, and again, and again. https://www.simplelivingforum.net/sh....php?17425-Mus (https://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?17425-Mus)

littlebittybobby

10-20-24, 11:31pm

okay----what was that Alan? Tell you what---it is an AMAY-ZEEN and Ahhh-Summm (as they say in IWAH) coincidence that you seem to enjoy stuff I dislike! Yup. Oh, well; try & break yourself of those habits. But yeah: Start out by listening to the 1-hour loop of "Jacob and the Stone" on Youtube. You can also listen to Alan Price & Georgie Fame sing a duet cover of "Good Day Sunshine", originally by those Beatpools. Yup. That said, it's a start, toward ridding your americana/bluegrass habit. It's about like quitting smokeless tobacco. ha. Yup. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.

Rogar

10-21-24, 7:31am

John Prine is an all time favorite and I do remember Alan's post. He was a story teller about everyday people, to song. Another raconteur favorite is Greg Brown, and he's even from IOWaa.

jp1

10-23-24, 10:14pm

Always love me some Johnny Cash. Heard this on the radio this afternoon while working and looked up the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

littlebittybobby

10-28-24, 2:42am

okay----I may've told you kids about Melle, the Canadian you-tuber who likes to sing & play her guitar; many times just the good parts of well-known rock songs. One, that she sings purtnear the whole thing is a cover of one by Green Day, and they played that Green Day song on the radio a disturbing number of times & back then, I did not like it. But, Melle took the good and left out the bad, and because she has a MUCCCCCCCH better voice than the singer in Green Day, who reminds me o' Dylan. Melle has a VERY good voice, and though she's versatile, not every song is a good fit. But yeah--her rendition of "Good Riddance"(Green Day) is pretty good. Yup.

littlebittybobby

10-31-24, 6:44pm

okay----what I been listening to lately is a genre of recorded music I now call: "Roller Rink Music." Yup. Basically, dance tracks or "disco". See? Examples: Boogie-Ooogie by Taste of Honey, or "Get Down Tonight" by KC and The Sunshine Band. But, there's lots more; even "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum sounds very skate-y. But yeah---while you kids sit-n-watch tee-veeee footbal or Downtown Alley, I watch rollerskaters w/good background tunes. Yup. Hope that helps you some.

Rogar

10-31-24, 7:06pm

Perhaps you are familiar with the ABBA song, "dancing queen". A favorite version of mine is the end of the movie, "Dick" where Kirstan Dunst roller skates around the oval office under a disco ball to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmoBR16Zrs

catherine

10-31-24, 7:19pm

Thanks, Rogar. Fun watch.

littlebittybobby

10-31-24, 11:14pm

okay-----ABBA. Of course. Also, Pat Hernandez' "Born To Be Alive". Not one of my favorites, but you have to include it. "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson, as well. Thing is, these all are essentially instrumentals involving numerous musicians in the recording process, but the vocalist gets the credit. To me, they're just the identifier. Hope that helps you some. ETA: Tell ya somethin' else: The song: "Rock Your Baby" ?(singer: George McRae") was written and produced by K C and his Sunshine Band. Not only that, but later that year, John Lennon, former member of the mop-topped foursome wrote one greatly influenced by it(Whatever Get's You Through The Night), and later declared his admiration for "Rock Your Baby". Yup.

littlebittybobby

11-12-24, 9:18am

okay--more skating music: Kool and the Gang. I did not pay much attention to their music back in the day; I figured it was easy listening soul music or whatever. Plus, you've got to disregard the lyrical content, and focus on the sound. But yeah---they were actually pretty good, and commercially successful. So yeah---also great skating music. Yup. OTOH: John Prine; BAD skating music. Really awful. Yup.

Rogar

11-12-24, 12:49pm

. Yup. OTOH: John Prine; BAD skating music. Really awful. Yup.

A good friend went to a Prine concert and said she cried all the way through it, which seems like a poor allocation of money and time. Some of his music used to lead me to consume too much alcohol. I still like him a lot, but drink less or nothing. Not all music is skating music.

Alan

11-12-24, 1:59pm

A good friend went to a Prine concert and said she cried all the way through it, which seems like a poor allocation of money and time. Some of his music used to lead me to consume too much alcohol. I still like him a lot, but drink less or nothing. Not all music is skating music.
John Prine was a story teller, some were sad and some were happy and some were just silly stories, but they were all wonderful.

littlebittybobby

11-12-24, 3:58pm

okay-----Alan, you are 100% right, as usual; There is ab-so-lute-ly nothing wrong with John Prine music, in the right place and time; such as nursing homes & funeral parlors & bluegrass festivals & county fairs throughout Appalachia & the Ohio Valley and of course, Southernmost Zurra. But yeah---one of THE finest skating songs ever is by a band from Ohio/WV coal country---out of Mingo Junction, Ohio--"Play That Funky Music....." by Wild Cherry. Now, THATS some skating music. Yup.

Rogar

11-12-24, 6:02pm

John Prine was a story teller, some were sad and some were happy and some were just silly stories, but they were all wonderful.

I used to have his "Souvenir" CD back in the day, but could not listen to it without getting misty eyed. But you are right, he has songs that are just stories and happy songs too, because....it's a big old goofy world.

All the snow has turned to water
Christmas days have come and gone
Broken toys and faded colors
Are all that's left to linger on
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs

littlebittybobby

11-12-24, 6:25pm

okay---Red Sovine. You won't hear ol' Red in a skating rink, and that is a good thing. Ha. But, I bet you kids like him. Yup.

Alan

11-12-24, 7:37pm

I used to have his "Souvenir" CD back in the day, but could not listen to it without getting misty eyed.

I leaned on my left leg in the parking lot dirt
Cathy was closing the lights
A Junebug flew from the warmth he once knew
And I wished for once I weren't right.
We used to laugh together
And dance to any old song
Well you know she still laughs with me
But she waits just a second too long.

Rogar

11-12-24, 9:12pm

I knew Cathy.

Alan

11-12-24, 9:35pm

I'm sorry Rogar.

Well, I started the engine and I gave it some gas
And Cathy was closing her purse
Well, we hadn't gone far in my beat-up old car
And I was prepared for the worst
"Will you still see me tomorrow?"
"No, I got too much to do"
Well, a question ain't really a question
If you know the answer, too

ToomuchStuff

11-12-24, 10:28pm

Back before I was a movie star
Straight off of the farm
I had a picture of another man's wife
Tattooed on my arm
With a pack of Camel cigarettes
In the sleeve of my T-shirt
I'm headin' out to Hollywood
Just to have my feelings hurt
That town will make you crazy
Just give it a little time
You'll be walking 'round in circles
Down at Hollywood and Vine
You'll be waitin' on a phone call
At the wrong end of a broom
Yes, that town'll make you crazy
Crazy as a loon

My absolute favorite of his and the first song by him I ever heard.

Rogar

11-12-24, 11:14pm

I'm sorry Rogar.

No regrets. Retrospectively, some humans ain't human.

littlebittybobby

11-13-24, 2:04pm

okay----Tell you somethin' else----That Joe Bonnamassa characters' noise is NOT Roller Skating Rink material! Not at all. One other thing--nunya have affirmed my assertion that you're a big fan of Red Sovine. Nope.

littlebittybobby

11-13-24, 4:45pm

okay----another great one is: "Funkytown" by Lipps. inc. Don't zackly know the lyrics 'cept: "won't you take me tooo funkytown..." There's extensive use of the Cowbell in that recording, even though it isn't hillbilly music, like you kids like.

Rogar

11-14-24, 8:30am

littlebittybobby

11-15-24, 12:35pm

okay----in addition to the roller skating vidddeos that i waste hours and hours on, there is a gal from merry old England, Lauren age 33, who skips rope to skate music, while smiling. For an English, she has reasonably good teeth. But yeah---from Very Superstitious by S. Wonder all the way up to Dua Lips, a pretty wide range o' tunes, including the Bee Gees, of course. Lauren comments at times, and also has a nice creaky vocal fry, but doesn't overdo it. Yup.

littlebittybobby

11-15-24, 6:54pm

okay-----"wannabe" Spice girls. Yup, it's old music, from 1996. But yeah---isn't that something? Not my favorite skating song, but it'll work.

littlebittybobby

11-27-24, 2:00am

okay----from 40 years ago(1984, 'cordin ta my calculations)--a song that was extremely popular in the former Axis countries that you love ta buy cars from. It's called: "Forever Young" by Alphaville. It sounds like symphony music there, but nooo---it's genuine synthesizer. But yeah---I know you kids'd rather WALK than buy a car made by the Good Guys. Allied Power sucks, right?

rosarugosa

11-27-24, 6:47am

My almost-11-year-old Ford Focus was "Proudly Made in Detroit." It even has a sticker on it that says so.

littlebittybobby

11-27-24, 2:08pm

My almost-11-year-old Ford Focus was "Proudly Made in Detroit." It even has a sticker on it that says so. TYVM, for the clarification, RR. 'Nother thing that never ceases ta amayze meee is how Those Peace-Loveen 60's Hippies were so partial ta der Volkswaggens, especially Transporters(Buses). Yup. But yeah---they evidently knew nothing about cancel culture; only about campus sit-ins to protess the war of US aggression in SE Asia. See?

rosarugosa

11-28-24, 8:24am

So I've been meaning to tell this anecdote for awhile, but I've been too lazy to type it.

Several months ago, maybe in early spring, I got a song stuck in my head that they were playing in Market Basket. It was a pleasant tune. They have a playlist that tends towards mellow oldies rock. I didn't know the name of the song, and DH, my music guru, didn't know either from my lame attempts to hum it. It drove me sort of crazy, because it was stuck in my head, and I didn't know what it was - unknown alien brain intruder! The only thing I thought I had gathered from the lyrics was "time folds," or something that sounded like that. I spent a crazy amount of time trying to figure it out online, googling "time folds," "time flows," "time goes," you get the idea. I googled "Market Basket playlists," which is indeed a thing and listened to many short clips of songs that were not it. Yes, I can get a bit obsessive, lol.

Well I was finally able to shove this into the back of my brain and proceed to live my life, and I had pretty much forgotten about it. Then on vacation in September, we were having dinner at The Tavern on the Hill in Easthampton, MA, and the song came on! I told DH it was The Song, but he didn't know the name! I asked our waitstaff, who was kind enough to check for me. She couldn't ID the song, but told me they played "Yacht Rock" on Spotify. So of course I installed Spotify on my phone and listened to snippets of songs from their Yacht Rock playlist, and I FOUND THE SONG!

I can certainly be tenacious, although this was certainly not my most meaningful quest in life, lol.

The Song is "Cool Change" by the Little River Band, and it is a pretty nice song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk

catherine

11-28-24, 8:58am

rosarugosa

11-28-24, 3:59pm

Cool story, rosa! Yes, it is so annoying when you can't remember the name of a song.

To help you out next time, try Shazam, SoundHound or even Google, apparently:

https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/7554088?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

And this is just one of many reasons I hang out with you guys! I will certainly keep this in mind for next time. I tried testing with Google. The first bars that were stuck in my head did not get a match, but another couple of bars got an accurate hit. However, I'm not sure it was a fair test, since I can hum the song a lot better now that I've identified it and listened to it several times. I hadn't even been paying attention to it in Market Basket that day; it just wormed its way into my brain like songs sometimes do.
I have actually learned a lot from this Forum over the years though, so this Thanksgiving I will take the opportunity to say I am thankful for you, my SLF friends.

KayLR

11-28-24, 4:16pm

To piggyback on what Rosa said here, I add my thanks to this forum because I am still listening to Radio Paradise (online) as recommended by someone here many years ago. They have 4 channels now I think, having just added electronic chill.

littlebittybobby

11-28-24, 4:43pm

okay-----yah LRB, as the DJ called them. Late 70's; got played a lot on AM radio. They had another one called: "Reminiscing", which I liked better. Hope that helps you some. But yeah---to show my allegiance to the "winners" of WW2, when they actually LOST the war of English-Speaking aggression & the British Empire greatly declined & the Commies took over LARGE portions of Asia and Europe. Okay---what I was trying to say is that instead of owning an English car(ha), a French-built car(ha ha ha)or one made by our allies, the Ruskies(ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.), I resorted to purchasing an Australian-made car, that I hardly drive. It's a Holden Monaro, rebadged as a Ponnyac for the American Market. Only about 16,000 arrived here, that year, and ever since, the young punks have wrecked mosta them. On Cruise night though, I did see several of them out tearing up the streets. Those cars are doomed, in the hands of those hot-rodders. See? But, mine just sits. I need to go out and start it up, this weekend. Hope that helps you kids some.

rosarugosa

11-29-24, 7:07am

littlebittybobby

12-3-24, 4:56pm

LBB: I just gave it a listen and it's definitely familiar - DH could identify it instantly and said it was a bigger hit than "Cool Change." I like "Cool Change" better myself, but I bet they play "Reminiscing" at Market Basket too. I'll let you know if I hear it there. TYVM, RR. Glad it helped you some. But yeah: ZMore old skating music. A clever little ditty called "Crush", with vocals by Jennifer Paige and several backup singers. But yeah--it's got drums & bass, as well. I could care less about the lyrical content. It was from back in about 1998. Yup. You betcha.

jp1

12-5-24, 1:21am

NOW YOU'VE MET THE LONDON BOYS...

As I have mentioned I get cd's from the library all the time. The latest David Bowie disk was blah except one song. It's SO tragic. Eff. A 17 year old gay kid that ends up using too many drugs and wishing he'd just stayed home? What an awful story. I'm fascinated that bowie wanted it to be his first hit. and that he started performing it regularly once he had made a name for himself.

And it's so amazing how he starts so subdued but by the end he's shouting "YOU GOT IT MADE WITH THE REST OF THE TOYS. NOW YOU GOT IT MADE WITH THE LONDON BOYS!!!! So many memories of my life back then. I would've become a NYC boy but that didn't happen. But it could have...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd1RT-aBhuU

rosarugosa

12-5-24, 7:27am

Poignant, JP. I was a very big fan of Bowie back in the 70s and 80s. I saw him live once at the Boston Gardens, although we had lousy seats and we were very far away (it was a huge sports arena).

littlebittybobby

12-5-24, 8:55pm

okay---you kids are discussing Bowie. I was listening ta my two favorite Sinatra songs(Theme from the Cardinal and New York New York)which were later on in his career, and in doing research, I happened across early photos of him, and you know what? He resembled David Bowie, in my opinion. Not the glam-rock getup; but facially; very skinny fellow. Hope that helps you some, dude. Thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

12-6-24, 12:27am

okay---another skate song from 40 years ago: "Keep Feeling Fascination", by The Human League. No banjos, no old geezers. Not country. Yup.

littlebittybobby

12-12-24, 12:22am

okay----I was listening to something---don't recall what---on youtube, and it switched to a series of songs I would call: "The best of The Outfield." I've heard alla those songs, before; they were from back in the mid-80's into the 90's. So anyway--I looked up the Outfield on wiki, and they were 3 lads from merry olde England(the tourist trap), making up the core of the band, and two are deceased, now. The article said they were far more commercially-successful in the USA, than in their homeland. Critics griped that their music was too pop and harmonious & formulaic and derivative, but they sold records, anyway. I was in the pawn shop back in the 90's and picked up a cassette of: "Play Deep", which was their first big seller. But yeah---they were pretty good, but you get your fill of them pretty quickly. So, I listen to them just once in awhile. You kids prolly scorn them, 'cause tickkicks to their shows aren't available at any price. Thankk mee.

littlebittybobby

12-16-24, 7:33pm

okay----I was reviewing the episode of the old skit comedy show "Laugh In", in which Herbert "Tiny Tim" Khaury was a guest., What was most entertaing was the reaction of the emcees, especially Dick Martin. Ha. Bu yeah----fast forward 56 years, all three(Dick, Dan & Tim) are long gone, but someone like Tim would be standard fare on summa these shows, now. Tiptoe through the Tulips and A tisket, a tasket, a Green & Yellow basket, accompanied by ukelele. Yup. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.

JackieLN

12-18-24, 8:22am

I know of one song that has touched me well, Angels Among Us by Alabama. Felt mom was the angel that was there from the day she decided to adopt me to the day it became final when I was 10 years old. I came from a bad home with an alcoholic mom and put in a loving home. Going to play it to her as her Christmas present and is this one, Alabama - Angels Among Us (Official Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_4Xfj2LRSA)

littlebittybobby

12-27-24, 4:56pm

okay----i been sick with that darn cold fer going on three weeks. but yeah---got a chance ta listen to manya my two-three hit wonders, as critics nastily called them. but yeah---THW's tend to be the best. Anyway, not in any particular wonder: Natasha Bedingfield: pocket full o' sunshine/unwritten; The Critters: Younger Girl/Mr Dyingly sad; Fergie: Big girls don't cry; The Troggs: Wild Thing/with a girl like you/ Love is all around. Eddie Po's u-toob cover of "Earth Angel" speaking of which--Tiny Tim's cover of same PLUS Tiptoe Through the Tulips. TT is a story in and of itself---chutzpah getting a nerdy guy fame and a pretty teen wife. Yup. to be continued...

jp1

12-30-24, 1:28am

Poignant, JP. I was a very big fan of Bowie back in the 70s and 80s. I saw him live once at the Boston Gardens, although we had lousy seats and we were very far away (it was a huge sports arena).

I will never forget when I was 23. I had just moved to NYC and went to visit my folks in Denver for a week. I decided to grow a beard on that trip. When I got home a friend was horrified. "WHY ARE YOU GROWING A BEARD??? HOW WILL YOU GET A DADDY???" I realized at that moment I didn't want to have a daddy. (or be a toy, as in Bowie's song) I've never looked back.

littlebittybobby

1-1-25, 1:50pm

okay-----I just about never take lyrics into account, when I listen to MUSIC. If I want words, I'll read a book. See? Lyrics just give a vocalist something to wrap their voice around; not to advocate for social change or runny eggs or whatever. I was in the pharmacy(the one for old people, not hippies), and over the intercom an old song played that was: a.) an advanced style, in it's day; b)recorded well before anya the pharmacy staff was even born; c)by a group that was prolific enough(3 or 4 albums, and lots of touring, but deemed a "One-hit wonder" by The Media; d)released as a single on 45 rpm, and I have a copy in my collection. The group was based in San Francisco, but the singer was an overweight Cowlitz Indian from Washington state. The record was successful, I think, because it was catchy, original, had a dance-music sound, and was given the full studio treatment by the record producer, to make it more listenable. Lots of electric bass and a saxophone and vocals, etc., and effects that gave it a "trippy" ethereal sound. But yeah---that record is 40 years old, now! I went home and played it again on my cell-phone through wireless headphones a couple times; since I hadn't heard it in awhile. The title is: "Girl In Trouble(Is a Temporary Thing) by the group Romeo Void. Believe me, I am not a fan of theirs, nor do have all or any of their various LPs, collect posters and memorabilia, etc. I just like that ONE recording; the studio guy did a great job. Yup. I just like music that sounds good, not sappy sentiments or pleas for social change. See? Hope that helps you some. Thank mee.

littlebittybobby

1-3-25, 2:59am

okay---he's another one you might hear in the grocery store, though I haven't heard it lately. By an english girl, from back in 1991. But yeah---you've really got to listen to it with headphones, in order to hear the wall of sound. Called: Too Many Walls", and Cathy Dennis gets the credit.

iris lilies

1-3-25, 9:19am

littlebittybobby

1-3-25, 2:35pm

You know Tiny Tim ended up living in Des Moines, right? I don’t remember what brought him there. I have a picture, a treasured picture, of my dad with tiny Tim. pretty funny and I don’t remember how they met. okay----well, TYVM, I/L. That's some good information, there. Too bad TT isn't with us any longer; he & 'Carts & the surviving members of the stones & monkees(1) could form up a supergroup and tour, with $300 tickicks and sellout crowds. Oh, I long for the 60's! Yup. Edited to add: Get out your 'Carts Album "RAM" from 1971, and listen to Ram On and Just another Day and Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, and tell me if you don't think TT had any influence on 'Carts. He may not admit it, but betcha by golly he did. Yup. Hope that helps you some

littlebittybobby

1-6-25, 2:50am

6172okay---you kidses' idol 'Carts is looking a little scruffy these days. (see photo)

littlebittybobby

1-18-25, 10:32pm

okay---there's a song i don't like, that has become an anthem on grocery store intercoms, everywhere. so, anyway---it's called "Take My Breath Away", credited to Berlin, which is i assume is a record-producers concoction. Nothing wrong with that, but you kids'd be getting screwed(like when "trading" for a nice, new, SAFE Subbbaroo, because there ain't no such group, performing live & in person. But yeah---it and two other songs were used in the moo-veee, a teen action flick starring tom mapother, short guy(5' 6"). Anyway, on o' the co-composers o' that recording(besices the record producer) is a good ol' boy(not really) from Sfd., Mo., who is dead, now. But yeah--there's no banjo or fiddle or upright bass in 'em! But yeah---it is catchy, but I cannot stand take-that-song-away OR danger zone. SFD Mo. is a music desert, I guarantee that. Bad Music, here folks. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.

catherine

1-19-25, 7:47am

6172okay---you kidses' idol 'Carts is looking a little scruffy these days. (see photo)

He's looking mighty fine to me!

rosarugosa

1-20-25, 7:19am

Yes, just needs a shave!

littlebittybobby

1-21-25, 10:00pm

okay--shave, haircut & most likely, a shower. Wouldn't hurt to recolor his hair, too. And Botox, and work on those bags under his eyes. He's SFD, Mo. "Geezer Chic" but, anyway---I was in the groc store tonight, and over the intercom, they were playing; "Pocket full of Sunshine" with Natasha Bedingfield credited as vocalist. But yeah---a lot of talented musicians had to have participated in the making of that record. Yup.

littlebittybobby

1-21-25, 10:59pm

okay---another one i always likes is " To the Moon and Back", by the quasi-group Savage Garden. But yeah--an Au record-producers' gem, that has all the good stuff. Yup.

littlebittybobby

1-21-25, 11:54pm

okay--another you-tuber who is an immigrant and speaks perfect english has a U-tube video of him solo, playing waaay better blues guitar than bb king(libtard idol) OR Joe Bonnamassa(rednecked idol) on his video titled: "when someone requests a steve vai song". But yeah---you outta listen to it. He does really good. Yup.

littlebittybobby

2-1-25, 1:51am

okay-----last week---no wait---the week before last----I was listening to an old Rolling Stones tune which you could file under: "Baroque Rock", which went through a phase in the late-60's. The hard-rock groups all had there Baroque Rock song. But yeah---Those Stones had at least a couple tunes like that: "Lady Jane" and of course: "As Tears Go By". A good friend and associate of Mick Jagger also recorded it; coincidentally, she passed away in the last day or so. The good part of those songs was not really Jaggers vocals, but the instrumental parts, by a small orchestra. No doubt dubbed in at some point in the making of the record. I'm just sitting here, wondering if you kids can name anya the Baroque Rock songs from that period.

littlebittybobby

2-8-25, 10:40pm

okay---'nother one I heard on a skating rink group or maybe a jumprope video is a recording given credit to vocalist Shakira called: Whenever, Wherever. I looked it up, and it's classified to be South American Folk Rock or some B.S., but I classify it as post-Donna Summer Disco ala Brill Building. But yeah---it sounds pretty good, is a studio masterpiece that is VERY catchy. Yup. I can't zackly classify it it as old or new. I guess 20 years ago is old. Thank mee.

littlebittybobby

3-5-25, 4:42pm

okay---quite frequently I find stuff in my research that is VERY amay-zeen. So, anyway----Sly Stone was in a group that was a pre-cursor to the Mojo Men. He quit as a band member, but worked behind the scenes. I can only speculate on the reason. Well, the Mojo Men recorded a Steve Stills song called: "Sit down, I think I love you", which was very melodic and had lots of cool stuff in the recording. The drummer whoi also sang backup, was a young lady named Jan Errico.(see photo) She also used the name Jan Ashton. But, before that, she was in a band named The Vejtables, and they recorded a song by Jan Errico called: I still love you". She sang in that one, too. It was a VERY catchy McCartney-esque little ditty with a lively bass guitar. You can find it on U-toob. But yeah--Sly Stone formed up a band(Sly/Family Stone), that used Greg Errico on drums, and yes--he and Jan are related. Isn't that A-may-zeen?6262

littlebittybobby

3-9-25, 2:46pm

okay----guess what? I found another photo o' Sir Carts of Beetledom. (see photo) Ahh-summm & A-may-zeen. But yeah---hope that makes your day. Yup.6268

littlebittybobby

3-23-25, 11:22pm

okay----back when ';carts was taking leftovers out of the fridge to serve up to the dedicated beatlemaniacs(the long and boring ode/lady mccartsney/hey dude, and The Media obligingly played those pieces of beatle garbage over-and-over-and-over, there was a group that debuted on Ed Sullivan and performed at Woodstock 69, that completely eclipsed the mop-topped foursome from liverpuddle. Yup. The group was: Sly and the family Stone. Their appearance on EdSul didn't have the audience packed with adoring manic teeny boppers, but middle-aged white suits, who just didn't "get-it". At Woodstock 69, they went onstage at the scheduled hour of 3:30 A.M., in the rain. Yet, they are critically acclaimed as the best featured act at the festival. Which in fact, they were. Go figure. But yeah--I rewatch all their old videos of S&TFS, live performances, and they are THE most underrated music group of the late-60's-early 70's! Yup. And of course--the Redneck-based "Classic Rock" radio stations have all but ignored them, while endlessly replaying crap by lennnard skinnerd, the almost bros, and the Egos,and of course--Godamn Earache, etc. Hope that helps you kids some.

littlebittybobby

3-29-25, 3:36pm

okay----i know you kids practically worship Carts as though he was the Best Beatle, ever. That's why you'll give a week's pay for a tickick to see the old geezer. Ha. However, experts, including myself, strongly disagree. We know that Pete Best, the Beatles' Drummer who left the group due to creative differences, was by far THE Best Beatle, ever. Yup. (see photo) But yeah--62886288if history had taken the right course, why--Carts would've left the group instead, for a solo career, singing moronic garbage like: Mee-shell, Ma Bell, Uncle Albert/Amoral Halsey, The Long and Windy Song, Lady Madonna, Hey Jood and other such garbage. See? Yup. I always like to be of help around here. Thankk mee.

Alan

3-29-25, 4:25pm

I know this may cause great consternation with LBB but I've long been a fan of Mark Knopfler, from his Dire Straits days up through the present, mainly because of his distinctive sound and mastery of the fingerpicking playing style. One of my favorite of his works with Dire Straits is a song, "Why Worry", written and recorded 40 years ago. I think it first came to my attention because it was so slow and melodic as opposed to the faster, frenetic work by the band. Here's a live version (which I always prefer to studio versions).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3KhfaG64s