Okay--I was in the store, and Rock around the Xmas tree, featuring 13 y o Brenda Lee was playing on the PA. Yup
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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!Quote:
Originally Posted by littlebittybobby
God I hate that song.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shared this with SO this evening and his comment was "Wow, a song about the OG incel..."Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
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
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=pdrw...wgQ2F0aGVkcmFs
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
Wow, that's some crazy cycling action!
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
Wow. The eyes on the woman in pink are scary! LOL.
Yeah, that would be a decent workout - IF I could learn all the moves. LOL
Thank you for that! A classic! It was around even before MTV! I was not into disco that much--my era was the whole British Invasion of the 60s, but it certainly takes me back to my 20s/30s. I hated working at Union Carbide (1983-85) but we had a lunchtime employee aerobics class and songs like Funkytown really remind me of the songs that we exercised to.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I bet I could be a TikTok sensation if I did a remake! I’ll have to upQuote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
My video editing skills before I could do that though. All that high tech background stuff! (:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
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=58mv...IG1vcm5pbmc%3D
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.
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.
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
My favorite version of Shake It Off. :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3tUOJ9yv4
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.
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
Ok. I'll admit that was hilarious!Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by jp1
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.
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.
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.
So your not taking Mandy and trying to get the feeling?:laff:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.