old music

[jp1]

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]

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.2023-03-30 (8).jpg2023-03-30 (8).jpg2023-03-30 (11).jpg2023-03-30 (11).jpg2023-03-30 (11).jpg

[dado potato]

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

[littlebittybobby]

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

[jp1]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.2023-03-22.jpg2023-03-22.jpg2023-03-29 (8).jpg2023-03-29 (8).jpg