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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 22, 2020 20:37:49 GMT -8
Do any of you remember this song?
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Post by timothylane on Nov 22, 2020 20:52:41 GMT -8
I don't recognize the song, but it also mentions "Walk Away, Renee" and "Lazy Day", both of which I'm familiar with. In fact, when we went to a concert featuring the Association and the Lovin' Spoonful sponsored by local firefighters, the former sang "Walk Away, Renee" (though it wasn't one of their hit songs).
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 22, 2020 20:56:22 GMT -8
I got sidetracked, but I was going to include "Walk Away, Renee." Here it is. I love both these songs.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 22, 2020 20:59:13 GMT -8
Another great song by a group I like. Spanky and Our Gang.
Another good song.
And finally, this one.
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Post by timothylane on Nov 22, 2020 21:04:50 GMT -8
The version I have is on an anthology CD called "Flower Power" and is slightly different and thus slightly inferior.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 22, 2020 21:10:10 GMT -8
The sixties were horrible in many ways, but there is no doubt that there was a huge flowering of music. As a result there was more good quality music written and performed during that decade than probably any decade before or since. There were many groups which produced one, two or several excellent songs and then faded, but what they produced could be wonderful.
There is no doubt that today's musicians are generally technically superior to those of the 1960s, but few today seem to have the creativity to come up with beautiful or even memorable music.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 4, 2021 13:14:41 GMT -8
Gerry Marsden of "Gerry and the Pacemakers" has died. He and his group were very big in the mid 1960s, both in the U.K. and America. I loved them. Here are two videos of them appearing on the Ed Sullivan show. I saw these appearances as they happened. As I recall, Sullivan considered Gerry and the Pacemakers the most polite group of English-Invasion musicians to appear on his program. The above is a partial from the Ed Sullivan Show. Below is the whole song on the BBC.
Here is the story of how "Ferry Cross the Mersey" came about.
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Post by timothylane on Jan 4, 2021 14:35:43 GMT -8
I'm familiar with both songs from our anthology MP3s, which have them. There may be others by them as well (the only one I specifically linked to them was "Ferry Cross the Mersey", which presumably indicates that they're Liverpudlians like the Beatles).
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 1, 2024 19:42:43 GMT -8
It has been some time since I read Mark Steyn's blog, which I once did on a regular basis. I don't know why I stopped reading it. Perhaps because there was so much news going on around the world that it dropped off my reading list. For some reason, I looked in on his blog last week and was gratified to see that his long-delayed day in court had finally come round. The scumbag Michael Mann sued NRO and Steyn for a piece he wrote for NRO about 12 years ago. NRO being the scurrilous-backboneless-faux-conservative-pimps for the moneyed class that they are, dropped Steyn and decided to settle the case on the side. Steyn, being a man of honor and virtue decided to stand his ground and has had to spend his fortune on the constant delays and such which have been thrown in his way by the D.C. court. In the meantime, he has had three heart attacks and is acting as his own counsel. I pray he triumphs and then goes after Mann and if possible NRO. That said, I looked over his webpage and came upon an article which exemplifies the excellent quality of Steyn's work in the area he performs best. Nobody else covers music like this. The Look of Love
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 2, 2024 13:55:44 GMT -8
Diana Krall is not hard on the eyes. In that song, she is practically having sex, there and then, with her audience. Yep. That's the version I immediately thought of when recalling this song. By coincidence, she was on a rerun of The Carol Burnett Show the other night. I never liked her severe hair but she had a wonderful voice. I, too, happened by chance to read one of Steyn's musings on a song. The song was Buttons and Bows. Very good article. I'm still working my way through the movie. Jane Russell. Va-voom.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 2, 2024 15:14:40 GMT -8
Mdm. Flu saw Warwick live in Perth, Australia many years back. Mdm. Flu's comment and Warwick was, "a great singer, but lousy entertainer" or something to that effect.
I like the original by Dusty Springfield, but this is my favorite version.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 3, 2024 9:31:15 GMT -8
That's a real nice version by Dusty Springfield. I piped via Bluetooth to my stereo and it sounded great.
By coincidence I saw that on the Filmrise Music channel (via the Sling TV service...perhaps you can find this for free on Roku) there is a Diana Krall concert. "Live in Rio." I literally caught the very end where there was an empty stage and fading applause. At 10:40 am this morning it will be replayed. I'm going to try to watch some of it.
Interesting distinction between "great singer" and "lousy entertainer." I can't think of anyone else who comes to mind in that regard. But there must be a few.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 3, 2024 15:01:59 GMT -8
In short, Mdm. Flu observed that Warwick was very robotic. She sang one song after another with almost no interaction with the audience. No charisma at all. Like she was bored. Might as well have been a phonograph.
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