Blazing a trail to the southern cities
From the streets of our hometown
Basement bars we played from the heart
in the company of our friends
If I write down these memories
that I have saved away
Photographs of the years that passed
inside my little brain
You're cool and cred like Fogerty
I'm Elvis Presley in the 70's
You're Chateauneuf, I'm Yellow Label
You're the buffet I'm just the table
I'm a Ford Tempo you're a Maserati
You're the Great One, I'm Marty McSorley
You're the Concorde, I'm economy
I make the dough but you get the glory
Big fish small pond and some cover songs
we sang along the way
We used to midnight run to the Vesta Lunch
Cheeseburgers and chocolate shakes
Once I got drunk with Jeff
I told him I was in love with you
But I love you like a brother
so at least half of it was true
You're cool and cred like Fogerty
I'm Elvis Presley in the seventies
You're Chateauneuf, I'm Yellow Label
You're the buffet I'm just the table
I'm a Dodge Sparkle, you're a Lamborghini
You're the Great One, I'm Marty McSorley
You're the Concorde, I'm economy
I make the dough, but you get the glory
If I write down these memories
that I have saved away
Photographs of the years that passed
inside my little brain
I'm sure it's been said in the finer print
You make me look legitimate
Heavy rotation on the CBC
Whatever in hell that really means
You're cool and cred like Fogerty
I'm Elvis Presley in the 70's
You're the Concorde I'm economy
I make the dough, but you get the glory
A free classical concert podcast performed and recorded at the Isabella Stewart Museum. This ones (episode) called Not Just For Singers....
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Podcast No. 79
Not Just for Singers (44.9 MB)
Works for solo piano and for voice and piano performed by Gleb Ivanov, piano, Randall Scarlata, baritone, Jennifer Aylmer, soprano, and Laura Ward, piano.
•Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
•Rachmaninoff: Etudes Nos. 8 and No. 9, Op. 39
•Songs from Tin Pan Alley
This week we’ll bring you a few works that started off as songs, but have had great success instrumentally. Rachmanioff’s lyrical Vocalise is undoubtedly one of the best-known melodies in the canon. Originally the last of his opus 34 set of songs, the gorgeous tune seems to have been a more or less immediate hit. Rachmaninoff himself wrote several arrangements, augmented over the years by dozens more. Today, we’ll hear Rachmaninoff’s own arrangement for piano. The Vocalise will be followed by more Rachmaninoff, Etudes nos. 8 and 9 from opus 39. Then, we’ll move to the popular end of the spectrum, with a set of songs from the Gardner’s Tin Pan Alley series. Today’s selections range from the traditional Danny Boy to the marching band hits You’re A Grand Old Flag and When Johnny Comes Marching Home to the ballad Shine On, Harvest Moon.
