@edgarblythe,
Wow! I had forgotten that song, edgar. Thanks, Texas.
Found this one by The Everly Brothers, and it, too, is lovely, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRb8_4dQkBM
This was amazing to me as well. The Big Bopper's son doing his thing. Great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q3MpjKn-eo&feature=related
@Letty,
Wings of a Nightingale was written by Paul (Sir) McCartney.
@edgarblythe,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPdGo7sy-A
Bobby Rydel
A poor quality audio, actually. But it was his original version, back in the day when lip synching was acceptable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxLsQS2xDO8
A cover of Leonard Cohen's
Priests
Good night. Y'all avoid them bedbugs, y' hear?
Good morning, WA2K folks.
For Reyn:
Thanks for the cognitive insight, buddy.
edgar, I didn't get bitten; I checked this morning. Thanks for the adaptation of Leonard's song. Incidentally, Texas, I knew that was written by "The Fool on the Hill, I just liked it by them brothers.
Today is Helen Reddy's birthday, and I was amazed at all the songs that lady has done and that she is an Aussie.
Here's a nice one by her, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8arLxJMjpA&feature=related
Watched "Frailty" last evening; wish I had not done so.
Good morning WA2K.
Some more October 25 birthdays:
Johann Strauss II, (1825-1899)(The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, operetta Die Fledermaus, et al); Georges Bizet (1838-1875)(Carmen, et al); Pablo Picasso (1881-1973); Minnie Pearl (1912-1996); Billy Barty (1924-2000); Anthony Francioso (1928-2006); and Ann Tyler, novelist (1941)
Here are Minnie, Billy Barty and Tony Francioso:
Bizet's Habanera:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9iGv4sKNI
Hope you all have a good day.
The Unreleased Recordings of Hank Williams features intimate rarities from a 1951 radio series.
Williams, Hank's only daughter, obtained the salvaged acetate tapes in the early 1980s.
Weekend Edition Saturday, October 25, 2008 - At the pinnacle of country music, you'll find names that include Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash. On another level, somewhere above all the rest, you'll find Hank Williams.
A new box-set collection of Williams' music captures a treasure trove of intimate and rare performances that few fans have heard. The Unreleased Recordings of Hank Williams includes performances from the Mother's Best Flower radio program, a show that Williams himself hosted in 1951. No matter how much the legend's songs have been played, studied, cried over and admired, unless you happened to be listening to the Nashville radio station WSM in the early '50s, it's likely that you haven't heard this Hank Williams before.
Jett Williams, Hank's only daughter, was born after her father died in 1953 at the age of 29. Now a musician in her own right, Williams helped bring these songs to the public. She recently joined Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon from Nashville to talk about the origins of the long-lost music and the legacy her father left behind.
"Back in 1951," Williams says, "my dad was getting at a zenith, and he was traveling, so therefore he could not do a live radio show every morning. So what they did was he would go in, say, Monday and Tuesday, but then they'd put what they call 'in the can' [shows for] Wednesday, Thursday and Friday."
Back then, Williams says, radio stations would record the shows on acetate tapes, intended for one-time play and then stored away in boxes. When WSM moved, the tapes were discarded and then luckily rescued by a man named Les Leverate. Williams says that he held on to the recordings until he met her in the 1980s and gave her the tapes.
"The other thing that's fascinating about the Mother's Best," Williams says, "is that, back when my dad was recording under MGM, what they did was apply compressors and limiters and filters, and that kind of robbed some of that presence we're hearing in these recordings. These were made direct to the disc, so it didn't have that middle man or anything in there. I know a lot of people would say, 'Those are rare or old recordings; they're gonna sound like that.' Well, you can hear these are better than the MGM masters. If you listen, it's as close to you being in that studio with my dad when he recorded these things."
"When I hear my dad sing," Williams adds, "to me it sounds like his life depends on it. I mean, you stop and catch your breath, and you feel as if he's singing that song just to you."
@edgarblythe,
I recall the movie about Hank Williams, edgar. I just checked it out and it starred George Hamilton and Susan Oliver. Thanks for that bit of info about Hank, and I agree with the fact that Hank sang as though his life depended on it, and that he sang it just for the listener.
Here's another creation by Bizet, folks.
and, all, here is our Picasso for the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wJNc9Ez-LM
The only art that I ever understood was The Tragedy, and like our puppy, it was his blue period.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pDa2YbWXIJE
Tomorrow is a Long Time
Elvis Presley, from 1966.
@edgarblythe,
Ah, edgar, great songs from Elvis and Dylan. I never think of Elvis that I don't think of Stray Cat, and, of course, Diana Krall and Elvis Costello.
My last song this evening will be my last song for tonight, but this is the first song that I heard by Diana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8DxRO2ui2s&feature=related
"The eye, which is the reflector of the external world, is also the mirror of the soul within."
1940 G. Seaver Scott of Antarctic
Goodnight world,
From Letty with love
Good morning, everyone. As we enter the week of halloween, what better tribute can we give than to Edgar A. Poe.
Ah, tales of the arabasque and macabre, folks.
We'll dedicate this to Craven/Robert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOKd0frDAiA&feature=related
@Letty,
Diana Krall - nice song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Fj6AzluDY
I've got the Four Aces
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
On some of their recordings I feel they belt it out a bit too forcefully. Not this one.
@edgarblythe,
I know that one, edgar, and you are correct; they do a much softer and more pleasing version of that song.
For some reason, all, I am thinking of They Might be Giants and this one. Love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38WeXe41Czo&feature=related
@Letty,
I love that one, letty. Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HM14xsCw-g&feature=related
Bobby Vee:
At this point, as the result of a tragic twist of fate, Bobby's story begins to take on a bitter sweet flavor. The date was February 3, 1959. A light plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper and 20 year old pilot Roger Peterson crashed in a snow covered Iowa field, killing everyone on board. Only minutes earlier they had finished their performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clearlake, Iowa and had rushed to the airport in nearby Mason City to catch the charter plane that was to bring them to their next engagement in Moorhead, Minnesota. News of the tragedy traveled fast. People at the local radio station in Moorhead, like everyone, were in a state of shock. The rest of the tour had arrived by bus from Clearlake after a cold and snowy all night drive. A decision was made to continue on with the show. The promoters asked for local talent to help fill in that sad night and as the curtain came up that evening, a new voice was introduced to the world. A "fifteen year old" voice that knew all the words to all the songs. Bobby Vee. In the following thirty plus years Bobby would go on to place thirty-eight songs in the Billboard top 100 charts, six gold singles, fourteen top forty hits and two gold albums. But that night, instead of a seat in the audience Bobby and his brother Bill along with the "Shadows" took the stage in memory of three of rock 'n' roll's brightest stars.
@Raggedyaggie,
You have a good day as well, puppy, and thanks for the montage.
No particular reason for this one, folks, just like the beat and it comes replete with lyrics and line by line translation of the English lyrics into Portuguese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8UVngJgHw&feature=related
A day in the life of a fool: Um dia na vida de um tolo
A sad and a long lonely day :Um triste e solitária de um longo dia
I walk the avenue : Eu passeio pela avenida
And hope I'll run into: E espero que eu vou correr em
The welcome sight of you: As boas-vindas à vista de vocês
Coming my way: Vindo do meu jeito
I stop just across from your door: Eu só parar em frente de sua porta
But you're never home any more :Mas você nunca mais nenhuma casa
So back to my room: Então, de volta para o meu quarto
And there in the gloom: E lá na obscuridade
I cry tears of good bye: Eu choro lágrimas de adeus
That's the way it will be every day: Esse é o jeito que as coisas vão ser todos os dias,
in the life of fool: na vida de bobo
