Koi Mil Gaya - Hard to write. That's magic all right. So is Stevie Wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX36mGEqfw4
Wow! Stevie's "If It's Magic" in the key of life was marvelous, edgar. Especially liked the harp.
Hey Brit, ELO's "Strange Magic" was perfect. I listened to both of those songs twice.
Well, folks, I guess today is magic day on WA2K.
Now Johnny Mathis mentions the lamp in this wonderful song, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ndjS4vYrjI
Did I ever mention I attended a James Brown concert at Madison Sq Garden, in 1968?
Johnny Mathis has long been a fave of mine also.
Here Ringo and the boys: Octopus's Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os4rKtzB4js&feature=rec-HM-rn
@edgarblythe,
No, edgar, I don't think you broadcast that bit of info about James. He looked ill in the Brit's video, however. Injoyed the magician's card tricks. I always wanted to do that.
Ah, love the "Octupus' garden" by the Fab Four. Thanks, Texas.
Know what this is, Texas? Don't peek!
Wrote an ode to that critter once.
Well, time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with the marvelous Houdini. (lots of conspiracy theories surrounding his death)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWhydtd5wI
From Letty (that old black magic )with love.
I know a mite when I see it. Those pictures are fairly common these days.
Curious to know who sang on that Houdini video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY9ueYHuSbA
Saying good night with Temporarily Like Achilles
@edgarblythe,
Good morning, WA2K and edgar.
That dust mite looked like an octopus to me, Texas, hence the photo to follow your song by The Beatles.
That Dylan song, as usual, was cryptic. Don't quite understand why the albumn was called blonde on blonde nor do I get the achilles part. Perhaps the woman was part of his "need to be loved" and that was his vulnerable spot. I love the idea of "temporarily" because that defines most of us during our vulnerable times.
A group called Kon Kan did that Houdini song. They are Canadian and the title comes from "can can". Love to learn things here.
Today is both Mel Brooks and Richard Rogers' birthday. I listened briefly to an explanation of why "My Funny Valentine" by Rogers went from major to minor and then listened to the song played in only a major key. It was NOT good! When Izzie had Time in a Bottle stuck in her head, it would have been a help to know that the intro was in a minor key. It's good to observe these things, because it helps us clarify why some songs and vocalists are liked, while other are not. One may not teach folks to "appreciate" music, but we can discover why they like what they like, etc.
Let's listen to a tribute to Mel, who never tired of blasting away at all factions of life and music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDBOmvgBtX8
Have you noticed that Mel almost invariably displays a Nazi or two in his films? Something he feels has to do, as a Jew.
Not familiar with the Scissor Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6o0AAJ7b5c
Here is a medley of R&H's music.
@edgarblythe,
No, edgar. He doesn't do it because he's Jewish, he does it because he knows how to make people laugh regardless of their race, color, or creed. Nothing is sacred to him, hence his success. In Blazing Saddles, he began by stereotyping the black guys. When one of the characters patronizes the bunch by implying that they sing a spiritual, etc.,they break into a jazz standard, "I Get a Kick out of You." In four part harmony. He also made fun of the Chinese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPcLPzItOQs
Missed your R&H song. Will acknowledge later.
I once read a statement by Brooks to that effect. Here is a great article about him.
By Nancy Shute
Posted 8/12/01
`I was never crazy about Hitler," says Mel Brooks. Who was? But even now, more than 50 years after the fall of the Third Reich, the man who masterminded the extermination of more than 7 million people is still handled with care, as if the magnitude of his crime demands no less. Brooks had the guts, and gall, to realize that the simplest way to demolish Hitler was to mock him.
"If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win," says Brooks, 75. "That's what they do so well; they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter--they can't win. You show how crazy they are."
Thus was born Springtime for Hitler, the ersatz musical that serves as the crux of The Producers, Brooks's tale of a larcenous Broadway producer determined to stage the worst show ever and abscond with the cash when it fails. In Brooks's mad vision, chorines decked out in SS regalia goose-step while trilling "Springtime for Hitler and Germany! Winter for Poland and France!" A Hitler Youth type chirps: "Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!" And the chorus croons: "We're marching to a faster pace. Look out, here comes the Master Race!"
"Well! Talk about bad taste!" huffs a matron in the mythical audience. That's exactly the point. Since the 1930s, when the young Melvin Kaminsky would crack up his Brooklyn schoolmates, Brooks has had a passion for poking society in the eye. When the movie of The Producers debuted in 1968, many critics panned it as crude. But the film is now considered a classic, and when the stage version opened on Broadway earlier this year, it was an instant hit, sweeping the Tony Awards. It also sparked fresh complaints about its gleeful mockery of Nazis, Jews, and homosexuals.
"There are always holier-than-thou guys," says Brooks. "It's like, `I care about those poor Jews and you don't.' " Brooks, who is Jewish, saw the results of Hitler's handiwork firsthand, while serving in the Army in Europe in World War II. "I didn't see the camps, but I saw streams of refugees. They were starving. It was horrible." Brooks attacked that horror with the only weapon he had--his wit.
"The angrier he is, the funnier he is," says Carl Reiner, the writer and comedian whose many collaborations with Brooks include "The 2,000-Year-Old Man" routine. "He will say things you can't believe, but you realize it's the absolute truth." New York Times critic Frank Rich says Brooks's success is proof of the deep discontent with the "pasteurized fare" of pop culture. But Brooks is no shock jock in the Howard Stern crotch-kicking mode. "I know when something just isn't nice," Brooks says. When making Blazing Saddles, he relied on one cowriter, black comedian Richard Pryor, to let him know when using the "N" word was too hurtful. And Brooks closely read his gay colleagues on the Broadway Producers to make sure the limp-wristed jokes inflicted laughter, not pain.
Brooks uses comedy to expose life's horrors and expunge pain. "There isn't a subject that's taboo." One of the biggest laughs he ever got, he says, was for a bit he wrote for the 1950s hit Your Show of Shows. A man shakes his father's ashes into the East River, only to have them blow all over his coat. Where's your father? "I'd have to say Rand Cleaners on 79th Street."
Born: June 28, 1926.
Personal: Married to actress Anne Bancroft; four children.
Favorite book: A tossup between Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol--it's very funny--and Robinson Crusoe. I reread that every year.
Passion: RKO movie musicals of the 1930s.
Mel Brooks: My Hero
" As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me. And you could pick anyone from the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s--the Benchleys or Dorothy Parker. They were bright, they were cutting, they were witty. "
This story appears in the August 20, 2001 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
I've watched the original version of The Producers three times. It always gets a little better for some reason.
@edgarblythe,
I'm relying on my memory now, but if I recall correctly, the producers of the show wanted it to fail because if it did, they would get to keep the money that the "angels" had poured into it.
Incidentally, enjoyed your medley of Rogers and Hammerstein, Texas.
As I have often pointed out, we must look at history in the light of the setting event. Eisenhower committed us to Viet Nam because of the tungsten we imported from them.
Here's a Turkish lady whose birthday is today, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6wV7htW0s&feature=related
Turkish music is interesting. She's a good artist.
Here's another kind of turkey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnZxfkkoKQ
@edgarblythe,
Turkey in the Straw? I had forgotten that oldie, edgar.
Here's a wild turkey that you don't want to mess with, Texas.
Today is Pat Morita's birthday, so here's a tribute to him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEhEZPKapfo
@Letty,
Letty wrote:
Turkey in the Straw? I had forgotten that oldie, edgar.
Here's a wild turkey that you don't want to mess with, Texas.
Today is Pat Morita's birthday, so here's a tribute to him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEhEZPKapfo
On the other hand, this Wild Turkey is a fine sipping bourbon (80 proof rather than 101)
@edgarblythe,
I know, but I had our editor redo it. Try it again, buddy
Haven't had either in a looooonnnnnnggggggg time, cowboy.
