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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 11:15 am
@hamburgboy,
thanks for restoring our signal, hbg. That polka was fantastic, and the part that impresses me is that it's performed in Vienna.

Here's a Frenchman doing one of my favorites. Even the young man that was visiting here was stunned by the beauty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_nopTFuZA

and another marvelous German composer. Notice how the music is reflected in the faces of the audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk

If the world won't come to us, we go to the world
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 01:47 pm
thunder rolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIV0oovj7vc
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 02:11 pm
@edgarblythe,
Great one by dear Garth, edgar.

While the thunder rolls, perhaps we need The Fifth Dimension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4w9gKlR3U

But then enters Bond; James Bond.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uFNGk5K7Y
hamburgboy
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 02:34 pm
@Letty,
Sousa : The Thunderer !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZetDgn_pPyE

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 02:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwUpxkfSJw
A ballad concerning Thunder
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 02:54 pm
hbg, I never hear John Phillip Sousa that I don't think of "light wizard". George loved him and that song was perfect.

edgar, Thunder Road by Robert is one of the goodies. Thanks again for the memory.

Well, we all know that Thor uses his hammer to create those boomers. Anyone remember MC Hammer?

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/16517/thor_16517.jpg

Only rapster that I ever liked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEE0qpfeig

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 03:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0XX90PhOYY
Charlie Rich

Only thing about Hammer, that's the only song of his anybody listened to.
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 03:46 pm
@edgarblythe,
You're right about M.C ., edgar.

Loved Down by the Riverside by Charlie. The only time that I studied war is when I taught it.

Here's one to match, Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe5TL8B2sts

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 03:53 pm
That's a good Paul R song, letty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LYac524Jk
Lucinda Williams
Ragman
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 04:25 pm
@edgarblythe,
What a glorious voice Lucinda has and singing such an intimate song. Thanks for sharing.

This is a 4-minute video that I found most entertaining. I think you will, too.

http://www.flixxy.com/britains-got-talent-shadow-theatre-group-attraction.htm
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 04:26 pm
@edgarblythe,
Thanks again for your comment, edgar. That song by Lucinda Williams was great, and had some odd references. You sent us searching:

Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams and an amateur pianist. Her parents divorced in the mid-1960s with Williams' father gaining custody of her and her younger brother and sister. Like her father, she has spina bifida. Her father worked as a visiting professor in Mexico and different parts of the United States including Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Jackson, Mississippi, and Utah before settling at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His daughter started writing when she was 6 years old and showed an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12. Williams's first live performance was in Mexico City at 17, as part of a duo with her friend, a banjo player named Clark Jones.

Today is Harper Lee's birthday. I think most of our listeners and contributions know that she only wrote one book, and it was later made into a movie. To Kill a Mockingbird said so much and thanks to Truman Capote for editing it for her.

Here's a wonderful composer to play the theme from the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVMqjNX0Ftg

Missed your contribution, my friend. Back later to comment.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 04:42 pm
Thanks ragman.
Good music by Bernstein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUsyHVjacJ0
Tanya Tucker
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 05:31 pm
Willie will be 80 tomorrow. Here is a song I heard him sing when I was thirteen or fourteen years old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2GTR1HPBE
There is something wrong with the Wikipedia entry for the song, because I heard the dj in California say Willie Nelson as he played it in 1955 or 56.

"Funny How Time Slips Away" is a song written by Willie Nelson and first recorded by country singer Billy Walker. Walker's version peaked at #23 on the Hot C&W Sides chart.[1]
[edit]Cover versions

1961 - Jimmy Elledge released a version as a single on RCA Records, peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] His version sold over one million copies.
1962 - Willie Nelson released his own version on his debut album And Then I Wrote.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 05:47 pm
I don't doubt that the history of Willie's debut album is correct. I just believe there was a 45 of Funny that preceded it.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 06:49 pm
Welcome back, Ragman. Hope you are still doing your great photography. That clip from that Shadow theater group was intriguing.

edgar, Tanya's Two Sparrows in a Hurricane really painted a picture for us.

Always learn from your background information, and I truly love Willie's version of Funny How Time Slips Away. Need to contact my daughter to find out about his concert that she plans to see

Going to say goodnight now with Ave Maria via Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1rE13IKF_4

Always great to have hbg with us as well as other folks.

From Letty with love to the world.
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hamburgboy
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 07:35 pm
" Libon Antigua " - haven't heard this great composition in a very long time -
it's a real classical piece of music .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9d0LYGBHM
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 28 Apr, 2013 07:36 pm
Ave Maria is one of my favorite songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDvagB_jlRs
Oh My Love
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hamburgboy
 
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Reply Mon 29 Apr, 2013 05:52 am
good morning to all and happy birthday to " DUKE " .

Quote:
Duke in the 1940s

Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club in New York, May 1943
The band reached a creative peak in the early 1940s, when Ellington and a small hand-picked group of his composers and arrangers wrote for an orchestra of distinctive voices who displayed tremendous creativity.[34]

Some of the musicians created a sensation in their own right. The short-lived Jimmy Blanton transformed the use of double bass in jazz, allowing it to function as a solo rather than a rhythm instrument alone. Ben Webster, the Orchestra's first regular tenor saxophonist, started a rivalry with Johnny Hodges as the Orchestra's foremost voice in the sax section. Ray Nance joined, replacing Cootie Williams (who had "defected", contemporary wags claimed, to Benny Goodman). Nance, however, added violin to the instrumental colors Ellington had at his disposal.

Three-minute masterpieces flowed from the minds of Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's son Mercer Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and members of the Orchestra. "Cotton Tail", "Main Stem", "Harlem Airshaft", "Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side)", "Jack the bear", and dozens of others date from this period.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Y4U3h1ZzE

( ain't that the truth ! )
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hamburgboy
 
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Reply Mon 29 Apr, 2013 07:03 am
" TOOTS " is 91 years old today !

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Toots Thielemans (born Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, 29 April 1922, Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian jazz musician known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century.[1][2]

He has worked as a bandleader (scoring an international hit in the 1960s with his song "Bluesette"), as a sideman (notably on many projects with composer/arranger Quincy Jones), and has appeared on dozens of film soundtracks. In 2009 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States.[3]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKnG_9q4crA
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 29 Apr, 2013 07:53 am
edgar, wherever you are I thought that Oh My Love was going to be Roy. Love the fab four's version.

hbg, Ah, Lisbon Antigua. Fantastic, as well as Toot's Bluesette.

Ah, the Duke did miss the Saturday Dance. Great one by the royalty of jazz, Ontario.

A couple of songs for Monday morning. First, Loveless Love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXLsNk30fRM

Now one that can be sung with that one and it harmonizes perfectly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tJ0tEohsFc
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