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Post by sailor on Aug 11, 2009 17:21:49 GMT -5
What music did you listen to today, or what will you be listening to?
CD, MP3, Radio, live concert... it doesn't matter, spill the beans, baby!
Mike
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Post by sailor on Aug 11, 2009 17:22:14 GMT -5
Lined up for the CD player right now is:
Henry Mancini -- The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini
Booker T. and the M.G.'s -- Soul Limbo
Astrud Gilberto -- I Haven't Got Anything better To Do
Mike
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Post by Jane on Aug 11, 2009 19:32:35 GMT -5
I just bought this CD of music put together by MIchael Moore of music that he was listening to while he was working on Fahrenheit 9/11. (You know me; always the liberal.) Anyway, it has some pretty nifty stuff on it. Bruce. Jeff Buckley. Black Eyed Peas. I've been listening to it in the car...loud.
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Post by liriodendron on Aug 11, 2009 20:35:04 GMT -5
I set my iPod to shuffle for the drive to and from work. Today I listened to Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds, Michael Buble, The Eagles, The Mamas and the Papas, David Bowie, Cher, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Stylistics, Kelly Clarkson, Foreigner, Olivia Newton-John, Air Supply, Journey, and The Lonely Goatherd from The Sound of Music. How's that for eclectic?
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Post by gailkate on Aug 12, 2009 8:58:55 GMT -5
I'm impressed. I need to get into the habit of playing CDs. Mostly our radios are on classical music or NPR. Jerry is more likely to listen to oldies rock, but I'm more likely to switch to stations that carry newer stuff. When something comes on that makes me crazy (mellifluous voiced women who think the news is either a bedtime story or a new kind of phone sex) then I want something hard-rockin to clear out all the syrupy sludge.
I know this is about music, but can anyone explain why MEEE-chelle Norris still has a job?
Ok, end of digression.
Who are these people and how many of them are there? Hamilton, Joe, Frank, & Reynolds Frank Sinatra? country Joe and the Fish?
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Post by doctork on Aug 12, 2009 9:53:22 GMT -5
I'm in rural West Virginia and I listen to the local radio, which is almost all country all the time. I'm learning to like it!
I remember Hamilton, Joe, Frank and Reynolds from back in the 60's (my Greenwich Village days), but I don't remember any more details. Lemme guess - there are 4 in the group? I'll google it. Definitely not the same as Country Joe and the Fish.
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Post by liriodendron on Aug 12, 2009 15:11:36 GMT -5
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Post by sailor on Aug 12, 2009 17:24:00 GMT -5
Everyone has such great responses! I'm lovin' it!
Today I'm giving these CDs a spin:
Cal Tjader – Solar Heat
Frank Sinatra – Nice 'n' Easy
Julius Wechter & The Baja Marimba Band – As Time Goes By (CD-R made from the vinyl)
Mike
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Post by BoatBabe on Aug 12, 2009 21:29:11 GMT -5
I swear to . . . whomever . . . all these years I thought the lyrics were, "Don't pour your love out on me, baby . . ." which changes the entire message, now, doesn't it?
"And it's One, Two, Three, What're we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Viet-Naam,"
That's Country Joe and the Fish. For many years he [Country Joe] has done shows on Whidbey Island. Great guy.
Today I listened to [very softly] Classic Rock at work, heard only behind the line. Every once in a while, we will "crank" it up, with no customers present.
At the end of the day, I used the term "shine on." As in, "No, I didn't respond to her. I shined her on. She is fishing for information on an account she does not own. I can't give her that information."
One of my co-workers had not heard the term "shine on." She asked if that was connected to The Silvery Moon.
So, we left work tonight singing, "Shine On, Shine On, Harvest Moon, Up in the Sky, I Ain't Had no LOV-ing Since Jan-U-ary, Feb-U-ary, June or Ju-ly . . ."
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Post by doctork on Aug 13, 2009 7:19:18 GMT -5
I didn't know "shine on" in banking. I am familiar with "Shine On Harvest Moon" however. Music of the good old days, reminds me of my grandparents. And Mitch Miller. Great tunes.
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Post by gailkate on Aug 13, 2009 11:10:07 GMT -5
Don't forget "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Our old Folly the midget Lab used to sit on the top landing, refusing to come down for his final outing till I sang him some songs (poor dog must've been tone deaf). Both of these were favorites of his.
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Post by sailor on Aug 13, 2009 16:57:04 GMT -5
In the rack for today:
1) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
2) Joe Cocker - Heart & Soul
3) Peter Nero - Xochimilco
(RCA Victor Records, Dynagroove, Mono, Released 1967) Transferred from vinyl to CD-R by me.
Regards,
Mike
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Post by BoatBabe on Aug 18, 2009 20:55:49 GMT -5
Mike, your music selections are so eclectic and some, I must admit, I've never heard. I'm jealous of your connection.
It reminds me of earlier days, when I played music. If we weren't making music, there was always a record on the turntable. Then there was the fabulous invention of cassette tapes, and I spent hours creating tapes that had the best cuts off of vinyl and originals we performed live, and each tape had specific themes: blues, love songs, late night thinking music, etc. I'll bet that, in that storage unit I haven't visited in 5 [longer] years, there is a box of my cassette tapes. Do I still have a cassette player? Nooooooo.
Now I find that if music is playing, I want to listen to it. I don't want it to be background noise. I just spent another day with Classic Rock as background noise.
What did you listen to today?
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Post by doctork on Aug 19, 2009 14:46:38 GMT -5
We have country music on the radio during office hours here. For variety, I've switched to an oldies/classic rock station on the car radio. In my little cabin, the radio is upstairs by the bed, though I spose I could bring it downstairs and put it on the dining or coffee table to listen to.
I miss the Comcast radio stations and digital music station we had on cable "TV" in Bellingham. No messing with CD's or cassettes (and yes I have a boombox somewhere that still plays cassette tapes!), just turn on the TV and choose the station.
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Post by sailor on Aug 24, 2009 17:28:21 GMT -5
What did you listen to today? Hey, Babe! I'm listening to Classic Sinatra ll, and I'm lovin' it! Next up will be "Brass, Ivory & Strings" Henry mancini & Doc Severinsen. All the best, Mike |
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Post by SeattleDan on Aug 24, 2009 23:20:44 GMT -5
At this very moment, Louis and Duke playing C Jam Blues...Classic, man!
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Post by doctork on Aug 25, 2009 8:14:34 GMT -5
I am fascinated by the variety of choices and collections. Mike - in what medium do you have all this music? Has it been collected over the years in vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and now iPod? If you have already made everything electronic from a variety of media, I will be very envious.
I still have lots of vinyl, cassettes and CDs in the old basement 3,000 miles away.
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Post by gailkate on Aug 25, 2009 9:34:55 GMT -5
I know who Louis and Duke are, but C Jam?
Chokecherry?
Cranberry?
Crabapple?
"In the old basement, 3000 miles away..." there's a song in that, maybe for James Taylor.
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Post by doctork on Aug 31, 2009 12:50:47 GMT -5
I drove back to WSS last night. I like staying one more night in the NC farmhouse, but that morning drive starting at 5 am over the Blue Ridge, in the mist and fog, knowing that suicidal deer are in the vicinity just waiting to hop out in front of my car...Well I just decided to do the evening drive.
I listened to a Piedmont Triad Carolinas radio station until I went through the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel on !-77, when I lose it. They have "On the Beaches" with Charlie Brown on Sunday evenings, and they were playing a lot of Carolinas Beach Music. That was featured in Pat Conroy's novel Beah Music and also in some scenes from my youth. I never lived on the Carolinas beaches, but I did spend a few summer vacations there with family, plus I did do my year-long geriatric fellowship at East Carolina University. And at summer camp in the NC Blue Ridge, some of the girls were from the beaches.
Osmosis effect. The tunes were vaguely familiar, but I didn't really know the songs. There's an emphasis on small locally known bands, and if you are ever in the company of two or more people who have grown up in the Carolinas, they will start talking about those bands in great detail. They always went to high school with one of the band members, or they are a cousin by marriage or something. There was a radio ad for learning the Shag by DVD, and I was inclined to go right out and buy it. Haven't even thought about the Shag in decades, but there is a Beach/Shag Party in the parking lot of a store not far from my house on Labor Day. Maybe I better investigate.
The rest of the 3 hour drive I listened to some country, and then the Lewisburg oldies station. Have you all noticed that "the oldies" are different in different locations? There may have been national Top 40 charts, but regionally, there were big differences between New York City, Honolulu, and New Orleans, which are the cities where I spent my teen-age transistor radio days. And then what they play on the Pittsburgh Oldies station (3WS) is even more different even if it is the same years. Lots of Lou Christie and The Vogues, who were local stars as well as national. Denver oldies - they are more homogenized, as people come there from everywhere and there aren't too many natives who grew up there.
Maybe this only applies to those of us who wandered in our youth
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Post by jspnrvr on Sept 2, 2009 20:02:23 GMT -5
I don't care about Jon and Kate, or the Duggars, or "The End of Camelot". Don't bother trying to find a better copy, this is the best video available. This is what the boys were fighting for in 1944. "Hoy! Hoy!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ76pS23Ky8&feature=related |
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Post by BoatBabe on Sept 2, 2009 21:10:40 GMT -5
Too cool, Jay. They sing really well, too, but I don't think that's why they were hired.  |
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Post by sailor on Sept 3, 2009 17:14:28 GMT -5
I am fascinated by the variety of choices and collections. Mike - in what medium do you have all this music? Has it been collected over the years in vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and now iPod? If you have already made everything electronic from a variety of media, I will be very envious. I still have lots of vinyl, cassettes and CDs in the old basement 3,000 miles away. Hi Doc, sorry for not responding sooner, I just noticed this. I've been collecting music for about 25 years. Started just after my divorce. Prior to that I couldn't afford to buy any luxuries for myself. Almost all of my music is on CD. I don't know how many CDs I have, but there are a lot. Many of my CDs are no longer available for purchase through music shops or Amazon. A few are worth quite a bit to collectors; I have one that could fetch up to $600.00 on eBay. The rest of my music is on vinyl LPs. Most of which I bought used. And, almost all of them I have transfered onto CD-Rs. I have no cassette tapes or 8-tracks. I'm not big on tape. I don't own an iPod. Todays music line-up is: George Benson - Weekend in L.A. Xavier Cugat - Midnight Roses Lani Hall - Classics Volume 19 All the best! Mike |
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Post by liriodendron on Sept 3, 2009 22:53:04 GMT -5
Today I brought home two new cds from the library - Brad Paisley's "American Saturday Night" and "Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter", part of an order that I just recently cataloged. I haven't listened to them yet, but I'll let you know how they are once I do.
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Post by sailor on Sept 20, 2009 21:54:54 GMT -5
I just got 3 CDs in the mail today! Al Hirt -- Latin in the Horn Uniquely Mancini, The Big Band Sound of Henry Mancini James Carr -- A Man Needs a Woman I had a tough time deciding which to play first; I settled on Al Hirt (now playing) and so far, it's pretty good! All the best, Mike P.S. to Dan: the Uniquely Mancini CD includes the Duke Ellington song "C Jam Blues". |
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Post by SeattleDan on Sept 21, 2009 14:19:26 GMT -5
Cool, Mike.
Some of you may know, geek that I am, that Tammy and I do Second Life often. I DJ once or twice a week for the community we are involved with, and one night I played the Peter Gunn theme. Most of the people went "Mancini? That was Mancini?" as if the man could only be known for the Pink Panther theme. It was a pleasant revelation for my listeners.
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Post by sailor on Sept 21, 2009 17:13:59 GMT -5
Cool, Mike. Some of you may know, geek that I am, that Tammy and I do Second Life often. I DJ once or twice a week for the community we are involved with, and one night I played the Peter Gunn theme. Most of the people went "Mancini? That was Mancini?" as if the man could only be known for the Pink Panther theme. It was a pleasant revelation for my listeners. Dan, "Peter Gunn" flat out rocks! In fact I've heard rock bands cover it and really get everyone up on their feet. Mancini is probably most famous for his movie theme tunes such as Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, Baby Elephant Walk, Charade and of course, Pink Panther. However, he had a slew of albums that were a mix of pop, jazz and big band tunes. The man was a genius and he appeared to be quite a nice fellow too! My favorite Mancini album is the Hatari sound track. The way he infused jazz/pop tunes with African rhythms is pure magic. I think I could ramble on forever about the man, but instead I think I'll just play some of his music. Now playing the song, Lujon! All the best, Mike |
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Post by doctork on Sept 22, 2009 8:07:41 GMT -5
Speaking of movie and TV music, I saw a brief news clip that Ferrante, of Ferrante and Teicher, has died.
At first, nothing came to mind, but when the list of shows and tunes was read off, it hit home right away.
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Post by sailor on Sept 22, 2009 17:08:39 GMT -5
Speaking of movie and TV music, I saw a brief news clip that Ferrante, of Ferrante and Teicher, has died. At first, nothing came to mind, but when the list of shows and tunes was read off, it hit home right away. Now they're together again, making music in heaven.  RIP, dudes. Mike |
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Post by BoatBabe on Sept 22, 2009 20:57:56 GMT -5
RIP, indeed.
Good one, Mike.
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Post by liriodendron on Sept 23, 2009 5:21:10 GMT -5
Steve Martin's new album, "The Crow: New Songs For the Five-String Banjo," is quite nice. I just borrowed it from the library.
Actually, he'd be quite a versatile guest on APHC - he could do both comedy skits and some music.
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