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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2021 18:57:03 GMT
I think you might need to check your link. It takes me to everything I have looked at at on YouTube....
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2021 19:10:00 GMT
Let's have a bit more of them...
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2021 9:36:59 GMT
Sitting in Limbo - Jimmy Cliff
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2021 16:53:12 GMT
Great song, although I have to admit that the Neville Brothers' version is my favorite ~
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2021 15:48:01 GMT
Yes that’s a nice version.
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Post by casimira on Jul 19, 2021 0:56:17 GMT
Talk about serendipity!!!! I was about to post the same song and then heard this being performed at a pub around the corner. ;Twas a cover of a song that I really love being performed.
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Post by deyana on Jul 19, 2021 3:14:31 GMT
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Post by huckle on Jul 19, 2021 20:14:14 GMT
Needing a return to the simpler times of my youth, I'm playing my old Buddy Holly albums and the soundtrack from The Last Picture Show.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 19, 2021 20:28:55 GMT
I cranked up both the brown-eyed man and the blue-eyed man and danced around the house.
I've seen The Last Picture Show a couple of times, but am drawing a blank on the soundtrack. Probably should watch it again.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 19, 2021 20:39:10 GMT
Indeed! Good stuff. Thanks from the 70+ brigade!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 19, 2021 20:59:46 GMT
Thanks for that. I just looked up the list: www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/soundtrack, which meant I instantly had to go to youtube for the Tony Bennett "Cold, Cold Heart". In the comments below the video, one listener wrote: Apparently in 1951 when this record came out Hank Williams would play it on the juke box when they were travelling round the country ,he loved this version
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Post by huckle on Jul 19, 2021 21:11:08 GMT
For historical accuracy this biggie from 1951 should have appeared in the movie and been on the sound track
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Post by casimira on Jul 20, 2021 14:26:02 GMT
I do remember the soundtrack for that movie and recall how brilliant it was. I need to do a re-watch of the movie. It's been quite awhile since I saw it. It's also one of my husband's favorites.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 20, 2021 14:54:06 GMT
This is fascinating because I have spent my entire life extricating myself from that period. I can't think of a single song from back then that appeals to me although I'm sure that there a number of them -- it's just that none have been posted here.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 21, 2021 15:34:17 GMT
Everything about the fifties makes my skin crawl. I don't understand any nostalgia for it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 21, 2021 17:11:40 GMT
Actually, nostalgia can bleed over to thoughts of people that we loved from other generations and what made them happy. But that doesn't really make their music any better.
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Post by casimira on Jul 21, 2021 18:10:44 GMT
My memories of the 1950's are mostly very special. Although I was just a youngun as well, I have vivid memories of special times, most especially my parents entertaining and the music they played. There are some standouts like Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett. My favorite was a Getz and Gilberto LP.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 22, 2021 1:08:22 GMT
The birthdate in my profile is complete fiction, I was just alive in the fifties but too young to remember any of it. I associate the fifties with casual racism, homophobia, stiflingly narrow gender roles, cold war mania, and sappy sentimental music.
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Post by huckle on Jul 22, 2021 3:32:44 GMT
Oh Fumobici your remarks so tickled me.
"I associate the fifties with casual racism, homophobia, stiflingly narrow gender roles, cold war mania, and sappy sentimental music"
In retrospect, yes, the fifties were all of that but we were too dumb to know it at the time. We were busy enjoying ourselves in a moment that was far better than anything we had experienced to date. I was newly returned from a long stay in war ravaged Germany where my German speaking father, a civil engineer, was helping with Der Wiederaufbau. Summers were spent in an England that, although mostly standing, was pretty grim. I will argue the sappy music bit. It wasn't all Your Hit Parade. Among many we had Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillesppie, Ted Heath and Stan Getz as Casimira mentioned. Fritz Reiner was firmly in control of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, my favorite luxury hangout place. Music was still taught in schools so we knew what we were listening to.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2021 6:01:58 GMT
I think many people who were children in the fifties tend to remember it like a fairly grim black & white movie, which is mainly a false memory implanted by reruns on UHF band channels. But of course I remember the fifties in color, including textures, smells, impressions, etc. As far as Fumobici's list of negatives, those things haven't completely gone away (but yes, things are better now) and, as Huckle pointed out, everyone wasn't listening to the sappy music.
I belong to a facebook group mostly moved and frequented by people at least a generation younger than I. Lately they have been interspersing rockabilly in with their post-punk & other favorites. My reflexive reaction is "eww -- rockabilly, yuck". But then I have to think how exciting and innovative rockabilly was and what a vehicle for getting to a whole other place in music.
It's sort of like watching a really old comedy routine, say the one where the guy forgets the match he is holding is burning down until it reaches his fingers. That is so hokey, so obvious, until you realize that it was a little piece of comic brillance the first time it was performed.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 10:04:49 GMT
I can't see the 50s through the cigarette smoke.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 22, 2021 14:52:02 GMT
Oh Fumobici your remarks so tickled me. "I associate the fifties with casual racism, homophobia, stiflingly narrow gender roles, cold war mania, and sappy sentimental music" In retrospect, yes, the fifties were all of that but we were too dumb to know it at the time. We were busy enjoying ourselves in a moment that was far better than anything we had experienced to date. I was newly returned from a long stay in war ravaged Germany where my German speaking father, a civil engineer, was helping with Der Wiederaufbau. Summers were spent in an England that, although mostly standing, was pretty grim. I will argue the sappy music bit. It wasn't all Your Hit Parade. Among many we had Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillesppie, Ted Heath and Stan Getz as Casimira mentioned. Fritz Reiner was firmly in control of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, my favorite luxury hangout place. Music was still taught in schools so we knew what we were listening to. Yes, fifties jazz is breakthrough and brilliant, so much creative energy. I was thinking of popular music. Much good literature of course as well. I guess highbrow fifties still stands tall.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 22, 2021 17:50:36 GMT
Here is one of my favorites. It is called Killing the Blues from Raising Sand with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. They won several Grammies for this unusual colaboration. I am not a country western fan, but I am a hugh fan of Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. Alison Krauss has one of the purest voices I have ever heard and it brings goose bumps to my arms. After all this time they’ve produced another called Raise the Roof. Must check it out. 4 stars from Guardian music.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 23, 2021 3:57:32 GMT
That's beautiful, Mick. I will admit that I went to youtube & found a different version, as I found the sound reproduction in the one you posted to be pretty awful. Still, a wonderful collaboration and song.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 23, 2021 7:28:58 GMT
That's beautiful, Mick. I will admit that I went to youtube & found a different version, as I found the sound reproduction in the one you posted to be pretty awful. Still, a wonderful collaboration and song. Actually I didn't post that bit. It was posted by somebody else in 2010!
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 23, 2021 19:33:03 GMT
Well, it sent me off to hear the song, which was the important thing.
Here is the link I listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwg2sdRdahM (copy/paste)
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 4, 2022 3:00:36 GMT
I'm watching The Serpent Queen and the songs chosen for the end of each episode are brilliant. Just watched episode seven, which ended with this jewel.
(this video rolls on to Sister Morphine, if you need more Marianne Faithfull)
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 7, 2022 4:18:04 GMT
I was just listening with great pleasure to The Clash's cover of this song. That of course meant I needed to go hear again a couple of Booker's versions -- any one of which features nonpareil piano & interpretation ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2023 6:17:48 GMT
Just heard this on a tv show tonight. I'd forgotten that she did this. Nice.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 21:11:39 GMT
This song still rips me apart.
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