These are Lincoln Fig and the Dates (what's in a name?) singing "Way Up" (year unknown). If the group's name isn't bizarre enough, how about the first verse?

"Wo-o-o-ohhhhh
Way up in the sky
There is the girl I love
She kicked the bucket, she die"

What???!!!  Lovely song though... 

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

I've loved these four Christmas motets by Francis Poulenc ever since rehearsing them with a choir (as a pianist, I should add):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qby6TE4kXec

And “Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker” with London philharmonic orchestra is classic!

Yes indeed. Wonderful heart-warming stuff. Old Tsch. pulls it off yet again!

Any particular conductor in mind, m?

[an album of lullabies]

This December 6 will be the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dave Brubeck’s birth.
There will be lots of celebrations available for listening online. Check out DaveBrubeck.com for more info.
A couple of recordings have come out : one is an album of lullabies, the last recordings he made. I wasn’t able to read a review because it was behind a pay wall, but the British reviewer said in the headline that Brubeck was about the only jazz performer who could have pulled such a thing off. I’ve heard a couple of them - very sweet and calming . His Brahm’s Lullaby can be listened to online. It has a delightful video. Great for kids of all ages.

Thanks, Lizzie. Here's the Brahms lullaby Brubeck-style. The video could do with a few more views!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLDcX-lG98

A newer album that has come out since I last responded is JD McPherson's Socks. What a fun album! I highly recommend it.

Thanks, GH. I'll check it out. 

I've been lending an ear to a cool Christmas album by Johnny Mathis:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBHwRJSoTsXLoSL7dmYPVlHnG-LauopFL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Christmas_(Johnny_Mathis_album)

[World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda]

Not sure how I got to it but World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda is a real find. I already knew some things by Alice C -- a couple of early '70s albums for a start -- but this comes as quite a shock. I had no idea she'd founded a Vedantic centre and an ashram. This is music from a higher sphere: 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZN-Qk4Q9ORCMis_jSU11YfGfr1GMyoyW

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23135-world-spirituality-classics-1-the-ecstatic-music-of-alice-coltrane-turiyasangitananda/

[Das Neugeborne Kindelein]

As this is the first Sunday of Advent, here are two "Adventy" cantatas by Herr Buxtehude as recommended last year by JH:

Das Neugeborne Kindelein, BuxWV 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRi8c1FO_PI

In Dulci Jubilo, BuxWV 52: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZBpKwUfKw

Love the "undulations" in the second example!

[ATMP]

George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, quite possibly the best solo album from a Beatle, turned 50 yesterday.  One of my favorite albums.  To commemorate the anniversary they released a brand new remix of the title track (https://youtu.be/QWV4pFV5nX4) and it sounds quite stellar without all the excess Spector clutter.  The Harrison camp seems to be hinting at a full remix of the album next year.  If that is the case then this is exciting news!!

Oooff! ATMP is definitely a fantastic collection of songs but in the original version!

It is what it is. Give me Uncle Phil's original production any day.

[100 subscribers]

Yessss!!! aeijtzsche now has 100 subscribers at her YouTube channel! 

Thinks: time for a modest celebration perhaps?   

Since then it's more than trebled to just under 330!!! 

Many happies, ASL. No doubt it will be a modest celebration in these strange times. Something sticky to start the day, perhaps, and a glass or two of some beverage to finish it off.

Go well, sir.

Yes 100% to it, ASL will enjoy the birthday tea, perhaps green tea with chocolate cake.
Everybody likes tea. It unites people.

While digging through the board, I just realized I never reponded to this months ago. Thank you both for the well wishes!!

You're welcome, ASL. It took me four months to see your response.

I've had the General Music Discussion bookmarked for a long time but now this section's bookmarked too.

Welcome back, UW. Of course, we already had a brief encounter in the General Music section.

Today I made a rare brief foray into country music while playing a game at the Hoffman forum.

I once read a book about the wild life and horrific death of Patsy Cline. I remember hearing "Crazy" on the radio in the early '60s, maybe others of hers as well.

This is her take on "Crazy Arms", the song I chose in the Hoffman game:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBo3nNK5hI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_Patsy_Cline

[Red Clay]

Heard this last night courtesy of Kapitan at BBT (thank you, that man).

The title track of Freddie Hubbard's 1970 album Red Clay features some stunning playing from all involved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjuCA-SsJM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Clay

[L'enfance du Christ]

As Christmas rolls inexorably closer, time to add my own choice of favourite Yuletide album. It's Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ under Sir Colin Davis, with "L'adieu des bergers" (The shepherds' farewell) as its absolute peak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzYWQO9TfI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfance_du_Christ

[I Should Coco]

Well, I'm working my way through all the albums by Supergrass. I Should Coco and In It for the Money are first-rate, the self-titled third album is just slightly less consistent but still full of good stuff (I must listen to it again some time) and now I'm some way into their so far excellent fourth, Life on Other Planets:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSwiiZF6c9CZjF9z9N8p6bQhvX74gk94F 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Other_Planets

Yes I’ve only been able to watch it once. Too gut wrenching.
I’m a Lay member of the Carmelites. We honor these brave women, the Martyrs of Compiègne, on July 17 each year.

Hello, Lizzie. We only seem to bump into each other here, as I don't post in (or even look at) any other part of this forum these days.

It was certainly brave of them. The strength of their faith defies all imagining.

I've often envied people who have faith, something outside everyday life to fall back on...

Take care in these troubled times.

[Dialogues des Carmélites]

The closing scene of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites (completed 1956) has to be one of the most heart-breaking moments in all opera. Towards the end of the Reign of Terror in France during the 1790s, the sisters of a Carmelite monastery went to the scaffold rather that give up their faith. In the final scene (here at 2:25:59), the fall of the guillotine can be heard 14 times as the nuns' voices drop out one by one. Absolutely chilling. That said, this may be the greatest and most affecting music Poulenc ever wrote: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6ZIguBmV4   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Carmelites

[Slumdog Millionaire]

This is "Paper Planes", a great song by M.I.A. (in the DFA remix) that featured in the supercool film Slumdog Millionaire:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)

I grew up in the 80's and I was and still am a big fan of 80's hard rock / hair metal.

Hi SNJ. That's an impressive list! My one brush with '80s hard rock/hair metal was indeed Europe's "The Final Countdown", which my son bought at the time. Powerful stuff.

I was more into music by Gary Numan, Talk Talk, Human League and others...

Hall&Oates should join, it's good duet band.

Yes indeed. Good call, RR.

It took me a while to appreciate them (something like 40 years!) but I got there in the end.

This is my favourite of theirs, "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y380bkHlye8

New release: John Lee Hooker & The Coast To Coast Blues Band – Live At Montreux 1983 & 1990 (Eagle Rock Entertainment – 06.11.2020)


https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/john-lee-hooker-live-at-montreux-1983-1990/

Nice! Thanks for the tip, R. The big John Lee song in the UK when I was a teenager was "Dimples":

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimples_(song)

I did not know about Kai Winding's Top 10 hit. Thanks for the heads up. Both Winding and J.J. Johnson were on Brith of the Cool.

Thank you, GH. Talking of Kai Winding, this is one I bumped into while playing a muslcal word game at Hoffman (KW's solo starts at 1:30):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGH_D8FazPc

[In It for the Money]

It's funny how mentions of a band like Supergrass trigger memories from afar.

Thanks for sharing, gf. Some very cool memories there.

As for Supergrass, I made the cardinal mistake of starting with In It for the Money instead of its predecessor and gave up after a few tracks. I'm now halfway through I Should Coco. One of the best debut albums I've ever heard.

Next up? In It for the Money.

[Later with Jools Holland]

I read up the wiki on Supergrass after seeing them on BBC-TV's Later with Jools Holland on Friday and discovered they grew out of a band called The Jennifers, whose one and only single was released in 1992. It comprises four tracks...

"Just Got Back Today": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrhF0HGqu0
"Rocks And Boulders": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6DLkmWdusQ
"Danny's Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7tpoq5nKE
"Tomorrow's Rain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzvSnfIt5ZA

Oddly, "RAB" is played twice in the second video...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass#The_Jennifers_and_formation_(1990–1993)

[Merriweather Post Pavilion]

Ringing the changes here... next up is Animal Collective's blissed-out 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwj0FpWHwrYL2EoDm-ywK4UTeGY0VEM2g

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriweather_Post_Pavilion_(album)