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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / R.I.P. Sean Lock
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on: November 07, 2021, 05:04:43 AM
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If comedians are included in this section, more sad news is that the UK’s Sean Lock died last August aged 58. I already knew him from Stephen Fry’s QI show but it was only since his passing that I got to watch him (on YouTube) in episodes of the comedy game show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, originally telecast on a channel unavailable in NL. Here he reads some ancient love letters that he discovered in his loft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPI3BUtIFeARest in peace, Sean. |
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / R.I.P. Bernard Haitink
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on: October 26, 2021, 05:15:34 AM
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Bernard Haitink (1929–2021), who died last week aged 92, is regarded as the greatest Dutch conductor of the past sixty years. I was lucky enough to attend at least one concert under his baton. The main meat of this one evening was Mahler's nocturnal Symphony No. 7. During the hushed opening bars before the Tenorhorn began its mournful solo, one of the double bass players dropped his mute with one hell of a clatter that must have been heard in the back row. We were close enough to Haitink to be able to read his face. There was not the slightest change in his expression, which was one of the deepest concentration. (He was utterly devoted to the symphonies of Mahler and even more so to those of Bruckner.) It was as if the incident had never happened. Right now Dutch TV and radio are full of interviews with and documentaries about the man, who offstage was self-effacing almost to an embarrassing degree. My wife tells me he used to devour huge quantities of food after his concerts to bring himself back down to earth! Here he is conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in the opening minutes of the finale of that Mahler symphony. Slaap zacht, Maestro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iN2VJoBRk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Haitink |
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Does this song sound familiar to anyone here?
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on: October 19, 2021, 02:43:55 PM
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This may not be of any help, but to my ear the missing words sound like "Once Again"
It would fit with the other lyrics...
"Does it mean I'll never have you... once again... once again
Also, I agree with the other comment that it very well could be an American or Canadian band. Do you know how the person who posted to YouTube got the audio? That could possibly be a good clue... recorded off college radio, found on a tape given to him, etc.? It does indeed. Thank you! What worries me though is that the word heard more in the background "on the one" (over the G minor chord) is also part of the title. According to the uploader, it came from a video, which does make one suspect a TV show. |
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Does this song sound familiar to anyone here?
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on: October 18, 2021, 06:06:27 AM
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It's been baffling me for a couple of years now. Like its uploader, I have no idea. How about you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFUIbmIJEUI should add that I've followed up every imaginable lead and all I ever found was the snatch of lyrics mentioned in one of the Comments. A major problem is that what I assume is the title (it's sung twice at the climax) is impossible to make out----at least it's unintelllgible to me. I have this idea that the song comes from Central or Eastern Europe----just a hunch... It's been three and a half years since I first asked this question. Lots of new posters have arrived since then. Unless by some miracle you recognize the song straight off, it may help to read the thread in its entirety... |
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Jan & Dean are terrible singers
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on: September 22, 2021, 12:59:28 PM
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A different version of the same problem confronted a group that still belongs in the RRHOF--the Shangri-Las, who were essentially abandoned by their svengali producer and allowed to die on the vine after a second LP that is one of the great records of the decade...but on the losing side of rock history, just as Spector was. Shadow Morton made a perfunctory effort to mold Mary Weiss into a version of the full-fledged "diva" singer that was emerging in 1966-67, but he didn't really have the arranging chops to pull off the transition, so he left them in a trash can adjacent to the Brill Building and moved on to Janis Ian and the Vanilla Fudge, signaling the exact type of phase shift that rock was undergoing at that time, a shift that made symphonic pop an endangered species literally overnight. SHANGRI-LA's '65, in its last incarnation (the label reissued it twice by adding singles) is the apex of the East Coast "symphonic pop" style and shows the range and singing group--check out their cover of the Ikettes' "I'm Blue," where its neither Mary or Betty Weiss but Mary-Ann Ganser, one of the twin "backup" singers, who gets one shot to step up to the plate and knocks it out of the stadium. Indeed, an excellent rendition. The Shangs were in a field of one. R.I.P., Mary-Ann and Marge Ganser. |
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Jan & Dean are terrible singers
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on: September 22, 2021, 10:43:36 AM
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"Dork music" does seem apt at times -- and that's an interesting idea worth exploring: did people appreciate the schtick at the time, or did it fall flat then?
I think (as someone who heard their music at the time) for those of us whose first earful of J&D was "Heart And Soul", well... it was hard to take them seriously, although "HAS" does have its charms. I remember "Surf City" came as quite a shock! Was this the same J&D?? (To say nothing of "Dead Man's Curve".) But then "Popslcle" was released in the wake of Jan's accident and we were back to "shtick". But I'd say it was appreciated, definitely. |
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