Topic: Currently listening to... (Read 597102 times)

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13180 on:** March 21, 2023, 02:30:45 AM »

And Paul Mauriat's Love Is Blue...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hzbmrh6jP8" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hzbmrh6jP8</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeMTXzdaWNQ&list=OLAK5uy_nMJCCcuPdj2DN14Y3_w--F_mFbN4L9IV0&index=10" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeMTXzdaWNQ&list=OLAK5uy_nMJCCcuPdj2DN14Y3_w--F_mFbN4L9IV0&index=10</a>

Those girls harmonized so well!

Normandie · « **Reply #13181 on:** March 27, 2023, 02:41:10 AM »

I wrote an email earlier titled "Tuesday Afternoon" to a publisher contact, and I've had this song stuck in my head ever since:

https://youtu.be/5xvb9Udzc6M

In My Life · « **Reply #13182 on:** March 27, 2023, 04:46:21 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on March 21, 2023, 02:30:45 AM

Those girls harmonized so well!

Yes, they did. Their voices have a haunting kind of beauty.

I always think of my sister when I hear The Association and Love is Blue. I have this wispy little memory of her coming home from somewhere then telling someone that Love is Blue had hit number one. It’s weird the little things that manage to stay in our memories!

Moogmodule · « **Reply #13183 on:** March 27, 2023, 04:55:54 AM »

Quote from: Normandie on March 27, 2023, 02:41:10 AM

I wrote an email earlier titled "Tuesday Afternoon" to a publisher contact, and I've had this song stuck in my head ever since:

https://youtu.be/5xvb9Udzc6M

One of my favourites from one of my favourite bands.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13184 on:** March 28, 2023, 12:38:45 AM »

Quote from: In My Life on March 27, 2023, 04:46:21 AM

I always think of my sister when I hear The Association and Love is Blue. I have this wispy little memory of her coming home from somewhere then telling someone that Love is Blue had hit number one. It’s weird the little things that manage to stay in our memories!

There's an amusing back story to L'amour est bleu (Love is Blue). Paul Mauriat did not write the song. The music was composed by André Popp and the yrics were written by Pierre Cour, in 1967. It was performed by Greek singer Vicky Leandros as the Luxembourg entry in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkfzeMYgoI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkfzeMYgoI</a>

She recorded the song in several languages and it was a modest hit in Europe.

Paul Mauriat recorded his instrumental version in late 1967 as it was published on his Philips Records label but, as he stated, he was not fond of the song at all.

I remember Love is Blue being a #1 hit on the charts for many weeks in early 1968.

Boy, was Paul Mauriat ever wrong on that one!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhUUHXU8x44" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhUUHXU8x44</a>

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13185 on:** March 28, 2023, 01:15:31 AM »

French singer Claudine Longet covered Love is Blue beautifully...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VoAEyUbEqI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VoAEyUbEqI</a>

We learned of her in the 1968 Peter Sellers film The Party...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cak9bZpn4uQ" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cak9bZpn4uQ</a>

Poor Hrundi V. Bakshi. He had to get to the bathroom in the worst way but was too polite to go until she finished her song. That movie was a riot!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCE96REw28" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCE96REw28</a>

He's having the Birdie Num Nums

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13186 on:** March 28, 2023, 01:23:27 AM »

Well, Hrundi V. Bakshi finally got to the bathroom...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkrKkBhsMiA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkrKkBhsMiA</a>

Peter Sellers could crack us up without saying a single word.

In My Life · « **Reply #13187 on:** March 30, 2023, 03:54:12 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on March 28, 2023, 12:38:45 AM

Boy, was Paul Mauriat ever wrong on that one!

The song was vastly improved by his arrangement. It was in desperate need of a harpsichord!

That Philips 45 looked awfully familiar and so I went through my records. Sure enough, I have my sister’s copy. It’s pretty rough but I would never part with it.

In My Life · « **Reply #13188 on:** March 30, 2023, 04:19:43 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on March 28, 2023, 01:23:27 AM

Peter Sellers could crack us up without saying a single word.

I was just thinking of him and Return of the Pink Panther the other night as I was fighting with the shop vac.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13189 on:** March 31, 2023, 02:40:42 AM »

^

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nUklmV_kM" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nUklmV_kM</a>

In My Life · « **Reply #13190 on:** April 01, 2023, 04:20:49 AM »

^^
Now that was a birdie who deserved num nums!

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13191 on:** April 13, 2023, 12:50:29 AM »

Are you ready for some rocksteady?

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j93X9A2etn4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j93X9A2etn4</a>

Desmond Dekker and The Aces

In case you're having trouble understanding Desmond Dekker's accent, here are the lyrics...

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor me Israelite

My wife and my kids, they packed up and leave me
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen
Poor me Israelites

Shirt them a-tear up, trousers is gone
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde
Poor me Israelites

After a storm there must be a calm
They catch me in the farm
You sound your alarm
Poor me Israelites

Paul liked rocksteady too...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4DDkHXaOs" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4DDkHXaOs</a>

Paul was paying homage to Desmond Dekker. This should have been the version on the White Album.

Desmond Dekker's answer version of Ob-La-di, Ob-La-Da...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6W9MQwG_8" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6W9MQwG_8</a>

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13192 on:** April 27, 2023, 04:04:44 AM »

A love song to America...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0rRdF5L1c" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0rRdF5L1c</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znc4zL_AZ4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znc4zL_AZ4</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcDjquuKUA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcDjquuKUA</a>

Normandie · « **Reply #13193 on:** April 27, 2023, 10:15:12 PM »

^^^^

Hey, Barry, send some of that patriotism out to the Great Plains, please.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13194 on:** April 27, 2023, 11:49:52 PM »

^

Patriotism is latent in the masses, Kathy. It must be rekindled in order to restore this country's greatness. Woody Guthrie's songs helped do that years ago.

I'm so happy that Arlo Guthrie didn't inherit the gene for Huntington's chorea from his father. And so we have Arlo today to play his dad's music for us...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nYwG9Z3zwQ" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nYwG9Z3zwQ</a>

By the way, Arlo Guthrie is a Beatles fan too...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srR_lIkj3_8" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srR_lIkj3_8</a>

My favorite cover of I've Just Seen A Face.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13195 on:** April 28, 2023, 04:07:55 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on April 27, 2023, 04:04:44 AM

By the way, Kathy, Tracy Newman is Saturday Night Live's Laraine Newman's older sister.

Here, Tracy shows us how she plays Cripple Creek on a 5-string banjo...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6DS2bXYmk" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6DS2bXYmk</a>

You gotta love them thar lyrics...

I got a gal and she loves me
She's as sweet as sweet can be
She's got eyes of baby blue
Makes my gun shoot straight and true

Normandie · « **Reply #13196 on:** April 28, 2023, 08:51:09 PM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on April 28, 2023, 04:07:55 AM

I got a gal and she loves me
She's as sweet as sweet can be
She's got eyes of baby blue
Makes my gun shoot straight and true

No double entendre there.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13197 on:** April 28, 2023, 09:30:43 PM »

Quote from: Normandie on April 28, 2023, 08:51:09 PM

No double entendre there.

None whatsoever. Pure Americana!

Now this is how fellers sing Cripple Creek down in Arkansas...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1CzMgGs_Lk" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1CzMgGs_Lk</a>

Click on Watch on YouTube in the box above to see the video.

Well, I got a girl at the head of the creek,
I go on to see her ‘bout three times a week.
Kiss from her mouth is as sweet as any wine,
I wrap myself around her like a sweet potato vine.

Chorus:
Goin' up to Cripple Creek, goin' on a run,
Goin' up to Cripple Creek to have a little fun.
Goin' up to Cripple Creek, goin' in a whirl,
Goin' up to Cripple Creek to see my girl.

The girls up Cripple Creek 'bout half grown,
Jump on a boy like a dog on a bone.
Roll my britches up to my knees,
I'll wade up Cripple Creek when I please.

Well, I got a girl, and a hound dog, too,
And the girl don’t love me, but the hound dog do.
Kiss the girl on the side of the head.
She don’t like biscuits – feed her cornbread.

Well, Cripple Creek's wide an' Cripple Creek's deep,
I'll wade up Cripple Creek in my sleep.
The roads are rocky and the hill's so muddy,
And I’m so drunk I can't stand steady.

People say that love ain’t real.
What’s this crazy thing I feel?
Like a lizard running up my spine,
Runnin’ crazy through my mind.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #13198 on:** April 28, 2023, 10:29:55 PM »

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhWZScQx1k" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhWZScQx1k</a>

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys at The Grand Ole Opry 1965

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHMMlT_RDU" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHMMlT_RDU</a>

Millie Meunier at The Starlight Country Cabin 2021

Kaleidoscope_Eyes · « **Reply #13199 on:** April 28, 2023, 11:19:41 PM »

A tradition on weekend mornings for us is to put on a bit of Pink Floyd. Currently Learning To Fly is playing.

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