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Post by Midge on Apr 18, 2010 2:36:19 GMT -6
Tiny, I'm glad that you appreciate my varied musical tastes - someone recently told me that all the records and CD's I like are so old that all the holes in the middles have healed up! That's a good one, Robin! Staying on topic: Right now I am watching the Classic Arts Showcase, a service that is offered as a public service free of charge to U.S. cable systems. CAS is non-commercial and features an eight-hour programme of short clips from symphony, ballet, cinema, modern dance, Broadway, opera and popular music. Some of the clips are rare and historic; others are contemporary such as the Max Raabe clip I posted above. The programme is changed weekly. At the moment I am enjoying a cello piece by Dvorak called "The Spinning Song."
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Post by Hedvig on Apr 18, 2010 18:34:13 GMT -6
I'm listening to a group called The Unthanks. They do songs that deal with England's past, from ordinary people's point of view, in a folk-song style. One song, The Testimony of Patience Kershaw, tells the tale of a female mine worker in 1842.
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Post by Midge on Apr 19, 2010 1:39:34 GMT -6
I'm listening to a group called The Unthanks. They do songs that deal with England's past, from ordinary people's point of view, in a folk-song style. One song, The Testimony of Patience Kershaw, tells the tale of a female mine worker in 1842. That sounds really interesting, Hedvig!
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Post by dvdjunkie on Apr 19, 2010 8:57:44 GMT -6
During our move, stumbled across this music.
"Close" by T.S. Bonniwell and it is on Capitol Records. The CD is really full of 11 beautiful songs that could have been written and recorded this year instead of almost 40 years ago. Originally released in 1970, the CD version was not released until 2002 and was just recently re-issued this time with a beautiful new re-mix of eight of the eleven songs.
"Love Is Such A Simple Word", "Where Am I To Go", and "She Is" are three of my favorites.
The zinger here is:
Sean Bonniwell is the former lead singer of a 60's punk band called The Music Machine who such Top 40 hits as "The People In Me", "Double Yellow Line", and multi-million seller "Talk Talk".
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Post by Hedvig on Apr 19, 2010 17:07:02 GMT -6
I'm listening to a group called The Unthanks. They do songs that deal with England's past, from ordinary people's point of view, in a folk-song style. One song, The Testimony of Patience Kershaw, tells the tale of a female mine worker in 1842. That sounds really interesting, Hedvig! It's quite well done. I've read some real testimonies in social history. It kind of brings home to you the hellishness of those working conditions, which still exist in a lot of countries...
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Post by Midge on Apr 19, 2010 17:23:19 GMT -6
Right now I am listening to an opera, Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner. Try not to be too jealous.
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Post by Hedvig on Apr 21, 2010 15:22:40 GMT -6
... I'm not!
It would be cool to listen to an opera with a good sound system. Did you see it performed, though?
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Post by Midge on Apr 21, 2010 17:09:43 GMT -6
No, I've seen many operas performed live, but not that one. Our TV audio is connected to the stereo system so we hear it on good speakers. It makes an amazing difference in the quality.
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Post by studekickson66 on Apr 21, 2010 17:34:43 GMT -6
Oh man 50's music while I'm cruising in my 59 Studebaker and 60's music while cruising in my 69 VW Bus. Life is good!!
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Post by Midge on Apr 21, 2010 17:47:10 GMT -6
Oh man 50's music while I'm cruising in my 59 Studebaker and 60's music while cruising in my 69 VW Bus. Life is good!! Oh, Stude, take me with you!
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Post by dvdjunkie on Apr 27, 2010 9:15:55 GMT -6
Just received in the mail a great 60's punk CD with a unique title. Some artists come out with "best of" or "greatest hits of", well this one says it all:
Bonniwell Music Machine - Garage Sale
Contains all 31 of the recorded hits of the group from 1966 to 1970. Only about five of them are memorable, but to listen to all the works in one sitting shows how this band morphed into its later stages of Rock and Roll in the 70's, and why Sean Bonniwell is still a force to be reckoned with today.
Featuring the hits "Talk Talk", "Come On In", "Double Yellow Line", "The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly", "You'll Love Me Again" and also containing such memorable songs as "Wrong", "Masculine Intuition" and "Absolutely Positively" this collection sets the record straight about the 'garage' bands of the 60's.
I am so happy to have this in my collection and looking through the library at the website for Uncle Helmet's Music, I have found a couple other treasures that I will be ordering.
;D ;D
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Post by dvdjunkie on Jul 20, 2010 8:40:40 GMT -6
My daughter, Traci, and my wife, Beverly, were out 'Garage Sale' shopping this past weekend, and Beverly brought home a CD that she picked up for .50 cents called "Mantovani's Music From The Movies" and all I can say is "Wow!!". I am not the biggest fan of the Mantovani orchestra as a whole, but this CD is incredible. It contains a great rendition of the "Theme from Superman" that I thought no one else but John Williams could do. Great CD with 12 good melodies.
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