Music Free-for-all

[RTH10260]

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[johnpcapitalist]

What happens when people show up and can't remember the words to their speech (or song they were suppose to sing).

Impressive, alright. But nowhere near as impressive as a Grammy winning live performance where she forgets the words to "Mack the Knife," in Berlin (home of the authors) in 1959, when the Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin versions were all on the charts.

Ella forgets the words, improvises her own lyrics about forgetting the words, and brings it all home with scat. If you listen really carefully, your can hear her breath change throughout, with a final chuckle when she has figured out how to bring it home and knows that she is nailing it.

Just how talented is that, when you beat three other legendary vocalists with your version of the song, and you win the Grammy for forgetting the words?

[sugar magnolia]

She actually won 2 for that performance. !959 and 1960. Jazz and Pop.

[John Thomas8]

One of my favourite post-Peter Genesis tunes:

[John Thomas8]

Estepario 's backstory is something else:

[bill_g]

Fresh squeezed music. Must be something in the air ...

[bill_g]

Old music, but still fresh. Fascinating ...

[northland10]

Came across this yesterday. I'm surprised how I missed it earlier. Dan Forest does some wonderful stuff.



Warm summer sun, shine kindly here
Warm southern wind, blow softly here
Green sod above lie light, lie light
Good night, dear heart
Good night, good night

Warm summer sun (Warm summer sun)
Shine kindly here (Shine kindly here)
Warm southern wind, blow softly here (Softly here)
Green sod above lie light, lie light
Good night, dear heart
Good night, good night

Ooo...

Good night, dear heart
Good night, good night

From the composer:

A few years ago, my brother and his wife found out that the four month old girl that they were soon to adopt from Ethiopia had fallen ill and passed away. They had been making plans for her, staring endlessly at her picture, and loving her from across the ocean, so the news was devastating. God’s plans were not for her to ever see the people who had loved her from halfway around the world, but for her to be taken instead to His loving arms. For me, life circumstances (whether euphoric or tragic) don’t usually translate into musical inspiration; the two typically remain separate. The night they received this news, though, I found myself longing to pour out a musical elegy. My search for a suitable text led me to a picture from a cemetery in my hometown (Elmira, NY), where the great American author Mark Twain and his family are buried. My brother and I, from our youth, have known the poem that Twain placed on the tombstone of his beloved daughter Susy, when she died unexpectedly at age 24 and left him heartbroken. I was stunned by the bittersweet irony of this text being from our hometown, and in honor of a beloved daughter who died unexpectedly. I wrote this setting that night; it was quickly added to an upcoming concert and premiered only one week later, as an elegy for Etsegenet and a reminder of the orphans of Ethiopia.

-Dan Forrest

[RTH10260]

These guys are a decade older now, posted 11yrs ago

[Uninformed]

Came across this yesterday. I'm surprised how I missed it earlier. Dan Forest does some wonderful stuff.

Thanks, that is beautiful.

[northland10]

These guys are a decade older now, posted 11yrs ago

It looks like RowLoff is a publisher, and the video is a sample of their work. I figure they used a group of college drummers. Publishers do that (many decades past, my college choir did a couple of sample recordings for a publisher).

[RVInit]

[bill_g]

I love that song. Thanks!

I'm out of whites, but I can hook you with the other two.

[bill_g]

This one is growing on me.

[bill_g]

This one is not growing on me. It's simultaneously fun and drek. The schmaltz is really thick. I half expected to see Don Draper from Mad Men lipsyncing the song in a 60's style video. Alas we got guys dancing in sweaters. YMMV



The comments said this fresh tune had an Arizona vibe. Huh? Hmmm. Maybe referring to the vast open desert and mesas. Dunno. But, it's got a good bounce.

[bill_g]

Here - cleanse your musical palate with this recent cover of Red Dirt Girl. Emmy Lou is still a song bird.

[bill_g]

Remember the Go-Go's? This ain't that, but it is.

[keith]

This one is not growing on me. It's simultaneously fun and drek. The schmaltz is really thick. I half expected to see Don Draper from Mad Men lipsyncing the song in a 60's style video. Alas we got guys dancing in sweaters. YMMV

https:/ /youtu.be/vU6cOF65lU0?si=PkLJ_xR7Oaq1Hfw7

That has all the vibe of a rundown motel taken over by wannabes poseurs with too many iPads repurchased as sound processors instead of an actual sound studio.

The comments said this fresh tune had an Arizona vibe. Huh? Hmmm. Maybe referring to the vast open desert and mesas. Dunno. But, it's got a good bounce.

https:/ /youtu.be/bdFXffHZjzQ?si=2NsaEGNuKTO3rjbC

Arizona vibe my ass. I'll grant there is (was) exactly one Georgian house in Tucson but the one in the video ain't it, and the Tucson one is recognised as an exotic folly.

[bill_g]

This one is not growing on me. It's simultaneously fun and drek. The schmaltz is really thick. I half expected to see Don Draper from Mad Men lipsyncing the song in a 60's style video. Alas we got guys dancing in sweaters. YMMV

https:/ /youtu.be/vU6cOF65lU0?si=PkLJ_xR7Oaq1Hfw7

That has all the vibe of a rundown motel taken over by wannabes poseurs with too many iPads repurchased as sound processors instead of an actual sound studio.

The comments said this fresh tune had an Arizona vibe. Huh? Hmmm. Maybe referring to the vast open desert and mesas. Dunno. But, it's got a good bounce.

https:/ /youtu.be/bdFXffHZjzQ?si=2NsaEGNuKTO3rjbC

Arizona vibe my ass. I'll grant there is (was) exactly one Georgian house in Tucson but the one in the video ain't it, and the Tucson one is recognised as an exotic folly.

Maybe it's the drum kit in the bedroom.

Hey Keith - where yer drums man?
Why the bedroom of course.

I liked it better than the Subaru song. But the Subaru song is getting a tonne of airtime. I wish Audacy would dig deeper into the new tunes bag. That's why I had to reset the brain with some country before moving on. It's
Saturday. I've got time to fall down YT rabbit holes.

[John Thomas8]

Ok, this is off the wall:

[bill_g]

This one requires headphones to appreciate the producers efforts.

[bill_g]

Ok, this is off the wall:

https: //youtu.be/72CWBcl526A

That is definitely a one visit video. But you'll like the one visit. You just won't go back.

[John Thomas8]

Aw, that's just a fun little tune. I am partial to Michael, though.

[neonzx]