Music
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Weekend Music I debated with myself about the order of these. First I met her, then I lost her seemed more natural, but since it's the weekend let's suppose it's two different women and that there's a happy ending. Actually they're almost the same song with different lyrics, which I guess is appropriate.
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Weekend Music I thought I had posted this earlier this evening. Apparently there is a way to abandon a post in TypePad without a draft having been saved. As I was saying earlier: a good song is one that's good no matter who's singing it. By that standard, an awful lot of rock groups…
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Weekend Music If the lead voice sounds like something you've heard here recently, that's because it's Ben E. King ("Stand By Me," "Don't Play That Song"). According to Wikipedia, this is "the first commercial rock-and-roll recording to include a string orchestra."
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Weekend Music Continuing with the old top-40 love songs: the lyrics of this one make it a weeper like the last two, but the music tells another story altogether. What a great singer he was. And I guess we better have this, too.
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I'm referring to the 1962 movie starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. We watched it last night, mainly because it's been sitting here (from Netflix) for a couple of weeks, and we felt like watching a movie. It was not particularly Independence-Day-appropriate. I've wanted to see it for a long time, but I'm not sure…
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Weekend Music 1960. They were so great. One of my earliest musical memories is hearing “Wake Up, Little Susie” on the radio. Unless my memory is playing tricks on me it was either in my maternal grandfather’s cabinet-making shop or in his car which was parked in front of the shop. The song came out…
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Weekend Music I think I'll continue in the vein of last week's post: love songs from the early '60s or so, which is to say, my puppy love years. This song was a follow-up to Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" and is an imitation, musically, including pretty much the same bass riff. I had…
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Weekend Music According to the text with the video, this came out in 1961, so I was thirteen years old. I loved it and can remember specific times when I heard it. I was particularly taken with that now-classic guitar lick, which, or some variant, has been heard in a lot of songs. I've always…
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Weekend Music This is from his most recent album, Bad As Me. If there's anyone reading this who's not a Waits fan and likes this song, let me warn you not to buy the album without hearing the rest of it first. Much of it is as rough and crazy as anything he's ever done.…
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Yes, I would say so. Update: not true, unfortunately. It's a humor piece. Thanks, Noah G.
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