Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 8, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 8, 2011 Indulge my reverie, please. I have a recurring dream. It involves flying. I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 9, 2011 Disney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 9, 2011 I have Lee Knight's latest "Friday Influences" to thank, for a reminder about my favorite songwriting team of the 1960s: "Bacharach & David." I went in search of a YouTube video for my favorite of their songs, ALFIE -- written for a movie of that name in 1966, and nominated for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 10, 2011 Disney movies were dubbed into dozens of languages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 10, 2011 It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on . . . I made my baby cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 10, 2011 My favorite version is James Taylor's. And if he (and Joni) were to drop by here, I'd ask them if they don't agree this is the best imaginable 'slide show' to accompany the song. Someone of Dutch ancestry, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 14, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 14, 2011 On the drive in to work this morning, I listened in amazement as Ray Charles ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 19, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 19, 2011 On the drive in to work this morning, satellite radio played my Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cyrene Posted December 19, 2011 Members Share Posted December 19, 2011 Melody - Lyrics - Vocals. This has worked best for me. Though sometimes the song builds itself on lyrics first, then melody, but that is almost always uphill work. Surely no one has ever done the reverse? Vocals - L -M? Sorry, please excuse my quaint sense of humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 I hear sleigh bells ringing Smack in the middle of May I go around like there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 22, 2011 I googled for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 22, 2011 When you live in the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 24, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 24, 2011 But it's December the twenty-fourth and I'm longing to be 'up North' . . . -- Irving Berlin (White Christmas) Today's the day this song was meant to be sung -- on the day of 'the night before Christmas' -- at least when performed with the opening verse that few singers have included on any of the thousands of versions of this, the "all-time best selling Christmas song" composed (words and music) by a Jew who was married to a Catholic. (But you knew that.) Satellite radio just played Barbra Streisand's version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 27, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 27, 2011 I thought of Eartha Kitt twice today. I take it as a sign that we should speak of her again. This morning I picked up my Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 31, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 31, 2011 Counting down to New Year's . . . and nothing to watch on tv; we popped a DVD into the player -- a jazz biography recently acquired from an Amazon seller in California (unavailable at any price here in Canada). Easily the most pleasurable film biography my wife and I have ever seen, concerning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 31, 2011 Members Share Posted December 31, 2011 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn I went in search just now for a 'seasonal tune' perhaps unique to Jack Sheldon. Lo and behold, a 'gem' I never heard before! Jack is what's called, a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 31, 2011 Members Share Posted December 31, 2011 Here's a trailer for the documentary about Jack Sheldon. This cat holds two distinctions for me. One of my favorite musicians, and one of my favorite comedians. He's simply one of a kind. LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 31, 2011 Moderators Share Posted December 31, 2011 I called the front desk and says, "There's a flock of geese in my room" and she says, "You got any left?" Jack Sheldon. I used to catch the Merv Griffin show everyday after school t watch Ray Brown and Sheldon do their thing in that band. Even as a kid I'd think, "Shouldn't this band behind Merv Griffin be square????". Sheldon was never a square... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 3, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 3, 2012 First a big thank-you to my two favorite Lees! And a happy new year to all. I came here to pose a question: What do Seth MacFarlane, Melody Gardot and Perry Como have in common? Well . . . what they DON'T have in common is widespread fame as singers. Only Perry made it big. So far at least! Seth MacFarlane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 3, 2012 Members Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks, Mark. Another beautiful song I'd never heard before. The arrangement -- the strings, piano, sax -- is just perfect. If I'm lucky, maybe someday I'll have someone like Melody Gardot sing one of my songs... LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 5, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2012 There's something about 'summer songs' when listened-to in 'the bleak mid-winter.' They always seem much more evocative, don't they? Funny thing: they're usually recorded in mid-winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 7, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2012 I have Lee Charles Kelley to thank for posting earlier this day, on my other favorite Lee's FRIDAY INFLUENCES thread, a video of Tony Bennett's lovely reading of a Johnny Mercer song about Paris: ONCE UPON A SUMMERTIME (one we celebrated pages ago, last night when we were young). I accepted the built-in invitation to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 7, 2012 Members Share Posted January 7, 2012 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn IFor months I've been telling friends that "track eleven on Tony's latest album - his duet with Stevie Wonder -- is the `pick of the litter.'" And while popular music's elder statesman -- now in his 81st year - would never have admitted it on stage last night, I believe that he and Stevie, in their heart-of-hearts would agree with the folks at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences -- that this was the Grammy winner, among the 23 terrific duets on this album. Wow. Thanks for uploading this. I'd always thought that Stevie wrote this song, but found out recently that he hadn't. It was written by one of Motown's resident songwriters, Ron Miller (with Orlando Murden). If you haven't heard it, the story goes that Miller came up with the idea for the song the night his daughter was born.LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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