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"Come And Get It" - Badfinger Triple word score

"Come Back Baby" - Walter Davis -- but I heard it first by Ray Charles as a child, so take your pick. Notes

I never knew there were words to this tune. I've been doing it on the flute ever since the Herbie Mann song entered my ears. Not often anymore, but when I bring it out it's like visiting an old friend.

"Our Day Will Come" - Ruby And The Romantics

"Rock House" - Ray Charles

"The Waters of March (Águas de Março)" - Antonio Carlos Jobim This version by my all-time favorite jazz singer, Mark Murphy [video=youtube;Vlov7iFZc0M]

Agua De Beber (Water To Drink) - Antonio Carlos Jobim [video=youtube;CnBZoIBi9TY]

"Surf City" - Jan & Dean [video=youtube;ERrwjR4ZlfI]

"Rockin' Robin" - Bobby Day (the original version with I think Plas Johnson - later to be in 'the Wrecking Crew" - playing the piccolo solo) [video=youtube;LklFP1IG9KY]

Save The Bones For Henry Jones [video=youtube;f2eusOFmOg8]

"Western Union" - The Five Americans

"The Brothers Go To Mothers" - Henry Mancini [video=youtube;BbNsJWtjX9U] Nice cool school jazz from "Peter Gunn". The TV show is dated, but the music isn't. Notes

"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" - Shirelles Written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. It was also banned by many Top40 radio stations in it's day as a 'dirty song' because it can easily be interpreted as a girl considering having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend.

"Born In The USA" - Bruce Springsteen

"Act of God" - Prince

"Kid Charlemagne" - Steely Dan [video=youtube;jJ9Xk-VoGqo] (One of my favorite "Dan" songs)

"Bemsha Swing" - Thelonious Monk Any day to have a T.Monk earworm s a good day for me.

"Surfin' Bird" - The Trashmen Consistently on the top 10 list of the worst Rock n Roll songs ever recorded. We play it every once in a while as a goof, and the audience loves it. Notes PS Haven't played this game in a while, and with my slow connection I don't have time to find, listen to and post videos, I hope you all don't mind. [video=youtube;9Gc4QTqslN4]

Many years ago I was in a band that was hired by a divo primo donno who thought the world revolved around him. He had lots of money, was a good singer, and had connections in Las Vegas (found out later he was blackballed by being difficult to work with). He would change from day to day, keys, arrangements, or just get lost. We tried to be as tactful as possible because the rehearsal money was good and we thought there were possibilities for future connections if nothing else. For example: If we tried to say, "this is what we did yesterday, and how do you want to change it from here" or something like that, his brother/manager would yell at us and say he was doing it just like we rehearsed yesterday and we were screwing it up. After a few of those it wasn't worth getting paid for rehearsing with this guy any more. It's tough to work together if everyone isn't working together. I'll give most things more than one chance, but for me there is a point where I don't need aggravation or constant frustration. Of course, there is more than one right way to do this. YMMV Insights and incites by Notes

I'll make an analogy to movies. When the movie serves the effects instead of the story, technology got in the way. When the technology serves the story and the story serves the music, the technology is used right. In music it's the same way. When the recording serves the technology instead of the music, it's in the way. If the technology serves the music, then the technology is used correctly. The focus must be on the music, not the technology or the perfection of the recording. Anything that gets in the way of the music is wrong. Anything that helps the music is good. Notes

I didn't see anybody performing life, although they often looked like it. Like I said, I grew up in bands where we shared a mic for background singing and you looked at each others lips to articulate at the same time. And if you watch the lips out of sync with the consonants at times, but not always, you know they are faking it.

We turned it off as soon as we got set up, the people came in, and we entertained them. And yes, what ai saw wasn't a parade.

Fairly related. I haven't watched TV since the 1980s - no cable, no antenna, no digital converter. I've never seen Simpsons, Cheers, Seinfeld, Sopranos, Taxi, MASH, Sex in the City, Thrones and I haven't seen a Macy's Day Parade since perhaps 1980 or so. This Thanksgiving we got a gig at a nursing home. We don't pursue those gigs, but the manager found us on the Internet, liked us and offered it to us. We don't turn down gigs that we think we could do a good job on either. So while setting up, on the huuuuuuge screen TV is the Macy's T-Day Parade. I see dancers and singers lip syncing to a recorded vocal/music track. Some without mics and no place to hide a body mic, and some with mics but obviously only for a prop. I've played in a lot of bands where the background singers share a mic, looking at each other's lips so we can sync our consonants together. I know when someone is lip syncing because the mouth and the consonants are out of sync. And they were not just delayed, but sometimes ahead, sometimes behind in the same line of the song. Even stars who can sing like Gwen Stefani were just pretending. Is this what entertainment has evolved to? The technology used to put pretty people out there dancing and pretending to sing with completely recorded sound tracks? Not one voice or instrument live? Well I for one don't care if I ever see another Macy's T-Day parade again. I guess it's OK for the masses, because people watch it, but I don't want to see them pretending to sing. I know it's done in the movies, and back in the Black & White TV days the stars would come on American Bandstand and lip-sync their songs, but the pantomime I saw was done in front of a live audience, and to me that makes a difference. And what about the idea of a parade? Did the Broadway acts and featured Stars participate in the entire parade? Or did they just come out, interrupting the parade to pretend they are singing? I don't meant to be extremely negative here, because I'm sure that it works for a lot of people, and many would prefer it that way, but basically, it's not my 'cup of tea' and I don't care to watch that pretending. Insights and incites by Notes

I get your point, but I like tea better on the stove and many veggies better in the microwave.

With almost any technology there is the use and the abuse. I've seen movies where the movie serves the technology and others were the technology serves the plot. And I've heard recordings that serve the technology and others were the technology serves the music. I don't think the tools are the fault, sometimes it's the people using them. But in the right hands the tools can make something beautiful Insights and insights by Notes