tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12138599113868466582024-03-01T05:42:14.184-08:00The New Felpin's PondArticles about Music, Politics and Other Things coming to you from Felpin's Pond on Cape Cod.Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-56839514739437893642023-06-07T13:48:00.059-07:002023-06-11T17:55:59.178-07:00 Julianne Petersen and the Petersens.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzGOPtBTEBv_3DcQgvSzhi7rnPz4kdWItLqvhNDbBaHk5hLJzmrAjgHylpTGiNRmN8e2EibOcVQmKVWdl1SDhAeeNtpc0MvyMAqNv1IvZvCpNAoxWHPFDSM22mo7qH8_ylZbk71COqqGEUxkalU1xbiq0p6UFUs0buOqk4jYUHH5zAjGSuCyR7gZGwig/s1000/The-Petersens-Bluegrass.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1000" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzGOPtBTEBv_3DcQgvSzhi7rnPz4kdWItLqvhNDbBaHk5hLJzmrAjgHylpTGiNRmN8e2EibOcVQmKVWdl1SDhAeeNtpc0MvyMAqNv1IvZvCpNAoxWHPFDSM22mo7qH8_ylZbk71COqqGEUxkalU1xbiq0p6UFUs0buOqk4jYUHH5zAjGSuCyR7gZGwig/w400-h283/The-Petersens-Bluegrass.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julianne, Matt, Ellen, Katie, Emmett, and Karen</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Petersens are a popular bluegrass band located in Branson, Missouri. The group was founded by Jon Petersen (a retired air force colonel and doctor) and his wife, Karen with the idea of having the family doing something together. The band's current working lineup features Karen Petersen, four of her children, and Emmett Franz, a non-family member who joined the band in 2017 to play dobro. When the band started Karen played the mandolin, and Jon Petersen played stand-up bass or piano. However, Jon Petersen rarely plays with band, anymore. He continues to work his day job as a doctor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All the group play instruments and sing though Karen rarely sings. Ellen Petersen Haygood plays banjo and is the most prominent lead vocalist (she made it the top 48 on American Idol.) Ellen got married recent to Michael Haygood of the Haygood's (another Branson family band). Katie Petersen sings lead vocals, help arranges the music, writes original material and plays the violin. Matt Petersen plays acoustic guitar, manages live performances and occasionally sing leads. Emmet Franz plays the dobro, helps arrange the music, and sings occasional leads. More than one article refers to him as a " ringer" because he is so good at dobro. The youngest member of the band, Julianne Petersen, plays mandolin and sings lead vocals. In the early days of the band Julianne would do buck dancing, and sometimes play violin or sing. The siblings were all taught how to sing first, then they learned piano before specializing in a particular instrument. Karen Petersen has a master in music education, and not only taught her children music but home schooled them. The group is up front about their Baptist faith, but never offends or is pushy with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The group has become popular through their residencies at Branson, MO and through exposure on YouTube, and other social media platforms. The group's videos are often filmed live outdoors or in rural buildings by director Aaron Carter who does an excellent job producing the videos. The group almost invariably takes a bluegrass approach to their music, but their material is primarily pop songs, gospel songs, or original compositions. None of the albums or singles have charted on the Billboard pop charts, so they rely on patrons, live shows and streaming revenue for income. The group's most popular songs on YouTube are their covers of "Jolene", "When You Say Nothing at All" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PvSMiHFAjzo" width="320" youtube-src-id="PvSMiHFAjzo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The group's superpower is their ability to do gospel music. Here is their version of "Down to The River to Pray. The most notable prior version of this song was by Allison Krauss.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pTFoR3NauGQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="pTFoR3NauGQ"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The early Petersens performing "Traveling Shoes" back before Emmett Franz joined. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The group is really solid instrumentally, but the emphasis typically is on the vocals. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gBci_U5FTog" width="320" youtube-src-id="gBci_U5FTog"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Prodigal Son" featuring the four Petersens siblings</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The group is often at its best when the four Petersen children gather in various combinations in the center microphone and harmonize or trade off vocals. Instrumentally, Emmett and Katie are the most impressive, while vocally Ellen and Julianne are most likely to awe the audience. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjieo3bwkWUwkHzeitYRwRuCkz0akbYlTDAA36BWArXmjMGtyppE2jORAnPkj6bgCGoyvEe6u9lkFe20TFuSEgGqj8lMoD1-wcxH3kOXm1SzMAjVGxY9sldtrq4wDRlVHDPW5JUYEKgSKWsrnPckxve8S5Ly7o_a8jLAIEvMGs7TjPcw5kbICP1rr3rrA/s1200/E7fp6gJWUAM4oYN.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjieo3bwkWUwkHzeitYRwRuCkz0akbYlTDAA36BWArXmjMGtyppE2jORAnPkj6bgCGoyvEe6u9lkFe20TFuSEgGqj8lMoD1-wcxH3kOXm1SzMAjVGxY9sldtrq4wDRlVHDPW5JUYEKgSKWsrnPckxve8S5Ly7o_a8jLAIEvMGs7TjPcw5kbICP1rr3rrA/s320/E7fp6gJWUAM4oYN.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julianne Petersen</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And now we turn to Julianne Petersen best known for her famous dimple. She was born in 2001 and is the youngest of the Petersens. She impressed me from the very first, with her relatively unique vocal style, and youthful good looks. Like Nanci Griffith or Iris Dement she has a very high, breathy, childlike singing voice, but what makes her unique is the unpredictable vibrato that sometimes comes out when she is singing. Like her sisters, she occasionally breaks into a country twang while singing, but Julianne also channels Dolores O' Reardon. When you hear her speaking voice, you begin to wonder where her marvelous singing voice comes from. Her speaking voice is neither overly high nor twangy. Julianne also has some charming facial quirks, smiling deeply, or rolling her eyes upwards or to the side. All of the Petersen siblings smile frequently-and these smiles, along with the rural settings, and modest dresses give off an amazingly peaceful aura in their videos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Julianne has often had to step back from the band and spent time away from the band as she got her education (apparently, she was home schooled for at least part of this time). She studied English literature at John Brown University where she graduated with honors. At college, she spent a semester at Oxford studying C.S. Lewis. Julianne hobbies include making YouTube videos of the group's travels and writing. Both she and her brother, Matt have a very active sense of humor, and that levity often shows up in the travel videos and on stage. Here are four of Julianne's more notable singing performances.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZM_76pkynos" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZM_76pkynos"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Julianne's most successful video with the group so far, has been this excellent bluegrass rendition of Sting's "Fields of Gold." The group was inspired by Eva Cassidy's famous cover to do this song.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8t-JhhYhZyk" width="320" youtube-src-id="8t-JhhYhZyk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The performance that best shows off many of Julianne's vocal quirks is the Christmas song-"God Rest Ye Mary Gentlemen".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1UoZ3aULP-Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="1UoZ3aULP-Y"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Today" is Julianne's perhaps most perfect vocal. It was sung at the wedding of her sister. She is joined by Matt and Katie. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/agbnlpnJsUc" width="320" youtube-src-id="agbnlpnJsUc"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Julianne has made a few solo video's notably this cover of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Visit here for a complete playlist of songs Julianne sings lead vocals on. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrCRJnw0dqNiI1Wqs2boM8Fz0lPRPS8S">Julianne Petersen of the Petersens - YouTube</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An article written by Julianne ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.reuleauxjournal.com/post/broken-voices-church-tradition-deconstruction-and-a-lonely-mandolin">https://www.reuleauxjournal.com/post/broken-voices-church-tradition-deconstruction-and-a-lonely-mandolin</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Originally published June 2023 by J.C.Bernhardt.</div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-54940194552761634142023-02-04T20:51:00.011-08:002023-02-23T18:42:51.496-08:00Songs That the Beatles Switched instruments on.<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Beatles were a four-man rock combo.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Harrison played Lead Guitar, John Lennon played Rhythm Guitar, Paul
McCartney played Electric Bass Guitar and Ringo Starr played Drums. In 1962-1964 this lineup was
seldom deviated from. Keyboards (if needed) on early Beatles records were usually played by
producer George Martin. However, by 1965 other instruments were more often
required.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From 1965-keyboards were <span style="margin: 0px;"> most </span>often handled by Paul McCartney but John
Lennon and George Martin often played keyboards and non-members <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>such as Mal Evans, Billy Preston or Nicky <span style="margin: 0px;">Hopkins also occasionally </span>played keyboards.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
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percussion instruments were usually played by Ringo Starr but were also played by Harrison, Lennon and McCartney on a few tracks-especially if they had nothing
else to do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On many occasions from 1965 and onward The Beatles brought in classical musicians to play various
orchestral parts or horn solos. Almost all the orchestral arrangements were
scored and conducted by George Martin. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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lead vocals were handled by the group and most backing vocals were by Lennon,
McCartney and Harrison. On a few occasions between 1966 and 1968 outsiders were
brought in to provide party style backing vocals or female vocals.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On only one occasion was an outside guitarist
brought in to play on a Beatles record. That would be Eric Clapton who played lead guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. <span style="margin: 0px;"> George Harrison brought in Clapton partly to encourage the other Beatles to be on their best behavior.</span></span><span style="font-family: calibri;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the times <span>that Beatles<span style="font-family: calibri;"> members played instruments outside their specialty.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paul McCartney </span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paul McCartney was perhaps the greatest melodist of his generation
and has a unparalleled gift for adding musical colors to songs-so George Martin and the group often let
him get away from just playing bass and allowed him to play guitar, keyboards and other instruments. However, this soured McCartney's relationship with George Harrison to a degree since it sent the message that Macca often wouldn't trust Harrison to play the guitar on songs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the early (pre-record making) days of the Beatles -Macca was
the third guitarist-but switched to bass when Stu Sutcliffe left the band. But Macca often returned to play guitar.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is
most noticeable on acoustic songs where he is the only guitarist.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
Songs that McCartney played acoustic guitar on include:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">'"I'll Follow the Sun", "I've Just Seen a Face", "You've Got to Hide Your ", "Yesterday" "Michelle", "I'm Looking Through You", "All Together Now", " Two of Us", "Maggie Mae", "I Will<span style="margin: 0px;">" "Your</span> Majesty<span style="margin: 0px;">", "R</span>ocky Racoon ". </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCartney also played lead electric guitar or rhythm electric guitar on "The Night Before",<span style="margin: 0px;"> " Ticket</span> to Ride" "Another Girl", "Drive My Car", "Taxman"," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Fixing a Hole", "Helter Skelter", "Oh Darling, and "You Never <span style="margin: 0px;">Give Me Your Money". Notice that with exception of three songs-all these songs that Macca played guitar on were songs that predominately written by Paul McCartney. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b><i>Songs that McCartney played Drums on</i></b>:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>McCartney
filled in on drums for two songs - “Back in the USSR” and “Dear Prudence” when
Ringo left the group temporarily in 1968. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>McCartney also played drums on “Ballad of John and Yoko” in 1969 because Harrison and Starr were not available when
the song was recorded. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCartney was nearly a one-man band on “Why Don’t We Do It on the
Road, and "Wild Honey Pie"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>on the White
album. (Although Ringo did play drums on "Why Don't We Do it on the Road"). </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">John Lennon </span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lennon usually played rhythm electric guitar but occasionally played lead
guitar or acoustic guitar but that of course was normal for his job.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On at least one occasion he is only instrumentalist on a song that would be “Julia”. He plays the acoustic guitar on that ballad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As stated before, Lennon played keyboards on numerous songs-one of the most notable was introduction to "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What was unusual was for Lennon to play bass. He played bass
on "Rocky Racoon”, “Helter Skelter”, "Dig It', “Let
It Be” (on the <b><i>Anthology 3 </i></b>version) and on “The Long and Winding Road”. Lennon did this because McCartney was occupied on another instrument. Sometimes ,Lennon or Harrison played bass on a early take of a song, only to have McCartney do a later overdub. One of the many reasons that there is sometimes disputes on who played what.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Neither John Lennon or George Harrison ever completely filled in for Ringo on drums on a finished recording. But Lennon did play a snare drum while Ringo tapped on a guitar and played cowbell, on ¨I Need You¨. It is also said that Lennon and Harrison may have played some of the drum parts on "Back in the USSR". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George </b><b>Harrison usually</b> stuck to lead electric guitar -and he wasn’t any more prominent on lead<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>acoustic guitar then Lennon or McCartney were. However-the
famous classical guitar work on “And I Love Her” is by him. And songs like "Here Come the Sun" features his acoustic guitar.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Harrison famously played Sitar on “Norwegian Wood”, "Tomorrow Never
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">George Harrison played Tambura on "Getting Better" and on "Within You Without You".</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">George Harrison played organ on his 1967 songs-"Only a Northern Song<span style="margin: 0px;">", "Its All Too Much",</span></span><div><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="margin: 0px;">and "B</span>lue Jay Way" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">George Harrison played bass on "Birthday", on "Golden Slumbers" , "Oh Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". "Carry That Weight" and a "bassy" guitar on "You Never Give Me Your Money".</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Harrison <span style="font-family: "calibri";">also played synthesizer on some songs on the <b><i>Abbey Road </i></b>album.</span></span><br />
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example, Paul McCartney is said to play recorder on “Fool on the Hill”, John
Lennon is said to have played sax on “Helter Skelter". George Harrison played a Ukelele on "Free As A Bird". Mal Evans played the alarm clock on "A Day in the Life". And Ringo played the anvil on the final version of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Also, on Felpin's Pond: <a href="http://felpinspond.blogspot.com/2019/05/classic-rock-act-where-you-came-all.html">Classic Rock Acts That You Can Name All the Members of</a></span><br />
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More about Beatles instrument switching....<br />
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<b>Some Early Meghan Trainor videos. Revised 2020</b></h2>Meghan Trainor is the singer/songwriter from Nantucket who hit it big with "All About that Bass". Before "All About the Bass" she recorded two independent solo albums and worked as a songwriter.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">In 2013 Meghan performed on a song called "Fall Back" with her friend Emmy Palmer.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">A solo performance of "Waterfall" showing off her ballad side from 2012, and interview with her inside a vehicle. </span><br />
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"Can't Blame the Girl For Trying" , 2012 from the Durango Songwriters's conference.</div>
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"Nervous" 2011 from the Durango songwriter's conference.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Originallt published January 16, 2020. Updated March 2023.</div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-63030478368652527762022-12-29T01:00:00.000-08:002022-12-30T16:48:56.817-08:00How many rock stars have been knighted? (Updated December 2022)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In 1965 Beatles became the first rock stars to receive royal honors. They received MBEs in 1965. The first rock star to receive the highest honor of being knighted was Cliff Richard. So how many British rock stars have actually been knighted.? Eleven rock stars can rightfully be called Sir. Included among the 'Sir's' are Sir<b> Paul McCartney,</b> Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Tom Jones Sir Elton John, Sir Rod Stewart, Sir George Ivan Morrison (Van Morrison), Sir Ray Davies, Sir Richard Starkey, Sir Barry Gibb and now Sir Brian May. Being knighted is the highest honor, but many people (most years as many as a 1000 people) receive lesser honors each year, so a good number of famous rock and pop stars now have been honored by the realm. <br />
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As we stated above, the Beatles were given the lesser honor of MBEs in 1965, but John Lennon and George Harrison had the misfortune of dying before anybody could get round to knighting them. Lennon famously gave back his MBE in 1969 with a note saying, “Your majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s
involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America
in Vietnam and against, "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts. With
love, John Lennon.”<br /> George Harrison was offered a promotion from MBE to CBE, but declined because, he would have preferred a knighthood (perhaps so he could be on par with Paul McCartney). Ringo Starr was only knighted in 2018. Oddly enough, the late Sir George Martin, the Beatles producer was actually knighted before Ringo.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">There is <b>a Sir Mick Jagger, but</b> no <b>Sir Keith Richards</b>. Oddly, Bill Wyman has received honors but not Charlie Watt, Ronnie Wood or Mick Taylor. Keith made fun of Jagger for accepting the knighthood.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><br /></span><div><span style="color: black;">What about Bono and Bob Geldof who are sometimes called "Sir"? These men are Irishman have received
honorary knighthoods for their charity work. Bono was given his honor in 2007. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Bob Geldof received his honor back in 1986. Geldof is entitled to use the post-nominal letters "KBE" but, as he is not a citizen of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm" title="Commonwealth realm">Commonwealth realm</a>, he is precluded from using the title "Sir". Regardless, the nickname "Sir Bob" has stuck, and media reports continue to refer to him as "Sir Bob Geldof".</span></div>
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<span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Many of the other notable figures of the British rock scene have been given lesser honors then the highest honor of knighthood. The lesser honors are CBE's, LVO's, MBE's etc, but these folks were not given the honorific of "Sir". These lesser </span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">honors allow</span> the recipients to put the type of honors they were given as initials after their name, but no Sir or Dame before it. </span></span><br />
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<span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: black;"><i><span><b>Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Dave Gilmour, (but not Roger Walters), Roger Taylor (but not John Deacon or Freddie Mercury), Roger Daltrey (but not Pete Townshend), Eric Clapton (CBE), the late Robin and Maurice Gibb, Albert Hammond, Peter Asher, the late Gerry Marsden, Joan Armatrading, Annie Lennox, Mark </b></span><b>Knopfler, Graham</b><span><b> Nash (OBE), Marty Wilde (MBE). Rod Stewart, Phil Collins (who is an LVO), Adele, Kate Bush (CBE), and Gordon "Sting" Sumner, </b></span></i><span><i><b>Damon Albarn of Blur (OBE), Tim and Neil Finn, Justin Hayward (OBE) Jools Holland of Squeeze (OBE) -though Jools is more famous for his TV work. Folk rock </b></i><i><b>legends Ashley MBE) and Richard Thompson of Fairport </b></i><i><b>Convention, Maddy Prior MBE, Martin Carthy MBE, and Shirley Collins MBE. Recently, Ed Sheeran received an MBE. Bernie Taupin was given honors on the 2022 list.</b></i></span></span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">David Bowie actually declined honors, as have Paul Weller, and Hank Marvin of the Shadows. </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Who else hasn't been given honours? Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Beck, Elvis Costello, Robbie Williams, Keith Richard, Peter Gabriel, Pete Townshend, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Charlie Watts, Steve Winwood, Roger Waters, Peter Noone (of Herman's Hermits) and John Paul Jones are among the most noted rich stars who haven't been honored for services to the realm. As far as I know, no British punk star or new waver has been honored. Also, no American rock performers have received honors since they are not eligible for British honours. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Among the dead rock British rock stars who were never given honors are George Michael, Freddie Mercury Brian Jones, Keith Moon, Nick Drake, John Entwistle, John Bonham, and Sandy Denny. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">What about Popular Music and Musical theater types? </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Lionel Bart, Cameron McIntosh, Andrew Lloyd Webber (he's a Lord!) and Tim Rice have been knighted. You can call them "Sir". Elaine Paige has been honored as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">There have been female stars from the rock era who been honored. In 2019, Olivia Newton-John was made a dame and given an OBE. The late Dusty Springfield was given an OBE, and as we noted above Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush, Pauline Black, Annie Lennox and Adele have been given lesser honors than a Dame-ship. Two Spice Girls-Victoria Beckham and Mel Brown have also been given honors.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Pop singers Shirley Bassey! and Julie Andrews were made Dames many years ago.</span><br />
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Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Anka, and Joni Mitchell have received the Order of Canada.<br />
Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder are among the many people who awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<br />
Reggae stars Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff have received the Jamaican order of merit.<br />
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Why are rock stars given honors? Many reasons are given, certainly it's true that groups like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles all have done wonders for the British economy. Many of the people knighted have been artistically important. Doing charity work helps too, but clearly being a wonderful person is not a requirement, or many rock stars would not have been honored. Also surprisingly, being a tax exile seems to have not kept stars from being honored. <br />
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Published December 2017, updated every year by J.C.Bernhardt.<br />
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<a href="http://felpinspond.blogspot.com/2012/04/can-you-write-hit-song-after-age-50.html">Can you write hit song after age 50</a>?</div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-17621037008410958252022-12-12T21:07:00.004-08:002022-12-26T22:02:41.551-08:00Meghan Trainor- Notable Songs that were not hits. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAGGK-leN0DlnPJ6SQV93IEtGFf73rn8WB1zmMtKM8PyoifqH8xitVHDDc4SuN3ms4MlZLmegbDdKRV43knVCFVslBoKpZw-EnhsE0CESgoK731jIBWPuY2ecPJ-MX_FYcBTtE2Ve9Z-XSZ2lnPExBXZ3W-j5Z-H3ESCHTPIoE-Uz5bn9drQ249Gqj5w=s620" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="620" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAGGK-leN0DlnPJ6SQV93IEtGFf73rn8WB1zmMtKM8PyoifqH8xitVHDDc4SuN3ms4MlZLmegbDdKRV43knVCFVslBoKpZw-EnhsE0CESgoK731jIBWPuY2ecPJ-MX_FYcBTtE2Ve9Z-XSZ2lnPExBXZ3W-j5Z-H3ESCHTPIoE-Uz5bn9drQ249Gqj5w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Meghan Trainor broke out on the pop scene in 2014 with her catchy and original mega hit, "All About the Bass". The problem with hitting it so big with your first hit-is everything else is going to be anti-climactic, and some artists become one (or two hit wonders). Nevertheless, she managed to have genuine US top 40 hits with six other songs after "Bass". (Lips Are Moving, Dear Future Husband", "Like I'm Going to Lose You", "Marvin Gaye", "No"' and "Me Too"). But the hits dried up between 2016, and 2022. In 2022, Meghan finally had something of a hit with "Made You Look" but the song still has underperformed in the USA. Her lyrical and musical style can be a little too clever, and her soulful sassy voice can be little overwrought. "No" and "Me Too" are examples of how some of her songs can be a bit annoying lyrically. Unlike, other stars she does not seem to have given into the urge to let others basically write songs for her, so as to get more hits. (She does work with other songwriters-but with the exception of her Christmas album she has written or co-written every solo song she has recorded. So here all the twelve "failed" singles that one hears from time to time on the radio and in supermarkets, they were not hits, but good enough to get some limited airplay.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_akpbZFU_4" width="320" youtube-src-id="L_akpbZFU_4"></iframe></div><p><br /></p><p>Fifth Harmony (featuring Meghan Trainor)-"Brave Honest Beautiful". IT was released in early 2015. Meghan co wrote the song and co-produced.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/npdg21rjowU" width="320" youtube-src-id="npdg21rjowU"></iframe></div><p>"Better When I'm Dancing"</p><p>This song was written with Thaddeus Dixon for <b><i>The Peanuts Movie Soundtrack</i></b> and released in October 2015. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MT5WK7RAonc" width="320" youtube-src-id="MT5WK7RAonc"></iframe></div><p>"Better"-Meghan Trainor featuring Yo Gotti</p><p>This third single from Meghan's second album (<b><i>Thank You</i></b>) was a modest hit on radio airplay charts in Fall 2016 but did not make the US top 100 are chart in other countries. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FuIOvmdzaLQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="FuIOvmdzaLQ"></iframe></div><div>"No Excuses" -Meghan Trainor</div><div><br /></div>No Excuses, a very listenable song with some great hooks. It was the lead single of her third album (<b><i>Treat Myself)</i></b> but only reached #46. It was released in March 2018.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tN_8CwE8ULI" width="320" youtube-src-id="tN_8CwE8ULI"></iframe></div>"Let You Be Right"-Meghan Trainor<div><br /></div><div>Intended for her third album, this another partly failed single released in May 2018, right after "No Excuses". It did not show up on the album when it came out. The two failed singles may have played a part in the decision to hold back the album. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nNZrc_XvF30" width="320" youtube-src-id="nNZrc_XvF30"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>"Can't Dance"-Meghan Trainor</div><div>Released at the same Time "Let You Right". Though a video was filmed for it-it was no released. This song sounds a little more producer driven, and is more dance oriented then some of other material. It was not a hit-and was not featured on an album or EP.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KAhf4xFBgtQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="KAhf4xFBgtQ"></iframe></div><br /><p>"More Than Friends" -Jason Mraz with Meghan Trainor</p><p>Another ballad, duet similar to "Love You Like I am Going to Lose You". Trainor was one of the four co-writers on the song. It was on Jason's album, "<i><b>Know</b></i>". It was released as a single in October 2018 and charted only on the adult top 40.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bcokg2c3apU" width="320" youtube-src-id="Bcokg2c3apU"></iframe></div></div><br /><div>"All The Ways"-Meghan Trainor</div><div><br /></div><div>Another Meghan solo single from the sessions for third album. It as bonus track on the Target version of that album, and as one of the songs on the "Love Train" EP. It was released in February 2019. and once again failed to make the regular Billboard Hot 100 or other nation's charts. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HUJGwSy0pRI" width="320" youtube-src-id="HUJGwSy0pRI"></iframe></div>"Just Got Paid" by Sigala, Ella Eyre, and Meghan Trainor that features French Montana.<br /><p>An 2018 song by Sigala, Ella Eyre, and Meghan Trainor that features French Montana. It was a hit in the UK and a few other territories. It did not make the Top 100 in the USA. The song is featured on Sigala's debut album.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8guZoHXUFnQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="8guZoHXUFnQ"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>Kaskade and Meghan Trainor-"With You"<br /><p>A single released in June 2019 by Kaskade and Meghan Trainor. It was not a Billboard top 100 hit but was modest hit on the dance and adult top 40 charts. It has not shown up on an album.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XyL3YKK_1BI" width="320" youtube-src-id="XyL3YKK_1BI"></iframe></div>Meghan Trainor-"I'm a Lady"</div><div><br /></div><div>Her song from the Smurf's movie--Lost Village. It came out in Early 2017. Meghan cowrote the song with Martin Renea.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UIevTTLB_3Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="UIevTTLB_3Q"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>"Wave" -Meghan Trainor</div><div>"Wave" was an uncharacteristically ambitious song with a massive chorus. This song was released in late 2019 three months before the <b><i>Treat Myself </i></b>album finally came out and was the first track on that album. It did not chart on any of the Billboard's single's charts.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dva-bXq8HP8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Dva-bXq8HP8"></iframe></div><br /><p>"Run Like the River" was another soundtrack song, but a very solid one. It was released in August 2019. Another song written during the endless third album sessions. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jrcf0ddGx5A" width="320" youtube-src-id="Jrcf0ddGx5A"></iframe></div><p>Meghan Trainor (featuring Nicki Minaj) -"Nice To Meet You".</p><p>Released as third single for "Treat Myself album. It came out concurrently with the album. In January 2020. It only reached #89 in the USA.</p><p>Originally posted February 2022.</p></div></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-14305574567680220672022-06-14T20:17:00.009-07:002022-06-16T21:20:32.229-07:00Falling in love with the music of Kate Bush<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAuwoBxNW7lh_mn1KHphnE2ydjZM3koIL7Q4EcBtlxh-x9SIEdQjNqmyc5lUTqojKXMAEA7LmSAAUS4nyuE9lyZO-Ct62SOWgvm9szCQFCsF82qKsk6Y7HYGL0Hq5FY3PaZlaOIVJvpwpwzsmNtErkHtWRrvNARH_gaiIDtXtI3HvZ2DmFfE8DgJun2g/s600/R-637261-1277290041.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAuwoBxNW7lh_mn1KHphnE2ydjZM3koIL7Q4EcBtlxh-x9SIEdQjNqmyc5lUTqojKXMAEA7LmSAAUS4nyuE9lyZO-Ct62SOWgvm9szCQFCsF82qKsk6Y7HYGL0Hq5FY3PaZlaOIVJvpwpwzsmNtErkHtWRrvNARH_gaiIDtXtI3HvZ2DmFfE8DgJun2g/s320/R-637261-1277290041.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />There are just a few musical artists where I remember where I was when I first heard them. I was in College Park, Maryland in late 1981 in a record store called Xon, when I first heard the voice of Kate Bush. In the background, was playing a very high-pitched female voice, it turned out to be Kate Bush performing live in 1979. I think the record store owner said that the live recording that was playing not was not easily available, so instead that day, I bought her first studio album, the <b><i>Kick Inside (</i></b>pictured on left). I listened to that first album constantly on a pathetic record player in my dorm room at the University of Maryland. I am amazed my roommates didn't kill me. <div><br /></div><div>The most famous song from the album is Kate's take on the novel, "Wuthering Heights". The most high-pitched female voice imaginable somehow managed to enthrall the UK and other territories. But, Kate Bush, was already in the process of being ignored in America. Until the mid 1980's, Kate remained totally commercially unsuccessful in the USA. Capitol/EMI did not even release her second and third albums. But she continued to have considerable success in other markets and was a genuine superstar in her home country. Eventually though, the quality of her music finally was too much for US critics and the US public to ignore and she finally began to chart in the USA. Below is "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" from her <b><i>Kick Inside</i></b> album.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NAj8suae3WY" width="320" youtube-src-id="NAj8suae3WY"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>I spent most of 1982 enthralled with Kate. I bought imported versions of her second<br />album,<b> Lionheart</b> and her third album, <i><b>Never for Ever.</b></i> I collected imported versions of the UK singles. Most of the singles had intriguing non-album B-sides. Pretty much everything she recorded at this point was fairly good, and breathtakingly original. She was also maturing, her 1980's work-her lead vocals were a little more normal than what is found on the <i><b>Kick Inside</b></i>. But the backing vocals often used the Kate's signature higher registers to great effect. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9zNYm1Oo9dqD-5KsZ-csJFEn-VsObzJ8MKWzfTN21QmXpaZ4GzHWqPMPIPWDwf3sjQyFZZUhdZAWhO42anWe3eIwtu_c-IpbMTfT4_y0W5A5s0jTHgZVypaxWRRJM7QLD-7QokUcQIo8XGxbrkOLaScOYY9IkdDKczNGjwy7KJmWmjV8Fb3Xa2j8fQ/s500/R%20(10).jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="500" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9zNYm1Oo9dqD-5KsZ-csJFEn-VsObzJ8MKWzfTN21QmXpaZ4GzHWqPMPIPWDwf3sjQyFZZUhdZAWhO42anWe3eIwtu_c-IpbMTfT4_y0W5A5s0jTHgZVypaxWRRJM7QLD-7QokUcQIo8XGxbrkOLaScOYY9IkdDKczNGjwy7KJmWmjV8Fb3Xa2j8fQ/w205-h202/R%20(10).jpg" width="205" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A Kate Bush B-side-"Lord of the Reedy River"</i> </td></tr></tbody></table>What amazed me about Kate Bush was her musical vocabulary. The array of musical color found in the songs, was achieved by unusual instrumentation, choirs of Kate's voice, and stunning piano work. The lyrics were all fascinating in their subject matter. </div><div>What also impressed was Kate ran the entire show. The songs were written, sung, and produced by her. She played all the keyboards. (Kate did have some regular sideman -notably Del Palmer, who was her husband for a while). Even now, I can't think of too many musical artists who have the amazing musical pallet she has, and can do it all. Only Paul McCartney comes to mind. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80GiikjAttVlkI5JwxO7CAvpvrkvQ7vCe0eh1Buz5aJgJQD5UJNXCystJWM0u_iz4ODgYT3LQwzEGmuC_9N_dGVYBqvfK7Kz62rbWMMX_4RbmptFCJ1kQlH919vlojLYN5KvNCWd-tuHuIfpxeDnRkPa-zn40hSCurQCQSjjiYjlWe7SWh7PbWjT2cQ/s355/encarte%20booklet%20kate%20bush%20the%20dreaming.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80GiikjAttVlkI5JwxO7CAvpvrkvQ7vCe0eh1Buz5aJgJQD5UJNXCystJWM0u_iz4ODgYT3LQwzEGmuC_9N_dGVYBqvfK7Kz62rbWMMX_4RbmptFCJ1kQlH919vlojLYN5KvNCWd-tuHuIfpxeDnRkPa-zn40hSCurQCQSjjiYjlWe7SWh7PbWjT2cQ/s320/encarte%20booklet%20kate%20bush%20the%20dreaming.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />My love for her work probably peaked with the daring 1982 album, <b><i>The Dreaming </i></b>which was the first album of hers released after I had discovered her. The title cut attempts to capture the sounds of aboriginal music, the first single, from the album, "Sat in your Lap" was written by Kate using percussion not a piano. There is the first of her Irish music epics, "Night of the Swallow", probably my favorite Kate song. One of the songs reminded me aurally of the muted other worldly sound of dreams, another song seemed to capture the sound of glass. This is my favorite Kate Bush album.<p></p><p>Her next album did not come till three years later in 1985. This was the first of a series of a long waits between Kate Bush albums. The next album turned out to be <b><i>Hounds</i></b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> of Love</i> an album that many regard as her masterpiece. Like <b><i>The Dreaming</i></b>. Kate mastered creating sound textures for these songs. But this album was more accessible, less eccentric. The first side of the album was a series of pop singles. The second side, a long suite about a woman who drowned. This time Kate applied just enough commercial gloss to create a true break through single with "Running Up That Hill" which features perhaps her most memorable use of the Fairlight Synthesizer. It became her first and only hit in the United States. My favorite song from the <b><i>Hounds of Love</i></b> album was the uplifting "Cloudbusting" which was accompanied by a story video starring Donald Sutherland (see below) Around this time Kate also duetted on Peter Gabriel's song, "Don't Give up", which also got worldwide airplay. Peter Gabriel was like Kate-a truly original English musical artist.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pllRW9wETzw" width="320" youtube-src-id="pllRW9wETzw"></iframe></div><p>Kate did not return with a new album till 1989, when the <b><i>The Sensual World </i></b>album came out. This album was Kate at her most mature-and perhaps most personal. The women described in some of the songs actually could be Kate. (Normally in most of her work she assumed a persona). The best-known song from the album, is the brilliant "This Women's Work", a song that still can bring tears to the eyes. It was well known, because it appeared in the Kevin Bacon movie, "She's Having My Baby". (See below)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LJEP6zPddEc" width="320" youtube-src-id="LJEP6zPddEc"></iframe></div><p>Kate's later work of the 1990's and the 2000's meant less to me. I grew impatient with the long waits between albums, the lack of concerts (I have never seen her in concert), and the limited number of compilations of her work on CD and DVD. But for a time she was very important to me. I am very happy that she gotten new exposure from the Netflix show, <b><i>Stranger Things.</i></b> Few musical artists are more deserving. </p></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-29499482305420636992022-06-11T22:29:00.011-07:002022-06-16T21:20:57.071-07:00The Hazelnuts -an Israeli vocal group.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicCITnAleSyogAajA312ZGk_NW0udH84EfjoVLZWcXHWOqwA9tbvYIubhKL0T_OtaWZGvCN0MilO4LeNgMvOoWHYCOaZ9Bzr8h9HMrzlcfIRyZl5Qt75uFXz9wAg19C8Of77j7LWS9o5fndVyG5k_FqL0u6FIH6T8eI7LpVeMfSZvtxdOzNKsUDZ9mQ/s1200/0009007161_10.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1200" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicCITnAleSyogAajA312ZGk_NW0udH84EfjoVLZWcXHWOqwA9tbvYIubhKL0T_OtaWZGvCN0MilO4LeNgMvOoWHYCOaZ9Bzr8h9HMrzlcfIRyZl5Qt75uFXz9wAg19C8Of77j7LWS9o5fndVyG5k_FqL0u6FIH6T8eI7LpVeMfSZvtxdOzNKsUDZ9mQ/s320/0009007161_10.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hazelnuts in their most recent lineup.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Tonight, I heard just one line of a sung as a lead-in a Wayfair furniture commercial. Quickly, tried to figure what the song was . It turned out the song was called "Tempted" and was performed by a Israeli vocal trio called the Hazelnuts". Although it sounded like vintage music it was in fact a totally new song. I love it when ad people dig up musical gems for commercials.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This vocal trio has been around since 2013. though often as a part time concern. Apparently, their studio recordings have not released on a major label. But there did turn out to be wide variety of material by the group, including lots of jazz vocals, some songs in Hebrew and even covers of David Bowie, Tom Waits and Beyonce, but most of the material was vocal trios performances in the 1930' and 1940's style of the Andrew Sisters and the Boswell sisters. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The group seemed to be quite talented, and honestly, I was surprised I had trouble finding information on their recordings at least initially. The reality is that there are really quite a lot of musically talented people out there -and often their musically talent is not rewarded with stardom. It's not clear if the group is still a going concern, because the members have been doing other musical stuff concurrently with the group. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The group's two steadfast members have been Shira Carmel (wears glasses) and Yifeat Ziv (has short hair). The third member has changed a number of times. So in the videos of the group at various times you will see<span style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"> first Talya Amzaleg, then </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: georgia;">Sapir Rosenblatt,</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: georgia;"> and now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: georgia;">Anat Moshkovski as the third vocalist. Usually the group had some pretty effective mostly male musicians backing them. All the members of the group had some impressive resumes of other activity in their lives. So here is a sampler of performances </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is the aforementioned song "Tempted". It was written by Shira Carmel (she also sing lead) It was released on a EP in 2020.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IQsoGTINwm8" width="320" youtube-src-id="IQsoGTINwm8"></iframe></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Below: "It's the Girl" with Talya Amazag (on the right). The performance is from 2014</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dKjVBR0w5Ck" width="320" youtube-src-id="dKjVBR0w5Ck"></iframe></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A great 2015 performance with Marshdondurma instrumental band .This song features Sapir Rosenblatt</span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Noto Sans, Liberation Sans, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Noto Color Emoji"> (the singer on the left) as the third singer.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/be9iBO4eGdc" width="320" youtube-src-id="be9iBO4eGdc"></iframe></div><br /><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 16px;">A nicely shot 2015 video of "It Don't Mean a Thing" with Sapir is below. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kaVQ5imVbZs" width="320" youtube-src-id="kaVQ5imVbZs"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Below: This 2017 performance features <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: georgia;">Anat Moshkovski as the third member. It is a cover of Edith Piaf song, called "Padam Padam".</span><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5913eIVq-5U" width="320" youtube-src-id="5913eIVq-5U"></iframe></div><br /></span><div>More articles about the group:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.jpost.com/not-just-news/women-to-the-core-392933">Jerusalem Post article</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/jerusalems-hazelnuts-appear-here/">https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/jerusalems-hazelnuts-appear-here/</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;">Also on Felpin's Pond </span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://felpinspond.blogspot.com/search/label/Rock%20Paper%20Scissors%20-Darla%20Murphy%20Gemma%20Cohen%20Miranda%20Mallard">Vocal trio-Rock, Paper, Scissors</a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-11703809536993965562022-06-03T18:54:00.099-07:002022-07-16T20:35:45.767-07:00Retconning Star Trek in Star Trek:Strange New Worlds<p>The premiere of <b>Star Trek:Strange New Worlds</b> got me thinking about the occasional retroactive revisions that have occurred in the Star Trek universe. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyztyrFinYqSCks4iSnx6PkNQaS2PXVaQla_EBjTgnag25RPjYByftRfZtU6AOLJuI9JfiA-NvgvEh1_3ZsWbXfO0Os0L0sjNmNytnRaLX_kdLvUipzL2LomigNFNBEn9QBph9ijCYE7tJxsr2Ytatf8AQCz-oBOXFq2qgWz1QxOwXZ8NDEZhphp0vQ/s1200/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-chapel-mbenga-1-1200x675.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyztyrFinYqSCks4iSnx6PkNQaS2PXVaQla_EBjTgnag25RPjYByftRfZtU6AOLJuI9JfiA-NvgvEh1_3ZsWbXfO0Os0L0sjNmNytnRaLX_kdLvUipzL2LomigNFNBEn9QBph9ijCYE7tJxsr2Ytatf8AQCz-oBOXFq2qgWz1QxOwXZ8NDEZhphp0vQ/s320/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-chapel-mbenga-1-1200x675.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapel and M'Benga</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has a whole slew of them of retcons as do many of the recent Star Trek shows. </p><p>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , is a new (2022) series about the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike's Enterprise. The character of Pike is very old one. </p><p>Pike and his Enterprise was first portrayed in the very first pilot for the original Star Trek TV show that was filmed in late 1964. Most of the material from pilot was reused in "The Menagerie" the only two-part episode from the original Star Trek series broadcast in 1967. In the early 2000's, the Pike character was portrayed in the Kelvin line<b><i> Star Trek</i></b> movies. Pike was brought back also in Star Trek - "Discovery" and Pike was portrayed over the course of multiple second season episodes which led the franchise bosses to give Pike his own show. </p><p>"The Cage" and "The Menagerie" had been necessary limited due to time constraints as to how much information they gave about Pike and his crew. In the<b><i> Cage</i></b>, Pike is a burnt out, but still quite competent, he is said to have come from the American west, enjoys horses, and is wildly respected. He is shown to be brave, and has short dark hair, with a touch of gray and striking eyes.</p><p>Most of this was retained in Anson Mount's portrayal. Mount's mild physical resemblance to Jeffrey Hunter essentially made him believable from the get-go. Pike in the new Trek, appears to have more of a sense of humor, and is more friendly to the crew. But Mount sells this revision very well. <b>The Cage</b> story line of the trip to Taos 4 is not only retained but was actually portrayed on<b><i> Discovery</i></b>. So, no major retconning there.</p><p>The second major character retained from the <b>Cage</b> is Number One, the second in command of the Pike's Enterprise. She was originally portrayed by Majel Barrett, and her character was a daring attempt by Gene Roddenberry to place a woman in an important non-traditional role (for the time) in a TV series. In 1964, it was rare for women to be in charge of men, especially on a ship. But Roddenberry wanted to portray a future where many things had changed. in 1964, Number One is portrayed as serious, very smart almost computer like character, who favors a long dark 1940's style haircut and wears pants. Although we do not know for sure-we assume she is from Earth. </p><p>On the new Trek, Rebecca Romjin like Mount sells her version of this old character from the beginning, using the dark hair as the calling card, Her Number One is a also a serious, very smart second in command, who it is clear Pike relies on greatly. On new trek, Number One is given a full name and it explained that she is not from Earth. Many joked that Chapel and Number One should have been portrayed by the same actress just like they were on the original show. The only real problem is that her character is not given a meaty enough role-despite Romjign being the second billed member of the cast. </p><p>The third character retained from <b>The Cage</b> is the Vulcan science officer, Mr. Spock, who is perhaps the best loved character, in the whole Star Trek franchise. Spock has appeared in numerous Star Trek movies and TV shows so seemingly that would make it hard to retcon his well-defined character too much. However, the makers of <b><i>Discovery </i></b>and <b><i>Strange New Worlds </i></b>have tried. As we meet Spoc on <i><b>Discovery</b></i>, we soon discover he has a sister, whom we never heard about before ,that he once wore a beard, and that he became out of sorts for while. By the time, we see him on <b><i>Strange New Worlds</i></b>, he is closer to the Leonard Nimoy portrayal of the rule. Actor Ethan Peck made an effort to instill some of Nimoy's vocal timbre, the physical mannerisms, even the raised eyebrow. The writers do however, give him a somewhat questionable rewriting of his relationship with his betrothed T'Pring, and suggest a lot more familiarity with Nurse Chapel then 1960's series ever showed. However, again the show carries it off.</p><p>Dr, Boyce (Phillip Boyce), Lt. Tyler (Peter Duryea), Yeoman Colt (Laurel Goodwin) and the remaining original crew members shown in <b><i> The Cage </i></b>pilot are not portrayed, and for purposes of the show, appear to be serving elsewhere or retired from the service, This disappointed me, and does not necessarily make sense, considering how Mount's Captain appears to be an exemplary officer to serve under (though of course, the crew could have rotated out by their superiors to serve on ships.) Instead on <b><i>Strange New Worlds</i></b> we find four crew members that were found Kirk's enterprise. This is where things get problematic. </p><p>I was surprised to see Nurse Chapel, Uhura and Dr. M'Benga portrayed on Pike's Enterprise ten years before Pike's return to Kirk's Enterprise on the <b><i>Menegerie.</i></b> All seem like they really shouldn't be there. Uhura is perhaps too young-and they had to go to the lengths of putting her on the ship as a cadet. However, the initial portrayal her on Strange New World's did capture some of her later portrayed characteristics, her competence, and her sass, as well as the fact that she is from Africa. Of course, nobody can capture Nichelle Nichols unique elegance and class in the role. </p><p>Nurse Chapel (also portrayed by Majel Barret) was the least interesting character in the original Star Trek. She basically had two story lines. Her attempts to relocate her husband, Roger Cory, and her crush on Mr. Spock. It's not clear how <b>Strange New Worlds i</b>s going to retcons these inconvenient story lines. The Nurse Chapel portrayed in Strange<b> New Worlds</b> is ironically perhaps the show's best written character -played with humor and spunk by Jess Bush. However, I don't see much resemblance between the two versions of Chapel. </p><p>Dr. M'Benga was played in two episodes of the original Star Trek by Booker Bradshaw. The actor who played him on the original show was in his twenties, In the original show -M'Benga is seemingly portrayed as just as just an African American staff doctor who interned in the Vulcan Ward, there is no suggestion that he used to be a much older bearded doctor from Kenya who was actually was the CMO of the Enterprise. So that was clearly retconned. </p><p>In other roles we find a transporter chief Kyle, who was portrayed in the original show as Caucasian from England. In <b>Strange New Worlds</b> he is a younger Asian character. There is even a Lt. Mitchell, on the bridge. However, she does not have the same first name as Gary Mitchell who appeared as first officer on the second pilot. Kirk's brother's George Samuel Kirk is actually given a recurring role. In the original series we only saw him after he had died-but the one thing we note about that portrayal-that he had a moustache is retained. </p><p>In the first episode of Strange New Worlds the character of Robert April, has returned to the Star Trek universe. April, we have been told both unofficially and officially was the "first" captain of the Pike's Enterprise. On Strange New Worlds he has been promoted to admiral. In the original animated show version of Star Trek, April was portrayed as a white guy, but on <b><i>Strange New Worlds</i></b> he is a black guy. Not really that important, but typical of the changes that have been made. But to be fair, some things are kept the same. The uniform colors, the basic design of the bridge, and there are even communicators and tricorders.</p><p>The final retcon occurred in the last episode. James Kirk is brought back. This new version of Kirk lacks the energy, charm and charisma of other portrayals but they don't change the basic of Kirk's character.</p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqDlOTcSUhOxSys-RPocNjk0yG_4rh9iQY-JhoyARf1MGKT78HNl6f3OUzrTSgRPWmnMp_VXqwXliycJKzM5XO9uN6yE7Wzb8-8kk8L4lxy4zXGrWJQjeGdtYg2EIEDyeO8z0-qA5xrQhJv4C9sWW-7CYZHDpPElZk5esunyR_fw0SzxfHTOjBpipLQ/s736/Star-Trek-The-Cage-Pike-Number-One-Romance.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="736" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqDlOTcSUhOxSys-RPocNjk0yG_4rh9iQY-JhoyARf1MGKT78HNl6f3OUzrTSgRPWmnMp_VXqwXliycJKzM5XO9uN6yE7Wzb8-8kk8L4lxy4zXGrWJQjeGdtYg2EIEDyeO8z0-qA5xrQhJv4C9sWW-7CYZHDpPElZk5esunyR_fw0SzxfHTOjBpipLQ/s320/Star-Trek-The-Cage-Pike-Number-One-Romance.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p>Many Star Trek fans have great affection for the original pilot, as well as the character of Chris Pike, and so it wonderful to finally see the character given his own show,</p>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-18643899704452961992021-04-30T09:11:00.010-07:002022-06-16T21:21:44.565-07:00Pictures of Rockshire before the houses were built. <p> Rochshire pictures... 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"Blue Letter" was covered the same year by Fleetwood Mac and sung by Lindsey Buckingham on their mega-selling self titled <b><i>Fleetwood Mac</i></b> album ( the same album that has "Rhiannon.") These demos by the Curtis Brothers were apparently not released officially- though "Blue Letter" was included on the Curtis Brothers album that was released in 1976. I didn't realize that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (you can hear her voice on occasion in the video above) had worked with them on these recordings. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVI4ReZMIeo" width="320" youtube-src-id="dVI4ReZMIeo"></iframe></div><br /><br />
In the early 1980s, the Curtis Brothers offered "Seven League Boots" to Stephen Stills who was working on a solo project. Stills liked the melody but asked if he could rewrite the song which he did under a new title "Southern Cross". The Curtis Brothers agreed to this. The Southern Cross is a constellation used for navigation in the Southern Hemisphere. Seven League boots are footwear found in European folklore that takes strides of seven leagues per step (a distance of about 21 miles).<br />
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Stephen Stills' new lyric totally transformed the song. The 1982 CSN <b><i>Daylight Again</i></b> album on which the song is finally released was originally slated to be an album with a lineup of just Stills and Graham Nash-but their label had enough of CSN solo projects and wanted a more lucrative album with the full Crosby, Stills, and Nash lineup. Eventually, Stills and Nash relented, but some of the songs on the album don't include Crosby because they were recorded before he was brought in. Instead, the CSN vocal style was created by Stills and Nash with additional backing vocalists. In this case, the vocalists were Timothy B. Schmidt and Art Garfunkel. Of course, you don't really notice it's them. However, the video recorded for the song features David Crosby even though he didn't sing or play on the recording. The Curtis Brothers never made it big-but at least they had these two songwriting credits on two albums that sold over 6 million copies in total.</div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><div>Originally published January 2, 2019</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OeWwDJrPXKg" width="320" youtube-src-id="OeWwDJrPXKg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More about the origins of Southern Cross.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-83580365956736442962021-02-20T21:31:00.000-08:002021-03-12T15:23:04.031-08:00When did Jesus Die?<br />
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Ever wondered what year Jesus died? There are no extant official records that verify an actual date of his crucifixion. Still, historians are largely in agreement that Jesus did exist and was crucified, but they are not sure of the date. They are fairly certain that he died within the term of the Judean prefect, Pontius Pilate. Pilate was the fifth <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefect" title="Prefect">Prefect</a> of the Roman province of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iudaea_Province" title="Iudaea Province">Judaea</a>, from AD 26–36. It is also assumed that Jesus died during the High Priesthood of Joseph Caiphas who was in that position from 18 to 36 AD.<br />
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It is also assumed that Jesus's ministry lasted from one to three years, (probably around three years) and that Jesus was in his 30's when he died. The synoptic gospels (Mark, Matthew, and Luke) and the Gospel of John seem to disagree on the length of the ministry-but the gospels are theological documents with theological purposes, so one can't always treat them as good chronology. <br />
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The best candidates for a year that Jesus died are years that had Passover on a Friday. The gospels indicate that he died on a Passover that was a Friday. Both 30 AD and 33 have a Passover falling on or near a Friday. Passover is the Jewish festival commemorating the Jewish exodus from Egypt.<br />
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The traditional date of Jesus' death (though there was never was a date treated as doctrine) was originally assumed to be 33 AD. One reason is that this simply fits neatly into the AD 0 plus thirty plus three calculation. Luke 3:23 tells us that Jesus was baptized by John and began his ministry at "about" the age of thirty. So Jesus was assumed to be about thirty when he started his ministry and his ministry was about three years. So if Jesus was born around 1 AD, he would have died around 33 AD.<br />
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So when was Jesus born? As you may already know-scholars don't think Jesus was actually born on December 25 (a day that was picked simply to match up with Pagan winter festivals)-they think it is more likely he was born when shepherds were out in September. Indeed it is said that John the Baptist was born in March-and that Jesus was born six months after him. Also if there had been a Roman tax census (and that is also questionable) then it most likely occurred around harvest time in the fall. Whatever the month the year was probably 4 BC or before. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">However, we can't even be certain that Matthew's version of the nativity is entirely correct historically. But some of the details are likely correct and Herod's death coming near to the Nativity would be a detail likely to be accurate.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Dionysius Exiguus, a monk who died in A.D. 556, was the man who
determined the birthdate of Jesus as the Roman year 753 (Roman years were then
counted from the year Rome was founded) using the information available
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754 was dated as 1 AD. </span>However, later historians determined that for Jesus to have born under Herod the Great, he would have to have been born before Herod's death in March or April 4 BC. So scholars agree that Jesus was born not around 1 AD but in 4 BC or before.<br />
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If Jesus was born in 5BC and died in 33 AD he would now have to be age 38 when he died. That age seems a little too old. However, other factors still make 33 AD a good choice, the Judean political situation had worsened enough by 33 AD to make the extreme action of killing a prophet that was taken by Pilate and the high priests seem more justified. Also, there were astrological events in Passover 33 AD that more closely fit the bill than 30 AD. Finally, there are a lot of three's! April 3, 33 AD dying at three in the afternoon. The number three suggests the trinity. <br />
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However, April 7, 30 AD also remains a serious candidate. The reign of the Roman emperor, Tiberius is noted in Luke's gospel. Luke says that John the Baptist started preaching in the fifteenth year of Tiberius' reign. Some say that the 15th year of Tiberius reign would translate to 26 AD. It is said that Jesus began his ministry soon after John's So that would put the range of Jesus ministry from around 26 to 30 AD. However, Tiberius co-reigned his first two years which might change the calculation, Jesus also might not have begun his ministry the same year as John the Baptist-and finally as with all these things some of the events may have described incorrectly. <span lang="EN" style="color: #252525; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br />
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So experts cannot pin down the exact year of the death of Jesus but in any event, Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead on the Sunday after Good Friday. The day they call Easter.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://christianity.org.uk/article/timeline-of-jesus-life">A historical timeline of the life of Jesus</a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Originally Published April 21, 2019.</div></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-49894822018427392242020-12-26T18:16:00.012-08:002023-03-01T19:26:36.470-08:00Songs from my darkest Days...<p>In November 1990, my best friend died. A few weeks later, I had a life-changing experience. I won't share the details, but for nine years, between, January 1991 and January 2000, I was crippled by it. During the first year, at the most crippled point, there was one point when I felt I heard, the voice of a higher power, telling me, "What do you have to give?". It was the only point of clarity in the nine months. Things improved a little, but not totally and for years I felt the scar. The crippling period only ended on New years eve, December 31,1999 when in some small way I resolved to let go of my pain. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8dAz5HlzrWE" width="320" youtube-src-id="8dAz5HlzrWE"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Indigo Girls -Ghost. It was all in letters...<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w-NKZd6zDJo" width="320" youtube-src-id="w-NKZd6zDJo"></iframe></div><div><div>Dougie MacLean</div><div><br /></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3jCFeCtSjk" width="320" youtube-src-id="S3jCFeCtSjk"></iframe></div> Nick Drake -Northern Sky<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ejHpupSGLV0" width="320" youtube-src-id="ejHpupSGLV0"></iframe></div><br /></div><div>But in the end, I was just a stranger. </div><div><br /><p>I was a million miles away. Destined to remain... </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KmSoyoJRzWw" width="320" youtube-src-id="KmSoyoJRzWw"></iframe></div><br /></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-39192240861483210562020-11-29T17:17:00.006-08:002021-03-12T15:34:43.606-08:00Jen Turner in the the Tigerlilly concert tour. <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D-bLcEZ1qMA" width="320" youtube-src-id="D-bLcEZ1qMA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Live in Orlando, Florida, September 24, 1995... This is a complete concert by Natalie Merchant. Her band at the time featured Jen Turner on guitar. They did a duet here on the song, "Baby, I Love You". Below Natalie Merchant discusses working with Jen Turner on the <b><i>Tigerlilly</i></b> album.<div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sz2-L3iQ_pI" width="320" youtube-src-id="sz2-L3iQ_pI"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-48168638741578692052020-10-16T17:13:00.053-07:002022-06-16T21:22:00.668-07:00The Death of a Friend. TaB Soda (1963-2020)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JEJi0whVLTOtWCAK7ww8und__2mEaUXW2VcS7EVjnxGXzbEowEMUJPJQBwiwRwROzY3PV-qalHBZAaSgGqF8tt2EVqt_70Js_bBd9o1Zmu3cef_xmJdWoYBw4IjkE5fE9_O66I-K8-jp/s1320/7C1A5904-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JEJi0whVLTOtWCAK7ww8und__2mEaUXW2VcS7EVjnxGXzbEowEMUJPJQBwiwRwROzY3PV-qalHBZAaSgGqF8tt2EVqt_70Js_bBd9o1Zmu3cef_xmJdWoYBw4IjkE5fE9_O66I-K8-jp/s320/7C1A5904-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> <span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 28px;">“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” - Steve Jobs talking to Pepsi executive, John Scully.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;">Soda doesn't get much respect. Imagine being a soda, that has been on life support for over thirty years. That is been the fragile life of TaB Soda. For decades it has been awaiting the ax. It finally happened on October 16, 2020. The Coca Cola company axed it along with some other underperforming brands, Although it was not a customer-friendly move, it was understandable, if only because the company would have been justified in killing it long ago, but didn't because they knew there were many devoted fans of the pink can. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;">What made TaB Special was that it was not too sweet. Many sodas are almost unnaturally sweet, but TaB wasn't. When it started in 1963, they used sodium cyclamate to sweeten it, which was later changed to saccharine, and finally, the sweetener was changed to a saccharine/aspartame mixture in 1984. I was actually a fan of the third formula. It was for me an improvement over just using saccharine. But many people especially women, were fans of the less sweet original version as well, after having drunk it for decades. Some folks just didn't like the artificial taste of Diet Coke, which tasted like an aspartame bomb had blown up inside a can. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;">However, by 1984 the end was already preordained, TaB had begun its slow market decline. It's had been superseded in the marketplace by Diet Coke which when introduced in 1982 in the most successful soda product launch of all time. Diet Coke quickly became the third most successful soda brand in the USA, and it competes with regular Pepsi for the second spot. Tab's market share took a quick plunge in the 1980s, but it remained enough of a seller to avoid cancellation for decades. But it always faced dwindling market places. TaB was removed from soda fountains, stopped being sold in international markets, and eventually, 2-liter bottle versions and 16-ounce versions were discontinued leaving only the pink can. TaB sales were down to 3 million cases by 2010, and a million cases or less by the time it was killed. Towards the end, it was removed from entire United States bottling regions. It was finally killed when a can shortage caused by the Covid19 pandemic made lesser soda brands problematic. </span><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;">Soda
companies sometimes keep brands in their portfolio in dormancy to be
brought back later, but any future plans for a return of Tab are not clear.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;">For me, it was a friend, something to look forward to every week, to see if it was on sale, or if it could be found. Others as well were similarly devoted, by increasingly smaller numbers. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 28px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goodbye, Dear friend!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zK2Vqz4Gj14" width="320" youtube-src-id="zK2Vqz4Gj14"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 28px;">1979 TaB TV commericial. </span></span></div><p><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 28px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="kepler-std, Georgia, Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 28px;"><br /></span></p>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-59925939942456850012020-09-07T08:20:00.013-07:002021-03-12T18:14:41.776-08:00Famous songs that were not big hits.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6sucic5wGLmnFC9FhOftIySnBzTD1lHM_rjRpSIQ2Gd0dmkY32uO7bpJgBOCkDfns7QtwNoEcy-LLmurEEcrwhzrkNXnsE8qqYDiEryR0br9JvsFJR_ob_w2HSnyOEoI7mwDBJtjNk7t/s1100/894b2ea1e613afe7d97a17e3f4ab756b9d-29-led-zep.rhorizontal.w1100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="1100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6sucic5wGLmnFC9FhOftIySnBzTD1lHM_rjRpSIQ2Gd0dmkY32uO7bpJgBOCkDfns7QtwNoEcy-LLmurEEcrwhzrkNXnsE8qqYDiEryR0br9JvsFJR_ob_w2HSnyOEoI7mwDBJtjNk7t/s320/894b2ea1e613afe7d97a17e3f4ab756b9d-29-led-zep.rhorizontal.w1100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Sometimes songs are not big hits at first. There are four reasons for this. 1. The group is not yet well known and the song does make it the initial impact it deserves. 2. The song was not released as a single purposely in attempt to increase album sales. 3. The song was not a chart hit because the chart rules of the time. 4. The song simply finds it´s audience over time and becomes a radio favorite. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QkF3oxziUI4" width="320" youtube-src-id="QkF3oxziUI4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The most famous song to not be released as a single, is ¨Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The group preferred album sales, and a seven minute song by a hard rock group was not likely to played on top 40 radio in any case. Only six Led Zeppelin´s classics were hit singles, in the USA and they never had a UK hit single during the 1970´s because they did not release singles in the UK. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D0W1v0kOELA" width="320" youtube-src-id="D0W1v0kOELA"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>¨Freebird¨ - Lynyrd Skynyrd´s 1974 rock anthem, was only a #19 hit at the time- probably due to it´s length,. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L9srmft6STc" width="320" youtube-src-id="L9srmft6STc"></iframe></div><br /><div>It is a little more inexplicable that the shorter Aerosmith anthem, ¨Dream On¨ was not a major hit when it was initially released in 1973. Aerosmith did not end up hitting the top 40 till the song ¨Sweet Emotion came out in 1975. However, that exposure enabled ¨Dream On¨ to be reissued and it finally become a big hit single in early 1976. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Another album orientated artist not to have a top 15 hit, in the USA was Jimi Hendrix, though his songs did become top hits in England. Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath have never had a top 40 hit. Metallica had only two top twenty hits in the USA, though did have more then a dozen songs reach the top 100, and about twenty songs that were major hits on various international charts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes though, Album Orientated Rock songs do actually become major hits. The Deep Purple classic, ¨Smoke On the Water ¨ actually hit #4 in the USA, but it was not a top ten hit in the UK. </div><div><br /></div><div>Highly successful country artists sometimes do not get played as much on top 40 radio. Garth Brooks never has had a pop radio hit under his own name. Hank Williams only had two minor hits, Keith Urban has never had top ten pop hit. </div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KQetemT1sWc" width="320" youtube-src-id="KQetemT1sWc"></iframe></div><br /><div> The Beatles achieved airplay for numerous songs that were not released as singles in either the UK and or the USA. The Beatles usually never released more then one album track as a single in the United Kingdom, and in the cases, of the<b><i> Sgt.Pepper </i></b>and the <b><i>White</i></b> albums no singles were released at all. Among the Beatles songs that were not released initially as singles in either the United Kingdom or the USA are ¨Michelle¨, ¨In My Life ¨, ¨Norwegian Wood¨, ¨Here There and Everywhere¨ ¨With a Little Help From My Friends.¨ ¨Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds¨, ¨A Day in the Life¨ ¨Fool On the Hill¨, ¨Back In The USSR¨, ¨While My Guitar Gently Weeps¨, and ¨Here Comes The Sun". In addition, ¨Yesterday¨, ¨Twist and Shout¨ and ¨Long and Winding Road¨were only released in the United States as singles during their initial release periods. </div><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TR3Vdo5etCQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="TR3Vdo5etCQ"></iframe></div><br /><p>In 1996, physical singles sales were slowing down , while full length album sales were at their peak, this resulted in some songs not being released as physical singles but still getting a lot of airplay. ¨Don´t Speak¨ by No Doubt was one of those songs. </p><p><br /></p></div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-87843135552041588212020-08-27T15:49:00.000-07:002020-08-28T08:22:43.133-07:00Who were the signers of the Declaration of Independence and who were the signers of the U.S. Constitution?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> John Adams</b>,<b> Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock </b>were signers of the Declaration of Independence . <b> George Washington</b>,<b> James Madison, Alexander Hamilton</b> and <b>Benjamin Franklin </b>were signers for the Constitution. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white;">Washington was serving as the Commander of the Continental Army in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was being prepared, and was not present at the creation. The more youthful, Madison and Hamilton were not members of the Continental Congress at the time. The Declaration of Independence was prepared by the 2nd continental congress working in Philadelphia. John Hancock was the president of the body-which partly explains why he signed his name much larger then the others. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">The document itself was drafted by a committee made up of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">A second committee, the Committee of Style Arrangement was responsible for the final draft. That committee included Alexander Hamilton of New York, William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, Rufus King of Massachusetts, James Madison of Virginia, and Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania It is said that Gouvenour Morris is responsible for the phrase "we the people" . Hamilton, Madison and John Jay were responsible for the Federalist Papers a series of essays , that explained and defended the constitution. Madison later was the primary writer of the Bill of Rights, which were the first ten amendments to the constitution which were written in 1789. Because of Madison's key role -he is typically labeled as the father of constitution. </span></span><br />
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One of the drawbacks of being a member of a group with multiple songwriters is that sometimes there is not room on albums for all the songs you write. However, that means that is always going to be material to bring out of the drawer, when you are looking for material for a new project. Few artists have gone to that mythical song drawer as much as Stevie Nicks has. She has released over 40 of these drawer songs that she finished years after she wrote them. She even released a whole album of new versions of mostly old unreleased songs called <b><i>24 Karat Gold</i></b> in 2014. The advantage of the later versions is that they are often more polished, the earlier demo versions benefit from having Stevie's younger, richer voice. </div>
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This list does not include Stevie Nicks songs recorded during album sessions (such as "Violet and Blue") that were released unaltered soon afterwards on soundtrack albums or B-sides, nor does it include unreleased songs that she has not gotten around to releasing or recording yet. (Note: As I am not a Stevie Nicks expert, this list may be incomplete)</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>"Cathouse Blues" </b><i>was written in 1969 not recorded til 2014'</i><b style="font-style: italic;">s 24 Karat Gold.</b></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"</span><b style="font-size: 14px;">Candlebright</b><span style="font-size: 14px;">" (also known as "<b>Nomad" </b>) The song was recorded by Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in demo form, and was almost used on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album</span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"> Instead it was not used till 2001's <i><b>T</b></i><i><b>rouble in Shangri-La.</b></i></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"I Don't Want to Know". </b> Written during the Buckingham Nicks era, and performed live during that time. It was dragged up for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 <b><i>Rumours</i></b> album as a replacement for <b>"Silver Springs"</b>, a better song which unfortunately was too long to fit on the album. </li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Lady" </b>(Also known as<b> </b>"<b>Knocking On Doors") </b>was written in the early 1970's and finally recorded on<b> <i>24 Karat Gold</i>.</b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Without You'</b> -a Buckingham Nicks song that did not see release til it was recorded in a new version for the 2013 Fleetwood Mac digital EP, <b><i>Extended Play.</i></b> This record was the last recordings made by Stevie Nicks with Lindsey Buckingham.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"That's All Right "</b> used on 1982's Fleetwood Mac album, <b><i>Mirage</i>.</b> It was written in 1974 during the Buckingham-Nicks era, and intended for their never made second album.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Crystal" </b>Released on <b><i>Buckingham Nicks</i> </b>but recorded again for the 1975 <b><i>Fleetwood Mac</i></b> album, and recorded yet again by Stevie Nicks for the 1998 <b><i>Practical Magic</i></b> soundtrack album.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Sorcerer</b>" also dates back to the "Buckingham-Nicks" era and was recorded by them as a demo, as well as being performed on the subsequent tour. It was also considered for some Fleetwood Mac projects, in particular 1979's <b><i>Tusk</i>,</b> <i> it was given to </i>Marilyn Martin to record in 1984 for the <b><i>Streets of Fire</i></b> soundtrack. It was also recorded for album <b style="font-style: italic;">"The Wild Heart"</b><i>- and released as a bonus track for a 2016 reissue of that album. "Sorcerer" was finally was recorded and released by Stevie Nicks in an excellent version produced by Sheryl Crow for the 2001 </i><b><i>Trouble in Shangri-La</i> </b><i>album.</i></li>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Think About It' </b>written around 1974, considered for <b><i>Rumours</i></b>, but recorded for <b><i>Bella Donna</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>The Highwayman"</b> written around 1975, but recorded for <b><i>Bella Donna.</i></b></li>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>After the Glitter Fades" </b> Said to be written in 1975, but finally used on 1981's <b><i>Bella Donna.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Planets of the Universe</b>" was written during the <i><b>Rumours</b></i> period while Nicks and Buckingham were separating, which was Nicks' inspiration for the song. A rough demo (performed by<b> </b>Fleetwood Mac) ended up on the remastered and expanded release of <b><i>Rumours</i> </b>in 2004. Nicks chose to include a edited version of the song on <i><b>Trouble in Shangri-La</b></i>, omitting a verse . The full-length 2001 version of this song, with the extra verse (as originally demo-ed on the expanded release of <i><b>Rumours</b></i>), did appear on a 6 track single release in late 2001.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>If You Ever Did You Believe</b>" started as in 1976 as a coda to <b>"The Chain"</b> , it was first released as independent song given to Louise Goffin in 1981. It was finally used by Stevie Nicks in a version recorded with Sheryl Crow for the 1998 <b><i>Practical Magic</i></b> soundtrack album.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Secret Love"</b> wrote the song in 1976 and recorded a demo for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, <b><i>Rumours</i>,</b> but was not finished and released until the <b><i>In Your Dreams </i></b>album in 2011.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Silver Springs" </b>was recorded for <i><b>Rumours</b></i> in 1977 and released as a B-side, but found commercial success in a new live version recorded for 1996 Fleetwood Mac album <b><i>The Dance.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Dealer" </b>written for <b>Tusk, </b>tried for <b> Bella Donna </b>but not used until a new version on <b>24 Karat Gold.</b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Blue Water" </b>written in 1978 but finally recorded for<b> <i>24 Karat Gold</i>.</b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"How Still My Love" </b>written in 1979 but recorded fo<b>r <i>Bella Donna.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Belle Fleur" </b>written in 1979<b>, </b>considered for <b><i>Bella Donna</i> </b>but not used<b> </b>till<b> </b><b><i>24 Karat Gold</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Smile at You" </b>was written for <b><i>Tusk</i> </b>but not finished until 2003's <b><i>Say You Will.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b> "Fireflies"</b> recorded during the<b> <i>Tusk</i> </b>sessions,<b> </b>but not used and released instead in live version on the<b> <i>Fleetwood Mac Live</i> a</b>lbum in 1980.</li>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b> "If You Were My Love", </b> considered for <b><i>Bella Donna </i></b>and recorded for<b> <i>Mirage</i> </b>but not used until 2014's <b>24 Karat Gold.</b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Starshine" </b>written and demoed in 1980 but not released til the <b><i>24 Karat Gold</i> </b>version.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"24 Karat Gold" </b>was recorded in 1980 as demo for <b><i>Bella Donna</i> b</b>ut not used till <b>24 Karat Gold </b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b> "I Don't Care" </b>written in 1981<b>, f</b>inally recorded for <b><i>24 Karat Gold</i>.</b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Watch Chain"</b> written in 1981<b>, </b>finally recorded for <b><i>24 Karat Gold</i>. </b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> <b>"Wild Heart' </b>was written in a early version in 1981 but finished for the 1983 album<b> </b><i><b>The</b></i><b> <i>Wild Heart.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Gypsy "</b> written for the her own <b>Bella Donna</b> album but held back and used on 1982's Fleetwood Mac album, <b>Mirage. </b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>All The Beautiful Worlds" </b>written in 1982, finally recorded for <b><i>24 Karat Gold.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"She Still Loves Him"</b> written with Mark Knopfler in 1984,finally recorded for <b><i>24 Karat Gold</i></b>.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Destiny" </b>was demoed in 1983 for <b><i>The Wild Heart </i></b>but not used until the <b><i>Street Angel </i></b>album</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Mabel Normand"</b> was written in 1984, but not recorded til <b>24 Karat Gold</b>.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> <b>"Running Through the Garden" </b>written but not used for "1985's <b><i>Rock A Little</i> </b> would resurface in completed form in 2003 on the Fleetwood Mac album <b><i>Say You Will</i>.</b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Reconsider Me"</b> is a song by Warren Zevon that was recorded originally for 1995's <b><i>Rock a Little</i></b> but not used and rerecorded for the <b><i>Enchanted </i></b>box set. </li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Thousand Days"</b> recorded for <b><i>Rock A Little </i></b>, not used then recorded again for <b><i>Street Angel</i></b>, but only released as a B-side. It appears on the <b><i>Enchanted</i> </b>box set.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Greta" </b>considered for <b><i>Rock a Little</i></b> were recorded for her 1994 album, <i><b>Street Angel.</b></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>"Love Is Like A River" </b>considered for Rock A Little , was used for, <b><i>Street Angel</i></b>.</li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> The 1987 Fleetwood Mac B-side <b>"Book of Miracles"</b> is<b> </b>an earlier, instrumental version of the song <b>"Juliet"</b> from 1989's <b><i>Other Side of the Mirror .</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> <b>“Ooh My Love”</b> had been demo-ed for 1987 <i><b>Tango in the Night</b></i> but was ultimately shelved and rerecorded for 1989's <b><i>Other Side of the Mirror.</i></b></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<b>Hard Advice"</b> was written in 1995 but not used until <b>24 Karat Gold</b></li>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>THESE ARE THE ALBUMS THESE SONGS APPEAR</i></b><b><i> </i></b></li>
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Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-46153462947597293982020-08-13T22:52:00.003-07:002023-06-16T21:40:44.017-07:00The Seekers -Australia's first internationally successful musical group...<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The Seekers</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> are an Australian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Folk music">folk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">-influenced </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pop music">pop</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartet" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Quartet">quartet</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, originally formed in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. The group featured lead singer, Judith Durham, and singers/instrumentalists </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athol_Guy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Athol Guy">Athol Guy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Double bass">double bass</a> and impossibly cool thick black rimmed glasses<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Potger" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Keith Potger">Keith Potger</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-string_guitar" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Twelve-string guitar">twelve-string guitar</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Woodley" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bruce Woodley">Bruce Woodley</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Guitar">guitar</a> and occasional songwriting. </span><br />
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<b><i>Clockwise: Judith Durham, Keith Potger, and Bruce Woodley, and Athol Guy (in glasses)</i></b>.<br />
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Their sound was folk pop in the vein of the Weavers and Peter, Paul, Mary, though Durham had a one of kind voice, that didn't easily fit into one genre. What made them stand out was the amazing blend of three guy voices with the one girl voice, providing a powerful vocal sound that could not achieved by the girl alone, or by the guys without Judith.<br />
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The Seekers came to Britain by boat in 1964, and they eventually met up with Tom Springfield (the brother of the legendary Dusty Springfield) who wrote their first hit, "I'll Never Find Another You" as well as most of the Seekers' other hits. "I'll Never Find Another You" was a surprise hit in all the English speaking record markets. It went to number 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1965.<br />
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At the peak of the career they were highly successful on TV, where they provided a safe family friendly alternative to the rock acts of the time. Here are they are doing a original Paul Simon song. (Bruce Woodley wrote two songs with Paul Simon, "Cloudy" and "Red Rubber Ball" which was a hit by the Cyrkle).<br />
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In 1965-1967 the group continued to be surprisingly successful. Most notably on the British , and the Australian charts. The last of their big hits was the theme to the movie, "Georgy Girl", a song co-written by Tom Springfield and actor Jim Dale, later known for the musical, <i><b>Barnum,</b> </i>and as a pop singer<b>.</b><br />
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Despite, this success lead singer, Judith Durham was not a happy in the group, and shocked the group with her decision to leave in 1968. The group disbanded at this point, in a move that made little commercial sense. Judith pursued a solo career, Athol Guy, a TV career, Bruce Woodley continued to work in music, and Keith Potger founded but was not a member of the highly successful British singing group, The New Seekers (who had no other connection with original Seekers.) Their biggest hit was "I Like to Teach the World to Sing".<br />
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Eventually in 1975, the three guys (Keith, Bruce, and Athol) reformed the original Seekers with new female singers, ultimately four women different women would fulfill this role, as well three other males members who came into to the groups as various members left, this incarnation of the band worked on and off until finally they managed to get Judith Durham to rejoin in 1992, after 24 years in the wilderness. Since 1992, the group has reunited on occasion for concert tours, and recorded a few albums. Judith Durham died in August 22.<br />
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<b>Rubber Soul </b>was the turning point album in the Beatles catalog. Released in America and the UK on December 3, 1965 it brought them to the point, where it stood on it's own as a work of art, something that at this point had happened rarely in popular music. Almost all of the Beatles previous albums were quite good, but now feeling threatened by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, the Beatles started to up their game considerably. The album is notable for featuring the most accomplished set of John Lennon songs in his recording career. It was also the first Beatles album NOT have the group's name on the front cover, something that also occurred on<b><i> Abbey Road</i></b> and the <b><i>Hey Jude</i></b> compilation album.<br />
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Magically, most of the songs were written and recorded in a short period of time, because the Beatles had been too busy to build a backlog of songs. The album was also recorded over a short period of time in comparison to most of their albums, most of which took considerable studio time over many months (the later albums) or were recorded in quick sessions but over a few months ( their early albums). All but one of the songs for Rubber Soul was recorded between October 12 and November 17, 1965 But unlike other previous Beatles album the recording sessions were not interrupted by tours, film and TV work. and the group was now allowed to stay late in the studio, a practice not allowed at Abbey Road studios before the Beatles. The album was rushed along so as to be in time for the critical Christmas selling period.<br />
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The group had slowly been working away from recording covers of other artists songs on their albums to fill up albums and had been evolving musically quickly both lyrically and musically. Bob Dylan influenced the lyric improvement, and George Martin encouraged their musical eclecticism.<br />
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One of the things that hadn't quite changed at this point was the brevity of their songs, The Beatles, like all acts in the early sixties typically made of point of keeping the running time of all singles under three minutes. For some reason, American radio DJ's balked at playing songs over three minutes. It seems silly now, but this restriction on song length forced songwriters and producers to leave out extraneous stuff, and avoid too much repetition . Thus all but one song on the Beatles hits collection <b><i>The Beatles 1962 -1966 </i></b>is under three minutes. With Lennon and sometimes, McCartney now trying to write intelligent lyrics this put a premium on economical lyrics that somehow told a story quickly and succinctly.<br />
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On<b><i> Rubber Soul</i></b>, The group continued it's experimentation. Up to this point, Multiple lead singers, ballads alternating with rockers; covers of old show tunes and Motown songs had all made Beatles albums a varied experience. George Martin, had a classical background giving him a wide musical vocabulary and skills to draw on , and yet had recorded comedy records, and so was not a snob. Martin was uniquely placed to take advantage of the group's willingness to experiment. On <b><i>Hard Day's Night</i></b> it was the use of a classical guitar on "And I Love Her", on ?"I Feel Fine" John Lennon used guitar feedback, on <b><i>Help</i></b>, they incorporated strings and flutes. But on <b><i>Rubber Soul</i></b>, multiple songs had little sound experiments. The most notable new sound was the sitar in "Norwegian Wood" by George Harrison. The instrument had actually been used in George Martin's instrumental music for parts the <i><b>Help</b></i> soundtrack. But on Rubber Soul, Harrison used the sitar as an exotic guitar like instrument. This was partly because Harrison hadn't quite mastered it the sitar-but partly simply to serve the song. The Beatles generally used to exotic instruments to provide color, not to be a gimmick. Similarly, Greek style music styles were used in "Girl", the French language in "Michelle" and a harpsichord like sounding keyboard on "In My Life". <br />
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As stated before, this in some ways was the zenith of Lennon' career as a Beatle. Perhaps, on no other album, are their so many classic Lennon compositions. Lennon's work on the <b><i>Sgt. Pepper</i></b> sessions comes closet-on Sgt. Pepper he was responsible three great album tracks and one classic non-album single, but two of these four songs were co-written with McCartney. Up through this album, Lennon had been dominant songwriter in the Beatles. In all of the five Beatles British studio albums before this , Lennon had more lead vocals, and more compositions that were predominantly written by him. He also was the primary lead vocalist on more Beatles singles up to this point. This was to change- from 1966 onward, McCartney would never have fewer of his own compositions then Lennon on a Beatles album-and the majority of the remaining Beatles A-Sides would be McCartney vehicles. <br />
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What happened after this point, for Lennon was three things- LSD, Yoko Ono, and McCartney finally growing and exceeding Lennon as a commercial songwriter. The group dynamic in the early part of the career was that Lennon was the leader of the group-but a leader who listened a lot to Paul McCartney. However, by late 1967, McCartney had edged ahead of Lennon to be the driving force in the group partly because Lennon could not bothered to lead and some of the time didn't even care.<br />
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It should be explained that while "Lennon-McCartney" were a songwriting team, but a team that wrote BOTH apart and together. Many of their early singles were written together with them sitting eyeball to eyeball, both contributing -which is reflected in the unison vocals. Typically the primary writer of a Lennon-McCartney song sang the lead vocals. Most of Lennon-McCartney later songs were written separately, but right up to the end of the group they would bring their songs to the other partner to see how he could improve it, by adding a bridge, changing or approving of a word, and helping with a intros and structure. Both Lennon and McCartney were good lyricists and melody writers, though Lennon was a better lyricist, and McCartney a better musician. Working together improved their songs dramatically, because each often writer erased the weaknesses of the other.<br />
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LSD and other later drug use slowed Lennon's productivity, and now having conquered the world, Lennon no longer felt driven by commercial success as much-it was only the competition with McCartney that kept him on his toes. Lennon met Yoko in 1966 and eventually saw a life outside of being a Beatle. McCartney, of course was always doing great work-but it wasn't till 1966's <b><i>Revolver</i></b> album that McCartney composed a group of songs that would be more successful then the songs that Lennon took the lead on. <br />
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For <b>Rubber Soul , </b>John Lennon was the primary writer of "Norwegian Wood", "Nowhere Man", "Girl" and "Run For Your Life" Lennon got help from McCartney on "In My Life". A non-album single- Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out was also recorded during the Rubber Soul sessions to be a stand alone single. "Day Tripper" was mostly written by John" and "We Can Work It Out: was written by Paul with a bridge by John. Finally, there was "What Goes On" a song written for Ringo to sing the album that was the work of Lennon, McCartney and Starr. So Six of the songs Lennon worked on for these sessions are well known Beatles classics. <br />
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For many folks, "In My Life" is the most exquisite non single in the Beatles oeuvre. Lennon clearly wrote the direct but meaningful lyric. It is still disputed how much McCartney helped with melody. It is understandable that each might want to claim the melody.<br />
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McCartney also did some good work on the sessions. His "Michelle" is smarmy, but is one of the most performed and played of the Beatles songs despite having only been released as a single outside the US and the UK. McCartney was the primary writer of "Drive My Car" the latest in a serious of fast, upbeat "beat music" songs that would dominate the Beatles songs up to this point, til the final one-"Paperback Writer" in 1966. McCartney's other songs were the acoustic number -"I'm Looking Through You" the beat number "Wait" and "You Won't See Me' which later became an American hit in a what was actually a better version by Ann Murray.<br />
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George Harrison was given space for two of his songs-the mediocre but lyrical "Think for Yourself" and the Byrd's inspired "If I Needed Someone".<br />
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In total 16 songs were finished in <b>Rubber Soul</b> sessions. The song "Wait" had been started during the Help sessions, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but finishe</span>d during the Rubber Soul sessions. Further more , a unfinished song called "12 bar Blues" was recorded, as well as alternative different versions of "Norwegian Wood" and "I'm Looking through You". These three rarities showed up on the second<b><i> Anthology </i></b>collection in 1996.<br />
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A different version of "Rubber Soul" album was released in the USA market, due to their American's label habit of having ten to twelve tracks on a album instead of the British standard of fourteen songs. Thus, between 1964 and 1966 the US label released 12 Beatles albums instead of the 8 released by the Beatles British label.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The US version of Rubber Soul featured "I've Just Seen A Face" and "It's Only Love" which had been on the British version of Help. The Americans removed <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">four songs from British version of <b><i>Rubber Soul</i></b> – "Drive My Car", "Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone" – all of which were instead issued on the Beatles' next North American album, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Yesterday and Today">Yesterday and Today</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, in June 1966. Still stylistically both versions are similar enough but the American version sounds a little more acoustic then the previous Beatles albums.</span></span><br />
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Drive My Car October 13, 1965</td><td class="tracklist_track_duration" style="color: #444444; padding: 2px 10px 2px 2px; text-align: right; width: 0px;" width="25"></td></tr>
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The Beatles Third Christmas Record November 8, 1965 </td><td class="tracklist_track_duration" style="color: #444444; padding: 2px 10px 2px 2px; text-align: right; width: 0px;" width="25"></td></tr>
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<i>In this post we feature three songs Trio performed for a Dolly Parton special aired in April 1977. Oddly, these three songs were never released on a record by Trio.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This ad hoc trio of female singers emerged out of the friendship between country/rock singers Linda Ronstadt (born in Arizona) and Emmylou Harris (who was a military brat from Alabama). They both agreed that Dolly Parton was their favorite female singer. Dolly was in their mind the real thing. Dolly is an actual Tennessee mountain girl whose voice still carries those roots, despite her glitzy showbiz ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The first time they sang together privately was the early 1970s when the three ladies got together one night at Harris’s residence in Los Angeles. That evening, they found their sound instantly by singing classic country songs by the acts like Carter Family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I called Linda and said, ‘Dolly’s coming over to my house,’” Harris says. “So she got in her little sports car and zipped over. We were delighted to meet each other. It was great. But of course, we were going to sing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I didn’t really know all they knew because I was just getting to know them,” Parton says. “It was just one of those things where you’re like, ‘Oh! What is that sound?’ Even though you know it’s coming out of you, it was just such an amazing thing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It’s a wonderful feeling to just jump into these other voices that you love so much,” Harris says. “The three voices create a fourth voice in a way. … That was another part of the joy. It wasn’t work. You just opened your mouth and sang. After we figured out what songs we wanted to sing, who was going to sing which part, it was just a matter of getting the best version of it in the studio.” (Quotations from ´Trio Brings out the Best in Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt by Lauren Tingle.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although it was clear there was something special in the combination, the trio had trouble making it work professionally. Mainly, their busy solo schedules made it hard for them to devote the six months or more that it would take to make and promote an album or do a tour. However, they did manage to get together for a few songs on various solo albums by each of the ladies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ladies managed to get together publicly for the first time with an amazing appearance on Dolly Parton´s TV show in 1977. The three videos presented here come from that TV show. They perfectly capture the Trio doing the old time country songs that they do best. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> When they did together to finally make an album they found it hard to reproduce the simple spontaneity that one gets singing old country songs in a living room. The first attempt at recording a whole album was aborted, and they did not try again til the 1986, when they finally made a full album and brought it successfully to market in 1987. That album was a major commercial success selling four million copies. Their second album came years later in 1999 and actually sat in the can for four years, waiting for a time that they could all promote it, it was a little less successful. Their final album is a 2016 box set which collects rarities, and the contents of the two studio albums. The group can not sing anymore because Linda Ronstadt lost most of her singing voice due to Parkinson´s disease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was surprised that these three songs were not included on their box set. ¨The Sweetest Gift¨ is a special favorite of mine. Emmylou Harris also sang backing vocals on a solo version of this by Linda Ronstadt and on a version of the same song recorded by the Judds. </span></span></div>
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Written by J.C.Bernhardt, June 2020.Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-31620411945329891172020-06-12T12:10:00.002-07:002020-11-15T20:08:08.175-08:00Doc Martin, a franchise history. WARNING:This article may contain spoilers.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Next up , in 2001, and 2003 were two TV pilot movies, that Martin Clunes´ production company made as spin offs of the movie. Once again, the the village of Port Issac is the real star of the production. These two movies were called </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Doc Martin</b></i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><b><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Doc Martin </i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">and</span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> the Legend of the Cloutie</i></b><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"> These movies reboot Dr. Bamford into a London obstetrician who finds himself in Port Issac after learning that his wife has been cheating on him. The rest of the movie cast is jettisoned, and replaced with new townies. This Dr. Bamford is less giggly then the </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Saving Grace </i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">version, but he remains somewhat personable , but over the course of two movies, he begins to become grumpier. The biggest contrast with the later <b>Doc Martin </b>TV show is that Dr. Bamford has an excellent bedside manner. The TV movie also establishes that Dr.Martin spent summers in Port Issac as a child. These movies feature Scottish actress Neve McIntosh as a possible love interest for Doc Martin but their relationship is never developed . Overall, the TV movies don't quite work as well the later series. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">In September 2004 , the Doc Martin TV show was first aired it introduces his new love interest, in the very first scene. The lady was a teacher named Louisa Glasson, who seems to be the only sane person in town. The port town is now renamed Portwenn for the remaining duration of the show. And it remains the star of the show. But Dr. Martin´s character is transformed from the minimally interesting Dr. Bamford into one of the greatest portrayal´s of social awkwardness ever presented on the small screen, Martin now never smiles, does not engage in small talk, talks briskly and to the point. Over time we learn that Martin is emotionally scarred by unloving parents. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">We also learn that his backstory includes a time where did actually break his emotional barrier once with another doctor, Dr. Edith Montgomery played by Lia Williams. They reunite during one of Martin´s separations from Louisa . Dr. Montgomery is whip smart and abrasive like Martin, you see how he enjoyed being with her, yet there was also a discomfort. The telling moment is we learn that Martin had written her love poetry during their original time together, and that she apparently valued it so much that she couldn't remember where she put it. Ouch. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"> In the first season, the Doc Martin character is such a fish out of water, that he attempts to adjust his attitude ever so slightly so that he does not get thrown out of town. He makes a friend of a male music teacher (who sadly does not remain in the show). However, by the second season, Doc Martin is making no efforts to be friendly to be anybody except his Aunt Joan, who is the only adult who ever loved him as a child and who is the only person he ever lets his guard down for. For the next few seasons, the main plot line is the futile attempts to get Doc Martin and Louisa to get together and stay together. We soon realize that both of them are sabotaging their relationship. And while that happens we get a endless parade of hapless town villagers inflicting themselves on poor Dr. Martin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Very few characters on the show-come off smelling like roses, the writers were not afraid to make characters seem selfish and vain. But at the same time, the characters are generally likable. Ian McNeice's Bert Large character is often given considerable depth-you see over time how much he really loves his son, and how much respect he has for Louisa Glasson. Mrs. Tishell, the character who has a unrequited obsession with Doc Martin is allowed to show that she loved her absent husband. The put upon silly policeman are at least on a few occasions allowed to exhibit some minimal competence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Most importantly, and most interestingly, Doc Martin is allowed to grow ever so slightly. Doc Martin always hated the stray dogs that would not let him be, to the point where he was going to have one of them , a dog named Buddy put down. But instead he ends up taking the dog in for the good of his son and wife, and though he still dislikes the dog, later in the series he finds himself helping to save the dog , when the vet who is caring for him cannot see. At the end of the episode, Martin complements the dog on his bravery in surgery, a unprecedented act of humanity for Doc Martin. </span></div>
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Who will win the White House in 2020? Let us see what the Keys to White House tell us....<b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2px;"> Allan Lichtman developed a method for determining who will win the presidency in his book, </i><u><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2px;">The Keys to the White Hous<i>e.</i></span></u></b><br />
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According to the Wikipedia summary-<br />
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"The Keys are based on the theory that that presidential election results turn primarily on the performance of the party controlling the White House and that campaigning by challenging or incumbent-party candidates will have no impact on results. According to this theory, a pragmatic American electorate chooses a president based on the performance of the party holding the White House as measured by the consequential events and episodes of a term - economic boom and bust, foreign policy successes and failures, social unrest, scandal, and policy innovation."<br />
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So basically whatever candidates do has little effect. The result will be the same.<br />
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The Keys are statements that favor the re election of the incumbent party. When five or fewer statements are false, the incumbent party wins. When six or more are false, the challenging party wins. I scored here whether or not they were True or False..<br />
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<li>Party Mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections. FALSE , Republicans lost in the House </li>
<li>Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination. TRUE, Trump has no viable opposition.</li>
<li>Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president. TRUE, Trump is an incumbent,</li>
<li>Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign. TRUE</li>
<li>Short term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign. FALSE</li>
<li>Long term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms. FALSE Growth did exceed the previous terms till recently, but it is now dropping badly </li>
<li>Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy. FALSE</li>
<li>Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term. FALSE.</li>
<li>Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal. FALSE, Trump was impeached</li>
<li>Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs. TRUE</li>
<li>Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs. FALSE.</li>
<li>Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero. TRUE is liked by his base. </li>
<li>Challenger charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero. TRUE... Joe Biden is not a national hero...</li>
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So that's how I scored it....Seven FALSE Things for President Trump. According to this model TRUMP will lose. However, some of the keys are tossup. According to Lichtmann himself, the election is still to close to call .<br />
The model most times is pretty clear cut.. The model explained why George W. Bush got reelected in 2004, and why his father, George H.W.Bush did not get reelected in 1992. Indeed the formula has predicted the popular vote for every election since 1860.<br />
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Here is an article talking about the author's feel about 2020.<br />
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<span id="goog_316349509"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_316349510"></span><a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/07/professor-renowned-for-predicting-elections-says-2020-too-close-to-call/">https://nypost.com/2019/12/07/professor-renowned-for-predicting-elections-says-2020-too-close-to-call/</a><br />
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Here's a link to article in the New York Times that has more discussion of the Keys.<br />
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<a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/despite-keys-obama-is-no-lock/">http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/despite-keys-obama-is-no-lock/</a><br />
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<br />Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-14426533967000064442019-05-12T12:01:00.000-07:002020-08-16T10:23:09.013-07:00Taylor Swift Steps Out to the Combination Taco Bell/KFC/Pizza Hut!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>Let's look on a scene from Taylor Swift's mansion . Taylor is talking to Bill, her new head of security.</i><br />
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"Look, Harry ..I need to talk to you! said Taylor Swift<br />
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"It's Bill, Ma'am" said her security guard.<br />
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"I am miss not a ma'am. Anyway, Bill- I need to get out of here. I need to be alone. No guards!"<br />
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"Miss Swift, I wouldn't recommend going out alone. We wouldn't want anyone out there touching things they shouldn't be touching."<br />
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"I'll be O.K"<br />
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"Are you sure? You don't even want to bring your squad? I hear that Lorde is around", said Bill.<br />
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"Don't worry I will go in disquise. I have got this covered."<br />
Taylor slipped away to her dressing room and was back in a flash with new makeup, new curly hair, demure dress, and an acoustic guitar."What do you think, Bill"<br />
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"I don't get it, Miss Swift."<br />
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"It's me from my country music period."<br />
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"Your what? "<br />
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"Bill, you don't remember my country music period? "<br />
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"I don't follow the music scene. The agency that hired me wanted nobody who could turn out secretly to be a crazed fan."<br />
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"Well, Bill I was really big in country music when I started. Back then I looked like this! " Taylor dramatically turned around in around with her made up squinty eyes and now curly hair.<br />
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"But , Miss you still you look you."<br />
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"Do I. Well, of course I look like me, I'm the same girl I used to be." She broke into song as she headed to the front door.<br />
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"Bill, could you have somebody bring up my old beaten up Escalade. "said Taylor.<br />
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"Yes, miss. Can you at least tell me where you are going?" said Bill.<br />
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So, the world's biggest popstar took a spin around town to check out L.A.'s new combination KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell. Taylor was going to go inside-but at the last minute chickened out.<br />
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"Welcome to the New High Tech Pizza Bell (sic). Can I take your order?" said Alejandro-the drive through cashier.<br />
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Taylor cracked her window just a smidge and disguised her voice into a country twang.-"Yes -hon, I would like the 5 dollar fillup with the free Grand opening Diet Pepsi special."<br />
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"Need any sauce with that?"<br />
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"No- just some salt."<br />
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"That will be $343.20. Pull on Up" said the Alejandro, the cashier.<br />
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"$343.20 !! Damn dude -Are you on something?" Taylor's Southern accent was gone.<br />
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"M'aam you are Katy Perry-the pop star are you not? "<br />
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Taylor Swift nearly died.<br />
"Oh-no. Oh-no-no-no!" said Taylor as she shook her head. <br />
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The cashier started talking to Juana, the manager, "Juana -didn't you say that was somebody famous in my driveup? I think it's Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or somebody-they have a fancy truck with gold plated chrome-but I can't see who they are beneath all the tint."<br />
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"Yes. Alejandro that is a celebrity. Look at your customer screen -it will tell you who it is.<br />
Remember , our new system recognizes the customers before they come up through advanced facial recognition."<br />
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"I'm sorry Juana, I don't get this new system. Let me look. Oh I see it now it says T-a--s-w-I-f-t. What's that? I don't get it."<br />
Taylor brook into the training session, "Look dude, could you just get the manager to come over here-!"<br />
Juana, the manager ran over. "Good afternoon Mrs. Swift, I'm Juana. Welcome to the new High Tech Pizza Hut/KFC/Taco Bell!"<br />
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"How is it your charging me 343.20 dollars?" asked Taylor.<br />
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"Yes that's our new California mandated Equity pricing. Everybody pays what they can afford.We charged you 5.00 plus 150.00 for the equity price."<br />
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"But then it should only be $155.00? said Taylor.<br />
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Juana looked at the screen-"Yes, I see that there is also the scalper's markup that's an additional $145.00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_1NCMAImYFDNoqXCKA4R-FYhrkmMazgdRgvpr6e7EQAxHWiJacxJfy5dreXjHoCkhkVuvTFxHiY7RSRIGI8teg44xgfzHpPqYt4uVV4q4M5VRIuwpVFsqHPn0gzH_wgjol4Xax1f_59-/s1600/GUEST_4230b78e-ed8f-44b4-b9f1-0cc2b2f98159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></a> And ... there's the $10 dollar fee for Ticket Master, and the ten dollar facility charge.<br />
Oh and the $23.20 state meal tax. "Actually you made out pretty good-we just had somebody from Big Pharma in here. He had to pay over 12,000.00 dollars."<br />
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"That's outrageous. I'm sorry I will not pay these kind of prices! I will go to McDonalds-they usually comp my meals because they know how lucky they are to have me as a customer."<br />
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"I'm sorry to hear that," said Juana.<br />
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"You should be sorry" said Taylor.<br />
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Alejandro came up and butted his head out of the drive through window. He shoved the classic Katy Perry CD- <b>Teenage Dream</b> in Miss Swifts face. "Oh by the way, Miss Perry can I have your autograph-it's for my ailing mother-she's been a big fan of your since "I Kissed A Girl and I Liked it".<br />
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"No-you can't have my autograph. In no universe would I ever be Katy Fucking Perry. GOODBYE!" Taylor Swift ratcheted the offending CD back through the window and sped off.<br />
Alejandro and Juana ducked.<br />
Juana looked down at the customer ID screen-next up was a K.A.P.E.R.R.Y in a pink smart car.<br />
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Originally published May 12, 2019 By J.C.BernhardtFelpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-58907269555876323242019-05-03T21:02:00.000-07:002020-08-16T10:13:18.083-07:00Classic rock acts where you can name all the members.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Certainly it's true that nowadays that you usually can't name all the members of any given band if you are a casual fan of group. I can name the lead singer of Coldplay, of Maroon Five, and of Imagine Dragons but I can't name any of the other members of these bands. I think the last recent group that I can name all the members of would be the Spice Girls and they started up in the last century. <br />
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Back in the height of the classic rock era of the 1960's and 1970's rock fans would be intimately familiar with all the members of a group-even for groups they didn't follow. This started with the Beatles. The whole world can name all the members of the Beatles. Their producer, George Martin originally tried to pick one of the groups members to be main singer of the group-but then he realized it was impossible to pick between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. And yet, despite having two world class talents in one band-Martin would agree to let the two other slightly lesser members of the band -sing lead vocals also. The formula typicall on British Beatles album was to let John and Paul handle ten of the songs, give George two songs, and let Ringo sing one song. George and eventually Ringo also wrote songs. Musically- Paul and John were always stronger and more important-but George and Ringo also contributed greatly to the band. When the Beatles broke up-all the group members all four members had successful solo careers. So this became the model for other classic rock groups . Have some leading members but also have a willingness to let others contribute and also a willingness to give the lesser members the spotlight on occasion.<br />
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The Rolling Stones sort of flouted this idea a little. The group's arrogant leaders, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger wouldn't encourage the other members to sing vocal leads or write songs (partly because the others really didn't have the talent to do so.) But even so all the others would make key musical contributions and on rare occasions they would even help with songwriting (always uncredited!).<br />
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In writing this article- I was wondered which of the group's of this era had the most equally talented band. I think I came to the conclusion that it would be sort of tie between The Who, Led Zeppelin and Queen. The Who's three instrumentalists were all lead players. They had Keith Moon, a lead drummer , John Entwhistle, a lead bassist and Pete Townsend- a lead guitarist. Many of the best moments on Who records came from Keith Moon's antic drumming. Lead singer, Roger Daltry sometimes got lost in all this talent in the early days, but he soon proved to be a virtuoso singer as well. All four sang as well, though Moon only as a novelty singer. The only imbalance in the group was that Townsend wrote most of the group's material (occasionally spelled by Entwhistle).<br />
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Led Zeppelin also had three virtuoso instrumentalists . John Bonham was probably the best rock and roll drummer ever. Jimmy Page was one of the best electric guitarists ever, and John Paul Jones was a solid bassist/ multi-instrumentalist/arranger. None of these three instrumentalists sang very well, so singer Robert Plant had to handle all of lead and most of backing singing by himself-which he did quite well. All four contributed to the songwriting with Page taking the lead musically, and Plant lyrically. Page also produced. Led Zeppelin was a well balanced band.<br />
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Queen might have been a half a step down instrumentally from Led Zeppelin, and The Who-but all four members could write songs individually. They are the only group to have four members individually write a US or UK number one song for their own group. Although lead singer, Freddie Mercury sang most of the lead vocals-Roger Taylor and Brian May also sang. The only imbalance here is that master showman, Freddie Mercury would have stood out in any group of individuals regardless of how talented they were.<br />
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Many other groups of the time- had a similar democrat approach -the Moody Blues had four lead singers and all of the members wrote songs . The only imbalance for the Moodies was that Guitarist Justin Hayward's songs were always a cut above-as were his vocals. This only became a problem for balance in the band when keyboardist and /singer, Mike Pinder left the band at the same time as Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge took on a lesser role. So the band basically became a Justin Hayward/John Lodge vehicle after the 1970's. The same problem occurred with the horn group Chicago. The classic version of this group had three lead singers, as well as multiple successful songwriters, but by the late 1970's one member, Peter Cetera became the group's main singer and songwriter. By the mid eighties, it had become so unbalanced that Cetera left the band to form a solo career.<br />
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What groups could put the most lead singers on the radio? Aside from the forementioned Beatles, the two groups that put the most solo lead vocalists on the radio were the Beach Boys (5) and the Eagles (4). The Beach Boys had a clear leader in the 1960's with vocalist/songwriter/bassist Brian Wilson. But his two brothers, Carl and Dennis, his cousin, Mike Love, and family friend, Al Jardine also all sang solo lead vocals on top ten singles. Another group member, Bruce Johnston also sang on their hits, and Blondie Chaplin ( a later replacement member) sang lead on one of the most notable songs, "Sail On Sailor".<br />
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The Eagles followed the Rolling Stones model of having two dictators running the band. Founding members and so called "Gods". Glenn Frey and Don Henley had a notably bad reputation for mistreating other members-and three of the groups' ultimate total of seven members were run out of the band due to conflict with "The Gods". However, unlike the Rolling Stones, the other guys and the band could not only play their instruments, but they could sing and write songs as well. The Eagles are the only group to have seven different members "really" co-write a top ten hit song. (Some acts give all members credit for writing a song even when they don't play a key role in writing lyrics or melodies.) All seven members sang solo lead vocals on Eagles records ( though Don Felder wasn't a very good singer and only sang one song). Four of the group members sang lead vocals on a top ten hit.<br />
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One other group should mentioned in this conversation. That would be the Temptations-although they were a Soul/pop group and not a rock group they operated during the same era and were notable for having a number of great vocalists in their lineup. The group had two main lead singers in their classic 1960's lineup -David Ruffin, and Eddie Kendricks both of whom sang lead on many classic recordings. When Ruffin left the group he was replaced by a another lead singer, Dennis Edward. When Dennis Edwards joined the group started recording a number of songs (such as "Cloud Nine)" that would feature solo spotlights for all the members of the group all on one recording-usually these recordings had Edward doing the main lead vocal. Thus another five members of the group would end up being heard singing solo leads on their songs throughout the seventies. Finally, a ninth member of the Temptations-Ali -Ollie Woodson would sing on two later hits. Thus the Temptations are probably the group that had the most different vocalist sing a solo lead on a top 40 record.<br />
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Some other groups where many people can name all the original members are the Police, Pink Floyd, CSNY, Cream, CCR, The Band, the Bee Gees, the Mamas and the Papas, the Clash, Traffic, R.E.M, Rush, Kiss, Nirvana, Journey, Yes, The Cars, Deep Purple and Journey.<br />
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Published may 2019Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213859911386846658.post-2731106986665104922019-04-24T16:43:00.001-07:002022-06-29T21:50:41.851-07:00FANNY- AIN'T THAT PECULIAR.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a 1972 BBC TV performance by the American band, Fanny. Fanny is said to be the first all female rock group to hit the American Top 40. As you can see these ladies can really play-and even today rank as the one of the best female rock combos. The group's Philippine born guitarist (June Millingon) is top notch on her instrument. Her sister, Jean Millington played bass, Nickey Barclay played keyboards, and Alice du Buhr is in back on the drums.<br />
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Their first album came out in 1970, they had been picked up for Reprise records by renowned producer, Richard Perry, who had been looking for a female band to produce. He dropped the group's original lead singer, which forced the group to divvy up the vocals amongst all the members. Like many other people I can't say I that ever recall having heard of this group before now-though perhaps I heard the name before. Why didn't the become more renown? Well- not having a really world class singer (like say Ann Wilson of Heart) or a great songwriter (like say Joni Mitchell) in their band probably sealed their fate. Having a stand out commercial hit song has always been the key to getting on the radio. But they never hit it big-and two groups-the Runaways and the Go-Go's generally are publicly recognized as the first major successful all female rock bands. They may have never made it big but most of their material is pretty solid-and I recommend checking them out.<br />
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A Buffalo Springfield cover.. called "Special Care"...<br />
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And this lastly, "Summer Song"<br />
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(Published March 2, 2019 by J.C.Bernhardt)<br />
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<a href="http://www.thatdevilmusic.com/2015/07/cd-review-fannys-fanny-hill-1972.html">Review of Fanny Hill</a> From That Devil Music blog<br />
<a href="http://www.fannyrocks.com/">Fanny rocks-official site</a><br />
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Originally posted March 2019 by J.C.Bernhardt</div>Felpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12915290290735739432noreply@blogger.com0