Friday, May 18, 2012
Helen O'Connell - Star Eyes.
hoping someone will find this song to be great for their voice...would love to see this back playing on the airwaves all day..
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra & Chorus - So Rare (Original)
When I first heard this song I thought how wonderful it was, little did I know it was the swan song for the big bands...??? Isn't it wonderful!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Angel Eyes
You can melt into this version of course with the great Frank Sinatra, and fantastic Nelson Riddle. It reaches down deep inside, a brave hesitant version....
This Time The Dreams On Me
Comparing, Julie London 's voice and arrangement to suit her voice, she gets an A, while June Christy gets an A for this arrangment
Julie London Angel Eyes
Her husky voice always made me think of Chris Connor, this is probably another song for K.D. Lang
Moanin' Low - Harry James. From 'Young Man with a Horn' (1950)
Harry James, wow, this song fits his style.
Billie Holiday - Moanin' Low
today, I was thinking of this song....wonder if K. D. Lang would fit this song...???
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Imelda May Band - How High The Moon
In Framingham , Mass, we would go to the Wellworth and play this song on the jukebox, with all the other great music of the 50's...did you know....we where the first Teens....as we know teens today....after the war, everything blossomed including teenagers...with cars!
Jeff Beck & Imelda May - Vaya Con Dios
what a nice tribute to Les Paul and Mary Ford, they gave us so much enjoyment!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Anne Murray - Rain
Jose Feliciano does this very well, but, I happen to like Anne Murray's voice for this song. It is just an example of picking songs for your voice.
Jose Feliciano - Since I Fell For You
Love the song and love his version of it, not everyone fits every song but this is right for him. Time to bring this song back, with a beautiful arrangement and a great singer.
Whispering Grass - Gene Miller and The Ink Spots
Interesting, the arrangement is different , is it a different band, or just experimenting with a different version?
The Platters - WHISPERING GRASS by Paul Roby
Nice version by the Platters, this reminds me to Billie Eckstein
The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass, 1940
Great time to release a version of this again, now that everyone is falling in love with it because of the Dow Commercial....it is a wonderful song.
The Vidal Brothers -Oldies Medley: Blue Moon, We Belong Together
This is a great version , Doo Wop style.
Mel Torme - Blue Moon
Can't resist, this is one of my very favorties...slow, with pauses, that call for the next note....it showcases his voice, it resonates with music lovers, the horn sound is gentle, the orchestra is a gentle waterfall of melody, nice arrangment. but, then Mel Torme was always one of my favorite singers, he could do no wrong.
Steve and Mel Tormé Scat Duo
Teaming up is good...this is great, Steve and his Dad, one of the greatest, Mel Torme
Moonglow / Theme From Picnic By Morris Stoloff
This is one of the best mashups, ever...a good singer has to find the right arranger for his voice, someone that can hear the the mashup songs...some one that can guide the singer. My best example is Frank Sinatra, before and after Nelson Riddle. Any Winehouse with her band...grab that band!
Eminem - "Lose Yourself" Official Music Video
Turn around the rap lyrics and use the beat...that is the key, can we do it!
Taylor Swift - Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and Uncle Kracker's "Smile" Gran...
Eminem has great virtuosity, and I would like to see him take his creativity to mash up with some outstanding non rap artists...Taylor could have really hit it, using Eminem behind a song that fits it...
Andrea Bocelli -Solamente Una Vez-
Andrea is true to his inner rhythm, no matter what he sings, in Italian, or otherwise. You Belong to My Heart, the English title might be a hit for someone today, the song is incredibly beautiful.
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano (Doors)
this morning I am focusing on musicians with sight disability, because they are great artists and they exemplify their inner harmony and rhythm so easy. Blind lead the blind, isn't it true? Jose Feliciano just does it for me in all his recordings....doesn't he reach you...?
STEVIE WONDER- ISN'T SHE LOVELY
This song blew me away when it hit the air ....listen to the inner beat, harmony and love in this from the vocals to the melody. It is true artistry on display, simple beat, simple melody he is on track with this song.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Ray Charles
Our senses are so important, that when a person can not see they become more attuned to sound. Ray Charles, is an example of pacing, that does not kill a song, but rather lets it long for the next note...think about it...and listen to the pacing.
Lionel Richie "Tuskegee" Album Teaser (Out 3/26/12)
I love what I heard of this on Fox and Friends First, today. His choice of singing duets, and his voice. He is comfortable in his shoes.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
Monday, May 14, 2012
Moonglow--Jimmy Forrest
You can tell he is comfortable, and you can hear his inner rhythm, listen to more...I have posted his Night Train before, he is consistent with his inner beat....
The Great Caruso, Ave Maria Gounod
Gorgeous , lush singing, even if you don't believe..... this song should make you feel like it could be true, that we are spirtiual beings practicing learning love in all its many facets, on earth.
Mario Lanza Because
when Mario Lanza ruled the airwaves with his magnificent voice, everyone sang along with songs like this....we hummed and sang this song for months, and maybe years...
Mario Lanza - Be My Love
It was 1950 and this song swept thru the airwaves, playing all day on the radio...Mom's sang it with their Victrolas playing over and over.....just as the songs of today ripple through society. Imagine the grandeur of this song, the voice was spectacular, who can do this for us today?
James Torme "Rock With You"
I want to see James Torme make it. When you have a father who is fabulous to follow, you have to find your own place, and this is a beginning. I think you need to keep trying different sounds, you are getting there. Notice in this version the voice is similar to Michael Jackson, not because it is Michaels song, but the timbre and the pitch are similar....try more songs that lend themselves to that sound, or try something like Unforgettable ...with Natalie and Nat King Cole....or try Etta James, At Last, try singing with Tony Bennett... I happen to like KD. Lang best when she sings with Tony Bennett...try Blue Moon with them. Love to see you become as big as Mel Torme. Rooting for you. Hope you don't mind my crazy ideas!
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Santana - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
This is one of my favorite songs by George Harrison, in this version, I like the sound of Yo Yo Ma with the guitar
To Heaven and Back
To Heaven and Back, by Dr. Mary C. Neal, MD
I sympathize with Dr. Neal, I read some of the reviews so I could see if it was troublesome to some reviewers. It is difficult to write about a miraculous happening, because it is often looked at as an untrue account, or an account that leaves suspicion, as some of the reviews indicate. People find it hard to believe that something like this could happen to another person.
I cried for three days, before I was able to deal with the miraculous event in my life. I too, chose to only talk about it first with family and close friends, then like Dr. Neal felt compelled to write about it. However, I did not have the courage to write about it in a true story, so I buried it in my first novel. I too experienced the click of a shutter, a special light and a sense of being out of time when the miracle occurred.
It had to be difficult for Dr. Neal a doctor to risk her reputation. She was clear in stating that she was not that religious and she was also clear in her commitment to science. I too felt that the liberal slant that came up was not necessary to the story, however, it was and is part of her life.
The important value of this book is that it happened to her, just as it happened to me, and in my case, I had the adventure in a miracle at my Mother's bedside, with a Catholic Nun. All three of us participated in the miracle. So, I speak with a strong voice that I believe Dr. Neal and know that she would not risk her reputation to print a book about something that is not true, to her life.
After something like this happens to you, you automatically know that the voice inside you that told you since a child, that there was more to life than you could see, is the true voice. You do not need to speak for a specific religion, or a specific environmental or political belief, the message is clearly LOVE, as she sees it and as I see it from my experience. If we all know that is the message, we will act appropriately as the thread in the tapestry acts to hold the hologram together. In my case I have come to the belief that light is what contributes to the play we are acting out in matter, all for the growth of LOVE , in our everlasting souls. I appreciated the similarity of light, the click sound and the feeling of knowing LOVE to be the most important. This book could help so many people recognize that their time on earth, each way, in every day, is critical to their personal growth. I highly recommend this book for friends, relatives and neighbors that need a step up the ladder of life.
Madlyn Fafard
Author : Secrets of the Heart
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I cried for three days, before I was able to deal with the miraculous event in my life. I too, chose to only talk about it first with family and close friends, then like Dr. Neal felt compelled to write about it. However, I did not have the courage to write about it in a true story, so I buried it in my first novel. I too experienced the click of a shutter, a special light and a sense of being out of time when the miracle occurred.
It had to be difficult for Dr. Neal a doctor to risk her reputation. She was clear in stating that she was not that religious and she was also clear in her commitment to science. I too felt that the liberal slant that came up was not necessary to the story, however, it was and is part of her life.
The important value of this book is that it happened to her, just as it happened to me, and in my case, I had the adventure in a miracle at my Mother's bedside, with a Catholic Nun. All three of us participated in the miracle. So, I speak with a strong voice that I believe Dr. Neal and know that she would not risk her reputation to print a book about something that is not true, to her life.
After something like this happens to you, you automatically know that the voice inside you that told you since a child, that there was more to life than you could see, is the true voice. You do not need to speak for a specific religion, or a specific environmental or political belief, the message is clearly LOVE, as she sees it and as I see it from my experience. If we all know that is the message, we will act appropriately as the thread in the tapestry acts to hold the hologram together. In my case I have come to the belief that light is what contributes to the play we are acting out in matter, all for the growth of LOVE , in our everlasting souls. I appreciated the similarity of light, the click sound and the feeling of knowing LOVE to be the most important. This book could help so many people recognize that their time on earth, each way, in every day, is critical to their personal growth. I highly recommend this book for friends, relatives and neighbors that need a step up the ladder of life.
Madlyn Fafard
Author : Secrets of the Heart
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1450042058/ref=sib_dp_kd#reader-link
Friday, May 11, 2012
The Egyptian
This was a great movie of the 1950's and I heard a new version is being introduced this year.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
To Infinity and Beyond: BBC Untangles the Most Exponential Mystery | Brain Pickings
To Infinity and Beyond: BBC Untangles the Most Exponential Mystery | Brain Pickings Just imagine, as we look into the Universe we look back in time to lives we have lived and continue to live , hard to imagine?
Here is some reading for a rainy day.
Here is some reading for a rainy day.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Forbidden Discoveries - Ancient Atomic Blast and Aeronautical Science
More and more is being written about aliens and the possibility that an atomic explosion caused the great flood...??? Was it done to repopulate the planet with the correct species? Lots of questions. Watch Ancient Aliens on the History channel History.com
Bert Weedon
Longing to play the guitar, this is where many of the greats learned to play, from Bert Weeden's book, Play in a Day
Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide To Modern Guitar Playing by Bert Weedon (Paperback - Apr 24, 2012)
Get it by Thursday, May 10 if you order in the next 19 hours and choose one-day shipping.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Django Reinhardt J'attendrai Swing
How beautiful, his inner rhythm found in gypsy music, it must be in all of us, because this reaches into our souls....keep looking, listening, find your inner muse....listen to the sounds of the planets on YouTube and ...listen to great artists...
Louis Armstrong - Blue Moon
Love this arrangement by Louis Armstrong, maybe it is something to try...with vocals
tony bennett - night and day
Just thought I would throw in the Tony Bennett version, for good comparisons....KD Lang with Tony Bennett is great, but she needs to find her muse....when she records alone.
Night And Day (Frank Sinatra - 1957 with Lyrics)
Listen to the difference in the presentation , voice and orchestra....
"Night And Day" Frank Sinatra
Frank is great, but, the voice is not resounding.....the Nelson Riddle arrangment makes the whole thing blaze...I will post that next.
Blue Moon - Tony Bennett
Michael Buble, reminds me of a cross between Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra.....wonder if Michael ever did this song....have to look.
Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Slow Version)
As an artist, maybe using this song, to see what you feel when you sing it slow, and when you sing it fast, will help you find your true inner beat... What feels right for you?
Listening to artists and trying to sing in their tempo ...where are you off, are you too slow, too fast, are you behind the beat, or ? What is right for you will come to you as you practice. The change in Frank Sinatra is so tremendous, before Nelson Riddle and after Nelson Riddle...just find the examples for yourself on YouTube, they are so obvious. Personally, I think that Amy Winehouse had a perfect band, and if I was a singer, I would try and work with her band. But, then I am not an expert, I just listen to and love music.
Listening to artists and trying to sing in their tempo ...where are you off, are you too slow, too fast, are you behind the beat, or ? What is right for you will come to you as you practice. The change in Frank Sinatra is so tremendous, before Nelson Riddle and after Nelson Riddle...just find the examples for yourself on YouTube, they are so obvious. Personally, I think that Amy Winehouse had a perfect band, and if I was a singer, I would try and work with her band. But, then I am not an expert, I just listen to and love music.
Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
there are two versions, and you can hear the inner rhythm of Neil in both versions...here is one...
Carly Simon Nobody Does It Better Cover By Marina Berry -'The Spy Who Lo...
Carly Simon, writes and sings songs that are for her, this is the best example of a song for Carly. In side of each of us is an inner rhythm, our senses interpret the world by that rhythm and respond to it, in kind. Another example .listen to Frank Sinatra, before Nelson Riddle, then listen to him with Nelson Riddle, what a difference. Nelson Riddle brought him to the right rhythm. Amy Winehouse, is another example, the band that backed her had the right beat for Amy. Some people know their rhythm, and some people need to have a band find it for them. .
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Beniamino Gigli - Non Ti Scordar Di Me
Here is a rich voice from the past singing this song. Probably one of the best solo male versions of the song.
Pavarotti - Non ti Scordar di me (Central Park Concert)
Great Italian music I learned in my childhood
Parlami d'amore Mariù
In Framingham we had a program called the Italian Hour, run by Pearl Oliva and her father, who founded the program and this was a song that I heard often , as my mother sang along with it on the radio
MANTOVANI - CHARMAINE
Montovani was very popular and deserved it, just listen to the beauty of his presentation here.
Till Then
Once upon a time, I thought that the great groups, the great songs would never die, and maybe they won't ...I noted that they used my favorite ...Whispering Grass, in a train commercial recently
THE CHIMES ONCE IN A WHILE
they had a great hit with this song...and it puts me back in time to my teenage home
Duprees - (It's No) Sin
This was a wonderful song of the 50's? Or was it earlier? Long forgotten, but a great song to revive
A moment Like this
Diane, we love you on Fox
Business, and love your voice , what a wonderful career in front of you
Business, and love your voice , what a wonderful career in front of you
Georges Guétary - I'll build a stairway to paradise (V.Minnelli's An Ame...
Just slow the tempo down, and it becomes much more pleasant, less tinny and 20's sounding...
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra - I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise (1922)
To me, this was always the sound of the 1920's on Mom's Victorla that needed to be cranked, when we placed the big black 78 shellac record on ity.
It Started With ‘Genome’ - ‘Omes’ Proliferate in Science - NYTimes.com
It Started With ‘Genome’ - ‘Omes’ Proliferate in Science - NYTimes.com
How interesting that the word Ome, is now proliferate in science, while it is also the great word in the most popular mantra of Buddhism...."Om"
How interesting that the word Ome, is now proliferate in science, while it is also the great word in the most popular mantra of Buddhism...."Om"
Saturday, May 5, 2012
To Heaven and Back
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Book Description
Is there life after death? Is God real? Is there sufficient reason to live by faith? Dr. Mary Neal's walk with God has been both ordinary and extraordinary, brimming with the gift and privilege of being touched by God in visible and very tangible ways. She is a practicing orthopaedic surgeon, a wife, and a mother who has experienced joy as well as great sorrow and death. She experienced life after death and, despite her scientific training, she believes the answer to each one of these questions is a definitive yes. She drowned on a South American river and went to Heaven. She conversed with angels. She returned to Earth, in part, to tell her story to others and help them find their way back to God. In this book , Dr. Neal shares the captivating details of her life in which she has experienced not just one miracle, but many. Her story is both compelling and thought provoking. Her experiences provide confirmation that miracles still occur, shows how God keeps His promises and why there is sufficient reason to live by faith. Dr. Neal's message is fundamentally one of hope.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Johnny Mathis. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street.
I haven't found it yet...this is a great arrangement, but not the one we played over and over....I think, got to keep looking.
Teresa Brewer - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (1959)
Maybe this was the best version of the song, I seem to remember it had a beat more up beat like this..... we could swing to this
Blue Moon Los Indios Tabajaras.wmv
The guitars are crying, just take a moment to relax to this...incredibly beautiful
Los Indios Tabajaras Adios, Begin the Begining
I love this so much I am going to see if I can put it on my Pinterest site, from my blog....here goes
Lamento Borincano - Marc Anthony
Did I say not well known song...?? I guess I have to take that back.
Lamento Borincano - Los Indios Tabajaras
Los Indios continue to fascinate, this song not well known, lingers.
Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem
The songs of the desert are in this ...it reminds me of The Desert Song music, maybe this was the inspiration for that music.
AT LAST ~ Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra & The Stardusters 1942.wmv
before Etta James...there was this, the sweetest trumpet
Route 66 Compilation Song - Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, etc.
have a little fun with this compilation....Bobby Troup was a regular in one of the New York City hotels for years, I forget which one...but, he was well known
The Rolling Stones - Route 66 - Live Camden Theather 1964- made by DankS...
Now, you know why we went wild for the Stones....this is a great rendition of the song!
Brian Setzer - Route 66 Live (rare video).avi
Route 66 is calling...it was the way to California, before the Highway bill was signed under President Eisenhower.
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra - Friday, November 18, 2011 start...
Our wonderful Smithsonian keeping alive the great muscians, and song writers. Jazz finds lots of competition today in new music genres, but , it holds its own and is wildly adored around the world.
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington: Take The A Train
Duke Ellington, according to the Smithsonian lecture series a Genius beyond Category, and Ella, the velvet voice...
Ella Fitzgerald British TV 1961 Mr Paganini
Imagine, we had taste in music, while still teens, we appreciated, the wonderful American invention, Jazz....and Ella with her voice, her ability to scat...and need I say more...
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street - Ella Fitzgerald
did we dance to this at Lorraine Levandosky's house on Waverly Street, Framingham, Mass.?
Jimmy Witherspoon & Quintones - Still In Love '56 Atco-6084.wmv
Does anyone remember this in the background of growing up in the 50's?
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