Thursday, February 5, 2015
Carlos Santana / José Feliciano / Ricky Martin - Light My Fire / Oye Com...
This is a Wow.....Feliciano, ummmm, Santana, yeahhhhh and Ricky .....love it when my faves get together....
George Harrison & Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps *Rare Live...
All great songs help you recall the time of your life when you first heard them, and what stage of life you were in....the refrain is so beautiful...
The greatest "Layla" by Eric Clapton.. EVER !
then there was Eric Clapton! Layla knocked me off my feet!
Stephane Grapelli - As time goes by (Casablanca)
antoerh movie , with the song played by the great Grapelli
Johnny Mathis - Summer of '42
Another movie you are missing the pleasure of, if you have not seen it.....and the beautiful voice of Johnny Mathis tempts you here...
getting some fun out of life, madeleine peyroux
Style, artistic and one of the best sounds around....
Black Book-A Hundred Years From Today
Black Book a great story, just reminding you, if you have not seen it yet....this song is from the movie...the story and the song stayed with me for a long time
The Guitar Gods - Jeff Beck: "Apache" / "Sleepwalk"
with Les Paul...came the popularity of the guitar, that still is probably the most favored instrument to this day.....I remember the day I heard..."How High the Moon." We were at the Wellworth in downtown Framingham, and it blew me away.... We all went to the moon with the new sound...and Les Paul went down in history!
And now Les Paul and Mary Ford as it sounded, when we first heard it.....it Wowed us! Listen to the Grapelli touch
http://youtu.be/UOzB7I2y7Ic
And now Les Paul and Mary Ford as it sounded, when we first heard it.....it Wowed us! Listen to the Grapelli touch
http://youtu.be/UOzB7I2y7Ic
Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli - I Saw Stars (1934)
Imagine how popular this group was ....what a sound back in 1934
Blue Moon - Stephane Grappelli
I never dreamed I would love the violin, but Grapelli makes it vibrate in my soul...
George Shearing live in Japan Lullaby of Birdland
when piano was important...George Shearing was the great jazz pianist...
"Tell Me Why" Bobby Vinton
this was Eddie Fisher's song, but I think this is the version we all liked, I have to go get Eddie's version
http://youtu.be/meUK1XLOhYs No....it was not Bobby Vinton....Eddie had it!
http://youtu.be/meUK1XLOhYs No....it was not Bobby Vinton....Eddie had it!
"I'm Yours" Eddie Fisher
today a few moments and this song from the past popped into my head. It was his best song in my book,though he had many hits....the song just suited his voice
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Grapes of Wrath continued
Well the book club did not put me off! The comments by some were that they did not like the book because it was depressing.
On the other hand it showed the human generosity of spirit , sharing food when they themselves were starving, for example. It starkly revealed the inability of uneducated to know how to face problems. It illustrated stubborn refusal to stick on " their land" when it wasn't their land, and if they could have stayed , they would have died of starvation
The suffering blamed the greedy for their plight but it was more than that , how many see this? It was lack of knowledge about farming, inability to switch crops, lack of education, living day to day subsistence . It was plain and simple an agrarian society that had no place to go ,nothing to do except migrate and follow the promise of a dream,just as our ancestors did thru history whether Stone Age or agrarian. only the industrial revolution freed us from direct contact with the land and provided food for more people because we had the ability to do more with machines.
Interesting how some people see and feel only the negative and miss the learning situation, the loving, the giving in spite of suffering and loss. It's hard living but then we encounter this today and it requires problem solving as our leaders tried to do during the Great Depression with programs that produced actors , producers and writers of the 40's .
I happen to be reading at the same time the biography of Burt Lancaster and his family struggle at the same period of time in New York
new reading...The Grapes of wrath and thoughts on the start of it...
Reading for a book club and disappointed because the new edition I purchased is dissecting the story, so
what happens when you begin to read..... I remember the first college class when I learned about the stream of consciousness, and I was dumbfounded at what it could do for a story! Reading Faulkner and learning about "stream"...was an awakening...
But, now...after the critiques....that came with the book,
You notice structure, you notice how characters are described, you note the scenes and you don't fall into the story.....
You note the rough language of the two men talking, and you begin to smell the summer dryness, and the burrs of the clover, and suddenly
..... I found myself back in childhood in the meadows and pastures around 604 Hollis Street, Framingham , Mass., where my brother and I roamed the woods and fields with our cousins and friends.. I could smell the staleness of the shack in the woods, where the "bum" lived unkempt, no insulation, run down with an outhouse in the rear....sad...
So, although the dissection was throwing me off, I began to feel, smell and sense the location.
I wonder if the book club will kill the story for me....I loved the film and could watch it again, but when the discussion starts beating on someone, and trying to discern what side the author was on etc...I begin to lose the treasure...and Grapes.....was a treasure of a very difficult time in the lives of Americans.
Books\ should in my opinion tell a story....the idea here of the rise and fall of an orchestra as one person described is a good idea, but when a person is writing pages and pages non stop, is he or she really thinking about the rise and fall of an orchestra, or point and counterpoint.......when people try to read their impressions into the story, and the skeleton is showing, I miss the meat....
Do you?
what happens when you begin to read..... I remember the first college class when I learned about the stream of consciousness, and I was dumbfounded at what it could do for a story! Reading Faulkner and learning about "stream"...was an awakening...
But, now...after the critiques....that came with the book,
You notice structure, you notice how characters are described, you note the scenes and you don't fall into the story.....
You note the rough language of the two men talking, and you begin to smell the summer dryness, and the burrs of the clover, and suddenly
..... I found myself back in childhood in the meadows and pastures around 604 Hollis Street, Framingham , Mass., where my brother and I roamed the woods and fields with our cousins and friends.. I could smell the staleness of the shack in the woods, where the "bum" lived unkempt, no insulation, run down with an outhouse in the rear....sad...
So, although the dissection was throwing me off, I began to feel, smell and sense the location.
I wonder if the book club will kill the story for me....I loved the film and could watch it again, but when the discussion starts beating on someone, and trying to discern what side the author was on etc...I begin to lose the treasure...and Grapes.....was a treasure of a very difficult time in the lives of Americans.
Books\ should in my opinion tell a story....the idea here of the rise and fall of an orchestra as one person described is a good idea, but when a person is writing pages and pages non stop, is he or she really thinking about the rise and fall of an orchestra, or point and counterpoint.......when people try to read their impressions into the story, and the skeleton is showing, I miss the meat....
Do you?
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