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[DrEntropy]

Gotta go here.

 

[Gliderman8]

Amazing how young she looks.... Yowsa!

 

[glemon]

That gal could sing, not augmented by the auto tune or whatever it is most of the singers use these days, pretty cute too. When I don't have car or house projects on Saturdays mornings I sometimes explore the wonders of youtube music, finding old stuff I want to listen to, and then poking around and finding good stuff I had forgotten about as well as artists I never heard of before, this gal I don't remember at all, she seemed to have danced around the edges of commercial success for a number of years, and might have had the first commercially successful version of "Angel of the Morning" but her label went belly up right after she recorded it or something like that, but here is a sample, pretty sixties cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTul8VsAxg

 

[HealeyRick]

Great stuff. She's talented and beautiful. I'm convinced the music from the 50s-70s was a golden age and we're lucky to have experienced it.

 

[aeronca65t]

Excellent! A really gifted singer......she's always been one of my favs. Kind of an interesting family history too.

I saw her live on the stage in Pirates of Penzance in the early '80s. She was stunning.

It's hard for me to pick a favourite song of her's. Desperado comes to mind. But here's one I also love, even though the video is a bit grainy.
As much as I liked Zevon's, this version seems even better.

That's Peter Asher (from Peter & Gorden) playing the cowbell.
And check out Danny Kortchmar's fantastic guitar playing.

Very sad to hear her voice is gone, but she has a great legacy.

 

[PC]

.....As much as I liked Zevon's, this version seems even better.....

I would never fault anybody for preferring Linda's version of anything. But that particular song is soooo Zevon, especially with the lyrics sung his way, I almost consider it two different songs. (Got to see Warren sing it live on several occasions. I wish I had gotten to see Linda sing it live.)

I never got to attend one of her rock concerts. :blue:

But was lucky enough to catch her Lush Life Tour with Nelson Riddle. Terrific show!


So many wonderful performances....

 

[aeronca65t]

Yeah, I totally get your point about Zevon's performance in that song. He did have real style.

I also love Martha and The Vandellas doing Heat Wave, but again, I like Ronstadt's version even more.

I guess we should "enjoy every sandwich"

 

[JPSmit]

Amazing how young she looks.... Yowsa!

amazing how old we are is what you really mean - the video is almost 40 years old! which is to say I was 16 then - and my Midget was one year old.

 

[JPSmit]

Great stuff. She's talented and beautiful.

what is interesting though (and as per the post re: her voice not be augmented via auto tune) nothing else has been augmented either. and not just "ahem" body features (Think Britney) but, if you watch her interview, her teeth are not perfect, it is the face and features and figure God gave her - and all the more interesting for that!

 

[AngliaGT]

One of my favorite singers - anyone remember the Stone Ponys? - Doug

 

[glemon]

Here is a little gem she did a little later in her career the vocals are just haunting, I actually prefer this to Neil Young's original, and I love Neil Young's music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCf2Va3OY0M

I love the music of the 60s and 70s, really enjoy a lot of stuff from the 80s and 90s, after that the newer stuff doesn't do much for me with a few exceptions, don't know if that is a reflection of the state of the music industry, or me getting old.

 

[JPSmit]

I love the music of the 60s and 70s, really enjoy a lot of stuff from the 80s and 90s, after that the newer stuff doesn't do much for me with a few exceptions, don't know if that is a reflection of the state of the music industry, or me getting old.

Yup.

Seriously, this is a conversation I have almost constantly about church music - the contemporary vs. traditional music debate.

There was a lot of really bad music written in the 60's 70's & even 80's & 90's - (anyone remember Seasons in the Sun? - don't google it - you will regret it!) but, it has also washed away in the tides of time. What remains is the really good stuff, the stuff that stands the test of time. There is some really good stuff being written and performed now, (not always necessarily to my taste but it wasn't back then either) the only difference is we have to listen to the good with the bad - unlike the old stuff which is only the good.

In church circles, there is a lot of "all contemporary music is cr*p" conversations - some is and some will be sung a hundred years from now - but we have to sing it all to know which is which, we don't have the benefit of foresight.

that said, I could listen to Linda for a long long time - my father and I built a boat in 1975 - many evenings and every saturday over a winter - we had an old tube radio and an oil burning stove in a friend's garage - she was on what was a pretty small play list of our local AM station CJBQ - lots of memries of the music - more memories of time with my dad (which is another way the music marinates - not just the music but the memory it evokes.)

that said after slightly serious musings and, hoping not to hijack the thread - this make the church music rounds regularly:

[SIZE=+1]Praise Songs explained...[/SIZE]

Not long ago a farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was. "Well," said the farmer, "It was good. They did something different, however. They sang praise choruses instead of hymns."

"Praise choruses," said his wife, "What are those?"

"Oh, they're okay. They're sort of like hymns, only different," said the farmer.

""Well, what's the difference?" asked his wife.

The farmer said, "Well it's like this - If I were to say to you:

`Martha, the cows are in the corn,' well that would be a hymn. If, on the other hand, I were to say to you:

`Martha Martha, Martha, Oh, Martha, MARTHA, MARTHA,
the cows, the big cows, the brown cows, the black cows,
the white cows, the black and white cows,
the COWS, COWS, COWS are in the corn,
are in the corn, are in the corn, are in the corn,
the CORN, CORN, CORN,'

Then, if I were to repeat the whole thing two or three times, well that would be a praise chorus."

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[SIZE=+1]Hymns explained...[/SIZE]

A young, new Christian from the big city attended the small town church one weekend. He came home and his wife asked him how it was.

"Well," said the young man, "It was good. They did something different, however. They sang hymns instead of regular songs."

"Hymns," said his wife, "What are those?"

"Oh, they're okay. They're sort of like regular songs, only different," said the young man.

"Well, what's the difference?" asked his wife.

The young man said, "Well it's like this - If I were to say to you, `Martha, the cows are in the corn,' well that would be a regular song. If, on the other hand, I were to say to you:

Oh Martha, dear Martha, hear thou my cry
Inclinest thine ear to the words of my mouth.
Turn thou thy whole wondrous ear by and by
To the righteous, inimitable, glorious truth.

For the way of the animals who can explain
There in their heads is no shadow of sense,
Hearkenest they in God's sun or his rain
Unless from the mild, tempting corn they are fenced.

Yea those cows in glad bovine, rebellious delight,
Have broke free their shackles, their warm pens eschewed.
Then goaded by minions of darkness and night
They all my mild Chilliwack sweet corn have chewed.

So look to that bright shining day by and by,
Where all foul corruptions of earth are reborn.
Where no vicious animal makes my soul cry
And I no longer see those foul cows in the corn.

Then, if I were to do only verses one, three, and four and do a key change on the last verse, well that would be a hymn."

 

[glemon]

JPS< I agree with some of that, I certainly agree there was a lot of bad music made in most every era, but I just don't find many things I like from the last 15 years or so, but that is probably me to some lesser or greater extent, like our taste in cars, I think our taste in music sort of gets more hard coded in, or the pleasure centers in the brain become a little harder to stimulate just right or something, and it gets harder to feel the "I love it feeling" towards newer stuff as we go through life, not impossible, but it happens less often. Just like there are lots of cars from the 60s that I positively drool over, and certainly a few new designs I like, but not near as many, and most look like slab sided behemoths to me, judging from what I read on the forum I am not alone in that feeling.

There are tastes and styles that come and go in the music as well, and that is some of it for me, even though I can find stuff I like from the eras, the mid to late 70s were not my favorite for music with disco, nor was the mid to late 80s with hair band metal. I don't know if you can really define everything in the 2000s as anything other than "eclectic" the internet changed everything, so much easier to produce and market music so no one thing dominates the airwaves, which in fact aren't what they used to be either. My 28 year old son is very heavy into music, and I like his taste, he likes much of the old stuff I do, but I am quite sure he doesn't feel newer stuff is any worse. I noticed he doesn't listen to the radio at all, gets it all streamed or downloaded over the internet, years ago I told him we learned about new songs and artists as we heard them on the radio (or sometimes even TV, Saturday Night Live, Ed Sullivan, remember "the midnight special" and of course "American Bandstand"). Anyway, that is not how the new generation is exposed to new artists (for the most part).

Getting back to your comments maybe there is more bad now because it doesn't have the major market commercial filter (i.e. battle to get airplay on the local AM station, even though ironically us progressive alternative music types thought this was evil) it all gets out there on iTunes and what not.

 

[DrEntropy]

One of my favorite singers - anyone remember the Stone Ponys? - Doug

When they first got air play with "Different Drum" I was convinced my mum had a secret second life. She had a voice very like Linda's. Mother and her two younger sisters would sing extemporaneously as they did stuff like wash the dishes after a family gathering. They truly put the Andrews Sisters to shame with three-part harmonies, too. Linda's recordings of "torch songs" (the Nelson Riddle "Lush Life"recordings) make me miss those impromptu times. Dad had made some tape recordings of them but mum recorded over those in favor of taping the broadcast when John Glenn orbited the planet for the first time. <sigh>

 

[glemon]

Yarks, my lengthy deep BS post above sort of looks out of place in a topic which started out as "some fun"...back to the fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTch2Z6pn0w

 

[DrEntropy]

This one kicks me to my childhood for sure.

 

[PC]

...I guess we should "enjoy every sandwich"

Heck yeah!

And be grateful to be around when the next Bond movie comes out.

 

[Boink]

Love how those oldies (from the 20s through 40s) had long introductions. "White Christmas" as a long and interesting intro (about Beverly Hills and longing to be "up north") at the start... that one usually doesn't hear.

 

[PC]

 

[Darwin]

One of my favs with Johnny Cash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mue05fazqsI