Music I’m Listening To

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Tue 24 Aug 2021

Music I’m Listening To: Two by Carson Robson.

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   Carson Robson is a name I’m sure will draw a blank from everyone reading this, but back in 1942 he put out a record (a 78) that when my brother and I found it in our parents’ collection, we played so often that I think we wore the grooves off. 78’s being rather fragile items, we both agree that it finally somehow got broken, but while we had it, we loved it.

   And guess what? My brother went looking, and found both sides on YouTube. Isn’t the Internet wonderful?
   

      Carson Robison – I’m Going Back To Whur I Come From


   

      Carson Robison – That Old Grey Mare Is Back Where She Used To Be

 

Fri 16 Jul 2021

Music I’m Listening To: COMMANDER CODY & HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN “Hot Rod Lincoln.”

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Just for fun:

 

Thu 6 May 2021

Music I’m Listening To: POSTMODERN JUKEBOX “All About That Bass.”

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      Just for fun:

 

Fri 30 Apr 2021

Music I’m Listening To: ALLIE SHERLOCK & CUAN DURKIN “Unchained Melody.”

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Wed 28 Apr 2021

Music I’m Listening To: CÉLINE DION “All By Myself.”

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   Céline Dion was my wife’s favorite female singer. She listened to her CDs constantly. It wasn’t until I came across a live version of this song on YouTube that I realized how dynamic if not out-and-out physical her singing voice was:

 

Fri 16 Apr 2021

Music I’m Listening To: Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto d’Aranjuez

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   The clip below is taken from the British film Brassed Off (1996), starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor.

   From Wikipedia: “The film is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit. The soundtrack for the film was provided by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and the plot is based on Grimethorpe’s own struggles against pit closures.”

   Through the magic of movie making, the flugelhorn solo was by Paul Hughes, not by Tara Fitzgerald’s character, Gloria Mullins.
   

    

 

Thu 15 Apr 2021

Music I’m Lisening To: SISSEL KYRKJEBØ “Summertime.”

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   To my mind, this Norwegian singer has one of the most beautiful voices in the world:

 

Sun 28 Mar 2021

Music I’m Listening To: PLACIDO DOMINGO & ANDREA BOCELLI “The Pearl Fishers duet.”

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   A duet from Georges Bizet’s opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers). How many other songs written in 1863 have endured from that date to this?

         

 

Fri 19 Mar 2021

Music I’m Listening To: The GUNHILD CARLING Big Band: “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”.

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   Gunhild Carling may be the greatest trombone player you never heard of:

 

Thu 18 Mar 2021

Music I’m Listening To: CREAM “Crossroads” (Live, 1968).

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   “Crossroads” was the first track on the live half of Cream’s Wheels of Fire double album, released in August 1968 by Polydor Records in the UK and Atco Records in the US. I bought a copy the same year, and I think I played the grooves off it. No more Ferrante and Teicher for me!

 

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