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Post by Lucky Dan on Dec 9, 2022 0:23:09 GMT
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 9, 2022 1:06:21 GMT
They seek him here They seek him there That damned elusive pimpernel
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 9, 2022 1:14:13 GMT
How an angel ought to be
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 9, 2022 1:58:42 GMT
Jukebox: Northern Eagle Campground Date: Summer of 76 Plays: 100s. Perhaps even 1000s. Notes: Not one complaint from the shuffleboard crowd.
Two versions were recorded by Sweet. The original version was produced by Mike Chapman in association with Nicky Chinn on the European version of the 1974 album Desolation Boulevard. Sweet also recorded and produced a more pop-oriented version as a 7" single in 1975, which is the more familiar version of the song.
The song appears in numerous films, including: Dazed and Confused, Detroit Rock City, When in Rome, Catch .44, Lords of Dogtown, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, and The Black Phone.
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Post by ando on Dec 9, 2022 16:12:23 GMT
Can’t say I love every song on this one but, man, the good ones are great.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 9, 2022 17:43:58 GMT
How about early Journey? Back before Perry joined 'em and they became just another AOR band....
Saw them open for Starcastle in '76 and they knocked me out!
Sepiatone
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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 9, 2022 17:55:04 GMT
I think I saw them open for the Doobie Brothers in 1977. My college roommate talked us all into going to that concert at MSU. As I remember, I think the opening act did better than the Doobie Brothers!
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Post by ando on Dec 9, 2022 17:57:45 GMT
How about early Journey? Back before Perry joined 'em and they became just another AOR band.... Saw them open for Starcastle in '76 and they knocked me out! Sepiatone Yeah, nice. But Escape is a classic.
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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 9, 2022 18:00:08 GMT
I was really a classical music concert-goer, but I did see these guys at the MSU auditorium later that year ('77)
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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 9, 2022 18:15:49 GMT
Actually, this is the stuff I would go hear -- same cavernous auditorium at MSU. And I did hear Leontyne Price sing the "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss (of which this is one). And it's the only time I ever went backstage to thank a performer for the experience.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 9, 2022 23:31:55 GMT
Can’t say I love every song on this one but, man, the good ones are great.
SOUTH DETROIT! You must love that one sepiatone. No such place I believe? Hilarious. The liberties of songwriters. Love it. Who the hell is Starcastle? Off to the internets yet again. GOOD GRIEF! PS I just spent 5 hours looking at the most frightening puppets in all the world but haven't had time to post. PPS Had no idea about George Harrison's fave. song but haven't popped back over to comment on that one ando.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 9, 2022 23:51:21 GMT
Actually, this is the stuff I would go hear -- same cavernous auditorium at MSU. And I did hear Leontyne Price sing the "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss (of which this is one). And it's the only time I ever went backstage to thank a performer for the experience.
BEAUTIFUL (sniff, dab). So Strange! I was out hunting for a vintage video clip of Leontyne when you must have posted this gem. Great minds clearly think alike. Of course I was also looking for Victoria De Los Angeles (watch out for your spelling there - I instead found a naked rock bass playing lady with typo - victoria de angelis - yikes!). And then I went down a rabbit hole - since I couldn't much - thinking I'd like to see Tosca's Kiss again - and didn't know Hoffman got it re-released....aye me. It takes me 10hours to make one tiny post or comment on here with all my sidetracks and rabbit holes. This is why I just limited myself to Information, Please! on the TCM. And what was she like? What are your memories of the visit? I find such meetings so awkward. Such artists must hear compliments all the time but for the end listener some of these moments are so impactful.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 9, 2022 23:54:55 GMT
And now for something completely different as they say. You can jump into the fire but you'll never be free
From the film "Son of Dracula" which was billed as "The First Rock-and-Roll Dracula Movie." In the film, rock-and-roll band, the Count Downes, include members Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Keith Moon, Peter Frampton, John Bonham, Leon Russell, Bobby Keyes, and Jim Price who can all be seen rocking away in performance scenes.
(first? you mean there are more out there!??)
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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 10, 2022 0:39:52 GMT
Thanks, Galacticgirrrl, for your interest in the Leontyne Price video.
It was an evening spent with a friend, who wasn't all that knowledgeable about Classical music, but tagged along for the fun of it. It was Leontyne Price with a piano accompaniment, and she performed the Strauss "Four Last Songs" toward the end of her program. I swear to God I was in the presence of angels that night as Price began her recital. By the time she got to the Strauss, I couldn't even breathe. And it got more intense as the program proceeded.
Afterward, I said to my friend that I thought sometimes people could go backstage and get an autograph. I wasn't at all interested in the autograph, but I wanted to say hello and thank you to Miss Price. So we did. And there was a short line of about 15 or so people who waited for her to come out; and after a short while she appeared -- gloriously turbaned and diva-ed to the hilt! I heard her tell some folks ahead of me that she was trying very hard to get the Strauss songs just right. When it was my turn, I simply handed her my programme -- which she signed -- and I mentioned how much I appreciated her singing the "Four Last Songs." She just smiled and said "Thank you."
But I have never heard music on that level ever again in the same way. That's how I remember it, some 50 years ago. God, there is such beauty in this world!!!
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 10, 2022 0:46:44 GMT
As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playing....
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