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Post by jinsinna13 on Dec 20, 2022 21:01:41 GMT
"Randy Scouse Git" by The Monkees (written by Micky Dolenz)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 21, 2022 8:32:37 GMT
Today was Abdullah Ibrahim. You cannot go wrong with any of his albums, but I think my favorite is Memories (1973).
Here is his NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert from March of this year.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 21, 2022 16:40:26 GMT
Like when Mickey fronts The Monkees do ya Jinsinna? Then.............  Sepiatone |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 21, 2022 17:10:01 GMT
First Noel (1993) --Mike Anderson on mountain dulcimer, Royce Jones on classic guitar.
Royce is a good friend of mine. We met years ago when I was the development editor for the philosophy textbook he wrote. A kinder, more gentle man you'll never meet. Mike and Royce also recorded A Baker's Dozen (1995).
The music is clean and lovely.
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Post by jinsinna13 on Dec 21, 2022 21:13:44 GMT
More of Micky Dolenz singing lead.
"Last Train to Clarksville"
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 22, 2022 4:27:48 GMT
A beautiful and quiet set of music and poetry celebrating the longest night of the year. Winter Solstice: the most wonderful night of the yearWhy it may be exactly what we need for the holiday seasonwww.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/winter-solstice-1.6693601The music and poetry throughout the show is lovely. Of course this may be an only-in-Canada type podcast. I had no idea playing ice could sound so beautiful. I snipped one item from the podcast below.  |
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 22, 2022 17:20:15 GMT
Over 32 years my wife and I accumulated over 70 Christmas CDs. Starting on Monday this week, I'd pick six and put them in my carousel CD player, hit "random" and then "Play" and go about my business.
Here's a couple from my all time favorite Christmas album since it came out when I was 6 in 1957:
Sepiatone
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 23, 2022 0:55:45 GMT
Over 32 years my wife and I accumulated over 70 Christmas CDs. Do you still have vinyl holiday music sepiatone or is it all gone? I Love Melvin mentioned passing vinyl along. I can't do it yet. Nobody would love my Kojak album as much as I do. And while I believe ando said to hold the holiday music until December 24th, I see everyone is ignoring this including ando who snuck Vince Guaraldi in disguised as as cartoon dog. I do hate to be so obvious but this has to be one of the best holiday songs ever, for believers, non believers and those of us still searching... Hallelujah Chorus The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - circa? 1977? |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 23, 2022 12:59:27 GMT
This is one which comes out every year at my house. I never really paid much attention to this song before I heard her sing it.
And this Emmylou classic.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 23, 2022 16:34:55 GMT
Over 32 years my wife and I accumulated over 70 Christmas CDs. Do you still have vinyl holiday music sepiatone or is it all gone? I Love Melvin mentioned passing vinyl along. I can't do it yet. Nobody would love my Kojak album as much as I do. And while I believe ando said to hold the holiday music until December 24th, I see everyone is ignoring this including ando who snuck Vince Guaraldi in disguised as as cartoon dog. I do hate to be so obvious but this has to be one of the best holiday songs ever, for believers, non believers and those of us still searching... Hallelujah Chorus The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - circa? 1977? Sadly, none of the vinyl I still have includes any Christmas LPs. And that Fred Waring one? Well, I long lamented it being gone from sight since my teen years. My Mom said she couldn't recall whatever happened to it. But like the "Musicalogical" CD, years earlier and in the same thrift shop I ran across it in the old records bin. Cost me 50 cents. When I got it home I copied it onto cassette tape(no CD "burning" technology yet). Sometime over the years the old vinyl disappeared and a short time later a cruddy tape player ate the cassette copy. I had to wait until I eventually(by 1998) obtained a home computer, and another year until getting online to finally order a CD reissue. Don't know what Ando was thinking. I'd imagine I and a scant few others will have the time on Christmas Eve to come online and discuss Christmas music(or movies). But as long as we are, I'll let y'all in on what the first of the 70+ Christmas CDs my wife and I got. And your video was unavailable.  Sepiatone |
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Post by ando on Dec 23, 2022 17:05:08 GMT
Oh no, there are no rules for this thread. Post whatever you like! I'm finally pulling out my Xmas old faves, too, gg. This one is a mostly melow favorite.  Harry Belafonte To Wish You A Merry Christmas (1958, RCA) full playlist |
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Post by ando on Dec 23, 2022 19:41:59 GMT
More Christmas melodies...  Voktett Hannover Tidings of Joy (2022, Rondeau) full playlist
Ancient music a cappella group culled from the University of Hannover, Germany, just released this collection of religious songs of praise specifically for the holiday. The cover would be misleading for the average American consumer who would probably expect more contemporary arrangements. But their style of performance can probably best described as chant; wonderfully done, too. |
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Post by ando on Dec 23, 2022 19:51:28 GMT
For a more "standard" but superlative choir collection there's always the perennial favorite, Westminster Choir Christmas Album
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 23, 2022 22:19:46 GMT
This album by the Chieftains gets a spin every year as well. Kate and Anna McGarrigle also have their own Christmas album, featuring Kate's kids Rufus and Martha Wainwright
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 24, 2022 3:13:36 GMT
Written by American folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles, its origins come from a song fragment collected in 1933. Mysterious, inspiring, this traditional Christmas carol reflects on the nativity and the nature of wondering.
While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police. He wrote of hearing the song:
A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached to the automobile. She began to sing. Her clothes were unbelievably dirty and ragged, and she, too, was unwashed. Her ash-blond hair hung down in long skeins. ... she was beautiful, and in her untutored way, she could sing.
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