Posted on 03/19/2016 8:47:13 PM PDT by mdittmar
The song I believe was for Crocker Bank which was brought out by Wells Fargo which still exists.
A voice that was like warm honey in the morning.
Hucklebuck--Paul Williams (1949)
Apparently they got so many replays on You Tube from Freepers that they closed the site for copywrite infringement.
no worries, I can still hear her singing those songs in my memory.
Superstar is my favorite.
I certainly hope for the best for her. I'm running behind on some of her newer videos, but I liked the one with the beautiful dresses.
It's Jackie Evancho Signs Pop - Go Time - HD
She will be a beautiful woman. I just wish her happiness. Her siblings seem to kind of get pushed aside, but I saw where they take turns going on travel. Go Time is different for her, little vignettes are charming. She's so lovely in the forest green dress and the light cream tunic, with a darker tan flounce.
Very nice. Thanks. I knew nothing about this trend. I’m guessing you mean South Korea. I don’t see Kim Jong Un stepping up to the mike to karaoke the song “People” as sung by Barbara Streisand. Maybe he’d do that song ‘I’m So Ronely’, as heard in the animation movie Team America.
I'd heard the part about Elvis, but not Karen Carpenter. You're right - it would've been a lot different. The Kim Darby + John Fiedler combo sneaks an odd Star Trek crossover tinge into the film, which couldn't have been foreseen at the time.
You have an appreciation for adjacent color schemes and elegant clothing design with subtle embellishments. Have you designed clothing, in reality or maybe just using a vivid mind’s eye? I’ve met some people who have that same sense of design about cars, not that I do.
You are correct. South Korea has a very well developed entertainment industry and for a relatively small country they have a lot of talented people.
I do like a lot of the K-Pop girl groups, but the Davichi girls are known for their singing, mostly ballads and even though I don’t understand the lyrics, I find their voices to be soothing and melodic.
They have lots of songs, videos and TV appearances on youtube.
Thanks for listening.
I can enjoy the beauty and fashion in others. Men as well as women.
I know where a lot of my love for elegance came from, period movies.
With men, it might be cars and architecture. You have good taste in music. I presume you would have good taste in cars, too. I had a little Ford Maverick, yellow, my favorite color, with racing stripes, medium brown pseudo-leather seats. My father bought it for me new after my husband left me. We had a 57 Chevy convertible when I got married. After that we traded it for a sapphire blue Ford convertible, it was a lemon. I never got too much into cars after that.
Why have all those videos you posted (3 links) suddenly been pulled due to copyright infringement?
After I gave up any musical dreams, I played for my own enjoyment, church music, show tunes, a few more classical ones, Moonlight Sonata and Nocturne in Eb (never remembered the keys), from the Eddy Duchin Story. Also I worked on Rhapsody on a Theme from Paganini from Somewhere in Time and many others.
I played in orchestra all the way through jr high and hs, but I always felt the band kids had it better. Some, of course, played in both as you can't have an orchestra in only strings.
My talent or lack of it, here is something interesting. I do not know how people memorize music. I memorized by feel. After I'd played often enough, I just felt it. I lost that ability for some reason. I never memorized the notes or saw the music in my head or played classical music by ear (I can play some pop music by ear) and learned to improvise chords a little.
Later in life I bought a church organ. I played the Phantom of the Opera songs full blast lol. Those I read the music for the left hand and improvised the chords and pedals (not very well I must say).
Singing I could carry a tune and had a range about like Karen but sure didn't sound pretty like her wonderful voice. I could do soprano and alto, some pretty high notes, but I could only do the melody. Much later, I started getting the knack for harmonizing. Too bad so much of it came later in life. But whatever voice I had, I ruined it with my chain smoking, cannot sing at all now.
My dream now would have been to work on improvisation with the melody by ear, the chords, their inversions, broken everything that goes into a song.
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Interesting history. You’ve been able to develop your talent in many different settings. Many say, if a child starts learning how to play musically, that trait of being able to analyze, identify and compare, stays with them throughout life. Many take this skill set into other arenas of performance. I’m thinking of people like Condoleeza Rice.
It’s funny that you mention J.S. Bach Prelude in C. I love that piece. As you know it’s from his book of instructions
for one of his many sons. What was that title;
Well Tempered Clavier. That simple little song takes you all sorts of places if you let it. It is absolutely hypnotic
(in a good way) for people like me, who want to hold on to a melody and keep following my nose (or ear as it were). The octave and tonal changes are very, very nice. I rarely get to talk about that
tune, as I am not a trained musician, and most people are not aware of it’s existence or it’s
gentle power to beckon. If I could ever learn to play that song, I’d be very fullfilled indeed.
But to listen to too much classical, can't get into it. The melody is number 1 for me. The music I like best has pretty melodies. Some classical pieces have sections with lovely melodies, Moonlight Sonata, think it's the second movement, hypnotic to me also Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
The one I played was Rachmaninoff's C sharp Minor. Boom, boom, boom. I loved page 2.
I have learned to listen to some pop music and pick out some of the things that make them work so well, self harmony through dubbing, chord changes for transition, different embellishments. But as you noted with Some Velvet Morning, I wouldn't be able to critique that well at all like you did.
Thanks for the inspiration from someone who can talk music. It's time to knock it off. Past time, but I have my days and nights turned around lately :-(.
In 1975 or so, the CBS network chose took the first step in changing the way video for news broadcasts was gathered. Up to that point, film camera crews shot the footage, which was then processed and cut for broadcast. At best, it was a several hour operation.
CBS decided to do its newsgathering using a video camera, and a “portable” 3/4” videotape machine that weighed about 25 pounds. They made the announcement at their annual affiliates meeting by having the news crew shoot footage of the station owners and guests dancing at the hotel ballroom. We then cut the footage to music on videotape and they surprised the affiliates with the footage at the end of the night. The song we used was “We’ve Only Just Begun”.
Could have something to do with the fact that Paul Williams is the President of ASCAP, the world’s largest performing rights society....
She is the finest female pop vocalist I have ever heard.
Gotta include Anne Murray, Patsy Cline, Dinah Washington, Ruthie Henshall also in the top 5.
Giving credit to Annie Lennox, Stevie Nix and Natalie Merchant also
Her version of the Bonnie Bramlett song “Superstar” was always my favorite Karen Carpenter song.
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