Posted on 07/17/2013 7:20:08 PM PDT by lee martell
“I wont tell my husband about thisjeesh! He would howl.”
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My lips are sealed. Your secret is safe with me.
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Bread and circuses, freddyboy. Bread and circuses.
Our father who art in heaven,Harold be thy name.
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LOL!
Add tomatoes and it is a spaghetti sauce recipe.
I like the S&G version of Bridge Over Troubled Water also, but in my opinion the Eva Cassidy version from her “Live at Blues Alley” album is the gold standard for BOTW. Here’s a link to it. Enjoy:
American Pie? You're making me hungry. How about Patootie Pie by Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five, Cherry Pie by Marvin & Johnny or Pizza Pie by Norman Fox & the Rob Roys?
Oh yeah, that’s a great song, and they had piles of great songs.
Here’s one that sometimes gets me a little choked up if I’m in the right mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FniUPxpYYAU
It’s preachy and leftwingy, but man that last verse.
“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio...”
http://destinyland.net/Joe_DiMaggio_vs_Paul_Simon_and_Garfunkel.htm
Beatles ‘Revolution’ November 1968
Simon & Garfunkel ‘Bridge over troubled water’ January 1970
Ah yes, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, by the Funkel Brothers, Simon and Gar.
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio--Les Brown & His Band of Renown (1941)
HUH?
http://freespace.virgin.net/r.kent/quotes.html
Here's a snippet on "Bridge":
Paul - 'We were in California. We were all renting this house. Me and Artie and Peggy were living in this house with a bunch of other people throughout the summer. It was a house on Blue Jay Way, the one George Harrison wrote "Blue Jay Way" about.We had this Sony machine and Artie had the piano, and I'd finished working on a song, and we went into the studio. I had it written on guitar, so we had to transpose the song. I had it written in the key of G, and I think Artie sang it in E. E flat. We were with Larry Knechtel, and I said, "Here's a song; it's in G, but I want it in E flat. I want it to have a gospel piano."
So, first we had to transpose the chords, and there was an arranger who used to do some work with me, Jimmie Haskell, who, as a favor, he said, "I'll write the chords; you call off the chord in G, and I'll write it in E flat." And he did that. That was the extent of what he did. He later won a Grammy for that. We'd put his name down as one of the arrangers. Then it took us about four days to get the piano part. Each night we'd work on the piano part until Larry really honed it into a good part.
Now, the song was originally two verses, and in the studio, as Larry was playing it, we decided--I believe it was Artie's idea, I can't remember, but I think it was Artie's idea to add another verse, because Larry was sort of elongating the piano part, so I said, "Play the piano part for a third verse again, even though I don't have it, and I'll write it" which I eventually did after the fact. I always felt that you could clearly see that it was written afterwards. It just doesn't sound like the first two verses.
Then the piano part was finished. Then we added bass--two basses, one way up high, the high bass notes. Joe Osborn did that. Then we added vibes in the second verse just to make the thing ring a bit. Then we put the drum on, and we recorded the drum in an echo chamber, and we did it with a tape-reverb that made the drum part sound different from what it actually was, because of that afterbeat effect. Then we gave it out to have a string part written. This was all in L.A. And then we came back to New York and did the vocals. Artie spent several days on the vocals.
I think 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' was a very good song and I think Artie sang it beautifully. I think he did really a great, a very soulful job to come out of a white singer. He sang it white, but soulful, and that's very hard to hear today...
Lots more at the link.
I enjoyed this version of BOTW sung by a 13 year old girl in Las Vegas recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLDkSr38BhU
I’m sorry about your hearing loss, but you have gained in other ways, you know firsthand, what a loving family can be like, a family that you helped to bring into this world and to teach about life. No one can take away those memories, or those facts.
I understand what you mean, our generation did at times have a case of saccharine overload, a whole lotta sugar goin’ on all at once. Don’t forget, we had the Carpenters and the Archies (Sugar, Sugar!) and Bread (the group, not the food). Like I said, I needed to step away from the influence for a good long time (43 years)before I came back to The Sugar Shack.
Flaccid rock.
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