First Music Thread of the Off Season

[Hoops66]

As a kid I thought Dean was a comic, with Jerry Lewis, until they split and he became one of the better singers out there. He has to be in the Crooners Hall of Fame....if there is one.

 

[Scud49]

A trip to the fair...and nobody was there....through the beautiful voice of Annie Haslam and her group Renaissance:

 

[Bama fan]

We weren't robbed, but it felt like it. At about 4:48, look who's playing lead...

Linda Ronstadt and Jesse Colin Young also were on the bill that night. At the Winterland Balloom in 1973, I think!

 

[f1f1ferrari]

A classic that's come up in other music threads:

 

[meyers7]

I thought surely someone would have posted this one:

Someone (ahem) did. Just a cover version. Post #10.

 

[meyers7]

Meets a "privileged girl", tries to teach her about common people. She doesn't get it. (a British anthem about 20 years ago)

Common People - Pulp

 

[f1f1ferrari]

Someone (ahem) did. Just a cover version. Post #10.

Ah, I see. I had been looking for Lightfoot's name

 

[Hoops66]

This was the number one song around the turn of the last century by sheet music sales. It tells a sad story at a waltz tempo. This Irish group, which includes Frances Black, Mary's little sister is a very good version, IMO...

 

[ClifSpliffy]

this is either a tale of the travelling salesman (a duet with willie loman?)
or my autobiographical tune upon arrival home from summer camp -
who are these people? i wanna go back to the mosquitos and bug juice! and iffn one more aunt pinches my cheek or tries to kiss me, i swear i'll just clock her.

 

[Bama fan]

We weren't robbed, but it felt like it. At about 4:48, look who's playing lead...

Linda Ronstadt and Jesse Colin Young also were on the bill that night. At the Winterland Balloom in 1973, I think!

 

[Bama fan]

Here is another Vietnam era song that demonstrates the terrible outfall of those times.

 

[64Zcode]

 

[Bama fan]

Slava Ukraini

 

[8893]

 

[Bama fan]

This song is steeped in the history of America and The Beatles:

 

[Bama fan]

Story about a workday;

 

[nwhoopfan]

I think this is the theme song from the movie Clay Pigeons. 3:00 synopsis of the whole movie.

 

[64Zcode]

A tale of domestic violence from 3 teenage sisters that got the idea from a news story.

 

[Bigboote]

Ayreon makes almost exclusively albums that tell a story (Metal Operas). He made one called Actual Fantasy on which each song was based on a science fiction story or movie. This song is based on Name of the Rose, a movie and a book by Umberto Eco.

 

[Bigboote]

This one of my all-time favorites -- it features a mountain dulcimer and five-part harmony. It's really four songs al about the life of a Scottish general. All of my college friends loved it despite it never being played on the radio. My daughter was obsessed with it when she was around 8 or 10 and studied him in homeschool.

 

[Bigboote]

Another of my daughter's favorites when she was young, and one I've been listening to for 40+ years. This one's about a pair of (wolves, people?), king and usurper, engaged in a battle to the death.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, 'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation! Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto - "In God is our trust," And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Obscure but tells a bonnie story:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

A great song about the death of American passenger railing. Yeah, yeah I know too many of you prefer Arlo Guthrie's recording.

 

[Scud49]

John Prine's beautiful ode to the life story we all face....that of of getting old...