Eclectic Grab Bag

[bigmack]

Start things off with a lil' Lenny C. ---------

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[bigmack]

Those who don't Feel This Love written by Rumi in the 13th Century and recited by poet and author, Coleman Barks.

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[Grits]

Mack, this one doesn't have Cohen speaking; still, I've always like it--a bit more simple, a bit more direct.
Desiderata




Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.





http://marilee.us/images/flower36.gifIf you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.





http://marilee.us/images/flower36.gifExercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.





http://marilee.us/images/flower36.gifNurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.





http://marilee.us/images/flower36.gifTherefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.





http://marilee.us/images/flower36.gifStrive to be happy.




--- Max Ehrmann, 1927

[Grits]

This one, I have framed, hanging here in my den. I'm not a poetry person, but this one and the aforementioned, I've liked for many years. The poetry of music, for me, is altogether different, and preferred.

"My Symphony," penned by William Henry Channing. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1833, nephew of the great theologian, William Ellery Channing.

Many transcendentalists, of which I am not, are particularly fond of it. I simply find it a work that is inspiring and beautifully written. And too, it can stop me dead in my tracks, when I'm being the opposite of its words. Which, of course, is often!



To be content with small means.

To seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion.

To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich.

To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart,

to bear all cheerfully,do all bravely,

await occasions, hurry never.

In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.





This is to be my symphony.

[Ocala Mike]

"When I grow up, I want to be a little boy."

- Joseph Heller

[sandpit]

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23572.html)

[bigmack]

Lenny B @ Havard

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[falconridge]

Thanks, Mack, for germinating this thread, which I expect will grow organically in the coming weeks, and continue to do so for as long as PA maintains an off-topic forum. :ThmbUp:

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Der Leiermann, the last of the 24 Lieder in Franz Schubert's Winterreise, instantly became my favorite song when I first heard it, ca. 1973. It remains so to this day. To explain why would be supererogatory at best, and almost certainly futile. Rather, I prefer to let Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the incomparable lyric baritone whose recording, with pianist Gerald Moore, I first listened to some 38 years ago, demonstrate (note: Alfred Brendel [b. 1931]--not Moore [1899-1987]--accompanies Fischer-Dieskau in the following performance):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIS-UgixGE

[bigmack]

Remarkably uncanny, our mind meld, as just yesterday I was about to post the exact same Franz piece but thought it too arcane. Stunning.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u70/macktime/franz.png

'88, I was in Victoria, BC., in a penthouse suite standing on an outside deck listening to a Frenchman playing folk songs down on the street corner through the traffic and street noise. It was a beautiful several minutes that I'll never forget and it brought to memory Schubert's, Der Leiermann. :ThmbUp:

Not unlike though far less cosmopolitan, I give you C. Bukowski's 'Nirvana'

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Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes....http://www.jeffbridges.com/perception.html
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[illinoisbred]

I like this thread...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mcxyO8s7U

[Steve R]

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[bigmack]

O. Welles, Sketchbook. Early 1955, he was around 40.

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ONE ART
Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

-- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster.

[bigmack]

A weepy J. Moore, 160 Ahnold quotes & Nic Cage goes bonk.

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[mostpost]

Shortly after I joined this forum, someone (I think it was DJofSD) posted this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ7bs4mTUY
I thought it was great and still do. I had never heard of Django Reinhart, but now I am a big fan.

[chickenhead]

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[PhantomOnTour]

That was a great documentary about Shopsin's in NYC.
Chickenhead, I love that last scene where he says to tell your kids that they're nothing special.

[bigmack]

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[illinoisbred]

Mahler....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DHYRMoTN4

[bigmack]

Kalimankou Denkou - Evening Gathering

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Ксения Симонова - Реквием из песка

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[chickenhead]

TECHNOVIKING DANCES, DEMANDS YOU WATCH

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[Grits]

This is my new favorite guy in all the world. He doesn't sing, he doesn't dance, he doesn't make movies, he doesn't recite poetry. He's just funny. And outspoken as can be.

Now, be prepared, he talks dirty (forgive me, Box, for I sin, especially on this one, backslider that I am.) I know, though, that you have a house full of these guys and gals.

Bless his heart, I adore him, he's brought tears of laughter to my eyes and I've shared him with everybody I know.

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Maybe one of my good best friends can embed.;) Tomorrow, I'll regret this. Tonight I'll blame it on the Crown and water. So much for the "Southern lady" image. Sometimes, it needs to be just launched right out the window.:lol:

This may be my last post. PA may really get me for this one.

[falconridge]

From the ridiculous (even for a passionate ailurophile) to the sublime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJFKLTA0vq0&feature=related

My favorite recording of this remarkable song remains the one that American mezzo Jan DeGaetani (1933-1989) made with pianist Gilbert Kalish (b. 1935) about 35 years ago (Nonesuch 9 71325-2; well worth the trouble to find this long-out-of-circulation CD, which also includes such treasures as In the Mornin', Serenity, At the River, and A Farewell to Land).Like a Sick EagleThe spirit is too weak; mortality weighs
Heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of God-like hardship tells me I must die,
Like a sick eagle looking towards the sky.--John Keats (1795-1821)
(first five lines of Sonnet on Seeing the Elgin Marbles)

[bigmack]

From the ridiculous (even for a passionate ailurophile) to the sublime
Striking piece. A chromatic marvel. :ThmbUp:

In yet another instance of uncanny happenstance, I was just listening to Charles I, this afternoon.

And now batting clean-up, from Menlo Park, CA, by way of a four year stint @ San Quentin for a "morals" charge, where he directed the prison band ( :rolleyes: ) put your hands together for Henry Cowell.

Where She Lies

Heap not on this mound
Roses that she loved so well;
Why bewilder her with roses,
That she cannot see or smell?
She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.

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As a fellow fan of the felines I had to run with a photo of HC & his chum.

[falconridge]

And now batting clean-up, from Menlo Park, CA, by way of a four year stint @ San Quentin for a "morals" charge, where he directed the prison band ( :rolleyes: ) put your hands together for Henry Cowell.

Where She Lies

Heap not on this mound
Roses that she loved so well;
Why bewilder her with roses,
That she cannot see or smell?
She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.

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As a fellow fan of the felines I had to run with a photo of HC & his chum.
Great find, Mack; thanks for this inspired posting, and for amplifying it with those photos of HC and CI.:ThmbUp:

I'm guessing that the artists collaborating in the recording you've shared with us are mezzo Mary Ann Hart and pianist Jeanne Golan. Theirs is the only recording (Albany Records--TROY240) I've ever heard of Cowell's setting of these lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I always wanted to believe that Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, the magnificent groves of which I frequently explored with my brother and baby sister more than a quarter century ago, was named for the composer--though I always knew it was actually named for the wealthy industrialist (ca. 1819-1903) who amassed much of his fortune exploiting the abundant natural resources in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains.

[falconridge]

… born on this date (21 February) in 1836.

That the “Flower Duet” (Sous le dôme épais) from Lakmé has survived so much crass, extra-musical quotation—used to peddle everything from overrated boutique chocolates (Ghirardelli) to plane tickets (British Airways) and video games (Boom Boom Rocket, Killzone 2, and Fallout: New Vegas :faint: )--testifies to the remarkable staying power and incorruptible genius of Delibes’s little miracle.

Here’s a performance featuring two artists (Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča) every bit as decorative as the flora they sing of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpT7pK9A61A

Here’s another, with Sumi Jo and Ah-Kyung Lee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4MmatVblDk

Finally, La Stupenda (the late Joan Sutherland) and Marilyn Horne embower those of us mortals favored enough to enter this Edenic preserve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gevL8THY2Q&feature=related

[Grits]

And to think someone put a dirty talking cat in the middle of this cultural explosion. How awful of me. Live and learn.:rolleyes:

Chickie, I couldn't help myself, I laughed like crazy at Techoviking.:lol:

[falconridge]

… born on this date (21 February) in 1893.

The Master performs the Ciaccona from Father Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor (for unaccompanied violin), BWV 1004:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXlslzL8EY&feature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRhorozjEEg&feature

[bigmack]

I'm guessing that the artists collaborating in the recording you've shared with us are mezzo Mary Ann Hart and pianist Jeanne Golan. Theirs is the only recording (Albany Records--TROY240) I've ever heard of Cowell's setting of these lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
As usual, your guess is right on the money. In my haste, as I had a foot out the door, I failed to credit the triad. :blush:

I note Anna Netrebko entered 'the biz' as a janitor @ the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire. I haven't paid much attention to janitors of late but I have little recollection of any being so fetching. ;)

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Delibes lead me to revisit a host of "Frog Heads." From the madman, Edgard Varèse to Pierre Boulez & then over to Gabriel Fauré. GF had some nice material.
I participated in performing his Requiem a few times with that liberal arts college choir I attended.

Push comes to shove and I opted to roll with your 2/21 commemorative angle.

A kittle known, rather ordinary piece: Pierre Mercure - Kaleidoscope
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[bigmack]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u70/macktime/2_21_11_19_00_35.jpg
Growing is Forever - Visual Poetry in the Redwoods
http://vimeo.com/18305022
Click fullscreen.

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'64, L. Baynes Johnson orders up several pair of Haggar schlacks.
http://vimeo.com/18864216

[chickenhead]

HE'S USING HYPNOSIS!

The Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling!

HOW ARE WE NOT HYPNOTIZED!?

The YOYO!

The WORM!

A TEXTBOOK WORM!

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!

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[chickenhead]

I wouldn't give out a bum steer when it comes to food...

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[falconridge]

HE'S USING HYPNOSIS!

The Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling!

HOW ARE WE NOT HYPNOTIZED!?

The YOYO!

The WORM!

A TEXTBOOK WORM!

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!

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Mesmerizing! :eek:

I saw Jesse “The Body” Ventura beat on Ivan “Polish Power” Putski with a folding chair.

I saw The Spoiler (“weighing 320 pounds, and hailing from Parts Unknown”) blind-side Bobo Brazil with a sandbag.

I saw The Iron Sheik whale the whey out of Sergeant Slaughter with a turnbuckle.

I even saw (in a bygone, benighted era of political incorrectness) Chief White Owl go on the warpath and conk Klondike Bill with a tomahawk! :faint:

In fact, everyone who attended these epic tilts—save, of course, the referees :rolleyes: —bore witness to some of the most blatant, barbarous, and brutish breaches of the rules in the hallowed history of pro wrestling. :mad:

Yet nevah—I say NEVAH!!!—have I seen such VILLAINY within the squared circle as that perpetrated by these Egyptian devils. Oh, the humanity! :faint:

For the love of Haystack Calhoun and all that’s holy, let’s ban these flagitious Pharaohs once and for all!

Exclamatorily!,

Classy Freddie Blassie
[deceased]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[illinoisbred]

I can't believe I watched the entire redneck beans video and enjoyed it.
Now for something completely different...Lottye Lenya...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNNzQCh2u14

[illinoisbred]

Mike Nichols and Elaine May....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wA0-KwSTk

[falconridge]

... born on this date (23 February) in 1685.

I know, I know: the spelling of the composer’s name in the country of his birth is Georg Friedrich Händel (the French call him Haendel). But this almost exact contemporary of J.S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti (all born in 1685), after a formative interlude in Italy during his early twenties, moved to London in 1710, and permanently settled there in 1712. Besides, Handel, who considered himself foremost an Englishman (he became a British subject 1727), preferred “George” to “Georg,” and that patrons and publishers eschew the umlaut whenever they pronounced or printed his surname.

Here’s one of Handel's best-loved arias, Cara sposa, amante cara, from Act I of Rinaldo, an opera based on Torquato Tasso’s epic Gerusalemme liberata (“Jerusalem Delivered”) and first staged in 1711. Dig the zoot suit and electric-orange upholstery. :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3rqm9l3mw0

[illinoisbred]

Truly beautiful Handel aria. Great selection Falconridge. Damn, I love this thread!

[bigmack]

While F'ridge is workin' the days of delivery, I, in a more macabre fashion, will agnize the days of death.

Edward Elgar (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934)

The genius of Heifetz performing Elgar's (La Capricieuse)

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Chick -

I was at a dinner gig in La Jolla last night and showed the Egyptian Hypmotism video to a few kids. After our collective gaffaw they ran around trying to emulate the gesture. :D

No question it's illegal. There should be fines & suspensions.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u70/macktime/2_23_11_16_16_54.jpg

[falconridge]

Get a load of George Starbuck’s ingenious rhymes and enjambments, and especially the key (not "quay"!) these give to the correct pronunciation of the Christian name of baseball’s most under-appreciated 2700-hit man (2757, to be precise), whose remains now rest ‘neath the Rolling Hills of his (and toetoe’s, by the way) old stomping grounds in Richmond, California.

[http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pinsova01.shtml]


“Hardearned Overturned Caribbean Basin Stomp”


by George Starbuck


(from The Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry;
reprinted on p. 30 of the October 1985 issue of Harper’s)

Gorgeously the QE2 invaded Grenada.
Blazing away like Xmas. Broads and booze!
Fragments of a big brass figurehead, guess whose,
Lashed to the yardarm. Yankeedom had made a

Deal! Send me your Derek Walcotts your Vada
Pinsons your Harry Belafontes and your Rod Carews—
Quid pro quo for the juiced-up jet-set refuse,
The ruck of Uncle Slambam's neatsy nephews
I dump on your quaint ancient quays and queues.

Deal! Lady with a ganja lemonade a
Grade-A grenadine grog and a contac fuse.
Deal! Player-to-be-named-later in the Orlando Cepeda
Marianne Moore Bob Vesco Howard Hughes
Meganegotiation. Whatcha fraida?
Liberty-gibbet she loaded. Send canoes.



[P.S.: Don't forget to mind your "quays and queues"! :D "Whatcha fraida?": toetoe-worthy, what! :lol: --fr]

[hcap]

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[NJ Stinks]

Mack, I haven't watched one clip yet (but I will). So far I've just read the posts here.

But my hat is off to you. This thread is amazing. :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[bigmack]

Orff, hcap :confused:

Who drips suspensions better than J. Strauss?

Listen from the fourth piece in his Four Last Songs, as suspensions drip like a slowly oozing melt.

Simplistic in its form, take in the first minute of counterpoint. Touching.

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At Sunset

We have gone through sorrow and joy
hand in hand;
Now we can rest from our wandering
above the quiet land.
Around us, the valleys bow;
the air is growing darker.
Just two skylarks soar upwards
dreamily into the fragrant air.
Come close to me, and let them flutter.
Soon it will be time for sleep.
Let us not lose our way
in this solitude.
O vast, tranquil peace,
so deep at sunset!
How weary we are of wandering---
Is this perhaps death?

[Robert Goren]

Mike Nichols and Elaine May....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wA0-KwSTkAnother Nichols and May
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[illinoisbred]

Great to see this thread resurface....

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[toetoe]

I'd like an olio, please. M-m-make idda double.

[toetoe]

Another Nichols and May
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Pre-'Ishtar' Elaine May ?!? Wow !!!

[falconridge]

Who drips suspensions better than J. Strauss?

Listen from the fourth piece in his Four Last Songs, as suspensions drip like a slowly oozing melt.
Knowing you as well as I do, granmack, I'm sure that misattribution owes only to your mis-striking a key--as toetoe does a golf ball, and with similar results. I'd be astonished if it were otherwise--but I know that just cannot be.

These vier letzte Lieder are, as you very well know, those of Richard Strauss (1864-1949)--not Johann or Josef or any other of the Vienna waltz kings, or, for that matter, any of the Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.

"Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy."

[signed]
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf IV, D.M.A.
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens1262596_bobby-bittman.jpg

[hcap]

Orff, hcap

Who drips suspensions better than J. Strauss?

Listen from the fourth piece in his Four Last Songs, as suspensions drip like a slowly oozing melt.

Simplistic in its form, take in the first minute of counterpoint. Touching.Here is Simplistic for you

The perpetrators are CLEARLY up front and attributable :p


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[hcap]

You did say eclectic.
Some schmaltz

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[bigmack]

These vier letzte Lieder are, as you very well know, those of Richard Strauss (1864-1949)--not Johann or Josef or any other of the Vienna waltz kings, or, for that matter, any of the Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.

"Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy."
Holy Catfish. Leaving for another 'Rendezvous with Neurosis" (but what a body) I hastily assembled that post. In kind sight, I believe my mind actually went with Johann :bang: and I thank you for assuming a typo. I've found the brain making more of these 'no-brainer' faux pas of late.

Richard, of course. It floors me, that first 2 minutes. Such a beautiful unraveling of material. Very strong. I'd die happy knowing I wrote that.

Now available for booking(s),

The Happy Wanderers, featuring Joshua & Stanley Schmenge.

http://static1.spreadia.com/images/825524/obj_02b8c9272faaa875d163f87d8edab427c7868e9f.jpg

You did say eclectic.
Some schmaltz
Too ethnic. :rolleyes:

I'd be interested in some good klezmer iffin' you gots. :ThmbUp:

[Rookies]

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Ein Classic clip deaturing 3 giants of the era, Rick Danko, Jerry & Janis aboard the ill fated 'Festival Express' cross Canada train in 1970.

Several artists here did a reprise a couple of months later in a virtually unknown festival called 'Strawberry Fields' . It was basically Woodstock squared, held a couple of hours from Toronto, in August 1970. There are no known musical recordings of this event unfortunately.

I do know that it existed and it was fabulous, since I attended; although perhaps in the same conditiion as the 3 stars above! ;)

[hcap]

Too ethnic. :rolleyes:

I'd be interested in some good klezmer iffin' you gots. :ThmbUp: Too ethnic? Methinks too picky. How come no too hippy for the Fugs?

However if you can live with all these guys being Jewish........


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[falconridge]

Now available for booking(s),

The Happy Wanderers, featuring Joshua & Stanley Schmenge.

http://static1.spreadia.com/images/825524/obj_02b8c9272faaa875d163f87d8edab427c7868e9f.jpg
Will there be cabbage rolls and coffee? How ’bout an opening act—say, the Return of ‘the King'? :jump: :jump:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD36ybdlAKU

Bobby (né Herschel) Bittman, to passengers on the Titanic: [singing ]

Up, down,
And now as we drown,
I believe that my act will go on! [...]
BB: Hey, sweetheart, is that an icicle on your nose?--Or are you just glad to sneeze me! :faint: :eek:
Hey, good news, bad news. Good news--the Titanic will be found; bad news--Nineteen ninety-five!

Boy, I feel like I’m dyin’ up here … But I guess we’re all dyin’!
[...]
[singing ]
Up, down,
And now as we drown,
I believe that my act will go on! http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens1262596_bobby-bittman.jpg

[bigmack]

BB: Hey, sweetheart, is that an icicle on your nose?--Or are you just glad to sneeze me! :faint: :eek:6_bobby-bittman.jpg[/img] :lol:

B2 workin' the big ships.

Keyboards provided courtesy:

http://www.karcreat.com/SCTV-TexEdna.jpg
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Here is Simplistic for you

The perpetrators are CLEARLY up front and attributable :p
Get hep. I was all over The Fugs years ago.

The upright bassist needs to tidy up that solo.

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Coffy soundtrack ala. toes in Lost Wages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCzsr7kVEfM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCzsr7kVEfM)

[Tom]

You guys need some real time eclecticy....Wiener Dog trials are live on TVG right now.

Mr. Schnitzel......un-beee-leeee-va-bullllll!

[toetoe]

How ah ya ?!?



You ... Mack ... get the Fug outta heah.

You ... Ridge ... cue up the Lorne Greene classic ... ya know, "Bring on the dancing girls, and we'll go into town ..." yadda yadda, an' like dat.

An' don't tell no body dat I sang 'Happy Wanderer' for my audition for the S.F. Boys Chorus.

Look for more classics on this very station, including 'Crotch Us If You Can', by Anita Schmenge.

[toetoe]

eschew

Gesundheit, mein herr.



P.S. How ah ya ?

[toetoe]

Mahler....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DHYRMoTN4



Wasn't he from Manassa ?

[toetoe]

:lol: [/font]

B2 workin' the big ships.

Keyboards provided courtesy:

http://www.karcreat.com/SCTV-TexEdna.jpg
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Get hep. I was all over The Fugs years ago.

The upright bassist needs to tidy up that solo.

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Coffy soundtrack ala. toes in Lost Wages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCzsr7kVEfM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCzsr7kVEfM)





Mistah Roy Ayers, vibraphonist extraordinaire, also came up with the following:

Sunshine
Everybody love the sunshine

Sunshine
Folks get down in the sunshine

Sunshine
Folks get brown in the sunshine



I mean, come on ... that's worthy of Mike "Kickertoodah" Curb, of 'Burning Britches' fame.

[falconridge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYeCwknuW_g&feature=related Love the black-and-white photos of old Pittsburgh (Forbes Field, the mills, Kennywood Park, "Donntonn"--that's Downtown, for those o' yinz who don't speak the lingo), where my cousins' "Uncle Jawny" grew up.

Sick with memory,
f.r.


My father wrote to me and asked:
"Why don't you tell your ma
Just where you're going?" And I said:
"I'm going to Pittsburgh, Pa."

I had a friend named Callahan,
Said, "Where you going, Pal?"
I answered him as quick as that:
"To San Francisco, Cal."

I had a friend named Moses, and
He asked: "Where will you go?"
I hesitated not at all,
But said: "St. Louis, Mo."

I had a friend named Michael,
He said: "Hello, old fish,
Where do you go from Pittsburgh?" And
I answered: "Detroit, Mich."
--Ring Lardner, in a private letter to Ellis Abbott, October 1909

[falconridge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Gz6Wndg3Q

Check out the high-coloratura obbligato ( :faint: ) and the drunken heckler who keeps demanding the Buckaroos do "Tiger by the Tail." :lol:

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Early Cab Calloway in b&w

"Kicking the gong around"

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[bigmack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Gz6Wndg3Q

Check out the high-coloratura obbligato ( :faint: ) and the drunken heckler who keeps demanding the Buckaroos do "Tiger by the Tail." :lol:
Jeeze Louise. "The Old Man" was a fan of Buck O. I 'member as a kid I would pimp that coloratura garnering a snicker from the sibling units.

In the non-honkey version, The Big Three Trio busts up Cigareets, Whuskey & Wild Women whilst some schmoe axes fer 'Til the Day I Die. :jump:

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[falconridge]

And here's what comes o' all o' them coffin nails, sour mash, 'n' skirts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPcGxCNnXE
Who told you you could boogie?
Who fool you that way?
Stop try'na be a youngsta,
I don't believe a word you say!
...
You too stiff t' even boogie,
You can' even tie you' shoes!
Dig the dirty trumpet riff at around 1:32.

Never figgered out what happened to my own Ivory Joe Hunter platters; they were in a lot better shape than this one--before I packed 'em into a Bekins box bound, I thought, for the new digs in Rancho Cuc. Wish I still had 'em :( . They're in good company, though--tucked right alongside my copy of Floyd Dixon's "Red Head and Cadillac."

[falconridge]

Born on this day (July 30) in 1933: Connie’s “maximum utmost”--

Edd “Kookie” Byrnes


http://www.starstills.com/product_images/r/376/ss2325726_-_photograph_of_edd_byrnes_as_gerald_lloyd_kookie_k ookson_iii_from_77_sunset_strip_available_in_4_siz es_framed_or_unframed_buy_now_at_starstills__17164 _zoom.jpg

If you’ve got smog in your noggin—and don’t we all, ever since Connie made the scene?—this’ll send you to that planet called … you know it, baby, the END!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onjr-NV0KCM&feature


http://www.southseascinema.org/HAWAIIAN%20EYE%20still%20Connie%20Stevens%20in%20h ula%20outfit%20crop%20w%20caps.jpg


Ah, Connie, baby, you’re the ginchiest!

[Tom]

Now that is a blast from the past!
Holy Moly, I remember that one! :D

[toetoe]

obbligato



De nada.

[Robert Fischer]

De nada.

some classic eclectics in here!


i should really call it quits for the night, don't feel tired yet but I saw the Thread Title(Eclectic Grab Bag) and Last Poster(Toetoe) and it read ("ECLECTIC TOEGRAB") :confused::confused::confused:


:ThmbUp:had to check it out (hopefully not my eyes)

[toetoe]

("ECLECTIC TOEGRAB") :confused::confused::confused:






I wasn't getting traction on the track.

---- Cuppy Broccoli

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No, not the fifth or the ninth

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[bigmack]

Macalopolus highly recommends to any guitarists, amp-modeling software, Guitar Rig by Native Instruments. The preset sounds are incredible. :ThmbUp:

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