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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 14:15:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 15:10:01 GMT -5
Crazy for Jazz.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 21:32:04 GMT -5
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Post by raybar on Oct 19, 2016 7:36:59 GMT -5
"Sleepwalk" Number 1 Hit for Santo and Johnny in 1959. Covered by The Ventures on their first album, "Walk Don't Run," in 1960.
I was 12 in 1959. Never heard steel guitar before and never knew how that sound was made (probably never really thought about it) until I learned to play guitar in college.
What's with the links to infowars and prisonplanet half way through the video?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 15:48:01 GMT -5
I just wanted to share the song.
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Post by raybar on Oct 20, 2016 9:48:07 GMT -5
Here's another cover of "Sleepwalk" - a mellow arrangement from (of all people) The Ventures. The guitarist is Nole "Nokie" Edwards who was with The Ventures off and on throughout their career. You usually think of lead guitar from The Ventures as single notes playing a melody. This is more Nashville.
"Sleepwalk" begins at 37:14 -- click the link in the first comment.
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Post by raybar on Oct 20, 2016 9:53:08 GMT -5
And here's one done on an actual pedal steel guitar, again with Nokie on lead normal guitar
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Post by raybar on Oct 20, 2016 12:50:24 GMT -5
Last one - - I was still poking around on YouTube but had moved on from "Sleepwalk" to other interests. However, the universe must have thought I wasn't finished, and directed me to the original artists.
"Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 14:00:56 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember those other versions. The reason I selected the one by HAPA is because they're a very popular duo in Hawaii.
One of the duo is Caucasian and the other is Hawaiian.
Of the four youtube versions here, I really do like the HAPA version best. And that's my unbiased opinion. I wonder what others might think.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 14:08:18 GMT -5
Hapa - Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
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Post by raybar on Oct 20, 2016 21:26:13 GMT -5
Thanks for that, Lily. I let YouTube run "up next" videos for a couple hours while I was trying not to ruin a camera while repairing it this morning. When I first heard the term "Slack Key" and listened to a few songs, I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to mean. The songs were full of harmony and had an obvious Hawaiian feel, but what was slack? . . . A little out of tune? No. . . . Timing and tempo wandering a bit? Not really. . . . Then someone said "open tuning." Well, we used to do something we called "D tuning" back in the day, which is listed as "Open D" at Big City String Company www.bigcitystrings.com/tgslack.htm (I just found this through Google). Of course, we were playing Ravi Shanker influenced hippy crap, not Hawaiian stuff, but the tuning was the same, and open tuning made it possible to strum chords when you were too stoned to move your fingers properly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 17:14:11 GMT -5
My favorite place to visit is the past.
January 17, 1959
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Post by raybar on Nov 9, 2016 17:59:14 GMT -5
I don't think I've heard "It's Only Make Believe" since junior high school. January 1959 - 11 years old - sixth grade. I especially like the electricians in the doorway after he starts down the aisle. Now that's production value!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 18:17:22 GMT -5
I don't think I've heard "It's Only Make Believe" since junior high school. January 1959 - 11 years old - sixth grade. I especially like the electricians in the doorway after he starts down the aisle. Now that's production value! Hahaha I guess you would notice that being the movie industry that is your background. Until you mentioned it, I never noticed them. I was just memorized by the man and his song, just like I was back in 1959 when I was also 11 years old. I was a huge romantic back then and I guess still am--sprinkled with unfortunately the reality of what relationships are really like, but still somehow being a dreamer anyway.
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Post by raybar on Nov 9, 2016 19:30:46 GMT -5
Well, sometimes I notice such errors, sometimes I don't. This one was pretty obvious, with the light behind Twitty changing so much.
One error that I've seen a lot recently is the light going from bright daytime to dusk when only a couple minutes of story time have passed. Of course, I've been on set many times when shooting took too long, we "lost the light" in late afternoon, but still had to finish the scene. On a lot of television and other limited budget projects, we didn't have to get it right, we just had to get it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 19:59:37 GMT -5
Interestingly enough, the Dick Clark American Bandstand shows were broadcast live. I wonder if their goofs maybe were more excusable because of that?
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Post by raybar on Nov 9, 2016 20:38:48 GMT -5
Yeah. Live broadcast means you can't fix anything. In this case, the electricians probably didn't realize they were on camera, and you can't yell "CUT" when you're on the air. Or, you could, but that would be broadcast too. And in those days they didn't have monitors all over the place and crew members weren't wearing headsets so nobody could tell them to get out of the way. At least not without that being broadcast as well.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 14:46:00 GMT -5
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Post by raybar on Nov 14, 2016 15:08:14 GMT -5
The music is good - - two great guitar - - but all men's suits from the 1970s should be burned.
A decade earlier, in 1964, Church Berry and Bo Diddley released an album called "Two Great Guitars." The sound is a bit dated, being 50 years old and in the early rock and roll style. But it's worth at least sampling some of it.
EDIT - - look before you leap department -- only the first two tracks in that link are from the album. The whole album is available on spotify.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 17:28:34 GMT -5
For Trump Supporters to their HERO!
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Post by rmarks1 on Jan 1, 2017 23:04:50 GMT -5
Last Night I had the Strangest Dream. Simon and Garfunkel
Bob
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Post by raybar on Jan 1, 2017 23:36:33 GMT -5
"Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream" by Ed McCurdy has been recorded many times. Spotify has it by 36 different artists (if I counted correctly), including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, The Limeliters, Liberace (of all people), and of course Ed McCurdy himself. I first heard it in high school by the Chad Mitchell Trio during the folk music crazy of the 1960s.
Will this dream ever come true?
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Post by raybar on Feb 2, 2017 21:34:14 GMT -5
"Build Me Up Buttercup" Released in 1968. I probably hadn't heard it since, well 1968.
"Daydream Believer" Released in 1967. Billboard Number One hit for a month. Who would have thought that a fictitious band made up for a stupid TV series would become a successful real band?
Nothing else comes immediately to mind with "foundation" or "buttercup" in the title, but - - Continuing the daydream theme, how about "Daydream" by the Lovin' Spoonful (1966) And continuing the Monkees theme, how about "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way" by the Blow Monkeys (1987)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2017 14:10:49 GMT -5
I actually have never heard of The Blow Monkeys. But they did remind of someone else.
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