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What Kind of Music Do You Like?
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: David925 on July 05, 2006, 07:48:21 pm ---The facts do take away from some of the romance of the story, but I always try to picture Beethoven writing this beautiful composition for his Immortal Beloved when I play it. It is so full of emotion. :)
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Exactly David. I find it hard to believe that he wasn't thinking of a special someone when he was writing it. Have you seen the film 'Immortal Beloved'? OMG, it breaks my heart :'(
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 05, 2006, 07:52:15 pm ---Tijuana Taxi!
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:laugh: :laugh: One of the funniest song's ever. Not sure why but it makes me laugh every time i hear it.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 04, 2006, 09:20:06 am ---Indeed. That was their only hit over here as well. And they dropped of the chart after a few weeks.
I clearly remember being 25 yrs old, listening to them on the radio in my Lime Green 1974 Cadillac Eldorado ! ha ha ha!
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David -
I remember those lime green cars. My mother owned a pea green Oldsmobile Cutlass in the early 1970's. It really funny when I think about it now. Back then a lot of people drove green cars, and now most people wouldn't be caught dead in one. At least not in this country.
I wonder what colors people will be driving 30 years from today? ???
Andrew:
Getting back for a moment to Claire de lune, which two of you mentioned...even if Debussy had not written Pelleas and Melisande, La mer or Prelude to the afternoon of a faun this one short piano piece would guarantee that he was remembered as a great composer. My brother used to play this when he has 20 and I was 8. I would creep into the living room every time I heard him begin it, thrilled. What distant places it took me to in such a tiny span of time! I would await with equal fear and anticipation the 'four broken chords' which told me the journey needed to come back to the place it began. My brother seemed just as marvellous as this music - clever, learned, full of different talents, strong and tall - at six feet five inches he would still be a few inches taller than I am now were he alive, but he died just a few years later at 23. Of course Claire de lune has an added human layer for me because of this, but it is also the pure musical wonder it was when I first heard it.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Andrew on July 05, 2006, 08:40:05 pm ---My brother seemed just as marvellous as this music - clever, learned, full of different talents, strong and tall - at six feet five inches he would still be a few inches taller than I am now were he alive, but he died just a few years later at 23.
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I sure am sorry to hear about this Andrew. :(
He sounds like he was a wonderful musician!
ZouBEini:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 05, 2006, 07:52:15 pm ---LOL! Don't get me wrong. I like alot of the 50s stuff too. Some of my favorites...Run around Sue, the Wanderer...etc.
Herb Alpert! OMG! I used to listen to my folks old records of him! Peaches and Cream, Tijuana Taxi! LOL.
My Mom was into Country Western. So I was exposed to alot of Johnny Cash and reruns of the TV show HEE HAW! LOL.
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LOL! No David, I assumed you meant it was sort of a generational thing, enjoying the music of one's youth. And I didn't think anyone would remember Herb Alpert! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I remember thinking of him when I replaced my old brass trumpet with a silver one. During those days I abandoned my '76 silver Starfire for my mother's silver 1973 Cutlass Supreme, so I could scoop up my choir and band friends. I loved that big Lass! We never had a lime green car, but I'll bet you were noticed! :laugh: :P
My parents weren't into C&W but we also watched Hee Haw faithfully. I wondered why Minnie Pearl never removed that price tag from her hat! Well, duh - that was one of her trademarks! "Howww-DEEE!" A lot of guys were watching the busty girls in daisy dukes. I was watching the Hagar twins. ;)
~Larz
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