What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

Never thought I'd like country as much as I do...

Went for another amazing album on my commute this morning.

No link possible here, as will become clear ...

My wife and I drove in to our city's center today, also the shopping center. While I got my things done quickly, she got stuck in a rather longer than normal queue at the post office.
Wile I was thus waiting near where we wanted to meet for the last leg of our shopping together, a young woman started setting up her music stand and unpacking her guitar.
Street musicians are quite common in the shopping center area, especially in the pedestrians-only area. And some are amazingly good.
Same here. When she started to sing, I did quite a double-take (or double-hear).
Let's put it this way, some music millionairesses definitely do not want do head-to-head with that voice, as they would seriously be put to shame.
There's some awesome unknown talent out there ....

Something like this, maybe?

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Something like this, maybe?

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No, seriously better than that. To my tin ear, she may have had some operatic training. That first song I heard (no idea what the title was, it was in English) she sang without a mike.
That's what really caught my attention, the clearness and carry of her unamplified voce.
She then set up a mike stand and attached a portable amp / speaker rig. I would have thought she didn't need it, but then I'm anything but a voice teacher.
And temperatures were in the single digits, maybe 7°C or about 45°F, so it was probably a good idea to keep her from straining her voice.
I'd say she matches any of the voices of Mamamoo or Spica that I've heard in your posts, in fact - at least matches, if not more ...

Is that your Christmas Songs choice, Aldarion?

Guess I need to give the thread another bump!

Aldarion said:

Medieval stuff, what else?

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And here's another:

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Is that your Christmas Songs choice, Aldarion?

Guess I need to give the thread another bump!

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Yes, it is.

Things are going from bad to worse. And this one I can't even blame S-eS for!
I've had this German comedy song running around my head most of today (for whatever reason - even I don't know).
By perhaps Germany's leading "song comedian" (for the US, only Ray Stevens, with his "Gitarzan" - I own the LP so titled - comes to mind), Mike Krüger.
Had his breakthrough in the mid-1970s, I have his first two (live-recorded) LPs from 1975 and 1976.
On the first one, with his signature song, he also had a short Rock'n'Roll piece, which he termed a "genuine German Rock'n'Roll", "Faltenrock".
"Rock", besides having been naturalized in Germany as the term for a music genre, also means apparel-wise (for women) skirt.
And the "Faltenrock" simply means a pleated skirt. The double meaning obviously gets "lost in translation", but a basic male-female disagreement on things fashion remains, IMO.
To let the cat out of the bag, I found a post on YouTube in which the original poster had written out the entire lyrics.
Which provided me with the missing text fragments to complete the translation that had also been doing a bee-in-the-bonnet aggravation to me.
Note: I had enough trouble finding rhymes that did not distort meaning too much or even completely. getting syllables right was impossible.

You have had enough "health warnings". You continue to read at your own risk.

I once knew a girl who was quite nice
she wasn’t thin, nor was she “twice”
she wasn’t short, nor was she tall
but made me bang my head to the wall

heaven help, she wears pleated skirts
oh, she wears pleated skirts
she wears pleated skirts, people
banging my head against the wall hurts

I told her
baby, please get rid of that
just makes you look like a bat
pleats do you not really grace
except for resembling your face

heaven help, she wears pleated skirts
oh, she wears pleated skirts
she wears pleated skirts, people
banging my head against the wall hurts

really tried everything I can
even booked a flight to Japan
bought her a kimono, hoping to mend her
when she burned it, I went on a bender

heaven help, she wears pleated skirts
oh, she wears pleated skirts
she wears pleated skirts, people
banging my head against the wall hurts

if you don’t take if off, we’ll have a fight
don’t tell me you also wear it at night
you won’t believe it, it sounds like a drama
at night she wears a pleated pyjama!

almost like pleated skirts
almost like pleated skirts
almost like pleated skirts, people
banging my head against the wall hurts

ouuu yeah

For those with sufficient language skills in German, I attach the YouTube link with the original 1975 performance (the one with the entire original text written out):


A P.S.: Krüger claims (on the LP sleeve) to have composed the melody himself, too. Baloney Slices! He stole at least from "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Tutti Frutti"!

Erestor Arcamen said:

Went for another amazing album on my commute this morning.

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I saw them live in February 1974 where they played most of this album along with some other great ones. 4-channel sound in the Seattle Coliseum!

Been in a Doors mood the last day or so...

Halasían said:

I saw them live in February 1974 where they played most of this album along with some other great ones. 4-channel sound in the Seattle Coliseum!

Been in a Doors mood the last day or so...

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Jealous. Most of the bands that I consider my favorites (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.) are either no longer together or individuals from the bands are the only ones active so I try to see any older bands I can when they come around. Last year Yes came to Pittsburgh on their 50th anniversary tour. They were amazing. We're having a baby so I may not get to as many concerts this year but Leonard Skynard's coming on their farewell tour so I may try to go see them. I did see them once after a Pirates game a few years ago at least, it was just a short concert.

A couple of cool cuts (not the one you immediately think of) off the soundtrack LP of one of the coolest of the cool shows of the late 50's-early 60's -- a cool era indeed:



I wasn't cool, myself, but I played along on tenor sax. . .at least alone in my bedroom, with this on, I was the personification of cool.

And here's the theme music from another of the cool shows of the period:

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

A couple of cool cuts (not the one you immediately think of) off the soundtrack LP of one of the coolest of the cool shows of the late 50's-early 60's -- a cool era indeed:



I wasn't cool, myself, but I played along on tenor sax. . .at least alone in my bedroom, with this on, I was the personification of cool.

And here's the theme music from another of the cool shows of the period:

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Both shows were cancelled before my parents and I came to the US, but were probably still to be seen in syndicated re-runs, Not on my parents' must-see list, though.

Ah, Mancini played flute himself, that's why the Herbie Mann feeling in the first title.
And in the second, they took a cue from the group that to me epitomizes Cool Jazz, the coolest of them all, the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Milt Jackson's vibraphone is pretty much always awesome. Of course, I had already earlier heard Benny Goodman's sideman, that other, earlier vibes giant Lionel Hampton. Actually saw Hampton and his then band live in Nürnberg some time in the 80s together with my father. Being in his seventies then, Hampton had slowed down a bit, but still really good stuff.

R66: forget the theme song (nice ditty), that car!!!!! One of the old Corvettes, and must have been a model just before THE Corvette, the legendary Sting Ray, as the rear end definitely already is that of (apparently kept for) the Sting Ray. 😛🤪

OK, I've gone back to before I joined TTF on this thread (page 9), and have not found this song. The Temptations, with their greatest of greatests (and that's saying a lot!).
"Papa was a Rollin' Stone"
Whatever ... think I like this version best. (From my sneaking around YouTube days, perhaps, before I figured out linking …)

Olorgando said:

A P.S.: Krüger claims (on the LP sleeve) to have composed the melody himself, too. Baloney Slices! He stole at least from "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Tutti Frutti"!

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OK, so memory has become glacial!
Check the suspected originals, what else?
Intro and refrain: that's definitely "a wop bop a loo bop bam boom", from Richard Pennyman's screamer "Tutti Frutti".
Other parts - yep, does sound very much like Presley's "Blue Suede Shoes" (erm? written by Carl Perkins!).

That said, 1950s R'n'R has an overlap in riffs to a degree never remotely reached (perhaps with one exception) in later decades (I own a seven-LP Elvis gem called "100 Super Rocks". with practically no "Colonel" Parker garbage on it). The only time popular music became more limited was in the (early?) 1980s three-chord Punk phase (I'm taking this statement on the authority of people who claim to be able to tell one chord from another, not from personal knowledge …) 😶

EDIT: "Twenty Flight Rock" might actually be the most promising of sources - but surprisingly, it was never covered by Elvis? (Original by Eddie Cochran)

Here's the young Lionel Hampton, with the Benny Goodman Quartet (Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa being the other two) -- all of them going nuts:


It's a clip from "Hollywood Hotel", 1937 which also gave us the song that's been played at the Academy Awards ever since:


They must have a sense of humor -- either that, or they never listened to the words!

Directed by Busby Berkeley, by the way.

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Here's the young Lionel Hampton, with the Benny Goodman Quartet (Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa being the other two) -- all of them going nuts:

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The were ALL, all four of the quartet, pups then. All under 30. And never mind Hobbit-coming-of-age 33!

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

It's a clip from "Hollywood Hotel", 1937 which also gave us the song that's been played at the Academy Awards ever since:

They must have a sense of humor -- either that, or they never listened to the words!
Directed by Busby Berkeley, by the way.

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"Hooray for Hollywood"?!? With 07 December having jut passed, I can't help thinking that the Japanese fleet had a target that needed bombing (from today's point of view, anyway) much more desperately than that bunch overaged battleships (to become nearly irrelevant in the coming war, anyway) in Hawaii. But fuel and range limitations ruled out that humanitarian mission.

Hollywood has given us some great movies, but is as subject to Sturgeon's Law as every other human endeavor!