MUSIC ... what do you like?

Heard this today when we were out and about and it brought back some many memories ...

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8d3Shlfrg"]YouTube- Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow[/nomedia]

... and it reminded me of this ...

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4"]YouTube- Cat Stevens - Moonshadow[/nomedia]

... and reminded me of this ...

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ov78kAMNg"]YouTube- Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (HQ Original Video)[/nomedia]

 

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGi49Bnghs"]YouTube- Horowitz plays Chopin Polonaise Op. 53 in A flat major[/nomedia]

 

The film presently on Film4 is the 1944 classic "Laura" starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price.

I've always liked the film, (I've got it on video somewhere, Gene Tierney "was something else") and the song, written by David Raksin & Johnny Mercer.

Someone has put this clip of excerpts from the film on YouTube (a lot of Gene Tierney) with this recording by Sinatra.
I've got that too on a CD.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LxUKbejIs"]YouTube- Gene Tierney - The LAURA videoclipe[/nomedia]


They don't write 'em like this any more.

 

If you've a spare $10,000 or maybe more, you might reach the reserve price on this piece of "jukebox history."

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320567094088

 

Love a bit of ZZ TOP, that drummer in the vid is a whole act on his own :yho:

 

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvRDJe5a51g"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia]

 

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8erYgYfw0"]YouTube- Pur - Ein Graues Haar[/nomedia]

 

Have just come across this wonderful thread and been listenng to just a few of your choices. As a child of the '40's', I can recall much of the older stuff and am fascinated by the wide knowledge of some of you - but no mention as far aas I can see of Frankie Laine, Johnny Ray and Guy Mitchell who all had the Liverpool Empire packed to the rafters when they were in town.
Still enjoy popular music but probably prefer the West Coast American stuff most as well as Nashville - The Grand Ole Opry is a great night out!

 

Hi there barnaby and pleased you found this thread.

I lived in the States for 20 years, having left in December 1977 (there was a 7 year period I lived in the UK in between but I had lived in the States previously), and I really got into folk and country and the West Coast stuff and the Grand Ole Opry living in Alabama.

Funny how one's tastes change with life .. I still love all what I did in the 60s/70s and will always but I have in my later life got into Indie Rock and more modern folk rock ... but I have never lost sight of my 'roots' in music which is folk and country.

Music is a wonderful vehicle in life and a big part of my life as I listen to it daily.

 

Recorded only two years before his death from lung cancer, how he was still playing I'll never know.



[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkcRo7oUIro"]YouTube- Paul Desmond plays "Emily" - Monterey Jazz festival 1975[/nomedia]

 

Clap your hands and stamp your feet.....:yho:and have some fun.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKCcePIXqZU"]YouTube- Last Night of the Proms - Sailor's Hornpipe...[/nomedia]

 

Thanks for that Shiney,I remember Billy Fury well,was a great fan of his ballards.

 

Ooo!

"Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames"

I've always liked Georgie Fame, I bought his CD "Three Line Whip" over ten years ago.

His band were resident at a club in Stoke Newington in the sixties when we lived near Tottenham.
Then in the seventies when we moved here, we used to get a dozen free tickets each week for a South Manchester nightclub as I knew the manager.
We used to take "half the street" on Saturday nights and saw all the top acts there from Tommy Cooper to the Bee Gees.
His band were on one particular Saturday night and he was excellent.
The following morning we read in the paper that the police had raided the dressing rooms after the show and they'd all been busted for drug use.

Shame that his wife committed suicide by jumping off the Clifton suspension bridge.

 

I heard this song for the first time in many years last year when the recording was featured in the Mel Gibson film "Air America" on TV. So I bought the single (again) for my first jukebox.
The film was shown again a few days ago, I watched it again as I enjoyed it.

This is the song.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6DwwEjAU8"]YouTube- The Four Tops : Baby I need Your Lovin'[/nomedia]