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keesan
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Music at Kiwanis
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Nov 20 23:01 UTC 1999 |
Can you tell me anything, such as date, type of music, etc., about the
following records, which I found in the ten cent bin at Kiwanis Sale in Ann
Arbor? (Incoming records are marked $1, after a month they go down to 75
cents, then 50, 25 and finally 10 cents, so these are either the less popular
records or those produced in such volume that the market was flood with them).
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keesan
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response 1 of 141:
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Nov 20 23:05 UTC 1999 |
The first ten nonclassical records in the bin:
1. Andre Kostelanetz, Wonderland by Moonlight and other songs.
(There are lots of records by Andre Kostelanetz. What period was he popular
during, and did he record dance music, pseudo-classical, popular songs?)
2. George Greeley and Orch. Love the World Away
3. More Sing Along with Mitch Miller and the Gang. One of many Mitch's.
Includes Pretty Baby, Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee, the Whiffenpoof Song.
4. Engelbert Humperdinck. The Last Waltz, etc.
5. Bergen Sings Morgan. Luther Henderson Orchestra. (Helen Bergen) ??
6. Harry Simeono Chorale. Battle Hymn of the Republic, No Man is an Island,
and many other famous songs (and many less famous ones as well)
7. Sound of Music (one of many copies)
8. Perry Como. Let Me Call You Baby Tonight.
10. Barry Manilow. Tryin to Get the Feeling.
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omni
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response 2 of 141:
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Nov 21 00:35 UTC 1999 |
Andre Kostelanetz- Mid 50's, and 60's. Same with Mitch Miller.
Englebert- 70's.
Harry Simeon- Timeless.
Perry Como- Anywhere from the 40's to the 80's. He was huge.
Barry Manilow- Late 60's to mid 70's. His music died with Disco.
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keesan
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response 3 of 141:
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Nov 21 02:59 UTC 1999 |
How many songs can people name which include the word Baby?
In about 1800, Baby was not generally found in the names of songs, but Little,
Sweet, Lovely, Cottage and Bonny were widely used in titles. Are there any
recent songs about sweet lovely bonny little cottages?
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mcnally
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response 4 of 141:
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Nov 21 04:11 UTC 1999 |
You *don't* want to get started asking people how many songs they can
name with "Baby" in the title.. Grex's disk space is, after all, finite..
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gnat
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response 5 of 141:
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Nov 21 23:37 UTC 1999 |
But how many songs are there that use the word "baby" that are actually
referring to babies?
... Never mind.
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keesan
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response 6 of 141:
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Nov 22 02:57 UTC 1999 |
What other words are widely used in currently popular song? (Please give
examples, at least five per word, with composer's name).
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orinoco
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response 7 of 141:
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Nov 22 05:36 UTC 1999 |
(Wow...even the gun-control people don't ask for that much documentation)
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krj
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response 8 of 141:
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Nov 23 08:32 UTC 1999 |
Time is a great filter, and it seems like lots of the filtered-out stuff is
washing ashore at Kiwanis... Mitch Miller and his sing-along albums were
chart-topping stuff in the pre-rock-n-roll era. Was Miller the one whose
show had the lyrics on the screen, and you were invited to "follow the
bouncing ball?" I believe Andre Kostelanetz performed quiet mellow
instrumental music. Engelbert Humperdinck (who named himself after German
composer) was a bit of a rival to Tom Jones in the sexy-crooner department.
The only reasonably contemporary pop song I can think of in which the word
"baby" denotes an infant human would be "Stay Up Late," by Talking Heads.
Now you'll tell me it's just a metaphor.
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orinoco
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response 9 of 141:
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Nov 23 16:02 UTC 1999 |
Mark Cohn did a gospel-ish song on one of his albums called "Baby King,"
referring to Jesus. If I paid any attention to real gospel music, I could
probably give you more examples of the same thing.
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mcnally
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response 10 of 141:
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Nov 23 17:09 UTC 1999 |
There's always Neil Sedaka's (or was it Paul Anka's?) timeless
musical atrocity "You're Having My Baby"..
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bruin
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response 11 of 141:
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Nov 23 18:35 UTC 1999 |
RE #10 Paul Anka did "Having My Baby."
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lumen
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response 12 of 141:
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Nov 23 21:26 UTC 1999 |
Amy Grant wrote "Baby Baby" about her real life baby, although the
lyrics are vague enough to be interpreted as a typical pop love tune.
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otaking
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response 13 of 141:
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Nov 23 21:57 UTC 1999 |
Vanilla Ice did "Ice Ice Baby"
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bruin
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response 14 of 141:
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Nov 23 23:40 UTC 1999 |
I have a song on one of my CD's titled "B-A-B-Y" by Carla Thomas. Song was
written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes (a/k/a the voice of Chef on "South
Park").
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keesan
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response 15 of 141:
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Nov 24 18:42 UTC 1999 |
My baby piano (5.25 octaves) has just been tuned, so I got out some Mozart
and Schubert songs for it, also The Parlor Song Book 'Sing me the songs that
to me were so dear, long, long ago, long ago' (19th century songs).
Not a Baby anywhere in the titles. But a few other family members:
Shall I be an Angel, Daddy? Watching for Pa. Auntie. Come Home, Father.
Father's a Drunkard and Mother is Dead. Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother. Dear
Mother, I've Come Home to Die.
Categories of songs are: Songs of Love, Songs of Battle and the Deep, Songs
of Foreign Lands, Songs of the Family (Grandfather's Clock - missed that one,
A Boy's Best Friend is His Mother), Songs of Childhood, Sacred and
Sentimental, Rum and True Religion, Minstrel Songs, and the large category
Songs of Disaster and Death.
What are today's most popular categories (other than Love)?
Are there any new songs composed for the over-thirties? Does anyone still
sing songs for enjoyment? (The library has lots of song books). When was
the last time you sang? (I sang My Country Tis of Thee Monday). Are songs
of death still popular?
.The Burial of the Linnet - what is the closest modern song in theme?
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mcnally
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response 16 of 141:
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Nov 24 19:04 UTC 1999 |
Songs about death are still popular (wildly popular in some groups)
but their general appeal is not so strong. You won't hear them on
the radio because they don't help the advertisers sell stuff..
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keesan
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response 17 of 141:
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Nov 24 21:39 UTC 1999 |
How many songs of war can people name - Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam?
I can think of When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Over There, Green Beret.
Are there new categories since the 19th century? My book had no category of
humorous songs, such as the one about the bikini.
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tpryan
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response 18 of 141:
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Nov 24 21:54 UTC 1999 |
I sang at Karaoke last Saturday: "Weird Al"'s "Eat It" (to
celebrate overeating at xgiving), and Kermit's "Being Green".
Blacksmith of Brandy Wine - Revolutionary War
When Tenskwatawa Sings - a reverse angel on the Battle of
Tippecanoe (The one that made Harris famous)
Dane Geld - (actually, an attempt to avoid war)
The Parting Glass - Revolutionary War
Touch a Name on the Wall (Joel Mabus) - Vietnam
Fort Sackville - War of 1812 (America vs. Brithish)
Paid Soldiers of Dorsai - from Gordon Dickson's universe
Only 100 Died (Susan Urban) - Gulf War
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gnat
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response 19 of 141:
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Nov 24 22:28 UTC 1999 |
There's tons and tons of war songs from the Vietnam era - protest songs,
etc., not to mention that Phil Ochs song about draft-dodging.
One of my favorite war songs is "The Butcher's Tale" by the Zombies,
about World War I (and, since it dates from the 1960's, probably an
oblique comment on Vietnam).
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dbratman
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response 20 of 141:
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Nov 24 23:47 UTC 1999 |
I seem to recall that some eyebrows were raised when the Beatles decided
to leaven their love-song repertoire with occasional ditties about
paperback writers, lonely spinsters, and yellow submarines.
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keesan
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response 21 of 141:
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Nov 25 17:47 UTC 1999 |
I had no idea there were Gulf War songs. Are there any songs about the events
of the last ten years in E. Europe (glasnost, Kosovo, Berlin Wall)?
Which local radio station might play current-events songs?
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orinoco
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response 22 of 141:
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Nov 25 18:21 UTC 1999 |
There were quite a few Gulf War songs, both of the "let's go kick butt"
variety and of the "on second thought, no, let's not" variety. Moxy Fruvous'
"Gulf War Song" is a personal favorite of the second kind.
U2 used to put out a lot of good political songs, though I think they're doing
less of that now. The cover to "Achtung Baby" - (another "baby" reference
for you there) - was a picture of graffiti from the Berlin Wall. Rage Against
The Machine seems to be the political-band-of-the-moment. I'm not a big fan
of theirs, so I'll leave song reccomendations to someone else.
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keesan
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response 23 of 141:
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Nov 26 01:49 UTC 1999 |
Apart from sex (love, family) and violence (war, death), another favorite
category seems to be drugs, including coffee, tea, and alcohol, and tobacco.
I can think of Bach's Coffee Cantata - are there other coffee songs?
Jim offers They Drink a Lot of Coffee in Brazil. Tea for Two. Drink to me
only with thine eyes. Days of Wine and Roses. Dry Martini, Bottle of Gin,
oh what a spell you've got me in, oh my, do I...... (he continues to sing);
(make that jigger of gin, he giggles). Beer Barrel Polka. "I slipped behind
the barn I had my first drink of was it white lightning?" "There's no end
to the number of drinking songs, I just can't recall them now."
Student Prince: Drink, drink, drink.......
I am also still interested in current events songs. Anything on Kosovo?
Bosnia? (In English). Russia?
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bruin
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response 24 of 141:
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Nov 26 02:24 UTC 1999 |
Other songs with alcoholic beverages in the title: "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,"
"Drinking Wine Spodey Odey" (Jerry Lee Lewis), and the obligatory "Escape (The
Pina Colada Song)."
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