I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

James Taylor

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Belinda, my mother used to play "Rhapsody in Blue" on the stereo to soothe me when I was a fussy, colicky baby. It is in my very earliest memories. I loved United Airlines for many years (even though their service doesn't merit it!) because they used "Rhapsody in Blue" as the music in their commercials! I understand from my clarinetist friends that the opening rill of "Rhapsody in Blue" is quite difficult -- not to mention the pressure of setting the entire piece up for the audience!



My mom said that she always left the radio and a low light on in my room when I was an infant because I couldn't go to sleep without music. It sticks with you!



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PiP, one of the songs on one of my car CDs is Glen Campbell's "Galveston," one of the first and one of the most poignant anti-war songs of the Vietnam era. I remember his TV show, too. I saw him and his wife on TV talking about his diagnosis -- it is very sad.



Some years ago, a friend and I saw Gordon Lightfoot at the Kennedy Center. OMG, we didn't know if he was stoned, had Alzheimer's, was suffering from too many years of drugs and booze, or a combo of all three! He was TERRIBLE, forgot the words, forgot the music, and at times appeared to not know where he was. He is still touring, so maybe he was just extra-stoned that night -- but I haven't been back to see him. I'll stick to the records.



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I gave up going to concerts as it's too loud and fuzzy for me anymore.  I can hear well at home listening to music at a normal level but it's a waste of money to me to pay current ticket prices to hear fuzzy music.

Edited to add:  I still enjoy musical stage plays and movies, so I don't think it's just my ears.

Sammy Davis Jr. singing "The CandyMan" always starts my heart beating faster -- just love that song, and especially Sammy singing it.

I love Gordon Lightfoot, BUT he should have retired years ago -- as should several others (McCartney?).  When they don't have the voice, they only serve to remind you how much it has deteriorated.   But Mick is still going strong!  Did any of you see him on SNL a few months ago?  He was hysterically funny, sending himself up!!

Pip -- I was referring to Mick Jagger on SNL -- he was hilarious!

Could be, PiP. It was 20 years ago that we went to see him, though. Wow - time does fly!



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HappyLibby~Thanks for mentioning Tom Petty. His " I Won't Back Down " has become my theme song against breast cancer. I should say, My War Cry!



Bertie Higgins...I loved and still do " Key Largo." Jimmy Buffet, Boston, Hall & Oates.



Does anyone remember when Kenny Rogers was lead singer for the 1st edition? " I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In." I think that was late 60's.



I love Willie Nelson, but its his love songs I like not the fast stuff. I think he did " Always On My Mind " way better than Elvis did, though I liked him too.



Mary~Can you see my embarrassed face for complaining about my crumbs?



Peace

Hippy Paula

I always loved Elvis - though I was deeply embarassed to admit it when I was in my late teens/early twenties....

Buffalo Springfield......"For What Its Worth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

I heard it on XM this morning and you are right, it still resonates.  Especially for some people the stanza I highlighted in bold.

Living in Maryland I wandered down to the mall in DC for more than one antiwar protest.  My favorite was when Nixon ringed the White House in DC Transit buses and hightailed it to Camp David.  I still have a few snapshots of all us "hippies" wandering the street.  If my memory isn't fuzzy that was the day the DC cops were arresting any teenager they found on the street and corraling them at the baseball stadium.  They were embarrassed when the Wash Post reported that they had gathered up quite a few Catholic school girls on their way to class.  You'd think the plaid skirts and blazers would have given them away.

I did not really become an Elvis fan until the late 90's, after a visit to Graceland. One of our family traditions, though, is to decorate the tree to Elvis' Christmas album. Can someone explain to me how "Mama Loved the Roses" is a Christmas song? It's a morbid little song about Elvis putting roses on his mother's grave. 

Paula-Why is your avatar picture upside down? 

Mary

Happy New Year, all.  Very snowy in western MA, and I love it.  It's the soft white powdery kind now, lots of drifts, and as mostly dirt roads, ya learn to drive in the ruts.  Very efficient.

Can't say much about the music posted, this will date me, happily, I remember going to the Bitter End in the Village to hear Peter, Paul, & Mary.  Buffie Saint Marie ( Guess Who I Saw in Paris), and Leo Kottke "opening" for Kris Kristoferson in Central Park ( 1970'ish) - and of course, Simon & Garfunkel, couldn't walk near the 59th st. bridge without singing Sounds of Silence.

Idjuts in Washington DC seem to be living up to the name Blue gave them.  Mind ( what's left of it) boggles.