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One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« on: July 07, 2015, 09:07:54 AM »
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2015, 06:17:12 PM »
It is a great song I could never remember who sang it though.  Amazing what can be done without screaming down a microphone and causing industrial deafness foe anyone with 2 km
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2015, 07:15:28 PM »
I vaguely remember it. I have it plus Conquistador (I just searched PC) but other than Credence I rarely play stuff that old anymore.
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2015, 07:39:29 PM »
Gr8 song from our youth Pete - one that featured very nice work with an "organ"!  :whistle

Made me think of another gr8 hit of the same era with a big organ featuring: "The House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals -,found this video of amazing quality 4 the time:

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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2015, 08:08:31 PM »
Pete, I remember that group Procol Harum and their song  whiter shade of pale, too! That was way before the time they created crap ... Uh I mean: rap and the other futile attempts some people call music. Good onya bringing this to the surface! Appreciated!
 

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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2015, 08:20:45 PM »
Made me think of another gr8 hit of the same era with a big organ featuring: "The House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals -,found this video of amazing quality 4 the time:

Yes mate, another of my favorites from the same era.    Great music is utterly timeless.  :thumb
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2015, 08:23:19 PM »
Both Whiter Shade of Pale and House of the Rising Sun are going on my list of songs to play at my funeral, great songs. Still get played on 6IX 1080 in Perth and I wouldn't be surprised to hear them on 2CH 1170 in Sydney. Grew up listening to them on 2UW in Sydney.
I think this belongs with them

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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2015, 08:55:43 PM »
Both Whiter Shade of Pale and House of the Rising Sun are going on my list of songs to play at my funeral, great songs. Still get played on 6IX 1080 in Perth and I wouldn't be surprised to hear them on 2CH 1170 in Sydney. Grew up listening to them on 2UW in Sydney.
I think this belongs with them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8

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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2015, 08:59:21 PM »
Hey Glen - another gr8 song and it qualifies also as "organic" coz the "Son of a Preacher Man" surely is a practicing organ player.  :whistle.
Heard a podcast recently bout Dusty Springfield and how the black community readily accepted her as the first gr8 white female soul singer and what an xtreme perfectionist she was with her production crew.  IOW "maniac". Don't know bout that - gr8 artist.
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2015, 09:05:30 PM »
Try this............................................................ :wht11



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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2015, 10:03:38 PM »
The kid has a good voice, but frankly Nigel THOTRSun is one of those songs that almost any1 can belt out a reasonable rendition - I said 2 my daughter 2night that if she changed our Yamaha digital 2 an organ I would have a go at it (and I have a very average singing voice) - Danika said "Get the music dad and let's do it".
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2015, 10:32:39 PM »
Great blasts from the past there.  I love "Whiter" and "House".  Dates me pretty well.  I just googled the lyrics for the former.  They do make a kind of sense (if you're on LSD).  I get close.  I use LEDs.     :grin

When these were first played on the radio I used to tape them thinking that if I didn't, they'd just be lost and I didn't want to lose them.
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2015, 11:02:05 PM »
Both Whiter Shade of Pale and House of the Rising Sun are going on my list of songs to play at my funeral, great songs.

We did something like that!   :thumbs

Instead of the "Bridal March", we had the organist play "Sounds Of Silence" for my bride's entrance.

(She didn't ever take the hint)   :grin
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2015, 02:21:27 AM »
Gr8 song from our youth Pete - one that featured very nice work with an "organ"!  :whistle

Made me think of another gr8 hit of the same era with a big organ featuring: "The House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals -,found this video of amazing quality 4 the time:
http://youtu.be/0sB3Fjw3Uvc




Remember the first time 'The House of the Rising Sun' was played on air in Perth.
Pretty sure it was about 10pm on a Friday night - radio 6PR some time back in late '64.  (probably wrong about the station)

The DJ announced that if anyone didn't like it, just to phone in and he'd stop playing it.  :eek
Then, of course, anyone who wanted the song to be kept playing could also phone in and he'd start playing it again.  :clap

That must be some sort of record for the length of time to play one song - when on and off for over an hour before the DJ relented and played the whole thing right through without a break.

We where sitting around at a hamburger place next to the Canning bridge at the southern end of the Kwinana Freeway that night listening to it on the car radios.

The car jockeys where either our mates or too scared to turn their radios off - never really sure which it was that night.  o:)
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2015, 07:41:21 AM »
Them was the days alright- another sens8ionL song from The Animals - "Please don't let me be Misunderstood."
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2015, 09:19:43 AM »
(StinkyPete - Wot have u started)  :beer


I was hoping to create a place where we can remind each other of the wonderful and evocative songs from our youth, and at the same time get some reminders of other great music from my own.   It seems to be working.    :grin    :popcorn :popcorn
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2015, 09:49:05 AM »
Them was the days alright- another sens8ionL song from The Animals - "Please don't let me be Misunderstood."
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2015, 10:01:56 AM »
Sorry child of the Disco Era - it's in my blood.......

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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2015, 10:05:05 AM »
I was a romantic (well before I became a rheumantic) and bought a guitar to serenade the lassies.
I learned enough chords to play "Love Is Blue" (3 I think) and by the time I added vocals, the women were stampeding for the door (out).     :'(

They still play that on the 60s stations.
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Re: One of the great pieces of music from my youth
« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2015, 04:48:45 PM »
When I was 15 (1970) I could name a few songs from different bands that I liked but there wasn't a song/music from Creedence that I didn't like. I found one that wasn't to long.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M#   
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