Of course these aren't the original ladies, but never less, they are pretty good...
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So who remembers these ladies?
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(Andrews Sisters)
YouTube THOMAS NILSSON Channel
has about a dozen of dees Svedes
playing what America forgot.
An orchestra (our instruments)
Dynamic Range
That we took an old song and made it swing
Is what is American Music
The Enemy tried to tell you it was drugs,
Mediated by electricity where it’s not anyone’s friend.
The first exposure to electricity produced a jolt (1910 onwards as cities electrified, and America became primarily urban), but music
was still musical.
Get up off the chair and ask your wife to dance.
Not hop up & down like a monkey, unable to converse.
Think America was a better place circa 1962?
The music was far more sophisticated.
Worth the time to become acquainted.
We were going someplace. And the music reflected it.
Nelson Riddle (and Frank Sinatra with him) made the above
link — while great — yesterday. The 1950s saw some fantastic
new arrangements of well known classics. To the point where
something new was truly present.
Did this fade because, “tastes changed?”
Does anyone here believe THAT TYPE of lie?
Digital re-mastering makes the old new. But you’ll want a decent sound system. Rock or Country or Hip Hop (all the same) can be reproduced on anything. Flattened at birth. No one home.
The first attack is language. The second is thru culture.
Painting, music, architecture. The debasement wasn’t by chance or happenstance.
There’s no such thing as that which — culturally — divides young from old
except that the Enemy makes it so.
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YouTube THOMAS NILSSON Channel
has about a dozen of dees Svedes
playing what America forgot.
An orchestra (our instruments)
Dynamic Range
That we took an old song and made it swing
Is what is American Music
The Enemy tried to tell you it was drugs,
Mediated by electricity where it’s not anyone’s friend.
The first exposure to electricity produced a jolt (1910 onwards as cities electrified, and America became primarily urban), but music
was still musical.
Get up off the chair and ask your wife to dance.
Not hop up & down like a monkey, unable to converse.
Think America was a better place circa 1962?
The music was far more sophisticated.
Worth the time to become acquainted.
We were going someplace. And the music reflected it.
Nelson Riddle (and Frank Sinatra with him) made the above
link — while great — yesterday. The 1950s saw some fantastic
new arrangements of well known classics. To the point where
something new was truly present.
Did this fade because, “tastes changed?”
Does anyone here believe THAT TYPE of lie?
Digital re-mastering makes the old new. But you’ll want a decent sound system. Rock or Country or Hip Hop (all the same) can be reproduced on anything. Flattened at birth. No one home.
The first attack is language. The second is thru culture.
Painting, music, architecture. The debasement wasn’t by chance or happenstance.
There’s no such thing as that which — culturally — divides young from old
except that the Enemy makes it so.
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Something great may have had 4,5,6 or more excellent recordings. Re-interpretations.
Here, saxophonist Art Pepper, in the Woody Herman Orchestra classic.
Have a Sirius/XM subscription? The 1940s “channel” is nothing but an insult after a short while. The Sinatra channel has its moments, but the best quality music gets dropped down a crack between those two.
There’s no true division between them. (False dichotomy).
The lie is by omission.
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Many of his best recordings stepped-on. Compressed.
Dynamic Range (in effect) removed.
Yet recordings of contemporaries sound better.
But inferior performers. Even if famous.
I think it not by accident.
This is a Direct to Disc masterpiece. Recorded by a tiny label in the 1970s.
Funniest comment I’ve read is that the album will send a high end audio systems amplifier into catatonia the dynamic demands are so high.
James’s taste was unmatched. And only Sinatra is his peer for decades of excellence.
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The Great American Songbook (see Alec Wilder) is a compendium of outstanding music. Hundreds of selections. Broadway shows (mainly) then film and written otherwise.
You don’t think winning the war and the Baby Boom was by accident, do you?
How would it feel to have a near-seamless culture?
Wonder, do you, about mixed-race couples seen on that TV you’ve failed to throw out?
The promotion of non-American (inferior) starts a long while back.
But from 1949 to 1962 saw recording improvements and high fidelity sound systems for home use to complement artistic efforts.
My son went off to grad school after the Marine Coros in 2015, so I got off my duff and started to acquaint him with the great arrangers of the era. We’d already covered symphonic and operatic works across a range.
Instruments — like men — want to be free.
The Europeans (god bless them) didn’t seem to have the gene for swing
In America, those ancient instruments came alive. Again. It’s not really that much different than the effect Beethoven had on the audience in his first performances. It can be (ha!) electrifying.
Is one’s response, “I know what I like!”
That translates, musically, as, “I like what I know”.
When the TRAINED RESPONSE is, “do I like it?”, one is a child. Thats nothing to do with whether the many assembled components are good enough to get airborne.
Believe in barriers to understanding such as,
“That’s my Grandads music” (?).
There’s no such division in existence.
It’s a hit from the first three notes. Dead center. 1960 recording at legendary Studio A at Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Nominated Grammy for Single, Album and Performer.
One “thinks” it’s Sinatra. But it’s more Riddles arrangement. That is the thing to listen to: what instruments and when. Phrasing.
In fact, one can’t find a singer (who is an instrument after all) who doesn’t sound their best with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Definitive.
The collaborations lift the notes and lyrics right off the page.
Remember that we were going somewhere?
It’s said that music is really the spaces between the notes.
I’d say that the distances therein were becoming revealing.
What American believed that the sky above us was any longer the limit?
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You don’t think winning the war and the Baby Boom was by accident, do you?
How would it feel to have a near-seamless culture?
Wonder, do you, about mixed-race couples seen on that TV you’ve failed to throw out?
The promotion of non-American (inferior) starts a long while back.
But from 1949 to 1962 saw recording improvements and high fidelity sound systems for home use to complement artistic efforts.
My son went off to grad school after the Marine Coros in 2015, so I got off my duff and started to acquaint him with the great arrangers of the era. We’d already covered symphonic and operatic works across a range.
Instruments — like men — want to be free.
The Europeans (god bless them) didn’t seem to have the gene for swing
In America, those ancient instruments came alive. Again. It’s not really that much different than the effect Beethoven had on the audience in his first performances. It can be (ha!) electrifying.
Is one’s response, “I know what I like!”
That translates, musically, as, “I like what I know”.
When the TRAINED RESPONSE is, “do I like it?”, one is a child. Thats nothing to do with whether the many assembled components are good enough to get airborne.
Believe in barriers to understanding such as,
“That’s my Grandads music” (?).
There’s no such division in existence.
It’s a hit from the first three notes. Dead center. 1960 recording at legendary Studio A at Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Nominated Grammy for Single, Album and Performer.
One “thinks” it’s Sinatra. But it’s more Riddles arrangement. That is the thing to listen to: what instruments and when. Phrasing.
In fact, one can’t find a singer (who is an instrument after all) who doesn’t sound their best with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Definitive.
The collaborations lift the notes and lyrics right off the page.
Remember that we were going somewhere?
It’s said that music is really the spaces between the notes.
I’d say that the distances therein were becoming revealing.
What American believed that the sky above us was any longer the limit?
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The first is the classic (the imagined) “you” knew as a student in high school in the 1940s.
The second (imagine again) is the “you” & your wife invited by President & Mrs Kennedy to attend the opening of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral in 1965.
The space of that building interior (a marvel) to reflect a new interpretation of a beloved classic.
And the moon out over the Atlantic.
(I easily found 8-9 great examples of this song to illustrate development over time, 1936-1962, to send early on to the son. This pair at the heart).
Had things been different (no assassination), I think it isn’t at all hard to imagine that evening on The Rocket Coast.
The distances out ahead us vast . . . . the reverb in the orchestration of the
romantic dance number mirroring that.
Don’t you dare believe that any of it is gone. Or past.
It’s where it’s always been. Inside.
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The word sassy denotes a skirt worn well.
Women wearing men’s clothing is what needs to go.
As it’s an intentional — not accidental —deception.
Dishonest by design
Betrayal.
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