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« Reply #30 on: August 24, 2024, 06:24:15 AM »

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It is hard to say exactly what and when, but...

My earliest memory -- my maternal grandfather lived with my parents and me from 1950-54 (my grandmother had died in 1949.  My grandfather remarried in 1954) -- and he had furniture in our house, including a console record player/radio.  He had a lot of 78 rpm records, and when I was 5 or 6, he showed me how to play them.

I was completely fascinated by his recordings by Les Paul and Mary Ford.  "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" is one I distinctly remember.  When he remarried, all his household goods went with him, and all I had was a small plastic-cased record player that played 45s...and all of mine were children's recordings including that awful "Teddy Bears Picnic" record I know I've mentioned here before.

The radio played an important part in my music appreciation for many years.  I loved Gale Storm!!

My film music interests began in 1960 with "Exodus", and they evolved over the next few years to become an all-consuming passion.

My classical music interests began, believe it or not, with my hearing part of Elgar's "Enigma Variations" -- the "Nimrod Suite", to be precise -- in the film "Young Winston".  While I had several recordings of Strauss Waltzes and a few classical works that I had been exposed to in high school band, it was the discovery of that Elgar composition that lit the classical fires within me.  While in the Navy, I was assigned to Vicenza, Italy, to work in the AFRTS radio station.  Many wonderful people worked at the installation, especially in theater, and they broadened my interests greatly.  My love of opera began there when I found a stereo recording of "Turandot" -- the Joan Sutherland-Luciano Pavarotti recording.  That is still the seminal recording of that opera in my estimation, and I have listened to quite a few recordings of it.
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« Reply #31 on: August 24, 2024, 06:31:36 AM »

I didn't mean to write a book.

Where is DR slipshod?

Why hasn't he informed all of us that today is Vesuvius Day???

Fie!   

 https://nationaltoday.com/vesuvius-day/

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« Reply #32 on: August 24, 2024, 06:37:12 AM »

  Where is DR slipshod? 

I was fiddling while Rome burned.
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« Reply #33 on: August 24, 2024, 06:37:29 AM »

But as always, keep the home fries burning.
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« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2024, 06:38:23 AM »

  Why hasn't he informed all of us that today is Vesuvius Day??? 

Shall we celebrate with Vesuvius cake?
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« Reply #35 on: August 24, 2024, 06:40:25 AM »

I'm game.
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« Reply #36 on: August 24, 2024, 06:40:46 AM »

BK's composer of the day seems to have many spelling variations.
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« Reply #37 on: August 24, 2024, 06:41:20 AM »

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Listening to the OBC of Bye Bye Birdie.....so different from the movie.....but I liked the music and all the voices.....Broadway!!!  And the pictures on the gatefold LP were fun to look at.




Speaking of Bye Bye Birdie - I was fascinated by YouTube helping along notice of some prominent musical changes to the show's score for the movie, that seem to have been spurred on by how right Bobby Rydell was for an expansion of the part of Hugo, and then by Ann-Margret having been given the wraparounds of the new title song.

P.S.  Strange to notice that the New York Times' critic Brooks Atkinson was very lukewarm (to say the least) about the stage version. 
https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/theater/ByeByeBirdie.pdf
Would a show have survived such a Times review in some parts of theater history?
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« Reply #38 on: August 24, 2024, 06:41:21 AM »

I'm listening to "Hisato Osawa"'s Double-Bass Concerto (1934).
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« Reply #39 on: August 24, 2024, 06:44:30 AM »

I feel itchy and frizzy and frantic.
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« Reply #40 on: August 24, 2024, 06:44:41 AM »

Calm on the surface, but ready to panic
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« Reply #41 on: August 24, 2024, 06:44:49 AM »

But alive!
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« Reply #42 on: August 24, 2024, 06:45:33 AM »

Darn. "Frantic" and "panic" don't rhyme.
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« Reply #43 on: August 24, 2024, 06:45:42 AM »

Oh, dear.
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« Reply #44 on: August 24, 2024, 06:47:51 AM »

I feel itchy and frizzy and frumpy
Calm on the surface, but really quite lumpy
But alive!
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« Reply #45 on: August 24, 2024, 06:47:59 AM »

There. That's better.
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« Reply #46 on: August 24, 2024, 06:48:36 AM »

Terrible. But better.
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« Reply #47 on: August 24, 2024, 06:48:51 AM »

Was the bitter batter better?
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« Reply #48 on: August 24, 2024, 06:49:49 AM »

Winter is coming.
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« Reply #49 on: August 24, 2024, 06:50:09 AM »

I feel itchy and frizzy and frumpy
Calm on the surface, but really quite lumpy
But alive!


LOL!

After consulting a rhyming dictionary:

I feel itchy and frizzy and frantic.
Partly didactic and partly pedantic.
But alive!

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« Reply #50 on: August 24, 2024, 06:50:10 AM »

But not here, and not today. We are expected to top 100 this weekend.
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« Reply #51 on: August 24, 2024, 06:50:39 AM »

  I feel itchy and frizzy and frantic.
Partly didactic and partly pedantic.
But alive!

That's quite good.
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« Reply #52 on: August 24, 2024, 06:51:15 AM »

You used to do these parodies quite often, DR Freddie, and I always loved them.
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« Reply #53 on: August 24, 2024, 06:51:50 AM »

But not here, and not today. We are expected to top 100 this weekend.


I like to think that in a certain era, "But Alive!" could have made the top 100. :)

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« Reply #54 on: August 24, 2024, 06:55:09 AM »

You used to do these parodies quite often, DR Freddie, and I always loved them.


If you mean specifically of "But Alive!" - it's always been a real favorite of mine to parody.  It tends to feel like we're laughing with Strouse and Adams on that song, not at them. 

But - and it's a big "But" - The older we all get, the smaller the potential audience that would get parodies of "Applause" songs. :)

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« Reply #55 on: August 24, 2024, 06:56:18 AM »

True enough.
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« Reply #56 on: August 24, 2024, 06:56:47 AM »

"No."
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« Reply #57 on: August 24, 2024, 06:59:03 AM »

Me likey.
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« Reply #58 on: August 24, 2024, 06:59:27 AM »

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« Reply #59 on: August 24, 2024, 06:59:54 AM »

We can do it.
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