Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Shout out...
If you like your music proggy - I do! - and old school, give Progman Radio
a try. I just stumbled across it today - errr, yesterday - and was really impressed with the playlist. Very nicely done!
a try. I just stumbled across it today - errr, yesterday - and was really impressed with the playlist. Very nicely done!
Labels: music
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Song for Liberty
As sung by Nana Mouskouri, a fitting song for the upcoming July 4th holiday:
When you sing I'm singing with you Liberty.
When you cry I cry with you in sorrow.
When you suffer I'm praying for you Liberty,
For your struggles will bring us a new tomorrow.
Days of sad darkness and fear must one day crumble
For the force of your kindness and love make them tremble.
When you sing I'm singing with you Liberty.
In the void of your absence I keep searching for you.
Who are you dream, illusion or just reality?
Faith, ideal, desire, revolution?
I believe you're the symbol of our humanity
Lighting up the world for eternity.
I can see why men die to defend you,
Try to guard, to protect and attend you!
When you sing I'm singing with you Liberty
With your tears or your joys, I love you!
Let us sing and rejoice, make our own history,
Songs of hope with one voice guide us to victory
Liberty, Liberty!
(Verdi / P. Delanoë / C. Lemesle / J. Johns)
To hear the song, click on the radio station in the sidebar and listen in Windows Media Player. It will be available sometime tomorrow. I highly recommend the album "The Classical Nana" by Nana Mouskouri; she is one of the more approachable sopranos you'll ever hear. "Gloria Eterna," set to Handel's Suite No. 11 - Sarabande, is simply superb.
When you sing I'm singing with you Liberty.
When you cry I cry with you in sorrow.
When you suffer I'm praying for you Liberty,
For your struggles will bring us a new tomorrow.
Days of sad darkness and fear must one day crumble
For the force of your kindness and love make them tremble.
When you sing I'm singing with you Liberty.
In the void of your absence I keep searching for you.
Who are you dream, illusion or just reality?
Faith, ideal, desire, revolution?
I believe you're the symbol of our humanity
Lighting up the world for eternity.
I can see why men die to defend you,
Try to guard, to protect and attend you!
When you sing I'm singing with you Liberty
With your tears or your joys, I love you!
Let us sing and rejoice, make our own history,
Songs of hope with one voice guide us to victory
Liberty, Liberty!
(Verdi / P. Delanoë / C. Lemesle / J. Johns)
To hear the song, click on the radio station in the sidebar and listen in Windows Media Player. It will be available sometime tomorrow. I highly recommend the album "The Classical Nana" by Nana Mouskouri; she is one of the more approachable sopranos you'll ever hear. "Gloria Eterna," set to Handel's Suite No. 11 - Sarabande, is simply superb.
Labels: music
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Just arrived...
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Smoke on the Water
Monday, January 21, 2008
From the "To Do" list...
Look for this on my radio station on the other blog.
Coming soon!
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I'm copying it from vinyl to mp3 format. It's part of an enormous pile of old LP's I'm slowly converting. I'm not sure when this was recorded, but it is a mono recording. According to the label, a stereo recording was available.
So little time...
Saturday, January 05, 2008
New stuff in the Sidebar...
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Media Master link: Click and play hoosiertoo's "radio station" in Windows Media Player. I'll update the albums periodically, likely music you've never heard, or at least not in a long time...
Anne Haslam is the featured album.
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Daily Mass readings from MyCatholic.com.
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Church Directory: Go exploring Christian blogs. The links change, so fresh links pop up every time you visit. I've already found a couple of blogs I like!
Being able to play with the code is the major reason I haven't switched to the new templates. Enjoy!
1/07/08 - update: Check out Fr. Sirico's Fox interview on entrepreneur-as-vocation on the YouTube video.
Media Master link: Click and play hoosiertoo's "radio station" in Windows Media Player. I'll update the albums periodically, likely music you've never heard, or at least not in a long time...
Anne Haslam is the featured album.
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Daily Mass readings from MyCatholic.com.
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Church Directory: Go exploring Christian blogs. The links change, so fresh links pop up every time you visit. I've already found a couple of blogs I like!
Being able to play with the code is the major reason I haven't switched to the new templates. Enjoy!
1/07/08 - update: Check out Fr. Sirico's Fox interview on entrepreneur-as-vocation on the YouTube video.
Labels: music, other fancy stuff, religion
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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When I was a young 'un, I'd go to the cut-out bins at the local discount and record stores and blow most of what spending money I had trying out interesting looking albums. In this way, I was introduced to a lot of great music that I otherwise might have missed. I was introduced to a lot of absolute crap too, but you never know until you try, and they didn't have anywhere to try
this stuff out before you bought it unless your friends already had it, which is rather limiting.
"Stars and Stripes Forever" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was one of those albums. I was not a big country fan in 1975(?) when I ran across this LP in the bargain bin. I had "Mr. Bojangles" on 45. I'd heard "House On Pooh Corner."
"Stars and Stripes Forever" is not the perfect NGDB album - for that you should buy "Uncle Charlie" - but it is my personal favorite. The band had a problem with truncating some of the songs ("Jambalaya" and the title cut for instance) and there are interviews that hurt the continuity of the album somewhat even if they are interesting on the first listen. Live cuts (such as "Mr. Bojangles" and "House at Pooh Corner") are interspersed with the studio recordings but these are quibbles. Music is an intensely personal experience, but this rates as one of the three or four albums that have most influenced my musical tastes over the years.
I'll always be grateful I found this album in that bargain bin at Zayre's department store 30-odd years ago. I still have the LP with the clipped corner; it is one of the few pieces of vinyl I haven't disposed of over the years as I've replaced them with digital recordings.
When I was a young 'un, I'd go to the cut-out bins at the local discount and record stores and blow most of what spending money I had trying out interesting looking albums. In this way, I was introduced to a lot of great music that I otherwise might have missed. I was introduced to a lot of absolute crap too, but you never know until you try, and they didn't have anywhere to try
this stuff out before you bought it unless your friends already had it, which is rather limiting.
"Stars and Stripes Forever" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was one of those albums. I was not a big country fan in 1975(?) when I ran across this LP in the bargain bin. I had "Mr. Bojangles" on 45. I'd heard "House On Pooh Corner."
[digression] For some reason - probably to do with illegal substances - A. A. Milne's characters were a big hit with us reprobates back in the '70's. Cecil (his nickname) had a jacket with Disney's version of Tigger custom painted on the back. This was long before Disney had their own clothing line, so he actually had to draw Tigger onto the jacket. [/digression]
For a buck or so, I took a flyer on "Stars and Stripes Forever." If bang for the buck was my only criteria for defining the success of a purchase, this was like buying Microsoft as a startup. Through this album, I was introduced to bluegrass and a whole musical spectrum of country artists that I'd never heard and that give me so much pleasure today.
As a kid, I'd been something of a Buck Owens fan. Everyone with a TV saw the Glen Campbell Show (and consequently John Hartford) and Johnny Cash. This would have been at the tail-end of the folk era as well, so it's not like country was a totally foreign concept. This is not "country" as you'd define it today. The Dirt Band, along with The Outlaws and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were just the bridge a young rocker like me needed to expand my horizons. These guys were long haired, hippie types like me! And the music was beyond cool..."Stars and Stripes Forever" is not the perfect NGDB album - for that you should buy "Uncle Charlie" - but it is my personal favorite. The band had a problem with truncating some of the songs ("Jambalaya" and the title cut for instance) and there are interviews that hurt the continuity of the album somewhat even if they are interesting on the first listen. Live cuts (such as "Mr. Bojangles" and "House at Pooh Corner") are interspersed with the studio recordings but these are quibbles. Music is an intensely personal experience, but this rates as one of the three or four albums that have most influenced my musical tastes over the years.
I'll always be grateful I found this album in that bargain bin at Zayre's department store 30-odd years ago. I still have the LP with the clipped corner; it is one of the few pieces of vinyl I haven't disposed of over the years as I've replaced them with digital recordings.
Labels: music
Friday, December 21, 2007
DITTO!! - 12/17/2007
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Without a doubt, great bang for the buck.
Quibble: I'd like to see these guys do a non-Christmas show. I realise they are trying to build their audience, but...
Did I mention the female singers were HOT?
Without a doubt, great bang for the buck.
http://hoosiertoo.blogspot.com/2006/11/here-it-is-friday.html
if you think Beethoven played at ear splitting volume by metal musicians
backed by strings with danged HOT opera singers singing and dancing while
pyrotechnics and a laser light show is going on, then TSO is just the
ticket.
Quibble: I'd like to see these guys do a non-Christmas show. I realise they are trying to build their audience, but...
Did I mention the female singers were HOT?
Labels: music, Trans Siberian Orchestra
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