Subject: old music
Date: Thu Jun 6 16:59:31 2013
User: xeena
Message:I'm not sure if Bruce Springsteen or Southside Johnny wrote this song. Here it is with them both, so very long ago, when Little Steven was actually little, and Clarence the Big Man didn't have his sax. Awesome song from some Jersey boys.
Link: T H E * F E V E R
Date: Thu Jun 6 17:39:24 2013
User: xeena
Message:I don't see where it says Bruce wrote it!
Date: Thu Jun 6 17:45:10 2013
User: xeena
Message:Even if it did say that Bruce wrote it, that wouldn't convince me. Not in a tiny article in Wikipedia! Sorry!
Date: Thu Jun 6 17:48:20 2013
User: xeena
Message:I love this one. Look on the left for Ms. Patti Scialfa singing backup.
Link: The Fever on SCTV
Date: Thu Jun 6 18:23:28 2013
User: DIABA
Message:The Pointer Sisters recorded on their "Priority" album and Bruce is credited with writing the song.
Link: (She got) The Fever
Date: Thu Jun 6 18:58:24 2013
User: xeena
Message:I looked up an old Pointer Sisters performance of that, and got so bored I clicked out before it got to a minute. Southside Johnny's I could listen to all day.
I've seen the E Street Band perform it, with Southside Johnny, in this century.
Still not sure who wrote it.
Date: Thu Jun 6 23:18:46 2013
User: DIABB
Message:Are you obtuse? He wrote it.
Date: Fri Jun 7 09:23:11 2013
User: xeena
Message:Reckon so, to some!
Date: Fri Jun 7 19:14:09 2013
User: xeena
Message:Interesting. Please excuse my obtuseness, but nowhere do I see who authored the article.
Date: Fri Jun 7 19:16:49 2013
User: xeena
Message:Neither video in the article is working, either.
Date: Fri Jun 7 19:19:32 2013
User: DIABB
Message:Click on Profile.
Date: Fri Jun 7 19:25:43 2013
User: xeena
Message:To Whom It May Concern:
I am capable of doing my own "research".
But thanks!
Feel free to post your favorite oldies!
Date: Fri Jun 7 19:31:38 2013
User: xeena
Message:If someone really wanted to impress me, they'd go straight to The Boss for the answer. I did that, but I'm still not sure. Forgive my obtuseness, and listen to some music.
Date: Fri Jun 7 19:49:21 2013
User: xeena
Message:By the way, that's Soozie Tyrell in the SCTV video, singing backup next to Patti Scialfa. Soozie later because the violinist for the E Street Band, and Patti married the Boss. You might also recognize the trombone player "La Bamba" from late night tv's Max Weinberg Seven. Recognize anyone else?
Date: Fri Jun 7 20:12:38 2013
User: Belle
Message:This won't impress anyone, but I love old music.
Composed in 1737, from Xerxes: Ombra mai fu
Link: Cecilia Bartoli
Date: Thu Jan 16 12:00:56 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:BTW not that it matters, but LumberJack is BuzzClik and DIABB AND DIABA are firenze. And I knew it then. So maybe that's why I resisted their "help".
Date: Thu Jan 16 12:05:45 2014
User: BuzzClik
Message:Are you going to disclose all your strap-ons?
You know, for the sake of consistency...
Date: Thu Jan 16 12:07:10 2014
User: TNmountainman
Message:Priceless right there (the "Barry Gibb Talk Show").
Date: Thu Jan 16 12:29:56 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:Not that it matters.
Now, back to the thread.
I KNOW, TN! Priceless!
Date: Thu Jan 16 12:31:29 2014
User: BuzzClik
Message:Of course, Fallon and Timberlake have done the skit (with different guests) many times; their chemistry is fantastic.
The appearance of Barry at the end was a bit of a shocker, but true to Fallon's style. Barry these days has aged into looking more like a younger Maurice.
Date: Sat Jan 18 16:31:55 2014
User: Belle
Message:Old music commemorating Rembrandt's "Night Watch."
Link: Nigh Watch
Date: Sat Jan 18 22:42:13 2014
User: TNmountainman
Message:Thanks. That's pretty good, but perhaps it'd be more fitting in the "old art" thread - which I can't seem to locate at the moment. Surely Denny didn't delete *that* one...
Link: The "why" of it
Date: Sun Jan 19 10:56:19 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:The appearance of Barry was not a shocker. He was on the show. It would be a shock if he *didn't* appear in the BGTS segment. I'd call it more of a "delight" when he showed up at the end after they made you forget he was there.
It was super special because he lost Robin the year before, and now is the sole surviving Brother Gibb. It was super special because he was giving his seal of approval. It was super special because he can *still* hit those high falsettos much higher than Fallon or Timberlake can.
Madonna being on the BGTS was no biggie, IMO. *feh* ...
Date: Sun Jan 19 11:04:33 2014
User: BuzzClik
Message:xeena, Barry Gibb's appearance in the talk-show skit with Fallon and Timberlake was his only appearance on the show. Unannounced, uncredited.
Date: Sun Jan 19 11:08:14 2014
User: The_Interpreter
Message:I have always considered the Bee Gees to be emblematic of the low point from which the American music scene has yet to recover.
Date: Sun Jan 19 11:14:11 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:No, Interp. That's called "rap".
Date: Sun Jan 19 11:19:49 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:BTW BC, I don't happen to agree with your last post. So why don't you do the legwork and prove it. I recall Don Pardo announcing all the guests, while wondering how old Don is now. So prove me wrong. I don't have the inclination right now.
Date: Sun Jan 19 11:39:42 2014
User: BuzzClik
Message:Pardo's introductions start at about 5:00. No mention of Gibb, and no Paul McCartney, either (special, surprise appearance during Fallon's monologue).
However, both McCartney and Gibb are on stage during the close (at 53 minutes).
I watched the show during the original broadcast, and that's why I knew this to be true. Clearly, you did not. Were you unaware that full SNL episodes were available for streaming and that they are really, really easy to find?
Legwork, indeed.
Link: SNL with Fallon/Timberlake full episode
Date: Mon Jan 20 14:14:38 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:I knew you'd relish it, then spend longer on the post where you show your pompous
Date: Mon Jan 20 14:24:45 2014
User: hotnurse
Message:Fyi, a tiger's stripes never change.
Date: Mon Jan 20 14:35:24 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:lol
Date: Mon Jan 20 16:30:37 2014
User: BuzzClik
Message:Anywho....
Here's some music from the past done quite recently in a very old style. Bryan Ferry, of Roxy Music fame, recently put together an album called the Jazz Age, and some of this (and similar pieces) were used in the sound track of The Great Gatsby. One quite notable song is Ferry's "Love is the Drug" recast in a vintage jazz context.
Link: Bryan Ferry, "Love is the Drug" a la Jellyroll
Date: Wed Jan 22 11:29:11 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:Here we are…in a room full of strangers
Talkin’ bout politics…and the issues of the day-ay
Though you may not waaant me to
I’m still gonna taaalk to you
I don’t care what you say!
Talkin’ it up!
On The Barry Gibb talk show
Talkin’ ’bout issues
Talkin’ ’bout, real important issues
Talkin’ it up!
On The Barry Gibb talk show
Checkin’ out politics
In this crazy, crazy tow-ow-ow-own
Talkin’ it up!
On The Barry Gibb Talk Show
Talkin’ ’bout chest hair
Talkin’ ’bout, crazy cool medallions
Date: Wed Jan 22 11:46:21 2014
User: TNmountainman
Message:I don't know what this says about me (and probably don't *want* to know), but I can't get that "song" out of head since it came up here.
Date: Wed Jan 22 12:09:02 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:Me either!!! That's why I had to look up the lyrics! If I'm gonna go around singing it, I need to know the words!!! LOL
Date: Wed Jan 22 12:10:07 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:EVERYBODY!
Date: Wed Jan 22 12:37:07 2014
User: The_Interpreter
Message:I did not think there was anything more boring than the football thread, but I now stand corrected.
Date: Wed Jan 22 12:45:57 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:Go entertain yourself, then. :D
Maybe, play a little solitaire.
...in this crazy crazy tow ow ow own...
Date: Thu Jan 23 01:03:40 2014
User: TNmountainman
Message:Clarification - My mind keeps going back and forth between "Barry Gibb Talk Show" and the "Like a Rolling Stone" Dylan video that Buzz posted. But moreso the "Barry Gibb Talk Show".
Which reminds me of how that silly SNL Christmas song that Fallon, Sanz, Morgan, and Kattan did about 4 or so different times, can keep sticking in your mind for a while.
Here's just one version of it. The first time or two they did it, I really didn't like it, but somehow the cheesiness of it grew on me...
(Seems like some of the other, later times they may have had some guest stand-ins?)
Link: "I Wish it was Christmas Today-ay"
Date: Thu Jan 23 12:29:07 2014
User: Dr.X
Message:Pardo will be 96 in a month, and his first name is Dominick.
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