Album of the day

[Duke C #11]

Her voice was almost totally shot, but in the words of a critic at the time, "it is the sound of an open wound."

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gPFZlw1dw0

 

[Duke C #11]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGqfJoQw3X4

 

[BudreauReye]

This was my first Pink Floyd album ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8a99QNLBE

This was my favorite ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI-F7vUrfQw

 

[Duke C #11]

Here was my first Pink Floyd album.  It was a movie soundtrack for a very strange movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPP2boBdHA

 

[Duke C #11]

Meanwhile, here is my album of the day for today...

 

[BudreauReye]

Here was my first Pink Floyd album.  It was a movie soundtrack for a very strange movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPP2boBdHA

OK, I am going to have to listen to this and see if I can find the movie on line.  Do you know how much trouble that you have caused me?  Now I have to reschedule my weekend! 

I did not see the movie and do not recall the album, but it somehow sounds familiar.  Pink Floyd at times reminds me of the Moody Blues.  Not "Nights in White Satin", but their later stuff.  I am linking "Nights in White Satin", because it is my first and favorite Moody Blues song.  When I was in high school, I would get up at 5:30 in the morning before school because radio KOMA in Oklahoma City would play it every morning before the station would fade out when the sun would begin to come around the bend! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lazdg-eqmQ

 

[BudreauReye]

Did you ever watch "The Wizard of OZ" set to "The Dark Side of the Moon"?  When I went back to school in the late seventies, there was a restaurant/bar in an old two story house, on Rio Grande, I think that would play "The Wizard of OZ" to the accompaniment of Pink Fliooyd on Friday nights upstairs.   Of course, I would not know about such things, but I have heard that it was especially enjoyable under the influence of mind altering substances. 

Here is the best example of this that I could find.  Please do not let your children see this, it might make them unduly fear inclement weather, or men wearing ill fitting turbans with crystal balls!  Wait a minute, that did not come out quite right! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gXvVUg-VAE

OK, if you are still with me and you have not had your fill of "OZ", here is a "Everything Wrong With ..." for "The Wizard of OZ".  Enjoy ...

 

[Duke C #11]

 

[Duke C #11]

 

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[BudreauReye]

Duke C #11, you are doing good!  Love me some Marvin Gaye!  Used to drive through the night in West Texas with the likes of this blasting out on the radio. 

In the eighties, I spent two weeks in the mountains of Pennsylvania as an engineer studying what to do with regards to civil defense, you know, if the big bombs fell.  Between the two weeks of training, I stayed in the apartment of friends in the Village in NYC.  On the way there, I decided to drive through the Civil and Revolutionary war landscape of East Pennsylvania to Philadelphia before hitting the Interstate to Manhattan. Of course, it took a lot longer than I thought it would.  As I drove into Philadelphia way after dark, I found myself driving along with the interstate highways above me with no apparent way to get up there, you know the story, where is an on ramp when you need it?  I was driving along one of the grand old boulevards of Philadelphia where the moguls of industry used to live.  Those grand old houses were now reduced to being tenements with men gathered around fifty five gallon oil drums filled with debris burning ... not a place, I thought, I should be.  I thought I would soon find a way to get on that highway, besides, I had a Philadelphia radio station with this very album blasting out from beginning to end.  I pulled up to a stop light at an intersection ... and my rental car stalled.  Some of the men at one of the burning drums stopped, and came over towards my obviously out of place rental car.  My driver side window was down, and Marvin Gaye was belting out "Mercy, Mercy, Me!" from my rental car radio.  As I looked out at the closest man who was coming toward me ... my poor excuse for a rental car abruptly started ... He looked back at his friends ... he turned back at me, he smiled, and he pointed to the almost invisable on ramp beyond the intersection. I must say that I have spent substantial time in poor neighborhoods, ghettos and such.  In a previous life of mine, I worked for some time in LBJ's anti-poverty programs.  I will tell you though, that in that night in Philadelphia, I never felt so protected as I was then by Saint Marvin Gaye. 

 

[BudreauReye]

This makes me think.  Later that night when I finally got to Manhattan ... do you remember that Saturday Night Live intro where the steam comes out of the grates on the street.  Well, that was what it was like as I came out of the Holland Tunnel that night, turning out of the tunnel,  Manhattan is it's own self late at night on a weekend.

 

[BudreauReye]

Here I am waxing eloquent, and it is is not even close to the weekend! 

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rNgestJxas

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ecWtfAaR18

 

[Aaron Carrara]

One of the best jazz albums ever made.  

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA2j0HoQPaQ

 

[BudreauReye]

Nevermind.  Double post.

 

[BudreauReye]

Carole King, James Taylor, Simon aand Garfunkle ... they helped create within me a healthy appreciation for song writers that were equally facile with lyrics as they were with the frets of a guitar or a piano.