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Angeline said:
Happy birthday Duke Ellington! This is the sound of America to me.

Take the A Train
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Thanks Ange, I enjoyed it very much!
It seems "unrealistic" now a days to ask from brass players to do the same, ie not only to play their instruments but also to sing and dance.
It seemed so natural and effortless to those guys!
 
pelegrino said:
Thanks Ange, I enjoyed it very much!
It seems "unrealistic" now a days to ask from brass players to do the same, ie not only to play their instruments but also to sing and dance.
It seemed so natural and effortless to those guys!
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I've been reading a great biography about the Duke (by Terry Teachout). He says that Duke's instrument was not really the piano, but the whole band. And he often had different sidemen singing or clowning around. But I noticed the big stars (Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster) didn't have to sing and dance. I doubt Ben Webster would dance for anyone! :D

Here's something I've been listening to a lot lately. It's just one song, but the whole album is great.

Jordu
 
This is kind of a long story. I own a Volvo S60. It's a nice car, and it has a USB port and software that recognizes an iPod, or, in my case, an iPhone. Or did, originally.

There was apparently some Apple upgrade or something that changed things when I upgraded my phone. Anyway, at that point, the iPod functionality of the car ended. It does not recognize my phone, like at all. So I've started to play CDs (you know, those round and shiny dinosaur bones your parents have lying about the house) when I go anywhere that will take some significant amount of time. Today I happened to plug in an 80s album by The Motels: All Four One. I listened to that album a lot thirty-some years ago. But now, this song really caught my attention.

Now it's kind of a joke among people who know me that I don't listen to lyrics. But, my God, today these smacked me right in the middle of my forehead.

Turns out the song is a Goffin/King (read: hitmakers) song based on their finding out their baby sitter (Little Eva of Locomotion fame) was regularly being beaten up by her boyfriend, but she believed that showed that he loved her. That "he hit me and it felt like a kiss" is more or less straight from her mouth. As was her feeling that it meant that "he loves me."

Yikes.

Worse, it was originally a Phil Spector-produced single from The Crystals.

A lot of people have covered the song, perhaps most prominently Courtney Love.

Life changes. Thankfully.

Jesus.
 
Tzara said:
This is kind of a long story. I own a Volvo S60. It's a nice car, and it has a USB port and software that recognizes an iPod, or, in my case, an iPhone. Or did, originally.

There was apparently some Apple upgrade or something that changed things when I upgraded my phone. Anyway, at that point, the iPod functionality of the car ended. It does not recognize my phone, like at all. So I've started to play CDs (you know, those round and shiny dinosaur bones your parents have lying about the house) when I go anywhere that will take some significant amount of time. Today I happened to plug in an 80s album by The Motels: All Four One. I listened to that album a lot thirty-some years ago. But now, this song really caught my attention.

Now it's kind of a joke among people who know me that I don't listen to lyrics. But, my God, today these smacked me right in the middle of my forehead.

Turns out the song is a Goffin/King (read: hitmakers) song based on their finding out their baby sitter (Little Eva of Locomotion fame) was regularly being beaten up by her boyfriend, but she believed that showed that he loved her. That "he hit me and it felt like a kiss" is more or less straight from her mouth. As was her feeling that it meant that "he loves me."

Yikes.

Worse, it was originally a Phil Spector-produced single from The Crystals.

A lot of people have covered the song, perhaps most prominently Courtney Love.

Life changes. Thankfully.

Jesus.
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Like Courtney Love, I'm surprised Carole King wrote it.

While the frequency of spousal abuse may have gone down, I think it's because societal responses are better, eg, safe houses and social services that deal directly with this problem. When I was a young probation officer in the early seventies, this was virtually unreported.

Unfortunately, Tzara, I believe the psychology that drives this predatory behavior is as present and as strong as ever. It is not about love as suggested in the lyrics, but power and control.
 
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