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Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:30 am
by Dadtodabone
Charles L. Cotton wrote:
WildBill wrote:Rio Bravo is one of my favorite westerns. This song and video is from the movie.
I haven't thought of this song in years! Rio Bravo and El Dorado had the same themes and they are two of my top ten favorite movies.

Chas.
You're missing the third film of the Hawks "High Noon" response trilogy, "Rio Lobo".
Though it diverges slightly more from the "Bravo" storyline than "El Dorado", no Martin/Mitchum drunken sheriff character, the other components are there. The Duke as always, Jack Elam in the Walter Brennan/Arthur Hunnicutt crusty role, Jennifer O'Neill as the pretty gal(just before rocketing to stardom in "The Summer of '42) as a tip o' the hat to "El Dorado", Mitchum's son, Christopher, is cast member.
Scenes from the films are part of the opening/backstory/montage of Wayne's last film "The Shootist".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Yek4oF2SA
"Rio Lobo" was the last film directed by Howard Hawks and like it's predecessors, was filmed at "Old Tucson" (studio set built for the 1939 film "Arizona") a working studio with 70 or so buildings meant to represent Tucson of 1860.
Although damaged in a fire in 1995, "Old Tucson" is still there. Tours, gunfights, saloon shows, restaurants, and shops make for a great way to spend a day if you are ever in the Tucson area.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:54 am
by Dadtodabone
WildBill wrote: Linda Thompson - One Clear Moment
Linda and husband Richard, brit folk-rock from 1973. One of Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=57PENuNVapc

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 4:58 am
by Dadtodabone
An earlier project for Richard Thompson was Fairport Convention(Linda appeared on their last album)an "electric" folk band.
Here's "Matty Groves", a murder lament from the early 17th century. It tells the story of a noble woman found by her husband to be engaged in an intimate affair with a common lad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI

In it's original form it was one of the "Child Ballads" collected and published by Francis James Child in 1882.
When a much younger man I learned of the "Child Ballads" while enjoying a warm beverage, the company of a bright-eyed lass from Blighty and the perusal of "The Ballad as Song" by Bertrand Harris Bronson, on a cold and rainy Philadelphia afternoon and evening.
There surely isn't a finer way to gain an appreciation of another culture.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:05 pm
by WildBill
Dadtodabone wrote:
WildBill wrote: Linda Thompson - One Clear Moment
Linda and husband Richard, brit folk-rock from 1973. One of Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums".
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I have this CD and most of the other Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums. :thumbs2:

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:07 pm
by WildBill
Dadtodabone wrote:An earlier project for Richard Thompson was Fairport Convention(Linda appeared on their last album)an "electric" folk band.
Here's "Matty Groves", a murder lament from the early 17th century. It tells the story of a noble woman found by her husband to be engaged in an intimate affair with a common lad.
In it's original form it was one of the "Child Ballads" collected and published by Francis James Child in 1882.
When a much younger man I learned of the "Child Ballads" while enjoying a warm beverage, the company of a bright-eyed lass from Blighty and the perusal of "The Ballad as Song" by Bertrand Harris Bronson, on a cold and rainy Philadelphia afternoon and evening.
There surely isn't a finer way to gain an appreciation of another culture.
Yet another thing to pursue. Thanks for the link!

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 12:16 am
by Dadtodabone
"Guitars? We ain't got no guitars. We don't need no guitars! I don't have to show you any stinkin' guitars!"
Lee Michaels Hammond B3 and Baldwin Piano, with Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost, aka, Frosty.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibzf_-XYNm4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvZEXZTqLg

with apologies to B. Traven.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:53 am
by WildBill
Dadtodabone wrote:"Guitars? We ain't got no guitars. We don't need no guitars! I don't have to show you any stinkin' guitars!"
Lee Michaels Hammond B3 and Baldwin Piano, with Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost, aka, Frosty.
I got to see Lee Michaels and Frosty in concert!

It's too bad that most of his stuff is out of print and hard to find.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 8:22 pm
by Selina Kyle
Brandon Rhyder's version of "Lord I Hope This Day is Good". Love it.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:44 am
by SQLGeek
Came across this one today and I don't think I've heard it since it was on the radio 7 years ago.

It's amazing to see how much more relevant song has become to me over those years.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3bn7V0zdU[/youtube]

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 4:02 pm
by WildBill
I was thinking about my sister today.

"Sister" by Mumford & Sons

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QZi8J-N5hZ8

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 4:30 pm
by WildBill
Richard and Linda Thompson - "Walking On a Wire"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7o3h7eyVRp8

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:16 am
by Dadtodabone
Selina Kyle wrote:Brandon Rhyder's version of "Lord I Hope This Day is Good". Love it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmf29o-2oco

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:20 am
by Dadtodabone
SQLGeek wrote:Came across this one today and I don't think I've heard it since it was on the radio 7 years ago.

It's amazing to see how much more relevant song has become to me over those years.
I've been truly blessed in life, and still there are times I wish I could go back and slap some sense into my head.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:32 am
by Dadtodabone
WildBill wrote:I was thinking about my sister today.
I pray all is well.

Re: One song that "speaks" to you

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 1:00 am
by Dadtodabone
Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists includes;
#2 Eric Clapton, #3 Jimmy Page, #5 Jeff Beck.
And they were all Yardbirds.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pn6cxaKRwtk

Clapton left to stay true to the Blues, Beck got the boot, and Page inflated a Pb balloon.