What Music Are You Listening to Now or Your Favourite Songs of All Time

Those who have difficulty liking classical music should go to a live concert/play or Christmas classic - The Nutcracker will give a whole different perspective and meaning to classic music. Listening to live classical music has a whole different effect.

Or just for fun how about this combo of singers..

 

I've just started watching "River" on ITVx with Nicola Walker.

This was played over the opening scene in a car, with Nicola Walker singing along with it.
Brought back a few memories.




A sobering thought is that Tina Charles is now 71.

 

Going through my few thousand MP3s I came across this from 1966.
Surprisingly, it was co-written by Carol Bayer Sager, (I've a few of her albums), partly ripped from a melody by the classical composer Muzio Clenmatini.

It's a nothing tune, there's not even a "middle eight," just a chord change half-way through, but it made No.2 in the UK.

What makes it catchy, is the descending four chord sequence, that starts with the line "When you're close to me," BbM7, Am, Gm, C7.

Similar progressions are used in other popular songs.

 

I was thinking about this the other day

 

I ripped "I Love to Love," added to the playlist on one of my jukebox wall boxes, after deleting a track to find room for it, printed off a new title card, videoed it and added it to my YouTube Channel.



I also found this, recorded in 2003 when she was 49.
She'd still got it.

 

Todd Rundgren, produced and wrote all the songs on a double album I bought in the early seventies called, "Something/Anything."
Fifteen years ago, I bought my favourite track from it, as a single, where he plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals (not all at the same time).




Seven years ago, he was still playing and singing it.

 

I've been listening to/ watching a reaction video on youtube. Sorry, I don't know how to link it.

I'm watching "Mollyboy" , a 20 something guy, (cute as a friggen button, he is !!) who is listening to Classic Rock for the first time. He is a hip-hop generation guy and he just LOOOVES classic rock now !!

He's got 193,000 subscribers. Most are our generation !! You guys should check out his channel. . He is really fun to watch !!

 

That's the kid !! Thanks @Logan for posting it for me. He's so cute and he's gotten to love all the songs from our Rock 'n Roll era.

 

This might interest some and bore others.

My replacement Tina Turner record arrived today. It cost £3.87 including postage.
I got a refund from the other supplier, for the one that arrived broken.

This one is in excellent condition, even the sleeve, not that the latter is important.





But as often is the case, the record was produced for the British market, where turntables accept, "small hole records."
The American turntables usually accepted large hole records, or small hole, but with a "filler" you could place in the middle of the turntable to take large hole records.
USA produced records for the world and had centres that were easily removed, connect by tiny joints to the body of the record.
Some jukeboxes will accept both, mine will only accept large hole records. So to play on a turntable which will only accept large hole records, the centre has to be removed with what is called a "dinker."

I made this jig over 15 years ago and I've not had to use it for a few.



The record has to be immobilised, to be able to cut the hole in the right place.
It fits tightly between the four pins. The hole has to be cut exactly dead centre, if it's adrift by even the smallest fraction, the record will "wow" when played.



The dinker passes through the record and is inserted into a washer glued into the centre of the jig.



Then you turn the dinker gently several times, to score its way through the plastic.



A bit of sanding of the cut edge is sometimes needed to make sure that when the gripper arm drops the record on the turntable, it fits as it should.
Jukeboxes are unforgiving, if a record doesn't sit between the three lugs, it can fly off and the jukebox will then try to play the turntable, unseen.

I then gave it a good clean with meths and tried watching it from selection to the end and its return to the carousel.

I was pleased with the result.

 

I haven't heard him before but he's from the UK Birmingham.

 

I bought this turntable new, in 1972 together with some Goodman's Havant speakers. All it's had is a new belt fifteen years ago, it's in perfect working order, I use a Shure M75ED cartridge. Some friends were having a clear out and knowing I had two vinyl jukeboxes gave me a box of about 100 45rpm records they'd collected from the sixties. Many were unplayable, but the titles jogged a memory. So my wife and I listened to a few we remembered that we liked at the time, including this by Lindisfarne, "Meet Me on the Corner." Recorded in 1971.
It hasn't worn well, but my turntable played it faultlessly. I rarely play 45s on this turntable.
The extraneous noise before and after the track was made by my little Lumix camera, which also struggled with the bass.