Jung,

I’m sure I have this recording on one of my 30+ Louis albums. He always recorded standard hits like this since at least the 30’s.

For such a rough, growly voice he sure had a pleasing, relaxing sound! — Bud

Here is a Beach Boys instrumental with their Fender guitars, except for the occasional one word “stoked”, but they use their vocals like an instrument.

https://youtu.be/c8OCow2rt5g?si=fCrFs-bT–3PsVhJ

Tim

Artemis 4 in a couple years should be great with the first moon landing in over half a century.

Hi Jacki

I always enjoyed space shows and movies. Third Rock From The Sun is great! We got the whole series on DVD a few years ago, and Star Trek Enterprise on Netflix, watched all 4 seasons many times….There was also My Favorite Martian.

Bud, Chris

Some nice moon songs. Here is another.

https://youtu.be/STB–CGFFPQ?si=FZVbPUuOrtaGyUdd

This jazzy little tune was used as background music for an animated segment on The Electric Company. I just now found it in its original form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsDww6oCOFU

I listened to Edgar Winter quite a bit when I was a teenager and there are a few versions of that song on YouTube but the one you posted is the best. They were really a talented band with Rick Derringer on guitar and Dan Hartman on bass. Hartman wrote and sang some of their biggest hits like Free Ride. The drummer Chuck Ruff was no slouch…

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Howard

I remember that post you had on the similarities between Dan and MLT. I think many of the really good artists carry similar traits about them but it is strange that they have so many things in common.

I remember clearly a time when I first started listening to the Twins, I don’t remember which song exactly but it was a Cavern Club video,…

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Here’s another one from Dan’s “Twin Sons of Different Mothers” album.

Hurtwood Alley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvE6bqj41g&list=PLbeiFDBQ__0wyNxSLp4HFG-Er7q7ZI3Ss&index=6

I don’t know the first time I heard this one, but I’m pretty sure it was a while back. I feel like I heard it even before the La Bamba movie, but I have no idea where….. it just seems very familiar. But I could have never thought of this one without some influence to jog my memory.

Yeah, I turned on your camera again a few days ago and…

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Yeah, I like the humor in those album covers. As far as finding songs for topics on these threads, I’m pretty sure I’m more limited than most in here. I have some favorites outside of Dan, like Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel, and several others…. but there was something about Dan and his music (like the twins) that just made me…

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JUrgen

This last video says unavailable in my country so I’ll post a link that works here. Very nice music I agree.

https://youtu.be/Z9P_PQIAlXQ?si=H0u0hRHNA7R4yjIL

Howard

Yeah, I feel like I keep posting the same songs and artists too but so many of them fit the forums. This instrumental ones get you thinking though. I thought of Frankenstein immediately but you had posted it already. That’s ok because I think I posted it on a different forum not long ago.

Looking at those two album covers I think the…

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One of my favorite 60’s bands I have really only discovered in the last year or so but I think the Dutch band Shocking Blue was very good. I only knew of their big hit Venus which is still a great songs. A lot of their YouTube videos are from their tours in Japan where they were a huge success. This is a pretty groovy instrumental by them…

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That’s a good point…. I never really thought about it that way before…. but I think you’re right. Instrumental music can take you anywhere as compared to lyrical songs.

Yeah, not a lot of instrumental songs come to mind. I posted Frankenstein by Edgar Winter and a guitar solo by Roy Clark….. those were the only two that my noodle could…

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Here’s a really underrated guitar picker. I forget about Junior Brown but he’s amazing and always entertaining. Here’s his medley of some of the great surfin’ guitar songs.

https://youtu.be/WniSt0yhroE?si=obR-kAdE4MMswm5_

Sorry if this one has been posted already but I don’t think it was. I remember this as the song playing in the movie La Bamba after the fateful plane crash that killed Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and JP Richardson.

https://youtu.be/YBRCvVpknvg?si=N0atNraI3rwW_1Ch

Those are both good songs, very relaxing music for sure. It’s funny how music alone can change your mood, your thoughts. I think instrumentals are better at doing that too. Song lyrics, even though each one can interpret them in his own way, tend to lead you in one direction. But instrumentals can lead you anywhere. Many times it depends on…

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While on topic of Space stuff , hete ‘s Dusty Springfield singing about a song with ” Moon ” in it , also coming to mind is a 60s tv show about an alien family , ” another Alien tv show or two from the 80s … ” Out of This World ” , ” Alf ” ” 3rd Rock from he Sun ” ” Buck Roger’s of the 21st Century ” ” Battlestar Galactica , all…

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Here’s one off the first album in this genre with Tim W. A few of the songs do have lyrics as well, but those don’t fit this thread. This is the album with Dan’s “Power of Gold”. It was a last minute addition to this album because it wasn’t suppose to be on it at all. The track that was suppose to be the last track of the album, didn’t quite…

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Hi Jurgen

Liebstraum is probably Liszts most famous work, it is certainly one of the most romantic piano pieces ever.

Beethoven was Liszts biggest musical hero and greatest lifelong guiding figure. The story goes a young Liszt met Beethoven in 1823, and upon hearing Liszt play, Beethoven was so impressed he kissed Liszt on the forehead,…

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Jürgen,

Maybe the closest Weather Report ever got to a “hit” was the song Birdland, which was on the same album as A Remark You Made, the Heavy Weather album.

I have heard it described as the highest charting jazz song ever. A cover of it by the New York band The Manhattan Transfer won 2 Grammies and was an even bigger hit.

Hi Jurgen

At the 4:55 mark, Tifanny’s fingers are knocking on heaven’s door for 30 seconds, it’s so ABSOLUTELY SUBLIME.

Very nice! I noticed she wasn’t reading it off a music sheet….. I’m not a musician, but how people play like this can remember every nuance of the song is amazing in itself.

Absolutely!! That was very nice. The next time I need to unwind at the end of the day, I’m just going to pull up this thread….. There’s a lot of relaxing music in this one….. Nice Post Jurgen!

I used to not listen to these two albums that much, then one day Bud J. and I were talking about Jazz. I told him that I knew Dan had done some Jazz pieces and I would go ahead and post some examples. After those posts, I found myself going back to these albums more and more. I especially noticed how calming they were. So on days when work…

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Ulla van Daelen / Choral

https://youtu.be/8YAzNKwan6E?si=zL_2l0NTM_C0LOc8

Ulla van Daelen / Sunflower

https://youtu.be/2BZsk21Di6Y?si=jMW5wkukm-PcOPqk

Howard,

if you’re still looking for music to relax to: Ulla van Daelen is a German harpist and composer. From 1990, she was a soloist with the WDR Radio Orchestra for twenty years. Music for relaxation and dreaming.

Ulla van Daelen / Dancin’ With Satie

https://youtu.be/Yu6-7Yyn-AY?si=iq_1JC9rmtAMKK6z

In the 1980s, French pianist Richard Clayderman had a chart hit with this instrumental piece.

Richard Clayderman / Ballade Pour Adeline

https://youtu.be/qr9ZdA_WRjc?si=hOfutfRsxycJRcUc

Hi Jung,

perhaps not as technically sophisticated as Hungarian Rhapsody, but a wonderful melody that still seems modern today.

https://youtu.be/KpOtuoHL45Y?si=VJS-K4hQ5IGp7rlY

Oh, I knew that there were musicians out there that played other genres like Dan’s friend Jimmy Buffet….. who also performed country. But what I meant was, how many out there played music in 5 or more genres and wrote the pieces they played? There may be some…. my knowledge of music has somewhat of a small circle….. but I’ll bet that…

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Paul yes, all the Mike Oldfield tracks listed above are cover versions. I didn’t know this for a long time, and when I found out, MO was a little less enchanting for me, as I thought he had come up with all those beautiful melodies himself. However, I really like how he manages to put his own stamp on all these pieces of music.

Howard,

To me, wanting to be challenged makes sense. You know far more about Dan than I ever will, but he’s not the only one who wanted to be challenged, or that explored other genres.

I’m sure you know Charlie Watts had a jazz band on the side, and Ringo loves country music. I don’t know how long it would have taken me to find jazz if I…

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Speaking of pianos, do you remeber this one?

https://youtu.be/EQlPq4z2gBc?si=kjzEjS9shj-RKqmu

Thanks Paul

I’ve never heard that one by the Chicks but I like it. Besides being great vocalists they are great instrumentalists as well.

Hi Jung,

thanks for presenting Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. The pianist with the long ears has more dynamics and a more powerful playing style, but seems to get distracted easily. The pianist Tiffany Poon definitely plays with more refinement and devoted elegance. It’s hard to say which concert I would attend 😀.

Haha, that’s funny stuff there, and yeah that track is a great one to play for a closer.

Thanks Jurgen, I like sharing music that I grew up with and was the soundtrack of my life. I think everyone in the club has different viewpoints and perspectives and each one brings something unique to the table. I know some about country music because that’s the most popular in my neck of the woods but my favorite music by choice is rock n…

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Thanks Paul, great performance.

Ah, thanks Tim. I know it was Paul who introduced George to John. I’d forgotten exactly which song he played. I haven’t seen the movie.

Chris,

thanks for posting. We’ve already discussed the band Weather Report elsewhere in this forum. I vaguely remember that one of the founding members was Josef Erich Zawinul, an influential Austrian jazz musician. I can remember things like that, and that he liked to wear a funny hat, but unfortunately, I can’t recall which specific songs…

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Jurgen

Supposedly Paul told John about his school pal George and that he could play the song Raunchy. John was impressed and wanted to try him out. George played it for John on a bus.

Here’s a clip from the movie Noowhere Boy that illustrates the story.

https://youtu.be/4K9eeaqSiZI?si=i2DcZAmT_wksWtMN

Hm, okay Paul I wouldn’t have said anything actually, but if that’s what you want: 500 times “I must try harder next time” and 300 times „I will never try to cheat again“. And that’s only because I’m having a good day. Oh and of course I almost forgot: 50 times „I should never contradict Jürgen“ (that can’t hurt either). That seems to be fair,…

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Back to Liszt, before Beatlemania there was Lisztmania. Liszt was handsome, charming with amazing charisma, and his magic on the piano and his improvisational skills was without compare in the world, he was the musician virtuoso phenomenon like the world had never seen before. Ladies used to faint at his piano recitals as they were so…

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Tim, I know the song, but I don’t specifically associate it with George. What exactly are you referring to?

https://youtu.be/1OBX7E_OV0g?si=DcEKechXHtyJcKxJ

My favourite piano piece is Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No 2. Perhaps watching Bugs Bunny play it when I was 5 years old had something to do with it too. Those early Bugs Bunny musical cartoons really had a postitive impact on music appreciation with kids.

https://youtu.be/FzeFyKiPHZ8?si=k8eqOJJ1qL2F10Oa

Tim, first of all it’s great that you’re here too and that you’ve brought a bag of colorful music with you. A bouquet of interesting songs, of which I probably only know half. Of course, I’ll listen to them all, even if I sometimes can’t think of a suitable comment.

I’ve heard the band name Bach Turner Overdrive quite a few times here in the…

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Okay, time to do my homework. Paul, thanks for posting Toccata by the band Sky. Like you, I enjoyed the instrumental piece so much, that I bought the whole album (sky2) a few years ago. The album is hard to describe. Dreamy tunes with influences from classical music. None of it is as upbeat as Toccata, but overall very beautiful,…

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Hi Howard

Lisa is really gifted on the strings. It’s not about blistering speed and theatrics, but bringing across the feeling, so effectively. She can really make you feel every note, like she’s pulling on your heart strings with her finger picking.