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Re: Music Thread.

Post by neufer » Wed May 11, 2016 3:03 pm

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Haha, I love that guy's work.
  • Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to enthalpize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in enthalpy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, enthalpy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Fred the Cat » Wed May 11, 2016 4:49 pm

neufer wrote:
geckzilla wrote:
Haha, I love that guy's work.
  • Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to enthalpize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in enthalpy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, enthalpy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Chris Peterson » Wed May 11, 2016 5:28 pm

neufer wrote:
geckzilla wrote: Haha, I love that guy's work.
  • Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to enthalpize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in enthalpy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, enthalpy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm not sure if Neil would appreciate the misquote or not.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by neufer » Wed May 11, 2016 6:12 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:
I'm not sure if Neil would appreciate the misquote or not.
  • I'm sure he'd be very enthalpetic.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Fred the Cat » Wed May 18, 2016 3:18 pm

neufer wrote:
Chris Peterson wrote:
I'm not sure if Neil would appreciate the misquote or not.
  • I'm sure he'd be very enthalpetic.
I e-mailed him to ask but haven't heard back yet. :|
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Wah? Wah! » Wed May 18, 2016 3:59 pm

neufer wrote:
Chris Peterson wrote:
I'm not sure if Neil would appreciate the misquote or not.
  • I'm sure he'd be very enthalpetic.
Sounds like your waxing enthalpomorphic. Or perhaps just trying to get the wax to melt.

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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Moonlady » Thu May 19, 2016 1:36 pm

My childhood favourit hit! Not that I was born in the time when Smetana published his work in 1875, but it is a piece I love since I heard it the first time and I still enjoy it.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by geckzilla » Mon Sep 12, 2016 2:38 am

The creepiest hymn, the Hymn of Acxiom. Or, really, it could be about Facebook these days.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by geckzilla » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:29 am

The Asteriskian's favorite song to criticize and compare versions of. My comment: Why. is. this. on. a Christmas album.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Chris Peterson » Wed Nov 02, 2016 2:45 pm

geckzilla wrote:The Asteriskian's favorite song to criticize and compare versions of.
Not my favorite version, but I do kind of like it.
My comment: Why. is. this. on. a Christmas album.
My comment: Why. Christmas albums?
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by geckzilla » Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:58 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:
geckzilla wrote:The Asteriskian's favorite song to criticize and compare versions of.
Not my favorite version, but I do kind of like it.
I can just fast forward to hat guy's part. Holy moly.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Chris Peterson » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:27 pm

I've been listening to a lot of Darryl Purpose since I first encountered him at a concert a couple of months ago.
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I've also been listening to a lot of Passenger, a singer I had somehow overlooked until recently.

Both of these guys are first rate poets, compose great tunes, and are worth checking out if you don't already know them. I've collected all their albums.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Fred the Cat » Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:15 pm

Great music Chris. Thanks for the post. :ssmile:
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by geckzilla » Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:01 am

Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dead at 82
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by bystander » Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:55 am

geckzilla wrote:
Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dead at 82
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/le ... -1.3846669

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Re: Music Thread.

Post by rstevenson » Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:07 pm

This bit of Cohen's lyrics perhaps belongs in the Politics thread...
  • Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Chris Peterson » Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:33 pm

rstevenson wrote:This bit of Cohen's lyrics perhaps belongs in the Politics thread...
  • Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
And if you can completely keep it together reading this tribute- especially after this nightmare of a week- you should probably just go jump off a ledge.
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by Ann » Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:27 pm

He was a great poet, a great composer and a great performer. I don't know what he was like in his youth, but in his old age, he was a gentleman, too.

He will be sorely missed.

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Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit

Post by neufer » Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:31 pm

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hut-Sut_Song

<<"The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade)" is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights.
  • Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit

    Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the Rillerah is a stream
    The brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit

    In a town in Sweden by a stream so clear and cool
    There sat a boy just a fishin' and a dreamin' when he should have been in school
    Now, he couldn't read or write a single Swedish word but happiness he found
    In a little Swedish song he heard here's the way he made it sound

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...

    Now the girl played hooky from school that day, came down to the stream
    She sat down beside the little Swedish boy and they began to dream

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...

    Now the brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream
    The sooit is their teacher who caught them by the stream

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...

    Now the boy and girl are back in school, shattered is their dream
    The teacher planted poison oak all along the stream

    It's a crazy kind of a song to belong to a boy and girl
    In love with a beautiful dream
    But they love to sing, swing all the live long day
    Shood to soon shahoon la shoon da shoo shooga shoogan on the Rillerah
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The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly), play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder finally has them removed to an insane asylum.

The lyrics of the chorus are supposed to be a garbled rendition of a Swedish folk song. The song purports to define some of the words, supposedly Swedish: "Rawlson" being a Swedish town, "rillerah" being a stream, "brawla" being the boy and girl, "hut-sut" being their dream and "sooit" being the schoolteacher. The story told in the song is that of a boy (and later a girl) who play hooky from school and spend their days fishing and dreaming by the riverbank, until their schoolteacher finds them and, to prevent the incident from happening again, "plant(s) poison oak all along the stream." The children end up back at school. To explain why the words bear no resemblance to actual Swedish language, the song notes that the boy didn't know any Swedish and that the nonsense words were simply ones the boy made up to go along with the melody he heard.

The song was also recorded by various artists such as Mel Tormé, Freddy Martin, The Four King Sisters and Spike Jones. The song is of the same genre as other novelty songs of the era, such as "Mairzy Doats" and "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Pool)." Some contend that the song was a rewriting of an unpublished Missouri River song called "Hot Shot Dawson".

The song is featured in the movies From Here to Eternity, Ace in the Hole, and A Christmas Story. In the 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short Horton Hatches the Egg, the lyrics are further garbled as "Hut sut ra, sat on a willowa, so on, so on, so forth". A snippet of the song was also sung by Rowlf the Dog in a Veterinarians' Hospital sketch on the Muppet Show.>>
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Re: Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit

Post by Ann » Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:04 am

neufer wrote:-----------------------------------------------
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hut-Sut_Song

<<"The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade)" is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights.
  • Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit

    Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the Rillerah is a stream
    The brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit

    In a town in Sweden by a stream so clear and cool
    There sat a boy just a fishin' and a dreamin' when he should have been in school
    Now, he couldn't read or write a single Swedish word but happiness he found
    In a little Swedish song he heard here's the way he made it sound

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...

    Now the girl played hooky from school that day, came down to the stream
    She sat down beside the little Swedish boy and they began to dream

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...

    Now the brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream
    The sooit is their teacher who caught them by the stream

    Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...

    Now the boy and girl are back in school, shattered is their dream
    The teacher planted poison oak all along the stream

    It's a crazy kind of a song to belong to a boy and girl
    In love with a beautiful dream
    But they love to sing, swing all the live long day
    Shood to soon shahoon la shoon da shoo shooga shoogan on the Rillerah
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly), play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder finally has them removed to an insane asylum.

The lyrics of the chorus are supposed to be a garbled rendition of a Swedish folk song. The song purports to define some of the words, supposedly Swedish: "Rawlson" being a Swedish town, "rillerah" being a stream, "brawla" being the boy and girl, "hut-sut" being their dream and "sooit" being the schoolteacher. The story told in the song is that of a boy (and later a girl) who play hooky from school and spend their days fishing and dreaming by the riverbank, until their schoolteacher finds them and, to prevent the incident from happening again, "plant(s) poison oak all along the stream." The children end up back at school. To explain why the words bear no resemblance to actual Swedish language, the song notes that the boy didn't know any Swedish and that the nonsense words were simply ones the boy made up to go along with the melody he heard.

The song was also recorded by various artists such as Mel Tormé, Freddy Martin, The Four King Sisters and Spike Jones. The song is of the same genre as other novelty songs of the era, such as "Mairzy Doats" and "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Pool)." Some contend that the song was a rewriting of an unpublished Missouri River song called "Hot Shot Dawson".

The song is featured in the movies From Here to Eternity, Ace in the Hole, and A Christmas Story. In the 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short Horton Hatches the Egg, the lyrics are further garbled as "Hut sut ra, sat on a willowa, so on, so on, so forth". A snippet of the song was also sung by Rowlf the Dog in a Veterinarians' Hospital sketch on the Muppet Show.>>
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The tune doesn't resemble that of any Swedish folk song that I have heard of! And as for the story, no Swedish teacher would plant poison oak along streams in Sweden, because poison oak doesn't grow here! (And what I know about poison oak, I basically learned from the movie Coraline.)

Swedish Wikipedia has this to say about poison oak (called giftsumak by those who know a Swedish name for it), translated from Swedish into English via Google translate:
Poison ivy (Toxicodendron diversilobum) is a plant of the family anacardiaceae. The most famous name of the plant is the English name of Western Poison Oak. On occasions such as relative Toxicodendron radicans severe allergic contact dermatitis, poison ivy dermatitis. Poison ivy are very common in the US and Canada's west coast.
That's about as much gobbledygook as the "Swedish" Hut-Sut song! The lyrics of that song really only resemble the kind of "Swedish" that is spoken by the Swedish chef on the Muppet show!
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Music for elephants

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I just came across this, and couldn't resist it.

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Post by Rothkko » Thu May 18, 2017 7:28 pm

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Post by Rothkko » Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:30 pm

50 years
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Re: Music Thread.

Post by rstevenson » Thu Jun 01, 2017 11:43 pm

Incredible that it's been that long. I can't be 50 years older than I was then!

DId you know -- trivia alert -- that when the Beatles were in Toronto for 2 concerts in August 1966, the head of their police security squad was named Sgt. Randall Pepper? And that on Paul's left shoulder in the album cover photo there is an OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) patch?

Jus' sayin'.

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My future (and still current) wife was one of the girls in the audience for one of those two concerts. She wasn't impressed because all the screaming kept her from hearing them play.

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