FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops -2 May 2015

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[Publius]

He was one of the most important singers to work out of the Brill Building, both during his Drifters years and later when he went solo. He had a magnificent voice. This is one of the immortal Lieber-Stoller and Spector tunes. Beautifully produced.

[luvie]

TOTALLY RANDOM......

Ben E King~Stand By Me

RIP...Ben E King Passed away today at the age of 76...

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[luvie]

He was a giant in the industry for sure!

[Publius]

Another Lieber-Stoller masterpiece.

[luvie]

:)

Unfortunately, those are the only two I had time to grab for tonight.

[Publius]

He had a country hit in 1964 titled “Seven Letters”, a real change of pace for him.

[luvie]

TOTALLY RANDOM......

Ben Tankard~Heavenly Vibes

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[Publius]

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS

Hitch loved creating 30-minute TV vignettes in which the bad guy won, but at the end he would personally explain how the bad guy got caught. This was to get around TV censorship. Hitch had a devilish sense of humor!

The French composer Charles Gounod was living in London when he decided to write a short suite for piano, but he abandoned it after writing the first movement. A few years later, he arranged that one movement for orchestra.

Gounod: “Funeral March of a Marionette”

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Radio Days...

Valse Triste (the Shadow)

William tell overture(The Lone Ranger)

[luvie]

TOTALLY RANDOM......

Blues Brothers~Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

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[Publius]

Lone Ranger is up next.

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LOL...I love the story of Rossini being SO LAZY, that he wrote in bed, and if a fully written page of his score drifted to the floor, he would rewrite the whole thing rather than bend over and pick it up.

[luvie]

Nobody like Hitchcock! ;)

[Publius]

THE LONE RANGER

”The Lone Ranger” first appeared on radio in Detroit in 1933, and it was eventually carried by the NBC network. From 1949 to 1957, it ran on television.

The theme came from Rossini’s opera “William Tell”, which had an overture that quoted themes from the opera, but not in sonata format, which had been the norm at the time. This is the finale of the overture, which was used as the theme on both radio and television.

Rossini: William Tell Overture (finale)

[luvie]

TOTALLY RANDOM......

Boney James~2:01 AM

Pleeeeze let me be sleeping by then! LOL!

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[ConorMacNessa]

I'm fading fast, but I will observe as I retire that Beethoven's genius knew no bounds. He is not remembered so much for his lieder, although I can recall working on a few of his, such as "Ich Liebe Dich", which I regard as a gem.

" Ich Liebe Dich"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[luvie]

TOTALLY RANDOM......

Brian Setzer~Nosey Joe

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[ConorMacNessa]

I will never forget that piece, or the visual of Hitch walking into his chalked profile.

"Good Evening!"

None of the tools we have today, but look at the tension he could create on the tube or on the screen!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[Publius]

PLAYHOUSE THEATER

This was an anthology series on CBS during the Fifties.

A medical problem and Rossini’s ever present bipolar disorder pulled Jake out of the world of opera at age 37. Only after bladder surgery and a second marriage did Rossini go back to the piano to compose, but rather than write opera, he wrote several hundred piano pieces for inexperienced pianists under the title “Sins of My Old Age”. This was one of them.

Rossini: “A Little Caprice in the Style of Offenbach

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I didn’t realize that.

However, TV gave him a second career, albeit a century or so later!