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Posted on 11/17/2025 8:07:14 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan
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I’ve heard similar stories from Hospice volunteers while Hubby was volunteering. They specifically mentioned hymns from the patients’ childhood era. Some would sing along, even though they didn’t speak to, or even recognize, family members.
For decades I’ve heard that exposing babies, even still in the womb, to Mozart and Bach raises their IQs.
I would think that listening to jazz would induce Tourette Syndrome. It’s haphazard — sometimes nonexistent — when it comes to arithmetic rhythm and timing within a measure.
That is a beautiful piece — and fun to play.
The future’s uncertain and the end is always near
I listen to music pretty much everyday when I walk.
Off of Lola? Great Ray Davies social commentary.
I have at least a thousand vinyl singles, about a thousand 78s and hundreds of LPs. However, they are mostly in storage. Just about anything I want to hear is on Youtube, and if I find something there that I want to keep, I record it on Audacity and save it as an MP3 file.
The elephant likes it too.
Oh, you can listen to just about anything from several media. But I still find the sound coming from a decent turntable is the best.
My mother was French and had a good voice and projection for someone who was barely 5 ft. tall. She was in Paris to see Edith Piaf. She was in the audience singing along with Piaf, and Piaf heard her and invited her onto the stage. My mother was a bit shy, but my father who was her fiance at the time, coaxed her onto the stage. They did one song together, I don’t know which one and Edith Piaf gave mom a hug at the end. This was a very big deal back then.
Truth.
If you can, hang onto your vinyls, some of them may be worth quite a bit. I have a pristine album of King Crimson’s first album, “In the Court of the Crimson King”. The album cover alone is worth $400.
That’s a wonderful story. Every musician’s dream! Thanks for sharing.
It’s nice when “regular people” are recognized by professionals. It happened to my mom a couple times.
One man whose name I can’t recall now grew up in the same little country school as Mom and her sisters. He went on to do professional singing — even at Carnegie Hall. He was scheduled to sing at a Buffalo venue and his accompanist got sick. He asked Mom to help, which she did. He told her she was the best he had had.
She accompanied the town’s school choirs until she was 90. the Music Director was a PhD in Music and was in awe of Mom’s abilities. If a difficult choral piece was in a key that wasn’t working out, Mom could transpose on the spot. The Director told Mom she would retire when Mom did... and she did.
Mom’s training was nothing special; she had inherent talent. We’re so glad she was recognized by professionals in Music because she sure didn’t get that at home as a lowly preacher’s wife.
That kind of talent is gift from God. I am just in awe every time I hear something that is different from anything I’ve ever heard before. Musicians who have their own thing, uniquely their own sound, rhythm, timing, speed or soft and slow, an instrument I never heard of or a different sound. Many musicians have their own unique thing and it makes me wonder how they can even dream up what they do.
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