"But you know what? This one, this one right here. This was my dream, my wish! And I'm taking it back." - The Goonies
I thank God that I was able to reclaim this and produce some performances before the end of the world.
Posted on 04/02/2023 5:27:16 PM PDT by conservativeimage
(A Retrospective Playlist) Today I play the piano for my past self who was working hard in long haul trucking to earn the time and place to be musical. These songs were learned by ear and arranged for piano my myself. The truck recording is from 2015. The piano performance is from 2023 and was recorded with a '90's Korg synthesizer.
Songs performed so far in this list:
Mad Max - Intro
The Abyss
Blue Stinger - Ending
Everyone Says I Love You - From Horse Feathers
The Fuller Brush Man - ???
Gankutsuou - We Were Lovers
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken - The Haunted Organ
Gladiator - Patricide
Phalanx - End Credits
"But you know what? This one, this one right here. This was my dream, my wish! And I'm taking it back." - The Goonies
I thank God that I was able to reclaim this and produce some performances before the end of the world.
That’s so nostalgic.
In the Mood and As Time Goes By are in my to do list.
As Time Goes By--Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees (1931)
I hadn’t heard that version of As time Goes Bye. Thanks for posting.
I only listened to a few. I’m not a musician, I just listen to a great deal of it.
The second one reminds me of “Claire de Lune” by Debussy.
A later one sounds Ragtime. Did you use a Tack Piano for that? Maybe nowadays, one can modify electronically to achieve the same metallic effect.
Tack Piano?
Yes - Korg 01/W
It’s a pretty ice cream sounding mix of patches.
Some of my favorite pieces:
Summer ‘78 - Yann Tiersen (From ‘Goodbye, Lenin!’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtWSj_qTkE
Polskie Drogi - Andrzej Kurylewicz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYfWa4N0yy8
In reading the title the first thing I thought of was Zelensky playing his favorite piano arrangement.
Well, Dutch Rhapsody made me feel a kind of way now. I think I’ll listen to Schindler’s List next.
I was thinking just yesterday about that beautiful piece. It was my father’s favorite. I have an original 78 rpm recording. Thanks for the memory. He’s been gone now for 10 years. I miss him more than I can say. Best man I ever knew.
I read about Tack Pianos in a biography book on Burt Bacharach.
When Burt was producing the melody soundtrack to ‘What’s New Pussycat?” he recorded with Tom Jones. Burt had five upright pianos in the studio. Two of them were Tack Pianos with tacks or nails on the hammers so they made a honky-tonk sound when they hit the strings. It was a huge hit and later nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1965.
Lol, misread? I've learned to not post personal in breaking news. What WOULD Zelensky play on the piano though?
Oops! I misunderstood you. The Korg used in the play list is a ‘90’s digital wave shaping system with 200 program patches that you can stack into complex combinations. I thought you meant tRacks like these combi patches. Not acoustic at all. I was looking through the banks for a slightly honkey tonk timbre and this is what I landed on for “Everyone Says I Love You.”
And the list excludes Chariots of Fire?
The theme playing as the British athletes running in the waves on the beach?
Chariots of Fire?
LOL - OK. Maybe I should have been more specific with my title?
“Me, A ‘90’s Kid, Playing MY Favorite Piano Arrangements from Mostly the ‘90’s Because Being At My Most Impressionable Period Of Live During the End of the 20th Century, This Is the Music I Was Familiar With?”
I’m kidding.
To be fair Chariots of Fire is great. So is Love is Blue. But playing these songs from my repertoire is personal. This retrospective is me telling fate, “Ha! You tried to stop me 20 years ago, but I’m doing it now!” I’ll get to Chariots some time. Should I put you on a waiting list? (jkjk)
Although the 1930's is remembered as the Red Decade, a time of political and economic turmoil, it was also a high-tech era that saw numerous technological and scientific advancements--the first airliners, the first freeways, television, V-8 automobile engines, jet propulsion, etc. But Rudy Vallee reminds us that despite all of this stupefying material progress, human nature doesn't change.
Here's another version, by the prolific hitmaker Ben Selvin, moonlighting under a pseudonym.
As Time Goes By--Lloyd Keating & His Music (1931)
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