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Posted on 03/30/2018 6:01:20 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
The roller coaster is alive and well! LOL! Glad if you have to get up early, it’s for something fun and that you love doing! Now, getting up early for a doctor/dentist appt...yuk! Thank goodness, I don’t have to do that often.
Little black kitty that’s been hanging around? Pregnant. *sigh* I could end up being a crazy cat lady if she has them here. I’m pretty sure she has a home, though. I HOPE so. No doubt Ghost is the daddy. LOL!
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A while back, I did the songbook of the very strange Tandyn Almer, best known for “Along Comes Mary.” This rather weird masterpiece features Ruthanne Friedmann, composer of the Association’s “Windy,” providing lead vocal duties. In 1967 it took a lot of courage to write a waltz. That’s a calliope and an our-of-tune piano in the arrangement. There is so much going on in this Larry Marks production that it takes two listenings to figure it all out. This song sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack of the equally weird movie “Carnival of Souls.”
The roller coaster is alive and well, indeed!!! I wanted off a long time ago! I imagine everyone’s ready to get off.
It hurts to get up early for any reason but for this, I don’t mind. Just trying to go to sleep early is so hard.
But I’m looking forward to going back up there on a somewhat regular basis again. And it’ll be a pretty day for the drive there and back.
Oh boy. I hope that sweet lil kitty does have a home to go to to unload her kittens. She doesn’t hang around daily, does she?
I wonder if any will look like Ghost.
Back in the day we called her “Lezzy” Gore as a joke. Boy, what we didn’t know! She was very much a creature of the Brill Building, singing tunes written by the great teams that had their own little offices with pianos. This tune was from Barry Mann and his wife Cynthia Weil. Cynthia, by the way, looks just like she did half a century ago thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery. This was the “B” side of the ill-fated “Magic Colors” of 1967. Lesley was furious that this song was not featured on the “A” side. With the world turning to sex and drugs, the song is a plea for conventionality.
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Over at the Brill Building, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were trying to remain relevant by engaging in social commentary. “It’s a Happening World”is one example. This 1967 release is another. The Monkees would get the hit with a rather plaintive production, but this is more full blooded with some fine harmonies. The group was a Long Island folk club bar band.
No, she’s not around often, but when she showed up last night, I noticed her roundness, that didn’t seem to come from food intake. LOL!
Ghost is nice to her and lets her eat before him. Something he sure won’t do with my two.
I hope you have fun and I hope you can get to sleep. If I try to go to bed early, I end up dozing off at my usual time only I’m more frustrated from not being able to.
This duet is of Sri Lankan extraction. It was a two-sided hit in the UK in 1968 but didn’t even get air play over here. The dissonances in the arrangement, particularly the intervals of a seventh, are ear-catching.
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Helen Reddy gets the credit for this, but the original was written, produced and sung by Larry Marks in 1968. That’s a killer flute solo in the middle.
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Joni Mitchell waited a long time to record her song because so many others tried their hands at it first. In the fall of 1968 Judy Collins got the hit single, but she wasn’t the first to put it on a single. In April of that year a bubble gum version was released by a studio band. The fact that it was handled bubble gum style didn’t hurt the song, and it’s haunting in its own way. Every time I played this, the room would go silent. Ignore the video; it’s just plain weird.
Oooo....just now had a chance to check on your theme for the night, and this is a GREAT one! I’ll check ‘em out when I get through posting. Can’t really listen to two things at once. LOL!
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