FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

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[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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Tunes For The Troops     **Artist Showcase** Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Gilda Mirsky Nigro, a bookkeeper, and Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro. Laura was of Russian Jewish and Italian ancestry. As a child, she taught herself piano, read poetry, and listened to her mother's records by Leontyne Price, Billie Holiday and classical composers such as Ravel and Debussy. She composed her first songs at age eight. With her family, she spent summers in the Catskill Mountains, where her father played the trumpet at resorts. While in high school, she sang with a group of friends in subway stations and on street corners. She said, "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth." Among her favorite musicians were John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Curtis Mayfield, Van Morrison, and girl groups such as The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Shirelles. Nyro's own renditions of her songs never attained hit status, but between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had achieved significant successes on the charts with her works. Other artists scored hit after hit with her songs, led by the 5th Dimension’s “Stoned Soul Picnic” and “Sweet Blindness” in 1968 (then “Wedding Bell Blues” in ’69 and “Blowin' Away” in ’70). Over two consecutive weeks in October 1969, Blood, Sweat & Tears entered the Hot 100 with “And When I Die,” and Three Dog Night followed with “Eli's Coming.” In 1970-71, Barbra Streisand charted three consecutive times with Laura Nyro songs, “Stoney End,” “Time And Love” and “Flim Flam Man.” Nyro's evocative vocal style mixed jazz and rhythm-and-blues with street pop, gospel, and Broadway, and her three-octave range has led her voice to be characterized as both "a blues soprano" and "a rich, charcoal-smudged alto." In 1996, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After the diagnosis, Columbia Records prepared a double-disc CD retrospective of material from her years at the label. The company involved Nyro herself, who selected the tracks and approved the final project. She lived to see the release of Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997), and was reportedly pleased with the outcome. Nyro died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8, 1997, at 49, the age at which the same disease had claimed the life of her mother. Nyro's influence on popular musicians has also been acknowledged by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, and Melissa Manchester. Todd Rundgren stated that, once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs like The Who and started writing songs like Laura". On April 14th, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday. Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops! *Canteen Mission Statement* Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

 

More Than a New Discovery	Eli Thirteenth Confession
Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 1	Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 2
New York Tendaberry	Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat-(Remastered)
Gonna Take A Miracle Ft. Patti LaBelle	Smile-(Remastered)
Season Of Light	Mothers Spiritual
Live at The Bottom Line	Walk The Dog & Light The Light
Angel in the Dark	The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 1
> The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 2
*Website*

[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Marc Antoine~Sand Castle

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THAT'S ALL THE FUN IN THE SUN TONIGHT!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE SUMMER TOMORROW!
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS....
....AND GOD BLESS
AMERICA!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Hey dere, Prof.
*returning hugs and smooches*

I am doing okay, and that is a step up from this past week.
Thank you for asking!
I have been reading your posts, and will catch up on the music itself tomorrow.
You are doing a terrific job!

[luvie]

LOL! Tooooo cute, Sis! (((hugs)))

Sooooo good to see you! I’m glad I peeked in before heading out. I can stay a bit longer! :)

[Publius]

Well garsh.

(blushing shamelessly)

[Drumbo]

Cream's first single was released in September 1966 and was a commercial success in the UK, however, the band wasn't fond of the song, especially after lip-syncing it it on endless television shows across the continent. They never performed the song live, they excluded it from their albums and never released the song in the US. Jack Bruce, who co-wrote the song with his lyric partner Pete Brown has called it "cheesy" and Ginger Baker, never one to mince words, has derided the song from the beginning and said it was the only thing in their repertoire the record company would release as a single.

Wrapping Paper (BBC 1966)
~ Cream ~

Wrapping Paper
~ Cream ~

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[AZamericonnie]

I did indeed have a safe commute with no obstructions.

Poor deaf Daisy dog....I walked in the front door after turning on the hose bib to the sound of her barking.

Walked in the door & she’s focused on the wall where the bib is & doesn’t even hear me putting the key in the lock, coming in the door & calling her name.

She jumped when she saw me.....poor girls really getting deeeef!

[Publius]

From the summer of 1879 come two short piano pieces from Johannes Brahms. While rhapsodies are supposed to be free form, the second is written in the strictest sonata format. I can hear the classicist Brahms whimpering, “I couldn’t help myself!”

Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 79/1

Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79/2

[Liberty Valance]

Greetings & Salutations!

Thanks for supporting the Troops, Veterans and our Allies!

Thanks for the ping ;o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0
Neil Young - Rockin’ In The Free World

[MS.BEHAVIN]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

Hall and Oates~Wait For Me (Live)

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This N’That

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
I am glad I caught you before you headed out for the night.
It’s good to see YOU, too!
hope all is well with you.
It’s pretty hot up here, it hit 94 today!
*whew*

[luvie]

You’re welcome, Kathy! It’s my honor and pleasure to do this
small thing for those guys and gals that do so much for US!

Thank YOU for all you do for them....and for us in the Canteen! :)

((((hugs))))

[Publius]

Jeez. It only hit 88 here in coastal Georgia.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

deef?

I thought that my old man was the only person on the planet who pronounced it like that. Well, he and his mom, my grandmother.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Yeah, it’s unusual for Maine to get quite that high.
We had a brief thunderstorm, now its humid, 72 degrees and there is heat lightning and fireflies!

[luvie]

Wow, Sis! Y’all had the same temperature that we did! LOL!...and we thought it had cooled off.

Supposed to be back up to 100 on Sunday. Ugh!

[AZamericonnie]

OMGoodness...mark that one on the calender. I got one over Luvie!:)

[luvie]

I would nearly kill for 88 right now! And about 3 inches of rain. LOL!

[luvie]

*grin*

[MS.BEHAVIN]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

Fleetwood Mac~Tusk

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[Publius]

In 1880 Johannes Brahms decided to switch his summer vacation to Bad Ischl. Unfortunately, the summer of 1880 had record cold and rain, and Brahms fled back to Vienna.

The worst thing that happened was that the marriage of Joseph and Amalie Joachim was on the ropes. There were rumors that Amalie was conducting a torrid affair with Fritz Simrock, and Joachim believed them. Jo Brahms knew the players well enough to know that there was no truth to these stories, and he tried to get Joseph to see that. Brahms sent a short note to Amalie explaining how he knew well his old friend’s jealous streak. Amalie asked if she could use that letter as a character reference, and Brahms assented. Four years later, that assent was to lead to disaster.

Brahms had received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau, then in Germany and now known as Wroclaw in Poland, and he was asked to contribute a piece to the festivities that would be conducted by Joachim leading the student orchestra. When Brahms told them that the title was “Academic Festival Overture”, they thought that Jo was going to give them something glorifying student academics. Instead, Brahms gave them a piece that glorified student – drinking. The faculty may not have been amused, but the students loved the piece, which strung together a whole collection of European college drinking songs.

Brahms: “Academic Festival Overture”, Op. 80

The companion piece is the famous “Tragic Overture” which is in sonata format and could well have been the first movement of a symphony.

Brahms: “Tragic Overture”, Op. 81