FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

Our Troops Rock!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

[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*

[AZamericonnie]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

 

Friday Night Salsa

Thank you Salsa Man!

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[luvie]

LOVE YOU CANTEEN DJ'S!!!
Thanks for your hard work!
GodBlessUSA; mylife; AZAmericonnie; Kathy In Alaska; Ms.Behavin; drumbo; StarCMC; EsmeraldaA; ConorMacNessa; acad1228; LibertyValance; Cindy; Starwise; 50mm; gomez; iron munro; publius (and me)

YOU ROCK OUT LOUD!!
God bless our troops!!!

Thanks for a great thread
and all your hard work, Connie!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Connie....the contractor came at 4:59p...LOL!

Took a look and will get us an estimate after a class he is attending next week. Really nice guy.

I’m pleased with both the contractors that were here today.

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening Luvie....I LOL’ed when I realized what I had done. I hope you had a good day & yes....ice cream sounds good!

[SkyDancer]

Sergeant Shane Faulkner hugs his twin brother Shaw at a homecoming ceremony in Fort Hood, Texas

Kelly Johnston, the wife of slain Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Leo Johnston, hugs officers during her husband's funeral.

A Slovenian soldier says goodbye to his son

Two boys react as the coffin of Sergeant John Amer, the 99th British soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2009, was driven through the streets of Wootton.

Mary Melfi hugs her dog "Glory" after being reunited with him for the first time since being deployed as part of the U.S. war with Iraq.

[Publius]

One of the good things that came out of 1870 was that the Love Song Waltzes of Johannes Brahms began to get attention. Jo and Clara had played the duo piano parts with four friends of Brahms handling vocal duties. These are all tiny gems.

Brahms: Love Song Waltz, Op. 52/1

Love Song Waltz, Op. 52/8

Love Song Waltz, Op. 52/9

Love Song Waltz, Op. 52/10

Love Song Waltz, Op. 52/12

Love Song Waltz, Op. 52/13

[luvie]

USAF Concert Band~Armed Forces Medley

WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!





Armed Forces Humor..If You Need a Good Laugh!
Video

[AZamericonnie]

Well Check!!!I don't know if I've ever seen a canteen thread without our devoted Hope's Pledge post! Trusting all is well with you. *Hugs*

[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Alex Bugnon~108 Degrees

Not far from where it's gonna be this weekend! :)

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[luvie]

Howdy, (((Connie)))

Yeah...the day was good and the best part was the nap I had
after getting home from work. LOL!

Hope you and T-Man have a great weekend! :)

[BIGLOOK]

Now how in the world does one avoid the news?? Ain't like it's a pothole in the road or a Texas speed bump

[AZamericonnie]

Happy anniversary Mr & Mrs Acad1228 & a happy birthday to Mrs Acad as well! *Hugs*

[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Basia~Blame It On The Summer

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[Publius]

The year 1872 was a mixed bag. Daddy Brahms died of liver cancer. Julie Schumann-Radicati had borne her husband three children in quick succession and then promptly died; Clara was right that her daughter could not hold up to the rigors of childbirth.

Johannes Brahms had a love/hate relationship with the idea of a permanent job conducting an orchestra. He knew he could do it, but he also knew that the day-to-day minutiae of being a music director would drive him batty, especially in a town like Vienna that was full of musical intrigue. Brahms had gotten the job as conductor at the Vienna Music Guild with the understanding that he would give his audience a strong dose of Bach and other “difficult” composers. Brahms demanded – and got – total control, and the first thing he did was fire almost 40 amateur musicians and replace them with hardened professionals. Wily old Josef Hellmesberger stayed on as concertmaster, and now there were more rehearsals. The quality of performance at the Music Guild concerts shot up spectacularly, and this permitted Brahms to give the Viennese a steady diet of Bach, Handel and Cherubini. Of course there was plenty of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann – and Brahms. There was not yet an understanding of authentic performance practice of that earlier era – much had been forgotten since the arrival of Wagner – so Brahms’ treatment of the Baroque was more modern than it should have been.

Brahms always memorized the pieces he conducted and never worked from a score. Sometimes the results were uneven, but his wit and professionalism made the rehearsals fun. He was highly regarded and became the great musical tastemaker of Vienna.

In 1873, the 40 year old Brahms ran across an old tune folk known as the “St. Anthony Chorale” that was mistakenly attributed to a number of composers from Pleyel to Haydn. He worked it up as a set of variations for two pianos and then orchestrated them. This is the form in which they are best known today, and it is one of the most beloved pieces for orchestra by Brahms.

I ran into one of these variations being used in the early Eighties as bumper music at a Super Bowl broadcast. That was a shock!

Brahms: Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale, Op. 56a

[luvie]

Happy Anniversary Mr & Mrs Acad
Happy Birthday Mrs. Acad!

[AZamericonnie]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

 

Blowin' Away

Laura Nyro for those who can't access the jukeoxes.

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[AZamericonnie]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

 

The Bells

Laura Nyro for those who can't access the juke boxes.

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[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Big Bopper~Summertime Blues

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Jeez, Janey.....it’s too hot for blurry screens!! Thanks for the great pictures of our soldiers and our allies soldiers.

G’day...((HUGS))...a fun weekend planned?

[AZamericonnie]

So delighted your pleased with them both....now to see if your pleased with their bids! :)