It's likely I've posted that one sevral times. It is one of my all time favorites from this pair and if you're lucky, you won't hear Mrs. G's attempts at "Comes Love".Originally Posted by Neely
Here's a couple from a guy and his Cityslickers we heard quite often growing up. I have this album in vinyl btw-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqWWRCT5Cs
and "My Old Flame"
Listen for the great Peter Lorre who comes in at about 1:30...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2A32KUTq0
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They do allow for a certain relaxation as with anything that's not to be taken seriously and the period setting is also agreeable. I don't imagine the 1930s was anything like as comfortable as depicted but it's nice to think so.
The Marples are also quite good at a 1950s setting and I did see the Bertram's Hotel piece. The thing about AC is that she's often predictable and the plotlines
sometimes have holes in them. I only read her in German years ago simply because there were a number of translations in my public library and I was learning the language at the time. Easy reading in any language I should think but there was one short ghost story that was outstanding although I don't remember much about it.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Woo, they were a little strange, not what I expected.
Yes, I've just listened to the 'Come Love' pretty good. Mrs N sings all the time; I call it poison.
Yes I was also going to comment about the period too, I totally agree. We watched Mysterious Affair at Styles the other day and the setting is just fantastic - this is earlier set during WW1 (first Poirot I think) but the period atmosphere is very refreshing. The whole thing in full is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dEcuyhAE8A
Take a look at Styles House and grounds at and around 5-8 mins. No Nesbits at all!
I like the Benny Goodman and Helen Forrest version of Bewitched, that was a bonus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_4FUc_0Cd8
Last edited by LitNetIsGreat; 09-05-2012 at 03:15 PM.
Yes I will give the Styles Mystery a viewing. The thing that spoils such efforts is that everything looks like it has just arrived from the costumiers without a blemish. But that is the difference between serious filming and that produced for an audience who, as you say, are not looking for anything other than comfortable watching.
To keep this thread on subject, here's one of my favourites from way back when.
http://youtu.be/xtEZB0VoOuA
Last edited by Emil Miller; 09-05-2012 at 05:45 PM.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Yes I like that and having read one of the comments it brought to my attention something I never thought about - the playing times!To keep this thread on subject, here's one of my favourites from way back when.
http://youtu.be/xtEZB0VoOuA
?Very nice!
I'm wondering--how was a 4:33 recording made and reproduced in 1928
This is silly of me but I never considered the physical barrier of the record size upon the track length. I read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramoph..._rpm_disc_size
There's nothing silly about it: I doubt that 99.9% of listeners have ever thought to connect the two. The article was very instructive about recording sound and especially the fact that a number of people prefer vinyl to CDs.
For my money, vinyl is superior to CD and I have a number of simultaneous recordings in both mediums to prove it. My dream was always to have had a home well away from neighbours so that I could play music on an amplifier, tuner and turntable for vinyl discs . It costs a lot of money but, once heard, nothing matches let alone surpasses it.
Last edited by Emil Miller; 09-07-2012 at 09:34 AM.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Oh good, it's not just me being dim then. Yes I have also heard that vinyl is becoming more and more popular in place of CDs and I'm sure you are right about the quality. Mrs N doesn't like CDs either.
Just got home after the first week of workand put my feet up to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs
I don't think that vinyl will replace modern recording techniques but, for purists, there is still a market for it. I've had this discussion before on the forum and what I'm suggesting is that physical contact with vinyl as opposed to laser nonphysical contact, means that certain electronic signals are not picked up to the same degree and the music sounds correspondingly bland. As someone who initially welcomed CDs for their convenience if nothing else, I was surprised to find that CDs of vinyl recordings that I already had were lacking in their reproductive capacity.That being said, it's better to have CDs that have been recorded only in that format than not to have them at all.Oh good, it's not just me being dim then. Yes I have also heard that vinyl is becoming more and more popular in place of CDs and I'm sure you are right about the quality. Mrs N doesn't like CDs either.
Just got home after the first week of work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs
Are the kids back at school already? I was wondering about that today.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Yes, a week of pain. On Monday I felt like someone had died.
I don't know how you put up with it, I think I'd rather work in a zoo.
Anyway here's another track that just meets the timeline criterion.
http://youtu.be/3QSFozXJM8Y
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Sorry fellas for being absent. I have some catching up to do.
If I’m getting Neely’s drift, then I too was suffering the same workload blight.
Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.
Okay- Red Nichols is a new one on me, but after reading up on him, I see he was no stranger to the music scene of the time and collaborated with many of the jazz and big band greats.
“I’m as restless as willow in a windstorm”
oh Doris darling, if only you were here with me now, I would make the spring last a lifetime, if only for you...snap out of it.
Speaking of vinyl, you forced me to pull out the old Readers Digest "Great Band Era" box set. a collection of 10 LP's covering the range of music from 1936 to 1945
At the moment I’m listening to the second album that includes “It’s Been a Long Long Time” performed by Charlie Spivak and his orchestra featuring Irene Daye on vocals. The following may be a multivideo playlist, but the first video should be the one we’re interested in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBaY...e=results_main
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You see Gilliatte, that's where keeping the old stuff scores because you have instant access to things that might not be available on Youtube or elsewhere. Actually, watching the pictures that accompany the tune recalls an incident when I was living in Nuremberg. Sometimes I used to go to a restaurant at the end of my road and, one night as I was leaving, a middle aged waitress who worked there followed me out onto the pavement and took my hand. She asked me if I was American and I told her I was English. Then she said that I was the image of an American soldier that she had known at the war's end. I was rather embarrassed and said that I had to leave and I left her standing on the pavement. I imagine that it was but one example of a romantic attachment that was formed between what had formerly been implacable enemies.Sorry fellas for being absent. I have some catching up to do.
If I’m getting Neely’s drift, then I too was suffering the same workload blight.
Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.
Okay- Red Nichols is a new one on me, but after reading up on him, I see he was no stranger to the music scene of the time and collaborated with many of the jazz and big band greats.
“I’m as restless as willow in a windstorm”
oh Doris darling, if only you were here with me now, I would make the spring last a lifetime, if only for you...snap out of it.
Speaking of vinyl, you forced me to pull out the old Readers Digest "Great Band Era" box set. a collection of 10 LP's covering the range of music from 1936 to 1945
At the moment I’m listening to the second album that includes “It’s Been a Long Long Time” performed by Charlie Spivak and his orchestra featuring Irene Daye on vocals. The following may be a multivideo playlist, but the first video should be the one we’re interested in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBaY...e=results_main
.
What made me think about the situation was that my landlady told me that six unarmed SS soldiers had been shot and killed by American troops against a wall opposite where I was living.
C'est la guerre.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
An angel surely, brilliant.
If there is a heaven then that would be it, fantastic, oh god!Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.
Thanks for that, I like that version.At the moment I’m listening to the second album that includes “It’s Been a Long Long Time” performed by Charlie Spivak and his orchestra featuring Irene Daye on vocals. The following may be a multivideo playlist, but the first video should be the one we’re interested in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBaY...e=results_main
OK, this one is a little bit out of the time frame, but I have been humming this song a little this week. It was one of my grandad's favourite songs - Nat King Cole:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-A_qTAKEI
Boy, that does paint a nice picture of heaven.
After listening to the great Nat King Cole, I began to consider other great black artists within the time frame, one of whom I would love to have turning my page.
Here's Lena Horne with "Stormy Weather"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
and someone I just discovered when pulling up Lena.
Fats Waller
"Your Feets Too Big"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1eK...eature=related
I think your wives may have something to say about it though.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
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