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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 15 Nov 2015 2:51 pm |
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My junior hi sax player and I wandered into a record store of sorts and left with this classic from the sixties:
Surfing is my Life I was surprised to find this remnant of it, the title track no less, on Utube.
On a more serious note... once I came up to his room--he had an actual pad--and the cover of the Air Force Band sitting out and put this on
Laura, knowing it was one of my favorite tunes. Turns out it was on 'Thank You Music Lovers'.... Utube is a treasure trove.
Do you have any early musical influences that helped warp your musical sensibilities? [/i] |
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Andy Volk
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Posted 15 Nov 2015 6:13 pm
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At about age 10, the only records I liked in my mom's entire record collection were ...
1) her 45 of Johnny Ray singing Jezebel
2) Whipped Cream and other Delights by Herb Alpert & the TJB
3) her souvenir record from an Italian Cruise ship named The Oceanic. It featured covers of Italian pop and Beatles songs all sung with super heavy Italian accents ...
"Last a night Ia seed deese a words to a miya gurrrrl"
And do a quick search, what isn't on YouTube?!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMNdDAeLAXc#t=14
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Doug Beaumier
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Posted 15 Nov 2015 10:15 pm
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The earliest pop stuff I remember is doo-wop, Elvis, Brenda Lee, Everly Bros, The Ventures, top-40 of the late 50s and early 60s. My parents listened to Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, etc. What really opened up my world was the Beatles in 1964 and the tsunami of British Invasion bands that followed. I had to get guitar! And I got a pedal steel in the early 70s when country rock was big.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 1:07 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| ... doo-wop, Elvis, Brenda Lee, Everly Bros, The Ventures, top-40 of the late 50s and early 60s... |
not to mention 'Ling Ting Tong' (who can forget or remember 'I s-moke'um boo di ay, I smoke-um boo) and '... and that's how Lew Sin Ate.'
Certainly, there were seminal albums that Andy and I recall, Doug too I'm sure:
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Mike Neer
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 4:20 am
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Jose Feliciano's "Feliciano!" was probably the most influential early recording for me. The West Side Story motion picture soundtrack is probably next.
I also inherited my parents' 45s collection. The Chuck Berry and Fats Domino records were huge influences.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 7:50 am
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West Side Story, without a doubt.
It was that same year, at a student council convention... most students went to a movie but I heard the San Antonio high school orchestra
play a medley of new music: Tonight... Maria... Somewhere.... No one warped me as much as Bernstein. |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 12:08 pm
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 12:43 pm
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Oh yes Chris, one of the best!
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Andy Volk
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 1:47 pm
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Yeah, show tunes! Mom loved 'em so, as a child, in regular rotation were the original cast recordings of Sound of Music, She Loves Me, Hello Dolly, Flower Drum Song, South Pacific and on and on.
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Will Houston
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Posted 16 Nov 2015 2:17 pm
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| yes chris and joachim, i heard "runaway" a couple hours ago and thought of this post. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Bob Watson
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Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 12:24 am
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| The very first 45 that I started listening to that was not one of the yellow "kiddie" records was the Johnny Horton record with "The Battle of New Orleans" on the A side and "Sink The Bismarck" on the B side. That is where my love for music started. It was my older Brother's record. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 6:12 am
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| I got the 45's; Transfusion, Hot Rod Lincoln, and this gem by Jo Stafford, from another time: Love, Mystery, and Adventure |
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Andy Volk
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 7:13 am
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Jo Stafford is sooo good! Her LP/CD American Folk Songs is one of my all-time favorites. She had amazing intonation and timbre.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 8:16 am
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In my one remaining shelf of LP's is American Folk Songs. She was a singer's singer, she did the song.
(The LP is with Paul Weston, altho they don't do any Johnathan and Darlene Edwards on it.) |
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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Larry Carlson
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 12:21 pm
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Pink Floyd's -------- Dark Side of the Moon.
The Moody Blues ----- Days of Future Passed
Pretty much anything by John Denver.
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John Ed Kelly
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 3:22 pm
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At the age of four or five I was encouraged to sing the ''woof woof'' response to Patti Page's version of ''HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW'' whenever it came on the radio.
Curiously, I remember thinking, in a childish way, that ''she sort of sang the words three times'' - perhaps the concept of music took root there. I never played the tune, but it's the first piece of music I recall responding to.
I guess that's would have been circa 1953. |
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Mike Neer
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Posted 17 Nov 2015 5:12 pm
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Hocus Pocus by Focus! I was 9 y/o when it came out. Ripped my mind open.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 6:44 am
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Just reflecting on where all this has taken us, I find this curiosity among my own works some three decades ago.
With no other place to put it, I offer it here.
As It Is
Contains my only recorded bass solo at 2:40, a duet with kalimba.
Words by my girlfriend, hard-to-listen-to drum machine, recorded on 4-track cassette, can't be remixed--I love it. |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 8:08 pm
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Richard Wilhelm
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Ventura County, California
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 9:11 pm
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Tim Hardin 1 & 2
Gordon Lightfoot's 'Lightfoot'
Best of Ian and Sylvia
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
John Wesley Harding
My first steel guitar influence was a Sons of the Pioneer's album my parents had. It was purchased when we lived in Hawaii when I was 7. I still had it when I purchased my first steel (a Stringmaster) when I was 18.
I always wondered if any Hawaiian spirit's became part of me at the time, hence my attraction to the steel guitar.
At 7 years old, I had a few Elvis Presley and Little Richard 45's. Elvis because I wanted to be Elvis (very hard with red hair) and Little Richard because we had the same name.
Loved the kalimba and bass, Charlie.
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John Alexander
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 9:18 pm
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
| Just reflecting on where all this has taken us, I find this curiosity among my own works some three decades ago. |
Nice - has its own mood. The kalima/bass section is cool. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 21 Nov 2015 3:16 am
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Thank you. It was my post-reggae (Honky Dreads) period, while hearing early Chas Smith and Brian Eno.
Of all the influences that have been named, consider where we are today individually--Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley,
all the rock-steady and ska that was happening to me less-than-noticed while I was playing country crossover.
Somehow Mike Neer arrived at Thelonious Monk from Hocus Pocus and Chuck Berry, all the tunes like Runaway and Runaround Sue,
the classical and folk music that shaped what we play today. The depth of music is a wonderful thing, and all of it's still in our brains.
I had almost forgotten 'How Much Is That Doggie In The Window,' not to mention Sons of the Pioneers, which my father played and we sang
and Ooooook-lahoma that we sang in the back seat on car vactions, and Bach and Handel, not to mention the Mothers of Invention....
They warped me most of all. What a glorious planet. |
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