Tag: music
Epic Symphonic Rock (my kind of music…)
long live rock n roll!
back with my favorite band, Time Cat, live on a porch in Akron, Ohio…. Porch rockr 2018. These photos are mine, from my limited point of view on a sofa in the front row.
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They have a new album out, I think that makes six.
Jeri
Colton n Sam
A Fan
Sam
Jeri
Colton
marching band music…sing loudly, don’t worry too much about lyrics
marching music please…. just try ignoring the band blaring out the Sousa beat, adoring crowds lining the streets… drummers drumming, flutes tweeting, symbols clashing… but I digress. Back in the day I was a Girl Scout leader, and part of my duty as such was to lead the girls down the main street during the Memorial Day Parade (or other parade.) In high heels no less….no, not stilettos…which were not worn by ordinary women for another thirty or forty years.
The Stars and Stripes Forever must be sung very loudly… and if by chance ya don’t know the words (wink wink who does?) just join the singers who use the alternate version….
“Be kind to your web footed friends,
for a duck may be somebody’s mother…”
John Philip Sousa – The Stars And Stripes Forever lyrics
Let martial note in triumph float
And liberty extend its mighty hand
A flag appears ‘mid thunderous cheers,
The banner of the Western land.
The emblem of the brave and true
Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom’s shield and hope.Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom’s nation.Hurrah for the flag of the free!
May it wave as our standard forever,
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.Let eagle shriek from lofty peak
The never-ending watchword of our land;
Let summer breeze waft through the trees
The echo of the chorus grand.
Sing out for liberty and light,
Sing out for freedom and the right.
Sing out for Union and its might,
O patriotic sons.Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation,
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom’s nation.Hurrah for the flag of the free.
May it wave as our standard forever
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray,
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.
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Then there is the Battle Hymn of the Republic: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord… he has stampled out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored… deal with the bullets with his terrible swift sword… the TRUTH goes marching on!!! oops…
uh…. folks, I really am embarrassed that I don’t know all the words….when singing the Battle Hymn one is excused if they just mumble over the tricky lyrics. always there is “boompa dee,” “dee dum,”
I’m not good with remembering lyrics…
Now I will never get that out of my head… “Be kind to your web-footed friends…”
hee-haw! Rocky Top sing along come on everybody
Time Cat Band…Akron, Ohio Porchrokr Music Festival at Will Christy Park
This is shameless promotion! I admit it. The Band is TIME CAT, a local Akron, Ohio band which happens to be my granddaughter as vocalist, guitarist.
Time Cat was the headliner band at this event, which was sponsored by the Highland Square Neighborhood Association. Included were up to 130 area bands, which performed on front porches of various Highland homeowners.
I am also including a video which I made during the performance. This is my first attempt at video making, so it is obviously an amateur production. The footage could benefit from some editing/trimming, but that would cut out the audio/music portions, which I want to leave uncut.
Hey…it’s a rock concert…that means it’s good old rock n roll. Here’s a link to my video… I hope. oops…malfunction…I don’t know how to do the file type and all that tech stuff…I’ll post it separately…maybe. 🙂
In the event you don’t want to suffer through my videos…here’s a link to the Time Cat site. https://timecatmusic.bandcamp.com/
a bit of a reverie …
never say never
One of my favorite places where I’ve never been
on the deck of a sailing ship, out on the ocean.
The boards are thick and smell of pine,
as a ballroom floor with satiny shine…
o’er looking green hills that slope to the sea.
Where sweet maidens whirl in fine silk dresses
in powdered faces and warm shining eyes,
dancing in time with the orchestra’s strains.
Back on my ship with the music still dancing
and humming gay tunes that remember …
my heart yearns for places that might have been;
for the deck boards of pine that echo sweet tunes
wafting o’er the salt-tinged breezes of memories…
or dreams…of nights that might have existed
in one of my favorite places where I’ve never been.
© Sometimes, 2016
Soundtrack of my Life…revisite
(I wrote this piece a couple of years ago, and since I am at this moment moved by a swoony version of Eric Satie’s Gnossienne No 1… very very swoony in any of its versions. In fact I just this morning found a great version of the tune in a Buddha Bar version… erik satie gnossienne no.1 (buddha bar remix) I’m not sure if that’s the right link.)
If there were a movie about my life, there would be a certain song or instrumental for each segment.
Childhood: Itty Bitty Fishie in the Itty Bitty Pool
Mares Eat Oats and Does Eat Oats, and Little Lambs Eat Ivy
Teen: Vaughan Monroe, Ghost Riders in the Sky
Mabelline
Bill Haley and the Comets, Thirteen Women…on the flip side of Rock Around the Clock.
Third Man Theme
Peg O’My Heart
Work Era: Bizet, Carmen
Mario Lanza, Song Angels Sing
Be My Love
David Carroll’s band, In a Persian Market
Scherezade
I Love Paris
Song of India
CCR, Heard it on the Grapevine
CCR, Bad Moon Rising
CCR, Green River
Stevie Nicks, Edge of 17
Knights in White Satin long version
Roberta Flack, Sometimes…all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
I Think I love you
Juke Box Hero
Neil Diamond, Holly Holy
I’m Saving my money to Buy You a rainbow
Johnny Horton, Battle of New Orleans
Beatles Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigsby
Rock Music…come by that obsession honestly, the Beatles hit the stage in 19whatever along with Elvis Presley. Then the kids came along and when they were teenagers (in the 1970s and 1980s the house and car were filled with pop music of those years.
Sing, Sing, sing (Jimmy Dorsey, I think)
Drumsville
These are some of the songs and instrumentals that I love. Some, like Grapevine and Knights in White Satin, the long instrumentals that I would sit in the car listening in rapture until the song ended. That was in the days when the car radio was the only portable music maker we had, and unless we had the music on a record (45 rpm, or 33 rpm) at home, and a phonograph, that was about it.
That list dates me, I suppose. But this is my list of favorite music.
music of my soul
music
inherent
in the fabric
of my soul
familiar melodies
among the thoughts
and whispers of tones
from hint so quiet
almost unheard
to the beat of a drum
keeping time with the heart
beating in rhythm
hark! to the sound
of far off tones
that echo
silence
© Sometimes, 2016
Memories of violins
violins play duets
oblivious to the single
and lonely cello∼
violins play on,
wailing the night hours away
prolonging first light∼
…for melancholy
the sad violins shivered
shuddering their pain∼
melodies so sweet
my filling heart could explode
in countless splinters∼
inside closed eyelids
music can conquer the soul
all become as one∼
magical fingers
set free tonal notes of gold
caress strings of steel© Sometimes, 2016
Hearing things? just music
My alarm clock is very unpredictable, except for its accurate time-keeping function and punctuality of the alarm sound. That sound can only be described as “annoying” and it is that very feature that accounts for the alarm clock’s longevity on my dresser.
The original electronic tune–original to that particular clock–is SO annoying that it has remained my favorite over decades because of its ear-grating sound quality. The tune is what accounts for its success as an alarm…it assures my immediate rising to turn the thing OFF. As an extra precaution I have always kept the clock, which is also a telephone, out of my reach, so that it requires getting out of bed and walking across the room. It is not a radio, and I no longer use it as a telephone, just as an alarm, and as I said before– it does keep perfect time.
About two years ago the clock started to play tunes that were not programmed into its memory. The first few times this happened I chalked it up to Dreaming. I have always been a avid dreamer, and hearing music in dreams is not anything unusual.
The first (real) tune I heard was Loch Lomand, –which has the lyrics: “You take the high road and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Scotland a’fore ye; For me and my true love will never meet again, on the Bonny Bonny banks of Loch Lomand. ” [I always thought it was Loch Loming…but google spells it Lomand.]
Again, I recognized the tune, and I know the words (more or less) to the song. Still, I did not mention this music to anyone, and continued to assume it part of a Dream. But over time the musical repertoire changed now and then, to include other songs that I know well–such as “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; “When The Saints Come Marching In” and others.
One exception to the hymns is a favorite of mine by the Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR): “Bad Moon Rising.”
This morning a rousing hymn, one of my favorite ecumenical hit favorites, woke me out of a sound sleep. (Purists please forgive me for my misquoted words of the hymn…) “Holy! Holy! Holy!…. Lord God Almighty, God in three persons ……blessed trinity.” This great hymn is always best enjoyed (in my opinion) in a large church with one of those enormous pipe organs…nothing swells the heart like a giant church organ with an expert at the keyboard.
So, back to my entertaining alarm clock.
OK, I do joke about this impromptu concert that occurs occasionally….it is something of a phenomenon. I do find it interesting, and invariably I hum and/or sing the featured songs all day when they start off my morning. This music always sounds like an orchestra, with a large choir of voices. It is always a complete verse of a song that I know, it never just trails off…it sounds like a recording to me.
Seriously, I do wonder about this music. Aside from the strange looks I get from most people when I mention it, I did a google search once and found a thread in which “music from nowhere” was discussed. One theory was that people who had had recent dental work might be picking up radio waves. Someone else had it only when their head was placed on a pillow with the ear covered…suggesting pyschic or mental reception from the brain…rather than the air. (No comments required 🙂
I know…you’re all thinking “Twilight Zone.” Maybe so. Maybe it’s a haunted contraption, my telephone-alarm system. Could it be an adjacent alternate-reality? Ah, even I think that is unlikely. Maybe I am dreaming when it occurs, perhaps an inner-ear condition–I admit to being hard of hearing. There has never been another person present when the concert occurs…just a cat, usually Tinkerbell, who probably hears about as well as I do (she is in her eighteenth year.) I have considered that possibility and have glanced at her and any other cat that happens to be around at the time to see if there is a response. There isn’t.
Oddly, this mysterious music does NOT occur in place of the alarm sound…only at odd times during the night when I am sound asleep. Also–the cats DO respond to the actual alarm–I have tried to no avail to train my cats to turn off the alarm, but they either don’t get it…or they refuse to even try it. All they would have to do is touch the alarm button with their foot…how difficult is that?
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