We'll Meet Again

I found this song randomly while searching youtube, but it was the Julie Andrews version from the 70s, when she talks about how it was to live in wartime England. i fell in love with the song as soon as I heard it. Especially love that Julie BELTS it!



Turns out(I found this out after surfing youtube for another song one day)that this song sort of "belongs to" another British singer Vera Lynn. Who has an amazing strong voice, seems like a very charming woman in a fairly recent interview.
Enjoy, both this lovely lady's song and her stories.

Alright. I know, I missed a day...I was one minute past midnight when I realized it and that made me think of a new year song that would have suited last night better buuuuut there was a Blue Moon ;)

Well I don't know if anyone has EVER heard this song unless they've seen Bing Crosby in "Holiday Inn" which I believe was released in 1942 and was the movie in which the song "White Christmas" was introduced. The situation in the video may have been better for last night, but the title is still good for the very first (or second) day of the year.

Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Let's Start the New Year Right"

New Years Eve...

Nope....I don't want to know "What are you doing?"
But actaully, I'd like to point out, as you may already know it's a blue moon tonight. There is a beautiful song by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart (the guy he worked with before Oscar Hammerstein) that is called "Blue Moon." I assume that a lot of people have heard this song because it is more well known than most old music. This one would probably be considered a standard rather than just an old song.

It also a song that has a special little place in my heart.

I think the couple of dialogue lines at the beginning are Italian...just a random bit of info lol

The man in the chair is Mickey Rooney, The singer is Mel Torme, and the movie is "Words and Music." The song, as you know, is "Blue Moon."


The end of a year, the end of a decade, and a blue moon...a rare occurance together.
And so sound very cheesy...rare, like the beauty of an old, but well written song, that can stand up to many new years.

Here's to a happy and healthy 2010!

Liza??? SO WHAT!?

Alright, alright. This lady, for the most part has die hard fans or the people who can't stand her and constantly, unjustly, claim that she is a drunk, a druggie, and other thing I will not mention. I personally am a fan of this lady. I like people who belt, who can actually "sling they're larynx around" as Jackie Cooper's character says in the movie Ziegfeld Girl(1941) And also, though her voice may have detriorated, thickened, become richer, however you want to describe it--through years of belting and smoking, Liza, to my knowledge, does not use autotune.

I made a semi convert of one of my college friends when we were both sick of doing homework one night, and I said that we should just stop...it wouldn't matter much in the long run. Maybe that wasn't wise...but, it sure was fun.

And now...from John Kander and Fred Ebb
Meine damen und herren
Mesdames et Messieurs
Ladies and Gentlemen
I give you...
SO WHAT!

In Othah Woids....

Second day on the job and I'm coppin' out on ya. Well, I've got a neeasty co-weld so I fig-yud that you could watch this *ACHOO* Woo Bless me! Please, enjoy.

I Have Dreamed

How many songs mention dreams? You could probably sit here all day shouting out titles and still not name them all.



"...and the dreams that you dare to dream..."



"A dream is a wish your heart makes..."



"Dream a little dream of me..."



"I'm dreaming tonight of a place I love even more than I usually do..."



"..one dream in my heart..."



One song though, that seems to capture the longing for a dream to come true, and the excitement of waiting and yet wanting to hold onto the dream and experoence it over and over is



"I Have Dreamed"



It's been sung by many people since it's debut in teh broadway production of The King and I in 1951. Apparently Richard Rodgers "lifted" aka stole the melody from a part of Alfred Newmans underscoring for "Keys of the Kingdom" Newman's song was called "The Hill of Brilliant Green Jade" That song can be heard by following this link http://www.filmscoreclicktrack.com/2009/11/lost-in-the-shuffle-xix/

The song in the context of the 1944 movie, and Newmans score is when a Chinese Nobleman befriended Father Chisholm after he saves his son. So there was obviously the Eastern influence that Richard Rodgers was looking for to put into the music of "The King and I"

The song, "I have Dreamed" was cut from the 1956 film of the King and I yet was still recorded by many singers and can be heard in the animated version of "The King and I" released in 1999.

Anyway, here are a couple of my favorite recordings of this lovely (Newman)/Rodgers and Hammerstein song.





I won't be that technical-ish or long winded in my other posts. I want this to be fun. :P

Intro...

Hello,

I decided rather than argue with the world about music, I'd argue with myself and allow people who are intrigued by the subject to read as much as they want and stop when they please.

Sometimes It's not really enough to debate an issue in person I always feel like I've missed something, some crucial point to back up my opinions. Now I'll just ramble on here when I have the time and see if it generates any interest at all.

Oh, and by the way. I'm just going to talk about music. Post a song and talk about it. Facts, opinons, emotions, just anything. For the most part it will be "old" music.