A Music Thread

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And now, as they say, for something completely different- although as Sheila Chandra would agree, both music from the Indian sub-continent and Celtic music use the drone... something I bought on Friday at Oxfam for 99 pence, Yvette Mimieux and Ali Akbar Khan (& others), 'Flowers Of Evil' after Baudelaire, and this is 'Lethe' :

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More of the Irish. Clannad and 'Newgrange' :

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Another of Friday's purchases... from the album 'Something Bad On My Mind' by the great Timi Yuro, this is the title track:

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The (Irish) water of life to you all, courtesy Thin Lizzy:

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Another purchase from Friday : John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De LucÃa – 'Passion, Grace & Fire'- and this is 'Aspan', and just hearing this takes me miles away from a wet, windy grey Sunday afternoon in the East End...

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A jaunty piece by Leo Maguire :

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Monday Monday, so good to me. Or do I not like Mondays ? Perhaps they're too manic....

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From Friday's purchases, the dour comic genius of Tony Hancock- on 'Pieces of Hancock'. This is 'The Threatening Letter' :

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One that got away on Friday. The cover was in good condition, the record had been used as an ice skating rink. Oh me oh my. Dusty Springfield, from 'It Begins Again' :

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And an unusual one from Friday, although perhaps not so much considering it was a Jewish charity shop*. Radio recordings from the Six Day War:

A surefire winner at discos....




* The All Aboard shop in Paddington, near the Tube station, in case anyone else wants to shop there....

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To show how ecumenical and even-handed I am, an extract from the soundtrack to 'Sheltering Sky', also one of Friday's purchases, and this is a tasty bit of Rai by Chaba Zahouania, 'Goulou Limma' :

One of my favourites- went down well in the taxis in Morocco when I was on holiday there.

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And a nice bit of Sakamoto from the same album:

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close to 1,700 posts in a music thread alone. you're insane.

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close to 1,700 posts in a music thread alone. you're insane.

GODWIN ALERT!!!! GODWIN ALERT!!!! GODWIN ALERT!!!! GODWIN ALERT!!!! GODWIN ALERT!!!! GODWIN ALERT!!!!

Quite possibly. I have, however, never invaded Russia or gone to war on two fronts. Just because I Can, some Krautrock for you :

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And now for something completely different. I've just this morning finished watching a boxed set of the black and white 'Miss Marple' films starring the truly wonderful Margaret Rutherford. The theme and incidental music were by Ron Goodwin, who like other composers in the 60s used old keyboard instruments in his compositions :

Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 1925 – 8 January 2003) was a British composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron and Operation Crossbow.
Born in Plymouth, Devon, Goodwin learned to play the piano and trumpet from the age of five which allowed him to join the school band. When he was nine, the family moved to Harrow, London, where he attended Willesden County School and Pinner County Grammar School, in Middlesex. From there he went on to study the trumpet in London at the Guildhall School of Music.
Whilst working as a copyist, he formed his own orchestra in his spare time and began arranging and conducting recordings for over fifty artists, which resulted in more than 100 chart successes. He wrote his first feature film score for Whirlpool, with screenplay by Lawrence P. Bachmann. After Bachmann became executive producer at MGM-British Studios in 1959, Goodwin composed and conducted the music for most of its productions, as well as working for other film studios.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/8615457f-5a4c-4946-980d-d2e9fe480f38