FaceBook Song Of The Day.

[MuranoJo]

Thanks, Alan. I love the Carpenters and think the world lost a great voice when Karen died.

Like that song from Annie Get Your Gun. It's fun.

Ya know, I have always thought that, too. Even though I'm not a great fan of their music, I love her voice. Wow, what she could have done.

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-21-2009

Song Of The Day = Raunchy.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-22-2009

Song Of The Day = Popcorn.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-23-2009

Song Of The Day = Dirty Laundry.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[SueDonJ]

Song Of The Day = Dirty Laundry.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

LOVE Don Henley, thanks!

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-24-2009

Song Of The Day = The Green Door.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-25-2009

Song Of The Day = The Alligator King.

Extra -- Click here for BONUS FEATURE !​

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-26-2009

Song Of The Day = Basse-Danse (from Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock).

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-27-2009

Song Of The Day = 17 Come Sunday (from Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams).

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-28-2009

Song Of The Day = Cast Your Fate To The Wind.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-29-2009

Song Of The Day = Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-30-2009

Song Of The Day = The Billboard.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

10-31-2009

Song Of The Day = Percolator.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

11-1-2009

Song Of The Day = Dance With Me, Henry.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Rose Pink]

Song Of The Day = The Green Door.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

There were some beautiful doors in that video.

 

[Rose Pink]

Song Of The Day = The Alligator King.

Extra -- Click here for BONUS FEATURE !​

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

Those were cute! Thanks, Alan.

 

[Rose Pink]

I'm wondering what tuggers favorite music genres are. Alan seems to like horns. What does everyone else like? I have eclectic tastes--classical, CW, '60s. I've been listening to some Indie and it is growing on me although most of the lyrics make no sense to me at all.

 

[MULTIZ321]

Eclectic.

Alan, I haven't heard "The Green Door" in a long time. I too loved the video portion of the green doors as the song played.

After listening to Georgia Gibbs sing 'Dance with me Henry' - I clicked on a few of her other facebook listings - really enjoyed them.

Thanks

Richard

 

[AwayWeGo]

Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs.

After listening to Georgia Gibbs sing 'Dance with me Henry' - I clicked on a few of her other facebook listings - really enjoyed them.

Georgia Gibbs (1919-2006) lived a tough life & overcame big disadvantages. According to Wikipedia Dot Org, she spent her 1st 7 years in an orphanage, started work as a singer at age 13 & began singing in clubs at age 14. Later, she outlived her husband & their 1 child. Something to think about next time you hear her singing Tweedlee Deedlee Deedlee Dee.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

Alan Likes Horns -- But That's Not All.

Alan seems to like horns.

Well of course I like horns. I like'm so well that I actually play them. Not only that, I will be substituting on horn with the National Concert Band Of America at rehearsal tomorrow night for a concert next Sunday (Nov. 8).

What's not to like ?

The thing is, great ensemble music includes not just horns, but lots of other instruments as well -- trumpets & cornets & tubas & trombones & euphoniums & baritones & saxophones & clarinets & flutes & piccolos & oboes & bassoons & cymbals & drums & tuneful percussion (xylophones, etc.) & violins & violas & cellos & bass viols & guitars & electric guitars & pianos & pipe organs & electric organs & I don't know what-all.

The reason I play mostly in bands & brass ensembles has more to do with the kinds & styles of music I'm familiar with than with any disdain for string orchestras & orchestral music. Also, some compositions written for classical orchestra (i.e., when modern wind instruments were still developing & had not yet become standardized or refined), are so light on, for instance, horn parts that the experience of a horn player in such an ensemble will vary between boredom (from sitting there counting 96 or so measures of rest) & terror (from having to come in on a high B-flat entrance way above the staff after sitting there getting semi-cold in the chops while counting all those measures of rest).

Modern & even romantic symphony orchestras, by contrast, have plenty for the horns & all the rest of the wind instruments to do. In fact, there are lots of modern & romantic orchestral pieces in which the wind instruments are playing all the melodic & other interesting parts while the strings are basically just laying down background & texture.

If you've been following the Songs Of The Day, you've noticed a strong flavor of nostalgia, with hardly any tunes by current or recent performers. I have nothing against the current crowd, but I am just not tuned into the latest hit tunes. That could change, or I could become even more set in my ways than I already am. Time will tell.

Meanwhile, there's plenty of music from all ages & in all stylistic varieties so nobody is apt to run out of tunes to listen to any time soon.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[ScoopKona]

Also, some compositions written for classical orchestra (i.e., when modern wind instruments were still developing & had not yet become standardized or refined), are so light on, for instance, horn parts that the experience of a horn player in such an ensemble will vary between boredom (from sitting there counting 96 or so measures of rest) & terror (from having to come in on a high B-flat entrance way above the staff after sitting there getting semi-cold in the chops while counting all those measures of rest).

I wish that I was in the recording studio when Steely Dan was recording Aja (the song) on Aja (the album).

There was a "police whistle" gig. THAT I could do. Blow a police whistle three times at the bridge. No problems. Donald and Walt, please give a fan a chance to sit in on police whistle.

 

[AwayWeGo]

4th Chair Trumpet Player.

Click here.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Rose Pink]

If you've been following the Songs Of The Day, you've noticed a strong flavor of nostalgia, with hardly any tunes by current or recent performers. I have nothing against the current crowd, but I am just not tuned into the latest hit tunes. That could change, or I could become even more set in my ways than I already am. Time will tell.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

That would be me, also. I just don't know what is popular these days. I'm not sure where the bands get their names from, either. Death Cab for Cutie? I never envisioned myself as an old fogie but I think that's what I've become.

 

[AwayWeGo]

Name That Band.

I'm not sure where the bands get their names from, either. Death Cab for Cutie?

Click here for 1 of the all-time great imaginative band names. 

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[ScoopKona]

That would be me, also. I just don't know what is popular these days. I'm not sure where the bands get their names from, either. Death Cab for Cutie? I never envisioned myself as an old fogie but I think that's what I've become.

My favorite band name is "Free Hot Lunch" -- every time they play, loads of "fogies" show up looking for a free hot lunch.

I love it.

http://www.rhapsody.com/free-hot-lunch