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Steve Barnes

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:29:10 +1200

Had to post this. It was on TV the other night and just had me spellbound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejjb6MWnuPE

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:42:49 +1200

and following in Daphne Oram's footsteps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No8J6GAXuKo&feature=related

- Delia Derbyshire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wil09xKrBY8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YudPg7cbR4&feature=related
a Norma McLaren, or Lena Lye maybe...
all this talk of Norman M and Stan Brakhage et al makes me think back to the Chchch film Soc in the 70s, when I first saw all these guys, nice to…

Rich Lock

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:36:23 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwaGR6QCGM

How I do love an early '90's house piano riff...

Rich Lock

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:31:36 +1200

And staying on the Joan Jett theme. Vid NSFW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUJ6dI2l1E&feature=related

Rich Lock

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:29:01 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOgHzoO76c

Rich Lock

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:28:48 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CI6kEnWbY

Jackie Clark

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:56:35 +1200

I was so going to post Donna Summer! Oh, how I love her. Love to love you, baby. Ooooo.

recordari

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:55:15 +1200

My husband actually does a pretty good job on that one. Falsetto FTW!

Wow! You see, sometimes you just have to put it out there.
Where do we go from here?
Oh what the hell…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljxm3NsnVI0&feature=related

Danielle

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:15:39 +1200

all our girls like trying to sing it

My husband actually does a pretty good job on that one. Falsetto FTW!

(We also like singing the theme from Mahogany to the boy when he's crying about something ridiculous. It never *stops* him crying, mind, but it makes us feel better.)…

recordari

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:28:52 +1200

I tried not to, but how could I resist? Lets have a shindig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW-fmcKMh4Q&feature=related
Grew up with this record. That and Minnie Riperton.

Another song i have planned to have played at my funeral…
I’ll pick this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0pwJ5PMDg
It seems to get played about once a week round here,…

Kerry Annett

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:23:05 +1200

Where have all the good men gone?

Another song i have planned to have played at my funeral...

Samuel Scott

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:08:28 +1200

Daphne Oram is a golden god.

Lately I have been re-immersing myself in The Skylarks who I first discovered a years ago on a comp. of South Africa township jazz. The Skylarks track struck me as something special but it took me many years to realise the singer was one…

3410

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:25:36 +1200

Pixie Williams

The lovely CD* is streaming at http://www.bluesmokerecords.com/ (Player is halfway down the first column).

* "For The Record (The Pixie Williams Collection 1949-1951)" [2011]

Lisa Black

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:03:15 +1200

Thanks for that Blue Smoke link, Simon. It's reminded me of one of our family heirlooms. When my dad was a youngish teenager (sometime in 1950s Christchurch) one of his six million older sisters* 'went around' with a young chap who had a recording studio. Because Dad played the guitar,…

Craig Ranapia

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:58:52 +1200

I know I shouldnt be but i am devastated-

Pish-posh, tosh. Of course you should, and take good care of yourself.

Russell Brown

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:23:01 +1200

this is because one of the heart deeps of me, the Black Bach at Moeraki, has been whacked & pretty well totalled by a storm surge. I know I shouldnt be but i am devastated-

Oh hell. We'll be thinking of you while you're away and here for you when you…

Islander

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:06:39 +1200

o, please excuse the goopy emotionalism. I am devastated but in the arena of human pain, this is sooo tiny. And sooo important – to me.
Love to every one.
May not hear from me for a while.

Islander

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:54:45 +1200

O-
this is because one of the heart deeps of me, the Black Bach at Moeraki, has been whacked & pretty well totalled by a storm surge. I know I shouldnt be but i am devastated-
you try and see that kind kind of destruction as natural/inevitable but there goes a…

Islander

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:44:26 +1200

How can I call you
southern lovers
of a small bach
on a southern beach?
It is nearly dead-
and I can, with unsteady arthritic eroded arms
not provide the ressurrection
necessary

I will fail
the bach will die
and in the larger shine of life
a sustaining thing will…

Islander

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:32:33 +1200

*they're not high maintenance creatures, but every so often they cruise to the front of their tank (well, Jaws does) and – look at you...
I prefer to think the gaze is benign rather than, Fooood?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:13:50 +1200

Oh, thanks Islander. She's pretty cute, dirty old dog blankie and all. Actually, I like axolotls......

Islander

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:10:15 +1200

Damnty – as my unca Bill used to say, but that is one beeyootiful little bitch-

sigh.

Axolotls dont quite do it for the response factor eh?

May you have many many happy years with a lovely – part Staffie? Anywise, great wee bitch-

Jackie Clark

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:58:49 +1200

Actually while we're on about the Ladies, here's my little Ruby......

http://yfrog.com/h7ebv5j

Jackie Clark

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:57:36 +1200

I know! Me neither till recently. That sardonic delivery she has.......

Islander

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:49:59 +1200

OOOHHH!
I'd never heard Her rendition that way before....oooohhhh.
She Is So Good As To Be Deathless....

Jackie Clark

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:32:39 +1200

Aretha Franklin – because she is divine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQ3HeluFV4

Bette Midler – because this song is the one that slices me open, all the way through, every time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6okRuOLc8
Lena Horne – because she is, and was, so beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
and
Ella Fitzgerald – because she is and was and ever…

giovanni tiso

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:26:53 +1200

One from the tigress of Cremona.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIXgplEz70

peter mclennan

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:52:41 +1200

Woman of the Ghetto, Marlena Shaw covered by Phillis Dillon

http://youtu.be/CU6Cvjbn28k

and one more from Ms Dillon, great tune , one of my fave reggae sevens

http://youtu.be/mC2f9y_AgFg

Peter Darlington

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:25:35 +1200

More ladies of Reggae.

Jennifer Lara and Hortense Ellis are both tops mate. Good call. #reggae

recordari

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:42:16 +1200

More ladies of Reggae.

'Where have all the good men gone?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCEMAZpgD0&feature=grec_index

And I quite like this cover by Hortense Ellis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9QmsQiRSZk

Simon Grigg

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:25:17 +1200

As wonderful as this is, it's seemingly not about the 'ladies'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XG03g0TsE

until you follow the link on the YouTube page which takes you to this fabulous site:

Pixie Williams was a shooting star of New Zealand music – a clear, bright magical voice, a brief luminous career, a brilliant…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:02:15 +1200

Betty Swann – it's all about that thigh-shiverin' vocal rasp....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0yWU55v3ls

Penny & The Quarters, "You & Me (demo)"

Man, I love that song. And I love The Numero Group for the huge swathes of pure heaven they've unearthed over the years.

Another (from this):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HEcmHoLVOc

Danielle

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:47:04 +1200

Dude. I thought I was the only person on earth who loves 'Peanut Duck'! Are you me??

(It's on the box set One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found, which, if you are that way inclined, is a treasure trove of lady-lovin' things. Including my…

Carol Stewart

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:42:07 +1200

My family (and I) will be watching with rapt attention, Mark, as they were extras in it! (the cricket crowd scenes).
By the way, Kathryn Ryan talked to the actual Bob Blair this morning on her programme.

Usually these disaster movies are awful (the Auckland volcano one certainly was) but…

Mark

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:51:49 +1200

I don't know if there are any cricket fans here but (without even having seen it) I recommend watching "Tangiwai A Love Story" on TV1 on Sunday at 8.30. I grew up with the tale of the Tangiwai disaster and the poignant events happening on the field at Ellis Park…

Kumara Republic

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:34:34 +1200

And here's an early Beeb performance on the famous Moog Modular, by who would later become Wendy Carlos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usl_TvIFtG0

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:29:14 +1200

Stranger Cole and Patsy, 'Down at the Train Line', 1986. Respect to Mrs Pottinger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFbKxOGzrA8

3410

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:23:10 +1200

One more and I'm out. :)

Jo Armstead, "You Cut Up The Clothes", (1973)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMad9bJGnHY

3410

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:03:26 +1200

Patti Drew, "Keep On Movin'", 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQoWr5T0DE

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:00:58 +1200

Marsha Gee, "Peanut Duck", 1965

Threefer, you are the man with this stuff.

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:58:34 +1200

Juanita Rogers singing 'I'm So Glad You Love Me', from Sun Ra: The Singles, which covers Sonny's doo-wop era:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtbwoNYg9gk

Love that.

recordari

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:36:01 +1200

In keeping with your lovin' the ladies, Pauline Black seems apposite, both in context, and as a fond farewell to PA Radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG7Akgj5AkY&feature=related

3410

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:34:16 +1200

Marsha Gee, "Peanut Duck", 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ASWSQPE250

3410

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:27:59 +1200

Penny & The Quarters, "You & Me (demo)", 1970:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8rumyup0Os

Penny & The Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was used in the film Blue Valentine.

Presumably teenagers at the time, Penny & The Quarters were invited to…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:14:31 +1200

Daphne Oram . . . worked at the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop and then on her own account, creating in 1957 a system called Oramics, which "played" drawings made directly onto 35mm film.
Thanks for that. A bit of optical sound history here that includes Oram. Plus something Canadian from…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:59:37 +1200

Esther Phillips – Home is the where the hatred is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvdnMzQGbEQ

Astonishing, heartbreaking.

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:52:53 +1200

The last show features a farewell from Craig

Yeah. Recording that was preceeded with a stiff talking to self along the lines of "Don't snuffle, or I'll stab myself in the face with the mic stand." You get to decide whether it worked.

There are a lot of people to…

Public Address

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:52:53 +1200

Discussion from blog post.