Music to Lift Your Soul: 4 Genres & Honorable Mention

[Hornbein]

Maybe the organist didn't know what had happened. There was an American music composer who discovered his music was wildly popular on China's CCTV but he got no royalties from them.

https://radii.co/article/american-composer-chinese-state-tv-music

He discovered it through use of the google-developed content id tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID_(system)

Not a chance he didn't know. Whiter Shade of Pale was a big hit in the UK and elsewhere. Everyone with even an ounce of hipness knew it. I expect the judge ruled in the organists favor because he/she dug that melody in their youth. ( I wish bands like Procol Harum could be successful today.)

I heard of an elderly man who discovered that he was one of the most popular and respected authors in some place like Hungary. There's also Mai Mizuhashi who discovered that her dance vid was huge in China and now is a star there. And Indonesia's PeterPan who had a cover of their tune make it big in India. I doubt they got anything. Indonesia doesn't have much enforcement muscle.

 

[Hornbein]

How about choral music?
Locus Iste by Anton Bruckner.

 

[pinball1970]

How about choral music?
Locus Iste by Anton Bruckner.

Oh my. We used to sing that in Manchester Youth Choir 1988 ish.
It is a beautiful song, arrangement.

This was my number one though

 

[pinball1970]

In 2006 the organist sued for a portion of the royalties and won. One wonders why he waited such a long time to do this. The case went all the way to the Law Lords.

If he wrote it did he not just get a %?
As composer?
Or did he get one of those dodgy 1960s record company deals?

 

[Hornbein]

If he wrote it did he not just get a %?
As composer?
Or did he get one of those dodgy 1960s record company deals?

He won a percentage of royalties and a share of composer credit.

 

[Hornbein]

Ashokan Farewell

I performed this with a chorus on the night my mother died. Though I didn't know that until afterward. I like to believe that she passed away during Moon River. It was one of her favorites.

 

[pinball1970]

Ashokan Farewell

I performed this with a chorus on the night my mother died. Though I didn't know that until afterward. I like to believe that she passed away during Moon River. It was one of her favorites.

That's very sad but a beautiful story at the same time. Moon River breaks my heart, I don't even know what the words are but every time I was flicking through my ex song book, I would insist she sang while I fumbled my way through the chords on piano.

 

[Hornbein]

Six great slide guitar solos.

 

[OCR]

Another one. . . .



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[Hornbein]

Two people covering Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke, outdoing the original. I would have thought that impossible.

 

[Hornbein]

A dobro cover of A White Shade of Pale.

 

[pinball1970]

Two people covering Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke, outdoing the original. I would have thought that impossible.

Where's the brass!?

Ha ha only joking! absolutely loved it. Great to see young kids playing the stuff I grew up with and getting it.

 

[pinball1970]

A dobro cover of A White Shade of Pale.

Well, I certainly can't play it like that! Not as much my thing and let's face it the tune is so beautiful it would still sound good played on an out of tune bag pipe.
I appreciate the skill though, upvoted but not loved.

 

[pinball1970]

 

[Bob Walance]

I find that The Shaggs' music is especially refreshing.

 

[pinball1970]

I find that The Shaggs' music is especially refreshing.

They are certainly different! Their story is interesting too.

 

[pinball1970]

I find that The Shaggs' music is especially refreshing.

The drumming is like a broken clock, every so often it tells the right time.

 

[pinball1970]

We always had the radio on and that is where I heard all that great music in the late 60s and early 70s.
Mum always dragging me into the kitchen and saying, “Tony! Listen to this!”
She was always right too. First time I heard Hendrix, she said, “he could make his guitar talk, listen to this!”
I thought the daft old bat what she on about this time? The record was all the watch tower, the third solo after the slide solo in come the Wah. I thought “OMG! It actually DOES sound like it is talking!”
Lots of great radio memories before I started get my hands on tapes and vinyl. So..

Beatles

Stones

Kinks

Hollies

Mamas Papas

Doors

Hendrix

Then Deep Purple – best players and easily the best singer of all time besides McCartney
1970s it was ABBA, ELO Supertramp McCartney/Wings and Steely Dan, Yes and Genesis
Late 70s/early 80s Gary Newman, Blondie, The Specials, Kate Bush (genius) then…everything seem to go to pot.

I don’t think I watched TOTP between 1984-1994.

Unfortunately seen few of my idols. Dead or split up before I was old enough to go to gigs.
Lucky enough to see Yes before Chris Squire passed, Deep Purple before Jon Lord passed.
ELO without Jeff lynne but with Mike Edwards (I think) before he passed.
Macca before Linda passed.

Time machine to go back to a few gigs?

Beatles Japan 1966- no much screaming

Purple 1972- Japan again

Kate Bush at the Hammersmith 1979 ish

 

[jedishrfu]

There's a great youtube channel called Prof of Rock that gets into the backstories of a lot classic hits. Your favorite may be there.

THis one is on the top ten of the 1980's

https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorofRock

 

[pinball1970]

I like Rick Beato and this was an unexpected combo.

 

[Hornbein]

Kate Bush at the Hammersmith 1979 ish

She changed everything. Invented the modern pop music show.

Here's a great concert from one of her best friends.

 

[Hornbein]

Japanese popular music : hot fast and tight. TV rules : you've made it if you have the theme song for a show. Jazz is popular. The latest hit is Mixed Nuts.

Drum cover. From France!


Piano:

 

[fresh_42]

 

[jedishrfu]

And this version for when we can't pay for four musicians:

 

[StevieTNZ]

 

[StevieTNZ]

 

[StevieTNZ]

Forgot about this song:

 

[StevieTNZ]

Oh my....!

 

[Hornbein]

Oh my....!

Shades of Uptown Funk and Norwegian Wood.

 

[BWV]

RIP Jeff Beck