What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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The discussion revolves around sharing links to various songs and artists, highlighting personal favorites and recommendations. Participants mention iconic tracks like "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, emphasizing their appreciation for guitar riffs and vocals. Dream Theater is frequently praised for its musicianship, particularly the drumming and progressive compositions. Other notable mentions include artists like Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Emmanuel, and Mary Black, showcasing a wide range of musical styles. The thread encourages exploration of new music and sharing of lesser-known talents.
  • #501
Thrice said:
I like that. I just wish she had more dissonance.

Dunno. I think she has the purest voice of all performers, with incredible clean transitions from mezzo to high soprano.

Anyway, an oldy: Roger Whittaker



Our local Belgian star: Helmut Lotti with 'Poljushko Polje'



And Il Divo should be more productive (I believe, with Celine dion):



Todays classic: Finlandia

 
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  • #502
Flower time.

Flower Duet from Lakme



And from Holland, Andre Rieu

 
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  • #503
The ~12 year old Bianca Ryan does a fantastic job with "O Holy Night"
 
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  • #504
Phantom of the Opera with Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford


Angel of Music


Music of the Night
 
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  • #505
Also, from one of my favorite movies - All That Jazz:
Take Off With Us


whew!
 
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  • #506
'Deliverance' - 'Dueling banjos' scene
 
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  • #507
Soldier of orange



A movie about a Dutch resistance fighter during WW-II. The theme song is composed by Rogier van Otterloo. You can judge his quality. Unfortunately he died young due to cancer.

Give up smoking.

Forget the cognac, the music is the tune of a TV series, "De Fabriek", the mill.

 
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  • #508
Those were the days


Jean
http://solosong.net/jean.html

A lesser known favorite of mine from Elton:
The Ballad of Danny Bailey


and Sweet Painted Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0eckgVx0Es&NR=1

Coven - One Tin Soldier


Angie Baby


The Dock of the Bay


Abraham Martin & John


Mr Bojangles


The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [by Joan Baez - allegedly the cousin of John Baez]


My Eyes Adored You [apparently provided by someone with a crush on Kate Mulgrew]


Brand New Key


Song Sung Blue


Wildfire


From soundtrack of Metropolis [Done by Georgio Moroder]
Here's my heart


Here she comes
 
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  • #509
lovely piece, Shostakovich
 
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  • #510
This was S.T. Agnews fav-o-rite song while he was in office. At the end of the video they call it a Gospel tune. (in Bill Clinton voice)...it depends on your definition of "toke" is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg
 
  • #512
One of the first supergroups, Lennon, Clapton, Richards, and Mitchell (drummer for Hendrix), in a one-time-only live performance of Lennon's Yer Blues.

 
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  • #513
A true classic!

Nat & Natalie Cole "Unforgettable"


Listen to this and think about your sweetheart or someone special!


Unforgettable, that's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been more

Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too

<instrumental interlude>
No never before
has someone been more ooh

<Repeat>Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
 
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  • #514
Listen to this song and tell me it does not have the greatest guitar playing you have ever heard. The main rift starts after a pause following the very beginning of the song.

Slither by Velvet Revolver

Youtube link pending (I can't make lots of noise right now so I'll get it later).
 
  • #515
Hey, Jeans! If you haven't watched the movie Crossroads, you're in for a treat. Here is (SPOILER!) a guitar show-down between the protagonist and a guitar-slinging protege of the devil. Stevie Vai plays his own stuff, but of course Ralph Macchio's licks were laid down by a pro - Ry Cooder. If you haven't seen the movie yet, go out and rent it before you click this link. This clip is WAY too much of a spoiler, and you wouldn't enjoy the move as much after having seen it.

 
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  • #516
turbo-1 said:
Hey, Jeans! If you haven't watched the movie Crossroads, you're in for a treat. Here is (SPOILER!) a guitar show-down between the protagonist and a guitar-slinging protege of the devil. Stevie Vai plays his own stuff, but of course Ralph Macchio's licks were laid down by a pro - Ry Cooder. If you haven't seen the movie yet, go out and rent it before you click this link. This clip is WAY too much of a spoiler, and you wouldn't enjoy the move as much after having seen it.



Cool! Thanks for the link.

I'll have a link for Slither in about an hour and a half.

I really should rent that movie :biggrin:.
 
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  • #517
Ok. I found a great link for Slither.

The main guitar rift is in my opinion the best part, but I also love the main lyrics.

The rift is first used 26 seconds into the song. The main lyrics is first used 1 minute 8 seconds into the song.

"Yeaaahhhhh! Here comes the waaaateerr!"

Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ur43BHsnW4"
 
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  • #518
I've recently been quite obsessed by the song in the Audi R8 advert which is by Simone White. I have listened to the few tracks on her MySpace page and must admit I was very impressed. I'm not easily impressed since I have very precise tastes. Anyway here is the said song from the Audi R8 commercial:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aB36GAPcfvc

If you enjoy that one check out the others on her http://www.myspace.com/simonewhite" .

P.S. Audi R8 is lovely :smile:
 
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  • #519
I'm a big Elton fan. To me, about half of his stuff qualifies as classic, but some of my favorites are:
Your Song


Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding


Daniel


Candle in the Wind


Goodbye yellow brick road


Levon [one of the best of the best, IMO]
 
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  • #520
One of the best anti-war songs ever. Jackson Browne performing "Lives in the Balance" with David Lindley, Graham Nash, and David Crosby. Lindley often wears impossibly loud polyester shirts and bright-colored pants - he is quite conservative in this clip. :rolleyes:



Studio version with nice Andean flute in the mix and a slide-show.
 
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  • #521
Very nice! I hadn't heard that before.
 
  • #522
Ivan Seeking said:
I'm a big Elton fan. To me, about half of his stuff qualifies as classic, but some of my favorites are:
Your Song


Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding


Daniel


Candle in the Wind


Goodbye yellow brick road


Levon [one of the best of the best, IMO]


Levon is one of my all-time most favorite song!

Zz.
 
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  • #523
ZapperZ said:
Levon is one of my all-time most favorite song!

Zz.

Tsu too! When this came out, for the longest time I didn't realize that it was done by Elton; nor did I know what a garridge was. :biggrin:

Some more of my easy-listening favorites:

Laughter in the Rain


Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast


Maggie May


Tonight's the Night


Lady in Red


We've Only Just Begun


Rainy Days and Mondays


Close to You


Leaving on a Jet Plane


I'm a believer


Spiders and Snakes


A Boy Named Sue


Mountains o'Mourne [I could only find a clip]: Lyrics written in 1896.
http://www.last.fm/music/Don+McLean/_/Mountains+O'Mourne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountains_of_Mourne
 
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  • #524
Peter Tosh: Mystic Man




Peter Tosh's songs are a little different breed of reggae.

___________________________________________

I was thinking about Carly Simon's songs---They (some) are the audible side of what a lot of men like (or would like) to hear from their woman
 
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  • #525
Ivan Seeking said:
Tsu too! When this came out, for the longest time I didn't realize that it was done by Elton; nor did I know what a garridge was. :biggrin:

Then has Tsu heard the "orchestral" version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now"? She re-recorded this for her "Both Sides Now" album, and man, this tune, in my book, has to be THE best song of all time. I heard it for the first time a few months after Sept. 11, and somehow, the lyrics took on a new meaning all of the sudden.

Zz.
 
  • #526
ZapperZ said:
Then has Tsu heard the "orchestral" version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now"? She re-recorded this for her "Both Sides Now" album, and man, this tune, in my book, has to be THE best song of all time. I heard it for the first time a few months after Sept. 11, and somehow, the lyrics took on a new meaning all of the sudden.

Zz.

I didn't mean to exclude myself on Levon. That is easily in my top five.

Do you mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqQlfFuQFXo&feature=related
 
  • #529
ZapperZ said:
That's the one.

Zz.

I see what you mean about it taking on an entirely new meaning.

Very nice!
 
  • #531
Hmm

Piano Man - Billy Joel - it's just a classic

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues, and Your Song - Elton John

Stadium Arcadium, Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hotel California - Eagles

Escape (that pina colada song) - Rupert Holmes

Redemption Song, Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley

As pump-up music: In the End - Linkin Park (their only good song imo)
 
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  • #532
Traffic - Rainmaker (live) - 1972


Traffic - Rainmaker



Unfortunately, several videos on Youtube have been removed for copyright violations. I don't know how long these will be active.


I used to download free mp3's back in the days of Napster and some precursors, but I eventually went out a bought CD's of most of the groups - mostly classic rock. So I have the same music on LP and CD - i.e. I paid twice for the same piece of music. The record companies need to be more reasonable in their pricing.
 
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  • #533
Astronuc said:
I used to download free mp3's back in the days of Napster and some precursors, but I eventually went out a bought CD's of most of the groups - mostly classic rock. So I have the same music on LP and CD - i.e. I paid twice for the same piece of music. The record companies need to be more reasonable in their pricing.
I have over 300 albums and well over 400 CDs, and there are LOTS of duplicates. We're at the point where record companies could release entire catalogs of artists on one or two DVDs with liner notes, cover art, extras, etc, but it's never going to happen.
 
  • #534
I came across a Hang Drum - interesting. That lead me to several examples of the hammer dulcimer.

New Song on Hang Drum (2005 "melog" scale)


Sunset Hang Drumming Jam #2



hang drum and hammered dulcimer jam



Rakes of Kildare Hammered Dulcimer



folk jig medieval hammered dulcimer girl 2


Mermaid Medieval Hammered Dulcimer



Fast Hands - Max ZT (This guy is great!)


Great Lakes Medieval Faire Vince Conaway 07 (This guy is also very good!)



Hammered Dulcimer Duo Cosmic Sister. FIRST PERFORMANCE!


Bonnie Doone/Going Home Medley on mt..dulcimer



Hammered Dulcimer to Replace Electric Guitar


Dan Landrum hammered dulcimer



Hammered Dulcimer 17/16 (slow - mellow)
 
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  • #535
My favorite piece by Ralph Vaughn Williams, and perhaps one of the finest pieces of classical music, certainly one of the finest out of England.


The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams



The Lark Ascending (Rare Version)
 
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  • #536
Vince Gill with Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs. "Go Rest High on that Mountain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRyKg5xMaXA&feature=related

BTW, I have seen Ricky live, and he stayed behind for hours (and I mean hours!) after his family and crew were gone, talking to fans, hugging them, signing their mementos, etc. He's the real deal.
 
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  • #538
Ivan Seeking said:
If not mentioned already, this one has to go down as a classic.
Puff the Magic Dragon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVxBVI3Rx_Y&feature=related

This is probably the second song that I learned as a young child.

Another classic from PP&M
If I had a hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No&feature=related
I remember PtMD. My father listened to PP&M and Pete Seeger, so I heard it quite often. Seeger lives nearby, and I've met him a few times. He sung at memorial service of a mutual friend. Quite a guy!


Seeds of light...from Sun The Ra to afriKA
- cool video. A different way of looking at the galaxy, the Earth and the sun.
 
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  • #540
Somewhat of an obscure group - Armageddon (from 1975). Silver Tightrope was a favorite tune from that year.

Keith Relf (Yardbirds) was a member, but unfortunately he died tragically the following year ('76) after the release of their only album, Armageddon. In 1976, Relf was electrocuted by an impropertly grounded electric guitar! That still puzzles me, since I've been electrocuted several times, and I'm still around. :frown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(Armageddon_album)
http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/armauk.htm


Armageddon - Silver Tightrope


Armageddon - Paths and Planes and Future Gains


Armageddon - Buzzard
 
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  • #542
Astronuc said:
In 1976, Relf was electrocuted by an impropertly grounded electric guitar! That still puzzles me, since I've been electrocuted several times, and I'm still around. :frown:
The route of the current is critical. It doesn't take much current to stop your heart when you're getting the shock hand-to-hand, and a guitarist touching grounded strings on a guitar and reaching to reposition a mic is in a nasty situation. (Been there!)

I wrote the medical standards portion of an electrical safety training program that General Physics presented to DuPont's electrical supervisors, and presented the entire program in a week-long session in Tampa. It's been a lot of years, but IIR, the hand-to-hand jolt that can stop your heart was on the order of maybe 12-20 milliamps. Not a lot of current, but if it has to traverse your chest, it's enough.

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
 
  • #543
turbo-1 said:
The route of the current is critical. It doesn't take much current to stop your heart when you're getting the shock hand-to-hand, and a guitarist touching grounded strings on a guitar and reaching to reposition a mic is in a nasty situation. (Been there!)

I wrote the medical standards portion of an electrical safety training program that General Physics presented to DuPont's electrical supervisors, and presented the entire program in a week-long session in Tampa. It's been a lot of years, but IIR, the hand-to-hand jolt that can stop your heart was on the order of maybe 12-20 milliamps. Not a lot of current, but if it has to traverse your chest, it's enough.

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
Well, if Relf had the guitar in hand and was sitting on something metal or perhaps had strings or metal in one hand and was ground through the other hand - perhaps I guess.

I give grounded through one hand and through my feet. Once on a running lawn mower and the other time on a car engine. Both times, I removed the spark plug cable with the motors going - and I got blasted. OUCH! But the current/voltage was a brief pulse.

The worst event was where I grounded a 440 V motor (seveal kW) - and probably got at least 10 amps. There was a bright blue-white flash, a loud bang (like lightning), I blacked out momentarily and came too leaning backward against the wall behind where I had been working on the motor. Didn't help that I had been squatting in a puddle of condensate while working on the motor, which supposedly had been isolated. I think my partner had selected the wrong switch. :rolleyes:

I was rather weak from that and barely managed to walk up a flight of stairs to where I could be transported the shop office. I rested for a while and drove home. It took several days for the smell of singed tissue to wear off, and for me to regain full strength.

I just realized that event was back in 1976, a few months after Relf died.
 
  • #544
The voltage is key, here, too. Low voltages channel through human tissue effectively, while higher voltages tend to self-repel and to propagate along outer surfaces (skin effect).
 
  • #545
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."

"I've never discussed it with anybody before — intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on Monday during a break from recording. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday."

He got his chance last week when he performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party. [continued]
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iImzT2JPyXzkkHcKCIP6bpuei9sQD8T1GVH01

 
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  • #547
I just heard this line from a song and really liked it:

"In my dreams you're blowing me...









...some kisses."
 
  • #548
Did you like the way it began or the way it ended?
 
  • #549
Gokul43201 said:
Did you like the way it began or the way it ended?

:smile: That depends on how you look at it!
 
  • #550
Battle of Evermore is a great song, great lyrics, great vocals. Sandy Denny did an excellent job on backup vocals.


Hahaha, I might not know anything like you guys about calculus or physics or whatever, but I'd bet I know more about Led Zeppelin. I love Zeppelin though.

Best songs?...hmmm, I'd say All My Love, by Zeppelin great vocals, great bass/keyboards, great song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BkgMlrGXB5c

Tales of Brave Ulysses, Cream... Love that song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u8hLc_nqx8g

A classic is Ramblin' Man, by the Allman Brothers Band
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Bodp4M0ymA

And my two favorite Clapton songs, Layla sorry its live
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-j-pf5LykQ

And Wonderful tonight
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gi24BdDZCJk

Yep those are all classics
 

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