What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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In summary, some of the best songs are "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty, "Guns N Roses, Sweet Child O' Mine." by Axl Rose, "Bruce Springsteen - "tunnel of love"" by Led Zeppelin, "Honor thy Father" by Dream Theater, and "Octavarium" by Dream Theater.
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SW VandeCarr said:
Yes. I've thought about that. Fame at such a young can be damaging. I wonder if in another year or two, she should quit public performances (but maybe still continue to record) and try to live a normal life until she's an adult, than re-evaluate.

Oh yes, fame is an issue, but I meant damage to her vocal cords. There is one song that she had done, I think it was either Nessun Dorma or perhaps Pie Jesu, that by convention no one her age should do. Other people think this is not really such a concern.

Tastes vary. She has two albums plus a number of live performances, demos and unreleased gems on You Tube. I suggest you start by listening to the the one I just posted above #2519 (Diana Washington cover), and one on p155 of this thread #2468 (blues/soul, Donnie Hathaway cover). I really like this one.

There's also a lot of stuff on YT documenting her disastrous decline. I don't think it's widely known that she was likely bipolar and suffered really deep "black" periods of depression interspersed by manic episodes. Anti-depressants don't work very well in bipolar disorder because it's cyclic. She took lithium (I think) and anti-convulsants with only some success. She herself got off hard drugs by 2009, but not the booze. It was the alcohol that killed her.

She was obviously a unique talent and I like what I've heard so far. Her unique style definitely jumps off the page as one of the greats. Janice Joplin comes to mind...

I was impressed also by Lady Gaga's performance in this video with Tony Bennett. Very good Gaga!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAmDULCVrU
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Oh yes, fame is an issue, but I meant damage to her vocal chords. There is one song that she had done, I think it was either Nessun Dorma or perhaps Pie Jesu, that by convention no one her age should do. Other people think this is not really such a concern.

Her voice is described as a "rich throaty alto". Some are warning her that she is not using her voice properly or adjusting to different styles. I think these warnings should be taken seriously. There's too much to lose here.

I was impressed also by Lady Gaga's performance in this video with Tony Bennett. Very good Gaga!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAmDULCVrU

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Yes. Lady Gaga really is very talented despite her over the top publicity seeking behavior. Who in the world would think of wearing a "dress" made of raw meat?!

BTW, Amy was near the end her rope when she did her Duet with Tony. I saw some decent reviews, but , sorry. I thought she looked bad and sounded worse. She always said that singing with Bennett would be the highlight of her life. I couldn't watch it all and still can't.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbevUYP55HI

even though it's honestly pretty mediocre metal music to be frank, this song and others from this game will always have a place in my heart for being *the most perfectly fitting video game music ever made*

each time I play this game, and I hear this music, it's like the very first time
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Her voice is described as a "rich throaty alto". Some are warning her that she is not using her voice properly or adjusting to different styles. I think these warnings should be taken seriously. There's too much to lose here.

I am glad to see that her schedule is moderated. I may try to catch her California performance again this year but there is only one option for Northern California. Last year I think there were at least 4 options but they still had large gaps between sets of performances. Honestly, if it looked to me like they were working her like a dog I wouldn't have gone.

Yes. Lady Gaga really is very talented despite her over the top publicity seeking behavior. Who in the world would think of wearing a "dress" made of raw meat?!

A performer who is now a household name? :biggrin: I was turned off by all of the Gaga hype but she really is talented. I tend to think she knew exactly what she was doing. EVERYONE has heard of Lady Gaga.

BTW, Amy was near the end her rope when she did her Duet with Tony. I saw some decent reviews, but , sorry. I thought she looked bad and sounded worse. She always said that singing with Bennett would be the highlight of her life. I couldn't watch it all and still can't.

Yes, it is sad to see this sort of thing. Just one of many.

[I had to laugh when I noticed I had written "vocal chords" instead of "vocal cords". Now corrected]
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I am glad to see that her schedule is moderated. I may try to catch her California performance again this year but there is only one option for Northern California. Last year I think there were at least 4 options but they still had large gaps between sets of performances. Honestly, if it looked to me like they were working her like a dog I wouldn't have gone.

Prodigies like Jackie are very vulnerable and need to be protected. There's the Judy Garland model (not making direct comparisons) and the Mozart model. Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was 5 and performed for the Hapsburg Emperor at the same age. He had a very productive adult career but died broke in his mid 30's. Of course, Mozart didn't sing professionally afaik. Garland had problems in her adult life including addictions and never equaled her childhood success. I hope people who really love Jackie and who are not more concerned with the $ are in charge of her life. She is such an extremely rare person. There's no handbook on how to raise someone like her.

Re: Lady Gaga:

A performer who is now a household name? :biggrin: I was turned off by all of the Gaga hype but she really is talented. I tend to think she knew exactly what she was doing. EVERYONE has heard of Lady Gaga.

That meat dress certainly got my attention. I'm thinking, what did she do with that meat afterwards? BTW, she's a real musician and pianist; trained at the prestigious Julliard School in New York City.

Re: Winehouse

Yes, it is sad to see this sort of thing. Just one of many.

I didn't suffer like so many of her very loyal and devoted fans who had to witness the train wreck in slow motion that was her life starting in about mid 2007. I knew almost nothing about her until she died.

She became an object of ridicule and even hatred. She didn't deserve it. Her probable bipolar disorder was severe and often incapacitating. I say "probable" because her handlers have never allowed the likely diagnosis to come out. She said she was told she was bipolar on several occasions. She had the classic symptoms, was being treated with the indicated meds, and is listed on sources for "famous people with bipolar disorder" with Kurt Cobain, Axl Rose and others. Her major commercial success, the album "Back to Black", is well named because nearly all the songs in it were written as a catharsis when she came out of her "black" episodes. She got to the point where she couldn't sing her own songs because they brought her back to the feelings that inspired the songs.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_NspDWssIY
 
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Well, going by the strict definition of the word "song", this is the most beautiful song I've ever heard:

Howells was, in my opinion, the only musician whose work could rival Bach's in sheer beauty.
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
That meat dress certainly got my attention. I'm thinking, what did she do with that meat afterwards?

She certainly qualifies as the first performer ever to actually Meat the Press! :redface:

I'm thinking it was a BBQ at Gaga's house.
 
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I've been listening to 40s jazz lately. [Long story]. Here is one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezGHapF8-lY

Okay, two of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEM_63_P0CY
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I've been listening to 40s jazz lately. [Long story]. Here is one of my favorites.Okay, two of my favorites.

Ella is the best jazz singer ever IMO in terms of technical execution. Here she is with one of the greatest jazz pianists, Oscar Peterson doing the classic 'Round Midnight".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEaDj6TXiQQ

Here's Amy Winehouse doing Moody's Mood for Love. She couldn't have more than 19 when she did this notoriously difficult song based on an improvised saxophone solo by James Moody around 1948 with lyrics added by songwriter Eddie Jefferson in 1952. I have to say I'm not pleased with the intrusive percussion that Mars this and a few other Winehouse recordings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpj9iOX2Qvo
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17MA58P-QY

wasn't sure where to put this... :redface:

but it is one of my favorite songs... :smile:​
 
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My favorite Fogelberg song.

 
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Nice.
Apropos of nothing really, I'm not sure about the lyrics, just like this song at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?v=Y3J6QA8IhSc&
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb61y8pMGM

Interesting story about the writer/singer.
 
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MAWNUC9-yQs[/youtube] TO (ト) ...ds of awesomeness radiating from my speakers.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnWysA9gxo AMAZING SONG! :D, the video is cool too, although it's not much to it, but the song makes it awsome! :approve:
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwa6754O8SE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64kM-0tRjeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVPI_0RXyUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3IS3cdw7g

Yep, I'm a Doctor Who fan.
 
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I have a cat on the hot tin roof of my head

 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDWHhMyMRfI&feature=fvwrel
 
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ArcherofScience said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnWysA9gxo


AMAZING SONG! :D, the video is cool too, although it's not much to it, but the song makes it awsome! :approve:

+1 :cool:

Did anybody ever give feedback in this thread?
 
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Anyway, I should do this much more often, sit back, relax, close eyes and let it go

Brilliant, ultimate perfection.



oh and a sequel or derative:

 
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Oldies goldies... Have you heard about sung poetry?



In late sixties and early seventies Ewa Demarczyk ruled in Poland. Don't ask for translation, well beyond my English.

Note that it is not always about sweet and soothing melody:



This is just a picture of a carosuel in an amusement park. "Wsiadajcie madonny do bryk sześciokonnych" means "Madonnas, please enter six horse carriages" - while often madonna has religious connotations, it can also mean a beautiful woman.
 
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To continue with the sung poetry - this is my favorite now, Grzegorz Turnau:



(this particular song is already several years old, but it has a nice video).
 
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Bobby "Blue" Bland.
 
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turbo said:


Bobby "Blue" Bland.


I really enjoy these blues/soul singers like Bobby, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Donny Hathaway. Thanks
 
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Any song from Karen Carpenter. As per wikipage, She had a contralto vocal range. Contralto is the deepest female classical singing voice.


Listen to "Rainy Days And Mondays"

and
"Top of the world"


Too bad she died too early.
 
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jobyts said:
Any song from Karen Carpenter. As per wikipage, She had a contralto vocal range. Contralto is the deepest female classical singing voice.Listen to "Rainy Days And Mondays"

and
"Top of the world"


Too bad she died too early.


I posted some Carpenters songs a while ago as well. I hadn't listened to any Carpenters music for a long but it hasn't lost it's charm for me at all. She was so smooth and rich... very calming and warm. They were always favorites of mine. IIRC I had about five or six of their albums. For me she was a local celebrity [they only lived a few miles away from us] so for that reason alone they were sort of special. We even had a bit of an indirect connection as we knew friends of theirs who went to school with them at Long Beach State. But the real kicker was that I was at Downey Community Hospital working on a mobile CAT scanner right by the ER entrance when they brought her in. I saw her on the gurney but didn't realize who she was until a couple of nurses said something. A short time later the word got around that she didn't survive. I couldn't believe it! You expected people like Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison, et al, to die young, but Karen Carpenter? She was the "good girl" in music. It was so unexpected.

I never realized how much of a country sound they had. I always thought of them as pop/gentle rock, but now the country in their music is hard to miss.
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
I agree. My favorite is "Winter" but only by a small margin. They're all good.

I always blamed my love of Vivaldi on the fact that I started playing violin at the age of 8.

But I'm enamored by all stringed aficionados.

I often wonder where the appreciation of music comes from, from non-musically trained people. I can only imagine that it stimulates a different part of their brains.

When I hear Vivaldi, my brain dances. :smile:
 
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OmCheeto said:
I always blamed my love of Vivaldi on the fact that I started playing violin at the age of 8.

But I'm enamored by all stringed aficionados.

I often wonder where the appreciation of music comes from, from non-musically trained people. I can only imagine that it stimulates a different part of their brains.

When I hear Vivaldi, my brain dances. :smile:

I think that's what Vivaldi wanted your brain to do. It's interesting that many can appreciate good music, but relatively few can make good music.
 
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Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma in L.A. 1994.
I've never seen a better performance of this; make sure you watch his face, especially near the end.

Pure frission.

 
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AJKing said:
Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma in L.A. 1994.
I've never seen a better performance of this; make sure you watch his face, especially near the end.

Pure frission.



Very impressive, but I have to say I'm not an opera fan. No criticism of opera intended. I just never got into it.
 
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Do we have any old Tomita fans? While taking a fair amount of artistic license he did "The Planets", by Holst, on a synthesizer. It was quite a unique undertaking at the time. Here is one track - Venus, the Bringer of Peace.

This is electronic music from 1976, kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMsyzyiHLQ

Jupiter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDFocqYSrfE
 
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I hope everyone is having a heavenly day (metaphorically speaking, of course :biggrin:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lCcirAiA9w

 
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