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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:12 pm
by huntertitus
DavebytheSea wrote:I did have a wind-up gramophone in the house (Mid A) and sharpened fibre needles to play Tchaikowsky and Sibelius - my passion with Bach was still developing. I have ever acquired.
Did you ever hear the (to my mind) perfect recordings of mozarts Vespers and Requiem by the Tolzer Knabenchor
Gustave Leonhardt, Nicoal Harnoncourt And the rest of the huns made the most beautiful recordings during the 1970s and a bit into the 80s
The best is the Mozart - see Laudate dominum
the best recording with boy singer and original instruments Ive ever heard
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:00 am
by J.R.
DavebytheSea wrote:I am not usually accused of reticence, but JR has thrown down the gauntlet. Thus I must respond .............. and confess!
The fact is that I was the Camilla of my day. A perfect sight-reader at 12 and totally uninterested in anything remotely connnected with 'pop' music. (It is still the case despite my four children). I did have a wind-up gramophone in the house (Mid A) and sharpened fibre needles to play Tchaikowsky and Sibelius - my passion with Bach was still developing. An album was, and remains, for me a repository for stamps.
So notorious was my obsession with the choir, that on returning late from choir practice one evening I was punished by having to learn (and sing) a pop song. I can remember every syllable, every note to this day.
"If you lay a silver dollar down upon the ground
It will roll because it's round"
... ugh! .... I will not bore you with the rest - but I suppose if you want a full rendition, I will give it in return for a beer at the Bax next Saturday evening. I should add, that it remains to this day the only popular music I have ever acquired.
Nipper? Who he?
Your dog what you lent to HMV records so they could photograph him looking into the horn of your wind-up gramophone for their record labels. You must have made a mint out of the Royalties !
POP MUSIC - EARYLY 1950s
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:57 am
by UserRemovedAccount
David Eastburn,
Reference my last and the term "that American singer who always ended up in tears." His name was Johnnie Ray. Big deal!
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:00 am
by UserRemovedAccount
David Eastbrun,
You say that you were the "Camilla of your day." I would like to assure you that you have never looked like the Duchess of Cornwall, either now or in the early 1950s - or were you hiding something from us?
David
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:39 am
by DavebytheSea
Wrong Camilla, David!
I meant of course the one who plays the violin so beautifully, who sings and plays the piano and who HATES rock music (tho' I admit that I never much looked much like her either).
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:41 am
by DavebytheSea
huntertitus wrote:
Did you ever hear the (to my mind) perfect recordings of mozarts Vespers and Requiem by the Tolzer Knabenchor
Gustave Leonhardt, Nicoal Harnoncourt And the rest of the huns made the most beautiful recordings during the 1970s and a bit into the 80s
The best is the Mozart - see Laudate dominum
the best recording with boy singer and original instruments Ive ever heard
Wonderful! Was that the young Gene Simmons before he moved to America and assumed a new name?
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:39 pm
by huntertitus
I doubt it - all I know of GS is that he could poke his tongue out a long way - the music was always rubbish - the soloist in the recordings was a young German called Hans Buchierl
If you like that sort of thing you could see if this cd is still available -
Halleluja - Festliche Musik mit dem Tolzer Knabenchor
Acanta label
42 163 is the number
recorded about 1974 and includes a lovely rendition of Handel's Ombra Mai Fu, and Mozart's Laudate Dominum
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:24 am
by Rory
Have to agree with HT about the Mozart Requiem - beautiful recording.
But what's all this cr*p about the Eagles???
RR said" Why are The Eagles still so popular?
Why were they ever popular?
Anyone?""
I seem to remember that one of the reasons punk happened in the 70's was because everyone was bored out of their heads listening to Eagles etc.
Was it an Eagles LP that came a cropper with a lighter once and ended up looking like the surface of the moon??? [/quote]
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:12 am
by Richard Ruck
Rory wrote: Was it an Eagles LP that came a cropper with a lighter once and ended up looking like the surface of the moon???
Yep, it most certainly was!
The owner of said L.P. was also called Julian Taylor......
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:20 am
by Rory
Good morning Richard
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a funny old world we live in.....
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:26 am
by Richard Ruck
Rory wrote:Good morning Richard
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a funny old world we live in.....
Good evening!
You've come over all formal!!
D'you remember Julian Taylor's middle name? (Eagles-loving J.T., that is?)
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:37 am
by Rory
I havent come over anything I'll have you know.
And no -I can't. But now you mention it - it was something strange.
(After your last post I had to quickly check the other JT profile but he wasnt born till ages after.....)
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:43 am
by Richard Ruck
Rory wrote:I havent come over anything I'll have you know.
Oooo-err!!
His middle name was (and presumably still is) Everest.....
I think one of his ancestors was involved in finding it (bit difficult to miss it, I would have thought....).
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:52 am
by Rory
So I suppose he's now called...
Julian Qomolangma Taylor.
Hhhmmm - has a certain ring to it.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:59 am
by Richard Ruck
The musical act of mercy happened at Toby's place. His parents never seemed to mind having a full house, did they?