Arbitrary nostalgia. Music Night, February 4, 2011

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The great thing about being responsible for Music Night is that I get to post anything I want! Bwahahaha! (Psst, Gummitch, so can everyone else!) Tonight’s artist appears because one of his songs stuck itself in my head the other day, and poking around on YouTube I realize how I missed his talent. I tried to include music from The Point, but the videos I found were largely crap.

Born 1941, died at 52 of a heart attack: Harry Nilsson.

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139 thoughts on “Arbitrary nostalgia. Music Night, February 4, 2011”

  7. Spray it with WD-40, Lass! (No wait, that’s drying out distributor caps.)

    Mary Chapin Carpenter set to clips of Richard Armitage. I didn’t realize he romanced Dawn French in the Vicar of Dibley until I saw this video. Anyway, EV likes the guy!

  9. Composer John Barry passed away on 1/30/11. Among his many credits were most of the Bond films, Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Midnight Cowboy, King Kong (70′s version), The Betsy, Black Hole, Somewhere in Time, Body Heat, Jagged Edge, Out of Africa, Peggy Sue Got Married, Dances with Wolves, and countless others.

    Here’s Shirley Bassey singing Barry’s iconic Goldfinger theme.

  10. Raven – did the pipes stay free? How was the trek – snow and ice all the way?

    Glad to read you- means you are safe…somewhere.

  14. Hey everyone!

    The house was fine, the furnace was still on.
    The water froze out on the street at the meter. It’s only 6″ below the cast iron cover.
    They’re not prepared for this kind of stuff.
    Still a lot of people in New Mexico without electricity or natural gas, so much for the new governor and her oily head of the Minerals and Natural Resources Department.

  17. zxbe, I got to see Harry at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk back in the mid 70′s. I’ve always considered him the last great American balladeer. He did music from humorous to deadly serious. This is one of my favorites that he did in the concert I caught. He had his brother Tom with him and spent time walking through the seats. Best concert I’ve ever attended.

  19. ebb…

    I went through the Bosque del Apache on the way back, I was worried about how the birds would be dealing with the frozen ponds.
    They’re doing way better than the Refuge complex…which has no heat. The snowbirds who volunteer for the winter didn’t look too happy. They stay in an RV area at the administration site, and I can imagine the broken pipes in the RVs.

    Most of the birds were elsewhere today, in the fields or on the Rio Grande itself.
    A bald eagle was forlornly perched on a lone snag frozen in the middle of the big pond, not a duck in sight.
    Silly eagles.
    ;>

  20. Thanks so much House & Hooda, me still loves CCR…Poor grammer O.P…Thanks for all the other music as well…Love Janice & Marley also..

    So glad you checked back in Raven…Peace, Blessings & Joy all..

  23. Hooda, sad to say, I didn’t become a fan until after he was gone. I think I would have loved one of his concerts. It just goes to show how much of an amazing storyteller he was to have songs such as this one (thanks for posting) as well as his serious stuff.

  26. Okay, Baker Street popped in my head after Deacon Blues, and in finding a video for it, I just learned that Gerry Rafferty passed away earlier this year. :(

  28. Zooey’s a most beautiful Zebra Finch. Keeping the Zebra theme – stripes are nice!

  35. On this one the redheaded guy with the glasses was Linda Ronstadt’s producer later on…and Cher’s, and James Taylor’s, and Diana Ross’s…

  41. Kids. Ya gots to love em. My youngest just called and asked if I would consider loaning her the money to buy a new release of a honey bock beer from one of the local breweries since she is short on cash right now. She even offered to share a bottle with me.

  42. I was surprised (but, then again, not) to learn that Paul McCartney wrote “World Without Love.” Having learned that, it was hard to imagine anyone else having written it.

  44. Okay, this one is for Z. She mentioned it in yesterday’s thread. This is a very cool live performance of it. According to Trevor Horn, it’s the only live performance of it since they recorded it in the studio.

  47. Zooey, thanks for fixing the typo. I had the worst time getting this post up, with WordPress initially pretending I wasn’t even on the composition page and refusing to accept any input. I eventually got it up, then later noticed that WP had eaten the title completely. I suspect my rage had been pounding blindly away at the keyboard.

  48. No problem Z. Now of course I will take it too far. lol (I actually like the Buggles – more for where I was at the time — good memories of college — then the music itself.)

  52. A segue from Buggles to Yes, when Trevor Horn (of the Buggles) was lead singer for Yes for one album. Both the Buggles and Yes covered this song. (The Buggles version is much shorter – Yes was still in their long-song phase.)

  56. Okay forgive me. But on the trip down memory lane, I came across this: UFO by Pink Lady. A Japanese duo in the late 70′s. This song became a bit of a cult classic for them in Japan, and they had a short-lived TV show in the US (where I remember seeing this). What’s amazingly funny is if you search YouTube for UFO Pink Lady you’ll fine a ton of videos of fans doing the UFO dance. Pink Lady always did the same dance when they sang this song (and they still perform it currently, apparently from what I see on YouTube).

    Again sorry. I just had to share. This was a hoot.

  58. Okay, back to more serious stuff. Seeing ebb’s NIN, this Johnny Cash cover of Hurt immediately popped into mind.

  59. zx, it is, after all, arbitrary nostalgia. I’d never heard of the Pink Lady – and otherwise probably wouldn’t have known they ever existed.
    Reminds me of a USO + the Rockettes + ’60s ‘go-go boots’ era!

  61. S U R F P U N K S !

    Oh, thank you vinyl. The cobwebs are clearing – if you don’t mind this is one I really like:

  65. “My whole life spins into a frenzy…
    where am I to go now that I’ve gone too far?”

  67. TtT, trust I’m not stepping on your Dio toes if I play thins one.
    Please play the one you had in mind.

  68. “Feeling better, Gary?”

    Not much. Last night was the first time in 2 weeks that the fever broke (soaked through a t-shirt, serioualy damp top and bottom sheets). But I’m still having times when I need to layer up as though I was outside in deep winter. That and the cough I’m not getting much sleep. So I’m still pretty trashed — so much so that I’m actually going to bed now.

  75. That was the incorrect JT – please do not click – it’s a piece of garbage. Extremely poor quality audio and visual.

  76. Edit -Edit who has the damn Edit button?!

    [heavy sigh - of course that is 'garbage' not garbabe]

  77. thanks edit finch!

    —–

    badmoodman – thank you for posting that video of Liberty Square…

    I love me an Egyptian Revolution!

  81. Day of the Jackal…. Lindisfarne tells the story of the Middle East – dull 80s prat with kipper tie notwithstanding

  87. Back in 1983, these paddies were good…… I’ve not been on board since about 1989 or so…

  95. Here’s an interesting recording of a very pertinent song. Not the original artist, but shockingly, performed by the man who wrote it.

  100. Sorry for the two “downer” tunes. Feeling kind of blue tonight. Miss my old friend “Whitey” who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly back in October. We were friends and hell raisers since Kindergarten. :(

  101. Love the Pogues – they opened for Dylan (when he was in his some-what C&W mood).
    It was at the Greek Amphitheater at Cal.
    We only stayed for the Pogues!

  103. Ah no IP sorry to hear but its ok, I’m on the low ebb missing a friend of mine who moved away and another who is on the brink of doing so, lots of change …..

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