Music We Love - A place to share our favourite music/songs

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[Jill]

        "Way down in the Congo Land lived a happy chim-pan-zee.  She loved a monkey….  with a long tail.  Lordy, how she loved him…."

         For a slightly more PG, bordering for some, perhaps, on an X-rated version, for those of you with a twisted sense of humor, go to YouTube and check out the version, Varla Jean’s Aba Daba Honeymoon, for this same exquisitely wonderful singalong smile of a song.

[Diane R]

Ah Peter, thank you for Rodrigo y Gabriela -- I'd been busy when they played in our local venue last summer but will probably see them on their next go-round.

Charlie, who is a fine classical guitarist, just watched the clip you posted and (after saying, "AHA! He put his thumb up right there!" (which is something his teacher has taught him not to do)), smiled and said, "I wonder if they sell the charts for that."

Stay tuned. 

--Diane.
(EDIT: HA! Now I can hear him in there playing through the entire Rodrigo y Gabriela youtube cannon.... Nice Saturday morning music, indeed!)


(And PS: thank you EVERYONE for posting these musical pieces and videos. I love them all, and the variety is wonderful!  (I'm thinking of posting a couple that are completely different yet again.)  In the words of the late, great Frank Zappa, "Music is the best.")

[Peter S]

. . .will probably see them on their next go-round.

Charlie . . . said, "I wonder if they sell the charts for that."

Strangely enough, Rodrigo Y Gabriela are playing The Warfield in San Francisco this very evening according to that tour schedule I linked to, but it's listed as "Sold Out".

This any good to Charlie?
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/r/rodrigo_y_gabriela/stairway_to_heaven_tab.htm

[Peter S]

Alex de Grassi, here playing "Single Girl" at an impromptu hotel room session during the New York Guitar Festival

[Jill]

        Crossing the border for amor, amor, amor.
            I've been listening to this music, blasting this music and loving this music for so long, now, that I no longer know whether this is an acquired taste or whether all you gringos, etc. out there will respond to it, immediately.  Only one way to find out.

Voy a Llenarte Toda – Jose Jose
(I’m Going to Fill You With Everything…. or something like that!)

Jose Jose is now older, even, than I am, so he's ancient, but in his prime, I think he was probably comparable to the "Frank Sinatra" of Mexico.


Si Tu Supieras – Alejandro Fernandez
(If You Could But Know)

I bought my first Alejandro Fernandez CD before I'd ever heard of him or of his probably even more famous father, singer, Vicente Fernandez. I bought the CD almost exclusively because I thought he was So Good Looking in the picture on the cover.  The way I looked at it was that even if the music turned out to be horrible, at least I would have the CD cover of oh, my sweet Alejandro that I could put under my pillow at night.
(Joke, guys, but in the picture, he was beautiful!)


Como Yo Te Amo -- Raphael
(How I Love You)


       
         Now, crossing not only the border, but the ocean as well, for love, sweet love. 
There may not be one person left on earth who hasn't already heard this song, but just in case there's even one....  I can't believe I haven't gotten sick of it, yet, but I really haven't.  I still think it's really beautiful.
I think Bocelli is, too!

Con Te Partiro – Andrea Bocelli
(It’s Time To Say Goodbye) (?)


P.S.: The great thing about listening to music in a language that you don't understand is that if you have any love in you or passion in you or just about whatever in you, you can listen to the music, feel whatever you feel from it, and then you can have the words mean anything you want them to mean.  Sometimes, the music is even better that way!

[i Live 4 Kiva]

My earliest memories of music included Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, Nat King Cole and Johnny Cash, an odd mix I know.  This has always been a favorite of mine.  Music is original, but slideshow was put together by a "Good Ole Boy" very nice scenery and theme.

Song for the Life - Alan Jackson

[Natasha]

With Valentine's Day just a few days away, perhaps for some, love has lost its shine...

When the War is Over
Cosmia De Vito (2004)           
The video features Australian images and is slightly smoother to listen to than the original.




Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
Pink (2006) from I'M NOT DEAD
 



I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor (1978)
Bet you can all sing along to this one!

[i Live 4 Kiva]

I Hope You Dance - LeAnn Womack
This is the first version with Sons of The Desert singing background - later version for radio w/o SOTD didn't compare!

[Peter S]

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan
...with a pretty cool video montage

[Jill]

EGG-SUCKIN' DOG

      All right, here’s a piece of music “for the time capsule,” Egg-Suckin’ Dog by Johnny Cash.  I was actually doing some tax work, just now, when this gem came over my stereo.  I immediately went to YouTube, realizing that you all just could not live without hearing this, and was delighted to find that not only was it there, but it was there with Johnny Cash singing along with the Muppets, no less.  This song is at 3 minutes 10 seconds into it, but if you skip the beginning, you’re going to miss Johnny and Miss Piggy making eyes at one another in their duet on “Jackson.”

“.... Egg-suckin’ dog, I’m gonna stomp your head in the ground.
If you don’t stay out of my henhouse, you dirty ol’ egg-sucking hound...” ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXI-RWiu32Q

*** Those lyrics, especially, brought back some precious family memories, when my dad, with his great deep Tennessee-twanged voice, could always count on an exasperated, but smiling, “Oh, Sweetheart!” from my mom when he would sing the following.  It was to provoke that very same "Oh, Sweetheart," that he usually started singing it in the first place!:

“Oh, Pity the cowboy, all bloody and dead.
His horse fell upon him and bashed in his head.
There’s blood on the saddle, there’s blood on the ground.
There’s pud-dles and pud-dles of blood all around.”

My sister, brother and I either belted that out, ear-splittingly, on the video we had made to celebrate my parents’ fiftieth anniversary, or I always thought we should have, I actually don’t remember.  But, I'll say it again, it’s amazing how music takes you back…..