Music odds and ends

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"Whenever I arrive on a real location , I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."

 

- Pedro Almodovar

 

Frank Zappa, "Muffin Man" ;

 

 

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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."

 

- Martin Yan

 

The Smashing Pumpkins, "Tonight Tonight" ;

 

 

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"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do."

 

- American Proverbs

 

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (live) ;

 

 

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"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

 

- H. Jackson Brown

 

Platinum Blonde, "Standing In The Dark" ;

 

 

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"The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else."

 

- London Sunday Correspondent

 

Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, "Big League" ;

 

 

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"He who has faith has...an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

 

- B. C. Forbes

 

Starship, "It's Not Enough" ;

 

 

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"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."

 

- Robert Browning

 

Dietmar & Nellia, "Never Stop Jiving" ;

 

 

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"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"

 

- Manuel Puig

 

Huey Lewis and The News, "Heart And Soul" ;

 

 

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"Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreaction ever devised."

 

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

 

The Who, "You Better You Bet" ;

 

 

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"Real love stories never have endings."

 

- Richard Bach

 

Genesis, "Follow You Follow Me" ;

 

 

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"It was solitary, because they believed that He is nearer to us in solitude, and there were no priests authorized to come between a man and his Maker."

 

- Charles Eastman

 

Booker T. And The MGs, "Groovin" ;

 

 

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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

 

- Alfred North Whitehead

 

Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova, "Slow Waltz" ;

 

 

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10 Hormones & Activities That Release Them

 

1- Dopamine ("Reward Hormone")

* achieving goals, listening to music, favorite food.

 

2- Serotonin ("Mood Stabilizer")

* sun exposure, meditation, exercise.

 

3- Oxytocin ("Love Hormone")

* warm hugs, time with loved ones, acts of kindness.

 

4- Endorphins ("Pain Reliever")

* intense workout, fun and laughter, creative activities.

 

5- Adrenaline ("Fight Or Flight Hormone")

* adventure sports, action movies, facing fears.

 

6- Cortisol ("Stress Hormone")

* anxiety, working under pressure, unexpected bad news.

 

7- Melatonin ("Sleep Hormone")

* dark or dim lit area, good sleep, no screen before bed.

 

8- Testosterone and Estrogen ("Sex Hormone")

* intense workout, sexual activity or intimacy, good diet.

 

9- Growth Hormone ("Regenerative Hormone")

* intermittent fasting, deep sleep, high intensity workout.

 

10- Prolactin ("Relaxation Hormone")

* breastfeeding, exercise, sexual activities.

 

- Unattributed 

(bold emphasis mine)

 

More hormones in this next composition...

 

OrchdorkNo5, "The Hormone Song"

 

 

Edited April 23 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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"The worst moment for an athiest is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

 

- Dante Rossetti

 

From the Schwartzenegger action film, "Commando", a quick trailer...

 

 

...the score chosen for the end rolling credits was this next exciting composition...

 

The Power Station, "We Fight For Love" ;

 

 

Interesting factoid: When Robert Palmer left Duran Duran's Power Station Project, Michael Des Barres was chosen to replace him on lead vocals.

 

Michael Des Barres is also an actor best known as MacGyver's arch nemesis, Murdock, in that 7 season series and he hosts a very popular podcast called 'Little Steven's Underground Garage'.

 

American Bandstand 1987 interview with Michael Des Barres ;

 

 

Des Barres also founded the band, 'Checkered Past' in 1982. I believe he is in his 70s and still very active.

 

Michael Des Barres, "Somebody Up There Likes Me" ; 

 

 

Edited April 24 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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"If you ended up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."

 

- Frank Zappa

 

Frank Zappa, "Black Napkins" ;

 

 

Edited April 25 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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Sleepy LaBEEF (Thomas Paulsley LaBeff) Rockabilly guitarist and deep-voiced singer, probably the only rockabilly basso profundo. Family name originally LaBoeuf; he was the last of ten children in a farming family, got his nickname at school because of droopy eyelids. Sang in church, heard hillbilly music and R&B on the radio, traded a rifle for a guitar at 14.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..page 722

 

Sleepy LaBEEF, "Boogie Woogie Country Man" ;

 

 

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KIDD, Johnny and The Pirates. Singer, songwriter Kidd (Frederick Heath, Willesden, London) led seminal UK rock'n'roll band. Played guitar and banjo during the skiffle era, formed group 'Freddie and The Nutters' for local gigs; wore eyepatch over defective eye, changed style to rock'n'roll, name of group to Captain Kidd and The Pirates.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..page 693

 

Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, "Shakin' All Over" ;

 

 

Edited April 26 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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Alan Jackson, successful neo-trad, country singer of the 90s, songwriter and guitarist. Down-to-earth-performer worked in various jobs (drove fork-lift at K-Mart, waited on tables), moved to Nashville in '85 and nearly starved working small clubs. Demo tape landed him first country act signing to Arista Nashville in '89; debut single 'Blue Blooded Woman' followed by chart-topping 'Here In The Real World' and a long run of hit albums and singles.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..page 621

 

Alan Jackson, "Blue Blooded Woman" ;

 

 

Alan Jackson, "Here In The Real World" ;

 

 

Edited April 26 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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Van Heusen, Jimmy, songwriter, one of the most successful of all, and the only person, someone said, Frank Sinatra actually wanted to be. Son of a building contractor, he played cornet and/or announced on the radio as a student, chosing his stage name from a shirt advert (but Chester Babcock lived on as the Bob Hope character in the Hope/Crosby 'Road' movies, all but one of which had songs written by Van Heusen, and in the sly Sinatra aside, "This one's for Chester"). He played piano in a brothel, studied at Syracuse U. , first successful song was 'It's The Dreamer In Me'.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..page 1327

 

Playing Van Heusen's composition is Martha Tilton, "It's The Dreamer In Me" ;

 

 

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"The walls are the publishers of the poor."

 

- Eduardo Galeano

 

Diana Krall covers Billy Joel's, "Just The Way You Are" ;

 

 

Edited April 26 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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Billie Holiday (Elinore Harris) jazz singer. She heard records by Bessie Smith as a child, then Louis Armstrong was her biggest influence, but she owed little to earlier artists: she was the first and is still regarded as the greatest of jazz singers, if the essence of jazz singing is to make the familiar sound fresh, and to make lyric come alive with personal meaning. Her father, Clarence Holiday, played banjo and guitar for Fletcher Henderson.

 

The speakeasies did not have sound systems; she sang the same song at each table, improvising each chorus; John Hammond heard her and produced her first records.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Modern Music..page 588

 

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, "New Orleans" ;

 

 

Edited April 26 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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Iron Maiden, UK heavy metal group formed in the midst of punk. Maiden have a happy knack of scoring hit singles, with twelve top 40 entries in UK: highest was 'Run To The Hills'.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..page 619

 

Iron Maiden, "Run To The Hills" ;

 

 

Edited April 26 by Avoiceinthecrowd

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Marshal Tucker Band, country-rock band formed in 1971 in South Carolina. With other Capricorn label bands, they campaigned for Jimmy Carter and played at the White House after he won.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..pages 839, and 840

 

Marshal Tucker Band, "Can't You See" ;

 

 

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Todd Rundgren, Philadelphia PA singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Inspired by the British Invasion and by earlier groups like The Ventures, he acquired a guitar and formed Woody's Truckstop; left within a year to display burgeoning talents in the Nazz, named from a Lord Buckley routine. He is one of USA pop's enigmatic all-rounders.

 

- Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music..page 1132 

 

Todd Rundgren, "Hello It's Me" ;

 

 

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"There is a very small village in Wales in the Black Mountains near England called Hay-on-Wye. In the early 1960s a young man names Richard Booth opened a secondhand bookshop, eventually bought an old castle for the same purpose, and soon other entrepreneurs did the same. By 1988 the Annual Hay Festival began to showcase the wares of the town's booksellers, primarily antiquarian and used-book dealers. Today it is known worldwide as "The Town of Books," and it's no wonder: this little hamlet of 1,300 people currently boasts 39 bookshops."

 

- Reader's Digest Knowledge

 

Badfinger, "Day After Day"