Some decent tunes !

This song kind of sprang to mind earlier.  So I thought I would share it with you.  

@zand Hope this one cheers you up - it's a very catchy song to sing to yourself and much more entertaining than the original version:

And one for Eddie's resident troll, Shootin' Blanks:

Tell me this isn't some of the weirdest music you've heard - Ivo Papasov.

I videotaped him decades ago from a WOMAD or Jools Holland programme, or something. Eddie's Duduk music made me think of him, in a very indirect way, and I discovered hordes of his stuff on YouTube.



Now I need a lie down. Have you ANY idea what the time signatures are? And the drummer (Salif Ali) makes Keith Moon sound like Ringo Starr.

You have one hell of a memory Chris. I used to have a musical instrument business. Other than a Church Organ I have owned just about every instrument under the sun. I have played many, all extremely poorly. I fancied playing the Duduk and lashed out on the most expensive one I could find, what a waste time and money. It very near croaked me trying to play it, by jingo you need one hell of a set of lungs to play that bugger. A fantastic track featuring one of the best voices I have ever heard. BTW Graham had a bit part as an extra playing the Shepard.

Eddie wrote:BTW Graham had a bit part as an extra playing the Shepard. 

Yes the traditional Shepherd cannot handle the special breed of Fierce Armenian Fighting Sheep  Hence the need to employ a Shepard

BTW  Eddie had a bit part too as the old woman and he did not require any makeup. well he is a bit of an old woman anyway 

Indy51 wrote:And one for Eddie's resident troll, Shootin' Blanks:

Bugger I'd forgot about that one would have been Ideal for the troll, but alas due to some comments from real people we've decided the troll's posts will go straight in the bin.

Now there's a line in Indy's song which reminded me of this one.

Eddie wrote:You have one hell of a memory Chris. I used to have a musical instrument business. Other than a Church Organ I have owned just about every instrument under the sun. I have played many, all extremely poorly. I fancied playing the Duduk and lashed out on the most expensive one I could find, what a waste time and money. It very near croaked me trying to play it, by jingo you need one hell of a set of lungs to play that bugger. A fantastic track featuring one of the best voices I have ever heard. BTW Graham had a bit part as an extra playing the Shepard.

Not that good a memory, it was on your blog earlier. Yes she has an amazingly pure voice, the Bulgarian singers have much more dissonance.

Here's Iqbrama again with a different accordion player, when they were much younger



quieter and more folksy but still those strange Islamic sounding scales and bizarre rhythms

Well, with all the meteor talk recently, have a listen to this:

Check this out, a fantastic sound track by ABBA but an unusual twist. I know lads, we have all thought we had scored, but how wrong could we be. A great video well worth a watch.

Eddie wrote:Check this out, a fantastic sound track by ABBA but an unusual twist. I know lads, we have all thought we had scored, but how wrong could we be. A great video well worth a watch.

Reminds me of this song from way back,when I was young and still on a sharp learning curve. Hormones, always ruling us. testosterone then, Insulin now.......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDvCLAT8hg

"Testerone then, insulin now" lol ! love it.

There's a train of thought with this one. I was just chatting to someone and the Album title that this song was from sprang to mind.

I found some more Isabel Bayrakdarian on YouTube, in fact a LOT more.



Talking of stunning women with amazing voices, I had Sandy Denny and Matty Groves replaying inside my head earlier, here it is for real



Takes me back over 40 years

Just put this on up on the blog the singer was just sixteen when this was recorded an amazing voice from one so young.

zand wrote: There's a train of thought with this one.  I was just chatting to someone and the Album title that this song was from sprang to mind.    

Nothing wrong with a bit of 'Reckless' from time to time...

"Nothing wrong with a bit of 'Reckless' from time to time..."

When I was young I was reckless on many occasions. Now reckless is a battered cod and a half portion of chips once a month at my favourite fish and chip shop on the South Coast. I sometimes say to Jan, how sad are we, when these days a small bag of crisps between the two of us is now decadent behaviour.

I'm sooooooo upset and disappointed. I had tickets to see Nickelback in November, but they've cancelled the rest of their tour to give Chad Kroeger's voice a rest.

graham64 wrote:Just put this on up on the blog the singer was just sixteen when this was recorded an amazing voice from one so young.

WOW!

I've been ploughing though a whole bunch of stuff from Nightmusic on YouTube and realising most of the musicians I love are now dead.

chris c wrote:

graham64 wrote:Just put this on up on the blog the singer was just sixteen when this was recorded an amazing voice from one so young.

WOW!

I've been ploughing though a whole bunch of stuff from Nightmusic on YouTube and realising most of the musicians I love are now dead.

It's an age thing Chris, it's the same with many of the musicians and singers that I grew up have passed on, sad but an inevitable fact of life

graham64 wrote:

chris c wrote:

graham64 wrote:Just put this on up on the blog the singer was just sixteen when this was recorded an amazing voice from one so young.

WOW!

I've been ploughing though a whole bunch of stuff from Nightmusic on YouTube and realising most of the musicians I love are now dead.

It's an age thing Chris, it's the same with many of the musicians and singers that I grew up have passed on, sad but an inevitable fact of life

True

I remember watching the last Pink Floyd live concert where they reunited and thinking "who are these fat old guys and why are they playing Pink Floyd songs?" Now they're falling off the twig.

Twenty minutes of sheer glory

After being unable to do our usual Saturday pup crawl due to atrocious weather, thunder and lightning and heavy showers I thought this song would be most appropriate