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My thanks to each and every one of you for taking time to visit this blog and vote on my last Battle Of The Bands contest which occurred [link> HERE. I featured vocal performances by The Lennon Sisters and Andy Williams of the song Theme From 'A Summer Place', the Percy Faith Orchestra's instrumental masterpiece which owned Billboard's #1 spot for nine weeks in 1960.
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Andy pretty well stomped The Sisters and I realize in hindsight that I should have used The Four Lads as my male artist in this match-up. Oh, well. Hindsight is 20/20 and BOTB is... HARD!
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Most voters seemed to like this Battle and had a difficult time deciding on which of the two artists to vote for. I felt exactly the same way! I've listened to both recordings about ten times each and I still struggle in deciding which one I prefer. In the final analysis, although I love vocal harmonizing (and The Lennon Sisters do it beautifully), I think I lean slightly toward the Andy Williams rendition. And when I say "slightly", I'm talking about a 51%-49% difference.
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FINAL TALLY:
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The Lennon Sisters = 4 votes
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Andy Williams = 9 votes
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In the original Battle blog bit, I promised to tell you a short story about Dianne "Dee Dee" Lennon. Dee Dee was / is a very good friend of my Aunt Jane. I think their friendship may have stemmed from their association with St. Mark Catholic Church in Venice "Dogtown", California.
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Years ago, my Grandparents went to renew their wedding vows -- I think it was maybe their 40th or 50th year of marriage. The ceremony at the church went great, but there was some sort of mix-up that occurred at the hall where we were supposed to hold the reception. I don't recall all the details, but someone at the hall dropped the ball and we found out, suddenly, at the very last moment, that there was no place to go for the reception!
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DEE DEE LENNON TO THE RESCUE!!
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Aunt Jane's good friend, Dee Dee, on the spur of the moment, offered the use of her home as the site for the reception. With no notice whatsoever, Dee Dee Lennon suggested that everyone meet at her home. And so probably about 40 persons, in an impromptu wedding reception, descended upon Dee Dee's house and celebrated my Grandparents' renewed wedding vows.
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Talk about a person of generous spirit and a huge heart!! Make no mistake about it, there truly are some "real" Christians out there, and Dee Dee Lennon is definitely amongst them! I'll never forget what a beautiful thing she did to save the day on no notice at all.
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Thanks again, all y'all, for participating in this BOTB contest, and I expect to have another one posted here on September 1st, so please return and let's have deja vu fun all over again!
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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What a kind thing for Dee Dee Lennon to do. I had to go to previous post to listen because I had no idea this music had lyrics. I'd only heard the instrumental version used in the movie.
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Janie
Howdy, JANIE! ~
DeleteDee Dee will always be a real Christian hero in my memory... for as long as it... as it... uhm... for as long as it... LASTS!
Long time, no yak, Janie! What's new in yer 'hood?
Here in my 'hood, I'm still the youngest geezer in the park. (I have a bumper sticker on my wheelchair that says, "Straight Outta The Mobile Home Park!")
True Story: I don't really have a wheelchair, but there IS a guy in my MHP who has one of those electric battery-charged "mobility chairs" with that very bumper sticker on the back of it. It always makes me chuckle.
I'm doing well because I never fail to take my daily meds: Apricot Seed Kernels (anti-cancer), granular Soy Lecithin (anti-heart attacks & strokes), and some medicine called "whiskey", which smells bad and tastes even worse, but it's supposed to kill off everything that escapes the Apricot Seed Kernels and the Soy Lecithin. (So far, so good!)
Actually, until I went to put this Battle together, I also didn't know (or didn't reweeber) that this melody had lyrics. I prefer it as an instrumental, because the words just don't match the "Goldenshadow" feeling I get from the melody, but nevertheless, I truly did enjoy both of these recordings.
Unless Uncle Scam has "harrested" me and then kilt me before then, I plan to post a new Battle on September 1st. You oughta (aka otter) return then and submit a genuine "two cents FUR the kitty" vote.
I done been had tryin' to decide if my next Battle oughta (aka otter) be about my "James Dean" stage in Hollyweird...
[Link> ME in my "James Dean" stage, circa 1979
...or if I should use two songs that I was introduced to about two years ago in the bar that ends at the bottom of [Link> THESE STAIRS.
Since James Dean died in September, I've decided to go with him on September 1st. And I have a pretty goot, humorous, self-deprecating story to go along with that picture of me that I linked to above.
So, I invite you come back to vote in the first week of September, if you wanna see me poke some fun at myself and... if you wanna hear some really rockin' Rock songs! My next Battle won't disappoint no one (or so says this medicine called "whiskey" that is yakkin' so loudly in my ears at the moment!)
[Impo'tant Link> ~ Stephen
DogGtor of Alcohology &
King of Inebriation Nation
I started a reply and it disappeared. I'll try again: I'm afraid it must be said, Mr. McCarthy: You were no James Dean. I've always thought of the theme from A Summer Place as haunting and hopeful at the same time. I agree that the lyrics don't match the music. Nothing in particular new in my hood after a difficult beginning to the year. I still blog some.
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>>... Mr. McCarthy: You were no James Dean.
Oh, but don't I know it!
I was always more like Kristy McNichol (even used to work on her show 'Family'), but times were different then and few of us felt comfortable openly speaking about that.
~ D-FensDogG
'Loyal American Underground'
I was trying to think of any other musical pieces that are analogous to The Percy Faith version of "A Summer Place." It is hard to come up with many in modern music.
ReplyDeleteIn classical music, I would say A Summer Place has the emotional impact of Pachelbel's Canon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0
or Bach’s “Prelude No. 1 in C Major”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xglOaDKKUI
and Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRWdNn_nLk
Perhaps they do not with you, but all of those classical pieces leave me with a sense of saudade.
I would not bump A-S-P up quite into all that lofty territory, but certainly close. Your saudade/goldenshadow is exactly right. What other compositions can transport you to another time and place and leave you both happy and melancholy, sated any hungering? Perhaps I’m waxing a bit too eloquent about this thang, but A Summer Place is a POWERFUL 2:24 of music. There are some very powerful modern compositions - most of them movie music - like themes from “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Wind and the Lion” and “Larry of Arabia” heh heh. But those don’t bring on goldenshadow. Well, maybe Lawrence of A a little bit.
The Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” is one rock song that brings me some goldenshadow. So does “Drive All Night” by Bruce Springsteen. But nothing remotely CLOSE to A-S-P.
Are there rock or jazz pieces that do the trick for you? Maybe “There’ll Be No Next Time” by Louis Prima?
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I just discovered a few nights back that Jackie Mason was born in Sheboygan. What a hoot! My favorite standup comedian.
This was a terrific comment. (And you even managed to get me to listen to Classical music, you sneaky punk!)
>>... I was trying to think of any other musical pieces that are analogous to The Percy Faith version of "A Summer Place." It is hard to come up with many in modern music.
Actually, there are quite a few for me, but they don't all rate the same on the Goldenshadow Intensity Scale.
Last night, while trying to go to sleep, I kept thinking about this comment of yours and things I wanted to say. So I must have gotten outta bed, turned the light back on again, and jotted down a new note about 10 times!
First on my To-Do list was to try to define Goldenshadow as succinctly as possible. I could cut it down even more, but I came up with this:
GOLDENSHADOW is a nostalgic feeling of simultaneous pleasure and a pang of pain while contemplating the unobtainable. It's ONE feeling comprised of two contradictory feelings melded together.
Before I forget to say this... there is some musical instrument that is sometimes used in Classical music (while typing this, I just now heard it again in a song by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66) and this instrument, and maybe just a certain note or two played on this instrument, INSTANTLY ramps my Goldenshadow "up to eleven!" I've been trying to figure this out FOR YEARS, and with your knowledge of Classical music / instruments, I think you are just the friend I need to finally answer this question for me. In a future Email, I will point out the exact spot in a couple of songs where this instrument plays a note, and you can tell me wot ahm hearin', eh?
>>... Pachelbel's Canon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0
or Bach’s “Prelude No. 1 in C Major”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xglOaDKKUI
and Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRWdNn_nLk
Perhaps they do not with you, but all of those classical pieces leave me with a sense of saudade.
OK, I definitely heard it right away in Pachelbel's Canon. And I think I've heard that before... maybe in a movie? Could it have been used in either 'Ordinary People' or 'Dead Poet's Society'? I'm sure I've heard that before and I really liked it!
The other two did not induce any Goldenshadow in me at all. But this is a very personal, if also fairly universal, experience, and what creates it in you might not always do so in me, and vice versa.
I don't know Diddly (or even "Bo") about Classical music, but there is one Classical piece that kicks in Goldenshadow for me at a solid "A+" on the Intensity Scale. I recall mentioning this recording to you in an Email within the last year or two.
I was eating a quesadilla at a small Mexican fast food place at The Disneyland Hotel on April 11, 1995. Right nearby was a large wharf where they used to have a lot of kiosks selling souvenirs and trinkets. (The wharf AND the fast food place are now ancient history!) One kiosk was playing and selling these Dan Gibson's 'Solitudes' compact discs, and from where I was sitting, I could hear this recording...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inEJLoS51r0
I had NEVER heard that composition before, but it cranked up my Goldenshadow to A+ immediately. So I walked right over there to find out what they were playing, and I bought that CD right on the spot! To this day, it's the ONLY Classical(-light) CD in my entire music collection! But that was an instantaneous moment of recognizing Goldenshadow, and to this day, that recording would be on my 'Top 8 Goldenshadow Music' list. I think the ocean sounds actually ADD to the feeling for me.
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Delete>>... What other compositions can transport you to another time and place and leave you both happy and melancholy, sated and hungering? ... Perhaps I’m waxing a bit too eloquent about this thang, but A Summer Place is a POWERFUL 2:24 of music. There are some very powerful modern compositions - most of them movie music - like themes from “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Wind and the Lion” and “Larry of Arabia” heh heh. But those don’t bring on goldenshadow. Well, maybe Lawrence of A a little bit.
Actually, most of "Larry" is too "cinematic" sounding, too "loud & exciting" to elicit Goldenshadow in me. HOWEVER, that first quieter, calmer, more melodic segment definitely has Goldenshadow quality in it -- not totally unlike my Dan Gibson recording above.
>>... The Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” is one rock song that brings me some goldenshadow. So does “Drive All Night” by Bruce Springsteen. But nothing remotely CLOSE to A-S-P.
The Dream Academy song didn't do it for me. And neither did 'Drive All Night' - which I have heard several countless times, since I owned that LP in the early 1980s - BUT(!)... I definitely DO understand how the Springsteen song could create Goldenshadow in a person. It doesn't in me, but I ABBALOULY understand why that one works for you, and others. I get it, for sure!
GOLDENSHADOW: For me, the most powerful moments of Goldenshadow occur in real life -- just being outdoors at a certain time and feeling it well-up inside me. As I mentioned in that old blog bit, GOLDENSHADOW: “THE STAB, THE PANG, THE INCONSOLABLE LONGING”, "the autumn part of Autumn Days" is the ultimate Goldenshadow experience for me.
But there are some other places where I can find it. If it can make tears in my eyes, then it's Max-Goldenshadow.
The final chapter in the children's book 'THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER' by A.A. Milne is the single most Goldenshadow thing in the history of English literature.
That final freeze-frame shot at the very end of the movie 'A LITTLE ROMANCE' is excruciatingly Goldenshadow to me. It pretty much rips the heart out of my chest and feeds it back to me, along with...
...the last 10 or 15 minutes of the movie 'TOM SAWYER' (1973), which reduced me to tears about 3 weeks ago. I had to guzzle some Wild Turkey 101 and watch 'The Quiet Man' immediately afterwards, for fear of losing my 'Man Card'.
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Delete>>... Are there rock or jazz pieces that do the trick for you? Maybe “There’ll Be No Next Time” by Louis Prima?
Ahh, that's a great Q! HA! No Prima.
When it comes to music, the Goldenshadow can be simply the melody alone, which speaks to the soul (e.g., 'A Summer Place', Schubert's 'Serenade', Toshi Hinata's 'Sarah's Crime', etc.). Or it can be the lyrics alone which cause the feeling. And sometimes, the melody AND the lyrics work in tandem to deliver the maximum crushing Goldenshadow feeling.
I have a very, VERY old 90-minute cassette tape I put together eons ago which I titled 'INNOCENCE LOST', and (as the title suggests) it contains many Pop songs (most of it is not quite "Rock") that give me Goldenshadow, for a variety of reasons.
Here's an excerpt of some of the songs on that cassette:
Hot Fun In The Summertime (Sly & The Family Stone)
-- The very first song on the tape, and one of the most "Rock"-ing.
Saturday In The Park (Chicago)
-- The second song on Side A.
Also included are...
'Theme From the movie Endless Summer' (The Sandals)
'Summer' (War)
'Caroline, No' (The Beach Boys)
-- Which, when I was a teenager, I would listen to in my darkened bedroom through headphones and... cry.
'Old Days' (Chicago)
'Reminiscing' (Little River Band)
'Holdin' On To Yesterday' (Ambrosia)
'Walking In Rhythm' (The Blackbyrds)
-- This one is a major mystery to me! There's nuttin' about the lyrics that is Goldenshadow, and I have NO personal memories associated with this song, BUT... something about the song -- the melody and/or tempo and/or harmonies? -- induces max-Goldenshadow in me. I can't even begin to understand / explain it. It's evidently a "soul thing", a "ghost in the machine" kinda thing.
'Like To Get To Know You' (Spanky & Our Gang)
-- This one has a strong "autumn in Autumn" memory associated with it.
'Softly, As I Leave You' (Bobby Darin)
There are so, So, SO many!
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DeleteWhat's the 'TOP 8'?
Well, that's subject to change at any time -- ANY TIME AT ALL! But today, right now, at this moment, I'll go with the following 8, which are pretty much guaranteed to be, at the very least, on my 'Top 10' list until the day I die. Do YOU hear Goldenshadow in any of these?
8: Schubert's 'Serenade' (Dan Gibson's Solitudes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inEJLoS51r0
7: The Shadow Of Your Smile (Astrud Gilberto)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAx0n_1RK2k
6: Photographs And Memories (Jim Croce)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BKMdp4wZa4
5: Pagan Streams (Van Morrison)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pP5OqC2eNQ
4: Christmas Auld Lang Syne (Bobby Darin)
-- Every single December 25th, this is ALWAYS the last Christmas song I play just before going to bed. On December 26th, I usually start Rocking out with something like Van Halen or David & David or Danny Gatton -- just to shift gears out of the Goldenshadow mood of the Christmas holiday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTzkQanTgFM
3: Let's Go Away For Awhile (The Beach Boys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEoKf52h9ok
-- This is an AMAZING piece of music! This cuts right down to my soul and leaves a mark!!
2: The Times Of Your Life (Paul Anka)
-- This is almost guaranteed by God to never drop lower than #2 on this list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxanSrNdN8
1: Magic Journeys (a defunct 3-D movie Disneyland attraction soundtrack)
-- Just say the word "Goldenshadow" and THIS relatively unknown song is almost always going to be the first thing that comes into my mind. Why is this Goldenshadow to me? Well... start with the melody, the other-wordly lyrics, the actual (dead & gone) Disneyland attraction, and all of my personal memories associated with it. 'Magic Journeys' is highly unlikely to ever appear any lower than #1 on my 'Top 10 Goldenshadow Music' list. This one is actually SO SPIRITUAL to me that I believe it harkens back to my life in that "other" realm, BEFORE my physical body even existed! (Yeah, I realize this sounds bizarre but... "Placid O'Domingo" don't give a damn! Conformity can kiss me keister! "Maverick" 'til the day i die! ;^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKWok68RME
Man, I put MORE WORK & TIME into THIS comment response than I put into most of my actual blog bits! But this comment of yours was the very reason why I'm "Still Bloggin' After All These Years". I sincerely thank you, McBrother!!
~ D-FensDogG
of The Goldenshadow Club
{*Posted on behalf of Sheboyganboy Six -- aka Sixgun McIthchyfinger, No.6, Sixgun McRustytrigger, The Amazing Sixwell, and at least 6 other variations on the 6-theme.*}
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That was one Krakatoa of an answer to my prodding!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCTesV_3afU
I want to say off the bat that I don’t know if anybody else is enjoying exploring this concept, but it has provided me with lots of entertainment! Thanks, Stephen Tiberius McCarthy… er, Thoreau.
I’m not sure I can organize a flowing response to you, but I can fling thoughts at this comment… like “monkey throw poo, not dart.” This will have lots more links included. Watch them or not! I listened to all of yours tonight; but even so it may just be you and me listening to all this shizzle!
A list of observations:
A) I am personally much more likely to sense goldenshadow listening to a piece WITHOUT lyrics than one with lyrics. To me, usually lyrics get in the way. Occasionally they add to the GS. You have provided a couple of examples in your top 8 list, like Paul Anka and the Magic Journeys theme.
B) some of the examples in pop/rock that you listed (without the links) elicit saudade, but not most; some I had not thought of but as soon as you mentioned them I thought “of COURSE!” The Blackbyrds song does for me, too… but for what reason remains a mystery. I have deduced that you have more songs that give you goldenshadow than I do.
C) you: “for me, the most powerful moments of Goldenshadow occur in real life -- just being outdoors at a certain time and feeling it well-up inside me.”
Yes, I agree. Certain places, often a time of day, a temperature, and the WIND. Sometimes a smell does it. For example, I have a tiny Tiny TINY bottle of Halo shampoo with about an inch of it left. It is from no later than 1962. A whiff ‘o DAT and I am spinning down down into the abyss of introspection.
D) I am not going to think of movies or books that do it, even though you mentioned some. Too deep a rabbit hole for me and this is already one heck of a hole!
E) my takeaway from your top 8 list:
Your number 8: Serenade - yes
7: Shadow of your Smile - yes
6: Photographs and Memories - yes (in fact , other Croce induces GS too)
5: Pagan Streams - YES (though not as much as for you, Brother!) (and several other Van the Man songs do it for me too)
4: Christmas Auld Lang Syne - no. But other Auld Lang Synes DO give me that sense. Here is another example where I think lyrics add to saudade. After all, it is meant to be song of endings and beginnings and forgiveness.
3: Let’s Go Away for Awhile - sadly, no. I get nuttin from this one. But another Beach Boys song DOES do it a lot (see below)
2: Time of Your Life - yes
1: Magic Journeys Theme - nope. Sorry! I can SEE why it would do it for you because of all the reasons you mention, but for me no. There are lots of other visuals, sounds and even bits of music associated with Disney or D-land that induce GS, however. I spent so much of my childhood and teens in the park. It was a magical and innocent time, full of dreams. After all, There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, right?
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DeleteF) Your list got me adding to mine (no need to listen to all of each song, but you could dip in if you want to and remind yourself of the songs before blowing outta there!):
1) Surfer Girl by the Beach Boys. The way they sing this almost sounds like crying, and I remember hearing it on the radio when it came out; even as a kid of 7 or 8 it made me very emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHNcMs8W660
2) Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 - LOTS
Pretty World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoN6tGEKjCM
Night and Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfoIWfe2UHA
Like a Lover does it for me BIG TIME!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF4pN19mXws
3) Livingston Taylor i will be in love with you. BOY, this one hits me in the emotional groin. You’ll hate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-lhmoXnRs
G) Finally, I forgot two of the classical pieces that hit me hardest. One of them I actually mentioned in that very first Big Bitch forum where I met you all those years ago. Maybe i can get you to listen to some classical here!
1) First, Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto (this is a version by an excellent pianist who also has big boobs… just for you) You don’t have to listen to the whole thing, but you’ll soon see why it gifts me with GS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B2tXs8CX6I
That was from the middle of the piece. Sometime you should go listen to 2 minutes of the brooding beginning. (NOTE: All Russian music DRIPS with goldenshadow. All the major Russian composers - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Borodin - were melancholy, sad, and guilty. The Russian national sense that life is little more than woe and burden comes out with all of ‘em!)
And finally the one from my Amazon comment:
Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, 2nd Movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57YPRPAVu4
If you can make it to 3 minutes in you’ll get a decent sense of it. If you can make it all the way through, all the better. It builds on the lonely and melancholy theme to a louder, more hopeful place, then at the end the melody realizes the futility of hope and consoles itself to slowing back down to the sad and solitary feel of the beginning. This piece, more than any mentioned by me or you or anyone on God’s green earth gives me goldenshadow, as you have deemed it. Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle! I am often in tears by the time it is over.
Sixgun McRustytrigger
PS - looking forward to the quest for the mystery instrument in Pachelbel’s Canon, etc., to see if I can figure it out. I can say without question that there are several instruments used commonly 200-300 years ago that bring on GS more easily for me than what is used now. The French horn, the cello, the viola all have a poignant sound.
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>>... it may just be you and me listening to all this shizzle!
No doubt, no doubt.
>>... The Blackbyrds song does for me, too… but for what reason remains a mystery.
The other night, after typing that I have no idea WHY this Blackbyrds song elicits Goldenshadow in me, it got me to thinking further on it and questioning it deeper. At one point, I thought I had it figured out -- I think I had it mentally tied in with my glorious Summer of '74 -- but looking it up, I found it was actually from early 1975. Close but no cigar.
>>... I have a tiny Tiny TINY bottle of Halo shampoo with about an inch of it left. It is from no later than 1962. A whiff ‘o DAT and I am spinning down down into the abyss of introspection.
WOW! That is SO COOL!!
I've never even heard of Halo shampoo, and now I'm curious to know what it smells like.
A scent for me would be that classic suntan lotion, which immediately propels me back to Lifeguard Station #26 in Santa Monica, in the Summer of 1973... '74... '75... '76.
Goldenshadow product & commercial for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuaStLKaXuQ
It sounds like we can add Van Morrison to the 'The Great Musical Divide Bridge' list, along with Tom Petty, Louis Prima, and Taylor Swift. (Oops! That was a "bridge too far", huh?)
>>... 3: Let’s Go Away for Awhile - sadly, no. I get nuttin from this one.
smh.
This one has *that* instrument (maybe a cello) that sends me. This entire recording propels me back to sunny Garden Grove, and it's 1966; I am running around the neighborhood barefooted, or in what we used to call "thongs". I'm Tom Sawyer again.
Here's the URL once more, and the instrument (sound) comes in right at 1:29 and continues to about 1:32.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEoKf52h9ok
What is that I'm hearing? Whatever that sound is, it cranks the already soaring Goldenshadow right "up to eleven" for me.
>>... After all, There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, right?
Right. Beginning in late 2029, unless I miss my guess.
I LOVE 'Surfer Girl'. I definitely "get" that one. But my favorite Beach Boys vocal of all time, which also brings the Goldenshadow, is THE WARMTH OF THE SUN. Harmonizing gets no better'n that right there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvzr2IT_AiQ
~ D-FensDogG
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Delete>>... Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66:
Pretty World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoN6tGEKjCM
love, Love, LOVE it! Own it and play it often.
Without a doubt, Sergio Mendes & GARDEN GROVE '66 is on our 'The Great Musical Divide Bridge' list!!
'Night & Day' -- It's not really a Goldenshadow song for me, but I still dig it BIG time and it has *literally* been on my 'BOTB TO-DO' list for several years!! Not kidding.
'Like a Lover' -- Love it, own it, play it often. It doesn't exactly send me to Goldenshadow, but I *FULLY* understand how & why it might send you to Goldenshadow.
In fact, now that I'm listening to it for the 201st time, and really focusing on it with "Goldenshadow" in mind, I will adjust my remark above to add: That instrumental section that kicks in right at 1:56 is massively Goldenshadowed!! And, what a coincidence that Goldenshadow and Saudade are essentially synonymous, and we find so much of it in a group that originated in Brazil. (Coincidence?: Only a 66-I.Q.er might think so.)
Sidesnot... er-- I mean, Sidnote: I deliberately made a 'Top 10 Goldenshadow Music' list in my last comment that only went up to 8, instead of the traditional 10, because I *KNEW* I was going to forget some tunes that would literally murder me for having forgotten them in the moment.
Listening to Sergio Mendes & Garden Grove '66, I was reminded of a few other instrumentals that could definitely make my Top 10 list. These 3 instrumentals come from an album that is unquestionably one of my 'Top 10 Favorites' & one of my 'Top 10 Most Frequently Played'. See if any of these make "Goldenshadow" for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8nOeDFOw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g51crRcPJ8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6kT1wFMtM8
EXTRA BONUS TRACK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JfS90u-1g8
Mancini was a G.G.! (Genuine Genius!)
With 3 and maybe even 4 songs that have Top 10 Goldenshadow potential on an album of just 12 tracks , it's pretty easy to see why this is one of my very, Very, VERY favorite (and most often played) albums of all time!
>>... Livingston Taylor i will be in love with you. BOY, this one hits me in the emotional groin. You’ll hate it.
Ahh, from The James Taylor Gang...
No, I don't hate it, but... I don't really care for his high-pitched singing. At least he's not RUSHing to the top of the kitty-cat scale. But, you're right, it doesn't and never will give me Goldenshadow. I feel that it's too uptempo and... "happy"?
Uptempo is not a valid argument, I confess, because there ARE some fairly uptempo songs that can give me Goldenshadow. Chicago's 'Saturday In The Park' is a very good example. However, I will also say that in the case of 'Saturday...', I have a TON of real-life memories that I personally associate with that song, which explains the Goldenshadow aspect pretty much to the fullest. And also, 'Saturday...', as much as I dearly love it, would not have a chance of making my all-time 'Top 10 Goldenshadow Music' list.
~ D-FensDogG
Part 3 of 3 coming tomorrow... God willing.
Part 3 Of 4 (really) :
DeleteGod wasn't willing. I'm genuinely sorry that it's taken me THIS LONG to write and post my Part 3. Damn, time flies when you're... getting old!!
Man, I have been so busy with things - like working on designs for my T-shirt & bumper sticker business, etc., etc. - and the clock has definitely gone into "triple time" since I got... aged like "fine wine". How can we slow the clock back down to normal again? Any idears?
>>... 1) First, Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto (this is a version by an excellent pianist who also has big boobs… just for you) ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B2tXs8CX6I ... (NOTE: All Russian music DRIPS with goldenshadow. All the major Russian composers - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Borodin - were melancholy, sad, and guilty. The Russian national sense that life is little more than woe and burden comes out with all of ‘em!)
Who do the Russians think they are, Israelites?!
Yes, I can see why that gives you Goldenshadow. In places, it reminds me of that recording of Schubert's 'Serenade', which gives me E-Ticket level GS. But this doesn't do it for me like 'Serenade' does. I "get it", but it's not my "top of the list, head of the heap, king of the hill".
*A SMALL-SMALL SHOUT-OUT
TO SMALL-BREASTED WOMENS*
As a natural-born Maverick and an INTJ, one might guess that "big boobs" wouldn't impress me. Honestly, most men's fascination with "big boobs" has always been a mystery to me. I have NEVER understood it.
Let's see... the woman already has a butt on her lower backside, so why would I want her to also have a butt (of a slightly different kind) on her upper frontside? How many butts do I need my woman to have? One on the lower backside is enough for this Maverick INTJ. On the upper frontside, I'm much more interested in seeing the subtlety of - let's call them - "lines" and "contours". THAT'S where the REAL body art is (and by "body art", I DON'T mean tattoos... God forbid!)
The figure that Daphne Moon had, BEFORE she became pregnant, knocks me out, like it did Niles. IMO, any female chest bigger than Daphne Moon's is less, not more. There is a great deal of truth to the saying "less is more". Or to put it another way: Alert puppies are always much cuter than massive Great Danes that are just lyin' around sleeping on the front porch.
Take heart, all you small-chested womens, because there ARE some guys out here who really appreciate and prefer those "lines" and "contours" over gigantic milk-butts! Some of us guys are very much attracted to the smaller, subtler art. Where is it written that two hanging pound cakes are automatically preferable to two nicely formed, gravity-defying cupcakes?!
Continued...
Part 4 Of 4 (Yep, still really) :
Delete>>... And finally the one from my Amazon comment:
Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, 2nd Movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57YPRPAVu4
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>>... If you can make it to 3 minutes in you’ll get a decent sense of it. If you can make it all the way through, all the better. ... This piece, more than any mentioned by me or you or anyone on God’s green earth gives me goldenshadow, as you have deemed it. Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle! I am often in tears by the time it is over.
Out of respect for you and your opinion, I listened to it 3 times all the way through. I do understand why it gives you GS. For one thing, the violin is one of those instruments that seem to have a natural GS advantage. (I really dig that violin sound that kicks in right at 2:04.)
While listening to it one of the three times that I did so, I got mental images out of nowhere. The first was scenes from the early (mo' Russian) portion of the animated movie 'AMERICAN POP' (1981). If you've not seen it, you should. And later I thought of FAE's all-time favorite movie 'A BEAUTIFUL LIFE'.
To be honest, overall, this music strikes me, personally, more as "memories of misery" than it does of Goldenshadow. It doesn't take my mind back to happy times gone forever (the sound of the ice cream truck coming down the 1966 Garden Grove street), or the look and feeling of "the autumn part of an Autumn day". But, HEY!... this is all completely subjective and the most personal of personal feelings, so who's to say anything? We are all right, and we are all wrong, and that's... ALL RIGHT!!
Nappy read our comments and he said that we are both remiss in not having mentioned this:
MEMORIES -- Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RwPPx3Gjy0
I actually HAD thought of this song several comments earlier (BEFORE Nappy mentioned it) and he's correct, I feel that it MUST be mentioned in any discussion of musical Goldenshadow. This song would have a real chance at making my Top 10 list. It's very much like Paul Anka's 'The Times Of Your Life', but it doesn't rate quite as high as Anka's does... to me.
I've really enjoyed this I.C. (Introspective Conversation). "Introversation"? ;^)
~ D-FensDogG