Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:53 pm Errol Gardner was one of my idols. I played electric organ from 8 years old until college. And everyone here has heard a hammond electric organ.

I joke that when I grow up (I'm 58 BTW) I want to be Harry Connick ...

I mean what could be better? Young, good looking, a great singing voice, plays jazz, grew up in New Orleans - what more would you want in life?

And my favorite channel to drive to is Sirius 75 (get ready for this) It's not the Metropolitan Opera Channel, it the 24 hour Sinatra channel. Now mostly I love classical music but while driving - Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Como, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, and all those old, smooth singers. But only while driving.

Wow, Linda and I watched Harry Connich, Jr. grow up on local New Orleans television. His father, who was professional and competent, was the District Attorney for New Orleans.

Linda taught Nicholas Patton the jazz trumpeter. His father Walter is a famous jazz bass, who taught music at Linda’s school.

My brother Timothy loves Sinatra’s music. So do I.

You are blessed.

I don't have Sirius. Many years ago during the early nineties, I had a multi-channel radio service with cable television. I liked it. I listened to a lot world music, but the choice were fairly wide. Because I did not have a television set, keeping the entire cable service eventually made no sense.

Sirius came with the car... Chrysler included 1 year of service in the purchase. I don't drive enough to justify keeping in unless I get the contract switched to the house.

Dave (imported) wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:17 am Sirius came with the car... Chrysler included 1 year of service in the purchase. I don't drive enough to justify keeping in unless I get the contract switched to the house.

Maybe, when I am working again! I think I would enjoy Sirius.

mrt (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:17 am I think your correct. They say wild things to stir up people probably nuff said on that.

Its also possible that they (These BBC people) can't appreciate things that happened so long ago. I remember the kind of music my parents listened to and how shocked they were when the Beatles came to America. There were comedians making fun of them and kids (like me) being taken to task for having "Beatle Haircuts" meaning I didn't have a buzz cut.

Songs about anything but syrupy sap were considered dangerous! And imagine bands where you knew the names of anyone other then the "face" with the microphone. Or letting the Drummer sing? Yeah Ringo!

Elvis was pretty wild when he started but I think all his post Army stuff and Movies were a mountain of crap.

I think that Elvis might have shared your opinion. I think that he had potential as an actor, but he did not get to realise it. One of his movies got him good reviews for acting. Elvis was not a deeply reflective man, I think. But gosh, he did have a splendid voice.

I recall the Kinks. I don't know why they impressed me but they did. I liked the Stones. I did not know why I liked them, but they had presence.

I did not listen to much popular music. My parents did not listen to it and I just missed most of it. I missed the music of the fifties. I was twenty before I heard much popular music. Then, some work leaked through. Bob Dylan's music was part of that. I am certain that I first heard his music in covers, but eventually I hear him. You just felt something when you heard him. I did hear Cisco Houston and other the Carter Family when I was in high school.

It is hard to describe why folk music hit some of us. Cisco Houston and others like Carolyn Huskey recorded wonderful music. When you heard them, you knew you had experienced something powerful. I have friends who heard Joan Baez in Boston before she was famous.

Then there were blues. I did not heard much blues music, but you felt its presence when you visited black bars. It was even more powerful than folk music. The great rock artists knew blues. It was all there in the air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM2kAgLv ... re=related

Jefferson Airplane song that celebrates the music. This is a splendid little piece Embryonic Journey.

While I do like most of the albums on the list, I really don't have a problem with any of them being ranked overrated.

Blaise (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:41 pm I was just looking at the list those awarded the Noble Prize for Literature who wrote primarily in English. I am not a good judge of writers from England, but I think only one of the American winners was a

superior writer

Blaise (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:41 pm . That was William Faulkner and he wrote some awful novel along with his masterwork Absalom, Absalom.

For my money, Henry Miller was better than the of lof American winners, except for Faulkner. But I don't read

of a lot of fiction

Blaise (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:41 pm and I am not one to judge, I guess. However, Robert Musil did not win the Noble Prize, but Pearl Buck did.