Post any old song you can think of.

[Highway Man]

The piano will always be the greatest instrument to me. It's the only solo instrument I can listen to for more than a few minutes.

I don't like the cello. OMG. I know. But I just find it too mournful.

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[MNW67]

I recall you saying that you was a music student once. What do you play as I play guitar, bass and the bugle. One thing I never mastered was reading and writing music, I understand musical theory circle of 5ths etc, scales and everything. However I play off tabs and by ear only.

I bet you will like this:

 

[Highway Man]

I bet you will like this:

OMG some mad skills there,

 

[SPLINE]

Going right back to the start in Britain, there were the TV shows 'Oh Boy' and '6.5 Special'. The house orchestra was Lord Rockingham's XI, who are widely known for 'Hoots Mon'. It featured home-grown rock&roll singers to rival Elvis. This is one of them...Jackie Dennis with 'Lah De Dah', with music by the Rockingham XI, which always sounded like a load of pots and pans being rattled...

 

[Highway Man]

Going right back to the start in Britain, there were the TV shows 'Oh Boy' and '6.5 Special'. The house orchestra was Lord Rockingham's XI, who are widely known for 'Hoots Mon'. It featured home-grown rock&roll singers to rival Elvis. This is one of them...Jackie Dennis with 'Lah De Dah', with music by the Rockingham XI, which always sounded like a load of pots and pans being rattled...

OMG no, he has to be the most irritating person they could put on the TV.

 

[SPLINE]

OMG no, he has to be the most irritating person they could put on the TV.

When Jerry Lee Lewis came to Britain in 1958 with his 13 year old wife, who was also his cousin, he had to cancel his tour due to public opinion, and little Jackie Dennis played his dates instead!

 

[ree]

Poster # 1969,
Thank you so much for the Crystals with all the excitement, and the "wall of sound" - surely arranged by Phil Spector?

First I've heard of that weird young boy - I guess that was entertainment in the days when Jerry Lee Lewis & Little Richard were forbidden to appear on UK TV shows.
Someone should find whoever organised such nonsense & have them arrested.

Jerry Lee was only doing Elvis country country ways - barred by the tabloids I would imagine, never the kids.
While Richard Penniman, God Rest his brilliant showmanship soul, was not known for or barred from TV for chasing young girls - he was considered too exciting for British youth, read Black, or so a biographer claimed.

When Little Richard first appeared on live stage shows black & white boys & girls joined in one mad frenzy of insane dancing - this had never happened before in America.
It was considered very disturbing to the elders -"Blacks & whites, have they gone mad?

The power of music and geniuses.

 

[ree]

MNW67,
I can well understand your choice. My piano song is that I eventually gave it up - a very strict teacher, an empty practice room && endless scale repetitions.
Good choice for you mate - do you have any particular music or composer in mind?

 

[ree]

To all who have provided the wonderful videos, a very big thank you.
Its brilliant to hear & see new stuff - I've been up enjoying it for most of two nights.

 

[pete01]

Is this highway man OMG

 

[Highway Man]

Is this highway man OMG

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[MNW67]

MNW67,
I can well understand your choice. My piano song is that I eventually gave it up - a very strict teacher, an empty practice room && endless scale repetitions.
Good choice for you mate - do you have any particular music or composer in mind?

For short, unaccompanied piano music, I love Chopin. He has an unrivalled gift for melody.

Otherwise, I mainly listen to a shortish period in the nineteenth century, both for solo piano, accompanied piano, and other orchestral works.

I am not a fan of Mozart. OMG. I am aware that his music was the perfect embodiment of the Classical period and he had a genius for melody. But I just need a bit more development.

Beethoven is my main man. He totally reinvented music - twice. I love both his middle period and his late period. I am addicted to his late piano sonatas. The rhythms and counterpoint stick in my head for days afterwards.

Then I like a lot of music from the few decades after Beethoven including some Brahms, Schubert, Mahler and Bruckner. Schubert's final three piano sonatas are almost on the same level as Beethoven's late sonatas.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

As woodwind instruments are getting a mention, here's the master of a slightly different one. Local Somerset boy too.

 

[Highway Man]

As woodwind instruments are getting a mention, here's the master of a slightly different one. Local Somerset boy too.

Always found that a depressing tune. An absolute classic but deary me it is so depressing. I once had a horse that was mildly depressed and it loved this tune.

 

[fillyboy]

OMG no, he has to be the most irritating person they could put on the TV.

And once you see it, you just can't un-see it.