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We had the favorite album....what about your favorite song?

Only one please!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know it's hard to choose, but just for listening pleasure, please post a link if possible.

Mine is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukG82-RY...PL&index=61



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C'mon!..... Play along! If you want to know what's really amazing, the banjo player in that clip ONLY has a thumb on his left hand in that clip. Actually he only has a thumb on his left hand in real life!


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Only one? That's almost an impossible request. Like my favorite albums, I have different 'favorites' for different moods, different days, even different hours in a day.

ONE of my favorites would be Rhapsody in Blue

Since we're doing YouTubes for these:

Rhapsody in Blue, Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPDG-T7BVM

Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLyG5sqoOlg&feature=related

Leonard Bernstein conducting and piano

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Well, mine would definitely have to be Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water".


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Here is one of my faves
The band was one of my favorite setups personnel wide.
Gordon Johnson, Mark Colby (so much talent and still going), Biff Hannon (another extreme talent), my favofite trumpet section Maynard ever had, I think Bobby Millitello is there, etc. etc. a great band..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMOr1kUqVM&feature=related
Mix is a little rough... delay over used etc, but the talent is there.

part two is here-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUUE9rXvL_k&feature=related

may be just me .. but he seemed popular on the album thread. I saw him a few of times and this band make up was one of his best in my opinion.With Gadd on drums Birdland really had the feel. They amazed me
Hope someone enjoys it.

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Hi, Bob -

I've worn out several copies of my "Carnival" album listening to Maynard play "Birdland".


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I know Weather Report did it first, and I heard many versions by them, but Gadds drumming on that song was classic, plus the there was a freshness to it..

I'll research more of the tube and see if I can find any other stuff of interest. His 'Don't let the Sun (go down on me)' was also a great live performance that never (as far as I know) made it to vinyl. Kinda like MacArthur Park, a classic tune given a new twist.


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MacArthur Park...what a song! Maynard could blow, no doubt about it. He always did have a great band backing him up, too. I've never seen this live, thanks Bob.

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Gary,

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Only one? That's almost an impossible request. Like my favorite albums, I have different 'favorites' for different moods, different days, even different hours in a day.




I understand the dilemma. But like with my post on "favorite album", sometimes you have to make a choice. (Okay, I did finally list two albums after everyone kept posting a long list of albums). My "favorite album" was a surprise to me also! I based it solely on how many times I had listened to it. If I had been "put on the spot" and told that I had to respond in 5 secs, I probably wouldn't have picked that one. But given time to think...............

I know we're all tempted to list the most "technically proficient" song we can think of, but if we could only hear ONE more song............................for ONE more time............what would it be?

And if you can post a link, please do so.

Bob

P.S. I changed the name of the post to reflect the change in specificity, (I probably spelled that wrong!),......so please just ONE song. Remember that we don't have to live with it!

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Desert Island Song? Impossible to choose. So many songs keep popping up in my head, I simply cannot choose.

What's a Yamaha MO8 doing at a Bluegrass show anyways? Even 'newgrass' is still primarily strings, is it not?

You know what would have sounded cool - a passel of mandos sawing away at the clavinet part.

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Scott,

LOL.

C'mon!..... Play along! If you want to know what's really amazing, the banjo player in that clip ONLY has a thumb on his left hand in that clip. Actually he only has a thumb on his left hand in real life! Watch the clip again and you'll catch it.

Bob

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Long post about a recording less than 3 minutes long; I copied this from a 2010 post I made on another forum.


My favorite song recording is:

1. "Cry To Me" Solomon Burke 1962 (or 1965???)

I love, love, love this recording!

Doesn't ring a bell, right? It was featured in the 1987 movie "Dirty Dancing". "Cry To Me" is playing when Baby goes up to Johnny's room at night and they are, ahem, dirty dancing. Kind of a latin thing going on in a an R&B record.

In the movie they needed to make the track longer for the scene, so they dupped one of the verses. But the scene changes and they fade out, cutting off the real end of the record, and that is absolutely the BEST part. (Solomon Burke starts riffing, almost scat singing against a fantastic background group.)

During the 1970's or early 1980's I bought a vinyl album called "History of Rhythm and Blues, Volume 5" on Atlantic Records. Green cover. That's where I fell in love with "Cry To Me". Somewhere in the 1980's and again in the early 1990's I made car tapes of my favorite recordings. "Cry To Me" was one my last adds to the first tape. It was the first add to my second tape.



"Cry To Me" is on the second soundtrack album from the movie, called "More Dirty Dancing". "Cry To Me" doesn't sound right. From memory, it seems slower, more muddy. It doesn't snap. There isn't the near syncopation that I remember. I didn't notice this when I watched the movie. (I don't have the movie DVD.)

Then in 1998, Rhino (a great reissue label) puts out the CD "The Very Best Of Solomon Burke". Man, am I stoked! Now I've got a proper CD recording of my favorite!

And the insert says "Atlantic single #45-2131. Issued Janurary 1962. Yippee!

Only one problem. It's not the version that I love. It seems slower. It is cleaner to me ears, but the mix is different, for sure. Where are the background singers? Way down in the mix, that's where. Where's the groove?

Then I see the note. It's from Bill Inglot, who has a fantastic reputation. He explains that many of Solomon Burke's recordings were remixed or even re-recorded for his 1965 Atlantic "Greatest Hits" album. Rhino, he proudly says, has given you the original mono single mixes.

Normally, I would agree with him. But did anyone actually listen to those album mixes? How about offering both?

In desperation, I look around, and buy the 1991 Curb CD "Best Of Solomon Burke". (Curb is a budget re-issue label, usually giving fewer tracks at a reduced price. But in my experience, they are quite good about providing the "Original Recordings".) The words "Original Recordings" are plastered across the front of this CD.

The length (often an indicator of a re-recorded track) of the 3 tracks is within 2 seconds of each other.

Got it! Track 2! This is it! It's snappy, it's got the groove! The Curb (stereo) version of "Cry To Me" is not as clean as Rhino's mono version. But "Cry To Me" is not a high fidelity recording. It's just not.

I listened to these 3 versions back to back to back. Honestly, it drove me crazy. (I still remember this.) Finally I put all 3 in WaveLab to examine. (The first thing I did was fix the peak amplitude of each so they were very close to each other in perceived loudness.)

"More Dirty Dancing" is "mono", but the 2 channels didn't look identical.(!!!) The Rhino mono (single) version has 2 channels that looked absolutely identical. (Probably why it sounded cleaner to me). It didn't surprise me because Rhino is a good label. Despite the channel problems (mud) in the "More Dirty Dancing" version, I confirmed visually that these 2 versions were the same (wrong) version.

The Curb "Cry To Me" sounded so different that I thought it was a re-recording. WaveLab convinced me that it's not. The Curb "Cry To Me" is a stereo Atlantic mix. Somewhere in the Atlantic mixing / mastering chain there was a tape recorder running approximately 2.5% fast!

That 2.5% increase explains the higher pitch. In the original single mix, the entire rhythm section seems to be dragging. In the stereo mix there is the most wonderful groove (almost a syncopation). I believe THAT is what those players heard in the recording session, and was why they played the way they did!

The slower mono version fades out more quickly than the faster stereo version; this is why the 2 versions are within a couple of seconds of each other.





If someone had told me this story, describing what turned out to be fairly small differences in mixing and / or mastering, and then a HUGE difference in the recordings' emotional impact, I'm don't think I would have believed him.

Before. Now I would.

I've asked myself many times if this involved CD search is the real reason I rate "Cry To Me (stereo)" so highly. I don't think so. I listened again to all three CD recordings before writing this.

Again today, discerning the actual differences with my ears drove me crazy. But the Curb stereo version of "Cry To Me" has 100 times the emotional impact (for me) of the original single! It's like it's a different record!


Solomon Burke has 21 children!

"Cry To Me" (stereo) is that kind of record.

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Simon Burke, "Cry To Me".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEu8DrO9PbY

For "Le Miz".

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Only one song? I'd better make it a long one :-)

Here's my favourite, after some thinking:

Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond (full version: parts 1 - 9), 26 minutes of absolute greatness!

parts 1-3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGyQ_vUxQs
parts 4-6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAmaG0a2x2c
parts 7-9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnKkVr6_Isk

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_on_you_crazy_diamond

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What's a Yamaha MO8 doing at a Bluegrass show anyways? Even 'newgrass' is still primarily strings, is it not?




When you're up late at night at a bluegrass festival, it's hard to tell what songs you might hear. Everything from "Sally Goodin", to "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay", to "Superstition". Or we could go even further!

Played on anything that can make music!



Bob

If you sit up "really" late you might hear this kind of version of "Old Joe Clark".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HADERTH...PL&index=17

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For me, it would have to be Sarah Vaughan singing "Over The Rainbow".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAWlgdn37Bo


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Verne Gosden's Chiseled in Stone.

I think the biggest live lesson is in that song.


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Sorry, can't pick just one . . . I tried but just can't do it as any day, hour, minute or second it would be subject to change.

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