Vinyl I am listening to...

[Simon Wires]

Tonight it is Belafonte at Carnegie Hall .

And the song, Man Smart, Women Smarter, always makes me chuckle!!

 

[jls001]

This morning it is Nude Ants from the same Keith Jarrett Quartet.

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Dr. Hook - Making Love and Music Capitol Records

Ventures 10th Anniversary Double LP-Liberty Records LST 35000

Tracks:
"Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil, Nilsson)
"Sweet Caroline" (Neil Diamond)
"Medley: Who'll Stop the Rain / Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
"Michelle" (The Beatles)
"Good Morning Starshine" (Galt MacDermot from the musical Hair)
"Bridge over Troubled Water" (Simon & Garfunkel)
"Eleanor Rigby" (The Beatles)
"The Sounds of Silence" (Simon & Garfunkel)
"Strangers in the Night" (Wayne Newton, Frank Sinatra)
"Those Were the Days" (Mary Hopkin)
"MacArthur Park" (Richard Harris)
"Medley: Blowin' in the Wind / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan)
"Up, Up and Away" (The Fifth Dimension)
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Glen Campbell)
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (B.J. Thomas)
"Let it Be" (The Beatles)
"Sugar, Sugar" (The Archies)
"Never My Love" (The Association)
"Delilah" (Tom Jones)
"Hey Jude" (The Beatles)
"Spinning Wheel" (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

 

[Record Player]

Last nights session was Grease the 2 LP Set. It had been a while since I heard their songs. I thoroughly enjoyed it. What a lovely movie Grease and its songs. This was quite nostalgic for me as back in the days I was privileged to watch their play. Another play to mention is "Fiddler on the Roof"... simply amazing. Wish I can get me hands on their Music Vinyl.

 

[jls001]

Spandau Ballet - The Singles Collection. Fav tracks are "True", "Round and Round" and "Gold"

Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard

 

[jls001]

After putting Daft Punk's Random Access Memory on repeat play these days, I won't mind picking up Chic records if anyone has them for sale I want to discover Nile Rodgers' disco-funk work.

I found one in my own record rack - Sister Sledge's We Are Family. All tracks composed, arranged, conducted and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. And Nile Rodgers does his magic on the guitar.

 

[jls001]

Tonight it is Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 4 - Coriolan Overture, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer.

Earlier it was Beethoven Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" by the same orchestra and conductor. Nice, happy music. The first movement has the unusual name of "Awakening of pleasant feelings upon arriving in the country". This composition is from 1808. Do modern composers even think of composing on such lines anymore? Or is that what lounge musicians are trying to achieve?

 

[Simon Wires]

That was for yesterday night. Frank Sinatra in Can-Can..

 

[hildebrand]

That was for yesterday night. Frank Sinatra in Can-Can..

Wow that looks worth borrowing

 

[Simon Wires]

Wow that looks worth borrowing

Will try to pick up one for you, in my forthcoming vinyl hunt in Calcutta, by April

 

[hildebrand]

Will try to pick up one for you, in my forthcoming vinyl hunt in Calcutta, by April

Will discuss on phone.

 

[kuruvilajacob]

My daughter is home. She is a Beatles fan. So dug up some Beatles albums including Beatles 1962-66,1967-70. Brought back nostalgic moments of my school days listening to these Beatles oldies like 'My guitar gently weeps' and Love me do and many others

 

[peace_sells]

Now playing :

The Doors - L.A. Woman (Elektra, US Press). What an album!

 

[reubensm]

today, it was the stones:

 

[kuruvilajacob]

Today I was listening to Bad Finger 'Straight up' and Baby Blue was one of my early day favorites. I also listened to Joshua Tree by U2

 

[shafic]

Listening these LPs today!!

 

[jls001]

Listening these LPs today!!

Nice to know there's another Julie London fan here

 

[hildebrand]

An all format evening today most of it enjoyed with a couple friend of mine.:yahoo:

78: Jagmohan's rendition of Kyun Na Chamke Pyaar Hamara
LPs: Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahin LP, An evening with Mohd Rafi, Shamshad Begum : Golden Hits
EP: Qurbani

 

[jls001]

Chopin Nocturnes 1 to 10 by Eugene Istomin, Columbia Masterworks (ML 5054). This is from about '54-'55. Surface noise is bothersome though the music does shines through.

 

[jls001]

Recently I bought a Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major Op 35 by Zino Francescatti (violin) with Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra of New York. I bought it mainly to compare and contrast it to Joshua Bell's rendition. Having heard a few versions by different violinists, Joshua Bell is not yet unseated from being my favourite. Besides, the first movement on the Zino Francescatti record seems to be severely curtailed. I remember it as being some 18 mins long but here it is much shorter.

I also bought a Tchaikovsky Concerto No 1 in B Flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op 23 by Gary Graffman (piano) with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell (CBS Classics 61174). I am yet to figure out which is my favourite rendition of this concerto. I feel that the variations by different pianists on this piano concerto is much lesser compared to the variations of Violin Concerto in D Major Op 35 by different violinists.

But right now it is Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra - Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (CBS Columbia Masterworks M 34557, CBS India pressing, 1984).