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Ich dachte immer, ich kennte alles von Achim Reichel. Dies kannte ich nicht: A Song from the album "AR 5 - Autovision" on the Zebra label:



via Krautland

NOEL COWARD - 'Mad Dogs And Englishmen' - 45rpm - His classic 30's recording on a 1958 EP
Auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere brach 1939 der Zweite Weltkrieg aus. Coward war ein gefragter Truppenunterhalter und schrieb zu diesem Zweck mehrere damals sehr populäre Lieder wie etwa London Pride oder Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans. Letzteres setzt sich auf Cowards typisch ironische Weise mit englischen Nazi-Sympathisanten und Unterstützern der Appeasement-Politik auseinander. Winston Churchill soll, als er das Lied zum ersten Mal hörte, begeistert gewesen sein und mehrere Zugaben verlangt haben, das breite Publikum verstand aber offenbar die Ironie des Textes nicht und das Lied wurde von der BBC nicht mehr gespielt.
Erst später wurde bekannt, dass Coward für den britischen Inlandsgeheimdienst MI5 arbeitete. Als prominenter Truppenunterhalter, Geheimdienstmitarbeiter und Homosexueller befand sich sein Name auf der "Sonderfahndungsliste G.B." der SS, in welcher Personen aufgeführt wurden, welche nach einer deutschen Invasion in Großbritannien unverzüglich zu verhaften seien. (wiki)




In tropical climes
There are certain times
Of day
When all the citizens retire
To take their clothes off and perspire.
It's one of those rules
That the greatest fools
Obey,
Because the sun is far too sultry
And one must avoid its ultry
Violet ray.

The natives grieve
When the white men leave
Their huts.
Because they're obviously,
Definitely
Nuts.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The Japanese don't care to,
The Chinese wouldn't dare to,
Hindus and Argentines
Sleep firmly from twelve to one,
But Englishmen
Detest a
Siesta.
In the Philippines
They have lovely screens
To protect you from the glare.
In the Malay states
There are hats like plates
Which the Britishers won't wear.
At twelve noon
The natives swoon,
And no further work is done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun!

Such a surprise
For the eastern eyes
To see,
That though the English are effete,
They're quite impervious to heat.
When the white man rides
Every native hides
In glee.
Because the simple creatures hope he
Will impale his solar topee
On a tree.

It seems such a shame
When the English claim
The Earth,
That they give rise
To such hilarity
And mirth.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo,
He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he,
Hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm.

Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The toughest Burmese bandit
Can never understand it.
In Rangoon
The heat of noon
Is just what the natives shun,
They put their Scotch
Or Rye down
And lie down.
In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok
At twleve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.

Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The smallest Malay rabbit
Deplores this foolish habit.
In Hong Kong
They strike a gong
And fire off a noonday gun
To reprimand
Each inmate
Who's in late.
In the Mangrove swamps
Where the python romps
There is peace from twelve to two,
Even caribous
Lie around and snooze,
For there's nothing else to do.
In Bengal,
To move at all
Is seldom if ever done.
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday sun!


More lyrics
All about Noel Coward

ngootbredux weiß, dass Furthur ein Seitenprojekt der verliebenen Grateful Dead ist und dass Phil Lesh celebrated his 71st birthday last night with a Furthur performance at New York’s Best Buy Theatre. During its second set, Furthur performed the Beatles’ Abbey Road medley in its entirety. The musicians built up to the medley by performing a song off the album each night of their winter tour.

It is with great sadness that we report Joe's passing on March 12, 2011.
http://www.joemorello.net/



Disco- und Videographie bei The Musicians' Olympus

The fine art of playing ... I - hier

• Vivian Stanshall (1943 - 1995): trumpet, lead vocals
• Neil Innes (b. 1944): piano, guitar, lead vocals
• Rodney "Rhino" Desborough Slater (b. 1944): saxophone
• Roger Ruskin Spear (b. 1943): tenor sax and various contraptions
• "Legs" Larry Smith (b. 1944): drums

Here's a nice BBC Radio 2 doc from March 1997 - lots of insight and ace narration from Neil himself.

The official 'Bohemian Rhapsody' music video - wenn Urheberrechte verletzt werden, lösche ich sofort, - aber das ist so schön (ein zeitgeschichtliches Dokument, das genauer zu würdigen wäre im Hinblick auf die Ästhetik des Musik-Videos, die Entwicklung der Rock-Musik in den 70ern und den Einfluss des Pop auf die Wahrnehmung und den Umgang mit Homosexualität ...) , dass es den Versuch lohnt ...




Stormtroopers in Stilettos, the Queen 40th anniversary exhibition

Eine Fundgrube für Liebhaber des LP-Covers



Vgl. Archäologie CVXI: The Fine Art Of Record Covers I

Für Freunde der Yardbirds eine Fundgrube: Der YouTube-Kanal von Jim Mc Carty - mit wunderbaren Aufnahmen der Yardbirds Mk I, II and III (= mit Clapton, Beck & Page) sowie seinen weiteren Bands Renaissance und Illusion + Yardbirds Mk IV ...

- a song written by Paul McCartney & George Harrison in 1958 and recorded by them with John Lennon on lead vocals. The recording was the first time the future Beatles ever entered a recording studio. They recorded the song at a private Liverpool recording studio in the summer of 1958.
The recording used for the song features the performance recorded for the movie soundtrack by star Aaron Johnson ("Kick-Ass") who portrays the young Lennon in the film.
The music video - directed by Beatles scholar Martin Lewis (who in 2002 produced the DVD Edition of "A Hard Day's Night") draws on footage from the "Nowhere Boy" movie (directed by Sam Taylor-Wood) to tell the story of the musical evolution of John Lennon from passive young Elvis fan to nascent guitarist to founder of the Quarrymen and future Beatles. All the key scenes in the development of the group are depicted. The first meeting of John and Paul McCartney (the Big Bang that led to the Beatles), Paul's impromptu audition for John, George's audition for John on the top of a bus, the first gigs that Paul and George played with John and many more. Like the movie, the story of the music video ends in August 1960 - the point at which Lennon changes his band's name from the Quarrymen to the Beatles and the group leaves Liverpool to play in Hamburg - the boot-camp that toughens up the band and hones their skills in preparation for their conquering of the world.
via The Beatles Virtual Museum



When I Was Young - Eric Burdon And The New Animals
... eine unglaubliche Aufnahme von dem Album
Eric Burdon & The New Animals - The Official Live Bootleg 2000

1. Inside Looking Out (Burdon, Chandler, Lomax) 4:05
2. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Benjamin, Marcus) 6:26
3. Monterey (Briggs, Burdon, Jenkins, McCulloch, Weider) 7:19
4. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Price) 4:50
5. When I Was Young (Briggs, Burdon, Weider) 4:09
6. Hey Gyp (Leitch) 4:04
7. See See Rider (Rainey) 3:59
8. San Francisco Nights (Briggs, Burdon, Jenkins, McCulloch, Weider) 4:56
9. Star Spangled Banner (Key, Smith) 1:24
10. Sky Pilot (Briggs, Burdon, Jenkins, McCulloch, Weider) 7:45
11. House Of The Rising Sun (Traditional) 5:23
12. You Got Me Floatin' (Hendrix) 2:24

Eric Burdon: Vocals
Aynsley Dunbar: Drums (!!!)
Martin Gerschwitz: Keyboards, Violin, Vocals
Dave Meros: Bass, Vocals
Dean Restum: Guitar, Vocals

Wiederentdeckt: Ein einmaliges Album, unbedingt unter all time greatest zu listen. Mit einer unglaublichen Besetzung - allen voran Jaco Pastorius, über dessen fließenden, z.T. mehrfach gedubbten Basslinien filigran-transparent treibende Gitarren und Joni Mitchells Gesang schweben: Hören sie mal, wie sie I didn't know I drank such a lot Till I pissed a tequila anaconda The full length of the parking lot! singt! ... (ich kann Musik nicht so gut in Worte fassen*). The musical compositions are beautiful, incorporating jazz and world beat sounds from some of the travels about which she sings. The lyrics are tight and equally poignant now as they were then...

Zum Beispiel mein Lieblingslied von der Doppel-LP:


Talk To Me

There was a moon and a street lamp
I didn't know I drank such a lot
Till I pissed a tequila anaconda
The full length of the parking lot!
Oh I talk too loose
Again I talk too open and free
I pay a high price for my open talking
Like you do for your silent mystery

Come and talk to me
Please talk to me
Talk to me talk to me
Mr. Mystery

We could talk about Martha
We could talk about landscapes
I'm not above gossip
But I'll sit on a secret where honor is at stake
Or we could talk about power
About Jesus and Hitler and Howard Hughes
Or Charlie Chaplin's movies
Or Bergman's nordic blues
Please just talk to me
Any old theme you choose
Just come and talk to me
Mr. Mystery talk to me

You could talk like a fool I'd listen
You could talk like a sage
Anyway the best of my mind
All goes down on the strings and the page
That mind picks up all these pictures
It still gets my feet up to dance
Even though it's covered with keyloids
From the "slings and arrows of outrageous romance"
I stole that from Willy the Shake
You know - "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
Romeo Romeo talk to me

Is your silence that golden?
Are you comfortable in it?
Is it the key to your freedom
Or is it the bars on your prison?
Are you gagged by your ribbons?
Are you really exclusive or just miserly?
You spend every sentence as if it was marked currency
Come and spend some on me
Shut me up and talk to me
I'm always talking
Chicken squawking
Please talk to me
© 1976; Crazy Crow Music

Wiki says: Most experimental of all is "Paprika Plains," a 16-minute song played on improvised piano and arranged with a full orchestra; it takes up all of Side 2. In it, Mitchell narrates a first-person description of a late-night gathering in a bar frequented by American Indians, touching on themes of hopelessness and alcoholism. At one point in the narrative, the narrator leaves the setting and enters into a dreamstate, and the lyrics become a mixture of references to innocent childhood memories, a nuclear explosion and an expressionless tribe gazing upon the dreamer. In speaking to Anthony Fawcett about working on "Paprika Plains," Mitchell said:

• "The Improvisational, the spontaneous aspect of this creative process - still as a poet - is to set words to the music, which is a hammer and chisel process. Sometimes it flows, but a lot of times it's blocked by concept. And if you're writing free consciousness - which I do once in a while just to remind myself that I can, you know, because I'm fitting little pieces of this puzzle together - the end result must flow as if it was spoken for the first time."

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* Musik in Worte gefasst: Pat Blashill: Wie ich als Rockkritiker lernte, die Klassik zu lieben - und zu fürchten.