Kat Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qRsorj0dQHere is a beautiful Objectivist love song I wrote for Michael that John Lennon performed on the Imagine album. Well, I didn't actually write it... John did... but I still think it is a beautiful love song.Happy Valentines Day!Kat :heart: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Engle Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I can't navigate to the help place which simply shows how to put the YouTube or whatever player screen right on the post.Kat, can you point me? Just shoot an email or something if you get a chance. I have one or two in mind. I'm feeling happy but melancholy; my VD plans were ruined due to work and family stuff...my woman and I now won't see each other until Wednesday, so I have to do SOMETHING.... rdeglad he didn't buy the steaks and wine or he'd be overindulging in a double portion of both, alone *sob* ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Engle Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 (edited) Oh, heck, why wait just for a trifle convenience, I'll figure that out later.I always loved this song, it has always said the better part of it to me. Nice video, too-- this is a 2nd version he did. Loved watching him do it live on the first tour. Some things are just elegant, complex, yet starkly simple, and heartfelt, and, well...pretty. Here's the link, sure many of you know the song, but this is a nice revisit. Lyrics below.rHis honey called right while he was doing that. The rest of you bastards, I just hope, for your sakes, you either planned, or if not, they didn't run out of stuff in the card aisle... Happy VD, my very favorite-est holiday there is! :heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mr_dth5jio_______"Fortress Around Your Heart"Under the ruins of a walled cityCrumbling towers and beams of yellow lightNo flags of truce, no cries of pityThe siege guns had been pounding all through the nightIt took a day to build the cityWe walked through its streets in the afternoonAs I returned across the lands I'd knownI recognized the fields where I'd once playedI had to stop in my tracks for fearOf walking on the mines I'd laidAnd if I built this fortress around your heartEncircled you in trenches and barbed wireThen let me build a bridgeFor I cannot fill the chasmAnd let me set the battlements on fireThen I went off to fight some battleThat I'd invented inside my headAway so long for years and yearsYou probably thought or even wished that I was deadWhile the armies are all sleepingBeneath the tattered flag we'd madeI had to stop in my track for fearOf walking on the mines I'd laidAnd if I built this fortress around your heartEncircled you in trenches and barbed wireThen let me build a bridgeFor I cannot fill the chasmAnd let me set the battlements on fireThis prison has now become your homeA sentence you seem prepared to payIt took a day to build the cityAs I returned across the lands I'd knownI recognized the fields where I'd once playedI had to stop in my tracks for fearOf walking on the mines I'd laidAnd if I built this fortress around your heartEncircled you in trenches and barbed wireThen let me build a bridgeFor I cannot fill the chasmAnd let me set the battlements on fire Edited February 15, 2009 by Rich Engle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Kitten,I just saw this. I don't know how I missed it!It's a beautiful song.What a wonderful thing you are in my life. Happy Valentine's day, with all my love...Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybird Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Two quite different and provocative musical settings for scenes from a passionate, Romantic, and beautifully dramatized movie, Stardust, from 2007 ...... and if you haven't managed to see this masterful adventure/romance/fantasy/comedy by now, hie thee hence, if you please, to the nearest rental emporium and check it out. (The videos may create minor spoilers for the plot, though it's so satisfyingly intricate that this might not happen.)Hayley Westenra, singing "Dark Waltz":The Killers, singing "Read My Mind": Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybird Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I can't navigate to the help place which simply shows how to put the YouTube or whatever player screen right on the post.Rich, change the Post Options setting (drop-down box) to "HTML On - Auto Linebreak Mode".Then copy and paste the YouTube "Embed" code for the video you want displayed — assuming that the original uploader is allowing embedding — into your post here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Engle Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Thanks for both the tip and the tunes, Graybird! Nice viddies, those two... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Love Me TenderElvis PresleyLay Lady LayBob DylanThe First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceRoberta Flack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 (edited) Billie HolidayI’ve Got You under My SkinFrank SinatraI Didn’t Know What Time It WasSarah Vaughn Nancy Wilson Frank Sinatra~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Re #8, #11)I notice, Chris, that those old links for Dylan and Flack are now removed. So here are some new ones:Lay Lady LayBob Dylan Roberta Flack~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Re #12)Thanks Dennis. I gave it a listen.I like the Norman performance better. Try it out. It is on this album (1982). Edited February 3, 2010 by Stephen Boydstun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 (edited) For Emily Wherever I May Find Her: Sounds not too good but the closeness of the black and white is amazing... "I kissed your honey hair...with my grateful tears." great line Edited February 2, 2010 by Selene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZBUb0ElnNY">Love Me Tender</A>Elvis Presley<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfF0uHekcc8">Lay Lady Lay</A>Bob Dylan<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7gzXz1cHo">The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</A>Roberta FlackStephen; I like these choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Somewhere in the Letters of AR you’ll find her praising Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (aka Betty Blackhead among the humor bearing cognoscenti) to the skies. Here’s the translation:DedicationYes, you know it, dear soul,That, far from you, I pine;Love makes hearts sick-Be thanked!Once, revelling in freedom, I liftedUp the amethyst cupAnd you blessed the drink-Be thanked!And you banished the evil spirits,Till I was, what I had never been,Holy, and holy fell on your heart;Be thanked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMcK Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I wonder if she knew that Betty Blackhead was a Nazi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) RubyRay Charles KD LangLeahRoy OrbisonWhen I DreamCrystal Gayle Edited March 16, 2010 by Stephen Boydstun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Sade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>In my experience, what oysters are to the male libido, this album is to the female. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 (edited) For My FolksEllis and LydiaLili MarleenMarlene Dietrich Tex RitterLera Barbra Streisand~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PSEllis and Lera were my natural parents. He and his second wife Lydia raised me from age two. They were young adults in WWII. The songs above were ones they liked and which had some special significance to them. (Some family notes: a, b, c, d)Brant (# 18 below), thanks. You are surely correct. Edited November 20, 2010 by Stephen Boydstun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 For My FolksEllis and LydiaLili MarleenMarlene Dietrich Tex RitterLera Barbra StreisandHigh Noon is The Fountainhead made into a western. There is even a Peter Keating character.It's an allegory, too, of course; nobody is walking into town with six-guns--even three baddies--to take down a marshall, also armed with a six-shooter, while Civil War veterans cower in a church. If you have a repeating rifle you have a tremendous advantage over someone with a handgun.What really happens is the Jesse James' gang tries to rob a bank in Northridge, Minnesota and gets shot to pieces by the townsfolk.--Brantgreat movie, great song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 What you folks see in this sentimental dreck, I will never understand.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 .Ian Bostridge – Schubert*SerenadeSoftly pleading, my songs gothrough the night to you;in the quiet grove here down,dearest come to me.. . . – Vaughan Williams* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 (edited) .Ian Bostridge – Schubert*SerenadeSoftly pleading, my songs gothrough the night to you;in the quiet grove here down,dearest come to me.. . . – Vaughan Williams*Oh! Just today, for no reason was going through my head so strongly..Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, just the way you are tonight...Misquoted probably, sorry (Cole Porter is it?) Edited May 26, 2011 by daunce lynam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 (edited) Oh! Just today, for no reason was going through my head so strongly..Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, just the way you are tonight...Misquoted probably, sorry (Cole Porter is it?)Carol,...and the way you look tonight.I just looked it up on Google song lyrics to check (because those few lines have haunted me for years), and see Harry Connick Jr, Frank Sinatra, and now Michael Buble, have all done versions.Beautifully lilting tune.Tony Edited May 26, 2011 by whYNOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Oh! Just today, for no reason was going through my head so strongly..Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, just the way you are tonight...Misquoted probably, sorry (Cole Porter is it?)Carol,...and the way you look tonight.I just looked it up on Google song lyrics to check (because those few lines have haunted me for years), and see Harry Connick Jr, Frank Sinatra, and now Michael Buble, have all done versions.Beautifully lilting tune.TonyThanks, Tony.The song-stuck-in-the-head syndrome can be maddening, of course, especially when it's ad jingles (I won't give examples here, for fear of contagion), but generally I enjoy the internal concert. Hymns are especially satisfying. "Glorious things of thee are spoken...who can faint, when such a riverever flows our thirst to assuage?.." I don't get tired of that loop. And innocent, soaring pop from dimmest adolescence. Lately it's been "This Girl is a Woman Now" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Gary was an undeservedly neglected giant of the Neolithic pop music . That song is so tender... reflects a time when the young male might have resented, disliked, used or scorned the young female in real life, but when he sang about her, he loved her .The Beatles weren't at their best with love ballads imo. (Sorry, Kat!) "Michelle" was hardly worth recording.(Sorry,sorry...couldn't help it...it just slipped out). But I loved "Here, There and Everywhere". Heavenly to slow-dance to. A great thing about the Ipod era is that when the urge to sing along overwhelms you in public, you can vocalize and nobody thinks you're crazy. Come to that you can talk to yourself and people will just assume you're on your phone. Not that I go around doing that. Usually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 The Beatles weren't at their best with love ballads imo. (Sorry, Kat!) "Michelle" was hardly worth recording.(Sorry,sorry...couldn't help it...it just slipped out). But I loved "Here, There and Everywhere". Heavenly to slow-dance to. Shocking! Obviously you haven't heard the Cathy Berberian versions!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeVbPvqrE8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 The Beatles weren't at their best with love ballads imo. (Sorry, Kat!) "Michelle" was hardly worth recording.(Sorry,sorry...couldn't help it...it just slipped out). But I loved "Here, There and Everywhere". Heavenly to slow-dance to. Shocking! Obviously you haven't heard the Cathy Berberian versions!ND,Goes to show that nobody can "take a bad song, and make it better"...(Apologies to 'Hey, Jude' - a good'un.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now