donnamb
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Post by donnamb on Aug 11, 2018 22:32:32 GMT -5
How can one off the cuff comment, which obviously does not mean, "I don't like Michael Jackson the man", get into to news of the day? The "but I like this" didn't matter? To be truthful, I appreciate MJ's talent, but I'll usually skip past his songs coming up on the radio, and I really really skip over the Elvis channel on Sirius.
Anyway - first album, on vinyl, was probably Herman's Hermits. (In parents' view, safe music.)
First concert, but not planned - Jethro Tull - November 1971. My all girls' catholic high school had a scheduled trip to Williamsburg, VA and a theatre trip to see the "Four Posters" play. Except the theatre folded. To fill the schedule, the tour director scrounged tickets for 72 young women and 4 Dominican nuns at University of Virginia. (Aqualung era.) First planned concert shortly thereafter was Yes at Capital Theatre in Passiac NJ.
First music "crush"? I would have to be different and proclaim my devotion to a guitar player in the Hermits, but maybe it's The Animals, and everyone in 1965 had to decide and declare the favorite Beatle. Then came Donovan. Then came Ray Davies of The Kinks.
Then came prog-rock, English folk rock like Strawbs, Fairport Convention, and so forth. Before Adam, I was petitioning husband to go to Fairport Convention's summer festival and camp or rent a houseboat. I'm sort of glad that it eventually made it to going to Isle of Wight.
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Post by svca on Aug 11, 2018 22:50:20 GMT -5
Oh lordy, Donnamb, you're going to keep me googling all day tomorrow....I don't know any of those people you just mentioned. I keep seeing Herman's Hermits...don't know who they are, either.
And Wendyness, I looooooove Steve Perry's voice, love it! Not a rock fan, but I have Journey on my Ipod (I'm assuming they're considered rock lol).
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Post by bamafan on Aug 11, 2018 23:01:04 GMT -5
Oh lordy, Donnamb, you're going to keep me googling all day tomorrow....I don't know any of those people you just mentioned. I keep seeing Herman's Hermits...don't know who they are, either. And Wendyness, I looooooove Steve Perry's voice, love it! Not a rock fan, but I have Journey on my Ipod (I'm assuming they're considered rock lol). Herman's Hermits were a British band popular in the US during the mid sixties. I think they did a lot of touring here....I think more popular in the US than in the UK. Their first hit was a cover of Earl-Jean's "I'm into Something Good" (written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King), which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 13 in the US in late 1964. They never topped the British charts again, but had two US Billboard Hot 100 No.1s with "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" (originally sung by Tom Courtenay in a 1963 British TV play) and "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" (a British music hall song, which singer Peter Noone's Irish grandfather had been in the habit of singing when Noone was young). These songs were aimed at a US fan base, with Noone exaggerating his Mancunian accent. In the US, their records were released on the MGM label, a company which often featured musical performers signed to record deals in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films. The Hermits appeared in several MGM movies, including When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965) and Hold On! (1966). They also starred in the film Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) and appeared in the 1965 anthology film Pop Gear.
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Post by svca on Aug 11, 2018 23:15:11 GMT -5
I didn't come to the US until 1972, so I missed a lot of these early groups...missed the Beatles craze, missed Elvis, obviously missed the Hermits.
I've just spent the last 45 minutes on YouTube watching Michael Patrick Kelly...think I'm going to look for some of his albums tomorrow....I really like his voice. Loved Id and Requiem.
I also looked up Herman's Hermits and Henry the Eighth sounds familiar, no idea from where though.
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Post by betty on Aug 11, 2018 23:37:18 GMT -5
These are the birthday-cakes for Sunday ...!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ...
... jake12, linda, marshview, ...
... mistym and xxtime2dancexx!
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Aug 11, 2018 23:38:47 GMT -5
First album: Changes One - David Bowie First concert: Peter Frampton First celebrity crush: David Cassidy I also had a big crush on David Cassidy! "CHERISH IS THE WORDS I USE TO DESCRIBE" was my go to teenage heartache song! I also had a crush on Bobby Sherman who started in the TV series "Here comes the Brides" and sang the show's theme song "Seattle". Checking Wikipedia, the show was on 1968-1970. Since The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy, was on TV 1970-1974, Bobby Sherman was my first celebrity crush and David Cassidy my second. My first Celebrity crushes are above. To answer the rest of the questions:
I don't have a clear memory of which album/record was my first, just which early ones that I remember playing the most. They my be my first, but might not be.
45 singles: Build Me A Buttercup (1968) by The Foundations & Dizzy by Tommy Roe (1969) - remember dancing and singing to these in my room with my best friend. Album: Honey by Bobby Goldsboro (1968) - I loved the album's title song!
Favorite Album from my Dad's collection: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast Recording (Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, 1961), I played this album over and over again!
First Concert (besides local singers or orchestra): Virgil Fox - "Heavy Organ" (1971 or 1972) - This was someone who's music my Dad loved and he took us to the concert. I grew up in a small town of 15,000 (20,000 including temporary college students), so it was very rare that nationally known artist came to our town for concerts. I don't think Virgil Fox was that well know, but he was touring college campuses.
The only really well know artist that I remember performing a concert in my home town (at the college campus) during the time I lived there was Jim Croce in 1973. I did not go, but the event is well remembered because only an hour after the concert, their private plane crashed and killed everyone on board shortly after takeoff. Apparently the pilot had a fatal heart attack. I sure hope there is a co-pilot on the private jets that QAL travels on.
My next concert (besides the 50 cent student tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra) was Amy Grant in 1988. I was in the cheap seats in the very upper level of an arena. I was SO disappointed because the sound was so awful I could not hear a word she sang and I knew all of her songs. What was the point of going to a concert if the sound on the album was so much better than at a concert!
So I don't remember going to any other concerts (except orchestral & local holiday musicals) until Adam's Glam Nation Tour came to my city in 2010. It was so great that I went to 3 more concerts in nearby cities and the rest is history.
Favorite Movie was added to the list by someone, so here are the ones that made the most impact on me.
Sound of Music (1965) - I was in the 3rd grade and had recently joined a church choir after being thrown out of my school's Christmas show choir for not being able to carry a tune. The choir directory took extra time to work with me to help me learn how to sing in tune. She became like a second mother to me at a time when my own mother was very sickly. Our choir group took a field trip to a bigger city an hour away to see the movie when it was first released (it could be a long time before a movie came to our small town). This might have been the very first movie I saw in a theater, certainly the first I remember going to. It was very special for many reasons!
Steel Magnolias (1989) - This movie was filmed in the small town where I grew up and is based on a true story which happened there. The story is about a young women (Susan in real live, Shelby in the movie) with type 1 diabetes who dies after deciding to have a baby against doctor's advice. But the central theme of the story is about the strength and resilience of the women surrounding Shelby. The story was first written as a play by Susan's brother. I went to the same high school as Susan and was in band class with her, but didn't know her outside of class. She was a senior playing first chair flute while I was a freshman playing last chair flute. So again the movie is special for many reasons!
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Post by pi on Aug 12, 2018 0:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Aug 12, 2018 0:57:56 GMT -5
@adamlambert: Light as a feather. Stiff as a board. Fat as a tractor. Loose as a goose.
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Post by pi on Aug 12, 2018 1:08:40 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Aug 12, 2018 1:23:13 GMT -5
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