SONGS THAT STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS

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SONGS THAT STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS

Post by karl » Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:21 pm

I have been playing some of my Marti Pellow cd's today and one song stopped me in tracks and I had to play it again, it was co-written by Martii and it's called Hard To Cry - Marti performs it with just a guitar - wow, what a perfomance!

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Post by mariana44 » Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:50 pm

I do not remember hearing that song---but my friend Sandy--sadly no longer with us--adored Marti Pellow, and saw him as often as she could--and I remember once that she told me she was off to see Marti in Chicago--it was not till later that I realised she meant "Chicago"--the musical !!
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Post by karl » Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:44 am

LOL Marian Similar to Mum's Gone To Iceland

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Post by Gray » Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:32 am

This happened to me just the other day, Karl.
But it was a classical piece by Robert Schumann, it just floored me.

It's wonderful when that happens. :)

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Post by karl » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:17 am

Gray it's a great thing for any singer or musician to move their listener that way.

Every time I play The Pearl Fishers Duet by Jussi Bjorling & Robert Merrill it moves me as it is just so beautiful.

I remember Dusty said years ago the first time she heard Burt Bacharach's Don't Make Me Over she burst into tears with sheer joy, I can understand that as it's a great song - infact the orchestral version by Burt is fantastic and encouraged me to buy his Hit Maker album many, many years ago - I heard that track playing in the record shop and had to buy it.
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Post by Gray » Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:11 pm

Don't Make Me over is a great song, thanks for sharing Dusty's feelings on it!
What a gift music is, to make us all emote in such a way.

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Post by Eman » Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:15 pm

Wow isn't that great how music can do that to one. I can remember hearing "Stop" by the Spice Girls on the radio and loving it, while driving then I drove directly to a record store to buy the cd single!!

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Post by karl » Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:15 pm

Gray it surely is a gift and for someone like Matt, Dusty, Alfie Boe, Jackie Trent, Madeline Bell, Jack Jones etc (to name a few) to be born with the ability to give thousands of people joy and to bring us alll together in music is a wonderful thing.

I cannot live without music.
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Post by karl » Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:18 pm

Hey Eamon it can also work the other way,

A few years ago in a record store I heard this dreadul din and it was one of Dusty's songs by a new band. I asked the assistant who it was and he told me and offered to get the cd for me - No thanks said I, I just wanted to know who it was so's I can avoid them in future!!! :shock:

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Post by Eman » Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:19 pm

Karl, who was the band? I'm just interested is all.

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Post by karl » Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:12 pm

I was so not interested it went in one ear and out the other but it's possible it was Whitestripes?

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Post by Eman » Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:47 pm

The White Stripes? They are awesome..a little dark and gothic, but they've got some good songs!!

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Post by karl » Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:23 pm

Aw! You would like them :roll:

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Post by Eman » Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:49 pm

Ha ha yes I would. Haven't heard the Dusty song though what did they cover

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Post by paul jh » Tue Apr 23, 2013 3:17 am

The White Stripes recorded I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself. It was released as a single in September 2013 and the followup to Seven Nation Army.

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