What are you listening to?

[c172]

[SYZ]

Possibly the most evocative song of the 1960s, the late Melanie Safka's
"Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)" with The Edwin Hawkins Singers.
Written after she performed at Woodstock in August 1969, the year
that Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon (and I got married).

And today we need those white birds (doves) more so than we did in
the Vietnam war era, that back then took thousands of lives from both
sides—as are the same bloody-minded politicians today.

[pattylt]

I haven’t heard this version for years and years. Usually, just the version without the poem.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Heard a guilty pleasure on the way home from the hospital today:



Berton Averre's second solo just kills it.

[SYZ]

Heard a guilty pleasure on the way home from the hospital today:



Berton Averre's second solo just kills it.

Broadcast from Melbourne's ABC studios at Ripponlea, "Countdown"
was responsible for the explosion of foreign artists travelling down
under during the '70s and 80s, where, like this song, they mimed
(lip-synced) to their studio song versions.  The studio floor speakers
were turned up so loud, the kids didn't know, or care, where the sound
was actually coming from.

   Tinnitus, we welcome you!   

[Thumpalumpacus]

Miming was popular with some TV shows simply for engineering's sake. It's easier to set up sound for a pre-recorded track than it is to soundcheck and then perform a live band.

Here's one not mimed. These guys were good.

[Szuchow]

[SYZ]

Pink Floyd's album and ode to Syd Barrett "Wish You Were Here" turns 50.



When Barrett parted ways with the group in March 1968, the band's
management went with him, believing him to be the key creative force
behind Pink Floyd.

The remaining members, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and
the newly added Dave Gilmour, began to forge a new direction, which
would ultimately lead to the record-breaking success of The Dark Side
Of The Moon in 1973.  

As one of only four albums to have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide,
it has spent a record 990 weeks, the equivalent of about 19 years, in the US
Billboard Top 200 albums chart.



I bought both vinyl albums as soon as they were released, and still play the
CD copies today—the 50-year-old discs long ago melting in the sun, on the
parcel shelf of my car in 1983.   Tears at bedtime that day!

[Dexta]

[Dexta]

BTW, an aside, Limewax is Russian and Current Value is German. Also this track is over a decade old...like that matters.

[Dexta]

"BTW" lol, Dillinja is British. Not that that matters.

[Thumpalumpacus]

It'd been years and years since I heard this song on the radio (the studio version, but I love this live version), and now, suddenly, in the last two days, I've heard it three times in the last three days. It must have landed on a happy focus-group.

[Wolfy]

Morning Vibe Time on WICN. https://wicn.org/

Host Michelle Willson plays an eclectic mix, mostly good, sometimes clunky, always surprising.

[Legasov057]

https://youtu.be/0iLClJUQhA0?si=cgZWIKS2AoqjOwao

[Dexta]

[SYZ]

[c172]

[SYZ]

Unfortunate band name?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"And the winner of the Last Century's Worst Haircut" goes to the 14 yo in that picture.