OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.
My grandmother always wanted me to sing her favorite hymn ("Just As I Am") at her funeral. She died when I was 17.
Didn't sing. I was too broken up. Wanted to, but my parents put their feet down.
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2005 4:54:12 pm PDT #74 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Michele T. - Sep 01, 2005 6:33:16 pm PDT #75 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Fats Domino alive and OK and airlifted out of NO.
dw - Sep 01, 2005 6:57:07 pm PDT #76 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
More NOLA: "St. James Infirmary" was mentioned on a friend's blog today.
The only song I know I want at my funeral is the Lomax recording of "Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah" as done by Ike Caudill and choir. It's my favorite hymn, only this version is African call-and-response Southern Gospel choir and is utterly, totally haunting. It's on iTunes if anyone wants to sample.
Otherwise... I don't know. I just know there will be a lot of music. And alcohol.
sumi - Sep 02, 2005 4:16:45 am PDT #77 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Here's an update on some NOLA musicians.
Fred Pete - Sep 02, 2005 5:17:25 am PDT #78 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2005 8:13:31 am PDT #79 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
New Orleans musician Charmaine Neville, since Monday, he tried "not to think the worst." His mother and some friends had planned to wait out the storm, then make a run for a school if conditions worsened. "I know my mom," he said yesterday afternoon. "She's a strong woman." Neville's father, Charles, is a member of the Neville Brothers, whose hits include "Fly Like an Eagle," "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Ain't No Sunshine."
I'm glad to see that Charmaine's okay - I saw her at Snug Harbor. But I'm sure Steve Miller, Sam Cooke and Bill Withers would be surprised to see their hits attributed to the Neville Brothers.
erikaj - Sep 02, 2005 8:33:12 am PDT #80 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod...it should say "covered such classics as..." or something. There are lots of great covers...it's not a slam.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2005 8:36:32 am PDT #81 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There are lots of great covers...it's not a slam.
Indeed, your incoming collection (which I think I can get in the mail today) has Bobby Womack's supercool cover of "California Dreaming."
Fred Pete - Sep 02, 2005 8:36:33 am PDT #82 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Though Aaron had a solo hit with a cover of "Everybody Plays the Fool."
(ETA: Which was originally a hit for the Main Ingredient, who admittedly aren't considered in the same league as the others mentioned.)
erikaj - Sep 02, 2005 8:46:58 am PDT #83 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Can't picture that, Hec, but probably because I've heard the original twenty-seven million times. I'm sure it's a good thing(or maybe thang, so as to sound more soul and less Martha Stewart.) Now wanna see the "Foxy Brown Living" show...I'd tape that shit, too. Soul covers that have surprised me lately: "Never Can Say Goodbye" Isaac Hayes "Just the Way You Are" Barry White Very different reads on songs I didn't know I cared about. And, of course Fred's right...The Main Ingredient, right? Although I confess a preference for the Neville one.