Poll: Old School Music is cool

Page 172 of 176 FirstFirst ... 72122162170171172173174 ... LastLast
Results 1,711 to 1,720 of 1753

Thread: Old school music is cool!

  1. #1711
    Diamond Member Blurock's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    Durban
    Posts
    4,151
    Thanks
    758
    Thanked 886 Times in 735 Posts
    Blog Entries
    7
    This was a time when one could still listen to the lyrics and sing along. This was a time when music had melody and rhythm. This is a silly little song by Tiffany, but caught the essence of being young and in love.
    Excellence is not a skill; its an attitude...

  2. #1712
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    Quote Originally Posted by Blurock View Post
    This was a time when one could still listen to the lyrics and sing along. This was a time when music had melody and rhythm. This is a silly little LOVE song by Tiffany, but caught the essence of being young and in love.

    I remember Tiffany fondly!

    On 7 November 1987 sixteen year-old Tiffany was the youngest female to smash USA singles charts by doing a cover version of Tommy James & The Shondells classic hit “ I think we alone now.”[1]

    Children behave, that's what they say when we're together
    And watch how you play
    They don't understand
    And so we're
    Running just as fast as we can, holding on to one another hands
    Trying to get away into the night and then you put your arms around me
    And we tumble to the ground and then you say
    I think we're alone now,
    There doesn't seem to be anyone around
    I think we're alone now,
    The beating of our hearts is the only sound
    Look at the way we gotta hide what we're doin'
    'Cause what would they say
    If they ever knew
    And so we're
    Running just as fast as we can, holding on to one another hands
    Trying to get away into the night and then you put your arms around me
    And we tumble to the ground and then you say
    I think we're alone now,
    There doesn't seem to be…
    I Think We're Alone Now:Composed by Ritchie Cordell:Tommy James and the Shondells:1967Lyrics and Video

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	I_Think_We're_Alone_Now_-_Tommy_James_&_the_Shondells.jpg 
Views:	126 
Size:	12.7 KB 
ID:	7838

    In 1967 Tommy James and the Shondells were successful with “I think we alone now.” This was their fourth US hit song.[2]


    Album cover[3]
    Video source[4]


    [1]Black J Rock and Pop Timeline (2003 Outline Press Ltd) 212.

    [2] Black J Rock and Pop Timeline (2003 Outline Press Ltd) 65.

    [3] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Thin...lone_Now.(date of use 18 March 2020)

    [4] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS8WXYwnKY( date of use 18 March 2020)
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  3. #1713
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    Howard Jones: Everlasting love: 1989:Lyrics and video

    Name:  Howard_Jones_-_Everlasting_Love.jpg
Views: 706
Size:  6.2 KB




    Tantalizing lyrics from another ‘silly little love song.’
    He wasn't looking for a pretty face
    She wasn't searching for the latest style
    He didn't want someone who walked straight off the TV
    She needed someone with an interior smile
    She wasn't looking for a cuddle in the back seat
    He wasn't looking for a five minute thrill
    She wasn't thinking of tomorrow or of next week
    This vacancy he meant to permanently fill
    I need an everlasting love
    I need a friend and a lover divine
    An everlasting precious love
    Wait for it, wait for it, give it some time
    Back in the world of disposable emotion
    In the climate of temporary dreams
    He wasn't looking for a notch on his bedpost
    A love to push, pull and burst at the seams
    I need an everlasting love
    I need a friend and a lover divine
    An everlasting precious love
    Wait for it, wait for…
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  4. #1714
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    The Beatles: Twist and Shout: 1963: Ed Sullivan Show: Lyrics and video

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Twist_and_Shout_by_The_Beatles_Side-A_US_vinyl.jpg 
Views:	140 
Size:	42.1 KB 
ID:	8042



    My favorite Beatles live performance video and why

    The Beatles performance of Twist and Shout on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964 is my favorite performance. The Ed Sullivan show was a very popular American show.[1] The Beatles gave a remarkable performance of this song. The concept of Beatle mania can be clearly seen in this particular video in so far as the hysterical mania of the audience, especially the fairer sex goes. The lady with the glasses in the front row that the camera catches first, at the early parts of the song is completely mesmerized. The lady that climaxes in musical head movements, during the climax of the song["vocalizing climax,' portion], pun intended, is sheer music history

    The entire soundtrack of the Beatles will remain an integral part of music that I enjoy listening to for life.

    [Verse 1: John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison]
    Well, shake it up, baby, now (Shake it up, baby)
    Twist and shout (Twist and shout)
    C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby, now (Come on baby)
    Come on and work it on out (Work it on out)

    Well, work it on out (Work it on out)
    You know you look so good (Look so good)
    You know you got me goin', now (Got me goin')
    Just like I knew you would (Like I knew you would)

    [Verse 2: John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison]
    Well, shake it up, baby, now (Shake it up, baby)
    Twist and shout (Twist and shout)
    C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby, now (Come on baby)
    Come on and work it on out (Work it on out)

    You know you twist your little girl (Twist, little girl)
    You know you twist so fine (Twist so fine)
    Come on and twist a little closer, now (Twist a little closer)
    And let me know that you're mine (Let me know you're mine)

    [Guitar Solo: George Harrison]

    [Verse 2: John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison]
    Baby, now (Shake it up, baby)
    Twist and shout (Twist and shout)
    C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby, now (Come on baby)
    Come on and work it on out (Work it on out)
    Album cover[2]
    Video source[3]


    [1] Wkipedia: The Ed Sullivan Show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show (Date of use 19 December 2020.

    [2] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_...A_US_vinyl.png (date of use 19 December 2020)

    [3] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VAxGJdJeQ (date of use 19 December 2020)
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  5. #1715
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    Gregory Abbot: Shake you down: 1986: Lyrics and video

    Gregory Abbot’s 1986 Shake you down is my choice of old school love song for December 2020. But, it’s so much more than that!??

    Ever had a watershed moment when reading a novel, play or poem? That is, you come across a certain scene in a chapter that you feel a popular love song would do justice to if it were ever made a movie, or more realistically when presented with a certain scene, one just hears a certain song.

    Well, I have several of such watershed moments a day!




    1. Let me explain, 2019 and 2020 saw me literally read every Lee Child novel. I was deeply impressed with “ Worth dying for,” and “ Never go back.” My reason is simple. A love story starts in the most unlikely and most unexpected way between Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and Major Susan Turner. They actually don’t meet in the novel “Worth dying for,” they merely speak on the telephone. They do however meet in a bizarre way in “Never go back.” Jack Reacher realizes that Major Susan Turner has been arrested by military police on trumped up charges. So he decides to get him arrested so that he can firstly, finally meet her, and very quickly thereafter break them both out of a highly secure USA military barracks!


    If the novel was transformed into movie magic verbatim, I would select Gregory Abbot’s song Shake you down for when they first lay eyes on each other.

    P.S I’m aware that a movie was made
    , with Tom Cruise playing Reacher. I haven’t seen it! Most Lee Child fans were, however, according to reviews very disappointed because Jack Reacher was not portrayed exactly as his character is physically described in the book.




    1. Shakespeare, the author of the concept of love in modern times. King Henry V.Shakespeare explored the concept of love, and probably said certain remarkable things about love before anyone else. Regardless of whether you’ve written a novel, made a movie or wrote a poem the simple verifiable fact is that Shakespeare explored the concept of love first, wrote remarkable plays and poems that continue to stun the reader. For instance, in just one scene of Romeo and Juliet act 1 scene v, he demonstrates on paper how explosive this concept of true love really


    “If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
    My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
    To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” (Act I, scene v)

    Where there is phenomena, there can only be phenomenal sentiment

    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.” (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)


    (The scene where Henry meets Katherine.) I’ve included the actual scene that I think is really very cool, and the entire acts/scenes further below:-

    KING HENRY V
    Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.
    KATHARINE
    Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je
    ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en
    baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne
    serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon
    tres-puissant seigneur.
    KING HENRY V
    Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
    KATHARINE
    Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant
    leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.
    KING HENRY V
    Madam my interpreter, what says she?
    ALICE
    Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of
    France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.
    KING HENRY V
    To kiss.
    ALICE
    Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.
    KING HENRY V
    It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss
    before they are married, would she say?
    ALICE
    Oui, vraiment.
    KING HENRY V
    O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear
    Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak
    list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of
    manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our
    places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will
    do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your
    country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently
    and yielding.
    Kissing her

    You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is
    more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the
    tongues of the French council; and they should
    sooner persuade Harry of England than a general
    petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Gregory_Abbott_-_Shake_You_Down_album_cover.jpg 
Views:	134 
Size:	12.8 KB 
ID:	8043


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_...lbum_cover.jpg

    Oh, yeah

    Girl, I've been watching you
    From so far across the floor now, baby
    That's nothing new
    I've watched you so many times before now, baby

    I see that look in your eyes (look in your eyes)
    And what it's telling me
    And you know, oh girl, that I'm not shy
    I'm glad you picked up on my telepathy, now baby

    (You read my mind) you know you did
    (Girl, I wanna shake you down) well, oh well
    (I can give you all the loving you need) I'm gonna love you
    (Come on, let me take you down) oh, baby
    (We'll go all the way to heaven)

    Oh, I've been missing you
    And the way you make me feel inside
    What can I do?
    I can tell you've got your pride now, baby

    (Oh) come to me, well oh well (won't you come to me)
    Let me ease your mind, oh babe
    I've got the remedy, huh, yes I do
    Now give me just a little time

    (You read my mind)
    (Girl, I wanna shake you down) I wanna rock you down
    (I can give you all the loving you need) I'm gonna love you
    (Come on, let me take you down) well, oh well
    (We'll go all the way to heaven)

    Girl, I've been missing you
    And you know, it's funny
    Every time I get to feelin' this way
    I wish I had you near me
    I wanna reach out and touch you

    I can't stop thinking of the things we do
    The way you call me, baby, when I'm holding you
    I shake and I shiver when I know your near
    Then you whisper in my ear
    Oh baby, well, oh well

    (You read my mind) you know you did
    (Girl, I wanna shake you down) oh, baby
    (I can give you all the loving you need) aah (loving you'll need)
    (Come on, let me take you down) well, oh well
    (We'll go all the way to heaven)

    Eenie, meenie, minie, moe (you read my mind)
    Come on, girl, let's start the show (girl, I wanna shake you down)
    Aah, yeah (I can give you all the loving you need)
    Roses are red and violets are blue
    I'm gonna rock this town for you (come on, let me take you down)
    Hey, baby (we'll go all the way to heaven)

    Come on, sugar, let me shake you down
    I'm gonna take you down to the ground
    I shake and I shiver when I know you're near
    Come on, baby, whisper in my ear

    Come on, sugar, let me shake you down
    I'm gonna take you down to the ground
    I shake and I shiver when I know you're near
    Come on, baby, whisper in my ear
    Album cover[1]
    Video[2]

    KING HENRY V: Act 5,


    KING HENRY V
    Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
    She is our capital demand, comprised
    Within the fore-rank of our articles.
    QUEEN ISABEL
    She hath good leave.
    Exit all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE

    KING HENRY V
    Fair Katharine, and most fair,
    Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
    Such as will enter at a lady's ear
    And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
    KATHARINE
    Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.
    KING HENRY V
    O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with
    your French heart, I will be glad to hear you
    confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do
    you like me, Kate?
    KATHARINE
    Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'
    KING HENRY V
    An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
    KATHARINE
    Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?
    ALICE
    Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.
    KING HENRY V
    I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to
    affirm it.
    KATHARINE
    O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de
    tromperies.
    KING HENRY V
    What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men
    are full of deceits?
    ALICE
    Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of
    deceits: dat is de princess.
    KING HENRY V
    The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,
    Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am
    glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if
    thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king
    that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my
    crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
    directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me
    farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out
    my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so
    clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?
    KATHARINE
    Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.
    KING HENRY V
    Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for
    your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I
    have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I
    have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable
    measure in strength. If I could win a lady at
    leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my
    armour on my back, under the correction of bragging
    be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.
    Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse
    for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and
    sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,
    Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my
    eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;
    only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,
    nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a
    fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth
    sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love
    of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy
    cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst
    love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee
    that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the
    Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou
    livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and
    uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee
    right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other
    places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that
    can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do
    always reason themselves out again. What! a
    speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A
    good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
    black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
    bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax
    hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the
    moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it
    shines bright and never changes, but keeps his
    course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
    me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,
    take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?
    speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
    KATHARINE
    Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?
    KING HENRY V
    No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of
    France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love
    the friend of France; for I love France so well that
    I will not part with a village of it; I will have it
    all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am
    yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
    KATHARINE
    I cannot tell vat is dat.
    KING HENRY V
    No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am
    sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married
    wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook
    off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand
    vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what
    then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est
    France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,
    Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much
    more French: I shall never move thee in French,
    unless it be to laugh at me.
    KATHARINE
    Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il
    est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.
    KING HENRY V
    No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my
    tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs
    be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou
    understand thus much English, canst thou love me?
    KATHARINE
    I cannot tell.
    KING HENRY V
    Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask
    them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,
    when you come into your closet, you'll question this
    gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to
    her dispraise those parts in me that you love with
    your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the
    rather, gentle princess, because I love thee
    cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a
    saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get
    thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs
    prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,
    between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a
    boy, half French, half English, that shall go to
    Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?
    shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair
    flower-de-luce?
    KATHARINE
    I do not know dat
    KING HENRY V
    No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do
    but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your
    French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety
    take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer
    you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher
    et devin deesse?
    KATHARINE
    Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de
    most sage demoiselle dat is en France.
    KING HENRY V
    Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in
    true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I
    dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to
    flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor
    and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew
    my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars
    when he got me: therefore was I created with a
    stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when
    I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,
    Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:
    my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of
    beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou
    hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou
    shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:
    and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you
    have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the
    thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;
    take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am
    thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine
    ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is
    thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry
    Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before
    his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,
    thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
    Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is
    music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of
    all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken
    English; wilt thou have me?
    KATHARINE
    Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.
    KING HENRY V
    Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please
    him, Kate.
    KATHARINE
    Den it sall also content me.
    KING HENRY V
    Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.
    KATHARINE
    Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je
    ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en
    baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne
    serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon
    tres-puissant seigneur.
    KING HENRY V
    Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
    KATHARINE
    Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant
    leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.
    KING HENRY V
    Madam my interpreter, what says she?
    ALICE
    Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of
    France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.
    KING HENRY V
    To kiss.
    ALICE
    Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.
    KING HENRY V
    It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss
    before they are married, would she say?
    ALICE
    Oui, vraiment.
    KING HENRY V
    O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear
    Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak
    list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of
    manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our
    places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will
    do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your
    country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently
    and yielding.
    Kissing her

    You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is
    more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the
    tongues of the French council; and they should
    sooner persuade Harry of England than a general
    petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.
    Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and other Lords

    BURGUNDY
    God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you
    our princess English?
    KING HENRY V
    I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how
    perfectly I love her; and that is good English.
    BURGUNDY
    Is she not apt?
    KING HENRY V
    Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not
    smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the
    heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up
    the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
    his true likeness.
    BURGUNDY
    Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you
    for that. If you would conjure in her, you must
    make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true
    likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you
    blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the
    virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the
    appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
    self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid
    to consign to.
    KING HENRY V
    Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.
    BURGUNDY
    They are then excused, my lord, when they see not
    what they do.
    KING HENRY V
    Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.
    BURGUNDY
    I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will
    teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well
    summered and warm kept, are like flies at
    Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their
    eyes; and then they will endure handling, which
    before would not abide looking on.
    KING HENRY V
    This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;
    and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the
    latter end and she must be blind too.
    BURGUNDY
    As love is, my lord, before it loves.
    KING HENRY V
    It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for
    my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city
    for one fair French maid that stands in my way.
    FRENCH KING
    Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities
    turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with
    maiden walls that war hath never entered.
    KING HENRY V
    Shall Kate be my wife?
    FRENCH KING
    So please you.

    [1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_...lbum_cover.jpg (date of use 21 December 2020)

    [2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc8w...hvmX_w&index=4 (date of use 21 December 2020)
    Last edited by Citizen X; 22-Dec-20 at 10:08 AM.
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  6. #1716
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    Bee Gees: How Deep Is Your Love: 1977: Lyrics and Video

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	How_Deep_Is_Your_Love (1).jpg 
Views:	130 
Size:	22.0 KB 
ID:	8054

    I gave up watching television in 2017. The only media stimuli that I allow my sensory organs to readily accept without being defensive are: Talk Radio 702(92.7), and the Daily Sun. Beside this my primary entertainment is reading novels. My present reason is simply my next work “The illusion of freedom in a Constitutional democracy.” I figured out the nuts and bolts of the entire work and identified the legal philosophy that I will employ in proving my sentiments.
    It will be none other than the Critical Legal Studies movement of Harvard University. Described simply, the CRITS are a fundamental and important change in the academic guard. That should say it all! Needless to say, I will have to by necessity explore false consciousness, indeterminacy, debunking and trashing.
    Captain’s log star date 24 December 2020

    I had the privilege of tuning into the Africa Melane show earlier this morning. He made mention that the brothers Gibb’s song “How deep is your love,” is 43 years old.

    I’m always taken back by the entire 702 team, including but not limited to the presenters, news readers and producers. I venture to say that they are a true embodiment of the Constitution of 1996. Suffice to say it, whenever I listen to any of their presenters I remind myself of this and simply say “I strive to become a better man that I was yesterday, these people are the crème of the crop of the South African media. The presenters are truly an embodiment of the Constitution of 1996 and this is no mere hyperbole in so far as they are a watchdog serving the South African public by delivering news, monitoring all those who hold power and I suppose they plead with government to get rid of excesses and corruption and simply promote an efficient and effective democracy. So they don’t just provide news and talk about all the topical issues in our South African society but they also put information before us for constructive, rational and robust debate. I always find their remarks to be exceptionally astute. To employ an overused cliché “Christmas came early,” for me just by hearing the mention of the song. It triggered so many memories that I personally have attached to this song it’s surreal!!

    Off script……okay, back to “How deep is your love??” This is a ballad penned and recorded way back in 1977.[1] It hit number 3 in both the UK and Australia.[2] Perhaps most important is is currently listed on Billboard’s All Time Top 100 at number 22.
    For me it’s just a song that brings back so many memories. This song is just so phenomenal.



    I know your eyes in the morning sun
    I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
    And the moment that you wander far from me
    I wanna feel you in my arms again

    And you come to me on a summer breeze
    Keep me warm in your love then you softly leave
    And it's me you need to show
    How deep is your love

    How deep is your love,
    How deep is your love
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down
    When they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    I believe in you
    You know the door to my very soul
    You're the light in my deepest darkest hour
    You're my saviour when I fall
    And you may not think
    I care for you
    When you know down inside
    That I really do
    And it's me you need to show
    How deep is your love

    How deep is your love,
    How deep is your love
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down
    When they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    And you come to me on a summer breeze
    Keep me warm in your love then you softly leave
    And it's me you need to show
    How deep is your love

    How deep is your love,
    How deep is your love
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down
    When they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me
    "
    Alum cover[3]
    Video[4]



    [1] Wikipedia:How deep is your love (Bee Gees song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_De...Bee_Gees_song) (Date of use 24 December 2020).

    [2] See FN 1.

    [3] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_De...Bee_Gees_song). (Date of use 2020)

    [4] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc (date of use 24 December 2020)
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  7. #1717
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    Colour me bad: I wanna sex you up:1991:Lyrics and video

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	CMBSexYouUp.jpg 
Views:	131 
Size:	20.0 KB 
ID:	8058

    Book review:

    Lee Child’s “Never go back,” is a high octane power action novel featuring Jack Reacher a drifter who frequents diners and cheap motels. He is the good guy. I like this book for just so many reasons. In Lee Child’s previous novel “ Worth dying for,” Reacher speaks to Major Susan Turner telephonically from South Dakota. She is in Virginia. The chemistry between them is palpable. In “Never go back,” Reacher decides to go to Virginia to meet her. Upon his arrival he is informed that Major Susan Turner has been arrested by military police. He concludes the charges are trumped up. It just so happens that military police are looking for him as well. They recall him to the military on trumped up charges. He decides to get himself arrested at a highly secure military base in Rock Creek so that he could finally and after so very long just see Major Susan Turner, and then break them both out of that installation so that they could work together to figure out how and why a conspiracy exists against them.
    The following scene comes from page 192 of the novel. At this stage, they haven’t explored each other’s bedroom eyes as yet. They sleep in separate rooms. The next morning Reacher go to her bedroom, she is bare footed. She invites him in. They don’t get physical as yet but the sexual innuendo and flirtation speaks volumes.(Nothing cheap here I assure you!)

    She sat down on the bed. Left him standing near the window. Her pants were loose, and her shirt was tight. She was wearing nothing underneath it. That was clear. He could see ribs, and slender curves. On the phone from South Dakota he had pictured her as a blonde, with blue eyes, maybe from northern California, all of which had turned out to be completely wrong. She was dark-haired and dark-eyed, and from Montana. But he had been right about other things. Five-six or five-seven, he had guessed out loud, but thin. Your voice is all in your throat. She had laughed out loud and asked: You saying I’m flat chested? He had laughed back and said, 34A at best. She had said, damn. But the reality was better than the telephone guesses. Live and in person she was something else entirely.[1].

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Never_go_back_by_lee_child.jpg 
Views:	121 
Size:	14.5 KB 
ID:	8059

    On a personal note, this reminds me of a phenomenal telephonic conversation. I too was eager to figure out her exact chest size by asking a range of silly seemingly innocent questions..

    My song choice for this scene

    The old school love song that I played in my mind as I read this scene is Colour Me Bad’s I wanna sex you up from 1991.



    Come inside, take off your coat, I'll make you feel at home.
    Now let's pour a glass of wine 'cause now we're all alone.
    I've been waiting all night so just let me hold you close to me,
    'Cause I've been dyin' for you girl and make love to me.

    Girl you make me feel real good.
    We can do it 'til we both wake up.
    Girl, you know I'm hooked on you,
    And this is what I'll do...

    I wanna sex you up.
    All night.
    You make me feel real good.
    I wanna rub you down.
    I wanna sex you up.

    Let me take off all your clothes.
    Disconnect the phone so nobody knows.
    Let me light a candle,
    So that we can make it better.
    Makin' love until we drown.

    Girl, you know it feels real good.
    We can do it 'til we both wake up.
    Girl you know I'm hooked on you.
    And this is what I'll do.

    Make sweet lovin' all night long...
    (I wanna sex you up)
    Feels so right it can't be wrong...
    Don't be shy girl rescue me...
    (I wanna sex you up)
    Open up your heart and I'll set you free...
    Album cover source[2]
    Video source[3]
    Book cover[4]



    [1] Lee Child Never go back (Transworld Publishers 2013) p192.

    [2] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Sex_You_Up (Date of use 26 December 2020).

    [3] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxu3...DJlmiU&index=1 (date of use 26 December 2020).

    [4] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Go_Back_(novel) (Date of use 26 December 2020)
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  8. #1718
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    PJ Powers and Steve Kekana: Feel so strong: 1983: Lyrics and video




    [Verse 1: Steve Kekana]
    Yesterday
    You took me by the hand
    And all at once
    I began to understand

    But I
    I never thought I'd find a friend
    Quite like you
    Ooh, I never thought you'd care so much

    [Chorus: P.J. Powers]
    But, I do
    And now I feel so strong
    Your help has made me feel again
    That I belong

    I couldn't really tell you
    So I wrote this song

    So, listen carefully

    [P.J. Powers and Steve Kekana]
    When you're here with me
    I feel so strong
    [Verse 2: P.J. Powers]
    I never felt like this before
    But being alone isn't scary anymore

    I got this feeling in my heart
    And now we're friends, I know we'll never ever part

    But I

    [P.J. Powers and Steve Kekana]
    I never thought I'd find a friend quite like you
    I never thought you'd care so much

    [Chorus: Steve Kekana]
    But, I do
    Now I feel so strong
    Your help has made me feel again
    That I belong

    I couldn't really tell you
    So I wrote this song

    So, listen carefully
    When you're here with me
    I feel so strong
    [Bridge: P.J. Powers]
    I feel so strong
    I feel so strong
    I feel, I feel
    I feel so strong

    [Steve Kekana:] Ooh, baby

    I feel so strong
    I feel so strong
    I feel so strong
    I feel strong

    I, I
    I, I

    [Steve Kekana:] I

    I, I
    I, I
    I feel
    So strong

    [Outro]
    (Feel so strong)
    (Feel so strong)
    (Feel so strong)
    Video source[1]


    [1] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIrypgTHtN4 (Date of use 7 January 2021)
    Last edited by Citizen X; 07-Jan-21 at 03:36 PM.
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

  9. #1719
    Diamond Member Blurock's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    Durban
    Posts
    4,151
    Thanks
    758
    Thanked 886 Times in 735 Posts
    Blog Entries
    7
    Welcome back Vanash. This number by PJ Powers has always been a favourite!
    Excellence is not a skill; its an attitude...

  10. Thanks given for this post:

    Citizen X (11-Jan-21)

  11. #1720
    Diamond Member Citizen X's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    lenasia
    Posts
    3,404
    Thanks
    868
    Thanked 701 Times in 613 Posts
    Cliff Richard: Carrie: 1980: Lyrics and video

    Name:  Carrie_(Cliff_Richard_single_cover).jpg
Views: 228
Size:  16.8 KB
    Ever been overcome by nostalgia? Ever went to an old flame last known address looking for her only to find out that she definitely doesn’t live there anyone. The only clue you given is that the color of the house that she currently resides in is Oxford Cherry.

    In search of Oxford Cherry…….

    Anyway, this particular song expresses that nostalgia rather nicely!




    [Verse 1]
    Sorry to disturb you
    But I was in the neighbourhood
    About a friend, I've her picture
    Could you take a look?

    [Verse 2]
    Oh, I appreciate you're busy
    And time is not your own
    Yeah, maybe it would be better
    If I telephoned

    [Chorus]
    Carrie doesn't live here anymore
    Carrie used to room on the second floor
    Sorry that she left no forwarding address
    That was known to me

    [Chorus 2]
    Carrie doesn't live here anymore
    You could always ask at the corner store
    Carrie had a date with her own kind of fate
    It's plain to see

    [Verse 3]
    Another missing person
    One of many we assume
    The young wear their freedom
    Like cheap perfume



    [Bridge]
    (It's useless information) Returning my call
    (To help the situation) They've nothin' at all
    You're just another message
    On a payphone wall

    [Chorus]
    Carrie doesn't live here anymore
    Carrie used to room on the second floor
    Sorry that she left no forwarding address
    That was known to me

    Carrie!
    [Solo]
    2:19 - 2:35

    [Chorus 3]
    Carrie doesn't live here anymore
    (Carrie doesn't live, doesn't live anymore)
    Carrie used to room on the second floor
    (On the second)
    Sorry Carrie left no forwarding address
    It's a mystery

    Album cover[1]
    Video source[2]


    [1] By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49949127 (Date of use 11 January 2021)


    [2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWQ_vJYt7DADate of use 11 January 2021)
    “Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
    Spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors I found in leading publications.
    Click here
    sabbaticus

Similar Threads

  1. New Gmail theme is so cool!
    By Neville Bailey in forum Technology Forum
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 01-Jul-11, 02:00 PM
  2. Music while you work
    By Mirelle in forum General Business Forum
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 04-Mar-11, 12:15 PM
  3. Mike Schussler loses his cool over Eskom
    By Dave A in forum General Chat Forum
    Replies: 12
    Last Post: 21-Apr-10, 09:21 PM
  4. Looking for music/biking/tattoo event organisers?
    By Debbiedle in forum General Business Forum
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 23-Feb-10, 02:33 PM
  5. Music Sales Figures
    By Illusion Studios in forum General Business Forum
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 25-Feb-09, 12:59 PM

Tags for this Thread

Did you like this article? Share it with your favourite social network.

Did you like this article? Share it with your favourite social network.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •