What can I say, "you gotta know when to hold-em and know when to fold-em". One of the first movies I remember seeing at the drive-in was "Six-Pack" in which Kenny plays a stock-car driver that reluctantly takes on the care of 6 orphans with a love of racing and kicks his own depression for their sake (always a good approach to mental health). This CD is different than most collections and best ofs in that it has more old stuff than poular hits including Kenny's original band, the First Edition where he displays none of his classic gravelly voice - Ironically he sounds more like Donny Osmond.
Saturday Night Fever - The Original Movie Soundtrack
$2.95
"You can tell by the way I walk, I'm a woman's man - no time to talk". After seeing Grease on my last post, some of you may be thinking that I'm a John Travolta fan. This is not actually the case - I don't think I've ever seen the movie all the way through. In fact - I remember seeing the disco spoof in the movie Airplane and not getting the joke.
Nnothing more to say about this one other than this ..... burn baby burn - disco inferno!
The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
$2.95
It's a still-life watercolor
Of a now late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtain lace
And shadows wash the room
Simon and Garfunkel lyrics still have a powerfull effect on me - 23 years after I first listed to them. I saw the concert in central park on a pbs special one saturday morning. Mom and or Dad said that they had an old S&G album that I could listen to on the record player.
The record was Parsely, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme. It has classics like "The Dangling Conversation" (above) and less worthy numbers like "Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" But the one that topped it all was "The Seven O'clock News" in which they sing a soft version of Silent Night over a newscast telling of the war and the death of Lenny Bruce. Saddly, it is the only one of my favorites not on this disc. My Dad is still holding on to the album.
Susan Ashton - So Far
$2.95
I met Susan Ashton backstage at a Stephen Curtis Chapman concert while talking to Scott and Christine Dente (aka Out of the Grey). That's about as much name dropping as you'll get from me. The thing is, I didn't know who she was and was surprised to see her as the opening act.
I loved her songs (just her voice and a guitar) and knew that I had to get her album. See ... I do know what that's like - though some won't belive it.
Anyway, I used one of my comps with my Sparrow record rep and listened to the disc for the next 6 months constantly. Then my roomate bought it from me for gas money (or forgot to return it) - the jerk; and I've needed to replace it ever since. Saddly the orginal is out of print - so I had to make do with another best of.
A Mighty Wind - The Original Movie Soundtrack
$2.95
If you've never heard of this movie - stop right now and go rent it .... then buy the soundtrack (and hope you get as good of a deal as I did).
This movie was made by the folks that brought us Spinal Tap (you can see them here in the Red Shirts). This time though instead of Sex Drugs & Rock-n-Roll, it's the under-belly of folk-music that is lampooned.
Parker Posey (top with pig-tails) is a slutty banjo picker in the Main Street Singers. The surprising musical star of the show though, is Jim's Dad himself Eugene Levey. While all the stars do their own singing (and most wrote their own songs) .... Eugene as 'Mitch' blows them all away as a slightly forgetfull and fried hippie that sings about a kiss at the end of the rainbow.
The CD also features Levy's own 'Ballad of Bobby and June" which isn't in the movie - but is as classic of a folky war-protest song as any from the 60's. It's too bad John Denver wasn't alive to make a cameo with Kermit.
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A mighty wind was an okay movie, but I do like the sound track A LOT, in fact, it's one that made it to the van instead of the car! :)
For folk music, the Mighty Wind music wasn't all bad. Is the "Sure Flo" theme on the CD? Actually, of those docu-comedies that I saw Spinal Tap was good, but not near the quality of A Mighty Wind and Best in Show.
Also, about The Gambler. One person I used to work with said it was a shooting offense to sing that song when playing poker with his buddies.
I had forgotten about the husband/wife group "Out of the Grey." I think I remember liking some of their songs. Susan Ashton was ok too. I used to be a huge Stephen Curtis Chapman fan. Not so much anymore.
I would buy all of those. I don't know much about Susan Ashton except that Roamer like's em. We went to a Kenny Rogers concert once in K.C. During the middle of a song he stopped singing and addressed two young girls who were screaming in the front row like groupies. "Stop That!" he said, "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!"
A Mighty Wind is also poised to take the micro-culture here in missionary spain as the new funniest weird movie if we can find a PAL format disc... COOL!
Vestal Goodman - now that was one handsome lady!
I like the dreamy acoustic harmonizing songs of s&g versus there more rockin' stuff. A few years ago we got their box set of all their records, so I created my ultimate s&g mood album on my ipod. Sorry for breaking all the Album rules.
What qualifies as rockin' with S&G? I am not an afficienado, but I know that I would consider the songs I know (e.g. Scarborough Fair and Mrs. Robinson) paticularly rockin'. :)
More of their jammin' songs with lots of percussion like (as you said)Mrs. Robinson and others that are not as popular. Scarborough Fair is (not rockin') as it is a beautiful acoustic song with no drums. My collections is a bunch of songs similar to Scarborough Fair - great for a rainy fall day. I also have a few of their rockin' in my collection like Mrs. Robinson and Cecilia.
A fun collection. Dar has been wanting me to see A Mighty Wind for some time. Only snippets on tv up til now. I can't imagine I'd enjoy the album as much as the movie since I'm not a huge Folk fan. I do like S & G though.
I saw SNF as an adult on television. Glad I didn't see the unedited version, ha. I do know how to sing along with all those songs!
YEAH! I just picked up "Una Venta Peligrosa!" in the bargain bin for 5.95 Euros!
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