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Music, Myths and Fairy Tales
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Diana, Puff The Magic Dragon is such a heartwarming song, really appreciated it since David drew my attention to it another post last year. Good choice here.
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A few weeks ago I wanted to learn the chords to Puff the Magic Dragon so I could play it on my ukulele. I figured it would be fairly simple, but surprisingly there was a string of fast, difficult chord changes at the end of the refrain. For just about any other song I would have given up, but I kept at it until I could do it, thereby moving my playing skills up to the next level. Puff is still helping me grow!
At at Peter, Paul & Mary concert I once attended, Peter played the intro to Puff, and the audience applauded in anticipation. But before he began the lyrics, he suddenly stopped and communicated with the guy in the booth. Troubleshooting the problem required him to play and sing something, so he played Puff while ad-libbing these words: “Once there were three performers who had trouble with the sound. They told the studio engineer that there was too much echo.” The audience actually started to settle in to enjoy this version, despite the lyrics being about a tech issue. If that doesn’t tell you how great a song Puff is, I don’t know what does.
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The Dwarves
Elves, trolls, unicorns, dragons. I think dwarves should not be missing. The cute little guys with the red pointed hats. True cheerful creatures that you like to welcome as guests whenever you meet them.
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Hi Jurgen
Here is one of my favourites that fit in the realm of myths and fairytales. I sang this since I was a wee little lad in elementary school music class. Remember feeling goosebumps singing this. Even had the lyrics mostly memorized once.
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Thank you Jung. A very beautiful song that makes you think and almost even more beautiful pictures. Just fabulous.
When I think of my school days and the songs we learned there, my first contact with classical music comes to mind. I was in the 3rd grade and our teacher introduced us to the following piece of music: “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev. The piece left a lasting impression on me. I found an animated version with the narration voice of David Bowie. The video is a little long, but I find the animations very funny. The style reminds me of the cartoon series Looney Tunes, that I liked to watch as a kid (Bugs Bunny, Duffy Duck and co.)
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Hi Jurgen, In Peter and the Wolf I like how they assigned each character a specific instrument. In the Star Wars theme which is an epic story of good (the force) versus evil (the empire), John Williams represents good through the strings and wind instruments, and evil with the brass orchestra, which is really effective. Music add so much dimension and emotional depth to the narrative, it’s invaluable to any story telling.
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This one was posted a while back on another thread, but I think it fits here:
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Atlantis, but of course. Thanks David. The aquarium in the video looks great. Do you happen to know where that was filmed?
Here I have also the suitable cover song or a new edition, however. The formation “No Angels” was a German girl group that had some big hits around the year 2000. In 2001 Donovan and „No Angels“ re-recorded the track for the closing credits of the Walt Disney Feature Animation picture „Atlantis: The lost Empire“. I didn’t even know the original was by Donovan. I’ve always wondered who the man is who sings along. 🙂
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Juergen, the uploader of the Atlantis video said the footage is from the Kuroshio Sea aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Apparently it’s the second-largest aquarium in the world.
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Siren, Mermaids and sailor tale
The siren “Lorely” has already been mentioned here. Now that we have arrived at Atlantis, it is time to turn to her relatives in the depths of the ocean.
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The song is from the 1954 movie „20,000 Leagues Under the Sea“, and that almost brings us back to „Yellow Submarine“ and „Octopus’s Garden“.
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Dave Dee is back to serenade you with another song about a legendary character:
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Great job David. Once again Dave Dee & Co. What Don Juan was to Spanish, Rasputin was to Russians: A mysterious lover with a questionable curriculum vitae.
Boney M. was a German Disco Music Group who reached a number 1 hit in Germany with this song in 1978. They were also highly placed in the UK charts, Canada and Australia.
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Nice one Jurgen. I remember Boney M and Rasputin in the 80s. They use to play it in the clubs. Didn’t know Boney M was a popular German band.
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The Orient and the tales from 1001 Nights
From the icy myths of the North to the vast fairy-tale landscapes of Europe and on to the Orient. Scheherazade and the Fairy tales from 1001 nights: Exotic and colorful like an oriental bazaar and refreshing like an oasis in the desert.
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Im nin’alu daltei n’divim daltei marom lo nin’alu:
“Even if the gates of the rich are closed, the gates of heaven will never be closed”
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Lol..Thiugh I’m feeling a tad off slightly with a tad sore arm from Flu shot given to ne yesterday, I wanted add some tv shows, etc that gave come into my mind here besides tge ones I’ve already previously mentioned in a reply on here…
Puf n Stuff that had Cass Elliot in it as Witcher- Poo and she sang a song or two, I think that was her character name…lol…
Also in terms of tv shows, The Krofft Puppets show, Fraggle Rock, the Secret Railroad cartoon , Out of This World TV series, Mork n Mindy, The Girl From Tomorrow, Doctor Who in the 1970s/80s on tv, and there’s more, from my childhood/teen yrs I recall on tv that I watched, just not coming to me at the moment…. ” Being In Your 50s Memory Lapse Time” … but what I just mentioned came to my mind…. I’m enjoying this particular topic … ????
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Hi Jacki, thank you for your many memories and suggestions. I know Dr Who, of course. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the other programmes.
Kunstmärchen („Arty“ Fairy Tale / Fantastic tale)
The German writer E.T.A Hofmann wrote the book “The Golden Pot“ (Der goldene Topf) in 1814. A story with fantastic and surreal elements. Hoffmann himself referred to this literary genre, which was widespread during the Romantic period, as an “art fairy tale“. I personally like this term very much. He and other writers of his time were thus the forefathers of the modern fantasy literature.
J. R. R. Tolkien also wrote several humorous fairy tales. Even before Peter Jackson filmed the trigoly “Lord of the Rings” again, the Swedish musician Bo Hansson published an album in 1970 that he not only named after Tolkien’s masterpiece, but also tried to musically retell the journey of Frodo and Sam from the Shire to Sauron’s kingdom. -
Juergen, the Krofft brothers left an indelible impression on the minds of North American kids like Jacki and me in the early 1970’s. They created their own myths with a series of Saturday morning fantasy TV shows that often involved human kids interacting with life-sized puppets in surreal settings. Here are the opening and closing theme songs from their best-known show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUNj09oN4U
You should check out Mork and Mindy as well. It’s the show that made Robin Williams a star playing a space alien who lands on Earth on a mission to study human behavior.
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