Guest Robert Blume
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It was hard not to include ‘The Wide, Wide Land’ in my picks. I know from our member conversations with Mona and Lisa how personal this song is. It really resonates. I’m struck by the number of us who have been caregivers or had someone close afflicted with dementia. My mom had it. Someone described it as ‘The Long Goodbye’, which is agonizingly accurate. Off hand I can’t think of another song other than TWWL where this is the topic. Can anyone else?
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Christopher’s response to this old thread prompted me to look at my choices from 2018. There have been some great Wagner videos since then. I want to add the recent ‘Questionable’, but I’d be hard pressed on which of my original choices to bump. For reasons I gave at the top of the ’18 thread, those were (in descending order):
5. Nothing Is In Vain
4. Two of Us
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2. This Boy
1. You’re Going To Lose That Girl
With all the new members coming aboard since then, I think it’s a question worth asking again. What’s your all-time top five MLT video list?
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It really feels like Spring here in Seattle this week. I LIVE for the Summer months around here (that nasty sub-zero/snow stretch in Feb made me want it all the more). Jung, getting So. Cal’s temps would really be nice…..but that phenomenon might also include us West Coasters traveling our streets in row boats. I concur on your cross country trip idea, with some tunes (of course MLT in the mix). I’ve always wanted to do that. My sister and brother-in-law (trailer campers) just did a part of the Route 66 run and had a great time.
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I’ve got You Tube on my Roku menu. I think I spend more time watching that than any of the services I actually pay for. And I often just randomly watch what pops up. Late night talk show clips, Game of Thrones reaction videos, puppies meet kittens, hippo vs crocodile, crocodile vs pit bull, kittens vs crocodiles…and the list goes on and on. You Tube is like a drug. I can easily kill whole evenings this way.
Summer of 2017.
So I’m meandering around You Tube as usual. At some point I must have viewed an old Beatles clip, because a bunch of Beatles related stuff came up on the menu. And there they were. MonaLisa Twins. You’re Going To Lose That Girl. A revelation moment. And now here I am, a fan club member like y’all.
Fan Boy Bob
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Hi Michael,
How could you confuse us? I’m the white silhouette with the gray background.
Sorry to hear about the snow. If that happened in Seattle I’m pretty sure we’d need to declare an emergency, close everything and hunker down for the melt.
Cougar Bob
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Thank You Lisa,
As always, your responses are insightful and entertaining to read.
The musical nightlife you describe in Liverpool sounds pretty familiar….in my own city and others I know. We have seen footage in The Two of Us video of you and Mona lugging your gear into the Cavern Club. It never occurred to me that the neighborhood environs might be a bit different while packing it all out in the dead of night.
Lastly, regarding the Advent Calendar….before the holidays began I made a suggestion in another part of the site about a Christmas idea I thought might be good. What you finally did with the AC was 25 times better!
I hope the entire Wagner family got to take a breather between Christmas and New Year’s. You certainly earned it.
Seattle Bob
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Thank You Jacki
Merry Christmas!!!!!
Seattle Bob
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Hi Claude,
I don’t know too much about current Caribbean music….or the artists who play it. I just know I like it. After reading your post I spent the past hour listening to and enjoying Zenglen and other Haitian kompa music. Thank you.
Seattle Bob
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My musical frame of reference was local Top 40 AM radio in the early 60’s. And Chubby was all over that. I was so conservative and mainstream….and not very adventurous in my listening.
James Brown was anything but conservative. He was his own genre. I’m still not that crazy about his recorded music. But to watch him perform was something else. No one could hold a stage like James Brown. And no one ever wanted to follow him. I remember hearing a story about a major band….possibly it was The Grateful Dead….watching Brown from the wings and having a backstage meltdown about having to go on after him. His live performances were just incomparable.
Seattle Bob
ps: That Kiss album looks like a Japanese pressing. Impressive!
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Hi Jerry,
Chubby really built a career on that one! Practically every record he did for the next 2-3 years had The Twist in the title somewhere.
This was a dance even an uncoordinated dolt like me could sort of do. As a kid, real dancing…where contact with the girl was required…caused me to have symptoms resembling a heart attack. But The Twist allowed me to spasmodically jolt around on the dance floor as if I knew what I was doing.
I was lucky enough to pick up that Parkway LP at a record show 20+ years ago. You’ve reminded me what a GREAT party record that was. No other records were necessary. Not only did you have The Twist on that album….but The Slop, The Pony, The Madison, The Chicken (?) and others (none of which I could competently do).
You really picked a classic for your first single.
Seattle Bob
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Hi Greg,
Your post unlocked a memory. I’d almost forgotten that Safeway had albums at one time. I seem to recall at our store there were just a couple of bins and they were primarily budget labels like Pickwick and Camden. But there very well could have been ‘best sellers’ like The Beatles in there too. We didn’t get the listening room in our Safeway (which seems so weird for a grocery store). The nearby hi-fi/music shop had a couple of those though.
In Bellevue WA (where I was raised) there was a store called House of Values….a sort of smaller K-Mart/Rite Aid hybrid with a killer record department. More often I was browser, since I was broke most of the time. What I could afford, I bought there. Most of those albums are now gone, but I still have Connie Francis’s Greatest Hits from ’62 with the $2.98 HOV price sticker.
Seattle Bob
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Hey Howard,
Yes, those were the ‘good old days’ of conspicuous consumption, 10 miles to the gallon, big fins and unfettered hydrocarbons belching into the atmosphere. Good thing we all finally learned the error of our ways before any serious damage was done huh?
I think I remember your nephew. He was that guy who drove the huge V-8 Edsel and said ‘crikey’ all the time.
Seattle Bob
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Howard, it’s true. When he wasn’t too busy polishing the silver, our butler would drive the Bentley down to the music store and pick up my 45’s. And if there was anything left of my $1.50, a couple comic books too. And maybe some malted milk balls.
Seattle Bob
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Hi Jung – Thanks for the videos. It’s a brutal affliction. The worst. Especially early onset, which seemed to happen with Malcolm Young. I try to remain positive about this. Advances in medical science are being made. If we don’t see Alzheimers/dementia eradicated in our generation, I’m optimistic for the next. Bob.
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Thanks Dana. And thanks also to David for the Costello/McCartney song on the subject. I had never seen either of these videos.
