MLT Club Member Tim Arnold
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I think this song has to be included. Maybe not the greatest movie soundtrack but possibly the greatest song from a movie.
This paragraph was from Wikipedia, In March 2017, Judy Garland’s 1939 Decca single was entered in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as music that is “culturally, historically, or artistically significant”. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ranked it number one on their Songs of the Century list. The American Film Institute named it best movie song on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs list.
I wouldn’t mind hearing what the MLT’s harmonies could do with this song.
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Lisa’s smile at 1:25, yep, there goes my heart again!!
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Yep, I agree with Chris, everything about it is fabulous. The music, the vocals, the guitar work, I love that slide and the video is amazing, beautiful looks and cool effects. Absolutely groovy.
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I got mine last week and I have only seen the cover photo. By choice I hung it on my wall and I am not flipping it over until January. Like Mona, I want to be surprised every month with a new picture, besides I really enjoy the November 2023 calendar picture of Mona and her Rickenbacker.
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Another good show from the late 80’s/ early 90’s was The Wonder Years. The opening theme was the Beatles song Little Help From My Friends sung by Joe Cocker and there was always great classic songs being played in the back ground. Anyone could easily relate to the experiences of going through adolescence that was portrayed in every episode. Even these clips bring back memories.
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Jung, Here’s a fun one. Rockabilly artists The Stray Cats not only pushing the music capabilities of minimal instruments but also testing the physical strength of the drums and bass by standing on them.
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Married With Children was a silly comedy that ran for 11 seasons. It used the Frank Sinatra recording of Love and Marriage for the theme song. Fun fact, it used a clip from the movie Vacation in the opening credit video. At the 0:17 mark you can see the Griswald family truckster rolling down the highway heading out of Chicago.
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Thanks Chris, I didn’t know she sang the original version of this song. I’ve heard it sung by many different artists but none any better than this. Recorded in 1944 I can’t imagine the feelings of the men and women all over the world that were serving in the war when they heard this song. She was a special entertainer.
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Yeah, I’ve heard her sing on variety shows and a few of her other movies on classic movie television. She was a great singer, no b.s., with a huge stage presence for such a small lady. I think that is the beauty of this scene, just her beautiful voice with minimal instrumentation and really quite simple lyrics that anyone can understand. It really draws you in and sets the mood for what is to come in the movie.
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Chris, here’s some clips from Roadhouse with another great track by Jeff Healey. The movie was great if you like bar fights and that good bluesy music. Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott are bouncers at the club, hired to clean up the riff raff. The Jeff Healey Band is the house band and provide most of the soundtrack.
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Jurgen, I love that video. Deep Purple was one of my favorite bands. I think the Hammond was one of the reasons I liked them a little better than Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin although both of those bands were great too. It seems I’ve always had a copy of Machine Head, on 8 track, cassette, vinyl, or cd. One of my favorite tracks was the song called Lazy. Here’s a great version of Lazy I found a few years ago. The line up is as follows, Jimmy Barnes (Vocal), Joe. Bonamassa (Guitar (R), Brad Whitford (Guitar (L), Arlan. Schierbaum (Organ), Michael Rhodes (Bass), Anton Fig. drums. Barnes is from the Australian band Cold Chisel, Whitford is from Aerosmith and Anton Fig was the drummer from David Letterman’s Late Show band. Bonamassa is pretty good on the guitar too. I think you guys will like it.
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Yeah Bud it is pretty simple but I think that was the allure for the young rock n rollers. If you knew 3 chords you could have a band and become popular with the girls. It worked pretty good for Elvis.
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Jung, I’m not a guitar guy at all so I did a little research and I believe this guitar is a Gretsch 6120, either a 1959 or 1960. It is probably referred to as a Country Gentleman because it was built for playing country music and used by Chet Atkins among others. I know a lot of Rockabilly guitar players used them and the orange ones especially because that’s what was used by rockabilly icon Eddie Cochran. The Stray Cats guitarist Brian Setzer has a collection of these guitars but here’s an interesting video about Brian and his original 1959 Gretsch 6120.
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Len, I don’t remember that movie but I remember the song. It was on an album I had by the band Montrose. I believe it was a minor hit for them. Montrose was formed by Edgar Winter Group guitarist Ronnie Montrose and the first version of the band featured a young vocalist by the name of Sammy Hagar. I believe Sammy was with them for their first couple albums and had hits with the songs like Bad Motor Scooter and Rock Candy. O Lucky Man is on a later album. I think the vocalists name was Bob James. Cool to know it came from this movie and was written by The Animals keyboardist.
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Jacki, I really didn’t watch this show a lot when it was first aired. Waylon Jennings was/is one of my favorite country singers and this was a big hit for him.
