Guilty pleasures- music edition

[cal828]

Carpenters

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by cal828

Carpenters

Rainy Days and Mondays was the very first song I ever sang on karaoke, out in some dive bar in the midwest.

I was terrible.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Rainy Days and Mondays was the very first song I ever sang on karaoke, out in some dive bar in the midwest.

I was terrible.

Jog my memory. Can't remember who sang "Rainy Days and Mondays always make me cry?"

[cal828]

Surprised you didn't like 3 dog night. Paul Williams wrote Old Fashioned Love Song. Have no clue who wrote the others.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by cal828

Jog my memory. Can't remember who sang "Rainy Days and Mondays always make me cry?"

Carpenters. I had forgotten that one. Jut listened to Superstar. That was a good one.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by cal828

Carpenters. I had forgotten that one. Jut listened to Superstar. That was a good one.

Have a box full of old lp vinyls, here's a few.
Carpenters,Close to You & Now and Then...Karen died way too young.
Barry - I made it through the rain
Aretha's Gold
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles greatest hits
Introducing The Beatles
Andy Williams - The Shadow of your smile
Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits
Christmas with the Chipmunks Vol 2
A real old jazz fav, June Christy with Stan Kenton..
and a host of others.

Also have about 50-60 cassette tapes,Patsy Cline my fav..Four Seasons, Kenny Rogers, George Jones, Eddy Arnold,and an real old fav, Joni James and a ton of others...

My son worked for a major record company and i have several promo records.

[BigBlue]

Great thread.

Barry Manilow
Anne Murray
BJ Thomas
Carpenters

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

Great thread.

Barry Manilow
Anne Murray
BJ Thomas
Carpenters

Oh... as a little kid I just loved Anne Murray's cover of "Daydream Believer." I knew that version long before I'd ever heard of the Monkees.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

Great thread.

Barry Manilow
Anne Murray
BJ Thomas
Carpenters

Wife and I were having a discussion the other day about Sitar music after Ravi Shankar died. I asked whether she like any of it. She said no. I said I thought I liked a song or two, but couldn't think of any songs. Finally remembered it was in BJ Thomas' song Hooked on a Feeling. Other than that I didn't care for it. Love Ravi's daughter, Norah Jones though.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Have a box full of old lp vinyls, here's a few.
Carpenters,Close to You & Now and Then...Karen died way too young.
Barry - I made it through the rain
Aretha's Gold
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles greatest hits
Introducing The Beatles
Andy Williams - The Shadow of your smile
Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits
Christmas with the Chipmunks Vol 2
A real old jazz fav, June Christy with Stan Kenton..
and a host of others.

Also have about 50-60 cassette tapes,Patsy Cline my fav..Four Seasons, Kenny Rogers, George Jones, Eddy Arnold,and an real old fav, Joni James and a ton of others...

My son worked for a major record company and i have several promo records.

Oh my God. Richard Pryor. So freaking funny. I was a little too young for his stand up when he was big, but now I really love him. What a brilliant, brilliant comic.

My brother's and my first cassette tape was a copy of Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits. In retrospect, we probably shouldn't have been listening to it. Between "Coward of the County" and "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" those are some mighty adult topics for elementary grade kids to be singing along to.

Of course, we also knew every word to "Centerfold" so, you know, what're you going to do.

Okay, I just thought of another guilty pleasure- (deep breath)- Juice Newton. I admit it.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Oh my God. Richard Pryor. So freaking funny. I was a little too young for his stand up when he was big, but now I really love him. What a brilliant, brilliant comic.

My brother's and my first cassette tape was a copy of Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits. In retrospect, we probably shouldn't have been listening to it. Between "Coward of the County" and "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" those are some mighty adult topics for elementary grade kids to be singing along to.

Of course, we also knew every word to "Centerfold" so, you know, what're you going to do.

Okay, I just thought of another guilty pleasure- (deep breath)- Juice Newton. I admit it.

My fav comedians back then hard to seperate..
Pryor
Carlin
Richard Lewis

Still have vcr tapes of HBO shows on all three...I liked Dennis Miller's stand-up back then but dropped him when he showed up on Fox politics.

[Alabama Stakes]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Rainy Days and Mondays was the very first song I ever sang on karaoke, out in some dive bar in the midwest.

I was terrible.

tough voice to follow as kAREN CARPENTER WAS ONE OF THE GREAT VOICES THE COUNTRY HAS EVER PRODUCED, someone shoulda smoked some good green with her and got her eating again. Tragic loss. Not my kind of music, but that voice was incredible

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

tough voice to follow as kAREN CARPENTER WAS ONE OF THE GREAT VOICES THE COUNTRY HAS EVER PRODUCED, someone shoulda smoked some good green with her and got her eating again. Tragic loss. Not my kind of music, but that voice was incredible

So true. That woman could phrase like no one's business. Those long sections of "Goodbye to Love" when you just can't figure out how she hasn't needed to take a breath yet are just incredible.

Eating disorders are a terrible mental illness because sufferers are so resistant to treatment. And I don't know that they're ever really cured; just controlled. In a high stress career like music, and because we didn't know much about anorexia nervosa then... just such a shame.