Steve 'n Seagulls discography on part 15


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uvk4TgQWzI

Sugartime, The Mcguire Sisters, 1958, KSUR AM/1260

With the terrible state of American and British musicals lately - trolling the bottoms of various cinematic barrels to make theatrical musicals that are SSSOOOOOO BBBADDDDDD even kids won't watch them - it's good to see that the Europeans - in this case the Flemish - are producing quality engaging wholesome pop musicals suitable for all ages.

I caught this one last night on the South African channel we got during the International Programming Package Free Preview Week on DirecTV. For those of you who are unaware, Afrikaans, Dutch and Flemish are very closely related with a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the three - like Danish Swedish and Norwegian - so the South Africans probably wouldn't have needed subtitles to understand.

The stars are K3 - the Flemish answer to the Spice Girls - with pretty much the same pre-teen female audience as the original, updated for a new generation.

As there are no English subtites, I was surprised that I only needed the Flemish subtitles once in awhile because the Flemish they speak has a lot of overlap to German, Danish and Gaelic - so even if you don't understand it as spoken, once you read the original Flemish subtitles - even as an English speaker you can see a lot of common Germanic word roots and be able to figure a lot of it out yourself.

K3 in Alice in Wonderland - slide over to 1:38:36 for the rousing finale Geloof in Yezelf (literally Believe in Yourself but styled in English a A Thousand Rainbows the first line of the chorus).

I see a thousand rainbows in a row
A sun that never sets
I see a friend who does it all with me
Nobody ever gets us small again
And I'll be there for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9yxLSC8ysY

And to keep it radio-related, here's the Making Of reel where the White Rabbit ``uses'' an old European SW radio with the auto-select to sample all the songs on the soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugfZ7SXdAkA

Listening to my Barry Manilow 8 track (This one for you)

Current song: See the show again

String of Pearls, Benny Goodman.

I recently got into Jefferson Airplane and this band got quite big around the late sixties. I also discovered The Flowerpot Men as well as The Californians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-GRFmTBrU

One band I also liked was Fire and that really witty tune "Man In A Teapot".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSZsGC8TBps

I will be, in the next couple of hours, performing my Christmas Day ritual of listening to the near two hour December 25th 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall, NYC lead by Paul Whiteman - It was called Experiments in Modern Music. This 81 year old performance still absolutely thrills me....

Robert

I was listening to the Taylor Swift 'Lover' 2 Disc color set on my 1963 Zenith AM/FM/PHONO Stereophonic wood floor console while I was hosting a party Wednesday night. That girl sure has talent! Such wonderful songs that rock!

We were streaming iHeart Christmas Classics through the Talking House to Zenith 8S359 on Christmas day. It played for ~4 hours entertaining everyone while we unwrapped presents

I like and have been listening to Jazz and Big Band music on NPR.

Joe Filipczak

Etta Jones' "If you are but a dream"

Wow... this is an old standard by Sinatra... but in Etta Jones' (1962) version, it is a wholly different mood or feel and the best part is the saxophone solo in the middle.
Terrific!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlhHiABqms

Listening to my David Bowie 8 track tape (Young Americans)

Current song: Fame

Daniela Andrade .. doing her cover of "Creep"
She's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjlaN-X8-0

Lucy Sugarman
doing her cover of Bob Dylan's song :
Make You Feel My Love
and.... she does it so beautifully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_OvOWhJwOA

Listening to my Crosby Stills and Nash 8 track (4 way street)

Current song: Carry on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5FdFlUcl0
audioslave - be yourself

When I go downstairs to the shop, I will be listening to my AM transmitter. Great oldies from the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. Over 2000 songs in rotation, and I keep adding more.