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It does make a difference have a full organ in a great space.

Petty, have you heard Tom Lehrer doing the periodic table to the Major General melody?

{{ Nice, I wonder if the Mass Effect guy was aware of this one, probably. Wouldn't like to have to learn either of them!

As to accordion players, much loved and respected musicians in my part of the world. }}

Classic by the Stranglers

I like the lilting celtic instrumental background.

I had raved about the music for Midnight Diner, here's a short example.

So here's a guy geeking out over a Sesame Street song teaching how to count to 12.  Incredible rhythms and harmony, with vocals by the Pointer Sisters, no less.  Once you get the melody in your head it takes a hour to knock it back out.  (For me it took a video of an Irish girl claiming to "taste" Jack Daniels for the first time, and poured half a cup down her throat in one go like it was nothing.  Oh my, that drove the melody right out).

Oh I grew up with that song it is permanently lodged in my head. We had a Norwegian version of Sesame Street called Sesame Station (Sesam stasjon). 

Def not the Pointer Sisters singing, but still good.

I like the pop on '4', it's more than in the english version.

Judy Garland

OMG the blackface.  She really can't dance, can she? Somehow it's not as noticeable until you put her in blackface.

Great song by The Skids.
Never new it was about the charge of the lightbrigade.

Seems a rather light hearted melody for the topic.

{{ Its 2023 and the Beatles are at No1 in the charts with a new single- sometimes the world can be good. }}

It's number one out of sentimentality - not up to the normal memorable standards. But it's good to have those two remaining get together and put something out.

{{ I enjoyed it, it's not one of their great classic hits, but I don't think if it had been produced at the time it was written it was meant to be, it'd slot nicely into an album though. And to my old crabbit ears it still sounds 1000% better than most of the autotuned drivel thats spews out the radio these days. }}

I like the new Beatles song. It's great having the band together again.

WOW. Love this girl. Brilliant.

Before watching I already knew it was one of these Russian tykes. I still haven't figured out why the Russians haven't taken over the world: top of the game in the arts, mathematics, physics. What's keeping them from world domination?

Well I never. Always thought this was a Boney M song.

I always thought of it as a folk song, not attached to any single musician.

so midnight diner has led me to discover Kimie Fukuhara, whose music is often employed to produce the ambience of the show.  She plays lute while she sings, very rare.





A visual of her doing the first one, but on single guitar, not two lutes. Skip the first minute of noodling on guitar.

I've discovered her youtube home page. You can click anywhere for instant delight. Most of these are accompanied by piano rather than herself on a plucked instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/@avenir_music

Good Lord, one wonders what she'd do with the first movement.

{{ I mean she is brilliant, but why when any electric guitarists do Beethoven do they feel it necessarily to screw up the tempo and pacing so much? It should not be that fast, you lose the clarity of notes. It's not a bloody race lass, take it easy!   }}