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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 13, 2014 16:41:41 GMT -5
You're right that is a great song.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 13, 2014 16:55:19 GMT -5
This was my start of summer song during my high school years.
The version Dave probably remembers:
And a couple of remakes:
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Post by dave on Jun 13, 2014 20:30:39 GMT -5
Let's not forget Old Blue Eyes.
Summer Wind
And this summer song could have started it all.
Summertime, from Gershwin and Heyward's "Porgy and Bess," first performed in 1935.
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Post by kit on Jun 14, 2014 18:48:45 GMT -5
What group from the 60s worth their salt didn't play their own arrangement of 'Summertime"? None that I knew of. The groups I was in all had their own arrangement and they were all beautiful. George Gershwin sure knew his stuff.
Another one that all the bands made their own arrangement of was Earle Hagen's "Harlem Nocturne". Slow-n-Sexy.
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Post by dave on Jun 14, 2014 21:11:53 GMT -5
And many groups were in one way or another emulating Earl Bostic's version of Harlem Nocturne, if not Hagen's..
I couldn't find an original by Hagen,.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 14, 2014 23:08:36 GMT -5
That was super. Thanks, Dave.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 14, 2014 23:14:11 GMT -5
Nothing to do with the thread or any of the previous music but I tried to be a trumpet player for a while...
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 14, 2014 23:18:44 GMT -5
Music for a Saturday night with a glass of wine and a computer.
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Post by kit on Jun 15, 2014 8:36:13 GMT -5
Hitting <Rewind> for a moment and going back to Harlem Nocturne, most of us remember hearing it on the radio by The Viscounts back in 1958 and again in 1966. Turns out it was a one-hit-wonder. Haven't heard from The Viscounts since.
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Post by chris on Jun 17, 2014 9:55:53 GMT -5
Nice songs, for sure... but always remember, and please never forget... "Summer In The City" by the Lovin' Spoonful I was just thinking that one ! You beat me to the punch. |
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Post by kit on Jun 18, 2014 6:38:53 GMT -5
I must be psychic, huh, Chris? ;o)
The words to "Summer In the City" really painted a picture of Utica in July for me back in the 60s. Utica is much smaller than The Big Apple or L.A., but the sun gets just as hot. Great song.
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Post by dave on Jun 18, 2014 9:41:40 GMT -5
I did not know that St Teresa of Avila was so hip. Of course until this morning I didn't know anything about her.
Here you can read up on this morning's topic: Erotic Bridal Mysticism
aras.org/selection_ecstasy.aspx
Teresa of Avila has been called the Patron Saint of Hysteria. These old saints would have laughed at Queen Victoria. The Church didn't become hysterically upset about sex until late in life. Kind of human like, one might think. Spain was late falling in line.
Bernini's Teresa in ecstasy.
Am I off topic?
Who was it that said, "Never been to Spain .. the ladies are insane there."
Another reference. Good reading.
canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2008/11/st-teresa-of-avila-patron-saint-of.html
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Post by dave on Jun 18, 2014 10:02:47 GMT -5
Hey! We forgot these.
And who forget that wonderfully named group, The Motels?
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 18, 2014 15:19:54 GMT -5
Well I forgot the Motels but I was busy during the 80s.
Isn't YouTube wonderful.
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Post by kit on Jun 19, 2014 10:08:30 GMT -5
Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue and Percy Faith will be turning over in their graves
if we forget "Theme from A Summer Place"
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