BS: The first music that moved you

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: GUEST,IB
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 02:18 PM

popular: Aretha Franklin, classical: Schumann, "Träumerei"

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Peter T.
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 02:08 PM

Totally embarrassing memories of records I wore out:

Shelley Fabares, "Johnny Angel"
The Caravelles (I think) "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry"
"Wolverton Mountain" (we have had a great thread on Wolverton Mountain)
One of those cheap albums of covers of hit songs that I can only remember from the cover versions -- songs like "Why?" ("I think you're awfully sweet, Why because I love you, etc., etc." Yuccccckkkk).

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: LR Mole
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:39 PM

"Peggy Sue"/"Everyday", on a Coral '45, turning it over and over. I remember feeling sort of creeped-out and mysterious (minor chords, I suppose)by "Nature Boy" and Bobby Darin's "Somewhere Beyond the Sea".

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:12 PM

Kendall - One of the guys I've picked with for years used to Frail and he tried to teach me. I'm afraid I'm a lost cause!!
Pete Seeger!! WOW!
He was to play in Boise, Idaho back in 70-71 as part of an anti-war rally. Our then Sheriff deemed him to be a communist and refused to let him play. There was a minor scuffle about that and two Active Duty Airmen were arrested for disturbing the peace at the place where Mr. Seeger was to play (they were supporting the rally). I only got a glimpse of him as he went back aboard the bus but was not a happy camper about our sheriffs arbitrary decision and not being able to see him perform.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:23 AM

I remember sobbing while Fess Parker as Davy Crockett sang "Farewell To The Mountains" at the end of the series. He died at the Alamo for those who have forgotten.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:16 AM

Norton, have you had someone show you the basic frailing method? I tried to figure it out for years on my own to no avail, then, Pete Seeger showed me in person. Made all the difference in the world. Guest, you heard Segovia play Flemenco guitar? I didn't know he ever did??

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:10 AM

Very young, about 4 probably..."Scarlet Ribbons" (don't know who sang it back then), "Fraulein" by Bobby Helms, an old 78 RPM by Harry Choates (Cajun fiddle and vocal) of "Jole Blon" on one side and "Basile Waltz" (fiddle only) on the other. "Nature Boy" by Nat "King" Cole and "Swamp Girl" by Frankie Laine. And "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams. Sort of gives a different sound picture of the 'fifties, doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:48 PM

"Sioux City Sue" circa 1945-6...with a verse I've never heard since

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: GUEST,lost john
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:20 PM

the beach boys. laugh if you must. I still say Brian Wilson is one of the legends.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Robo
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:07 PM

Brother Clifton53's fertile imagination must be running away with him again -- it's that heavy Jersey air.

Watchoo talking 'bout, Waterloo?

I think he's still stinging because when we were kids I used to make him be the a-wim-bo-way backup singer as I sang Lion Sleeps Tonight in the living room mirror! I guess I never apologized for that (heh-heh!).

He is quite right about Buddy Holly, though. I was seven or so when That'll Be the Day came out, and it was the first song I remember being able to recognize when it come on the car radio and the first one I learned all the words to. Other than our grandmother's church choir influence, our Mom's "Make the World Go Away" country, and older sister Barbara's Sinatra, Martin and Belafonte(Harry!), we really owe much of our musical start to Tom-el, our next older brother, who brought that Buddy Holly album home and would later bring the Tim Hardin and Joan Baez to our ears.

Yours truly,

Rob-o and the Reflections

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:15 PM

A very old tape of Australian Folk music, the stuff about the escaped convicts dying in the bush always got me. And a recording of Andre Segovia playing acoustic flamenco music. . .Oh, and the first time I heard Pachabel's Cannon in D. . . PoohBear

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:03 PM

Thanks, kendall, I will seek it out. yours, Peter T.
P.S. I know that people will think this bizarre, but Anne Murray did a lovely album of 50's songs like "Secret Love" and "Hey, There" and "the Wayward Wind" called "Crooning". It is really, really good (and I am not a fan of hers at all). Great simple arrangements -- a real tribute to unsung Canadian studio musicians.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 02:30 PM

cowboypoet - Yeah, "Four Strong Winds" is a beauty of a song, and was one of my early favourites too. The first song lyric I ever wrote was to the tune of Four Strong Winds and was about Buffy Sainte-Marie. It was an amateurish effort, but I remember it well. I think that Ian Tyson has written the greatest body of cowboy songs ever.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:54 PM

It was in the late 40s or early 50s - Grandpa Jones on WSM on our radio. I think he was doing "Gimme that old time religion. . ." but man it made us tap our toes!! I have never - to this day - figured out how to Frail. But then again I'm a guitar picker. With the exception of the classical items named above, and that is my failing not the musics, all of them have touched me. After those it was "Old Yeller" Tears on my Pillow" "Ballad of Davy Crockett" Bob Wills, Roy Rogers, Sons of the Pioneers, Patsy Montana, Patsy Cline, geez where does one stop??

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Mickey191
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:52 PM

Dan Evergreen think "Secret Love" was from the movie "Calamity Jane" starring Doris Day. It won an Oscar around 1954. "Picnic" had that great dance number combining two great songs, "Moonglow" & the theme from picnic.Kim Novak and William Holden Did the sexiest dance to that lovely music. Today, I'm sure that scene would be a yawn to movie goers.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:13 PM

Wesley, I also like that piece, it is called the Scerzo (sic) which in Italian means joke. Peter T. you should hear Ed Trickett sing Where in the world have the old songs gone"? Its about a man remembering sitting under the piano while his mother sang and played. It will break your heart!

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:20 AM

The second movement of Beethovans 9th as played on the Huntly-Brinkly news report on NBC. Also the young peoples concerts by Leonard Bernstein. Then Peter Paul and Mary got the whole folk thing started for me. I also remember some Henry Mancini records - Peter Gunn , Hatari, and the theme from "Experiment in Terror". Great Stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:19 AM

I was about 6. We had a collection of Civil War music on LP with Burl Ives singing "Somebody's Darling". I am still looking for a copy of it.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:42 AM

Having been brought up the grandson of a Russian Orthodox priest the first music which moved me was the chanting of the Slavonic litany - sent me fast asleep!!!

Remained unconcious then until Jimi Hendrix woke me up - I didn't know anyone could make a guitar do that!!!

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Morticia
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:36 AM

I remember thinking the tune to Witchita Lineman ,(I think it was Glen Campbell) was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard....I'd have been about 7 or 8, I suppose.Since then I fall passionately in love with a new song about once in every three months or so.....with one or two keeping a special place for ever.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:25 AM

The first thing I remember is sitting under the piano listening to my mother playing Chopin Preludes. My father was (is) big on Louis Armstrong and Broadway show records, so I grew up with them, and Piaf (we lived in France at the time). I have always thought that was a pretty good start! The earliest pop song I can remember is "Hey, There" -- which is not an easy song to sing or play, to say the least. About the same time I remember "El Paso."

The most knockout song for me in the last X years was Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U". Completely flattened by it. It was like being 13 again.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: bill\sables
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:24 AM

When my dad mentioned the name Mario Lanza I thought he was an Irishman called Mari O'Lanza but he didn't sound Irish. I seem to remember sitting on my dad's knee and him singing Tommy Armstrong's "Stanla Market" I dont remember him singing any other songs to me but I grew up knowing all of Tommy Armstrongs songs and hundreds of tunes. Even today when someone askes about a tune for some odd unheard of song I can usually sing it to them. I find it strange that I can remember tunes but can't remember words any more.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: GUEST,dan evergreen
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:03 AM

When I was little a boy sang "Secret Love" in a school assembly program and I was moved by the simple beauty of that song. I think it came from a movie--"Picnic," perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:29 AM

chanteyranger! Beethoven's 6th has special meaning to me too, but the last movement, the shepherd's song of thanksgiving.

When I was about 12, my music teacher gave a special music appreciation class for several of us Protestants. (She was the only nun I had seen up until that point.) She told the story of her sister who was in the hospital coming out of a coma and singing Beethoven themes at the top of her lungs. She had children's words to that last movement (a bluebird), and I still hear those words today.

When I was a teenager, I played the record of Beethoven's 6th over and over. (All my friends were listening to the Beetles.) A movie of that time had a statement in it about listening to Beethoven, "Oh world, I can't hold thee close enough." (Can't remember the movie)

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: mkebenn
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:28 AM

First I remember, my father's '78 of Mario Lanza{sp}'s "Cara Mia". Then "the Ballad of Davy Crockett" at age five{I still play this}. But like others here, "Tom Dooley" by KT3 sealed my fate, along with their version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", and to think there was a time when I didn't know who Pete was...Mike Bennett

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:11 AM

Well I remember weeping buckets on my granny's lap as she sang "Alice Blue Gown" (strange kid). When I was 9 or 10 I first heard Louis Armstrong on the radio and that was it for me, I was hooked on jazz, and, after hearing him with Bessie, the blues too. Interest in US folk came with the Weavers and Lonnie D. and UK folk via the Spinners and the Corries, but Louis is still my main man. (My car tape this week has the All-stars on one side and the Ink Spots on the other!)
RtS (positively therapeutic!)

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: English Jon
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:00 AM

Brahms lullaby again. I had a teddy with a swiss musical movement. The long suffering bear was called Isiah (one "eye's higher" than the other), and this deformity appealed to my father's sense of humour, hence the music box.

Otherwise, my earliest musical memories are of my Dad's collection of Watersons LPs. Seeing Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick live for the first time in 1992 was pretty ground breaking too. Made me want to take up folk guitar and fiddle all at once. not common in a teenager...

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Mickey191
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 02:03 AM

The first song and singer that really impressed me when I was about 6 or so was Jane Powell singing "Italian Street Song" That Zing Zing Zing really got to me.She used to guest on Frank Sinatra's radio program. Next Big memory was the Weavers' "Goodnight Irene" Slainte

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: john c
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 01:42 AM

I can remember like it was yesterday my father putting "Please Dont Tease" by Cliff Richard and the Shadows on a juke-box when I was four. That was my first contact with pop music and I was just overwhelmed!
The only records that have moved me to tears were "I Dont Want What I Havent Got" from Sinead O´Connor, which summed up perfectly all the crap I was going through at the time, and Verdi Cries by June Tabor, which ......well....I just found it such a sad and lonely song - and thats exactly what I was when I heard it!

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 01:37 AM

Probably the first music that ever moved me would have been by Simon and Garfunkle when I was 15. But the first music that profoundly moved me would have to be the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Mahler had a pretty big effect on me as well.

Ebbie, I found out something interesting recently. Teenage Amish girls are now playing the accordion in church services to accompany singing in some parts of Pennsylvania. The man who is working on my Italian accordion lives in Pittsburgh and he says he's constantly repairing accordions that are going to be used by teenaged Amish girls for use in church.

Carol

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: blt
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 01:19 AM

My grandfather collected big band records and some classical recordings, all old 78s that were played on a wound-up Victrola. I remember dancing around the dining room table to the William Tell Overture, Babes in Toyland, and Count Basie. The first album my mom bought to play on the new (electric)record player was either Belafonte at Carnegie Hall or a Burl Ives recording, I'm not sure which. The Belafonte recording haunted me then and haunts me now--I was completely stunned by Odetta's voice, I just couldn't believe a woman could sing like that, was allowed to sing like that. Sigh. My neighbor down the street was a classical pianist and composer, so his daughter and I would sneak into his practice room to hear him play. I also began studying modern dance at a young age--5 or 6--and so got to hear a lot of music that my dance teacher (a wild red-haired woman who was, I was convinced, my hometown's reigning beatnik)had, such as African, jazz, classical and (gasp) folk. I also grew up around the Congregational church and loved the melodies of the hymns, though I wasn't too interested in the lyrics.

blt

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:56 AM

Frankie Laine's Mule Train literally and figuratively.

As a small child I was something they then termed as a "bumper". I think perhaps now it would be called mildly autistic. I literally beat the back of my crib out, after it was bolted to the floor to try to stop me from moving it across the room. I usually had a red mark on my forehead fom my constant thumping on the pillow or a bald spot on the back of my head from thumping in chairs and couches.

My first recollection of songs was at the age of two or three when I would sit for hours in a zen state, on the chesterfield, thumping along in time to good old Frankie Laine. Now that I think of it ....my poor Mum...thank God for her patience, tolerance and love.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Hobie
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:34 AM

i've been told i have a very good voice, but as far as i'm concerned i sound like a cat gettin it's tail stepped on when you compare me to my father. There was this little church in colusa illinois and my father would sing Oh Holy Night at christmas. His voice would fill the room. When he was up there singing the rest of the world just stopped. These are the most precious memories i have of my father. He died in august of 96, and to this day i can't hear the song without getting severly choked up. Love ya Dad.

Michael

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:28 AM

The music that first 'transported' me was in church. I was reared Amish and they don't have accompanied singing nor do they sing harmonies at the Sunday morning service.

The second song each Sunday morning by tradition was the 'Lob Sang', 'Zum Anfang der Versammlung'(closely allied to Gregorian chant). It is a s l o w song that rises and falls and curls and swells and falls and drifts away... (I just checked my memory- the first syllable 'O' alone has 6 notes in it) Sung in unison, it was a dense, almost solid wall of sound with the silvery high voices edging the low voices and blending into one, especially because I really didn't understand the words. It begins "O Gott, Vater, wir loben dich"; that much I understood and not much else.

Sitting here typing, for the first time I understand why I love operatic duets above all tonal music, especially in a foreign language. I truly didn't know before this moment where that love stems from.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:08 AM

Gads!! I remember most of the Pop/Country ones, and recognize most of the Classical........this is great!! My dad used to sing me to sleep with Classic Golden Country--Ernest Tubb, Tex Ritter, T. Texas Tyler, Bob Wills, etc. Most all of that still makes me cry, I miss him so.

Other "seminal" music for me--the late '60's coffehouse tunes, like Four Strong Winds, FareWell to Newfoundland, Leavin on a Jet Plane......etc. What made me want to be a performer was listening to and watching Stuart Mossman entertain. Both he and the audience had such a good time. (and besides, he managed to get my DAD!! to smoke a little.......uh, never mind.)

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:59 PM

Beginning?

I'm here, aren't I?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:52 PM

Although I was exposed to music at an early age, with my parents buying Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, and various children's folk music records, which I liked,and had seen The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, which was a thrill, the first music that really got inside of me in a special way was the first movement of Beethoven's symphony No. 6. I was about 12 years old, at home on a rainy afternoon. Out of boredom, I put on my parents LP of that symphony, performed by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra conducted by Hermann Scherschen. I was just curious to hear it. That unexpectedly became a magical moment. I've heard classical music around the house before, and had gone to San Francisco Symphony children's concerts, and had watched Bernstein's children's concerts on TV and enjoyed them, but the music never really affected me as it did at that moment. I took the needle off after the first movement, and put it back to the beginning. I must have done that three or four times before deciding to listen to the rest of the symphony. From then on, I was hooked. It was later that I had similar experiences with folk/traditional music, and rock. I can point to just a few other moments like that, but that was the first one.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:37 PM

Beginning to loose your marbles are you Clinton?

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:17 PM

Sneaky Snake by Tom T Hall is probably the song I can earliest remember... But I do recall haveing an LP as a kid called "Big Blue Marble"... But I'll be buggered if I can remember any of the songs on it... I'd sure love to find that one again...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:36 PM

Well, my mom told me that when she was pregnant with me, she was attending a Company Parade (she was in the Marines), and when the band marched by, I started jumping around in there in perfect time to the bass drums! So I guess you could say that was the first music that "moved" me!

But let's see...

Now don't laugh.

When I was 7, and we moved from North Carolina to California. I hear the Glen Campbell song "Country Boy (You Got You Feet In L.A. But You're Mind's on Tennessee) on TV...and it used to make me cry all the time. I missed NC so much. 16 years later, I'm glad I'm back.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:11 PM

LaGaza Ladra Rossini
Beethovens violin concerto in D
Scottish Fantasy

When I was a boy, Hank Snow sang one called "Little Buddy" it always made me cry. Lonesome Robin still does if I relax

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: cowboypoet
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:48 PM

My dad sang all the time when I was a kid, and I used to sing with him. I liked that a lot. But the first music that really "moved" me (and made me want to become a performer) was hearing Ian and Sylvia sing "Four Strong Winds" in 1963. I still play that song -- Ian told me once it could just as easily be a cowboy song as any other kind.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:44 PM

this is a VERY good question, thank you for bringing it up. For me, it was the third movement of 'Sheharazade' (sp?) by Korsikov (sp?) also known as the "Prince and Princess Suite", played by my late friend, Lauren Jakey, on the violin. It doesn't get any better than this ... kinda like a first love ... ehhhh? CHEERS, Bob Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Giac
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:35 PM

My dad played a tune called "Lullabye" on his cornet to put me to sleep. He had been a band director and the cornet was his primary instrument, although he played any marching band instrument and played piano quite well. About 20 years ago I found a Gerard Schwartz tape of "Turn of the Century Cornet Favorites." The tune was on it and I still can't listen to it dry eyed.

When I was about four, my dad taught me to whistle. My first project was to whistle as much as I could of Carmen.

Then I became enamored of Frank Crumit's rendition of Billy Boy, which led me directly into folk music, much to my father's disgust -- but, hey, he bought the record. On the other side of the 78 was Grandfather's Clock, which I was forbidden to play because of the phrase "old man," which was considered disrespectful. Times have changed.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:16 PM

Tenting Tonight - I picked it out on the piano at about age 5

Beethoven's 3rd Symphony where the thirds soar - about age 8.

Un Bel Di from Madama Butterfly - about age 10

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:07 PM

There was a pop song on the radio when I was a kid that used to make me cry every time I heard it, but I've never been able to remember it at all. I'm quite sure I've heard it since without recognising it - I think it had somebody dying in it.

"Toora Loora Loora" (or however you spell it) was one of the songs I love to hear my mother sing on car trips. I also loved "There's a Long Long Trail." I was a weird kid, and always thought the "land of my dreams" was heaven and the singer was euphemistically singing about dying.

I had a music box that I actually wore out. I whined and cried about it so much that my parents bought me another one. I still have it somewhere. I think the tune was "Lichtenstein Polka."

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: rube1
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:03 PM

San Juan, Puerto Rico, NAS, age six, Admiral Dan Gallery's 10th Naval District Steel Band. My Dad brought home the record "Pandemonia." I think it was "The Happy Wanderer" that first got my attention. Still one of greatest records I ever heard.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:58 PM

I think it would have been either the New World Symphony or Pictures at an Exhibition (Moussorsky), the Gate of Kiev in particular. Hut of Baba Yar also.

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Clifton53
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:53 PM

Whatever it was probably came over the am radio dial. My mother liked 'cowboy' music, my sisters and brothers played mostly WABC out of New York City, the premier rock and roll station at the time.

But the first record I can recall was called 'The Buddy Holly Story', I believe, and was issued shortly after his death and was kind of a greatest hits collection.

I also can recall with dismay having to sit and listen as brother Rob-O regaled the crowd with his version of "Waterloo". That's where I first learned to do a proper raspberry as he droned on.(Just kidding Rob-o), and for which I'm sure I was soundly pummeled.

Clifton53

Subject: RE: BS: The first music that moved you
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:49 PM

I liked a lot of the Weaver's stuff, and some other early folk, but the first music that really transformed me was Joan Baez at Newport and on her first album. That changed everything for me. I fell in love with her, with the music, with the Movement, with all of it.

- LH