What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Classic album...

[TheGreenGoblin]

His smile says it all.. while the pedestrians rush on by, heedless of melody and of life itself...

[ian16th]

His smile says it all.. while the pedestrians rush on by, heedless of melody and of life itself...

Then there was the English version!

[TheGreenGoblin]

His smile says it all.. while the pedestrians rush on by, heedless of melody and of life itself...

Then there was the English version!

Fascinating history to that song...

"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the little-known prison film Unchained (January 1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack.It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.

In 1955, three versions of the song (by Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, and Roy Hamilton) charted in the Billboard top 10 in the United States, and four versions (by Al Hibbler, Les Baxter, Jimmy Young, and Liberace) appeared in the top 20 in the United Kingdom simultaneously, a record for any song.The song continued to chart in the 21st century, and it was the only song to reach number one with four different recordings in the UK until it was joined by Band Aid 30's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2014.

Of the hundreds of recordings made, the Righteous Brothers' version in July 1965, with a solo by Bobby Hatfield, became the jukebox standard after its release. Hatfield changed the melody in the final verse and many subsequent covers of the song are based on his version. The Righteous Brothers recording achieved a second round of great popularity when featured in the film Ghost in 1990. In 2004, it was number 27 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unchained_Melody

[TheGreenGoblin]

Having watched the right wing, Calvinist government in South Africa go through every twist and turn from the totalitarian playbook to crush and proscribe alternate modes of communication and musical defiance and the effects that battle had on stifling popular culture back in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's, it is interesting to review how a similar modus operandi from the Communists in Czechoslovakia back around the same time sparked the nascent revolution in that country. In fact both regimes had so much more in common than they might have imagined, at daggers drawn as they were.

Plastic People of the Universe



Many South African bands were regarded with deep suspicion by the Nationalists who effectively throttled artists like these by refusing to allow them to be played on the airwaves and harassing, banning and arresting the musicians...

[TheGreenGoblin]

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[Karearea]

The Newcastle Song - Bob Hudson (3:05)

[TheGreenGoblin]

Nur so guter Mann!

[Stoneboat]

Paddy's Day is upon us.

[TheGreenGoblin]

[Woody]

Possibly , definitely not the greatest video ever, but what a place to hold a gig



PS I am in the bloke in the straw hat and tasteless shirt

[TheGreenGoblin]

Paddy's Day is upon us.

Saw those guys with my now ex-wife at the Cardiff University Students Union building back sometime in the 80's. Good band!

Another lady from the past...

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

One of my favourite tunes...

[ian16th]

Yea!
She was good, for a long, long time!

[ian16th]

And then there was the drinking man, that played piano for beer tokens.

[TheGreenGoblin]

And then there was the drinking man, that played piano for beer tokens.

Amen to Mr Waller.

Another ex drinking man who can still tinkle the ivories, but who is better known for singing in his own inimitable style...

[TheGreenGoblin]