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Roses of Picardy - Frank Sinatra [3:02]

Mais c'est plus belle..

Have not listened to this for ... a long time.
Still magic. Transports me back.

Ommadawn, Part 1, Mike Oldfield, as on my vinyl Mike Oldfield Boxed album. [19:10]

With the sad passing of Harry Belafonte noted elsewhere, I always go back to this version

The story behind this song is recounted by Carroll Shelby here viewtopic.php?p=365378#p365378. It was written by Carol Connors, the singer and song writer, and not the notorious porn star.

A classic album...

Bonio, takes the dog's biscuit, in his self absorbed, self righteous, complacent way, and when he smirks I come out in hives, but when Pavarotti sings I am apt to secretly wipe a tear from my rheumy eye...



TIs a sad song.


Anecdote - I had the pleasure of flying in the jump seat in U2's private jet on a maintenance flight from Cardiff to Bournemouth many years back, while the band prepared for their concert in Cardiff and the pilot landed way too long, his eye twitching, and my mouth ran dry, as we came within 10 meters of overrunning the runway and I was apt to wonder if the bloke might not have been running on marching powder... maybe I am unfair, I guess we all make mistakes, one of the biggest I made been en route to Bournemouth as well, but that's another story.

Sent to me by a Sarajevo veteran with whom I am flying back to, hopefully, a better place in late July.

Plus ca change eh!

Ommadawn, Part 1, Mike Oldfield

I bought this, in 1975, aged 13 (with my own earnings from my paper round)

The first record I ever bought was..



and between the two I bought



I now listen to a lot of Deep House.
I get funny looks from teenagers who wonder why I'm listening to 'their' music.
"When did you get into electronic music?"
"1975"

^ Oxygene, a classic of the time

Another classic from my collection back then

So, let's take a little ramble down the synth road

Had only ever heard the Flying Pickets' Only You, such a delicate, precise sound, a capella: [3:17]

Thank you both.
I do like both A Capella versions, have done for a long time.
A Capella, done well, can work with a lot of great songs.

However, I find the lack of electronics tends to remove the desperation and the urgency from the original lyrics, replacing it with more melancholia, as if the events are viewed from a greater distance in time.

Slightly off track, I also like Bluegrass versions of classic rock