The one with the monks just kills me. 😎
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9 comments:
Technically that third wish would be for "my man/girl". Good stuff.
Heh. 😎
Again with the bagpipe and accordion bashing! Paging Roy Wood!
There does seem to be a recurring theme around here….😎
And a well deserved recurring theme. While the accordion has been used effectively in pop/rock/americana/zydeco, the bagpipes not so much.
Yes, there's an old joke, which may have been mentioned previously on this blog:
Q - What's the definition of a "gentleman" ?
A - Someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't.
The bagpipes are a nice touch in Sky Pilot.
my grandmother's brother - my great-uncle, in other words - was in a bagpipe corps in pennsylvania - i preferred it to any other marching band - my own band experience, in ninth grade, was as a bass drum player - and other percussion, during the christmas concert - the first time we played the national anthem at a basketball game i added the "stinger" at the end, and was the only person to do so - no one said anything to me about it, no one needed to - we did NOT march - it was too small a school for that - in that same era i was finishing my classical piano lessons - i performed a beethoven sonata from memory at the last recital - these memories are magic moments, and remind me of a perry como song, believe it or not
"Magic Moments" 1957-58......#4 U.S. Billboard, #1 UK Singles Chart, #12 Canada, #1 Italy
Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound.
"Magic Moments" is a popular song with music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David, one of the first compositions by that duo. The song was published in 1957. The song was recorded by Perry Como as the B-side of his "Catch a Falling Star". It reached No. 1 in the UK in 1958.
The biggest hit version of the song was recorded by Perry Como and released by RCA Victor in December 1957, becoming a hit early in 1958. The record was produced by Joe Reisman. The peak position in the United States is hard to track precisely, due to the multiple charts used in Billboard magazine: On the Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart, it reached it highest peak of number four.
The song was also a 1958 hit in Italy, while in the United Kingdom it spent eight weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, becoming Como's biggest ever hit there.
In Canada, the song reached number 12 on the CHUM Charts, February 3, 1958, co-charting with Catch a Falling Star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rII4yidEo
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