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temperance14) wrote2009-12-25 02:11 pm
temperance14) wrote2009-12-25 02:11 pm
Posting this as fast as I can: Favorite 3/4 time songs
Going to start over storing music on the newish desk top. Will start over with my jazz and blues, and want to add what I consider to be FNW Damn I Never Thought Of That As Waltz music.
Yes, I'm the novice, so I've been delighted by the surprises to my brain these last few years. (Have also been inflicted with the brain syndrome of That's Great Pop...Is it Waltz Tempo, Fast Enough for Turbo Polka, or Can I Schottische to it?)
So....Here's the rough (and I know, dippy) request that posted at FB:
"what are your favorite 3/4 time songs? Off the top of your head: Current? Pop? Off the standard charts? Folk? Classical? Graceful romantic speed? And, the ones I REALLY want to collect: "Oh My God, Only Sam and Anthony Are Insane Enough To Try This Tempo". Thenk yew. Feel free to post at LJ."
I was looking for a range of traditional 19th century waltzes, Irish and English 6/8 time songs,
20th century pop (by that I mean show tunes, top 20, jazz), pop that doesn't show up on the radio but if I call it Indie people will gag,
and the Turbo waltzes.
List as long as you like, post here, message me, or email me.
Yes, I'm the novice, so I've been delighted by the surprises to my brain these last few years. (Have also been inflicted with the brain syndrome of That's Great Pop...Is it Waltz Tempo, Fast Enough for Turbo Polka, or Can I Schottische to it?)
So....Here's the rough (and I know, dippy) request that posted at FB:
"what are your favorite 3/4 time songs? Off the top of your head: Current? Pop? Off the standard charts? Folk? Classical? Graceful romantic speed? And, the ones I REALLY want to collect: "Oh My God, Only Sam and Anthony Are Insane Enough To Try This Tempo". Thenk yew. Feel free to post at LJ."
I was looking for a range of traditional 19th century waltzes, Irish and English 6/8 time songs,
20th century pop (by that I mean show tunes, top 20, jazz), pop that doesn't show up on the radio but if I call it Indie people will gag,
and the Turbo waltzes.
List as long as you like, post here, message me, or email me.
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(i have istanbul not constantinople stuck in my head cos it's an awesome polka but it doesn't count...)
um. will have to get back to you.
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I've played this at FNW. And danced to it, all the way through.
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(And thank you for the ear worm: I shall now cruise youtube for Jacques Brel songs on Monday!)
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Oddball bits I've noticed over the past couple of years, some of which I've quoted at Monday Night Ceilidh...
Jigs - "Do You Hear The People Sing" - Les Miserables, I played that the night they broke away from The Plough, and damn near broke FoolsAndIrish he was laughing so hard. I really should write out The Cantina Band (Star Wars) for a reel / polka sometime...
Ummm, hell, half the songs from Rent are danceable, it seems. Today 4 U (Polka); Santa Fe, I'll Cover You, and Take Me Or Leave Me (all three are jigs).
Hee hee, I'm just walking through my Huey Lewis stuff, and there's a few good reels - Whole Lotta Lovin', Hip To Be Square, Heart Of Rock and Roll, Heart and Soul, I Want A New Drug.
But you said waltzes. There's the standards that get played all the time - Piano Man (Billy Joel), Kiss From A Rose (Seal), Helplessly Hopelessly (Jessica Andrews), Blue Skies (Point of Grace), Nara (The theme to Cold Case, by E.S.Posthumus), others. I'd love to re-work into a ceilidh version the main (waltz) tune from Pirates of the Carribean. Amas Veritas (from Practical Magic, music by Alan Silvestri), good waltz tune. It Is You (I Have Loved) by Dana Glover (It's that waltz tune used by Dreamworks movies since Shrek came out).
Ooh, I'm going to have to write this one out - Erin Shore (an Irish waltz I found on an album The Major gave me last year). Heart of the Highland (Capercaillie)
If you're looking for "a range of traditional 19th Century," I have several good choices in my old textbook series from school. I have all of that music here, too. Come and visit (*Grin*).