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| From | synchro1 <synchro1@ix.netcom.com> |
| Subject | Re: Beautiful songs..melancholy |
| Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:08:38 -0500 (EST) |
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The second album is "Royal Flush" on RCA. It is also brilliant but not as totally melancholy as the debut.
The cover of Rebecca on that 2nd album would easily fit in this thread of melancholy.
I enjoy the tune "Freeway Close" - "I've got a rebate in my pocket"
The 45 version of Fire In A Rainstorm is perfect. "I won't see you anymore, once was quite enough for me...."
Perhaps due to my own romantic lovelife failures, I fully associate the second Melcher lp (Royal Flush) with the second Elvis Costello LP, This Years Model (I Don't Want to kiss you, I don't want to touch) even though some years apart.
I love both Melcher albums and play them very frequently.
About 10 years ago my wife and I took Newton (the late) 3-legged Wonder Puppy (clips at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3t0_XEwML0 )to the resort in Carmel run by Doris Day. We had a great time. I saw Terry Melcher behind the desk and had a Sundazed Bruce & Terry CD ready for him to autograph. Suddenly, it struck me to just leave him alone. I wanted to tell him how much his music and production had meant to me - but I couldn't. I'm actually glad I didn't bug him even though I may be the only human being who thinks he did well with Byrdmaniacs.
His premature death (age 62) is sad. His mother, Doris Day, is woefully underappreciated as a timeless singer. But damn, his 2 albums are a total pleasure for me to this day.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Adelsheim <madelsheim@adelsheimvineyard.com>
>Sent: Feb 1, 2008 12:33 AM
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Beautiful songs..melancholy
>
>Thanks for mentioning Mr. Terry Melcher. I myself prefer his second
>album, but the songs you mention from his first resonate with me as
>well.
>
>I also totally get swamped by "Here Without You"...also "Waterloo
>Sunset"(duh) and "Visions Of Johanna".
>
>Adelsheim
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
>Of synchro1
>Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:51 PM
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Beautiful songs..melancholy
>
>Boat On The Charles - Todd Rundgren (why don't I leave, why don't I
>leave, I can't make myself believe that no one really cares for me here)
>
>Nightime - Big Star (Get me out of here, get me out of here, I hate it
>here)
>
>Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - as performed by Terry Melcher (where were
>you last Friday night, while I was lying in jail, you were out walking
>the streets with another man, wouldn't even throw my bail)
>
>These Days - also as performed by Terry Melcher (don't confront me with
>all of my, all of my, failures - I've not forgotten them)
>
>The Old Hand Jive - as performed by Terry...oh, to hell with it - The
>entire eponymous Terry Melcher album is drenced in melancholy from his
>Charles Manson Lament and even the "upbeat" Dr. Horowitz (backing vocals
>by Bruce Johnston). I consider this one of my very favorite records of
>all time but if you ever needed music to commit suicide by, this would
>be a perfect fit.
>
>A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole. I can't hear this without seeing the
>scene it is used in the film Badlands by terrence Malick, starring a
>young Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen ina reteeling of the Charles
>Starkweather/Carol Ann Fugate killing spree (Sheen as Kit: "Boy, if I
>could sing like Nat King Cole.....).
>
>A blossom fell from off a tree
>It settled softly on the lips you turned to me
>The gypsies say and I know why
>A falling blossom only touches lips that lie
>
>A blossom fell and very soon
>I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
>I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
>We planned together to dream forever
>The dream has ended, for true love died
>The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied
>
>A blossom fell and very soon
>I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
>I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
>We planned together to dream forever
>The dream has ended, for true love died
>The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied
>
>
>
>
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