Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006 - YouTube

Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin (extended version) - YouTube

http://youtu.be/InRDF_0lfHk

http://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY

http://youtu.be/UqfqAU74Hxg

Gia Ena Tango is not only haunting, but sung with such clarity and feeling that it is amends for my recent musical rants.... I share a very special tango with you. Yes, not spanish, but Greek

gia ena tango - h. alexiou - YouTube

and like a good wine - a good finish:

Tenor - Placido Domingo - Capullito De Aleli / Cuando Calienta El Sol / Guantanamera - YouTube

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Estupendo!!!

Maravilloso!!!

Early morning here, have just come in from a BBQ outside. We launched a lantern. (Still light in early July)























Towards Sanderstead. And then....... just time for this....


No no! No hay furor!

Another 'Nights in White Satin'. From 31 years ago.



Elkie Brook still holds huge audiences. Performing here in September. Tiene 68 años....
Maravillosa!

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Oops - More photos than music on that previous post - But a lot of had flowed by the time of lantern launch, and more afterwards before dabbling on the HUBB.

But Bravo again for the Haroula Alexiou tango , and I hope a couple of sky-bound videos will be OK to introduce a couple more artists.

A walk over to Kenley the morning after revealed no Chinese lanterns had landed on the airfield.

No, only this taking off.

(Somehow, a passing passenger jet neatly synchronised its throttle with this take-off - we're between Heathrow, Biggin Hill and Gatwick here).

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And this landing.


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The soft whispering sound of the gliders hanging in the sunshine prompted an idea of a singer not yet, I think, posted on this thread:


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And those purring manoeuvrings coming in to land could only lead to...... Late 70s in age - Still teaching her skills to novice Brit.....

Helped nicely with the hangover.

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McCrankpin, nice touch after the chinese lanterns , the glider and a finish with "Eartha" the real deal ground control.... I am a MUFON investigator and those lanterns played a part in the Brits opening their UFO files -

well done.

Only at the Hub Pub Major Tom with his *"dénouement" so Bond like that I wondered which exactly came first......

*The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
pardon my french...

David Bowie- Space Oddity Original Video (1969) - YouTube

This following ancient lyrics are a favorite of mine, and have been since learning to sing them while playing my guitar and having enough courage to sing and play to young ladies I dated at university (circa 1964), What memories for me and for many others I am sure in those days the "boys" lived in one dorm and the "girls" another - seems so , well, unnatural now.

The Highwayman - Gypsy Rover - YouTube

Warning: political content... born in Argentina

Nathalie Cardone Comandante Che Guevara Hasta Siempre - YouTube

and in Cuba

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan - YouTube

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PERUVIAN FLUTE BAND MUSIC ( CHUKLLA ) - YouTube

Chinese Music [relaxing] - YouTube

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I hope the following commercials are OK to post considering they might have commercial value.... I could not resist sharing these.... and frankly, we all need to lighten up a little.

Funniest Commercials - YouTube

http://youtu.be/5a03a2bEXaw

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for latin lovers

Buena Vista Social Club - YouTube

When I recognized Istanbul as the setting.....I just could not resist posting this traditional turkish music, beyond the Spanish translation and my very limited ability to understand Turkish- the flyover and the tour bus say what??? Strange, very strange.

Traditional Turkish Music (sub) - YouTube

I feel so moved when listening to this woman!!!

Specially this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icd1c3FpnC4

The Youngbloods - Get Together - YouTube

I would re-name this song as "Love, the impossible dream".
Here it is interpreted by Fito Paez, with Joaquín Sabina as invited artist.

Contigo (en vivo) - Joaquín Sabina y Fito Páez - SUBTÍTULOS - YouTube

There is a recent thread posted to HUBB PUB entitled "A Beautiful Story,"

it is! I pray we can also cut the line and hook that causes the people of

the world to aimlessly circle , always returning to war as the answer.

War is not the answer, it is the problem. Listen to these lyrics of Bob

Marley's *"War." And read "A Beautiful Story"

War - Bob Marley - YouTube

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* Lyrics taken from a famous speech by Halle Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia 1930-1974

What a great thread this is - thanks and long may it continue!

I'll offer a something in a slightly different direction.

A small introduction first. There have been big changes here over quite a few years, that have variously led to today's posting.
After over 30 years of messing about on an old piano, all self-taught (except for learning to read music at school) and strictly for my own entertaintainment, earlier this year I took the plunge and acquired a nice modern digital piano. And more importantly, started for the first time ever, taking lessons.

It's possible that, in addition to events over the past few years that led to this new episode, this thread might also have played a part......

So, first up is a musician who composed a novelty piece called 'Champagne'. I have one page of it, printed as an advert in a 1932 album of popular sheet music, that I found years ago in a local junk shop. It's far too difficult for me and I can find no recording of it. But my new lessons prompted me to do some research.
I found this Youtube, the same composer, with 'Wet Yo Thumb'.



Which I do a lot when thumbing through albums of old sheet music, looking for the simple arrangements.

Anyway, that led to another Youtube of a young pianist that I'd never heard of before, playing Zez Confrey's 'Dizzy Fingers'.



And it's always the way with these things, one find leads to another as long as you don't abandon the journey. I found that Stephanie Trick was playing four shows at the Isle of Islay Jazz festival, just a few weeks ago. So there I dashed. And this is my little bit of filming.


'Death Ray Boogie' by Pete Johnson



'Honky Tonk Train Boogie', an improvisation on a blues composition by Meade Lux Lewis.


There are eight distilleries on this small island.
My, how the music, and the single malt, flowed!
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