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Post by MartinT on Jan 13, 2024 10:41:26 GMT
I still haven't seen 2001. Pathetic. Need to rectify that promptly. You must! But not on a phone.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 13, 2024 12:32:23 GMT
Maybe I can see it before years end. My goal has been to get a large screen of some kind to stop watching everything hand held.
Unless they replay it at an AMC theater before then.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 13, 2024 14:39:32 GMT
This gorgeous song was written, in 1957, by Ewan MacColl (Kirsty McColl's father, via his 2nd marriage) for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife.
Clint Eastwood, star of the film and its director, asked (the pretty much unknown) Roberta Flack if he could use her version for the film, and she agreed, but wanted to re-record it, as she thought it was too slow. Clint, I'm happy to say, persuaded her to leave it as it was. The phone call, or at least a part of it, went like this according to Roberta Flack...
You can't fault Clint's musical taste, and of course, he's a pretty good jazz pianist himself.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 13, 2024 17:51:03 GMT
It is a gorgeous song when sung by Roberta Flack. Nils Lofgren's version is also superb.
EDIT: nice Jag, too.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 14, 2024 16:06:46 GMT
God that is beautiful. And it makes me so nostalgic for those times in the 80's when I'd see stuff like this on TV.
I find it interesting, if I understand correctly, that singers were their own songwriters back then. While nowadays a voice is matched up, quite often, with a professional songwriter to concoct a radio hit in a lab.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 10, 2024 16:52:10 GMT
Never was that keen on Huey Lewis
but
I have always been very keen on Back to the future Eventually splashed out on Huey Lewis Best of just to get Back in time The power of love
Ended up becoming a Huey Lewis fan
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