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While primarily remembered as the husband of Betty White and host of TV game shows Password and GE College Bowl, Allen Ludden also released an album in 1964 called "Allen Ludden Sings His Favorite Songs", released for an RCA Records subsidiary. The album is not exactly a rock album, but features Ludden singing pop standards a la Andy Williams or Ray Conniff, including a cover version of They Can't Take That Away From Me and I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face. The album is now out of print, but I guess you can say that the password is "collector's item!"
And I also seem to remember that singer Jon Bauman (Bowser from Sha Na Na) hosted the short lived The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour alongside Gene Rayburn in 1983.

 

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@Ivan May, I really loved the Byrds video of You Ain't Going Nowhere you posted with the lead player throwing in that B-Bender Tele steel guitar vibe!  The original was written and recorded by Bob Dylan.  The version by Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson on the Basement Tapes Album is still a favorite:

 

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On 1/13/2024 at 7:02 PM, hurricane hugo said:

Never heard of this band or song until half an hour ago. Been listening to this on loop ever since. They sound to me like early Beatles gone shoegaze, and I love it. All vocals in Japanese.

 

 

You nailed the assessment!

 

There’s all kinds of nods to the Beatles, right down to their image.  The stage set was also very retro-TV.
 

And their sound is definitely shoegaze-adjacent.  Conceptually like what the Fab Four might have sounded like as shoegaze pioneers- not quite the fully realized sound but definitely in the neighborhood.  More restrained on their use of effects.

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Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ

 

My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx

 

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On 3/9/2022 at 4:34 PM, Dannyalcatraz said:

I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistant.

 

 

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I saw whatcha did there...

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Attn: Ambience chasers!

 

 

Since the early 1990s, Robert Fripp has utilised the latest in looping technology and digital effects to create Soundscapes, a gradually unfolding, highly textured, expansive and overtly symphonic music. 'The Wine of Silence' is the first album to feature orchestral arrangements of Fripp's groundbreaking work in this field. Orchestrated by composer Andrew Keeling and performed by the Metropole Orkest, under the baton of Jan Stulen, the results of this inspired collaboration evoke the works of Part, Gorecki, Tavener and the 'holy minimalist' school of composition. Andrew Keeling's sensitive and often startling orchestrations emphasise the reverie, passion and contemplation which is at the heart of Fripp's Soundscapes and capture the spirit of the original performances, reflecting the guitarist's rich musicality. While sometimes sombre and elegiac, Fripp's music radiates a sense of hope, affirmation and resolution. With the tapes of the Metropole Orkest performance subsequently 're-imagined' by David Singleton - co-producer of all of Fripp's Soundscapes recordings to date - 'The Wine Of Silence' comprises a sublime and moving collection of contemporary orchestral music.

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I’m a big fan of Adrian Belew’s work, and have heard (and purchased) a HUGE chunk of the music he’s played.  But somehow, I managed to never hear a single note of his work with The Bears.

 

Fortunately, in a recent interview, he mentioned that as being one of his favorite projects.  The journalist understood Belew’s lament that The Bears were under-appreciated, and attached a video of a whole concert.

 

 

 

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8 hours ago, Dannyalcatraz said:

...somehow, I managed to never hear a single note of his work with The Bears.

 

Fortunately, in a recent interview, he mentioned that as being one of his favorite projects.  The journalist understood Belew’s lament that The Bears were under-appreciated...


People pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

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On 1/13/2024 at 5:37 PM, Ivan May said:

 


this version popped up after I'd watched something the other day... I was surprised to see John Kay strap on a guitar at the end and add a slide solo...
 

 

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On 2/10/2024 at 3:41 PM, Ivan May said:

 


Zevon is one of my favorite songwriters...

My stepdad has hit his 70s, and was born a Type A diabetic (both of his parents were Type A diabetics and all 14* of their kids were, too)... 70 is the "average life expectancy" of a diabetic so he's beaten the odds but his health has deteriorated rapidly - especially his vision, meaning he can't drive anymore - and for someone who is naturally fiercely independent that means he's bummed out...

So I pulled up this song to play for him to cheer him up, he laughed all through it and then said "that guy wrote the most true and profound song I've ever heard!" 
 




* yes, 14 kids... as my stepdad says "my parents did love us... but we were born as much to be free farmhands as people."

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Not only was it the theme song to a great sitcom from the '70s, Angela (the theme from Taxi) also introduced me to the good music of Bob James. His Fender Rhodes work on this track is just dazzling! 

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