Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 53

From: The Music Memoirs

Top Five On Friday – Week 53

Top 5 Unlikely Musical Pairings

Honestly, who am I to say what is ‘unlikely’ or ‘likely’ ? Although, I guess that for this week’s MEME choice, you wouldn’t select the normal group of duets that you might expect to see .. like Simon & Garfunkel .. etc etc … That being said, of course I am just limited to my own music collection!

PS: I’ve added a little plugin that lets you just play each song with out using your own audio player .. Neat-o!

“Most Unlikely” – Top Five

1) Al Jolson & Cab Calloway (I Love To Singa)

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2) Elton John & Kiki Dee (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart)

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3) The Guess Who & Chad Allen (Shaking All Over)

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4) The Beatles & Tony Sheridan (Ya Ya Song – Parts I & II)

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5) Ray Stevens & Tarzan – with Jane, The Monkey & The Jungle Band (Gitarzan – Live)

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6) Jimi Hendrix & Jim Morrison – (F.H.I.T.A.) ** (explicit lyrics – F*ck Her In The A**)

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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 52

From: The Music Memoirs

Top Five On Friday – Week 52

Top 5 Musical Resolution Songs

HART’s 2006 New Year’s Resolutions …. ?

Well, naturally .. I would love to change the world ….. but first I have to figure out how! I guess to do this, I will have to look at myself carefully, and make changes if I am to be a great success! Awww … who am I kidding? I’ll never amount to anything and people will just run down my dream because everybody knows … I’m quite a lazy guy.

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Or, pictorally – as follows:

A Space in TimeThe Magician\'s Birthday90125Full Moon FeverMachine Head

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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 51

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Top Five On Friday – Week 51


Top 5 “Festive” Songs

Sure .. we can all burn or play our own .mp3 CD’s or have one of the kids keep feeding your CD player all weekend, but why not just put these ENTIRE ALBUM .mp3’s on one CD and play ‘Festive’ music for 3-3/4 hours at a time! I don’t know how long these will be up … and how long it will take you to download …. I’ll let you decide … (Bytes // Minutes:Seconds)

In No Particular Order …

(1) VINCE GUARALDI TRIO – “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (97,179,648 // 40:23)

(2) JAMES LAST ORCHESTRA- “A Wonderful Christmas” (57,042,944 // 59:02)

(3) THE BEATLES – “Nöel Christmas – Fan Club Album For 1963-1965 Years and 1966 Outtakes” ( 15,513,600 // 16:09 & 1,744,896 // 1:48)

(4) SOUNDTRACK – “Jesus Christ Superstar” ( 78,955,920 // 82:14)

(5) DISNEY – “Disney’s Very Merry Christmas” ( 26,162,573 // 27:15 )
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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 50

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Top Five On Friday – Week 50

“Top 5 “Musical” gifts you’d like to receive this year”

Oh – That’s easy ……. Cash, Cash, Cash, Cash and Cash ….

If money grew on trees .. I’d like to just hop on a plane and go on a long and well deserved vacation … then HART would be happy …. Let us pray …. Om Namah Narayana Om Namah Narayana

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EDIT: TOP FIVE LIST EDITED FOR CHRISTMAS

Just in case, I thought I would add these NON-.mp3 related Musical gifts found about my travellings in other blogs….

1) http://1800hart.com/picks/2005/10/yamaha-dd55-by-yamaha/
2) http://1800hart.com/picks/2005/09/full-size-steel-string-guitar-with-free-carrying-bag-and-accessories-black-blowout-sale/
3) http://www.intergem.net/ipod.html
4) http://pianoandsynth.com/2005/10/20/tyros2-yamahas-best-ever-music-workstation
5) http://www.continuumaudiolabs.com/caliburn.htm

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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 49

From: The Music Memoirs

Top Five On Friday – Week 49

In honor of the first major snow storm of the year.

Top Five “Winter” Songs

My Picks – In No Particular Order:

I thought I would ‘build’ into this theme WINTER .. SNOW .. BLIZZARD STORM .. and CHRISTMAS !- the making of a great Top Five for Winter (if you ask me – but what do I know – :-D)

(1) Glenn Miller Orchestra – Winter Wonderland

>> Big Bands + Christmas Songs = Awesome … (Besides .. you can’t go wrong with Glenn Miller) …

(2) X T C – Snowman

>> I have always been a fan of these two songs from XTC … “Making Plans For Nigel” and “Snowman” …

(3) IDA – Blizzard of ’78

>> My wife’s cousin Peter pointed me towards http://www.epitonic.com/ and I have many many songs in my collection as a result! I found IDA songs here (in case you were wondering who IDA was …) http://www.epitonic.com/artists/ida.html

(4) The Beach Boys – Frosty The Snowman

>> I was just thinking about this the other day chatting with a friend, listening to David Bowie & Bing Crosbie sing the Little Drummer Boy song. I think it was genius of all the artists who make decent christmas songs .. because people will always listen to them over and over and over every year … Like the Beach Boys … They made tons of christmas songs .. they didn’t have to!

(5) Christmas Light Show – LINKS – Copied from My Other Site

http://HART-Empire.com/video/WizardsofWinter-SM.wmv
http://HART-Empire.com/video/jingle.wmv
http://HART-Empire.com/video/annalisa-navidad-f.wmv
http://HART-Empire.com/video/annalisa-bells-f.wmv
http://HART-Empire.com/video/dbrown-open.wmv
http://HART-Empire.com/video/dbrown-navidad.wmv

>> “Winter” Songs 🙂 … I didn’t bother copying all the ‘text’ and background of these – I’d recommend you play them first – then click on the URL to my other site for background.

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Meme – Random 10 – Week 33

From: The Music Memoirs

Random 10 – Week 33

Random 10 – Week 33

10 songs that sum up your weekend…or were on your weekend playlist…and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

My Picks In No Particular Order

This weekend was about the christmas decorations. Shaw T.V. changed their channel 48 “weather” channel background music to christmas music, and in the mood I loaded up my 2004 XMAS playlist .. it contains 89 songs! So, rather than randomizing this list and picking 10 RANDOM songs – I decided to list songs that were similar, but by different artists or in a different musical style.

Here they are:

01) CAROL OF THE BELLS – DJ Demonixx (Crystal Method Mix)
02) CAROL OF THE BELLS – Mr. Mackey (SouthPark)
03) CAROL OF THE BELLS – Andy Williams (Boston Pops)
04) CAROL OF THE BELLS – Trans Siberian Orchestra
05) CAROL OF THE BELLS – Vienna Choir Boys
06) JINGLE BELLS – Abba
07) JINGLE BELLS – Barking Dogs
08) JINGLE BELLS – Techno Version (artist unknown)
09) JINGLE BELL ROCK – Neil Diamond
10) JINGLE BELL ROCK – Muppets

As for the Picture …. this is our Living Room about 80% decorated (as I’m told) … Yvonne’s accomplishment!

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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 48

From: The Music Memoirs

Top Five On Friday – Week 48

Top 5 Beautiful Voices

And if you’re so disposed, tell us why you picked the voices you did and if you want to share a favorite song by each, feel free! Happy Memeing!

My Picks – In No Particular Order:

I think what you should listen to all of my picks, and hold off judgement until you’ve listened to them all … listen to the singing voice on each…. I think I picked good ones this week! I Had To! I missed week 46 and week 47 😀


I was Sarah McLachlan’s biggest fan .. from the beginning .. “Touch”, “Solace” (which is her best in my opinion), and “Fumbling Towards Ecstacy”. Since “The Freedom Sessions” was released … I just didn’t really care about the next ‘remix’ or ‘session’ or ‘exclusive’ or ‘live version’ … My favorite song is the opening one on Fumbling Towards Ecstacy but it’s more ‘Rock’ish .. and while I like 80% of Touch album .. Solace is 100% in my books. Every song is great. Sarah’s voice shines beautifully in all the songs .. especially this one! (Crank up the Bass!)

Sarah McLachlan – The Path of Thorns (Terms)


Artist: Sarah McLachlan
From: http://www.sarahmclachlan.com/photos/index.html
Details: From her website
Official Site: http://www.sarahmclachlan.com/ !!


When I first watched “Magnolia” movie and listened to the song “Wise Up” was when my interest was peaked. I never heard that song before. I rewinded the VHS recorder and learned in the credits it was Aimee Mann. I immediately went out on a quest to get as much as her music as possible. If you are listening to her songs by yourself, cranked really loud – well, you probably know what I mean. This is her best song in my opinion.

Aimee Mann – Save Me (Magnolia Soundtrack)


Artist: Aimee Mann
From: http://www.aimeemann.com/archive/photos/
Details: From her website
Official Site: http://www.aimeemann.com !!


Who doesn’t know Madonna? She has some terrible songs, some decent songs, song good songs, and some bad songs. I have never turned off the radio when I heard a Madonna song. But, there are two songs that are on my “MUST HAVE” list .. meaning if I burn a CD —> these two songs are there. If I have a random bunch of songs on my Musicmatch Playlist … —> These two songs are always there. I have the videos for both of them – if you want ’em – ask.

Madonna – Beautiful Stranger & Ray of Light


Artist: Madonna
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_%28entertainer%29
Details: Madonna performs at The Astoria in central London, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005.
Official Site: http://www.madonna.com/ !!


Most of you familiar with Ace of Base probably knows Jenny Berggren sang most of the songs, except it was her sister Linn (Malin) Berggren that got me to notice this band and its songs … from this favorite song:

Ace of Base – All That She Wants


Artist: Linn Berggren
From: http://www.aceofbase.com/
Details: Biography “About Me” page
Official Site: http://www.aceofbase.com/ !!


For the girls … I figure .. you probably think GUYS voices are ‘beautiful’ too .. Well .. if that is the case, this is probably the best male voice and songs that I know of … from a technical singing point of view 🙂 AND YES THERE IS A COMEBACK AFTER 30 YEARS! Hard to believe 🙂 There’s a local story that their album “House on the Hill” sold the most copies here in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I don’t know if it is true or not. But, when you drive around the Perimeter of the city, you see about 10 miles down the road .. “Stony Mountain Penitentiary” – it’s a medium security prison, on a hill …

Audience – You’re Not Smiling


Artist: HOWARD WERTH (guitar/vocals – Audience)
From: http://www.rocusfocus.com/audience_4.htm
Details: Audienced by Carl van der Walle / Burg Herzberg Festival / Germany / July 15 th 2005
Official Site: http://AudienceAreBack.com !!

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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 45

From: The Music Memoirs

Top Five On Friday – Week 45

Top 5 “Number” songs. (Songs with numbers or first, second, third…etc or any other number related words)

My Picks – In No Particular Order:

1) Beck – “TWO TURNTABLES AND A MICROPHONE”

>> Two!

2) Queen – “SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE”

>> Seven!

3) Aimee Mann – “ONE IS THE LONLIEST NUMBER (Cover)”

>> One!

4) Garbage – “NUMBER ONE CRUSH”

>> One!

5) Chicago – “25 OR 6 TO 4”

25! 6! 4!

Honorable Mentions ….. (in alphabetical order – if my list were to continue)

Alarm – SPIRIT OF ”76
B-52’s – 52 GIRLS
Beatles – REVOLUTION NUMBER 9
Eagles – ONE OF THESE NIGHTS
Led Zeppelin – NO QUARTER
Telephone Answering Machine – BARBER SHOP QUARTET! 🙂

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Meme – Top Five On Friday – Week 44

From: The Music Memoirs

Top Five On Friday – Week 44

Top 5 songs that best describe your life “right now”

My Picks – In No Particular Order:

1) Rye Coalition – “COMMUNICATION BREAKDANCE”

>> I was playing telephone tag quite a lot this week

2) Neil Young with Crazy Horse – “MY MY, HAY HAY (OUT OF THE BLUE)”

>> I have been doing ‘All-Niters’ every Thursday/Friday to catch up

3) Calexico – “CRYSTAL FRONTIER”

>> It’s a fragile world when you are on a different wave length

4) Dream Theater – “THE MIRROR”

>> From the “Awake” album .. I took a good look in a mirror November 1

5) Paul Mauriat – “PAPILLON” – (Instrumental)

Well .. what did you expect? Maxxie and Sophie are always with me during the days and nights! 😀

Honorable Mentions ….. (next in line if my list were to continue)

The Guess Who – “UNDUN”
Nazareth – “WOKE UP THIS MORNING”
Denis Leary – “I’M AN ASSHOLE”
The Eagles – “TAKE IT EASY”
Talking Heads – “ROAD TO NOWHERE”

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