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To a large degree, I think our musical taste develops largely because the best years of our lives are accompanied by a pop music soundtrack. I like a lot of songs that I simply CANNOT imagine any logical reason for liking  .
But there is that window of time from when you first discover girls until the time when responsibility starts to weigh on you. For me, it was that slice of life from about 1970 to 1986. Whatever was playing on the radio seems to hold a pleasant memory even if the song itself is inexplicable.
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One of my film delights is Streets of Fire (1984), directed by Walter Hill (who needs no introduction). It was labeled "a rock fable", was very stylized, and included several musical numbers. It was also Rick Moranis' second appearance on the big screen and Willem Dafoe's fifth (counting his first, uncredited, appearance).
The setting was some fictional city with a number of different neighborhoods, each with its own stereotyped culture, retro time period setting, and rock music style. One of the singing groups was styled after those common in the '60s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3Sa4n0rS8
This music video is actually a better presentation than their appearance in the movie, because the movie's editing chopped up the song pretty badly.
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That sparked old memories, Pye-Rate. Over a number of years past I've fooled around with music-synched light displays of one kind and another. Most commonly they were just simple lights that flashed with peaks in the music. Some were even so sophisticated as to have separate colors tied to specific frequency ranges.
One surprise, however, came from seeing the effect of randomly blinking lights, like you get from old-fashioned Xmas tree strings wherein each light blinks independently of the others. When I played music with the light display, it would seem like the lights were synched to the music, even though no such connection existed.
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Part 2 of Filmfax's article on Bobby Rydell (issue #139) takes up 9 pages, with extensive coverage of Bye Bye Birdie.
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Bobby Rydel sang one of my "heartbreak-approved" sad songs. This is one of the things I'd listen to when some girl dumped or rejected me (pretty much a regular occurence in the old days).
http://youtu.be/_IKpA__9kTU
Bonus track...a heartbreak-approved song from Ricky Nelson:
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"Forget Him" has been one of my own standard favorites.
Here's one, by another of my favorites, Bobby Vee (written by Carole King), to go along with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNqLO6auQA
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Brent Gair
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| orzel-w wrote: |
Here's one, by another of my favorites, Bobby Vee (written by Carole King), to go along with it.
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Oh yeah...a true heartbreak classic. I've even made attempts to learn that song on the chromatic harmonica. I think I'll get back at it.
Bobby Vee is from North Dakota and, because we used to get a lot of TV stations from ND, he always had a high degree of recognition around here years after his star began to fade.
Sadly, while checking the web some months ago, I discovered Bobby Vee was diagnosed with Alheimer's a few years ago and has retired from the music business . I've said it before, "Getting old ain't for sissies".
I'm reminded of this spectacularly beautiful song be Ed Ames which contains the line, "In less than a moment we both will be old. We won't even notice the world turning cold".
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| Brent Gair wrote: | | Sadly, while checking the web some months ago, I discovered Bobby Vee was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years ago and has retired from the music business . |
Oh no, not him, too... 
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| Pye-Rate wrote: | | Star Wars theme and Star Trek theme on harps! |
An Austin Powers fantasy!
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