The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[Daniel]

Touch Sensitive was one I thought of, but there are certainly plenty of winners to choose from.

There certainly are. Touch Sensitive was the one that made it into a TV car ad I think - not exactly where Mark Smith might have expected to find himself!

I don't know if you saw any coverage of The Fall at Glastonbury this year, but he seems on splendid form here, with an initial spot of compere-ing that may rule him out of the running for the Breakfast Show on R3.

[teamsaint]

There certainly are. Touch Sensitive was the one that made it into a TV car ad I think - not exactly where Mark Smith might have expected to find himself!

I don't know if you saw any coverage of The Fall at Glastonbury this year, but he seems on splendid form here, with an initial spot of compere-ing that may rule him out of the running for the Breakfast Show on R3.

Don't think Ron Shafferty or Suzi Cobblers have had him on " In Tune," either, more's the pity.

[EdgeleyRob]

It's Sunday,it's been sunny (well most of the day)

[Lat-Literal]

The moment when the fresh faced American Mormons were invited in believing they were about to educate and instead received a lesson on "Simple Gifts". The Shaker movement, membership now down to three, although double beds in the style are numerous; Copland - see Appalachian Spring and Old American Songs, the latter especially with Warfield; the Judy Collins version, pure and plaintive; Lord of the Dance; its place in the Croydon Schools' Music Festival of 1974 - well, everyone has to be on vinyl at least once; its inclusion at both the Clinton and Obama inauguration ceremonies if anyone cares any more for that sort of nonsense; and the solid enough recording by Alison Krauss....all were new to them.

Strangely, it had all commenced with the introduction of themselves as Elders, an unanticipated decision not to send them packing immediately and an impromptu remark that John Brackett was an Elder too. Talk about turning the tables. To their credit, they put up with it. Then the one who had been fumbling throughout with an i-phone said he thought that - now I had come to mention it - he might have heard of it. Hadn't it been combined with "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"? No, not to my knowledge but at that point Eva Cassidy crossed my mind and I assumed that is what I was about to be offered. A nice woman but oh dear. Not for me. Instead what I was given was the Mormon version. Why, of course.

It's light. It isn't Bert Kaempfert but it is very, very ludicrously light. Marks are awarded on the basis of how it compares with the zero out of ten that I expected of it and what it added by way of a different sort of life experience. It was an interesting meeting of minds where no other meeting could be found. That's what music does but it is always good to be reminded. So charitably - and setting all taste aside for a few minutes - I'll give it five. It is, after all, the greatest humble song of all time and no one could ever murder it.

The Piano Guys - Simple Gifts (and Somewhere Over the Rainbow) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzF_y039slk

[EdgeleyRob]

Nightcap

[teamsaint]

A great soul record, with an unusual musical feature.

More or less, it has a major verse, and minor chorus, a rather unusual pattern.

anybody got any other well known examples?

Elton John and the Beatles both have both used this pattern successfully.

[Beef Oven!]

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells "Far From You"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xs0c5

[Lat-Literal]

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells "Far From You"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xs0c5

Like Moffat and Wells and hadn't heard that one before. It is very interesting to me because I have for a long time had it in my head that there are at least half a dozen songs with that sort of tune in/around them. It would be too challenging to think of them all now and I would welcome suggestions/reminders. This though is one of the main reference points:

Etta James - Only Women Bleed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQg1i5WgKjw

(See also Alice Cooper/Julie Covington)

[Beef Oven!]

Like Moffat and Wells and hadn't heard that one before. It is very interesting to me because I have for a long time had it in my head that there are at least half a dozen songs with that sort of tune in/around them. It would be too challenging to think of them all now and I would welcome suggestions/reminders. This though is one of the main reference points:

Etta James - Only Women Bleed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQg1i5WgKjw

(See also Alice Cooper/Julie Covington)

Alice Cooper was my way into OWB.

[Lat-Literal]

Alice Cooper was my way into OWB.

And that would be old world blues or I'm losing the plot.

[Beef Oven!]

And that would be old world blues or I'm losing the plot.

The plot has left the bulding!

[antongould]

Ferry Cross The Mersey - a real Forum favourite .......

[EdgeleyRob]

Ferry Cross The Mersey - a real Forum favourite .......

Eh ?

[antongould]

Eh ?

Played on Breakfast yesterday ER and you could say it caused a bit of a rumpus!!!!!!

[french frank]

Played on Breakfast yesterday ER and you could say it caused a bit of a rumpus!!!!!!

Or 'attracted attention' (why wouldn't it?). The rumpus is here.