From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #215 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Sunday, September 18 2005 Volume 07 : Number 215 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] 'Farewell to the Gold' [Gerry Evans ] [RS] Reality based songs [Georgette deFriesse ] [RS] triva ["Norman Johnson" ] [RS] trivia [Roxy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:45:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerry Evans Subject: [RS] 'Farewell to the Gold' >he and James Keelaghan did "Farewell to the Gold", an Australian gold mine song< It's a great great song but not Australian....I first heard it on Nic Jones' 'Penguin Eggs' album and think that's where Richard probably learnt it too. It's written by Paul Metsers, a New Zealander...more info about it here http://folksong.org.nz/fwltgold/ as for the trivia question...that must be Don McLean (pre American Pie). Do I win the Chi Guevara t-shirt? Re a covers album title..I've never had the chance to see Richard sing but judging from stuff I've read how about "Shut up tuning and sing" gerry __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:30:01 -0400 From: Georgette deFriesse Subject: [RS] Reality based songs On Sep 17, 2005, at 4:55 AM, shindell-list-digest wrote: > , I seem to keep gravitating to one particular genre - let's call it > "reality-based". If, hypothetically, I were to go in that direction, a > good working title might be "Shut Up and Sing". I'm excited by what Richard says just before he jokes about the title. I fervently hope he goes in that direction. I'm sure everyone understands the reference, but just in case: From the Wiki: The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush: The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." Georgette "Lord,/do not save us from this world./Save us in it." --Kate Knapp Johnson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:29:51 -0400 From: "Norman Johnson" Subject: [RS] triva Gerry wrote: >> as for the trivia question...that must be Don McLean (pre American Pie). Do I win the Chi Guevara t-shirt?<< Yes, Don McLean had an album called Tapestry before AP. The album included "Castles in the Air" (a different, slowed down of this song became a minor hit for him 10 years later) and "Magdalene Lane". Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:37:29 -0400 From: Roxy Subject: [RS] trivia > Little triva: Everyone knows about Carole King's Tapestry. The year > before > King released her album (1970), a then-unknown singer-songwriter had > released an album also called Tapestry. That album didn't sell well, > but his > next album fared better. Can you name him? > > Norman That would be Don McLean. Hey, Richard sure has nice neighbors. If my neighbor played his electric guitar at 3 AM, I might complain. But unlike RS, my neighbor is a crummy guitar player. Roxy, trying this again ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V7 #215 ***********************************