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Paula James

What turns you on?

Latest Post: August 4, 2011 at 3:59 PM

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I've been playing some 40s and 50s music this morning, stuff I haven't listened to in a long time. And what fun! Who can listen to "Maybelline" and not smile? Not dance? Then there's Bob Wills when I want to feel like the West Texas girl in my bones. Or the musicals! I love Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, South Pacific. I grew up playing these songs on my old record player and memorizing the lyrics, which were the cleverest things I'd ever heard. Wit was not common in the dusty TX panhandle. So now all of those tunes are embedded in my soul in a magical aura of nostalgia, first romance, and uncomplicated happiness--life before it got complicated. Superficial, no doubt. But delightful--oh beyond measure! So what do you listen to that makes your feet tap, your eyes glitter, and some subterranean delight dance to the surface?

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November 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM

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Keith Jarrett playing "In Dolphin Street" Jacques Brel singing " Madeleine" (the name of the little girl in my arms on the picture in my profile), or Brel singing "Amsterdam". Coltrane playing "Love Supreme". The last choir singing "Ruhe Sanfte, sanfte Ruhe" of the Matteus Passion by Bach.(all soloists join in and they all, three choirs and soloists and the conducter sing it loud). I turn it up loud, as loud as my audio installation allows it. Also The boys choir singing (Oh Lamm Gottes" in the same work by Bach (I sang it as a boy). Keith Jarrett playing a simple Blues melody at the end of the Paris Concert. The name of the tune is "Blues". I cannot believe I hammered this out in 5 minutes flat.

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Paula James

November 17, 2010 at 10:48 PM

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Oh, I know Brel! I had that album but think it's now with my daughter. I'll have to download it from ITunes. I especially liked Carousel. Remember that one?

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November 18, 2010 at 1:09 AM

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There is no Carroussel on the playlist of this 2CD. What I like is Marieke, because he sings Vlaams with a wonderful pronunciation. My Dutch is so harsh and guttural in comparison.