Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 5:18:26 PM

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Iconic songwriter Jim Steinman passed away at 73

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 5:47:21 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 5:52:43 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 5:52:49 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

First saw that as the short-feature intro lead to a late-night showing of "Rocky Horror."

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:02:31 PM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: First saw that as the short-feature intro lead to a late-night showing of "Rocky Horror."

Eddie? That's a rather tender subject around here.....

I knew someone in a previous job who had seen RH on stage, and said that it was much better, as the audience was part of the show. The audience participation at the movie,  he considered a failed attempt to get that back.

(He also claimed to have been in a band that performed at some well-known NY disco, but I have never been able to find out anything about the band from any other source. Living Glove, or something like that.)

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:03:30 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

And I have actually seen RHPS at the now gone Hahavhad Squah theatah.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:06:11 PM

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"Paradise By the Dashboard Light" is a fascinating variation on both Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?, and Steeleye Span's All Around My Hat I Will Wear the Green Willow, which is about a woman who refuses her lover's demands.

In the latter, the "Green Willow" is a symbol of virginity---see, e.g., Ophelia (raped by Hamlet, and pregnant by him), who drowns herself (the traditional fate of the betrayed virgin) by leaping into the river from a weeping willow tree.  

Another "weeping willow" song, on the same theme, is Bury Me Beneath the Willow.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:11:57 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

Or There is a Tavern in the Town

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:17:50 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:18:08 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

That one too.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:20:34 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9:

On top of old Smokey
All covered with hair
Of course, I'm referring
To Smokey the Bear

--Alan Sherman

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:21:39 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

The "seduced and abandoned" song is a fascinating genre.  "Careless Love" is the prime example of it; note that the Steeleye Span song says, "but I, being careful..." i.e., not yielding to sexual blandishments.  

"Careless Love" is the song of/by someone knocked up by their lover who will now not see them.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:29:41 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

Trying to remember something I heard recently of the same idea

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:31:36 PM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: Trying to remember something I heard recently of the same idea

Possibly a comment of mine here a while ago...

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:32:15 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:35:42 PM

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On somewhat of another note, my wife was asking about possible birthday presents, and I'm thinking of a USB turntable to record all the old 78s I have. Most actually don't turn at 78 rpm, but come with software to adjust. (Audacity, a free, open source audio processing software I already have - but it also has a website with a lot of information about digitizing 78's)

Otherwise, I'd have to hold a microphone to a hand-cranked record player

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:38:27 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

There are record players now made with turntables that play 33 1/3, 45, AND 78---"Crossley," I think is the company---and which can at least record the music played onto tape, if not onto disc.  

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:40:36 PM

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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: Or There is a Tavern in the Town

There is a pub thread in the blog (in the blog)
And a thread no one does hog 

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:41:57 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:

I'll look. It was a while ago, and I want something that lets me easily digitize. 

It will be interesting what has been in basements for years and years.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:43:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 19:

Dey be all kinds o' debasement in de basement...

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:45:07 PM

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In #18 Kosh's Shadow said: There is a pub thread in the blog (in the blog) And a thread no one does hog 

"Nobody" scans better in line 2, if you'll pardon my edit.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:48:46 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 6:51:43 PM

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This still works

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

My understanding is that if it was from before RCA bought Victrola, it would be worth something, but it is newer.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:56:12 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

That's a beaut.  I have something similar, but it could use a little adjustment.

Back in the day I had both a Victor cabinet upright, and a console model, as well as a portable.  How are the mighty fallen.

My brother still---I believe---has his old Columbia Grafonola, which works quite well, but it is not nearly as pretty as the Victor machines.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:57:21 PM

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In #24 Kosh's Shadow said: My understanding is that if it was from before RCA bought Victrola, it would be worth something, but it is newer.

Can't be before RCA bought Victrola; note the "RCA" right there on the underside of the cover.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 7:09:07 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:

It needs a lot of cleaning up. I was surprised it worked a few years ago and could play one of the 78s.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 7:12:22 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27:

Try and get some spare needles, if you don't have 'em; 78 needles can usually only be used for one play.  If you rotate them between plays, you can get two, or maybe three, plays out of them, but they tear the hell out of records if you do more than that.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 7:12:56 PM

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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: Can't be before RCA bought Victrola; note the "RCA" right there on the underside of the cover.

exactly, to quote Nipper

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 7:17:11 PM

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In #28 buzzsawmonkey said: Try and get some spare needles, if you don't have 'em; 78 needles can usually only be used for one play.  If you rotate them between plays, you can get two, or maybe three, plays out of them, but they tear the hell out of records if you do more than that.

I have some, but not many, which is why I want a USB turntable to digitize them

I remember as a kid I wore a vinyl 78 right through playing it on that

And while this wasn't the record, here is a video of a record I had as a kid, broke, and never found again.

My mother hated it, but it has two Jew-haters killing each other, so it can't be all bad

And the video is fun with Marx Brothers cartoons

Video link

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 7:22:05 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 30:

Very famous, well-known poem back in the day.  I recall a camp counselor reciting it in the early '60s, and it appears in a number of popular-poem anthologies from a few decades earlier.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 7:23:05 PM

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Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 7:59:38 PM

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