Rewinding to 1970

🎸  From 1970, Joshua by the legendary Dolly Parton is a song about an adventurous girl 

Who dares to visit a recluse, 

Who has a reputation for being a mean and hostile person,

But it turned out otherwise 

🎸 "As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing" - Les Paul

Caravan by Les Paul

The Tamarind Seed

The best movies and songs, are the hardest to find these days.

This is my favourite Romance Spy Thriller

                                       

                                                    The Tamarind Seed has been one the hardest movies to find 

  Last watched this movie in VHS format from my dads collection about 35 years ago

Now finally available, and on Blu-ray

       Classic performance by Anthony Quayle, Julie Andrews & Omar Sharif

                            

And the unforgettable song Play It Again 

"Let's put some music on

Some half-forgotten melody,

The kind that takes you back and help revive a memory" - 

Wilma Reading

Performed by the amazing Australian artist Wilma Reading in 1974

I bet you'll play this song, again and again ...

It's hard not to move your body when you listen to Zoosters Breakout by Hans Zimmer!

"I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town" - Merle Haggard

Workin' Man Blues by Merle Haggard

Released in 1969.

Get the song from iTunes

“What’s the point of getting up in the morning unless you’re gonna have an adventure?" - Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer playing Madagascar

And if you love long highway drives,
You've gotta love Thunderbird by Hans Zimmer,
From the movie Thelma and Louise!

"As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure" - Hans Zimmer

These movies would never be the same without the music of Hans Zimmer

Madagascar

Gladiator

(Vocals by Czarina Russell)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor performed by Amy Turk on harp

What an amazing performance!

This is a piece of organ music, probably composed in 1704 

played on the harp.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 

performed by Amy Turk on the harp

Listening to Rimsky-Korsakov and painting Hummingbird in the Night

 God has spoken to me to reassure me more than once,

through the rare appearance of Hummingbirds.

So Hummingbird sightings, 

are very treasured moments!

I saw this juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 

two years ago, 
and as recently as yesterday!!

Mixing gold, yellow, emerald green and black

This is Flight of the Bumblebee written by

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

(composed 1899-1900)

and an amazing violin performance by Katica Illényi 

Hummingbird in the Night

16"x 20" oil painting on Russian birch panel

"I Just Started Laying My Burdens Down" - Willie Nelson (1970)

Laying My Burdens Down by Willie Nelson 

from his 1970 album by the same name

You can get the song from iTunes

"Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand" - Stevie Wonder

"Music is a world within itself

With a language we all understand

...

For there's Basie, Miller, Sachmo

And the king of all Sir Duke" 

- Stevie Wonder

Love this version with Alana Alberg playing the bass guitar!

Get Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder from iTunes

"So put me on a highway, and show me a sign" - Eagles

"You can spend all your time making money,

You can spend all your love making time,

If it all fell to pieces tomorrow, 

Would you still be mine?"

- Eagles

Take It To The Limit - Eagles on iTunes

Bei Mir Bist du Schoen by The Hot Sardines

Get Bei Mir Bist du Schoen on iTunes or from the official website of The Hot Sardines

"I don't wanna be the last man standin'" - Willie Nelson

... Or wait a minute, maybe I do

...

Go on in front if you're in such a hurry

Like heaven ain't waitin' for you" 

- Willie Nelson

Get Willie Nelson's Last Man Standing on iTunes
This album will be released on 27th April 2018

Mama don't allow no guitar playing around here - J.J. Cale

"Hey I don't care what mama don't allow I'll play my guitar anyhow"

- J.J. Cale

From J.J. Cale's 1981 album Shades

Katyusha

Please don't judge me, 

but I also love music and art from the Soviet Union!
This is Katyusha 

Love the balalaika and all three versions of this song

Probably my favourite, is this version by the Red Army Choir

This is an amazing virtuoso style rendition on guitar by Igor Presnyakov

Porque te vas - Jeanette

From 1974, this is Jeanette singing Porque te vas (Because you are leaving)
Here's the translation

"I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older" - Hugh Masekela

Get Vasco Da Gama (The Sailor Man) by Hugh Masekela from iTunes


Soweto Blues, written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba 

"The arm of flesh will fail you, Ye dare not trust your own" - George Duffield

Growing up in Africa, I used to sing this ...

Wonder if anyone in North America sings these old hymns??

The lyrics are based on the dying words of Dudley Atkins Tyng, 

who was removed from his church for speaking against slavery.

Written by George Duffield in 1858

"The Christmas spirit is not what you drink" - Ian Anderson

"Once in Royal David's city,

Stood a lonely cattle shed,

Where a mother held her baby,

You'd do well to remember the things he later said,

When you're stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties ...

... The Christmas spirit is not what you drink"

- Ian Anderson

A Christmas Song by Ian Anderson from the Jethro Tull Christmas Album 

available on iTunes