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Loren said:
Thank you for the introduction to Lisa Ekdahl, @Forest Cat ! What great music! I really like the Latin vibe, and her vocals.
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The first time I heard her sing, I just thought "wow!". She has such a soft voice but at the same time there's some power in it. It's strong, powerful and soft. A rare voice. She has released 10 albums, most in Swedish but some in English.

She has many good songs, this is one of my favorites, it's called "In The Time of Doubt"




And this one, in English. It's superb.

 
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Forest Cat said:
The first time I heard her sing, I just thought "wow!". She has such a soft voice but at the same time there's some power in it. It's strong, powerful and soft. A rare voice. She has released 10 albums, most in Swedish but some in English.

She has many good songs, this is one of my favorites, it's called "In The Time of Doubt"




And this one, in English. It's superb.

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They all want me to sign in to prove I’m not a bot. :-(
 
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He's an amazingly clever man. I also love another beat poem of his called Storm.

Closed Captions don't work very well with an Aussie accent though, if you need text you're better off searching for a set of the lyrics.

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Also exceptional. The references to his wife tickled me the most.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
The references to his wife tickled me the most.
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He mentions his wife quite a lot, and why not, she's a huge part of his life, they met in high school.

If I ever meet him I want to ask him if he got his wife to do his eyeliner for him. And he's mentioned in a few places that he had a hard time explaining this song to his wife:

 
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He mentions his wife quite a lot, and why not, she's a huge part of his life, they met in high school.

If I ever meet him I want to ask him if he got his wife to do his eyeliner for him. And he's mentioned in a few places that he had a hard time explaining this song to his wife:

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There’s a Western Swing song I learned many years ago at music camp called “I’m Satisfied with You”. The lyric basically outlines how she could have done better in her selection of a partner, more money, more fun, more, etc., but she is content to stay with this somewhat average guy.

My partner at the time did not like the song. I’m not all that enamored of it either. Like Minchin’s wife, this song seems to characterize her as just who happened along at the right time and it could have been anyone.

I get his very ASD point that so much is random chance. I didn’t find the song really funny until the end. Had to really crack up at his wife’s comment about teaching the toddler not to put things in her mouth.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
I get his very ASD point that so much is random chance. I didn’t find the song really funny until the end. Had to really crack up at his wife’s comment about teaching the toddler not to put things in her mouth.
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A lot of it is due to his circumstances at the time as well. He was a relatively unknown and obscure stage actor who was also brilliant on the piano, not making a lot of money and struggling to make ends meet, then he got a break doing a comedy act and all of a sudden he needed a lot more material for his comedy routine. So he wrote a few nonsense songs that were purely for comedy.

Normally he puts a lot of thought in to what he writes and his songs are quite often thought provoking and/or about some quite difficult topics, but there's a few that are just purely part of his comedy routines.

He did a brilliant song for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, which at the time of planning and building was a hugely controversial project. It was designed by a Danish man who came up with the idea while peeling an orange, if you take all the roof panels of those buildings and fit them together edge to edge they make a sphere.

 
WhitewaterWoman said:
There’s a Western Swing song I learned many years ago at music camp called “I’m Satisfied with You”. The lyric basically outlines how she could have done better in her selection of a partner, more money, more fun, more, etc., but she is content to stay with this somewhat average guy.

My partner at the time did not like the song. I’m not all that enamored of it either. Like Minchin’s wife, this song seems to characterize her as just who happened along at the right time and it could have been anyone.

I get his very ASD point that so much is random chance. I didn’t find the song really funny until the end. Had to really crack up at his wife’s comment about teaching the toddler not to put things in her mouth.
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Western Swing? Western Swing. I love that genre, especially from Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Asleep at the Wheel has a great retrospective album. I've seen them live and they are a high energy band. In Chicago in the summer there is Summerdance at stages around the city. Once went to Grant Park for an hour of learning swing and then another hour with Susan dancing to Western Swing. Here's Take Me Back to Tulsa.


And, who can resist Jambalaya!

 
Gerald Wilgus said:
Western Swing? Western Swing. I love that genre, especially from Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Asleep at the Wheel has a great retrospective album. I've seen them live and they are a high energy band. In Chicago in the summer there is Summerdance at stages around the city. Once went to Grant Park for an hour of learning swing and then another hour with Susan dancing to Western Swing. Here's Take Me Back to Tulsa.


And, who can resist Jambalaya!

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And Gerald, do you dance Western Swing? Sigh. I do miss that dancing.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
And Gerald, do you dance Western Swing? Sigh. I do miss that dancing.
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I remember seeing the movie "A League Of Their Own" with my mother. She started crying seeing the dance sequence in a bar. Swing music and dancing of a much earlier era.

With some wild dancing, and my mother saying, "That could have been me". She was also a "Donut Dolly" volunteering at the local USO.

 
WhitewaterWoman said:
And Gerald, do you dance Western Swing? Sigh. I do miss that dancing.
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Not very well, but I do enjoy it. The only other dancing that I have done regularly has been at the Cedar Polka Fest. Pierogies, kielbasa, beer, and music. Is there anything better? When I lived in Chicago, Brave Combo from Denton Texas would play at Fitzgerald's in Berwyn. The floor there was a polka mosh pit with lots of young people hopping around. Once my spouse and I stayed to closing at 4am then went directly to O'Hare to catch a flight to a dive trip in Bonaire. Oh, to be young again.
 
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