Tag: Something For Thursday

I got up this morning to rain. So here is something ridiculously peppy and cheerful! It’s “Bugler’s Holiday” by Leroy Anderson. This particular recording is played by Russians, which amuses me for some reason I can’t fathom. Maybe it’s because you wouldn’t expect such pep and zazz coming from people who are steeped in Tolstoy.

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Apropos of yesterday’s discussion of country music, here are the Dixie Chicks with “Travelin’ Soldier”. This is what good country music sounds like!

UPDATE: Credit to former blogger and current Twitter maven Ben Varkentine, who posted this song on Twitter the other day and thus kicked it into the forefront of my radar screen!

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Here is “Death of a Nightingale”, by Tangerine Dream. From the album Turn of the Tides.

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I heard this on the way to work, and hey, you never know when the occasion might strike for a good old pompous British march. So here is Crown Imperial by Sir William Walton. Stiff upper lip and all that, lads!

Cheerio, chaps!

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In honor of the passing of special effects genius Ray Harryhausen, here’s one of his many enduring effects: the evil dueling skeleton from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

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I know, I know, I’m late!

Anyway, during the A-to-Z of April thing, I didn’t post any film music at all, not even during Something For Thursday posts, which I did not incorporate into the A-to-Z. So here’s a wonderful arrangement of Joe Hisaishi’s theme to Laputa, for solo trumpet and orchestra. That’s Maestro Hisaishi conducting.

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Bruce. Live.

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Sometimes you don’t need a lot of comment. Here’s Leonard Bernstein, conducting his own overture to Candide.

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I grew up listing, among many others, to this guy. I suppose his style is fairly dated…but honestly? I don’t care. Here’s Ray Price.

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I’ve come to like the band The Killers a lot, and this song, even with its oddly incomprehensible lyrics, makes me happy as a lark. Here are The Killers, with “Human”.

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