[Harp-L] Re: (no subject)

[Joseph Leone <3N037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:50 PM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I thought they were more worried about his hair catching on fire.

I was, of course, joking, lol. 
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> I erred: his instrument is a 'flame-a-thon', not a 'fire-a-thon'. :)

I thought it was a 'Bari' sax. 
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> Can't believe I also completely forgot about your affinity for DooWop. I KNEW you and Fred shared a common interest there, but drew a blank when I watched the video, thinking of you more as a jazz/country player. My bad.

My affinity for doo-wop started when I came back from Paris in 1959 for my senior year in Pittsburgh (my actual home town).. I was a govt. brat and every 2 years we would get posted to Vienna, then  we would be back in N.Y.City, then  back to Trieste, then N.Y., then Naples, then N.Y., then Paris, etc. etc. Every time we came back to the U.S. the music had changed. In the late 40s, it was still swing, then it was hit parade pop, then rock & roll, then doo-wop.
It was my senior year when I was in a doo-wop group and sharping and then placing a wind saver on the #5 diatonics to play this stuff. I was already playing chromatic for several years. It really wasn't until I was out of the navy in 64 that I began sitting in with jazz groups in Pittsburgh. I play other instruments. 
To this day, my car (Tippie) only plays the old music. But I don't think I'm as passionate about it as your Fred.
As for country, I only played the 'old' country back when I was with 'stony brooks', and stationed in the Pa. mountain country. That's what the gigs were there.      
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> What's fun about this group is that they just might make DooWop attractive to young people discovering it for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed this version of the song while the original did very little for me, frankly.
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> My tastes in playing harmonica go back to people like Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Etta James, etc. - when songs were incredibly melodious...that's what 'I' want to play (and do), as well as Rock.

I always liked the harmonious nature of doo-wop. That's when music reached you. I once heard or read that your affinity for music takes hold in your formative years. These being ages 16-25 (for me). That would put me around 1958-1967. But I also like trad jass (dixieland), and ANY musics. As long as they are well executed. 
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> While the sheet music is great, I prefer it accompanied by a CD in a playalong because the CDs allow you to use the music as backing tracks (no issues of copyright) although it does limit the selection on each to roughly fewer than 10. I have quite a large collection of playalongs so far for jazz, standards, country and rock.
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> Elizabeth
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> "For those interested, there are several doo-wop songbook collections. Some have sheet music, some just talk about the genre. Easiest search is Amazon, whether you buy from them or not.
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> <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=doo-wop>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: EGS1217 <EGS1217@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 12:33 pm
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Subject: Doo-Wop remake of Ellie Goulding's 'Burn' (no harp but a Fire-a-thon)!
> 
> The extinguisher is there because the saxophone reed (probably a Rico Royal) is 
> flammable. 
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> On another note: My car plays only doo-wop and harmonica music. 
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> smo-joe
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> 
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:18 AM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> > There must be someone else out there who loves Doo-Wop as much as my  
> > husband. I stumbled upon this and think it's a fabulously fun modern-day  
> version 
> > of what he loves. These girl singers are all individually good--and I  
> > think the 'fire-a-thon' (wait for the end credits) is hilarious (as well as 
> the  
> > fire extinguisher waiting on the piano). ;)
> > 
> > http://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/
> > 
> > 
> > Elizabeth
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