What are you listening to now ?

NorBro said:
I googled "Prelinger Archives"...wow, might replace YouTube for me for a bit.
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norbro-

for years, prelinger was housed in an old warehouse in chelsea.

it was an amazing place.

very well organized with racks of u-matic tape machines ready to pull from tape screeners organized by time code.

i used that facility ALOT!

i was very sorry when they sold out the archives.

the thought was the web would make everything visual and analog eventually "free".

ugh.

thumbs up.

rob
smalltalk productions/nyc
 
A bit of instrumental music from the ... past.



For those who didn't grow up in the Soviet 60's-80's .. consider yourselves lucky .. but this was one of the highlights of the Soviet TV, opening to the Animal Kingdom, a popular program from that era.


Speaking of the Soviet era, Andrei Petrov was a star composer and this was one of his most famous melodies. (Valse is waltz)


 
To continue with the Italian theme -


And Sophia Loren


And this is Toto Cutugno's original (more known as "L'ete Indien" by Joe Dassin)


And an Italian Elvis ... kind of ... Little Tony

 
Cary Knoop said:
Great song!
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In Russian, ~ 1976, a jazzier version by the Soviet era crooner Val Obodzinsky


Here's the Russian cover of the Quincy Jones composed "Old Turkey Buzzard" from "Mackenna's Gold", an adventure film that flopped in the US but was a huge hit in the USSR. Oddly enough, one of the producers of the film was Dimitri Tiomkin.


And the Soviet era bossa nova from the period when Val was the top selling recording artist. Notice, there's no audio processing. The singer usually went into the studio when the instrumental track was already finished. The studios usually lacked the sophisticated US/German/Japanese effect equipment and the vocal was as live as it was in the 1950's popular recordings in the capitalist countries.


Side story - Val lived such an "interesting life" that, a few years ago, a Russian TV miniseries was made about his life. The top twist was his retirement from performing when at the peak of his popularity. He quit the music business and went to work as a night watchman at a paint factory, essentially living in his shed on the factory premises. He said later on, he wouldn't have survived otherwise because he had developed a major morphine addiction. One of his female fans went to his ex-wife and asked about him, found him, took him home, helped wean him off alcohol - he was off morphine but still drinking - and brought him back to the spotlight during the late-1980's perestroika. Years of drug-alcohol abuse caught up with him in 1997, when he was only 55.
 
So, April, 23rd, 1979, a 747 carrying a much younger DLD, along with his parents LLD and RND, landed at the JFK airport, thus beginning the American leg of our lives' journeys. (Jimmy the Gent, Henry Hill, Tommy DeSimone and the rest of the frequent visitors to the same airport weren't there for a meet & greet ... Parnell "Stacks" Edwards was otherwise disposed).

The inflight audio consisted many Bee Gees songs of the early 1979 ("Too much heaven", "Inside and Out", "Tragedy") that were previously posted. On the landing, to the best of my recollection, the PA system played -


 
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