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| There'll be old songs, to play again. Old songs sounding new by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/18/2013, 6:38am PDT | ||||
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| I was one of those who liked the lively sound of Lou Bega's "Mambo Number 5," which was different, fresh and new back in 1999. Then, to my shock, a couple weeks ago, I discover the original song was released in the 1940s! Wikipedia confirms that the song was originally released by a Cuban guy named Pérez Prado in 1949.
When Taco did Puttin' On The Ritz it was a lively cover with their reinterpretation of a song which, at the time it was released back in the 1980s, I was aware that it was originally written by Irving Berlin back in the late 1920s. But, the fact the original song was (then) some 60 years old didn't make the current cover less interesting, it's how you perform the song, not how old it is, that determine how interesting it sounds. If you really like music you should Netflix the Richard Dreyfuss movie Mr. Holland's Opus where they examine a lot of great music and tell us things about it. Like the song, "Louie, Louie," where he mentions that they're just playing the same 3 chords over and over, and they're not really very good at playing, but it still works as a great song because it's fun! I can't remember which one it is, but in that movie he plays a (then) current 1960s song and shows us that the original chord sequence goes back to the 1700s, essentially unchanged. Hanz Gruber's theme song in Die Hard I is Beethoven's Ode to Joy, also from the 1700s (1785 to be exact). As I mentioned elsewhere, I have lots of songs - over a couple thousand - that I've saved to hard drive, many of which are great songs from the 1960s and 1970s, that some group could - and a lot of performers do - remake today with their interpretation of the song's content. Or, as I've noted above, sometimes even earlier. ---- This represents my (rare) attempt going forward to try starting one - just one - article thread outside my personal forum and see if I'm doing right and on topic. Serious responses to tell me if I did it right or wrong are invited (especially if your explanation is something more informative than the typical cryptic "quit posting" or "go fuck yourself"); my understanding is this particular forum is a look at music, specifically comments on performances and such. I just wanted to do this one because I guess I was kind of surprised to discover I was shocked that the underlying music for Mambo #5 was originally 50 years old when Lou Bega performed it in his 1999 rendering. It would also give me a way that, if anyone cared to do so, to give me a bit of feedback on whether I was doing this right. (The title comes from Billy Ocean's "There'll be sad songs.") |
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There'll be old songs, to play again. Old songs sounding new by 05/18/2013, 6:38am PDT  Are you seriously saying that sometimes, old music gets sampled and used in by 05/18/2013, 12:34pm PDT Oh god, the EPA shut down the Containment Unit NT by 05/18/2013, 3:14pm PDT Nope you did it wrong. Here's what you should have written to be right. by 05/18/2013, 8:27pm PDT I'm trying to state my opinion. That's not writing. That's a YouTube Video. NT by 05/18/2013, 10:22pm PDT That makes it not MY opinion, but the opinion of the video makers. Try again. NT by 05/18/2013, 10:23pm PDT Ok I'll try again, maybe you'll "get it" this time by 05/20/2013, 9:39pm PDT |
