[Oe List ...] OE songs

[Thomas Morrison]

Hello!

We have an LP of movement/RS-1 songs, but that is it.
I think we have paper copies of the Other World songs.

If any of this is useful, let me know.
Possible glitch:  we are on vacation and will not be home for 2 weeks.

Tom Morrison
Local Church Eperiment person

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM, frank bremner <fjbremner at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know of any complete and comprehensive collection.  In the
> Philadelphia House in 1979-80 we copies of two LPs - mainly Other World and
> cabaret-era songs.  As I remember the singing was more on the pole of "a
> perfect choir" rather than on the pole of "gutsy stuff".
>
> To me this would be a good project for an international team.  A set of CDs
> coverering various eras and places would be great. I still sing Stuart
> Hampton's adaptation of Blues in the Night, about trekking across South
> Australia (sleeping in the car in the back blocks of Eyre Peninsula).  And
> the Murrin Bridge song, where "singing" is a transitive verb - no
> preposition(s) required.
>
> Maybe the CDs could mix solos, duets, quartets, small groups, jazz, show
> songs and many other treatments.  Different treatments of the same song.
> How many variations on Gershwin's Summertime or Cohen's Hallelujah have your
> heard?  Cohen, my hero, sitting alongside Nick Cave, another hero, and
> writing/singing out of the Book of Job.  Which of our OE/EI/ICA songs would
> get a John Farnham treatment? (Who?  Google his name for his version of
> Help, and The Voice, the song that revived his career.)
>
> I'm personally grateful to Mary Warren Moffat et al for deepening my
> appreciation of The Great American Songbook.  Kay Lush did point out that
> these songs did not necessarily connect with "Third World" villagers, in
> places there was and is a mixture of music.  Australian indigenous music
> goes from opera singers Harold Blair to Yothu Yindu to Deb Mauboy (in the
> movie Shine) to Motown (the movie The Sapphires) to Rolf Harris
> interpretations like Sun Arise and so on.
>
> Back to those first two images.  Like comparing the first concerts,
> according to the newspapers, of the Rolling Stones US tour of late 1979
> (early 1980), which were pretty perfect and boring , with later concerts
> where the guys improvised, had a good time, and the fans were much more
> appreciative.  I saw Cliff Richard and the Shadows a few years back - a 50th
> anniversary tour - and they obviously still enjoyed performing despite
> having their arrrangements and choregography down pat.  Ditto for The
> Beachboys last year.  Further back, a Kronos Quartet concert was great
> because they coped with breaking violin strings etc - much warmth and
> humour.  Peter Brook (The Empty Space - a great and important book!) wrote a
> long time ago (early '70s) of how important it is that the audience
> participates in the performance.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank Bremner
>
>> From: wmbailey at charter.net
>> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:49:33 -0400
>> To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
>> Subject: [Oe List ...] OE songs
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>> Is there a music CD of Order songs available ?
>> G&P
>> Marianna
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