[Oe List ...] OE songs

[Jack Gilles]

Here is the location to the title index and the lyrics of every song we ever sang in the Movement.

Jack

<http://wedgeblade.net/gold_path/data/meth/101695.htm>


On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Thomas Morrison <2tjmorrison at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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