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Random Memories

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

The Rain The Park And Other Things

Brand New Key

Meat Loaf – Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad (PCM Stereo)

No Llores Por Mi Argentina (Don’t Cry for Me Argentina)

What does summer sound like?

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

Suavecito

Ventura Highway

Crystal Blue Persuasion

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)

Sukiyaki Kyu Sakamoto FULL SONG ReEdit STEREO

And what would Stan Jones say?

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

Bow and Arrow Version

After this you’ll never think of the song in the same way

Ivan and Dagmar

Questionable Dudes and Dudettes

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean

T E Ford – 16 tons

Ringo – Lorne Greene

Lee Marvin – I was born under a wandering star

Ray Stevens – Ahab 

Little Red Riding Hood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_K5b-JNc7E&frags=pl%2Cwn

Kim Carnes – BETTE DAVIS EYES

Maria Muldaur – Midnight At The Oasis

To get there from here

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

0:46 / 3:01:07

Relaxing Background Guitar Music – meditate, focus, study, think

Decidedly Canuck Day

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

Paul Anka – Diana

The Crew Cuts – Sh Boom Sh Boom

Bobby Curtola -fortune Teller

Leonard Cohen – Suzanne

Joni Mitchell – Both Sides, Now [Original Studio Version, 1969

B, S & T – 05 – And When I Die

Little Darlin-the Diamonds 1957

Gordon Lightfood – If you could read my Mind

Neil Young – Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

The Weight (Remastered 2000)

Bruce Cockburn – Wondering Where the Lions are

Five Man Electrical Band – Signs

Lighthouse – Sunny Days 1972

Burton Cummings – Break it to them gently

Steppenwolf – Born to be Wild

The Guess Who – All 14 minutes of “American Woman”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fNGa26hig

Downchild Blues Band(ft.Jane Vasey)Tryin’ To Keep Her 88’s Straight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGIlWSey4pQ
DOUG & THE SLUGS – Makin’ It Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwPmNWQfIY
Trooper – 3 dressed up as a 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBrCcYr0y5M

kd lang – What A Wonderful World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSkxtX8sB6U

Happy Canada Day

Wishing You Happy Days

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfTHSPUm2Q

The album features 16 songs selected and arranged by Thomas, including songs in German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Farsi, Turkish and Romanian.

0:00:00 Ich Dich Liebe
0:02:33 Zundoko
0:04:37 Sway
0:08:10 Uskudar
0:11:13 Je Ne T’aime Plus (featuring Philippe Katerine)
0:15:17 Omide Zendegani
0:18:51 Quizas Quizas Quizas
0:22:05 She Was Too Good To Me
0:26:48 I’m Waiting For You (featuring Meow Meow)
0:30:04 Get Happy – Happy Days (featuring Rufus Wainwright)
0:32:24 Kitty Come Home (featuring Rufus Wainwright with The von Trapps)
0:36:39 Smile (featuring Phyllis Diller)
0:39:22 What’ll I Do
0:42:35 Yo Te Quiero Siempre (featuring Ari Shapiro)
0:45:55 Pana Cand
0:51:06 Heliotrope Bouquet

Some things haven’t change in 50+ years

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

They were trying to legalize pot even in the 66. Took ‘em a while.

Along Comes Mary – Association

It all depends on what you’re trying to rationalize

Paul Revere and the Raiders Stereo 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCLVJBJBOqs

Alvin asked the question 50 years ago and he still doesn’t have an answer

Peggy and John Goodman lookalike 50 years later

Janice Ian – At 17

 How many shenanigans can you think of in 30 minutes.

If you can’t think of enough, they give you an extra minute

Pink Panther – Main Theme – Seamless (30 Minutes)

Crank it Up!

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

Inability to enjoy music recognized as a brain condition

For most people, music is one of life’s great pleasures. But the inability to enjoy it is a real condition that has just been recognized and described by science.

The new condition, known as specific musical anhedonia, is described in a new paper published this week in the journal Current Biology.

People with the condition have no trouble perceiving or identifying music, or even describing the mood the music is supposed to convey, said Robert Zatorre, a McGill University neuroscientist who co-authored the paper.

“They had no trouble saying, ‘Oh, well, this music is meant to be melancholy. This music is meant to be really happy.’ But they don’t experience it,” he told CBC’s Quirks & Quarks in an interview that airs Saturday. “They know that’s what it’s supposed to do for you. But they get no sensation out of it.”

  • Hear the full interview with Robert Zatorre on Quirks & Quarks March 8 at noon on CBC Radio One

He estimated that the condition affects about two per cent of the population. Many of those who have it said they have tried to mask their dislike of music from others.

“It’s sort of socially odd, right? Everyone wants to fit in and if they went to a party and there was music blaring, they would kind of go along with it and try to pretend that they liked it as much as everyone else did.”

Zatorre had previously done studies that showed music activates the pleasure and reward centres of the brain, just as food and sex do.

Scientists are interested in studying the brain’s reward system because problems with it are implicated in a lot of problems such as eating disorders and drug and gambling addictions.

Zatorre and colleagues in Spain, including Josep Marco-Pallares of the University of Barcelona, began to wonder if music activated the pleasure centre of the brain in everyone, or if there were some people who didn’t respond the same way.

Physiological response

To figure that out, they surveyed around 500 students at the University of Barcelona about their music habits and response to music  — for example, did they often have music playing and did they like to share music with their friends?

Groups of students who scored high, average, and low on the questionnaire were tested in the lab for their body’s response to music — changes in heart rate and skin conductance, which indicate emotional or nervous system arousal.

While those who scored average or high on the questionnaire had a strong physiological response to the music, those who scored low “more or less flatlined,” Zatorre recalled, confirming that they did not derive pleasure from music.

The students were given additional questionnaires to make sure they weren’t depressed and were able to experience pleasure from other things.

Then they were tested in another experiment – a slot-machine-like gambling video game in which they would sometimes receive a big payout.

“People who didn’t respond to music nonetheless showed a perfectly normal response to the monetary reward,” Zatorre said.

That’s interesting because previously, researchers had thought the brain’s reward centre was an “all or none” system that was functioning normally, hyperactive, or underactive as a whole.

The new research suggests that the brain’s reward centre may react differently to different kinds of stimuli. That in turn has implications for the way researchers approach problems like drug addiction or eating disorders.

Not exactly mainstream

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Roger Harmston Posted in Music Leave a comment

Hanine – Nostalgia

Flamenco belly dance fusion music

Oasis

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