Does anyone remember these British singers?

[Henry_iain]

1 hour ago, BeauJangles said:

On top were two massive cannons.

Maybe you know this, but the 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky includes 16 cannon shots and several other loud  instruments in the score. 

[BeauJangles]

1 hour ago, Henry_iain said:

Maybe you know this, but the 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky includes 16 cannon shots and several other loud  instruments in the score. 

Yep. Loved the cannons on the 1812th. Probably my all time favorite is, The Nutcracker Suite. I have a CD of the entire composed arrangement. Wonderful. 

Edited June 11, 2020 by BeauJangles

[BeauJangles]

 

1. Lucky Man

   Emerson, Lake & Palmer

   He had white horses
   And ladies by the score
   All dressed in satin
   And waiting by the door

   Ooh, what a lucky man he was
   Ooh, what a lucky man he was

   White lace and feathers
   They made up his bed
   A gold covered mattress
   On which he was laid

   Ooh, what a lucky man he was
   Ooh, what a lucky man he was

   He went to fight wars
   For his country and his king
   Of his honor and his glory
   The people would sing

   Ooh, what a lucky man he was
   Ooh, what a lucky man he was

   A bullet had found him
   His blood ran as he cried
   No money could save him
   So he laid down and he died

   Ooh, what a lucky man he was
   Ooh, what a lucky man he was

   

          Emerson, Lake & Palmer

[Guest]

On 6/11/2020 at 11:34 AM, BeauJangles said:

Yep. Loved the cannons on the 1812th. Probably my all time favorite is, The Nutcracker Suite. I have a CD of the entire composed arrangement. Wonderful. 

I like some of the attempts to incorporate classical music with rock music.  Good examples of this are: Procol Harem;  the Moldy Blues; Electric Light Orchestra; Yes; ELP; and others with variable success.  

[leah777]

3 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

the Moldy Blues

I think maybe Moody Blues?

[BeauJangles]

On 6/10/2020 at 10:05 PM, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

How about the great Greg Lake wrote Oh Lucky Man  when he was 12 years old.

For a 12 year old kid this is deep stuff here. Terrific poetry. He must have had music in his head. 

22 hours ago, BeauJangles said:

Lucky Man

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

He had white horses
And ladies by the score
All dressed in satin
And waiting by the door

Ooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooh, what a lucky man he was

White lace and feathers
They made up his bed
A gold covered mattress
On which he was laid

Ooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooh, what a lucky man he was

He went to fight wars
For his country and his king
Of his honor and his glory
The people would sing

Ooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooh, what a lucky man he was

A bullet had found him
His blood ran as he cried
No money could save him
So he laid down and he died

Ooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooh, what a lucky man he was

1. Lucky Man (Emerson, Lake & Palmer song) - Wikipedia

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   The origin of the song, as stated by Greg Lake in interviews, is that it was the first song he wrote, when his mother bought him a guitar at the age of 12. With the first chords he learned (D, A minor, E minor, and G), he wrote an acoustic version of the song. The song came to be used on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's debut album when they needed one more song. Greg played the version he had written from childhood, and the rest of the band did not like it, or feel it would fit. Lake then worked on it in the studio with Carl Palmer and also credited to Keith Emerson.

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, leah777 said:

I think maybe Moody Blues?

Yes.  Darn spellchecker is constantly second guessing me!

Edited June 13, 2020 by Saved.One.by.Grace

[BeauJangles]

28 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

I like some of the attempts to incorporate classical music with rock music.  Good examples of this are: Procol Harem;  the Moldy Blues; Electric Light Orchestra; Yes; ELP; and others with variable success.  

My personal styling of playing acoustic guitar and piano (keyboards) would be pretty much neo-classical folk. I can't read a note music but did attempt learning. It's math basically when it comes down to it, I'm mathematically "challenged". To make up for the lack I do a lot of improvisational embellishing. I can play by ear, however. When a friend of my friend of my mom moved in with us, she had an old upright piano. I started doing Joni Mitchell's early music at that time. 

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, BeauJangles said:

My personal styling of playing acoustic guitar and piano (keyboards) would be pretty much neo-classical folk. I can't read a note music but did attempt learning. It's math basically when it comes down to it, I'm mathematically "challenged". To make up for the lack I do a lot of improvisational embellishing. I can play by ear, however. When a friend of my friend of my mom moved in with us, she had an old upright piano. I started doing Joni Mitchell's early music at that time. 

I'm not mathematically challenged by any means, just the opposite.  But I envy you that you can play by ear.  My father could play piano by ear but he never bothered to teach me beyond one finger.  I could play Moon River with one finger.  I asked for a musical instrument for Chistmas one year and got an erector set.  I guess that's why I became a mechanical engineer.  But I do love a wide variety of music except rap and opera.

Edited June 13, 2020 by Saved.One.by.Grace

[BeauJangles]

14 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

I'm not mathematically challenged by any means, just the opposite.  But I envy you that you can play by ear.  My father could play piano by ear but he never bothered to teach me beyond one finger.  I could play Moon River with one finger.  I asked for a musical instrument for Chistmas one year and got an erector set.  I guess that's why I became a mechanical engineer.  But I do love a wide variety of music except rap and opera.

Your father obviously made the right call on that. For some reason playing by ear came naturally for me as it did piano wise for Joni Mitchell. Notice how it leaned toward major keys. There's minoring in there alright, but primarily major. Now, the reason I couldn't learn was my failure at mathematical complexities. I just couldn't get it quickly enough and grappled with it. Man, what a struggle it was... 

For the life of me I could not figure out Mitchell's guitar work. She uses alternate tunings with open chord structure for her songs. She's got 50 different tunings for her style on the guitar. Only one or two of her songs were done in standard tuning = E-A-D-G-B-E.