4.22.14 LMD Played in Germany, Julie meets Adam, more news!
Apr 22, 2014 0:58:19 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Apr 22, 2014 0:58:19 GMT -5
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LMD – played in Germany!
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It seems that the German radio station "Hit Radio FFH" played "Lay me down" in a request show yesterday afternoon!
More fun bits from Australia
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When Julia Met Adam!
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Q3: You many or may not be a Jack White fan but this was a pretty great way to celebrate Record Store Saturday!
Inside Jack White's World's Fastest Record
How the rocker recorded, pressed and distributed "Lazaretto" in under four hours
Saturday was Record Store Day, and the lord and savior of vinyl had challenged himself to his own remarkable feat: to make the world’s fastest record. White accomplished the trick in three hours, 55 minutes and 21 seconds, the stopwatch ticking from the first dirty thump of the single "Lazaretto" to his personal handoff in front of his headquarters, Third Man Records.
Jack White's World's Fastest Record RSD Recap
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-jack-whites-worlds-fastest-record-20140421#ixzz2zakHb0RZ
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The 2014 "Part-of-the-World" Queen + Adam Lambert Tour Countdown!
4.22.14 by Q3
The countdown moves on and the start of this epic tour gets closer. Only 58 days to go!
#58 “Dreamer's Ball” (1978)
Written by: Brian May
Released on Jazz November 10, 1978; a live version was released on Live Killers June 22, 1979.
No doubt, Elvis was at significant influence on both Freddie and Brian. Not only did Queen cover Elvis’ music in concert, they also wrote, recorded and released two tribute songs after Elvis died.
In 1977, Queen was on the verge of conquering UK. America and the rest of the world. At the time, most Queen fans were not Elvis fans, it was two different generations of music and fans. And many Queen fans really only knew the big Elvis hits which in the 1970’s sounded dated and seemed like something from the distant past.
When Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 at his home in Memphis, TN,
About a year later, Queen released "Dreamer's Ball", Brian May's tribute to Elvis Presley
In 1979 a second tribute to Elvis, Freddie’s homage to Elvis,"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was written and released on Queen’s 1980 album The Game,
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was released as a single, a #1 hit in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia and #2 in the UK. It was Queen’s first #1 hit in the US. It was unmistakable based on Elvis’ music.
In the meantime, “Dreamer's Ball” became a great live song which Brian and Roger rearranged to make it a bit more of a rock track, and remained mostly known to Queen fans.
This song doesn't have an immediate association with the Elvis either lyrically or within the composition that I can find. The composition is based on jazz-swing music from the 1930’s. The jazz-based leading chords (diminished and augmented ones) are not something that would be found in an Elvis song. The rest of the song. the lead melody, the guitar fill, and the simple harmonies and was found in many songs written during the early rock era but only because jazz and rock music descend from common roots.. Brian added three-part guitar harmonies play that replicated jazz brass arrangements and the three- and four-part vocal harmonies add a Queen-esque element. I suppose that these harmonies are similar to the Jordonairs (seen the Elvis videos below).
Elvis might have heard a song like this on the day he was born, January 8, 1935, if anyone was listening to Jazz Swing music in East Tupelo, MS. That is highly unlikely. Elvis, nor his best biographers, never mentioned swing as a musical influence. By 1946, when Elvis was 11, the Swing era was coming to a close, so if this is a forgotten influence, it would have to have been when he was a young child.
Elvis’s music was most done with a Rock n' Roll beat – no matter what the tempo. The drums hit sharp on 2 and 4, while the bass player is playing every count. With a swing beat, the bass or rhythm guitar would strum on every count, while the drum's play "in the pocket" which is to hit an accent between the odd and even counts.
Personnel
Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums
Produced by: Queen and Roy Thomas Baker
"Dreamer's Ball" (Jazz album track)
youtu.be/Ij4xGqHSy2Q
"Dreamer's Ball" (Live Killers album track)
The live concert arrangement was completely different.
youtu.be/Lp-Ny98vxv4
"Dreamer's Ball" Live
Queen performed "Dreamer's Ball" during 1978 and 1979. Every performance was different -- some quite different.
“Dreamer's Ball” Live In Chicago, December 7. 1978
youtu.be/1BIhUc-VbW4
“Dreamer's Ball” Live In Tokyo, April 23, 1979
youtu.be/OXIw8KggIiY
"Dreamers Ball" Live In Paris, February 25,1979
youtu.be/5gS-Se3HUQY
"Dreamer's Ball" Early Acoustic Take, August 1978
youtu.be/BLF2InX5GcI
"Dreamer's Ball" Lyrics
youtu.be/n2kShg0WR78
"Dreamer's Ball"
Oh I used to be your baby
Used to be your pride and joy
You used to take me dancing
Just like any other boy
But now you've found another partner
And left me like a broken toy
Oh it's someone else you're taking
Someone else you're playing to
Honey though I'm aching
Know just what I have to do
If I can't have you when I'm waking
I'll go to sleep and dream I'm with you
Oh take me take me take me
To the dreamer's ball
I'll be right on time and I'll dress so fine
You're gonna love me when you see me
I won't have to worry
Take me take me
Promise not to wake me 'till it's morning
It's all been true
What you say about that hey honey?
You gonna take me to that dreamer's ball?
I'd like that
Right on down forty-second street
Way down down town dreamer's town
Oh take me take me take me
I'm your plaything now
You make my life worthwhile with the slightest smile
Or destroy me with a barely perceptible whisper
Gently take me remember I'll be dreaming of my baby
At the dreamer's ball
Take me hold me
Remember what you told me
You'd meet me at the dreamer's ball
I'll meet you at the dreamer's ball
Elvis and Jazz
I am too young to have been an Elvis fan although I now appreciate him and recognize the depth and breadth of his work – and know his catalog of work pretty well. And by coincidence, I have adopted Elvis' hometown as my own.
I never would associate “Dreamers Ball” with Elvis. Elvis did record jazz standards, but he really never did swing music. Even when he did Jazz music it always seems to have a rock or rockabilly or country rock edge. Here are a couple of examples.
Elvis on Ed Sullivan (the second appearance)
October 28, 1956. Elvis Presley was in New York to make his second of three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ed actually did not host Elvis’ first appearance (British actor Charles Laughton filled in) as Ed was recovering from injuries he sustained in a horrible car crash. Following an innocent act by an Irish children’s choir called The Little Gaelic Singers, Elvis Presley took the stage and sang, “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Love Me Tender.” After Señor Wences’s ventriloquism act, Elvis returned to perform “Love Me.” During this song the camera moved in for a close-up of Elvis’ face, and then, as if on cue, he smiled and snarled his upper lip. The studio audience went wild. Elvis closed that evening with the performance of his hit, “Hound Dog.”
Here is Elvis performance of “Love Me”. Although never released as a single, “Love Me” was played on the radio a lot, and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top 100 and #7 on the R&B charts in the United States.
youtu.be/1SF58opo6Ps
Elvis Presley (Now and Then There's) a Fool Such As I (1958)
youtu.be/TzGWMlXzczc
Elvis Presley - Trouble (Film King Creole)
This is another blues song that Elvis performed in the film, King Creole, in concert and recorded. This is a song that I would FLOVE to hear/see Adam perform.
youtu.be/zfkLnZhhoTY
Elvis on Jazz
This is from the movie Jailhouse Rock.
youtu.be/3QnT2V-9fDo
I am too young to have been an Elvis fan although I now appreciate him and recognize the depth and breadth of his work – and know his catalog of work pretty well. And by coincidence, I have adopted Elvis' hometown as my own.
I never would associate “Dreamers Ball” with Elvis. Elvis did record jazz standards, but he really never did swing music. Even when he did Jazz music it always seems to have a rock or rockabilly or country rock edge. Here are a couple of examples.
Elvis on Ed Sullivan (the second appearance)
October 28, 1956. Elvis Presley was in New York to make his second of three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ed actually did not host Elvis’ first appearance (British actor Charles Laughton filled in) as Ed was recovering from injuries he sustained in a horrible car crash. Following an innocent act by an Irish children’s choir called The Little Gaelic Singers, Elvis Presley took the stage and sang, “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Love Me Tender.” After Señor Wences’s ventriloquism act, Elvis returned to perform “Love Me.” During this song the camera moved in for a close-up of Elvis’ face, and then, as if on cue, he smiled and snarled his upper lip. The studio audience went wild. Elvis closed that evening with the performance of his hit, “Hound Dog.”
Here is Elvis performance of “Love Me”. Although never released as a single, “Love Me” was played on the radio a lot, and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top 100 and #7 on the R&B charts in the United States.
youtu.be/1SF58opo6Ps
Elvis Presley (Now and Then There's) a Fool Such As I (1958)
youtu.be/TzGWMlXzczc
Elvis Presley - Trouble (Film King Creole)
This is another blues song that Elvis performed in the film, King Creole, in concert and recorded. This is a song that I would FLOVE to hear/see Adam perform.
youtu.be/zfkLnZhhoTY
Elvis on Jazz
This is from the movie Jailhouse Rock.
youtu.be/3QnT2V-9fDo
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