It may be the association with the holiday in spain with those wonderful people, but I can't get begging by frankie valli/the four seasons out of my head. It is a great song, the kind of song you want to come on just after you have danced a lot, so you can carry on dancing but don't mind that it's a bit slow.
(The dancing in this video is clearly good, but not how i imagine the song, which would be on a beach, warm, some rain, and veryvery dark. Better played and not watched, and turned up loud.)
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons appear to have been fifties crooners, based on what i hear at youtube, which is normally a type of music i don't like. ergo, this being normal, the song that sam genius put on the mix is a remix by pilooski. I would love to hear how the original sounds, to see how it got from there to here. Web 2.0 makes us all able to share content (even if it's other people's), and it also means that more popular content gets promoted in a virtuous circle. But that also seems to mean, in cases like this, that the one example of the original that may exist somewhere gets buried under everythin more popular.
(caveat: with so much choice and the tendency to do this at work, we also don't have the patience to search out versions which were further than fingertip away.)
Clearly, we need a UN agency to oversee this stuff...
I'm now going to hear some Provokiev and some Schumann, in a pyramid... I hope it's good. Oh, and go for returns for the Bach Choir on Sunday.
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The Four Seasons were great. I think my sister loved them, probably not my Dad. My favourite as a boy was Let's Hang On. I have that and Beggin' on iTunes if you want them.
can you email the mp3s? you're an oldun but a goodun :)
I got that Beggin' remix thing off limewire, its pretty nice I guess... I suspect I'd prefer the crooning version, not because I don't like to dance cos I do, but just cos I love the crooners. Tony Bennet for example ROCKS. Though I hate Frank Sinartra he has no soul (literally I reckon). I'd be interested in hearing the originals too, limewire was poxy for that.
Anyway I saw a poster adverting the new musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons the other fay and I thought of you. It's always nice to think of you so that was a pleasant moment in my tube journey ;-)
Dad sent me this bit on front row about FV4S on Front Row.
It's not Limewire that's poxy, it's the way the freedom of information exchange offered by the internet (perhaps ironically) narrows our choices through herd tendencies and averaging.
For clarity, my thought has become a new blog entry.
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