Whats Your Favourite Song?

[benderten2001]

Virtually any song performed by Air Supply!

Also enjoying Josh Grobin currently....

Gloria Estafan (and the Miami Sound Machine), Huey Lewis and the News...
Whitney Houston, Elton John, Pointer Sisters, Cher, Wham, Spandou Ballet (sp?)---

(guess you can tell l'm into adult contemporary from the 70's thru now!

Oh well. (Must be my age&#33

 

[Mr. Big Stuff]

Here Goes:

Classical:
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 2 (actually heard the Atlanta Symphony play this piece last year... Absolutely incredible.)
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Shostakovich piano Concerto no. 2
Smetana The Moldau
Aaron Copland Billy the Kid, Applacian Spring
Tchaikovsky Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Ravel La Valse, Mother Goose suites (especially empress of the pagoda)

Arias:
Offenbach Barcarolle
Bizet Habanera (especially the Maria Callas version)
Mozart Sull'aria (the letter duet)
Lakme Flower duet
Puccini Un bel di

Jazz:
Dave Brubeck Take five
Count Basie April in Paris
Ellington and Coltrane In a sentimental mood
Miles Davis Someday my prince will come

Alternative:
Coldplay Yello
anything by Our Lady Peace
Beck Devils Haircut, New Pollution
Dexter Freebish Leaving town

Rap:
Mobb Deep Quiet Storm
Pharcyde Drop
The Roots You Got me
2pac Until the end of time, Changes
Ludacris Southern Hospitality
50 P.I.M.P.
anthing by Outkast

Oldies:
King Floyd Groove Me
Peabo Bryson Can You stop the rain
Van Morrison Brown eyed girl
Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
Gerald Levert Cassanova
The Foundations Build me up Buttercup
Doobie Brothers What a fool believes

Gospel:
Rev. James Cleveland!!!!

wow, and I cut it down as much as possible....

Ken

 

[naughty]

Hi Mr.Big Stuff,

Your selections were delightful. They brought to mind things that I had forgotten.
I too love the Moldau as well as the Polovetsian(sp) Dances by Borodin. I love Rimsky-Korsokov's Sheherezade, and The Pier Gynt Suite by Grieg As for Maria Callas... What can one say! I love to hear her sing just about anything.I do love" un bel di" from Madame Butterfly.Her voice gives me goose bumps now that is a diva! I love any thing "The three tenors" produce as well as "The three mo' tenors!" Rachmaninoff now that is the music of passion! In terms of gospel I love Donny Mc Clurkin. I will bow out now until the spirit again moves me!

Naughty

 

[B_DoubleMeatWhopper]

Originally posted by Mr. Big Stuff@May 24 2004, 07:03 PM
Offenbach Barcarolle
Bizet Habanera (especially the Maria Callas version)

Just a bit of trivia here. The melodies of both of these arias are well-known to fans of Gilligan's Island. Remember when the castaways decided to do a musical version of Hamlet to impress Harold Hecuba, played by Phil Silvers? Apparently the Howells had some French opera records. The melodies that they sang to were the Habanera and Votre toast from Bizet's Carmen and the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman.

 

[prepstudinsc]

Naughty and Mr. Big Stuff both have musical tastes similar to mine.....those who know me from the incarnations of the old board, know that I am a classically trained musician, but I don't make my full-time living pursuing that career right now. (that could be changing--details to come--stay tuned) Anyway, my favorites could take up the whole board if I listed them all...they literally run the gamut from symphonic classical works, to choral, to classical keyboard, to solo vocal, to 80's pop, to country, to alternative, to Southern gospel, to classic black gospel like James Cleveland, to contemporary urban gospel.

 

[madame_zora]

OMG, DMW! I learned to play piano as a kid on "Barracolle", never knew what it was from. It was the only peice of sheet music left in my grandmother's piano when she gave it to us. I later learned such classics as "Hawaii 5-0" and the theme song from "Born Free", my mother had very weird musical tastes!