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Send us a textTiny Human, Giant Questions!Hold onto your hats, folks! This week, the Wednesday Night Podcast has gone full-on diaper duty! Our very own Andrew has officially welcomed a tiny human grandchild into the world! Congratulations, Andrew... now get ready for approximately eighteen years of Andrew taking more pictures than ever!Fresh off the miracle of life, Andrew's brain has apparently entered a new dimension of grandparental logic. This week, he poses the deeply scientific question: Can the gender of his newborn be predicted by listening to Stevie Wonder's seminal album, Songs in the Key of Life?Yes, you read that right. We delve into the intricate and highly accurate methodology of interpreting musical cues for chromosomal determination. Does "Sir Duke" point to a boy? Is "Isn't She Lovely" a dead giveaway? Prepare for a hilarious descent into musical pseudo-science as the rest of us try to gently (and not-so-gently) steer Andrew back to reality.Expect tangents galore, increasingly bewildered reactions from the usual crew, and possibly a spirited debate on the merits of "I Wish" as a reliable gender oracle.website: actonmusicproject.comemail: music@actonmusicproject.comCraig's phone number: (978) 310-1613
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Since 2008, Record Store Day is an annual indie holiday to support record store sales and artists' albums. This year it fell on 4/12, and Post Malone is 2025's ambassador! I created this playlist to do with playing "records", and citing certain influences the artists sang about. Theme Song: "Dance Track" - Jessica Ann CatenaPick a Disc, Album Nerds, Polyphonic Press, Astrovert Podcast“Old Time Rock & Roll” - Bob Seger (1978-1979)Risky Business scene; The Nanny parody"Like a Rock" Chevy ads; (1986 single)“Music” - Madonna (2000)“Put Your Records On” - Corrine Bailey Rae (2006) / Ritt Momney (2020)"Breathless", "Green Aphrodisiac" (2016)“I Love Rock & Roll” - The Arrows (1975), Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (1981-1982), Britney Spears (2001), Crossroads clip (2002)“Add Some Music to Your Day” - The Beach Boys (1970)“Sir Duke”, "Ngicuela / Es Una Historia / I Am Singing" - Stevie Wonder (1976-1977)Related Episodes: Valentine's Day. Springtime, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Britney Spears, Weird Al, Madonna, Mariah Carey, The Beach Boys, Quincy Jones
John Harris is an old pal from our days in the music press. You might remember him from Sounds, the NME and Select (which he edited) and he's been one of the mainstays of the Guardian ever since, writing mostly about pop culture and politics. When his son James was diagnosed with autism and, looking for ways to connect with him and help his development, John began playing him various types of music. The results were life-changing for the family and recorded in his moving and revelatory book ‘Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story Of Love And Connection In 10 Songs'. With autism, John points out, “you can see the trees but seeing the wood is harder”. This fascinating conversation involves … … have we misread the eccentricities of John Coltrane or Van Morrison, Prince, David Byrne and Gary Numan? … how many musicians are outsiders in an industry requiring them to be the opposite of what they feel capable of. … how people with autism hear songs differently each time and “music is an endlessly replenishable source of wonder”. … why so many lead guitarists are loners. .. how James has perfect pitch and hears everything – birdsong, lawn-mowers, police sirens – as notes. And how music taught him to sight-read. … vivid, unforgettable, emotional recollections of the moment you first heard records – in John's case Sir Duke, Baker Street, Strange Town. … “blokes in black denim jackets drinking Becks”: the allure of working for the West End rock press. … “all records are novelty records when you're young”. … how 50-year-olds marvel at Spotify and 20-year-olds at vinyl. … the artistic rise and fall of Britpop. Order John's highly recommended book ‘Maybe I'm Amazed' here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maybe-Im-Amazed-Story-Connection-ebook/dp/B0D6B7H5NYFind out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Harris is an old pal from our days in the music press. You might remember him from Sounds, the NME and Select (which he edited) and he's been one of the mainstays of the Guardian ever since, writing mostly about pop culture and politics. When his son James was diagnosed with autism and, looking for ways to connect with him and help his development, John began playing him various types of music. The results were life-changing for the family and recorded in his moving and revelatory book ‘Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story Of Love And Connection In 10 Songs'. With autism, John points out, “you can see the trees but seeing the wood is harder”. This fascinating conversation involves … … have we misread the eccentricities of John Coltrane or Van Morrison, Prince, David Byrne and Gary Numan? … how many musicians are outsiders in an industry requiring them to be the opposite of what they feel capable of. … how people with autism hear songs differently each time and “music is an endlessly replenishable source of wonder”. … why so many lead guitarists are loners. .. how James has perfect pitch and hears everything – birdsong, lawn-mowers, police sirens – as notes. And how music taught him to sight-read. … vivid, unforgettable, emotional recollections of the moment you first heard records – in John's case Sir Duke, Baker Street, Strange Town. … “blokes in black denim jackets drinking Becks”: the allure of working for the West End rock press. … “all records are novelty records when you're young”. … how 50-year-olds marvel at Spotify and 20-year-olds at vinyl. … the artistic rise and fall of Britpop. Order John's highly recommended book ‘Maybe I'm Amazed' here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maybe-Im-Amazed-Story-Connection-ebook/dp/B0D6B7H5NYFind out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Harris is an old pal from our days in the music press. You might remember him from Sounds, the NME and Select (which he edited) and he's been one of the mainstays of the Guardian ever since, writing mostly about pop culture and politics. When his son James was diagnosed with autism and, looking for ways to connect with him and help his development, John began playing him various types of music. The results were life-changing for the family and recorded in his moving and revelatory book ‘Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story Of Love And Connection In 10 Songs'. With autism, John points out, “you can see the trees but seeing the wood is harder”. This fascinating conversation involves … … have we misread the eccentricities of John Coltrane or Van Morrison, Prince, David Byrne and Gary Numan? … how many musicians are outsiders in an industry requiring them to be the opposite of what they feel capable of. … how people with autism hear songs differently each time and “music is an endlessly replenishable source of wonder”. … why so many lead guitarists are loners. .. how James has perfect pitch and hears everything – birdsong, lawn-mowers, police sirens – as notes. And how music taught him to sight-read. … vivid, unforgettable, emotional recollections of the moment you first heard records – in John's case Sir Duke, Baker Street, Strange Town. … “blokes in black denim jackets drinking Becks”: the allure of working for the West End rock press. … “all records are novelty records when you're young”. … how 50-year-olds marvel at Spotify and 20-year-olds at vinyl. … the artistic rise and fall of Britpop. Order John's highly recommended book ‘Maybe I'm Amazed' here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maybe-Im-Amazed-Story-Connection-ebook/dp/B0D6B7H5NYFind out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ein Nachruf auf Wayne Schlegel von Tommy Wosch Ich kann mich noch sehr gut daran erinnern, als Wayne uns das erste Mal von seiner Krebsdiagnose erzählt hat. Wir haben ‚Bonnies Ranch‘ moderiert, Kathrin, Wayne und ich, Kacke geredet im Quadrat wie jeden Freitag. Dann läuft ein Titel – Easy Mobisi von Erobique, vielleicht war es auch Sir Duke von Stevie Wonder – und Wayne erzählt, dass er Krebs hat. Wayne hieß eigentlich Frank, Frank Schlegel. Aber wegen Alf und seinem Alter Ego, dem Versicherungsvertreter Wayne Schlegel… naja, die 90er halt! Wayne erklärt uns also, dass er Krebs hat, dann fadet der Titel aus, wir müssen weitermoderieren. Wayne trägt Meldungen vor: In Indien wurde eine Kuh mit zwei Eutern entdeckt, irgendjemand hat irgendjemand anderen mit einem lebenden Schwan verprügelt, schon 2030 soll es erschwingliche U-Boote für Zivilisten geben. Pause, nächster Titel. Ich frage Wayne, wie schlimm es ist und er lächelt: ‚In Sachen Lebenserwartung spiele ich wahrscheinlich nicht mehr in der allerhöchsten Liga.‘ Wie wir heute - vier Jahre später - wissen, war es wirklich nicht die allerhöchste Liga, eher so Kreisklasse. Wayne hat bei FRITZ gearbeitet, bei radioeins, bei Antenne Brandenburg und im rbb-Fernsehen. Beruflich war er Spezialist fürs Komische. Privat war er Spezialist für Gelassenheit. In Sachen Gelassenheit und Humor spielte er zeitlebens in der allerhöchsten Liga. Als Kathrin und ich ihn zwei Wochen vor seinem Tod auf der Palliativstation besucht haben, erklärte er uns, dass das mit dem Krebs wirklich blödes Timing ist, weil er 2025 eigentlich andere Dinge vorhatte, als zu sterben. Am zweiten Weihnachtstag ist Wayne in Anwesenheit seiner wunderbaren Frau gestorben und wir vermissen ihn schon jetzt wie blöde.In der heutigen Folge Ab17 gedenken wir unserem Freund Wayne.
Send Steve a Text MessageUnlock your creative potential and elevate your guitar skills by challenging the status quo of your musical journey. Have you ever considered how stepping away from your comfort zone could uncover hidden gaps in your skill set? Join me as I recount my transition from the world of metal to the vibrant realms of funk and jazz, where I discovered the importance of rhythm and feel. We'll explore how songs like Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" and Katrina and the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" can offer new perspectives on rhythm and chord choices, with particular focus on the art of funk's essential strumming techniques.As we journey further into the rich landscapes of funk and jazz guitar styles, get ready to feel the thrill of playing iconic tracks like Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and "Sir Duke." These masterpieces challenge us to master E flat grooves and employ palm-muted techniques, while also teaching us to incorporate horn parts and funk-inspired chords into our practice. By embracing diverse musical styles, you not only enhance your own skills but also learn the art of subtlety and collaboration within a band setting. Stay inspired, keep practicing, and let this exploration fuel your passion for music innovation and growth. Links: Steve's Channel → https://www.youtube.com/user/stinemus... GuitarZoom Channel → https://www.youtube.com/user/guitarz0... Songs Channel → https://www.youtube.com/user/GuitarSo... . Check out Steve's Guitar Membership and Courses: https://bit.ly/3rbZ3He
MONOLOGUE "Olivia Chow and Justin Trudeau: The Political Duo Destroying Toronto and Canada, One Bike Lane and Woke Policy at a Time!" The review of Richard Bilkszto's death is a complete and utter sham https://tnc.news/2024/10/15/levy-review-bilksztos-death-utter-sham1/ Sue Ann Levy – Award Winning Investigative Journalist with True North THE CULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE During 1879 the US was hit by six tropical storms, including two major hurricanes which strengthened very rapidly over a period of 24 hours. Claims that hurricanes are intensifying faster now are propaganda, not science. America Rejected Electric Cars Once Before Tony Heller – Geologist, Weather Historian, Founder of Real Climate Science dot com Illegal Clone Records Discovered in Voter Registration Databases in At Least Seven States – Who is Responsible for these “Cryptographic Algorithms”? https://republic.us/people-news/9101 Jerome is a co-founder of God's Five Stones (https://godsfivestones.com/). Having received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Government in 1972, Jerome R. Corsi has published over thirty books on economics, history, and politics, including six New York Times bestsellers, two at number one. From 2004 to 2016, Dr. Corsi was a senior editor at WorldNetDaily.com, where he authored hundreds of articles. Dr. Corsi has decided to re-engage in the political discussion by establishing a new website and podcast, TheTruthCentral.com. OPEN LINES THIS DAY IN ROCK HISTORY In 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival officially disbanded, months after the release of their seventh and final studio album, Mardi Gras, and a year after the departure of founding member, Tom Fogerty. In 1976, Stevie Wonder‘s Songs In The Key Of Life went to No.1 on the US album chart. The seminal title, which features such songs as “Isn't She Lovely,” “I Wish,” and “Sir Duke,” became the artist's best-selling album and won Album of the Year at the 1977 Grammys. In 1982, Culture Club made a buzzworthy TV appearance on the UK's Top of the Pops, performing “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.” After the performance, frontman Boy George became a fixture on magazine covers, while the song quickly rose up the pop charts. In 2006, the legendary New York venue CBGBs closed its doors after 33 years. While the club was first intended to be a hub for country, bluegrass, and blues artists, it eventually became synonymous with the underground punk and new wave scene and served as a platform for such seminal artists as Blondie, Television, and The Ramones. Jeremiah Tittle, Co-Host of "The 500 with Josh Adam Myers" podcast, CEO/Founder of Next Chapter Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kirk talks with Wesley Morris and Josh Gwynn about the endless world of Stevie Wonder. Morris and Gwynn are host and producer, respectively, of the brilliant new six-part podcast series The Wonder of Stevie.Check out Josh Gwynn's terrific pop culture podcast Back Issue, Wesley Morris's culture podcast Still Processing, and Morris' essential writing on Aretha Franklin, Jam & Lewis, Meshell Ndegeocello, and his mustache, as well as his 2019 essay about Black American Music.REFERENCED ON THIS EPISODE:"Wild Wild West" by Will Smith, Kool Moe Dee, Rub Fusari, and Stevie Wonder, 1999"Straight, No Chaser" by Thelonious Monk, recorded 1967Thelma Golden and Michelle Obama talking about listening to records as kids, from Episode 5 of The Wonder of StevieStevie Wonder Song Excerpts:"Keep On Running" from Music of My Mind, 1972"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" from Talking Book, 1972"Jesus Children of America" from Innervisions, 1973"Boogie On Reggae Woman" from Fulfillingness' First FInale, 1974"I Wish," "Sir Duke," and "As," from Songs in the Key of Life, 1976"Happy Birthday" from Hotter Than July, 1980----LINKS-----SUPPORT STRONG SONGS!Paypal | Patreon.com/StrongsongsMERCH STOREstore.strongsongspodcast.comSOCIAL MEDIAIG: @Kirk_Hamilton | Threads: @Kirk_HamiltonNEWSLETTERnewsletter.kirkhamilton.comJOIN THE DISCORDhttps://discord.gg/GCvKqAM8SmSTRONG SONGS PLAYLISTSSpotify | Apple Music | YouTube MusicSHOW ARTTom Deja, Bossman Graphics--------------------OCTOBER 2024 WHOLE-NOTE PATRONSElizabeth CulverMeryl AllisonRobyn MetcalfeBrian TempletCesarBob TuckerCorpus FriskyBen BarronCatherine WarnerDamon WhiteKaya WoodallJay SwartzRushDaniel Hannon-BarryChristopher MillerJamie WhiteChristopher McConnellDavid MascettiJoe LaskaKen HirshMelanie AndrichJenness GardnerNathaniel BauernfeindPaul DelaneyDave SharpeSami SamhuriJeremy DawsonAccessViolationAndre BremerDave FloreyOCTOBER 2024 HALF-NOTE PATRONSLawrenceSy JacobsirritableIan PiddAndrew HoferJordan GatenbyMelissa KuhnsAshleySeattle Trans and Nonbinary Choral EnsembleKevin MarceloMatt CSamantha CoatesJamesMark NadasdiJeffDan CutterJoseph RomeroOl ParkerJohn BerryDanielle KrizClint McElroyMordok's Vape PenInmar GivoniMichael SingerMerv AdrianJoe GalloLauren KnottsDave KolasHenry MindlinMonica St. AngeloStephen WolkwitzSuzanneRand LeShayMaxeric spMatthew JonesThomasAnthony MentzJames McMurryEthan LaserBrian John PeterChris RemoMatt SchoenthalAaron WilsonDent EarlCarlos LernerMisty HaisfieldAbraham BenrubiChris KotarbaCallum WebbLynda MacNeilDick MorganBen SteinSusan GreenGrettir AsmundarsonSean MurphyRandal VegterRobert Granatdave malloyAlan MaassNick GallowayHeather Jjohn halpinPeter HardingDavidJohn BaumanMartín SalíasStu BakerSteve MartinoDr Arthur A GrayCarolinaGary PierceMatt BaxterLuigi BocciaE Margaret WartonCharles McGeeCatherine ClauseEthan BaumanKenIsWearingAHatJordan BlockAaron WadeJeff UlmDavid FutterJamieDeebsPortland Eye CareRichard SneddonJanice BerryDoreen CarlsonDavid McDarbyWendy GilchristElliot RosenLisa TurnerPaul WayperBruno GaetaKenneth JungZak RemerRishi SahayJeffrey BeanJason ReitmanAilie FraserRob TsukNATALIE MISTILISJosh SingerAmy Lynn ThornsenAdam WKelli BrockingtonVictoria Yumino caposselaSteve PaquinDavid JoskeBernard KhooRobert HeuerDavid NoahGeraldine ButlerMadeleine MaderJason PrattAbbie BergDoug BelewDermot CrowleyAchint SrivastavaRyan RairighMichael BermanLinda DuffyBonnie PrinsenLiz SegerEoin de BurcaKevin PotterM Shane BordersDallas HockleyJason GerryNell MorseNathan GouwensLauren ReayEric PrestemonCookies250Angela LivingstoneDiane HughesMichael CasnerLowell MeyerStephen TsoneffJoshua HillGeoff GoldenPascal RuegerRandy SouzaClare HolbertonDiane TurnerTom ColemanDhu WikMelmaniacEric HelmJonathan DanielsCaro FieldNaomi WatsonDavid CushmanAlexanderChris KGavin DoigSam FennTanner MortonAJ SchusterJennifer BushDavid StroudBrad CallahanAmanda FurlottiAndrew BakerAndrew FairL.B. MorseBill ThorntonBrian AmoebasBrett DouvilleJeffrey OlsonMatt BetzelNate from KalamazooMelanie StiversRichard TollerAlexander PolsonJustin McElroyArjun SharmaJames JohnsonKevin MorrellColin Hodo
In this episode of Dem Vinyl Boyz, we begin our deep dive into Stevie Wonder’s iconic album Songs in the Key of Life, released in 1976. This two-part series starts with Side One of the double album, where we explore the timeless songs that set the tone for Wonder’s masterpiece. Known for its expansive musical range and socially conscious lyrics, Songs in the Key of Life is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. In Part 1, we take listeners through unforgettable tracks such as "Love’s in Need of Love Today," "Village Ghetto Land," and the celebratory anthem "Sir Duke." We’ll dive into Stevie’s creative process, the inspiration behind these songs, and how he skillfully combined elements of soul, jazz, and funk to deliver music that resonates across generations. Join us on Dem Vinyl Boyz as we celebrate the brilliance of Stevie Wonder, discussing the themes, intricate arrangements, and profound impact of the first side of Songs in the Key of Life. Get ready for a journey into the heart of one of music’s greatest achievements!
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On the week of the onstage fight between Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro, Ken Stringfellow tells us about the time he and drummer Mike Musburger duked it out. You can call him Sir Duke, I suppose! Ken on IG: @kenstringfellow -------------------------------------------------- ***http://distrokid.com/vip/tmep*** Get the VIP treatment with 30% OFF your first year subscription to DISTROKID at this special link. Hands down, DISTROKID is the easiest way for rockers like YOU to get your music into Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube, and more. -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your hosts are Paul Marden and Oz Austwick.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 25th September 2024. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://www.monkey-forest.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-torlop-261a10119/ Josh is a passionate marketer and PR professional currently working at Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire. As the sole member of the Marketing & PR team, he manages, oversees, and delivers all communication strategies for one of the UK's most fascinating woodlands. This unique role requires him to wear many hats, as he strives to create best-in-class campaigns across multiple fronts.Trentham Monkey Forest is unlike any other place in the UK. It's a 60-acre woodland where 140 Barbary macaques live freely, mirroring their natural habitat. This distinct feature is the heart of the attraction, and Josh is driven to share this "sparkle" with as many people as possible, all while working within a modest budget. A visit to the forest, which Josh first experienced with his aunt in 2007 as a child, left a lasting impression on him. Now, he aims to ensure that visitors create similarly special and lasting memories at this remarkable destination, all for an affordable entry fee—an essential element of his marketing strategy.In 2024, Monkey Forest reached a record-breaking year for footfall, and as the year draws to a close, Josh has been collaborating with Oz on creating 'out of the box' campaigns that break the 'fourth wall' between the brand and the consumer. Reflecting on a PR stunt he strategized and executed in 2022, which went globally viral and reached hundreds of millions worldwide, Josh considers it a personal career highlight. His enthusiasm for being a one-man marketing team at such a unique destination continues to fuel his innovative and ambitious approach. Transcription: Paul Marden: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in and working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Paul Marden. So welcome to Season 6. Oz Austwick: Yeah, welcome back. Paul Marden: How are we back already? Because it feels like only yesterday were recording the tail end of season five. So where's my summer break? It just seems to have gone. Oz Austwick: It does seem a little bit like we've not really had much time off. We must have. Must have had a bit of a break. Paul Marden: Yes, absolutely. Because I've got a list. As long as you are, of all the places that I've been over the summer holidays, where have you been? Oz Austwick: Like you? Lots of places. Lots of castles, a few stately homes and one or two more unusual places. But I think if I had to pick one, I went to Highclere. Oz Austwick: Okay. I love it. I'm a massive Downton Abbey fan. I tried so hard not to like Downton Abbey and just utterly failed and got sucked into this wonderful world of 1920s stately home. The lives going on upstairs and down. And you know what? It's just such a good series and to go and experience the place and see all these wonderful familiar areas with my 15 year old daughter, who is even more of a fan than me, was just amazing. Paul Marden: Brilliant. Oz Austwick: We might just have been blaring theme music out of the car on the way down the drive. How about you? Paul Marden: So where have I been? We went to We The Curious back in Bristol, which has just reopened after two years of being closed. And that was just amazing. I took my daughter there with two of her friends and we had a whale of time wandering around there. We've been to the Roman Baths down in Bath. That was quite fun. That was a very hot day, but we had a lovely time just wandering around in the baths. We really enjoyed that. The one standout thing that I did that does not come around very often, where it comes around once every four years. We went to the Olympics, so went and experienced handball of all games. Never watched a handball game in my life, but it was amazing. It was just so much fun. Oz Austwick: I don't think I know anything about handball. Paul Marden: Well, I was expecting something a bit like basketball or netball. No, not at all. No. This was full on contact sport. It's like rugby, but inside and throwing people around. It was awesome. It was so fast paced. We saw it was France v Germany, so it was absolutely stacked in the stadium. But they captured the spirit of London 2012. It felt just like the part, the atmosphere that we felt when went to the main stadium, the athletic stadium during 2012 but with a french twist. Oz Austwick: Not your first Olympics, then? Paul Marden: No, not my first. But I didn't see Usain Bolt this time. I did see him 2012. He was only about a spec on the other side of the stadium at the time, but no, we had a great time and there was just so much about the way that they organised it. It's a feat of human engineering, isn't it, to put that on for two weeks stint. But they organised it so well and yeah, it was thoroughly enjoyable. Oz Austwick: So, speaking of events, we're going to one pretty soon, aren't we? I mean, it's not quite on the scale of the Olympics, but it's going to be glorious all the same. Paul Marden: Yes. So this will be my third National Theme Park Awards. I promise this year not to scream quite so loudly if I actually go one of the roller coasters whilst we're there. Oz Austwick: Well, I'm going with you, so I will record it. Paul Marden: I promise you. I screamed like a marine last year. Oz Austwick: Yeah. So we'll be there. We're there officially as Rubber Cheese, aren't we? So, yes, if you're there, come over and say hi, we've got a stall, I think a stand and we might have some freebies. We'll definitely have some chocolates because it's a good excuse to have some chocolates. So come and find us and have some chocolates with us. Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. But, you know, it's an in real life experience, so come over and talk to us, give us your ideas. What can we do this season and what would you like us to talk about? Can we come to see ewing at your theme park? Oz Austwick: Yeah, because we're doing a bit of that this season, aren't we? We've got a few lined up. Paul Marden: We do. We do. It was something that you said last at the end of Season 5 that you wanted to do differently, that we work in this attraction sector which is all about going and doing experiences and we spend the whole of the podcast sat in a square room with nothing much going on and without actually meeting people in real life. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could actually record in real life with people? Oz Austwick: It's crazy not to. We're talking to people at these amazing places and I just get to sit in my own dodgy little converted office. But not this time. No. So you met a chap a little while ago at a conference, didn't you? Paul Marden: Yeah, I met Josh from Trentham Monkey Forest, and he was presenting. I think if I'm right in saying this, it was the first time h. e's done a presentation at conference before, but I was blown away by him and his presentation, and he's a one man marketing machine for Trentham from his own slide. He tells this story about being the CMO and the social media executive and the website editor and all of these different hats that. That you have to wear when you're running marquee in a small business. That's Josh, and I just loved it. And I was really impressed with the way he was talking about the outcomes of what he had achieved as a result of the work that he was doing. It wasn't just about the activities that he was doing. Paul Marden: It was what difference that made to the organization as a result of him doing it, which I found really impressive. So I really wanted him on the podcast, and I jumped on a call with him and. And his first idea was, why don't you come and record it in the Monkey Forest? So here we are at the start of Season 6, and you've had a chance to go up there, haven't you? Oz Austwick: Yeah. I mean, it is a little ironic that my favorite podcast. Sorry, my second favourite podcast, because obviously this is my favourite. My second favourite podcast is the Infinite Monkey Cage. So to get to go and record in what is essentially a cage with monkeys in itheme seemed like way too good an opportunity to pass up on. It was an amazing day. I try not to say too much about it because we've got the whole interview to come. Paul Marden: Absolutely. But I'm assuming that everything went slickly and it was a well oiled machine and it's got the same production values as we would normally expect. Oz Austwick: No, not at all. I mean, I realised that there was potentially an issue when we. I got there and I found the place really easily. It was great. It was nicely signposted. I found the right place. The people in the car parks were hugely helpful. They sent me there. I parked up, a lovely lady took me to Josh. We got all the gear. We walked quite a long way into a forest full of monkeys, and then I realised I didn't have a camera with me. And of course, it's not an easy thing to go because we couldn't just leave all the gear with the monkeys and both walk back. But because I wasn't wearing official Trentham Monkey Forest clothing, they didn't want people to see me walking around in the woods off the path. So it became quite. Oz Austwick: So we figured it out, got the camera, got back, started setting everything up, and of course, because we're not sitting at desks I've got a lovely microphone that I wanted to put out in front of us, but you can't string a cable across a large open area where there are monkeys. Paul Marden: Health and safety issues with monkeys. Oz Austwick: Yeah, well, absolutely. The fact is, I mean, we could have done it, but the monkeys would have probably just taken the microphone away. So there is, if I'm being honest, a little bit of wind noise because the microphone's slightly further from us than I hoped it would be. I've got Josh miked up, so it's only me that you struggle to hear. But that being said, I mean, what an amazing experience if you haven't been to Trentham Monkey Forest, go. We've talked about this a little before, but there's this kind of period, 100, 120 years ago when all of the great historic homes, these are amazing estates, suddenly started having to find other ways of making money. And you can look around and some of them have survived and some of them haven't. Some of them have just gone completely. Oz Austwick: Some were turned into flats and one was turned into a monkey forest, which just feels a little bit random. But, yeah, I mean, Josh is a really smart guy, very switched on, very articulate and very knowledgeable, and he's got his own monkey army. So. Paul Marden: I've got nothing to say to that other than we desperately got to listen to the rest of this interview. It's going to be so interesting. Oz Austwick: Yeah, well, absolutely. But before we do, if you're listening and you have a thing going on and you'd like us to come and be part of it and record there, please do get in touch and let us know if you're doing something interesting in the visitor attraction sector. We'd love to talk to you. Or if there's just a pressing issue that you think isn't getting the exposure that it should be, then, yeah, let us know, because this isn't really about us, it's about the sector. And if we can help, then that would be amazing. Paul Marden: Yeah. So we've got lined up for this season. We're going to do some in real life at conferences. So we're going to go to ASDC conference and do some in real life interviews there. We've been invited to some attractions already. So, you know, if you've got a conference and you'd love us to come along and do something in real life for the podcast, let us know if you'd like us to come to your attraction because you're running an event for Halloween or Christmas or whatever it is then let us know. We will chuckle the gear in the back of a car. We promise we will better prepared if we meet monkeys again. Can't promise that we'll better prepared for other animals or small children or whatever, but, you know, we'll do our best. Oz Austwick: Yeah, I mean, I'd be hesitant and promising I'd be more prepared, to be honest with you, but, you know, we'll do our best and we'll come up. Oz Austwick: With something on at the end of it, I'm sure. Paul Marden: Yeah, exactly. So, without any further ado, shall we get on to listening to the interview that you did with. With Josh athlete at Trenton Monkey forest? Oz Austwick: So welcome, Josh. Thanks very much for joining us. Regular listeners will probably be aware of a bit of wind noise on this one because for the first time, we're recording on location in a monkey forest. Josh Torlop: Yeah, it's the first time for me to be honest, because I'm just looking across our forest here and we've got three or four monkeys surrounding us. Oz Austwick: Yeah, I must admit it's a little bit odd, if I'm being honest. I'm used to sitting in an office, at a desk, and today I'm leaning on a tree surrounded by monkeys. Josh Torlop: It's giving me a little bit of power here. I'm not the host and I'm making you feel uncomfortable with these monkeys around us, but no, yeah, we're perfectly fine. The monkeys have their natural weariness intact of humans, so they won't bother us too much. They will simply live their monkey life around us. Oz Austwick: If you're listening to this on Spotify or through iTunes or anything like that, then please check out the YouTube video and you'll be able to see some of the monkeys that are currently watching us. So, as always, we tend to start with a couple of icebreaker questions. And now we're in Season 6, that's not going to change anytime soon. So I've got a couple of kind off the wall questions for you. Josh Torlop: Oh, here we go. Oz Austwick: What's the biggest animal that you think you could carry up a flight of stairs? Josh Torlop: Oh, that's a good question. So, when I was younger, I had a Labrador called Tommy who had a bit of a gut. Oz Austwick: Okay. Josh Torlop: So I'd say I'd carry Tommy, and that might be a very boring answer, but he could eat anything. We had two labradors, one called Blake and one called Tommy. And Tommy used to finish his food and eat Blake's food, so I would say Tommy. Oz Austwick: Okay, cool. Yeah, I reckon. I think you could carry a labrador. The next one is what film should be remade by the Muppets. Josh Torlop: Oh, that's an interesting one, isn't it? Oz Austwick: Yeah. Josh Torlop: The Wolf of Wall Street. I'd love to see Kim the frog take on Wall street. How good would that be? Oz Austwick: That would be amazing. Josh Torlop: Yeah, that would be perfect. Because Margot Robbie's blonde. Miss Piggy was blonde. Not to say that Margot Robbie looks at all like Miss Piggy, but that's. Yeah, that'd work. Oz Austwick: I doubt she's a listener, if I can. So one of the things I really want to talk to you about, other than that this venue, which is quite unique, at least in the UK, is the challenges of being a one man marketing team. Oz Austwick: Let's start off. Just tell me a little bit about the monkey forest and how it became a thing. Josh Torlop: Yeah, certainly. So, Trentham Monkey Forest is one of four parks protecting Barbary macaques. That is a highly endangered species of primate. So there's less than 8000 in the wild. So we have two parks in France, one in Germany and one here in Staffordshire. Stokend Trentham Monkey Forest. And it started all the way back in 1969 in Kinzheim in the Alsace region. Listeners might remember Beauty and the Beast. That's where the town was famously sort of depicted. Oh, yeah, there we go. Yeah. Back to the Muppets. Well, yeah. But in terms of our journey, if you will, it was two french chaps, one called Jack Trinau and one called Gilbert de turquine, that basically sought this mission to protect this incredible species, monkey called Barbary macaques. Josh Torlop: So they wanted to create this fantastic concept where around 100 monkeys, 100 to 150, could simply be themselves in a forest completely, no interference from humans, in a way where it would be able to preserve the natural behaviours in order to facilitate possible reintroduction. Oz Austwick: Okay. Josh Torlop: So it was an incredible forward thinking concept. And you fast forward 40 years, they had to basically have to open two parks, another one in France in Rocamadour, and then another one in Germany in the sort of Lake Constance area, basically, because they sort of made the mistakes before us, basically. So they realised that once you have a lot of monkeys in a forest living how they would. They'd mate and they'd make. You'd end up with more monkeys. So they had to open more parks came this incredible conservation project for this one species, which makes us incredibly different, because their passion was engaging people with this primate in particular, by letting visitors to the area marvel at the incredible behaviours right in front of them from 2 meters away. Josh Torlop: But also, the monkeys having this, you know, this separation between human and primate, so their natural behaviours weren't deteriorated. So it was an incredible concept that here we are, 2005, we'll say we opened in Trentham, Stoke, and here we are, 2024, 19 years later, thriving, surviving, and I'm doing the marketing for it, which is incredible. Oz Austwick: Absolutely. So how do you end up as the marketing and pr manager of a monkey forest? Josh Torlop: So what you do is the year was, what, 2021? And I was looking for a role in marketing and I was scrolling through LinkedIn and Indeed, as you do when you're searching for a job. And I saw an advertisement for a marketing and PR officer at Trentham Monkey Forest. And it brought me back to when I was seven years old, my auntie and my mum coming to visit Monkey Forest for the first time and being absolutely amazed at the fact that there was a primate right in front of me, acting as if I wasn't there and it was just being a monkey, I thought it was magnificent. And that visit always stuck with me. And for me, as a visitor attraction, I always talk about, now I'm marketing at a visitor attraction. Is the sparkle what excites your visitors to come to you? Josh Torlop: And that is it. That moment of thinking, wow, that's incredible, there's a monkey right there acting exactly how it would in the wild. That's always stuck with me. And that inspired me to apply for that role because I wanted to share that sort of memory maker with thousands of people to visit the park and have that same experience. And thankfully, we're doing that quite well. We're hitting all the right noises on TikTok. Oz Austwick: Absolutely, yeah, you're doing a great job. Does it ever get normal? Because I have to say, it's really weird to be stood here in a perfectly normal british bit of woodland. And, yeah, there are monkeys. Josh Torlop: Well, if you look to your left, you'll see a statue of a man in the distance. So that man is the Duke of Sutherland. He once owned this land, a bit like lion king, you know, everywhere the light touches, I own. Basically, in the victorian times, he owned the Trentham estate. So everywhere we're looking now, that was Duke Sutherland's land. And people of that time actually enjoyed this forest for leisure. So not much has really changed because people still enjoy it. It's just there's monkeys here, which I love to imagine if we just brought him back for just a day and I would be like, what do you think of this use for your land, mister Duke, Sir Duke? Oz Austwick: I think it's fascinating. And one of the things that we see a lot, because we talk to and work with a lot of old historic estates and the kind of, I guess maybe 100 years ago or so, there was a real issue where they had to suddenly start doing something to survive. They couldn't just have the land and keep it, they had to actually make some use of it or lose it. And it's really interesting how some places in their safari parks or golf courses or hotels and spas, and there we have a load of monkeys. Josh Torlop: Yeah, I mean, 60 acres, about the equivalent of 40 football pitches. For any football fans listening, that's a lot of space. And the visitors see a very small proportion of that, which is nice in a way. I'd love for visitors to see all our forest, but for the monkeys, they have such a huge, vast amount of forest space to live exactly how they would in the wild, to a point. That's incredible. So we invited last year, for example, a David Attenborough producer called Rosie Thomas to do a members evening. We obviously have members, and she had literally just been filming in the Algeria, Morocco, a region where these monkeys are native to. Josh Torlop: And she was absolutely bowled over by the fact that it was bringing her back to filming with David Attenborough, which was crazy to think, but so rewarding, in a sense, for us, as an organisation, to think we're doing the right things. And, yeah, that was probably a moment where I thought, wow. Well, I always think, wow. But that, for me, sums up Monkey Forest. To see that a David Attenborough producer could be amazed, and the environment. Oz Austwick: So, yeah, so how do you market it? Josh Torlop: How do I market it? Oz Austwick: It's not like there's a playbook that already. Josh Torlop: That's probably the beauty of it. But is there a playbook for marketing? I mean, TikTok, I feel like if you ever see the Royal Society Protection of Birds, RSPB, they're amazing. They are so hilarious with TikTok. But for us, I think we stick to our unique. Oh, gosh, USP Unique Selling Point of, you walk amongst the monkeys. We have a little bit of fun with it, but also, we know our audience quite well, in a sense, that we know which channels suit certain content types. Pr. We do a lot of story pushing, storytelling features, like a huge part of our marketing activity. We tend to go viral quite often with user generated content. Josh Torlop: So we try and, you know, push that to make sure that visitors want to take a TikTok here, get excited about that, because it could go viral, it could blow up. Anyone can make content nowadays, so we tap into that. But, yeah, I think the key in everything is knowing your audience, knowing what we are and what we do best, which is the walking amongst the monkeys and the conservation behind it. And also being organic. I think I'm being authentic. I think some brands tend to forget that their audiences are human and they don't want to be sold to. They want to see organic content, digest it, consume it, otherwise they're going to swipe up or they're going to swipe across. Josh Torlop: So for us, it's all about having that tongue in cheek element, hitting all noises, having those serious conservation messaging, whether it's a blog or whatever, but marrying that up with some funny content. I mean, do you remember the Aurora, the Northern Lights? One silly thing I did on social media was I superimposed a monkey, transparent monkey in the sky here, and we said, "Oh, the Aurora looked a bit different and still contract", and that got a bit of traction. But, yeah, things like that, you know, showing a bit of personality. I mean, Ryanair do it, a lot of brands are starting to do it now. Curries. I find them hilarious when they chuck a chicken into a air fryer, like from a viral meme video. I don't know if you've seen, Oz, but that's hilarious. Yeah, that's brilliant. Oz Austwick: I mean, there are some companies that are really smashing social media. I'm a huge fan of Gregg's social media. And there's one of the big London department stores that does a world famous Christmas display in their windows every year. And there's a Gregg's opposite the road, opposite them, on the other side of the road. And they literally, they reversed their sign so that every time somebody took a picture of the Christmas display, it said Gregg's. Josh Torlop: Oh, brilliant. Oz Austwick: What a fantastic thing. Josh Torlop: You're making me hungry for a cheese and onion pasta. I love it. Gregg's. There is a drive through one in Stoke by Trent Bale. Oz Austwick: I might check that out. Josh Torlop: For me, I think TikTok in particular, I think every marketer's worked out that each post you do on TikTok you're following is the lowest percentage of who will see that. So it's always a new audience for every post that you do on TikTok. So for us coming in three years ago, we didn't have a TikTok, which I found incredible. We should have TikTok was my answer in my job interview, and that's probably what landed me the job because, you know, three years on we've got 12.7 thousand followers, which is quite a good growth. Josh Torlop: I'm always my biggest critic, so I'd want more, but I think every marketer or PR would say that. But in terms of the TikTok content that we put out is just making sure that we're doing it on a consistent basis, because we know that organic nature of the organic post, reaching a new audience each time, that's probably not going to be there forever. So it's sort of using that now to our advantage because, say, if we do ten posts a week and yeah, all those ten posts didn't get a million views, but if each one of those got a thousand views, that's 10,000 people that wouldn't have seen our content. And also that our unique element will be embedded in that content, or it'll be me in a monkey costume dancing to It's Raining Men. That wasn't me, by the way. Josh Torlop: I've just, I'm just like, that slipper wasn't me. Lots of fun. Oz Austwick: I'll see if I can get a link for that and pop it in the show notes. I mean, I think it's really interesting that social media kind of gives us this really odd view when it comes to numbers. And you say you've got what, say, twelve and a half thousand followers. Josh Torlop: Yeah, I think it's 12.7 now. 12.7 thousand. Oz Austwick: And those people who are really into social media will look at that and think, oh, that's not very many. Josh Torlop: No. Oz Austwick: But put them all in a room. Josh Torlop: Well, that's quite an awful lot for a small organisation. But also zero pounds spent. Oz Austwick: Absolutely. Oz Austwick: If you got twelve and a half thousand people through the gates, that wouldn't come through the gates otherwise, then that's a massive step. Josh Torlop: Yeah. Well, absolutely. I think for us, we have a quite high awareness campaign yearly campaign. We just want to drive awareness to us. Because I live and die by you put this in front of eyes. Feet are going to certainly follow because of how incredible it is. So that's what molds our strategy. But that's obviously one small element is social media. I mean, we did a PR stunt in 2022 that went globally viral. It reached 900 million people. So we're talking about 12.7 thousand not being the biggest, but that's huge. Yeah. James Corden was talking about little old Trent and monkey forest a few years ago. Because you'll love this, we hired a Marvin Gaye impersonator to serenade our monkeys, saying, "Let's get it on." Oz Austwick: I saw. Josh Torlop: Yeah. Oz Austwick: And that was a Valentine's Day thing. Josh Torlop: It was a Valentine's Day PR stunt, yeah. And it went absolutely viral. I dine out on it every week now at dinner, because I don't think I'm ever going to live that down. Oz Austwick: So, I mean, did it work? Do you have baby monkeys now? Josh Torlop: We had twelve that year, I believe. I think twelve. So. Oz Austwick: So, from a conservation point of view, getting Marvin Gaye involved was a good move. Josh Torlop: Well, that's it, yeah. We aim between six and seven babies, so if we have twelve that year, then it's work. Oz Austwick: I'm impressed. Josh Torlop: Yeah. Oz Austwick: So what are some of the challenges? Because obviously it's just you that does all of this and I've worked in house as a marketer and you've got to do everything, which inevitably means that you've just got to decide which bits you're going to do and which bits you're not. Oz Austwick: How's that work in the visitor attraction industry? Josh Torlop: For me, I hate the saying jack of all trades. I prefer swiss army knife because each part of a swift army knife is very useful and that's each part of the communication strategy f For me, every bit of it is vital for the success of your marketing and pr strategy. And one of the challenges is, obviously, managing time. Not to be boring, but it is. For example, this morning I've had a BBC radio stoke interview come straight speak to you. But, yeah, it's a case of making sure that you don't bite off more than you can chew, not having a skatcon approach, having quite a strategic straight line, knowing what you wanted to achieve. or me. Every bit of it is vital for the success of your marketing and pr strategy. So, yeah, that feeds into our strategy, really. Josh Torlop: It's not biting off more than we can chew, but also being as impactful as we can with the resource given. So I take all the photography that many people probably don't know, and Monkey Forest, we don't outsource photography, I take it. So I feel like, yes, it can be taxing having just one person to do all these roles, but then ensures consistency, because if it's wrong, it's the wrong consistency. But I like to think I'm doing quite well here. So in terms of what we're doing and what we're putting out, it's all consistent, we're brand cohesive because we haven't got a lot of chefs in the room giving off opinions, which can be good, can be useful, but still, I think that's why we get stuff done quite quickly. Josh Torlop: Say, if I want bit of content, I take my camera in and get the content, whatever it needs to be. But I do say, "Oh, yeah, it's a marketing team of one", but I have a great support network around me. For example, the director, Mark, best boss you'll ever work for. He is such a good guy and he trusts me to execute the pr and marketing strategy well. And then we've got Lisa, the part manager, who helps me a lot as well with radio interviews. They're all superb in front of the camera. Not a lot of people would say that, but media training wise, everyone is fantastic here in front of media, which is great. So everyone was willing to muck in. Josh Torlop: The Marvin Gaye PR event, for example, that was a roaring success because the guides were on board, they knew what, even though it sounded ridiculous. And all of our guides have science based, of course, being Barbary macaque experts. And they thought, what the earth is Josh playing at here? They saw the impact of raising the profile of the endangered species and they were really with me on that. But that was because we did a team brief. We explained the strategy behind it, what we wanted to achieve. The reason I actually said, the reason why I like to do this high awareness campaign is because I go into the pub with my mates to celebrate getting this job and I'm from a little town called Norfolk in Cheshire, which is probably on the sort of cross county border of Staffordshire. Josh Torlop: And I said, "Oh, I've got a job at transome monkey forest." And they went, "Oh, part of my transom gardens." " No", that's not the case. So we didn't have that profile in place. That was only the people that knew about us, by the way. So half the table didn't even know what Transponkey forest was, which I found baffling 20 minutes up the road. Oz Austwick: Absolutely. So, yeah, so, I mean, you get quite a lot of user generated content, your social media, obviously full of monkeys, but most people's isn't. So when they come, it's quite special being to put that out. But you mentioned earlier when were chatting about the fact that your most recent success has been TripAdvisor. Josh Torlop: Yeah, it's quite the timing, to be fair. So we've gone viral again this week because someone did a review on Tripadvisor and this sums up our marketing strategy to a team because obviously we try and be as lighthearted as possible and resonate with our audiences. So someone did a review about Monkey Forest and they were upset that we had monkeys. So, yeah, primarily it was monkeys. So we responded. I respond to every review because I find the feedback so useful, because we have the luxury that a lot of businesses who are listening or people are from organisations going to be jealous of this. We're closed over winter, so November to February. We have a strategic analysis of the business for me as well, marketing activity. I do all my strategy over winter, implement it spring and summer. Josh Torlop: So anyway, we love our feedback, we love receiving the feedback. And this week, it's the first time in nearly four years where I've been stumped for words. I didn't know what to say to this person because we have got monkeys. So our response went viral. We said something along the lines of, "Yes, we're a monkey forest. So primarily there are monkeys. Sorry, don't know how to answer this." Oz Austwick: It just leaves me wondering how they found you. Josh Torlop: Yeah, because if you. Oz Austwick: Our SEO must be formed pictures of monkey and the website site is covered in pictures of monkeys and it's called monkey forest. Josh Torlop: Can't please everyone. Right. I'm not sure, to be fair, I'd love for him to reach out because, yeah, it has gone viral. I feel bad for the chap who's done the review because he must be a bit upset with all the attention he's got from a review because he's a paying visitor at the end of the day and he probably had a great time, but. Oz Austwick: You'd hope so, but not if you don't like monkeys, I guess. Josh Torlop: Yeah. So. But, yeah, it was in the mail, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, all the national news pretty much this week. So it kept me on my toes and busy. And that's when it's hard as a team of one, is to manage things that go viral. Oz Austwick: I guess at that point you're getting a lot of people trying to contact you and get comments from you for their articles. So what they're putting out is a little bit different. Josh Torlop: Well, no, to be fair, everything's been consistent so far, but it is a lot of marketing, and PR is controlling narratives and making sure that the content or whatever's being put out is in line with what you're trying to achieve. And obviously PR has that challenge and I like to think that PR is sort of my bag. So I love to do PR. It's something that I've always been interested in. I did a journalism degree at university, so I love the PR element of the job and storytelling. So from that, I'm sure fellow PRs that are listening will understand. When something goes viral, it's a little dreaded demon in the back of your mind where you're like, "Oh, God, it's gone viral." Oz Austwick: It's probably good. Josh Torlop: Probably good. But I've got a lot of answers to come up with. But, yeah, it's great for the business and we're a lovely bunch here. So if anyone does something great, people do tell you, and it's really nice, and it's such a wonderful place to work. Even the head guides, they have a bit of bands with me. I like to call them Anton Deck, the two head guides. So it's Aliya, the Venice, and it's daydream. 20 years. Well, 19 years, but yeah. So Aliyah gave me a lot of banter. Scene. What has he done now? He's made it busy for bank holiday. We're gonna be knackered. But, yeah, it's all good fun. It's all good banter. Oz Austwick: So what's next? Where do we go at Trentham Monkey Forest? What's the future look like? Josh Torlop: I want to do another Valentine's Day PR stunts. I want to do Netflix and chill, so I want to set up play screen for the monkeys. May play a bit of Titanic or love, actually. But, yeah, I just want to carry on going, getting as much awareness of the park as possible, hitting the right noises, bringing a load of visitors in who have a great time and do more things like this, because this is brilliant and I've really appreciated you coming in, having a chat. Oz Austwick: It's a joy. It feels a little bit like it's not work. I'm feeling very lucky today, so thank you very much for having me. Josh Torlop: Thank you. I think I've bored the monkeys because they've all gone. They've all legged it. Oz Austwick: I am wondering where they've gone. Before we wrap it up, we try and finish every episode with a book recommendation. Josh Torlop: Brilliant. I think I need to be on brand here, even though there are monkeys here and they're not apes, but I'm gonna recommend the Chimp Paradox. Can't remember who it's by, but it's a great book. It's all about controlling your inner chimp as a human and controlling your emotions and making sure you don't react emotionally too much to things. Because I like to think I wear my heart on my sleeve and it's good to make sure that you're keeping control of your emotions and making sure that you know, if anything happens, you're doing a great job, everything's going well in life. Chill out. And not being too hard on yourself. Oz Austwick: Amazing. Well, if you'd like a copy, head over to X and retweet us and say that you would like Josh's book. Josh Torlop: I didn't write it. Josh's book. Josh's book. Oz Austwick: We call it Josh's book. Yeah. Thanks so much. I really appreciate having you on board. And for letting me come and hang out with your monkeys. Josh Torlop: There you go. Thanks very much. Appreciate you coming down. Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast. 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When do you seize the opportunity and make the move? What should you consider before you take the leap? How do you adjust to the changes that come? In this episode we're talking to Lee Turner-Conn about what to consider when making a big career move. Lee is Head of Americas for the Index Investments Group at FTSE Russell which is part of the London Stock Exchange. Lee has over 20 years' experience in financial services. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University in Business Management with an emphasis on international studies. She currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her English husband Matt and 12 year old twins Fletcher and Clementine. There is also a miniature schnauzer named Winnie and a regal cat named Sir Duke. Kristine Delano guides the conversation about how to make the move and navigate career transitions. Follow on Instagram kristine.delano.writer Visit www.womeninetfs.com to find additional support in the ETF industry. Go to www.kristinedelano.com for your Thrive Guide: a compilation of the most requested and insightful advice from our guests on Leadership and Advancement.
Andrew and Diamond finally get to an album they've been looking forward to since launching the podcast, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Everyone knows at least a few of the numerous hits from Songs in the Key of Life — "Isn't She Lovely," "I Wish," "Sir Duke," "As" — but as Andrew and Diamond learn, Stevie Wonder's 1976 opus is packed with funk, soul, jazz and salient social commentary from track 1 to track 21. Just 26 years old at the time of its release, Songs was the 18th (!) studio album of Stevie's recording career, and he was as inspired as ever. Andrew and Diamond discuss why the album is so vital and how they each wish they found it sooner!Subscribe so you don't miss an episode of At First Listen!Connect with the show via Instagram at @AtFirstListenPodcast.
This week on Sinica, Iza Ding, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, joins to share her ideas on how American academia has framed and problematized authoritarianism, especially when it comes to China. A deep and subtle thinker, she offers thought-provoking critiques of some of the assumptions that have become nearly axiomatic in political science and other social sciences in their approach to understanding politics in China.3:13 – Iza Ding's concept of “authoritarian teleology”15:31 – The concept of authoritarian resilience 19:58 – The question of regime legitimacy 24:09 – The question of whether authoritarianism is an ideology 26:24 – The China model? 30:58 – Finding a balance between generalizability and the sui generis, and striving toward cognitive empathy and “Verstehen” 42:04 – The state of area studies and avoiding essentialism 49:32 – Iza Ding's advice on how to become a better writer Recommendations:Iza: The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner — the story of Alison, the Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Kaiser: the guitarist Kent Nishimura, especially his recordings of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears, “Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by The Police, and “Hey Nineteen” by Steely Dan See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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durée : 00:04:15 - Tubes N' Co - par : Rebecca Manzoni, Ilinca Negulesco - Nous sommes en 1976 et ça fait trois ans que Stevie Wonder bosse sur le disque où figure cette chanson. Des centaines et des centaines d'heures de studio pour accoucher du double album "Songs in the Key of Life", qui s'ouvre donc avec la chanson "Sir Duke". Si je vous parle d'un type qui peut marcher sur l'eau, vous voyez qui je veux dire ? Eh bien c'est lui : Stevie Wonder, afro-américain, aveugle, effectivement doté de superpouvoirs puisqu'en 1976, il a déjà : révolutionné la musique mondiale, commis deux albums chefs-d'ouvre au moins. Et donc. C'est pas fini. En 1976, Stevie Wonder a 26 ans et les musiciens qui l'accompagnent ont la vingtaine comme lui. Cette chanson, "Sir Duke", c'est aussi ça : l'excitation et l'enthousiasme d'une jeunesse gravés sur disque. Les musiciens ont intérêt à se pointer au studio à l'heure parce que sinon : la batterie, la basse, les claviers, Stevie a déjà tout enregistré tout seul ! Il y a donc une frénésie dans cette bulle qu'est un studio d'enregistrement, alors qu'au dehors, le pays a la gueule de bois. En 1976, les Etats-Unis sortent de la guerre du Vietnam et du scandale du Watergate. Et en France, sur TF1, Roger Gicquel annonce dans son JT le fameux : "La France a peur, je crois qu'on peut le dire aussi nettement". Au seum de l'Occident, Stevie Wonder oppose une joie pleine Et quel serait le message de Stevie Wonder avec sa musique ? Que la résignation, ça n'est pas d'actu. Que bientôt, viendront les jours meilleurs. Qu'il est question de courir ou de marcher mais dans tous les cas : avancer. Avancer quoiqu'il arrive, c'est la teneur d'un discours de Martin Luther King. Plus précisément, ce titre, "Sir Duke" est un hommage à Duke Ellington. Stevie Wonder l'a écrit peu après la mort du jazzman en 1974. "Sir" + "Duke", c'est la noblesse au carré, célébrée par un gars qui, lui-même, s'est fait surnommer "Stevie la merveille". Ça en fait du beau monde. D'autant que le texte de Wonder fait défiler d'autres noms, comme un générique de prestige qui réunit des génies de la musique : Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie. Le refrain de ce morceau proclame que la musique est un truc universel. Une langue que tout le monde connaît, même sans l'avoir apprise. Et donc ça se partage, en collectif. C'est bête comme chou hein ? Mais quand même, ça fait vachement de bien. - réalisé par : Khoï NGUYEN
Justin Cotler and Scott count down the top 5 Stevie Wonder Songs of all time in their Opinion. We want you to come with yours as well.
Recorded over two years, the album is arguably Stevie's finest hour and is also one of the greatest albums of all time as it contains hit after hit. “Sir Duke”, “I Wish”, “Pastime Paradise”, “Isn't She Lovely”, “As” and “Another Star” are all included making this truly a masterpiece. To make an album that doesn't contain an average song is hard enough, let alone doing it on a double album as Stevie has done here. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com
Who's the greatest musical prodigy of all time? Stevie Wonder has a claim. He also has a claim to the greatest album of all time with Songs in the Key of Life, which lands at #4 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums list. For this episode, we're joined by the wonderful Charles Day - physicist, journalist and Stevie Wonder admirer - to discuss the sort of genius who can make a 1.5 hour double album feel like a 30 minute jaunt through just about every style of music.Leave comments on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook at @rrmusicpod or visit our website at recordroulettepodcast.com.Runtime: 54 minutesMusic by lemonmusicstudio from Pixabay.
Stevie Wonders Musikalität scheint kaum Grenzen zu kennen: als Sänger, Multiinstrumentalist, als Komponist, als Innovator von Sounds, als Weiterentwickler von Soul und Popmusik. Ein Hitlieferant über Jahrzehnte, bewundert, verehrt und hochdekoriert mit allen wichtigen Auszeichnungen der Branche. Im ersten Teil der Urban Pop-Folge zu Stevie Wonder sprechen Peter Urban und Ocke Bandixen über seine Kindheit als Kinderstar „Little Stevie Wonder“. Im Motown-Kosmos emanzipierte er sich Anfang der 70er Jahre mit eigenen Kompositionen. Wie Marvin Gaye oder Curtis Mayfield entwickelte er das Musikalbum als Gefäß für Gesellschaftskritik und schwarzes Selbstbewusstsein und prangerte Missstände wie Rassismus und fehlende Chancengleichzeit an. In wenigen Jahren schuf Stevie Wonder, neben zahllosen Hits, mit seinen Alben bis 1976 einen neuen Sound, eine neue Popmusik, grundiert aus Blues, Soul und Jazz, aber weiterentwickelt mit Synthesizern und seiner eigenen Virtuosität, Klänge zu erfinden und zu Liedern zusammenzufassen. „Sir Duke“, „You are the sunshine of my life”, “Isn´t she lovely”, “Superstition” – bis zum 76-Album “Songs in the key of life” türmten sich die weltweit erfolgreichen Lieder auf. Stevie Wonder bekam Grammys in diesen Jahren wie kein anderer und definierte die Grenzen der Popmusik neu. Gerade „Songs in the key of life” gilt bis heute als eines der wichtigsten Alben der Popmusik-Geschichte. Im zweiten Teil geht es unter anderem um Stevie Wonders Erfolgsalbum ‚Hotter than July‘ und sein politisches Engagement gegen Armut und Rassismus. Ihr findet diese Folge hier ab dem 22. September. Peters Playlist für Stevie Wonder: The 12-Year-Old Genius - Recorded Live (1963): Fingertips Uptight (1965): Uptight Down To Earth (1966): A place in the sun, Hey love I Was Made To Love Her (1967): I was made to love her, Send me some lovin‘ Greatest Hits (1968): I‘m wondering For once in my life (1968): For once in my life, Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day, You met your match, I don't know why My Cherie Amour (1969): My cherie amour Signed, Sealed, Delivered (1970): We can work it out, Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours, Heaven help us all, Sugar Where I'm Coming From (1971): Look around, Do yourself a favour, Something out oft he blue, If you really love me Music Of My Mind (1972): Love having you around, Superwoman, I love every little thing about you, Happier than the morning sun, Keep on running, Evil Taliking Book (1972): das gesamte Album Innervisions (1973): das gesamte Album Fullfillingness First Finale (1974): das gesamte Album Songs In The Key Of Life (1976): das gesamte Doppelalbum plus extra EP Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants (1979): Send one your love Hotter Than July (1980): Did I hear you say you love me, All I do, Master Blaster (Jammin‘), Lately, Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I (1982): Frontline, Ribbon in the sky, Do I do In Square Circle (1985): Go home, Overjoyed, It's worng (Apartheid) Characters (1987): Skeletons, Get it (mit Michael Jackson), Free Conversation Peace (1995): For your love A Time To Love (2005): Moon blue, From the bottom of my heart, Shelter in the rain, So what the fuss (mit Prince, En Vogue), A time to love (mit India Arie) Singles: Where is our love song (2020), Can't put it in the hands of fate (2020)
Conway tries out new theme songs // More theme songs Sir Duke, Desperado and The Gambler // 210 closure last night / Pursuit 110 NB robbery suspect / Burger King impossible chicken / McDonalds Chicken Big Mac / Flying Tomato's Mac Plant // Pizza places / fast food diet / blaze pizza experience / cros dad almost in Fleetwood mac
durée : 00:04:19 - Tubes N' Co - par : Rebecca Manzoni, Ilinca Negulesco - Nous sommes en 1976 et ça fait trois ans que Stevie Wonder bosse sur le disque où figure cette chanson. Des centaines et des centaines d'heures de studio pour accoucher du double album "Songs in the Key of Life", qui s'ouvre donc avec la chanson "Sir Duke". Si je vous parle d'un type qui peut marcher sur l'eau, vous voyez qui je veux dire ? Eh bien c'est lui : Stevie Wonder, afro-américain, aveugle, effectivement doté de superpouvoirs puisqu'en 1976, il a déjà : révolutionné la musique mondiale, commis deux albums chefs-d'ouvre au moins. Et donc. C'est pas fini. En 1976, Stevie Wonder a 26 ans et les musiciens qui l'accompagnent ont la vingtaine comme lui. Cette chanson, "Sir Duke", c'est aussi ça : l'excitation et l'enthousiasme d'une jeunesse gravés sur disque. Les musiciens ont intérêt à se pointer au studio à l'heure parce que sinon : la batterie, la basse, les claviers, Stevie a déjà tout enregistré tout seul ! Il y a donc une frénésie dans cette bulle qu'est un studio d'enregistrement, alors qu'au dehors, le pays a la gueule de bois. En 1976, les Etats-Unis sortent de la guerre du Vietnam et du scandale du Watergate. Et en France, sur TF1, Roger Gicquel annonce dans son JT le fameux : "La France a peur, je crois qu'on peut le dire aussi nettement". Au seum de l'Occident, Stevie Wonder oppose une joie pleine Et quel serait le message de Stevie Wonder avec sa musique ? Que la résignation, ça n'est pas d'actu. Que bientôt, viendront les jours meilleurs. Qu'il est question de courir ou de marcher mais dans tous les cas : avancer. Avancer quoiqu'il arrive, c'est la teneur d'un discours de Martin Luther King. Plus précisément, ce titre, "Sir Duke" est un hommage à Duke Ellington. Stevie Wonder l'a écrit peu après la mort du jazzman en 1974. "Sir" + "Duke", c'est la noblesse au carré, célébrée par un gars qui, lui-même, s'est fait surnommer "Stevie la merveille". Ça en fait du beau monde. D'autant que le texte de Wonder fait défiler d'autres noms, comme un générique de prestige qui réunit des génies de la musique : Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie. Le refrain de ce morceau proclame que la musique est un truc universel. Une langue que tout le monde connaît, même sans l'avoir apprise. Et donc ça se partage, en collectif. C'est bête comme chou hein ? Mais quand même, ça fait vachement de bien. - réalisé par : Khoï NGUYEN
In this episode, we're joined by Patreon Playlister Philip Bergman, and Ed Cunard of the Greatest Song Every Sung (Poorly) Podcast, to make the case for our respective Motown playlists! Vote now for YOUR favorite playlists, hear the results of past episodes & listen to ALL of the playlists at: http://www.playlistwarspodcast.com If you'd like to support Playlist Wars, then consider becoming a Patreon subscriber: http://www.patreon.com/playlistwars. Tiers include: Patreon exclusive content; early access to ad-free episodes; & join the show as a guest for a "Playlist An Album" mini episode or a full-length episode! SONGS DISCUSSED INCLUDE The Contours - Do You Love Me?; Bobby Darrin - Happy; The Four Seasons - The Night; The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch); The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine; Jackson 5 - ABC & I'll Be There; Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It Takes Two; Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine & Inner City Blues / Make Me Wanna Holler; Rare Earth - Get Ready; Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street, Heat Wave & Nowhere To Run; Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown & You Really Got A Hold On Me; Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted; The Supremes - Reflections, Stop! In The Name Of Love & Stoned Love; The Temptations - I Wish it Would Rain & My Girl; Stevie Wonder - Place In The Sun, Sir Duke & Superstition; The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes; & Mary Wells - My Guy CONNECT WITH PLAYLIST WARS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/playlistwars Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playlistwars Twitter: http://twitter.com/playlistwars Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playlistwarspodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@playlistwars FOR MORE ON ROCK HALL MONITORS Website: https://rockhallmonitors.blogspot.com/ FOR MORE ON THE GREATEST SONG EVER SUNG (POORLY) PODCAST Website: https://www.sungpoorly.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sungpoorly/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SungPoorly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sungpoorly/
Wie of wat ben je nog zonder buitenwereld en zonder idee van wat komen gaat? In haar nieuwste voorstelling Apocalyps (Toneelschuur Producties) zoekt regisseur Nita Kersten het antwoord op deze vraag. Met huisdramaturg Tom Helmer praat ze over het ontwikkelen van een creatief concept tijdens de coronacrisis, haar tijd bij theatercollectief Sir Duke en het moederschap, waarover Nita in 2023 een Bellevue lunchproductie maakt. Credits Interview: Tom Helmer Opnameleiding en edit: Josephine Scholte Foto: Nienke Veneboer Spoken word: Mike Warners 26 t/m 28 mei - Theater Bellevue www.theaterbellevue.nl/apocalyps
Welcome to our 16th episode of Tales of Crisis. We are back to our usual hosts and cover the Spring into Marvel event at element games where Martin takes his Midnight Sons and Chalmers gives his Cabl list a run out. If you want anything specific covered in future episodes or have any listener questions then give us a shout and we will look to plan it in. If you want to catch us then we can be found on Twitter and Instagram: Martin - @martinswaffield Chalmers - @talesofwargames For great discounts on MCP character boxes check out our new sponsor The Bearded Card Trader https://www.thebeardedcardtrader.com/#/
durée : 00:04:19 - Tubes N' Co - par : Rebecca Manzoni, Ilinca Negulesco - Nous sommes en 1976 et ça fait trois ans que Stevie Wonder bosse sur le disque où figure cette chanson. Des centaines et des centaines d'heures de studio pour accoucher du double album “Songs in the Key of Life”, qui s'ouvre donc avec la chanson "Sir Duke". - réalisé par : Khoï NGUYEN
It was a past-due honor April 1, as PAWS for Service in San Antonio posthumously recognized the life and service of “Sir Duke” with a Lifetime Achievement Award. PAWS — Pets Are Wonderful Support — presented the recognition to William and Arlene Wimp of San Antonio, who adopted Sir Duke from the Passion for Paws Memorial Animal Shelter in Nixon in June 2014, after the shelter rescued the Scottish rough collie from a local kill shelter, according to Patsy Scherrer with Passion for Paws. He went from being rescued to rescuing others, serving as a comfort therapy dog in hospitals,...Article Link
William Elliott Whitmore "Not Feeling Any Pain"Possessed By Paul James "There Will Be Nights When I'm Lonely"Cat Power "Living Proof"The Supremes "Having A Party"Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke"The Gaslight Anthem "Miles Davis & The Cool"Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson "Take It To The Limit"Gillian Welch "Wrecking Ball"Grateful Dead "The Music Never Stopped"Adam Faucett "Melanie"Mavis Staples "You Got To Move"John Prine "Middle Man"David Ramirez "People Call Who They Wanna Talk To"Jake Xerxes Fussell "Love Farewell"The Shangri-Las "Sophisticated Boom Boom"Emmylou Harris "C'est La Vie"Branford Marsalis "Scenes In the City"Swamp Dogg "She Got That Fire"Sly & The Family Stone "Sing a Simple Song"Talking Heads "Swamp"Stevie Wonder "I Wish"Charles Mingus "Mood Indigo"The White Stripes "You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)"Otis Redding "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher"J Roddy Walston & The Business "I'll Tell You What"Nina Simone "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me"Joni Mitchell "Blue"The Gaslight Anthem "High Lonesome"Richard Swift "Beautiful Heart"The Hold Steady "Your Little Hoodrat Friend"The Mountain Goats "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton"fIREHOSE "Sometimes"Jack Logan "All Grown Up"Jeff Tweedy "Love Is the King"Aimee Mann "Nothing Is Good Enough"Doc & Merle Watson "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia"Precious Bryant "You Can Have My Husband"Kris Kristofferson "This Old Road"Aimee Mann "Pavlov's Bell"John R. Miller "Coming Down"Jeannie C. Riley "Satan Place"Dan Penn "Memphis Women And Chicken"Dolly Parton "Jolene"Jerry Jeff Walker "Gettin' By"Valerie June "Use Me
Jazz is America's music. It is America's sole original form of art, yet it had declined in popularity by the 1970s to the point that some musicians resisted even being associated with it. Still, jazz's influence was felt in popular music by bands like Chicago and Steely Dan. These bands were able to evoke the spirit of jazz while presenting their music in a form that was easier for music fans to accept and interpret. Perhaps no tribute to jazz in the 70s was greater than Stevie Wonder's “Sir Duke,” which paid homage to Duke Ellington and others who, in the words of Wonder, “gave us something that is supposed to be forever.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amy-lively/message
Today we offer a quote from jazz royalty -- bandleader, composer, pianist, performer -- the one and only Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington in continued celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth.To learn more about Sir Duke, read his 1973 autobiography Music is My Mistress, the 1995 biography Beyond Category: The Genius of Duke Ellington, 2016's Duke Ellington: An American Composer and Icon and 2022's Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear.Sources:https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-a-jazz-musician-shook-up-classical-music/83523/https://www.songhall.org/profile/Duke_Ellingtonhttps://jazzfuel.com/duke-ellington-biography/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/obsessed-with-duke-ellington-one-man-is-determined-to-illuminate-the-jazz-composers-stunning-output/2021/02/11/dac47244-60de-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.htmlhttps://jazztimes.com/features/columns/duke-ellington-artist-of-the-century/https://theconversation.com/duke-ellingtons-melodies-carried-his-message-of-social-justice-115602https://www.masterclass.com/articles/duke-ellingtons-life-and-music#4-characteristics-of-duke-ellingtons-musicFollow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.
This week's guest Bob Fay (Sebadoh, Deluxx, Cardinal) has played on a wide swath of punk/indie releases, so it makes perfect sense that the album he chose to discuss was 'Songs in the Key of Life' by Stevie Wonder, right? Right?? Both Elton John and Michael Jackson sited it as a personal favorite, and Prince simply called it the best album ever recorded - so Bob may be onto something... Songs featured in this episode: Temptation Tide, Ocean - Sebadoh; Glory Halleloo - Reverend Blind Gary Davis; Love's in Need of Love Today, Have a Talk With God, Village Ghetto Land, Contusion, Sir Duke, I Wish, Knocks Me Off My Feet - Stevie Wonder; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; Maniac - Michael Sembello; Split Red - Minutemen; Gangster's Paradise - Coolio; Summer Soft, Ordinary Pain, Isn't She Lovely, Joy Inside My Tears, Black Man, As - Stevie Wonder; Paper Planes - M.I.A.; Take The A Train - Duke Ellington; Sforzando! - Sebadoh
Bryan Burkert is an entrepreneur and owner of many Baltimore small businesses including The Sound Garden, The Get Down and Sir Duke.ABOUT SoundgardenIt began back in 1993 in Baltimore, Maryland and since then we've been the recipients of over 50 Best-Of record store awards. In 2014 we were voted the 2nd best record store in the United States by Rolling Stone Magazine. The Sound Garden, located in historic Fells Point in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1993 in a tiny space across the street from our current locations. Our little independent music store quickly established itself as the award-winning Baltimore's Best Independent Record Store. In 1994, The Sound Garden moved into its present location - a 6000+ square foot warehouse - where we proudly carry an immense and eclectic selection of music, movies and really cool stuff.Why are we different from other independent record stores and independent music stores? Quite simply - because of the amazing selection of used and new Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, LPs, video games and Blu-Rays we can offer to our always satisfied customers. We stock over 100,000 new and used CDs and DVDs. In addition to having the hot new releases, we carry a variety of imports, obscure and rare titles, and releases from smaller independent labels...at ridiculously low prices! We also sell posters, t-shirts, stickers, books and other random wonderful finds. We are a team of curators. We are 20 year plus Record Store folks, who live to discover and share what moves us with you.If you're looking for something that we don't carry, we'll be glad to order it for you. Special orders can be placed at no additional cost to you and usually arrive within a week. We also invite you to listen to nearly any title in the store before you buy it; just ask one of our music experts who will gladly assist - with no pressure to buy! Visit the Baltimore location (or our Syracuse location) and find out why we've won numerous accolades, including "Best Record Store" from Baltimore Magazine and from the City Paper.Mentioned in this episode:The Sound GardenAkio EvansSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or listen on my website, follow on Instagram (where I am most active), like on Facebook, or email mtrthenetwork@gmail.com!Be sure to check out our other podcasts:Mastermind Team's Robcast - Mastermind Team's Robcast is an irreverent and hilarious podcast covering all things pop culture and weird news. Let's Watch It Again - Let's Watch It Again is a movie review podcast from MTR The Network.★ Support this podcast ★
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that interracial couples could not be denied the right to marry one another. Also in 1967, Kevin Hofmann's White mother was married to a White man and pregnant by her Black lover during the year of the Detroit Riots. She had the baby, agreeing to put the child up for adoption to maintain her marriage. Kevin Hoffman was quickly adopted by a White family living in Dearborn, MI. While the family welcomed Kevin with open arms, the community welcomed him with a cross burning on the adopting parents lawn. The variety of experiences Kevin had growing up biracial in both a majority Black neighborhood and later another majority White neighborhood honed his understanding of race relations and commitment to empowering diversity in schools, businesses and society at large. Listen in on his unique perspective. Kevin Hofmann is a diversity and inclusion trainer and speaker, as well as the author of Growing up Black in White. Favorite song is Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder. Favorite words: “Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter." - African proverb BTW, 365 Brothers in the top 25 of Feedspot's Best 100 Black Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021. We are #24! Instagram @365brothers Facebook at 365BrothersThePodcast. Are you our next guest? - Let's talk. Support us! 365 Brothers on Patreon. Special thanks to our earliest and consistent supporters, Sonji Walker, Abigail Gonzalez, William C. Hamilton, Jr. and Shedrick Sanders!!! Check out Alitu for more ease editing, polishing and publishing your podcast. About this podcast: In each episode, a Brother reflects on his life; explores the experience of being a Black man in America; shares his interactions with law enforcement; and answers the signature question "If America was a woman, what would you say to her? You won't find a collection of conversations with Black men like this anywhere else. Hear their wisdom. Be inspired. Host, Rahbin Shyne, is an author, educator, creative and avid half-marathon walker.
This episode, Aaron welcomes Mykel Illa into the studio. They discuss music, video games and art, being sure of oneself, and his band Delta Avenue. They also discuss his beginning in music and acting. Falco stops by the show, and Aaron r eads some poetry. They also listen to Stevie Wonders, Sir Duke, on vinyl.
Features Natural Wonder with Master Blaster, Signed Sealed Delivered, Overjoyed, Pastime Paradise, Higher Ground, My Cherie Amour, Sir Duke, I Wish, I Just Called To Say I Love You, Living For The City, Superstition, Love's In Need Of Love Today, and Another Star.
Wherein I recount a jam session gig featuring "Sir Duke" in the key of A, and a road trip to Napa, CA, on very little sleep for a fundraiser where I enjoyed a brief encounter with a drug-addled maniac. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ivan-bodley/support
Jeff welcomes Nick “Duke” Frasher in to discuss his journey into and through the fantasy sports industry. Duke gives out his advice for anybody starting out in any industry and tips for moving up the ladder quickly. The guys reminisce on the first time they met and how Duke’s persistence paid off with a job at Guru Elite. Duke discusses where the advantages are in betting on and playing DFS soccer and why the sport continues to spin its wheels in the United States. They also break down how to make a profit betting on the UFC and the advantages of whether betting or DFS is more advantageous for smaller sports. From unpaid internships to the “be cool” method and so much more, you can’t miss Mans & Duke reunited.
If Stevie Wonder had never released "Songs in the Key of Life," we'd still be talking about him as one of the greatest -- if not THE greatest -- musician the United States ever produced. But, thankfully, he did. Look at any "best albums of all time list," and this double-album masterpiece is guaranteed to be close to the top. And for good reason. Yes, it contains hits and standards that we all know ("Isn't She Lovely?" and "Sir Duke" come to mind), but even those are layered with intricate mixes; instrumentation; percussion; new, innovative (for the time) instruments; and engaging and introspective lyrics. More than 100 people contributed to the album, but this album is all Stevie Wonder. (He even plays all the instruments on some songs.) It's his magnum opus. And it's glorious.
David Dwork of WPLG Local 10 joins the show to talk about the Panthers 18-5-4 start.
David Dwork of WPLG Local 10 joins the show to talk about the Panthers 18-5-4 start.
For our second ever artist deep dive, we ascend to higher ground with the Captain of Clavinet; the Hotshot of Harmonica; the Champion of the Charts: the genius and the virtuoso himself, Stevie Wonder. Our categories for today's episode will guide you through his biography, bringing you facts, figures, some love and hate for Barry Gordy, and a whole lot of Wonder: (1) The Little Stevie Wonder era (2) The early Tamla/Motown era (3) The classic era (4) The later era (5) Best Stevie Wonder song Links mentioned in the episode: - Jacob Collier's "Sir Duke” analysis on Vox - Stevie Wonder playing a drum solo - Slate's “Wonder Week"
What is rhythm? Well, it's basically the way you put sounds and silences in music together! Rhythm is what makes you walk by a drum playing and has you tapping your foot, nodding your head, snapping your finger, or moving your shoulders a bit. While beat is the foundation for all music, the rhythm is layered right on top of it to connect the notes and rests together to make music become, well music! Listen in to the episode to find out more about rhythm and how you can explore it! Here's a version of "Sir Duke" you can listen to. Listen to a free piano lesson by Jessica here. Sign up for the Learn Piano At Home course here. Grab your free "Homeschool Music Education Starter Guide" here. Check out the blog, resources, and other content to help your child learn music on this page. I'd love for you to leave a rating and a review of the podcast on I-tunes, share the podcast with any music teacher friends who would find it helpful, and be sure to tag me on Instagram or Facebook
Have you heard the words "steady beat" being said a lot, but you're just not quite sure what it means? In this episode, I'm explaining exactly what a steady beat is and why it's important to start here when it comes to teaching kids music... yes even at home. The steady beat: Is the pulse and is constant Keeps the music moving along Helps instruments in the orchestra or band stay together Can be felt in many different ways Has strong and weak beats Is the foundational building block Here's a version of "Sir Duke" you can listen to. Listen to a free piano lesson by Jessica here. Sign up for the Learn Piano At Home course here. Grab your free "Homeschool Music Education Starter Guide" here. Check out the blog, resources, and other content to help your child learn music on this page. I'd love for you to leave a rating and a review of the podcast on I-tunes, share the podcast with any music teacher friends who would find it helpful, and be sure to tag me on Instagram or Facebook
Speciaal voor Keti Koti: een live versie van de Plantagesong van Orkater/Sir Duke uit hun voorstelling Hatta & De Kom. Live opgenomen op het Black Achievement Gala in Theater De La Mar. Met Dionne Verwey, Francesca Pichel, Gery Mendes en Vernon Chatlein. Hatta & de Kom werd verder gemaakt met Esther Duysker (tekst) en Nita Kersten (regie). "Terug in Amsterdam vinden wij alle straten terug, die de VOC en de WIC weergeven." In een muzikale en ritmische theaterdocumentaire duikt Orkater/Sir Duke in de geschiedenis van haar diaspora en brengt de vergeten verhalen van twee overzeese verzetsstrijders tot leven. Met Caribische klanken en de mysterieuze sound van Indonesië neemt Sir Duke het publiek mee op reis naar het vooroorlogse koloniale Holland, waarin de Surinaamse Anton de Kom en de Indonesische Mohammed Hatta strijden voor zelfstandigheid van hun land. Tijdens een verblijf in Nederland in de jaren twintig kruisen zij elkaars pad. Die ontmoeting brengt hen tot een gezamenlijk gedachtegoed dat een bron van inspiratie bleek voor het verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Even though he was at the top of his game Stevie Wonder almost retired to work with handicapped children in Ghana before this album was made. Instead, he signed what was then the largest recording deal in history, and released what many consider the best of his classic era — the double album Songs in the Key of Life. This album was released in late September, debuted at number 1 (the first artist other than Elton John to do so), and remained there for 13 weeks.“Songs in the Key of Life” was nominated for seven Grammy Awards in 1977, and won Album of the Year, returning Wonder to the stage for the third time after his wins in 1974 and 1975. The album is full of passion and politics, jazz and funk, and can be nostalgic or melancholy without losing an upbeat feel all the way through. This album really gives you a sense of the multi-talented artist, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, harmonica player, and producer that is Stevie Wonder. He surely has been an influence in Rock and Roll and we are pleased to present this amazing work.I WishThis is the lead-off single from the album. It was released a month after the album hit the stores, and takes a nostalgic look back on Wonder's childhood in the 1950's and early 60's.AsIt was a full year after the album was released that this song made its appearance as a single. The song describes how long the singer's love will last in terms like “until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea...until the day that eight times eight times eight is four.” It flips between major and minor keys, but maintains its positive attitude throughout.Summer SoftA deeper cut, this track uses the metaphor of summer and winter to describe loss and transience in relationships. There are a lot of key changes and chord progressions that are classically Stevie Wonder, and he uses them well to give the song a feeling of things constantly moving and changing, which reinforces the theme.Sir DukeStevie Wonder pays tribute to his musical heroes in this well known song. “There's Basie, Miller, Satchmo, and the king of all, Sir Duke. And with a voice like Ella's ringing out, there's no way the band can lose.” ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:The theme from the television series “Quincy, M.E.” Jack Klugman would leave behind his role in “The Odd Couple” to play a starring role as a medical examiner in this show which hit the airwaves much earlier than the popular forensic shows of today. STAFF PICKS:“Crystal Ball” by StyxWayne features Alabama native Tommy Shaw as writer and lead singer on this Styx classic. Shaw had recently joined the band, and this song would be the title track from their album. It discusses getting a glimpse of your future when life is confusing.“Let 'em In” by Paul McCartney and WingsRob's staff pick is from one of the biggest musicians at the time in his ex-Beatles days. McCartney references members of his real family in this song, then includes Martin Luther, Phil and Don (The Everly Brothers), Uncle Ernie (from the rock opera "Tommy").“Getaway” by Earth, Wind, & FireBrian's staff pick returns to some funky R&B from Earth, Wind & Fire's album “Spirit.” The song was written for a flute player named Bobbi Humphrey, but the demo never made it to her.“Lowdown” by Boz ScaggsBruce features the first major hit from Boz Scaggs. It was co-written by Scaggs and his keyboardist David Paich. Scaggs' session musicians would later on form the band Toto. The genre is a little disco, a little funk, and has been described as blue-eyed soul.INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:“A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter MurphyThis disco take on Beethoven's 5th Symphony was very popular on the dance floors and skating rinks of 1976.
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Darren talks to Elliott Wallace about the final track from side A of Songs in the Key of Life, Sir Duke.
Erklärung zum Titel Stevie Wonder hat Sir Duke 1976 veröffentlicht - im Album "Songs in the Key of Life" Der Songtext befasst sich mit Duke Ellington (Sire Duke), einem berühmten Jazzpianisten und Bigbandleiter, der 1974 verstarb. Stevie Wonder und Duke Ellington kannten sich, waren befreundet, und Stevie Wonder verehrte Ellingtons Musik sehr. Die Musik selber ist eine Mischung zwischen Discorhythmen, Soulsounds und jazzigen Instrumentallinien und Harmonien, mit vielen Chromatischen Bewegungen. Das berühmte Instrumentalsolo, mit dem wir uns hier befassen, ist in der Big-Bandtradition geschrieben, wird dort meist "Shout-Chorus" genannt, der Höhepunkt des Stückes. In diesem Part spielen Bass, Gitarre und Bläser unisono - also ohne Harmonien - einstimmig - manchmal in Oktaven versetzt - die Linien. Das Stück ist in klingend H-Dur geschrieben: Für Altsaxofonisten also As-Dur, für Tenorsaxofonisten Cis-Dur. Das Tempo liegt ungefähr bei 104 bpm und ist so gewählt, dass man das Solo noch im Swingstil (man spricht von geshuffelten Sechzehntelnoten) spielen kann. So übst du das Solo am schnellsten: Tonleiter üben und Dreiklänge üben Zunächst musst du die jeweilige Tonleiter möglichst sicher beherrschen. Die Finger müssen automatisch laufen. Du darfst nicht mehr an Vorzeichen denken. Ziel der vorgeschlagenen Übungen ist deine "Wendigkeit" in As-Dur. Du sollst auf jedem Ton umkehren können, du sollst die Dreiklänge automatisch-auswendig spielen können usw. Deshalb empfehle ich nicht die Tonleiter auf- und abwärts zu spielen sondern die Tonfolgen in kleinen Gruppen (Dreier- und Vierergruppen) kreisen zu lassen. In diesen Automatismus kommst du am besten mit Wiederholungen von kleinen Gruppen: Dreiergruppen und Vierergruppen sind am besten geeignet. In Dreiergruppen im Kreis In Vierergruppen im Kreis Terzsprünge in der Tonleiter Dreiklänge im Kreis üben Vierklänge im Kreis üben Tonika-Dreiklang mit Umkehrungen üben Dominant-Dreiklang mit Umkehrungen üben Sir Duke Instrumentalteil Anhören - melodieweise Die Melodie besteth zum Großteil aus klingend H-Dur-Pentatonik Dazu gibt es zwei chromatische Durchgänge in der 2. Teilmelodie Gesamtes Solo in Teilmelodien zerlegen Artikulation genau feststellen und einhalten Tonfolge der einzelnen Teilmelodien: 5x (beim 5x auswendig) - Töne immer voraus hören! Im Achtelmetrum starten Mit Metronom üben wichtig: die 16tel-Noten müssen leicht geshuffelt sein: also tuba-tuba-tuba // keine geraden 16tel-Noten spielen Tempo maximal um 5 Einheiten pro Durchgang steigern. Über 104 hinausüben: besser 115 Oberstes Ziel: auswendig spielen Zuerst Teilmelodien auswendig spielen Die auswendigen Teilmelodien Zeile für Zeile zusammenbauen Am Ende spielst du die Melodie mit dem Originalsong mit! Höre dabei auf das Schlagzeug: es spielt den Shuffle-Rhythmus ganz deutlich.
On today’s show, we talk with evangelist and author Greg Laurie about the SoCal Harvest Crusade and his new book about the spiritual legacy of Johnny Cash. The gang also hears the joke that was (somehow) voted the funniest one-liner of 2019, discusses why so many Christians don’t have close relationships with people in their churches, learns about a judge’s solution for some creative justice, hears your feedback and a lot more! EPISODE MUSIC 1.Sampa the Great, "Freedom" 2.Barrie, "Clovers" 3.Surfaces, "Keep It Gold" 4.Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke"
Episode 1 Summary: Amanda and Garrett introduce the podcast! Amanda and Garrett introduce themselves! Definition of melody Listening recommendations Reach Out and Follow Us on Social Media! Instagram: @uptoyourearspodcast Twitter: @uptoyourears Gmail: uptoyourearspodcast@gmail.com 0:00 - Introducing Up To Your Ears! Simplifying musical definitions so that everyone can speak easily about music 2:20 - Introductions to Hosts Amanda has her masters in percussion performance, teaches part time at the local university, and performs a lot locally (especially in pit orchestras) Garrett has a build a bear degree, a minor in music, and many hobbies. 4:25 - Additional Purposes of the Podcast Fight pretension Provide a resource to Amanda’s students Educate listeners so that they feel welcome to try new musical genres 8:25 - Outline of Podcast Segments Define a term Make some listening recommendations Answer a question 9:00 - Defining Melody A series of single notes, one right after another The headliner, what you remember about the piece The part that you whistle/hum Rules about what makes a good one, what makes a difficult one to sing Melodies can be sung or played The part that has lyrics, if there are lyrics Melody usually sticks out more 11:35 - Melody Addiction Lots of styles are all about melody, but there’s more to music than melody Hip hop is an example Spaceship controls example Pizza example 14:05 - Leonard Bernstein Classifications Pronouncing Bernstein's name Article I Referenced Who is he?? Concerts for Young People - What is a melody? Classifications: Tunes, Themes, Motives 17:10 - Tunes Longer, closed, made up of a few small phrases. What most people think of when they think of melody. They easily lend themselves to lyrics. YMCA I'm A Little Teapot Mary Had a Little Lamb Tunes are not necessarily always simple. 20:10 - Themes the next longest type and sound open-ended. John Williams examples Themes are medium long. Themes can be extended into tunes. Often around 6-10 notes… but that’s not a rule They don’t have a beginning, middle, end necessarily Darth Vader example Theme from Titanic example Indiana Jones example (around 24 minutes in) Unlike tunes, themes don’t always lend themselves as easily to lyrics. 27:10 - Motives the smallest type of melodic material and very, very open to thematic development Dark Knight example (two note motive) Beethoven’s 5th symphony (short-short-short long) 28:50 - If you find Classical music boring... We used to think so, too! You’re not alone Something that will help is to expect to hear more themes and motives + development rather than tunes 31:40 - Melody recap Quick summary Lines that are melodic without being the melody of songs Billie Jean bass line example The shape of a melody is its contour The range of a melody is how high or how low it goes Close ranges are easier for everyday people to sing Examples: Mary Had A Little Lamb, Thrift Shop, I Will Always Love You, The Star-Spangled Banner, Danny Boy 36:45 - Conjunct vs Disjunct melodies A conjunct melody is more stepwise, so it’s easier to sing. Disjunct hops around more and is more difficult to sing. Not every melody is meant to be easy to sing 38:40 - Listening Recommendations: Spotify Playlist for Episode 1 Garrett’s first pick: Aaron Copland’s Fanfare For the Common Man (38:55) Amanda’s first pick: Dvorak’s 8th Symphony, first movement (41:40) Garrett’s second pick: Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke” (43:35) Amanda’s second pick: the chorale section of “Jupiter” from Gustav Holst’s suite, The Planets (45:40) Garrett’s third pick: “Concerning Hobbits” from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack by Howard Shore (47:05) Amanda’s third pick: Venus de Milo from “Birth of the Cool,” performed by Miles Davis (tune written by Gerry Mulligan) (48:10) Garrett’s honorable mention: What he thought was a selection from John Williams's score of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” is actually "Leaving Hogwarts" from "Sorcerer's Stone" (50:25) Oops! Amanda’s honorable mention: “Love of My Life” by Freddie Mercury of Queen (53:20)
Another batch of Super tunes from the 70s... 1) Rock and Roll Never Forgets by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band 2) Jeepster by T Rex 3) You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Leo Sayer 4) Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest 5) Brandy by Looking Glass 6) Boogie Shoes by KC & the Sunshine Band 7) Jungle Love by The Steve Miller Band 8) Strange Magic by Electric Light Orchestra 9) Draggin' the Line by Tommy James 10) Funky Miracle by The Meters 11) Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull 12) Cherry Bomb by The Runaways 13) Fingerprint File by The Rolling Stones 14) Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder 15) Right Back Where We Started From by Maxine Nightingale
Here are once again with the fabulous Nerds for the weekly episode of hijinks and merriment. This week we look at topics that will hopefully entertain you, perhaps educate you, perchance even make you laugh. As usual we have our three Nerds, idiots, nutjobs, wackjobs, funny farm contenders, or as we like to say, your hosts. Bucky, Professor and the DJ. Bucky is our slightly older, kind of grumpy Nerd, who dislikes Mumble rappers, reality TV and generally stupidity. Professor our younger Nerd who likes gaming, long walks to the camp fire, and his Switch when on the bus. Last but not least, we have the DJ, the resident Droid that no one is looking for, who likes anime, games and laughing. First topic up this week is about some new illustrated novels, or omics, from the Firefly franchise. The DJ is challenged to finally watch the series to help him discover his inner Browncoat, will he be brave enough to walk down the street in a hat like that and show he aint afraid of nothing? We will find out, but by my pretty blue bonnet if he doesn’t we will aim to misbehave and cause mischief. Next up we look at the stress and traumatic conditions developers are suffering through to bring us new games. With reports of people developing PTSD, and hiding this fact so they can get jobs. This is seriously messed up, what these people are going through is downright wrong and needs to be looked at. Also Buck has a rant about the need to look after each other because he is sick and tired of morons putting profit before people. Last up Buck brings us an article about Rainbows. No, he hasn’t become a hippie or something drastic. He just felt we needed to take a moment and look around us and admire the simple things, you know, kind of like smell the roses and noticed the politicians as people (we think they are, but don’t hold us to that – Ed.). So we have 20 facts about rainbows and one of which is that the Greeks thought there were only three colours in the rainbow. We follow this with the usual look at the games we have been playing this week and give you a run down on them. Concluding with the episode with the regular Shout outs, remembrances, birthdays and events for the week that we all love. As always, take care of each other and stay hydrated.EPISODE NOTES:Firefly comics - https://comicbook.com/comics/2019/05/13/firefly-the-sting-joss-whedon-boom-studios/MK 11 & PTSD - https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/05/id-have-these-extremely-graphic-dreams-what-its-like-to-work-on-ultra-violent-games-like-mortal-kombat-11/Rainbows - http://discovermagazine.com/2019/may/20-things-you-didnt-know-about--rainbowsGames currently playingProfessor – Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - https://cataclysmdda.org/ Buck – Monster Truck Drive - https://store.steampowered.com/app/847870/Monster_Truck_Drive/DJ – Dota 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/570/Dota_2/Other topics discussedChanges to Santa Clarita Diet- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/santa-clarita-diet-creator-explains-season-3-talks-season-4-1198429Ed Boon’s take on fatalities- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/mortal-kombat-creator-ed-boon-explains-how-new-fatalities-are-made-2019-3?r=US&IR=TFacebook content moderators having PTSD- https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-content-moderators-lawsuit-ptsdGrumpy Cat (internet personality)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_CatAll Dogs gone to Heaven (1989 film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Dogs_Go_to_HeavenLinguistic relativity and the colour naming- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debateChromatic aberration - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberrationPot of gold at the end of the rainbow- http://luckyireland.com/the-origin-of-a-pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow/Minecraft Earth (mobile game)- https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/earthDota 2 New Character: Mars - Character bio - https://dota2.gamepedia.com/Mars- Mars’ character design - https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/dota2/images/mars/hero_mars93fd33s5.jpgShadow of the Colossus (2006 game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_ColossusTrials Fusion (2014 game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_FusionStunt Car Arena (arcade game)- http://www.arcadespot.com/game/stunt-car-arena/Millionaire’s advice to young people – stop spending smashed avocados - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/australian-millionaire-millennials-avocado-toast-houseColorectal Cancer also known as colon cancer- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorectal_cancerDiamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_IIQueen Victoria- Bio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria- Queen Victoria with her grandchildren and other guests - https://images.immediate.co.uk/volatile/sites/7/2018/01/Queen_victoria_family-fd7d69f.jpg?quality=90&resize=768,574Stevie Wonder catches microphone stand- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgngvsWLlECarrie Fisher roasts George Lucas- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ97s396kb0Mark Zuckerberg will eat meat he kills- https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/07/13/mark-zuckerberg-will-only-eat-meat-he-kills-himself_a_23027199/Apple loses money than the value of Facebook- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/apples-market-cap-falls-by-450-billion-more-than-the-value-of-facebook-2019-1?r=US&IR=TWalt Disney - Bio and urban myth on Walt’s body is frozen - https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney- Human bones in Disneyland - https://collinsrace1.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/are-there-human-bones-at-disney-parks/Elvis Lives (That’s Not Canon Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/elvislivespodcastCaptain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of The Caribbean character)- https://pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_SparrowHenry Sutton (Australian Inventor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sutton_(inventor) Shoutouts7 May 1999 - The Mummy opened and grossed $43 million in 3,210 theatres in the United States on its opening weekend. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)14 May 1796 - English country doctor Edward Jenner administers the first inoculation against smallpox, using cowpox pus, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_JennerRemembrances11 May 2019 – Peggy Lipton, American actress, model, and singer. She was well-known through her role as flower child Julie Barnes in the counterculture television series The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970. Her fifty-year career in television, film, and stage included many roles, includingNorma Jennings in David Lynch'sTwin Peaks. Lipton was formerly married to the musician and producer Quincy Jones and was the mother of their two daughters, Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones. She died of colon cancer at 72 in Los Angeles,California. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lipton13 May 2019 – Doris Day, American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Day's film career began during the latter part of the classical Hollywood era with the film Romance on the High Seas, leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All, and also starred with Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in the sitcom The Doris Day Show. Day became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s, and as of 2012 was one of eight performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures in 1989. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; this was followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. She died of pneumonia at 97 in Carmel Valley Village, California. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day14 May 1919 - Henry John Heinz, German-American entrepreneur who founded the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. He was born in that city, the son of German immigrants from the Palatinate who came independently to the United States in the early 1840s. Heinz developed his business into a national company which made more than 60 food products; one of its first was tomato ketchup. He was influential for introducing high sanitary standards for food manufacturing. He also exercised a paternal relationship with his workers, providing health benefits, recreation facilities, and cultural amenities. His descendants carried on the business until fairly recently, selling their remaining holdings to the predecessor company of what is now Kraft Heinz. Heinz was the great-grandfather of former U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania. He died of pneumonia at 75 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Heinz14 May 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of the Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy. Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968'sFrancis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with "New York, New York". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998. Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm, and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate. He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town, Guys and Dolls, High Society, and Pal Joey, winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome. Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. In crime, the FBI investigated Sinatra and his alleged relationship with the Mafia. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He was collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people. After Sinatra's death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure. He died of a heart attack at 82 in Los Angeles, California . - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra14 May 2019 – Tim Conway, American comedic actor, writer, and director. He portrayed the inept Ensign Parker in the 1960s World War II situation comedy McHale's Navy, was a regular cast member on the 1970s variety and sketch comedy program The Carol Burnett Show, co-starred with Don Knotts in several films in the late 1970s and early 1980s, starred as the title character in the Dorf series of sports comedy films, and provided the voice of Barnacle Boy in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. He was particularly admired for his ability to depart from scripts with spontaneously improvised character details and dialogue, and he won six Primetime Emmy Awards during his career, four of which were awarded for The Carol Burnett Show, including one for writing. He died of normal pressure hydrocephalus at 85 in Los Angeles,California. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Conway15 May 2019 - Rick Bennett, voice actor, known for X-Men: The Animated Series (1992), Balance of Power (1996) and X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1996) mainly as Cain Marko also known as The Juggernaut. He passed away in Toronto - https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/15/x-men-the-animated-series-juggernaut-voice-actor-passes-away/Bio - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072001/16 May 2019 – The Honourable Bob Hawke, Australian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party from 1983 to 1991. Hawke served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wills from 1980 to 1992 and was Labor's longest serving Prime Minister. Bob Hawke was born in Bordertown South Australia. The Hawke family then moved to Western Australia. He attended the University of Western Australia and then went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1956, Hawke joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as a research officer. Having risen to become responsible for wage arbitration, he was elected ACTU President in 1969, where he achieved a high public profile. After a decade serving in that role, Hawke announced his intention to enter politics, and was subsequently elected to the House of Representatives as the Labor MP for Wills. Three years later, he led Labor to a landslide victory at the 1983 election and was sworn in as prime minister. He led Labor to victory three more times, in 1984, 1987 and 1990, making him the most electorally successful Labor Leader. The Hawke Government created Medicare and Landcare, brokered the Prices and Incomes Accord, established APEC, floated the Australian dollar, deregulated the financial sector, introduced the Family Assistance Scheme, announced "Advance Australia Fair" as the official national anthem, initiated superannuation pension schemes for all workers and oversaw passage of the Australia Act that removed all remaining jurisdiction by the United Kingdom from Australia. Hawke remains Labor's longest-serving prime minister, Australia's third-longest-serving Prime Minister and, until his death at the age of 89, Hawke was the oldest living former Australian Prime Minister. Hawke is the only Australian Prime Minister to be born in South Australia, and the only one raised and educated in Western Australia. He also held a world record for beer drinking; he downed 2 1⁄2 imperial pints (1.4 l)—equivalent to a yard of ale—from a sconce pot in 11 seconds as part of a college penalty. He died at 89 in Northbridge, New South Wales. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_HawkeFamous Birthdays13 May 1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, Wonder is considered to be one of the most critically and commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th century. He signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11 and continued performing and recording for Motown into the 2010s. He has been blind since shortly after his birth. Among Wonder's works are singles such as "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours", "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", and "I Just Called to Say I Love You"; and albums such as Talking Book (1972), Innervisions (1973), and Songs in the Key of Life (1976). He has recorded more than 30 U.S. top-ten hits and received 25 Grammy Awards, one of the most-awarded male solo artists, and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the top 60 best-selling music artists. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2013, Billboard magazine released a list of the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 55th anniversary, with Wonder at number six. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder14 May 1944 – Geroge Lucas, American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm,LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138, based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film American Graffiti, inspired by his youth in early 1960s Modesto, California, and produced through the newly founded Lucasfilm. The film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Lucas' next film, the epic space opera Star Wars, had a troubled production but was a surprise hit, becoming the highest-grossing film at the time, winning six Academy Awards and sparking a cultural phenomenon. Lucas produced and cowrote the sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. With director Steven Spielberg, he created the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. He also produced and wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s and during this same period Lucas' LucasArts developed high-impact video games, including Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango alongside many video games based on the Star Wars universe. In 1997, Lucas rereleased the Star Wars trilogy as part of a Special Edition, featuring several alterations; home media versions with further changes were released in 2004 and 2011. He returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, comprising The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. He later collaborated on served as executive producer for the war film Red Tails and wrote the CGI film Strange Magic. Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era. He was born in Modesto, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas14 May 1969 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress and theatre director. She has received many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Awards. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007, and in 2018, she was ranked among the highest-paid actresses in the world. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention for portraying Elizabeth I of England in the drama film Elizabeth, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and earned her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in the biographical drama The Aviator, earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she won Best Actress for playing a neurotic divorcée in the black comedy-drama Blue Jasmine. Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in the dramas Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, I'm Not There, and Carol. Blanchett's most commercially successful films include The Talented Mr. Ripley, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, Babel, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cinderella,Thor: Ragnarok, and Ocean's 8. From 2008 to 2013, Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton served as the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during this period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, and The Maids. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 with The Present, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government, who made her a companion of the Order of Australia in 2017. She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012. She has been presented with a Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University. In 2015, she was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art and received the British Film Institute Fellowship. She was born in Ivanhoe, Victoria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate_Blanchett14 May 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer. Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. His net worth is estimated to be $55.0 billion as of November 30, 2018, declining over the last year with Facebook stock. In 2007 at age 23 he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. As of 2018, he is the only person under 50 in the Forbes ten richest people list, and the only one under 40 in the Top 20 Billionaires list. Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. He was born in White Plains, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_ZuckerbergEvents of Interest 14 May 1986 - Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary - https://www.onthisday.com/people/anne-frank15 May 1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy". It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience but failed to pick up a distributor. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_Crazy15 May 2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. Watson headed north-east crossing the equator in the Pacific Ocean before crossing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson16 May 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances. His lecture caught the attention of George Westinghouse, the inventor who had launched the first AC power system near Boston and was Edison’s major competitor in the “Battle of the Currents.” - https://teslaresearch.jimdo.com/lectures-of-nikola-tesla/a-new-system-of-alternate-current-motors-and-transformers-1888/- https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/nikola-teslaIntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss
האזנה מודרכת - Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
האזנה מודרכת - Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
האזנה מודרכת - Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
Topics: Roots, by Alex Haley, with commentary by Adam DeCollibus (@adam_decollibus), author of "Caravan". (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco) (***Audio quality is spotty***) 1977 1. General News snapshots 2. Jimmy Carter President 3. Jan - The world's first personal computer, the Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) released 4. Jun - The Apple II released 5. Aug - TRS-80 released (Byte magazine referred to these as the "1977 Trinity" of personal computing) 6. Aug - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. 7. Aug - Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 8. Oct - Atari 2600, this popularized the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code. 9. Open Comments 10. Economic Snapshots 11. Min Wage = $2.30 (+.10) 12. Avg. Income = $15,070 13. New House = $49,300 14. New car = $4,785 15. Avg. rent $240 16. Black unemployment 12.1% vs 7.6% 17. Open Comments: 18. Black News Snapshots 19. Jan - Roots airs on ABC. 20. Jul - The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder. 21. Popular Music Snapshots 22. Record of the Year: The Eagles for "Hotel California" 23. Album of the Year: Fleetwood Mac for Rumours 24. Song of the Year (Tied): "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" performed by Barbra Streisand & "You Light Up My Life" performed by Debby Boone 25. Best New Artist: Debby Boone 26. Popular Movie Snapshots 27. Top Grossing Movies 28. 1 - Star Wars 29. 2 - Smokey and the Bandit 30. 3 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind 31. Notable Black Films 32. A Piece of the Action: Crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in each film. It was also Poitier's last acting role for more than a decade, as he focused his attentions on directing only. 33. Which Way is Up? Comedy film starring Richard Pryor. It is a remake of the 1972 Italian comedy film The Seduction of Mimi. Richard Pryor plays three roles: an orange picker who has two women at the same time, the orange picker's father, and a Reverend who gets the orange picker's wife pregnant. 34. Popular TV Shows 35. 1 - Laverne & Shirley 36. 2 - Happy Days 37. 3 - Three's Company 38. Notable Black TV Shows & Snapshots 39. The Richard Pryor Show was an American comedy-variety show starring Richard Pryor. [Lasted for only 4 episodes] 40. Benson DuBois (Robert Guillaume) debuts on Soap as the wisecracking African-American cook/butler. In 1979, Benson leaves for his own spin-off. 41. Janet Jackson (@11 yrs. old) joins the cast of the CBS sitcom Good Times for its final two seasons as Penny Gordon, an upstairs neighbor who is abused her biological mother. 42. Open Comments: 43. Black Social Scene [+ Television] 44. Roots: The Saga of an American Family - “One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past.” - www.litlovers.com 45. Special guest commentator: Adam DeCollibus, Author of Caravan. 46. Brief explanation for why Adam was invited 47. Adam’s personal/writing background 48. Adam’s professional/company background 49. Adam’s personal/professional goals 50. Adam’s biggest obstacles (past, present, or future) 51. Summary of Adam’s book, “Caravan” 52. Transition to Roots discussion 53. Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte - a young man taken from The Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave - and seven generations of his descendants in the United States, which includes the author himself. [The Television mini-series focused mainly on Kunta, his daughter Kizzy, and her son “Chicken” George.] 54. Open comments/general reactions to the story 55. Brief layout of the main Characters / Conflicts / Resolutions 56. Discussion Topics: [American-born African-Americans broken Identity with Africa / Kizzy's relationship with Missy Anne [i.e., happy pet and owner type relationship] / George's skin color] 57. [Open floor topics] 58. Has the context changed in 21st century America? Do different themes seem important now? 59. Concluding question: Did you find anything hopeful about the story? [i.e. a spark curiosity / or pride / or determination] 60. Thanks to Adam [Caravan recap/contact info] 61. Black Music Scene 62. Billboard Top 40 “Black” songs 63. 3 - "Best of My Love", The Emotions 64. 5 - "Angel in Your Arms", Hot 65. 7 - "Don't Leave Me This Way", Thelma Houston 66. 8 - "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher", Rita Coolidge 67. 11 - "I'm Your Boogie Man", KC and the Sunshine Band 68. 18 - "Sir Duke", Stevie Wonder 69. 20 - "Got to Give It Up", Marvin Gaye 70. 23 - "Rich Girl", Hall & Oates 71. 25 - "Hot Line", The Sylvers 72. 26 - "Car Wash", Rose Royce 73. 27 - "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)", Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. 74. 33 - "Easy", Commodores 75. 35 - "I've Got Love on My Mind", Natalie Cole 76. 40 - "Enjoy Yourself", The Jacksons 77. 41 - "Dazz", Brick 78. Vote: 79. Billboard Top Soul Albums 80. Jan - Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder 81. Jan - Good High, Brick 82. Mar - Ask Rufus, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan 83. Apr - Unpredictable, Natalie Cole 84. Apr - Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!, Bootsy's Rubber Band 85. Apr - Live at the London Palladium, Marvin Gaye 86. May - Go for Your Guns, The Isley Brothers 87. May - Commodores, Commodores 88. Jul - Rejoice, The Emotions 89. Aug - Floaters, The Floaters 90. Oct - Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom, Rose Royce 91. Oct - Something to Love, L.T.D. 92. Oct - Barry White Sings for Someone You Love, Barry White 93. Nov - Brick, Brick 94. Dec - All 'n All, Earth, Wind & Fire 95. Vote: 96. Movie Scene [Covered during Popular Movie Discussion] 97. Television Scene [Covered during Social discussion] 98. Biggest Legacy from 1977
On this episode, Jamie, Rob and Jennifer chat with actor, writer, director and “theater maker” Arian Moayed. We discuss his short form thriller, “The Accidental Wolf,” playing a wonderful yet terrible character on HBO's “Succession,” the obstacles we all face day to day, making a nonprofit from scratch, and the incredible work his company, Waterwell, is doing every day. Jennifer, Jamie, and Rob have a big “Take Two” to discuss, and Rob walks us through the Vomitorium (which probably isn't what you think it is). This week's music: Stevie Wonder's “Sir Duke,” “Big Easy” from “The Accidental Wolf,” Liz Callaway's rendition of Frank Losser's “My Heart Is So Full Of You,” and “Kindness” from “Bright Lights Big City." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the first episode of the BIG R little R Radio Show. Today we discuss Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder... or as TJ likes to call him, Stevie Wonders.
This episode features local rapper The Sir Duke. He just released his new single/ music video for "Dointhemost" (THAT I DIRECTED) off his new ep that just dropped "N-Definite" available on all major music outlets.
Sir Duke was released as a single in 1977. It rose to number 1 on the Billboard charts. The song is a tribute to the jazz great Duke Ellington. Listen to the episode, apply the tips and continue working on your goals!
Many thanks to Chris LeMond, TheHarmonicPulse, SAMUCA CHIODINI, Jim Haugland, Denis, bj7xtas1, thebudsofmay, Zippy Leroux, user name, Yhoda, Joe Turgeon and Daniel Proctor for your insightful questions! :14 What's the deal with Fanned Frets? Also, how does an understand of physics relate to music? 2:23 Is Synesthesia real, or just some BS you made up? 5:11 What is the function of the Fm7 in the chorus to Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder? 8:08 How do you come up with melodies? 10:06 How do you keep so relaxed with your technique on bass? 12:02 What are your thoughts on NOT recording to a click in a modern DAW environment? 14:01 On modern jazz big band music 14:09 How do you approach memorizing large amounts of music? 15:01 Can Adam submit a song for US to review? 15:11 HOW MUCH DID THE 440 CONSPIRACY PAY YOU TO MAKE THE ANTI-432 VIDEO?!?! 15:48 Can I get away with not doubling if I'm a woodwind player looking to make a career in NYC? 17:21 How do I start a career in TEACHING music? SYNESTHESIA RESEARCH (Cognitive Neuroscience) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037840/ (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience) http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn.2010.21486?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed& http://cogprints.org/6268/1/Cortex_sound-colour_Synaesthesia.pdf (Yale journal of biology and medicine) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670440/ (Biological Psychiatry) http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(99)00056-6/fulltext (Neuropsychologia) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393212003879?via%3Dihub (Consciousness and Cognition) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810013000834 (Neuron) http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(05)00835-4 Psychology of Music http://mobile.www.daysyn.com/Rogers1987.pdf American Journal of Psychology https://www.jstor.org/stable/1410812?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (Others) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134456 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23000109 SUPPORT ME ON PATREON http://www.patreon.com/adamneely FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS http://www.facebook.com/adamneely http://www.instagram.com/its_adamneely Check out some of my music http://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com http://insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com http://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com Peace, Adam
6 Officers shot in 3 different cities - two confirmed dead. NASA tracks Solar Eclipse. Six Flags removes flag. Ding OR Dong?! Joe's Crab Shack. Juan at Hank's Tire in Woodland Hills. Sir Duke. I am Woman. No way ...Way! Walgreen's and Irvine.
Stevie Wonder, TOm Waits, Riccardo Cocciante and more...
In this podcast, I talk to my brother, musician and teacher Rob Whale, about what it is that makes Stevie Wonder's song, "Sir Duke" at once "popular" and original. Transcript https://docs.google.com/document/d/13SieJvJg4R3cvJt9Cu7nodx_taPd0cYp36c4xfLFbuk/edit?usp=sharing
The Immortals are back to celebrate the holidays in the only way they know how! By covering a movie about the Summer Olympics months after the Summer Olympics occurred! After they review Tokyo Olympiad, they move onto the soothing sounds of AC/DC, fish that tastes like pickles, the mysterious history of Stevie Wonder, Peter Pan when he's not a bird and Traffik when it's not spelled Traffic. Get excited! Intro 0:00 – 3:56 Tokyo Olympiad 3:56 – 33:21 Highway to Hell 33:21 – 41:27 Gravlax 41:27 – 46:44 Sir Duke 46:44 – 53:46 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens 53:46 – 1:05:05 Traffik 1:05:05 – 1:08:50 Outro 1:08:50 – 1:16:49 -- The next Cool Runnings -- An old Derrick Comedy sketch --Check out the new Art Immortal podcast, Ad Absurdum! --Leave your own henge ratings at TheArtImmortal.com --Be sure you leave an iTunes review so Pedro can give you a compliment on air. Email Twitter iTunes YouTube Join us Thursday next as we discuss more things. Until then, email or tweet us your thoughts, leave a review on iTunes and other crap every podcast asks you to do. (But we love that you do it!) Artwork by Ray Martindale Opening tune by Adam Lord
La vendita di strumenti è in calo? E noi ascoltiamo un trionfo di fiati in "Sir Duke" e poi guardiamo con un occhio pop a Firenze, set della serie tv sui Medici e del film "Inferno". Canzone d'amore: The Style Council- You're the best thing.
In our second sermon in a series inspired by Stevie Wonder, we discuss Sir Duke, Master Blaster, and music as a force for revelation and transformation & a few musical prophets. Stevie himself says, "Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” Music in this podcast by Jackie Venson. Recorded 6-26-16. The post Holy Highlights Podcast Ep. 18 – You Can Feel It All Over appeared first on Free Souls Church.
On this episode of This Song, Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Magna Carda and hears about each of their important songs--everything from the Soulquarians to Sir Duke.
On this episode of This Song, Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Magna Carda and hears about each of their important songs--everything from the Soulquarians to Sir Duke.
downloadon iTunesThis one went off th rails pretty early on w/r/t its intended topic and never got back on, fully. Billy Ray's original intention, I think, was to set up th parameters of what it means to be th Greatest Of All Time, and den debate various G.O.A.T. candidates over various fields of endeavour. Instead we ended up talking bout Livejournal again 80% of th time, general Internet ethics (10%), Stevie Wonder (5%), and gay filmmakers (5%). Idlewild, Ryan Jackson, Abbas Kiarostami, bell hooks, James Booker, Los Bros Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Akira Kurosawa, Sergei Parajanov, Persepolis, and Charlie bit me are namedropped in passing. We are joined this week by Rena J of el jay fame, who was gracious enough to join us on v. short notice and ended up being our first ⚡solo⚡ guest in many moons after our other guest passed out drunk Listen close for th G.E.O.A.T. (greatest ending of all time)Table of contents:00:00:00 "Sir Duke" performed by Stevie Wonder00:03:52 Nominal attempt to stick to a topic | blah dee blah dee blahHH | etc etc etc01:59:38 Bonus Track: a great way to start a mixtape or end a podcast
In a special programme for Saturday Live's Listener Week, wildlife presenter Steve Backshall joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles to talk intricate animal communities, how he earned his nickname 'manure boy' and whether his sequined onesie is to be retired forever. Also with us are listener Simon Digby who got in touch about a series of stories about things he got up to when he was young that he never told his mother. David Heydecker told us that he usually spends his Saturday mornings listening to Saturday Live whilst elbow deep in bread dough. This week he's sharing with us the fruits of his labour and also how his community benefits. Martin Greenough also wrote to us about how his Saturday mornings, evangelising about his local ParkRun meet. We sent reporter Geoff Bird off to see if he would be similarly inspired. JP Devlin has been to visit the extraordinary Pembrokeshire community of Llangwm who have come together to create and perform an opera to celebrate the centenary of WW1. As a military wife Cat Williams has lived in countless different communities and countries. As well as being a listener she is also a trained counsellor. Su Chard is an independent celebrant who is passionate about encouraging fellow listeners to pass down family stories to get the send-off you want. We also have an Inheritance Tracks from listener Ailsa Harris. She chooses Que sera sera by Doris Day and Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder. Deadly Pole to Pole with Steve Backshall returns to your screens Saturday on BBC 2 between 10-11am. Producer: Alex Lew Editor: Karen Dalzie.
With Guest Aroyn Davis, of The Wes Coast fame. Also, this is episode 2.5! Nobody knows what happened to episode 2. In which we discuss God knows what, and sing the Sir Duke horn break awfully, and Jake practices drums on the couch. This album is LONG!!!
December is all about the giving and sharing, so Shanon and Jack gave each other a stack of records the day before the show and then played and talked about songs selected from those stacks. Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke" on Songs in the Key of Life Roy Orbison, "Lay it Down" on Laminar Flow Scorpions, "The Same Thrill" on Love at First Stin Joe Cocker, "Honky Tonk Women" on Mad Dogs & Englishmen Barbra Streisand, "Queen Bee" on A Star is Born Hank Williams, Jr., "I Can't Take It No Longer" on The Best of Hank Williams, Jr. Lynyrd Skynyrd, "I Know a Little" on Gold & Platinum Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristoffersen, "Big River" on Highwayman Kris Kristofferson, "If You Don't Like Hank Williams" on Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 Bob Dylan, "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" on Highway 61 Revisited Tom Petty, "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" on Hard Promises Mahalia Jackson, "I'm Going to Wait Until My Change Comes" on I Believe Sly and the Family Stone, "If You Want Me to Stay" on Fresh Janis Joplin and the Full Tilt Boogie Band, "Trust Me" on Pearl The Flying Burrito Bros, "Juanita" on The Gilded Palace of Sin Diana Ross, "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" on 20 Golden Greats Loretta Lynn, "Portland Oregon" on Van Lear Rose
Here are Mrs. Christensen and Mrs. Gladstone's enthusiastic classes singing Sir Duke in music class. Each class recorded the song separately but were later coupled together using the magic of GarageBand!
The Show Notes Damn VolumeShow introThe Goodies. Yes, of course.Do/can you know who you really are?Youngest listenerReligious Moron of the Week - Museum of New Zealand from Norm Drexel & David Ingram - Hindu goat sacrificers from Jamie Sydel - Masonic Protesting Minister from James Booth - Tom Brock, closeted Minister from Eat Your GreensInkredulous recordingThe Philadelphia Funk Authority live at the Allentown Fair - Sir Duke - I’m A Man - Shining Star - Bad Mamma Jamma - I Like It - Rock Steady - Tears of a ClownSorry ‘bout the voiceShow close ........................ Mentioned in the show Philadelphia Funk Authority Inkredulous ........................ Geo's Music: stock up! The catalog at iTunes The catalog at CD Baby ........................ Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! Score more data from the Geologic Universe! Get George's edition Non-Coloring Book at Lulu, both as download and print editions. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!
1.Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 2.Please Don't Hurt My Baby 3.As 4.My Cherie Amour 5.I Was Made to Love Her 6.Golden Lady 7.Tuesday Heartbreak 8.On The Sunny Side Of The Stree 9.Blowin' in the wind 10.My Girl 11.Summer Soft 12.Sir Duke 13.I Wish 14.All Day Sucker 15.Boogie On Reggae Woman 16.That Girl 17.Black Man 18.For Once In My Life 19.Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours 20.Superstition 21.Pearl 22.My Baby's Gone 23.Superwoman 24.I Just Called To Say I Love You 25.Get It (Duet With Michael Jackson) 26.Isn't She Lovely 27.Another Star 28.As If You Read My Mind 29.Did I Hear You Say You Love Me 30.I Want My Baby Back 31.Uptight (Everything's Alright)
The Show NotesBlah-Blah IntroTop Gear is so effing BritishReligious Moron of the Week- Kailash "Kalau" Singh from Mike LushSentence sounds from Jesse FlintPFA and Sir Duke’s missing earringInteresting Fauna- Elysia Chlorotica from Kate Sherrod via TwitterDave RabbitHistory Chunk- May 20thWet Wired InterviewGo to "Camp" over at PseudopodBALTICON Trio Marenich and their enchanting gypsy nightShow close ..................................... Mentioned in the show: Balticon; Philadelphia Funk Authority; Geo's upcoming gigs and Balticon information; Geo's interview on Wet Wired with Marie from Savannah; Camp at Pseudopod; Dave Rabbit; Kate on twitter. Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! Score more data from the Geologic Universe! Get George's music at CD Baby and iTunes, and Non-Coloring Book at Lulu, both as download and print editions. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom or Ms. Information, too! Ms. Information sez: See y'all at Balticon!
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