Ukeleles and Inversions

Posted on Nov 30, 2007 | 2 comments
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There was a cute article in last Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle about an apparent new ukelele fad that’s sweeping the nation. It was interesting to me, because I’d been just starting to take notice of the instrument. It just seems to keep cropping up. I noticed only recently, for example, that it’s buried in the texture of a couple...

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"The Nice Things I Will Not Miss"

Posted on Aug 23, 2007 | 0 comments
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In researching the last post I came across something that has me howling. A couple of Dutch guys made this loopy music video using a Burt Bacharach song I’d never heard before (from a movie I’ve never heard of before). The song isn’t much to blog about, but video is...

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Fool Killer

Posted on Aug 23, 2007 | 0 comments
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Here’s a little-known song by Burt Bacharach that I like a lot. “Fool Killer” follows and elusive, moody chord progression and is pretty sophisticated for a 60′s pop song. The instrumentation displays Bacharach’s usual cleverness and restraint. Vibes and little guitar tremolos combine with the odd chord progression to match the...

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Burt Bacharach: A Look Under the Hood

Posted on Jan 16, 2006 | 2 comments
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Burt Bacharach: A Look Under the Hood

Lately I’ve been listening to this Burt Bacharach compilation I bought several years ago (now that I have a car with a CD player). This three-disc Look Of Love compilation spans from the earliest part of his career in the ’50′s (theme song from The Blob anyone?) up to the mid-Seventies, when he produced some truly cloying and awful stuff...

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