Music.

[Holly]

Today in history: 16 September 1924

Lauren Bacall was born on this date in New York City. She was the only child of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacall, and William Perske, who worked in sales. Bacall's parents were Jewish immigrants, from Poland and Romania, who emigrated through Ellis Island. She is first cousin to Shimon Peres, current President and former Prime Minister of Israel. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she took the Romanian form of her mother's last name, Bacall. Bacall no longer saw her father and formed a close bond with her mother, whom she took with her to California when she became a movie star.


Lauren Bacall first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not (1944) in which she sang How Little We Know.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFfuUu5xmMA"]lauren bacall: to have and have not "how little we know" - YouTube[/ame]

[TotalMayhem]

Classy chick!!!

[TotalMayhem]

Anyone watching Suits?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAA7mmrE73k"]Ima Robot - Greenback Boogie - YouTube[/ame]

[20 yards of linen=1 coat]

post-punk goth meets swedish synth-pop (with a to the "being a d!ckhead is cool song")

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPshx-3AFKo&feature=related"]Molly Nilsson I Hope You Die - YouTube[/ame]

but seriously. it doesnt get any more smoke-machine steamy does it

[TotalMayhem]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYu9PU2Kr14"]Brent Amaker & The Rodeo - Doomed - YouTube[/ame]

[eamo]

The seekers, Judith Durham, best thing Austrlia produced since kangaroo soup.

Then.....1967:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZipKdI1sY"]The Seekers The Carnival Is Over (1967 In Colour Stereo) - YouTube[/ame]

1994;

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aItRHQg60o"]The Seekers - The Carnival Is Over 1994 - YouTube[/ame]


2000


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-V3MvPSV4"]The Seekers The Carnival Is Over (2000) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j44DtFA0Rv0"]The Seekers - The Carnival is Over (live -2000) Stereo HQ sound. - YouTube[/ame]


Time takes its toll but she still got the voice, soul and beauty.

Shine on Judith.

[TotalMayhem]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJtegPkXhE4"]Regina Spektor - Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas) - YouTube[/ame]

[eamo]

Gary Moore RIP.

Another genius from this island.

Another victim of drink.

Enjoy;

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJI1y0i1mk"]Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1990 HQ) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUpfw4Hf3w"]Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways - Live HD - YouTube[/ame]

[eamo]

Dancer is Marquese Scott aka "nonstop", dubstep dancer. Seems dubstep is also a genre of music originally from London in the late 1990's
Here is Marquese moving to dubstep music. No camera tricks, just a great dancer.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM"]PUMPED UP KICKS|DUBSTEP - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4UKENAyhD0"]MARQUESE SCOTT+MICHAEL JACKSON | DUBSTEP| TRIBUTE - YouTube[/ame]

[Dr. FIVE]

yuss

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gQ62B2HjS4"]The Abyssinians - Peculiar Number / Peculiar Dub - YouTube[/ame]

[Holly]

Today in history: 8 October 1848

Pierre Chretien De Geyter, born on this date, was a Belgian socialist (who later became a communist) and a composer, known for writing the music of The Internationale.

At age sixteen, he enrolled at the Lille Academy where he first took drawing classes, which allowed him to find a job as a woodcarver. He later took music classes, and joined the workers' choir "La Lyre des Travailleurs", founded by the socialist leader of Lille, Gustave Delory.

On 15 July 1888, Delory contacted De Geyter to compose music for several "Chants révolutionnaires" that were often sung at popular events with Lille socialists. Among these was a song that was to become the International Workingmen's Association anthem, The Internationale.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNsRZ8iqFc"]Pete Seeger - L'Internationale - YouTube[/ame]

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Today in history: 9 October 1907

Horst Wessel, born on this date, was a German National Socialist activist and an SA-Sturmführer who became a hero of the Nazi movement following his murder in 1930 by Albrecht Höhler, an active member of the local Communist Party (KPD). He was the author of the lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" ("The Flag On High"), usually known as Horst-Wessel-Lied ("the Horst Wessel Song"), which became the de facto Nazi Party anthem and Germany's co-national anthem from 1933 to 1945.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvKVZymcDA&bpctr=1349745176[/ame]

[Holly]

Today in history: 10 October 1813

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, born on this date, was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. Musically, he was part of European Romanticism, and was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world.

Before the European Union was established, borders had a tendency to shift and the domination of cultures and ethnic identities by more powerful neighbors was commonplace. Verdi was born in Le Roncole in present day Italy but at the time it was part of the First French Empire. Il Risorgimento was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century and Verdi has been associated with this Italian resurgence. Music historians have long perpetuated a myth about the famous Va Pensiero chorus sung in the third act of Nabucco. The myth reports that, when the Va Pensiero chorus was sung in Milan, then belonging to the large part of Italy under Austrian domination, the audience, responding with nationalistic fervor to the exiled slaves' lament for their lost homeland, demanded an encore of the piece. As encores were expressly forbidden by the government at the time, such a gesture would have been extremely significant. However, recent scholarship has brought to light that although the audience did indeed demand an encore, it was not for Va Pensiero but rather for the hymn Immenso Jehova, sung by the Hebrew slaves to thank God for saving His people. Nevertheless, we do know that workmen in the theater stopped what they were doing during Va Pensiero and applauded at the conclusion of this haunting melody and the growth of the identification of Verdi's music with Italian nationalist politics remains.

The audience demanding an encore of Va Pensiero when performed in Italy can be expected to this day and in this YouTube clip Riccardo Muti conducts the entire theater for just such an encore in the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXE0v0bJoE&feature=related"]"Va pensiero" - Nabucco - Roma 2011 - YouTube[/ame]

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Lucy Spraggan sings one of her own songs.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRRWnp6_rhA"]Lucy Spraggan (original) - Tea and Toast - Ont' Sofa - YouTube[/ame]

[Summerday Sands]

Some truly great poetic songs from a sadly overlooked talent. A Socialist as well.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geDSL19TXDI"]Jake Thackray 'The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington' - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6sITiNEs&feature=related"]Jake Thackray - The Bull - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xod5YAw1_mI&feature=related"]Jake Thackray - Lah Di Dah - YouTube[/ame]