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What Are You Listening To?

wirralass said:

WL
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Very soothing, as always with Enya! But, have you ever moticed that it’s very hard to make out the actual words she’s singing in all her songs. Not that that matters much as the combination of her gentle dulcet tones blends in so beautifully with the music!
 
Lanny said:
Thanks, @wirralass!

Both losses were very sudden & fast so, huge shocks but, the shock of mum’s loss lessened the shock of my sister’s loss a little less!
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You're welcome. I understand where you're coming from Lanny. I found my mum's passing devasting and almost destroyed me but it did lessen the the shock a little when my dad passed away. The loss of my parents will always remain with me but many happy memories of both of them keep me going. Life is for living.

WL
 
A beautiful rendition of Simon & Garfunkels famous song. I love this.

WL
 
wirralass said:
You're welcome. I understand where you're coming from Lanny. I found my mum's passing devasting and almost destroyed me but it did lessen the the shock a little when my dad passed away. The loss of my parents will always remain with me but many happy memories of both of them keep me going. Life is for living.

WL
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Yes, life’s for living!

In tribute to my sister, I’m posting this song, a favourite from her collection of records from the jukebox era. Pretty Little Angel Eyes by Curtis Lee.

 
AND this one also from her collection that always made me laugh! The Purple People Eater.


Edited to add:-* Found a clearer sounding video & changed it to that one! Couldn’t remember the artist at first & just searched the song title: seems a lot of people love spoofing this!
 
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Lanny said:
Yes, life’s for living!

In tribute to my sister, I’m posting this song, a favourite from her collection of records from the jukebox era. Pretty Little Angel Eyes by Curtis Lee.

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I remember this Lanny, seems a long time ago now so thanks for the memory. There are a multitude of songs and pieces of music that ever remind me of those who were in my life and whose memories I treasure. Very comforting at times.

WL
 
Excellent theme composed and performed by Vangelis for the film Alexander ~ which captures the essence of the ancient world. Great film.

Licenced to YouTube

WL
 
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Now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

My family are from the New Territories in Hong Kong where the Hakka people settled. The Hakka people are most well known for their Mountain Songs & there was one very famous film made in 1960 called Third Sister Liu.

Respecting one’s elders is majorly important to all Chinese & your pecking order, as it were, is important & diffrenticated by a number. Brothers & sisters are numbered in order of the eldest down to the youngest. I’m the fourth sister in my family. My sister that passed away was the third sister.

My sister had a collection of vinyl records & among those was the soundtrack from that famous film Third Sister Liu & it was a private joke, in the family, that SHE was the third sister! She is very much in my thoughts now in the run up to my first Christmas after her loss.

I loved watching this film as a child as it’s all in Hakka when Cantonese was so universally spoken in Hong Kong, changing now to Mandarin post 1997. For once, the Cantonese speaking people in Hong Kong needed to read the subtitles when I didn’t!:D

This is the opening song to that film!


Unfortunately all the videos I found on youTube have the dialogue dubbed into Mandarin, ah well! The singing is still good & authentic!
 
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Old Jonathon Richman tunes!

 
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