If you have some favorites for kids, I'd love suggestions.
Also, I was waiting for his arrival, but I was planning on sending you my standard "new kid" music package (now with world music!). I'll go ahead and send now if you're prepping things already. If you already have any of them, let me know.
For future reference of those interested, I usually include:
Disney Songs the Satchmo Way (if available)
Bernstein's Children's Classics (Prokofiev, Saint-Saens, Britten)
Not for Kids Only (Jerry Garcia, David Grisman)
African Playground (Putumayo)
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Best '60s pop use of sitar - "Mother's Little Helper"?
I'd go with "Paint it Black" over "Mother's Little Helper". At least I seem to recall there's sitar when I play the song in my head - it may be the monkey crack talking.
I'd go with "Paint it Black" over "Mother's Little Helper".
They both definitely rank highly....
Now I'm wondering - how big of a "fad" was the sitar back in the psychedelic days? I know the Beatles really popularized it and the Stones jumped on the bandwagon (and then jumped off shortly after) - how many other popular rock groups of that era used the sitar?
Feeling cautiously optimistic, I downloaded iTunes 7 last night. I'm down 17 songs, from 27,932 to 27,915, but I guess they could have been duplicates.
I don't know how much of a fad the sitar was. You don't hear it that much on either of the Nuggets sets, for instance, but that may have had a lot to do with price.
megan - I do not have ANY of those. feel free to wait until he arrives. I think the mixes I am making will only be on my iPod. I do not plan to take a computer or a CD player since bag space will be a huge issue (orphanage supplies going over and items from Ethiopia for our house on the way back). IOW - THANKS!
I know the Beatles really popularized it and the Stones jumped on the bandwagon (and then jumped off shortly after) - how many other popular rock groups of that era used the sitar?
I'm reading Marianne Faithfull's autobiography now (great read, incidentally! Drugs! Sex! Dressing up in funny costumes! Travel to exotic locations! Gossip!) and they certainly listened to a lot of sitar. It was de rigeuer for dropping acid. But using sitar in pop songs wasn't nearly as common as other sixties musical fads like the electric harpsichord (my fav) or the Moog.
I posted a cover of "Black is Black" by Lord Sitar a while back on buffistarawk.
You forgot "Mars Bars!".
Heh. She goes off on the Mars Bars incident. To paraphrase, "It's so stupid. It's what martini drinking old men would think is the sort of thing you'd do when you were on acid."
The best parts are her adventures with Anita Pallenberg who's just the most over-the-top and around-the-bend, decadent Black Queen you can imagine.
Heh. She goes off on the Mars Bars incident. To paraphrase, "It's so stupid. It's what martini drinking old men would think is the sort of thing you'd do when you were on acid."
Hey, to paraphrase ...LIBERTY VALANCE, when the lurid rumour is better than the truth, print the rumour.
The best parts are her adventures with Anita Pallenberg who's just the most over-the-top and around-the-bend, decadent Black Queen you can imagine.
This I can totally believe. I really must get my hands on a copy of that Faithfull book.
On a tangential note, if you could be any swinging-60s celeb for a day, say via a BEING JOHN MALKOVICH type scenario, who would you be?
