Randy Newman: Korean Parents

Kids today got problems
Like their parents never had
Neighborhoods are dangerous
The public schools are bad
At home there are distractions
So irresistible
The hours fly by
No work gets done

Some Jewish kids still trying
Some white kids trying too
But millions of real American kids
Don't have a clue
Right here on the lot
We got the answer
A product guaranteed to satisfy

Korean parents for sale
You say you're not all
That you want to be
You say you got a bad environment
Your work at school's not going well

Korean parents for sale
You say you need a little discipline
Someone to whip you into shape
They'll be strict but they'll be fair

Look at the numbers
That's all I ask
Who's at the head of every class?
You really think
They're smarter than you are
They just work their asses off
Their parents make them do it

[Saleslady]:
Oh, learn to play the violin
Oh, to turn your homework
In right on time

What a load off
Your back that will be
No tears
No regret
Never forget who sent Fido
To the farm

The greatest generation
Your parents aren't
The greatest generation
So sick of hearing about
The greatest generation
That generation could be you
So let's see what you can do
Korean parents and you

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The Lonely Goatherd from the Sound of Music

Novi Singers 1969

Perry Como Seattle

Animusic

Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado

Randy Newman - A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - HOLLYWOOD

Mario Frangoulis - Come What May

Claudio Arrau Chopin Nocturne 2 Op. 9 No 2

Away, Rio By The Kingston Trio

They Call The Wind Maria by The Kingston Trio

Away out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire. The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe. They call the wind Maria.
Maria blows the stars around and sets the clouds a-flyin'. Maria makes the mountains sound like folks was out there dyin'.
Maria. (Maria). Maria. (Maria). They call the wind Maria.

Before I knew Maria's name and heard her wail and whinin', I had a gal. She had me and the sun was always shinin'.
But then one day I left my gal. I left her far behind me and now I'm lost, so gol' darn lost not even God can find me.
Maria. (Maria.) Maria. (Maria.) They call the wind Maria.

Out here they have a name for rain and wind and fire only. When you're lost and all alone, there ain't no name for lonely.
And I'm a lost and lonely man without a star to guide me. Maria blow my love to me. I need my gal beside me.
Maria. (Maria.) They call the wind Maria. Maria! Maria. (Maria.) They call the wind Maria.

Billy Joel,Ray Charles-Baby Grand

Enya - Caribbean Blue

Bobby Darin - Simple Song of Freedom

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

Ella Fitzgerald : One note Samba scat

Polina Shepherd and Fanfara

Carl Perkins & Friends Rockabilly Session

JOHNNY MAESTRO (Live) - Worst That Could Happen

JOHNNY MAESTRO (Live) - Worst That Could Happen

R.I.P. Herb Ellis

Herb Ellis, Jazz Guitarist, Is Dead at 88
By PETER KEEPNEWS

Herb Ellis, a jazz guitarist whose polished, blues-inflected playing earned him critical acclaim as an outstanding soloist and worldwide recognition as a member of the pianist Oscar Peterson’s trio, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.

The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Mitch.

Mr. Ellis was an early disciple of Charlie Christian, whose deft improvisations, built on long single-note lines, established the template for modern jazz guitar in the 1940s. But he was always more than an imitator: his style mixed the harmonic sophistication of bebop with the earthy directness of the blues and seasoned the blend with a twang more typical of country music than jazz.

While never a major star, he was long a favorite of critics and musicians. In 1959 a fellow guitarist, Jim Hall, praised his “fantastic fire and drive.” In 1990 Gary Giddins of The Village Voice raved about the “easy, loping quality” of his playing, “buoyed by familiar dissonances yet surprisingly free of cliché.”

Mitchell Herbert Ellis was born in Farmersville, Tex., on Aug. 4, 1921, and played banjo and harmonica as a child before taking up guitar. He studied at North Texas State Teachers College (now the University of North Texas), one of the first colleges to offer instruction in jazz (and later the first to offer a jazz degree).

In 1947 he and two associates from Jimmy Dorsey’s band, the pianist Lou Carter and the bassist Johnny Frigo, formed the vocal and instrumental trio the Soft Winds, whose song “Detour Ahead” became a jazz standard, recorded most memorably by Billie Holiday.

He first attracted wide attention during his five-year stint with Peterson’s popular group, which, like the Soft Winds, included a bassist (Ray Brown) but no drummer. The absence of a percussionist required Mr. Ellis to provide the rhythmic foundation for Peterson’s energetic playing as well as the guitar solos; he did it so well that when he left the trio in 1958, Peterson replaced him not with another guitarist but with a drummer.

Mr. Ellis’s reputation grew when he toured and recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, from 1958 to 1962. He was also a frequent participant in the impresario and record producer Norman Granz’s all-star Jazz at the Philharmonic touring shows, and in Granz-supervised recording sessions led by Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and, on occasion, Mr. Ellis himself.

When jazz fell out of fashion in the 1960s, Mr. Ellis became a busy studio musician in Los Angeles, earning his living mainly on television variety shows. He returned to jazz in 1973, teaming with his fellow guitarists Barney Kessel and Charlie Byrd in the group Great Guitars. He recorded frequently over the next two decades, with that group and as a leader, for the Concord Jazz label.

In addition to his son, of Los Angeles, Mr. Ellis is survived by his wife of 52 years, the former Patti Gahagan; a daughter, Kari Ellis Yedor, also of Los Angeles; and three grandchildren.

"Keep Your Sunny Side Up! Johnny Hamp

Marian the Librarian

Malena Miguel De Caro

Tango: Malena (Homero Manzi)
Miguel De Caro: tenor saxophone - saxofon tenor
Original and traditional tangos with the fascinating mix of tradition and the sonorities, openness and freedom qualities of Jazz and World Music by Miguel De Caro on saxophone

Pete Fountain - Jazz Me Blues

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

MISTY ERROLL GARNER

Stephane Grappelli Plays "How High The Moon"

Leonard Cohen "Democracy"

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

Rube Goldberg Machine version

Nikki Yanofsky - Over The Rainbow

Nikki Yanofsky - Over The Rainbow

Venus by Shocking Blue

Ray Lynch - The Oh of Pleasure

Sarah Brightman Dust In The Wind

National Anthem USA

Skeeter Davis - The end of the world

Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
‘Cause you don’t love me any more
Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was
I can’t understand, no, I can’t understand
How life goes on the way it does
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Regina Spektor Eet