Music to be happy to

I found this music video, and it's very good.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3147787/a_ca_pella//

It's always amazing to me how much music can help us feel emotions.

Enjoy

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Joe

Thinking about the subject "Music to be happy to" I stumbled on this, one of my very best favourites. At one time I just had to play the whole album at least once a day!! It never failed to uplift me and make me feel happy as I danced around the kitchen and sang along to it.
 
This is just a small clip of the live concert from Edinburgh castle.  If I had to use one word to describe the whole concert, it would be 'Joy' expecially at the end when the Scottish bagpipes and everything, including fireworks get involved. Pity that isn't on this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4SSJnvCZE
 
Jude
 

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i  am a fan of the edinburgh tattoo.  i always get a shivery sensation down my back when the lone piper plays right at the top of the castle.
 
there are plenty of pieces of music that help me get calm or feeling feelings that i have managed to try hide until now.  i like fingels cave.  and the moonlight sonata, as well as things like beautiful by christina aguilera.

If any of you
have browsed around on YouTube
you will understand how I arrived at this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAU1tXGMNvw
after visiting Jude's link to Mike Oldfield . . .
 
not a lively type of happy song,
but a heartbreakingly beautiful expression of love . . .
part of it is because it brings back memories
both painful and lovely
from the years I lived in Maine . . .
part of it a sense of 'masks-off' simplicity . . .
it invokes dancing,
but a different sort of dance,
which in the end,
gives to me joy,
sense of grace
and opens my heart to more
with love and tears . . .
sparrow
 

everything counts... ♥

Now wipe your tears . .
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QMT6XlIGs
 
♥

everything counts... ♥

I found some Goon Shows on YouTube today where I found this..
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc&feature=related
 
The Goon Show brings back happy memories of the highlight of our week on the radio (before we had a TV) in the 1950s.
My poor Mother never did understand why were all so helpless with laughter every week!!
 

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i know i maybe thick but what was the goons show?  ive nnever heard ir seen anything anywhere of them.  are they fun and do they make happy or sad music?

Dear Eleanor,
 
You aren't "thick" just too young to know about the Goon Show. It was a comedy radio program in the U.K. in the late 1950s with Spike Milligan, (who wrote the scripts) Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and others.
 
They were completely different to any comedians ever seen or heard before, and inspired many modern comedians like The Monty Python Show (which you may also be too young to know about)
 
Basically, they got together each week with their script, and made each other laugh, as well as their audiences.
Here is one of their programs. The other two parts are also on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0ONww0rrw&feature=related
 
Jude
 
 

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thanks Jude.  i will have a look at that link because it sounds great fun!!!

The Goon Show brings back happy memories of the highlight of our week on the radio (before we had a TV) in the 1950s. My poor Mother never did understand why were all so helpless with laughter every week!!

I didn't realise that you were in my family!  The memory of listening to the Goons each week is one of the few really good memories I have.

Thanks for the links.

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Joe

do they ever broadcast the goons on radio or tv now?

I don't think they do. It's a long time since I heard one on the radio, and I think that was something like a 40 years anniversary type of thing. All the people in the show are now dead.
 
Jude

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The memory of listening to the Goons each week is one of the few really good memories I have.

 
Joe, did you have 'Journey into Space' as well?

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This is a funny song that always seem to give me a lift when I hear it.   Hope you enjoy it.

dont let the rain come down -

May you be blessed!

Jessica....this takes me back a bit!!
 
And the rhyme he sings takes me back even further!
 
Jude

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Thanks Jessica . . .
. . . remembering those lighthearted times . .
and bringing them back
with a song
with love . . .
sparrow
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i dot know whether anyone will remember this but does anyone know what i meanif i mention the TV called spitting image.  its was risky sometimes but once they did a song as a send up to star trek.  they only title type things i remember is -
 
theres clingons on the starboard bound
 
 

Is this the one Eleanor?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE
 
 

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yep thats the one Jude.  it was such a weird video and yet the music stook in the head and then find myself humming the tune of it an hour later!!!   oh /dear.....:D....crelly corny...!

oh /dear.....:D....crelly corny...!

 

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have you ever heard victoria wood singing this really funny song which all i know it as is i cant do it or lets fall in love?  do youf like that one Jude?
 
dancing dolphin

Good old YouTube!
 
I'm not a great Vicoria Wood fan, but this is very funny!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZCIKjYDf1g
 
 

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Not just good old you tube, but thankyou Jude for finding that song.  im not a massive fan of victoria wood as ive watched one of her comedy shows where shes on the stage and goes a irt out of order.
 
but hearing that song always makes me roar with laughter because its so funny and not too off the plot!!!

Eleanor, you might like this one....
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLT4qKhAv1U&NR=1
 

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Hi Jude.
 
that video is beautiful and is very moving.  and the plants and fairies are calming and show Gods creations beautifully.
 
Thanks for posting that.
 
love from dancing dolphin

When going back to listen to Flowers of the Forest I found this...also very moving with some beautiful images
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2CEfrAonw&NR=1&feature=fvwp
 

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thanks for posting this for us Jude.  it is beautifulpictures and the music is very soothing and yet sad as well. 

Here's a version of this song I hadn't heard before, and it is EXTRAORDINARY!!!!

Lizz Wright

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Looking at the list of people who have sung Nature Boy, I think it's probably Ella Fitzgerald I remember. I seem to remember it was a woman.
 
Jude

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. . . "hauntingly beautiful"
comes to mind . . .
Thank you for this
    ♥

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i dont know whether anyone like this and im not much up on youtube, but has anyone heard f the song you raise me up? - alot of people have sung it recently, but my favourite is Josh Groban, and i can feel the power of the song and the words which to me are to  be sung to God.   it is beautiful and helps me to pray when im struggling coming into Gods presence.
 
dancing dolphin.

For you Eleanor......
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqRlO3wa1A&feature=related

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Danuvideo#p/a
 

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Dear Eleanor . . .
This simple little song
always calms me
and makes me smile through the tears . . .
with love . . .
sparrow
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGWTAe3M6U&feature=fvw
ps. amazing . . .
the power of music to heal!

everything counts... ♥

What Synchronicity!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am listening to a Donovan CD right now.
 
This one isn't on it though...it's so sweet.
 
Jude

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. . . there are no coincidences,
are there,
dear Jude . . .

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I can vouch for the transformative power of music!!!
 
This morning I had a 'rude' awakening because my dog had had an accident and I was ordered to "wash that floor, don't leave it like that." by my Son's girlfriend. (I ask you! )
So......in my own time I put on a Rock & Roll album and set to work on the floor. I was REALLY angry.
 
Then comes this song, much beloved by me as a teenage rock & roller!! and I feel much better now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJtBKLrU0Ig&NR=1
 
Jude
 

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....forgot to tell you, the girlfriend called the floor "a disgusting mess" and I wanted to reply, "Oh, and are you going to clean up the disgusting mess you left in the kitchen?" (meaning the array of dirty dishes, pots and pans and general messiness from the night before) but I didn't say a word.
 
Jude

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Talking of old songs that help, here's Lizz Wright's version of Cat Stevens favorite of mine.  She's my current most favorite singer, and I think she'll stay there.  I think it's a lot to do with how comfortable she is being her.  I can't think of another singer who has a voice like hers. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjAXFce7sSA&feature=related

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Joe

I agree with you Joe....she's got a unique voice. Funnily enough I was listening to the Cat Stevens version only a day or two ago on YouTube!
 
Jude

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