Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts
8.26.2007
CIAO AMORE! AMADO MIA
It's been said that ever since we got back from Italy, I've been stuck in a tranche of Italian music.
I admit finding myself saying "grazia" instead of merely "thank you," but I reconverted all my euros (except the coins) and have tipped my toe into the editing of more than 5GB of digital images.
And here I am. Listening to Italian love songs I don't understand.
Home sweet home – I see I have jumped the shark, amado mia, what shall we do now? Love me forever, it has already begun.
This band, Pink Martini, sings this ballad Amado Mia on Ciao Amore!
and the above video matches it with the old Glenn Ford - Rita Hayworth film, Gilda, with the same song.
You don't have to like that kind of music to get swept into it.
Anyway, it turns out Pink Martini will be performing at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on March 11, 2008. It would give you a chance to enjoy their eclectic sound.
Pink Martini
7:30 pm
Prudential Hall
The music of this 12-piece ensemble has been compared to a romantic Hollywood musical of the 1940s or 1950s – but with a global perspective that’s decidedly modern.
I first heard this song on a compilation CD I bought at Starbucks. I do recommend the disk, but be forewarned, there's a lot of music you will not be able to stop yourself from singing along with - whether you know what you're saying, or not.
Various Artists, Ciao Amore!
The tunes on Ciao Amore are for lovers, baby. Feel the smoke in your eyes. Hear the rhythm of your beating heart. Sense the Bella Notte weave its magic spell of enchantment around you on a long drifting note. Now come dance ... or call for another cappuccino. That's amore.
Copyright © 2007 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.
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9.14.2006
ROCK STEADY - 1971 (Starbucks 35th Anniversary)
Celebrating its 35th year of selling coffee, the Starbucks Coffee chain is selling a CD of dorm favorite hits from 1971. (Maybe their coffee helped a lot of college students stay up for those all-night cram sessions?)
ROCK STEADY 1971 is a pleasant surprise among the CD racks of modern music and Modern Times.
Having been one who listened to WNEW-FM in those days when they played album music (sometimes whole album sides at a time! without commercials - so you could put your cassette recorder up against the speakers and tape it til you got to Two Guys) and before what's being sold now was called Classic - back when it was THE music.
Nothing to complain about on this CD (besides the effect of the typeface on old eyes). You get John Lennon singing "Jealous Guy," The Kinks and Joni Mitchell, too.
Plus there's Al Green singing "I'm So Tired Of Being Alone" and The Doors with "Riders on the Storm" and Marviin Gaye with "Mercy, Mercy Me" and Stevie Wonder with "If You Really Love Me."
The CD winds down, LOL, with Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady", David Bowie's "Changes" and Santana's "No One To Depend On".
It finished with Janis Joplin's a cappella "Mercedes Benz" tune.
So many of these songs make this poor old Baby Boomer want to sing along!
If you're in the U.S., you can get the ROCK STEADY 1971 CD for $13.95, plus tax. I guess, while supplies last. Your mileage may vary.
Copyright © 2006 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.
ROCK STEADY 1971 is a pleasant surprise among the CD racks of modern music and Modern Times.
Having been one who listened to WNEW-FM in those days when they played album music (sometimes whole album sides at a time! without commercials - so you could put your cassette recorder up against the speakers and tape it til you got to Two Guys) and before what's being sold now was called Classic - back when it was THE music.
Nothing to complain about on this CD (besides the effect of the typeface on old eyes). You get John Lennon singing "Jealous Guy," The Kinks and Joni Mitchell, too.
Plus there's Al Green singing "I'm So Tired Of Being Alone" and The Doors with "Riders on the Storm" and Marviin Gaye with "Mercy, Mercy Me" and Stevie Wonder with "If You Really Love Me."
The CD winds down, LOL, with Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady", David Bowie's "Changes" and Santana's "No One To Depend On".
It finished with Janis Joplin's a cappella "Mercedes Benz" tune.
So many of these songs make this poor old Baby Boomer want to sing along!
If you're in the U.S., you can get the ROCK STEADY 1971 CD for $13.95, plus tax. I guess, while supplies last. Your mileage may vary.
Copyright © 2006 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.
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