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Strong Songs

The Beatles, Brubeck, Bond and Beyond

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 β€’ 2.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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It's time for an extra-long episode as Kirk answers your questions about Phil Collins drum solos, musical Wilhelm screams, odd time signatures, Beatles instrumentation, drop-tuned guitars, Bond music, and much more. STRONG SONGS ON PATREON Strong Songs has a Patreon! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs SHOW NOTES/LINKS β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins from Face Value, 1981 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” Jennifer Hudson sings "The Star Spangled Banner" by Frances Scott Key and John Stafford Smith at Super Bowl XLIII, 2009 β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” A YouTube compilation of the Wilhelm Scream An excellent Vox video on the history of the "Orchestra Hit" sample "When I Think of You" by Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis from Control, 1986 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "In My Life" by Lennon–McCartney from Rubber Soul, 1965 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" by Ben Gibbard from Plans, 2006 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” A cool NPR article about Paul Tanner's Tannerin, developed as a more playable derivation of Leon Theremin's original Theremin. "Good Vibrations" by Brian Wilson and Mike Love from a 1966 Beach Boys LP Single Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "Blue Rondo a la Turk" by Dave Brubeck from Time Out, 1959 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by Lennon-McCartney from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Money" by Roger Waters from The Dark Side Of The Moon, 1973 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "The Way" by Tony Scalzo from All The Pain Money Can Buy, 1998 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire" by Josh Homme and Mario Lalli from Songs for the Deaf, 2002 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "Mind Games" by John Lennon from Mind Games, 1973 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify A nifty "Doctor Mix" YouTube video demonstrating the Mellotron β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "Theme from Dr. No" by Monty Norman, arranged by John Barry from Dr. No, 1962 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Skyfall" by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth from Skyfall, 2012 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Manners Maketh Man" by Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson (I failed to co-credit Margeson on the show) from Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2015 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "Permission to Come Aboard" by Rupert Gregson-Williams from Aquaman, 2018 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Wonder Woman Theme" by Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL performed by Tina Guo, released as a single in 2017 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” "Gimme Shelter" by Jagger/Richards from Let It Bleed, 1969 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify NEWSLETTER/MAILING LIST Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: https://kirkhamilton.substack.com/subscribe STRONG MERCH! Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: store.strongsongspodcast.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to Strong Songs A Podcast about Music. I am your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you have joined me yet again to talk about music and what makes it so great.

0:14.0

I've been really happy with the reception that last episode about Thriller God, it seemed like a whole lot of people really enjoyed that.

0:20.0

And which was cool because I had a lot of fun making that episode and it really it was cool going back and listening to that song and sort of picking out all of these things that I haven't heard before

0:27.8

So I'm glad that everybody enjoyed listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. More people than ever are

0:33.1

listening to this show now more people come on board with every episode which

0:36.2

has been really nice to see. Thanks so much to everybody who has spread the word

0:39.2

told their friends about it. If you know anybody who you think might like it,

0:42.3

tell them I want millions of people to listen to this show and come and appreciate these strong songs with me each episode. We also went well past 100 ratings on the Apple Podcast app, is wonderful I believe I said last time that

0:53.6

makes that makes strong songs a real podcast so we are now a real podcast of

0:57.5

course that doesn't mean you shouldn't rate the show if you haven't already

1:00.0

because that helps people find it I think that helps it be more visible and it's just generally nice to have a lot of ratings and reviews.

1:06.0

So you know, please leave a review if you haven't if you have time or at least go and give me some stars if you have time for that.

1:12.0

On the last episode I asked if listeners could send in their questions about specific things

1:16.0

in songs, things they'd always wondered about, things they would like me to try to answer

1:19.6

on the show.

1:20.6

I was really happy with how many people wrote in. It was very cool. I got

1:23.6

probably more questions than I could answer on the show and I thought that this

1:27.5

week we would actually go ahead and do that and so I'm doing a question and

1:31.0

answer episode this week. This is the first time I've ever done one of these.

1:33.7

Hopefully it'll be cool, it's a little bit of an experiment, but we'll see how it goes.

1:37.1

So we'll get to that in one moment.

1:39.4

Before we do, just a quick thought about music and the practice of music and having music be in your life.

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