Comments on: A song for Memorial Day https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:11:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lee Also https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557622 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:11:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557622 I really hate, despise, loathe, abhor, detest the Derry Air / Danny Boy.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557583 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:04:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557583 om. I’ve been at or participated in nine funerals with honors. Can’t stand much more.
Evancho’s voice is particularly suited to this song, or to this application of it.

So I think about watching and….do….or don’t.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557576 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:03:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557576 Richard Aubrey:

The link – “Danny Boy” by Jackie Evancho

https://youtu.be/VSSMl8uJ11Q

]]> By: Hubert https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557575 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:56:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557575 Low-tech homegrown Welsh Danny Boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_XJFp5JXpk

]]> By: Richard+Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557572 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:12:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557572 Youtube has “Danny Boy” by Jackie Evancho with footage from military funerals.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557553 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:14:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557553 I just noticed today that Mark Knopfler has been solo since 1995 and put out many more albums than he did with Dire Straits.

I haven’t heard much of his solo work besides his collaborations with Chet Atkins and Emmylou Harris.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557552 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:07:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557552 Oh.. and there was a bit of a Ulysses Boom in the mid-80s when I bought my first copy of the book: Gabler’s (now much maligned) re-edited version which popped up on store shelves because heavily pimped by Penguin

Zaphod:

I bought a nice hardcover of Gabler’s “Ulysses” when I visited London in the 90s. My old Modern Library copy was falling apart. I missed the Joyce Wars over the Gabler — it serves my purposes as well as the ML version. However, the paperback brick Gabler that’s everywhere looks dreadful for reading.

I got into Joyce because a couple close college friends were hip-deep in Joyce. It was still a fashionable book for lit types to read. That’s no longer my impression — hence my question to you.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557551 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 05:49:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557551 om:

I’m fond of Ronan Tynan’s “Mansions of the Lord”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OUDZiONk1o

That’s the biggest tenor voice I’ve ever heard. Turns out his is also a rather amazing story — starting with a congenital deformity of his legs to having them amputated below the knees, then becoming a top para-athlete, then an MD as well as a sought-after voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Tynan

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557540 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 02:16:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557540 Not my country (GDR) and not their holiday. Memorial Day.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/05/31/a-song-for-memorial-day-5/#comment-2557537 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:49:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107548#comment-2557537 Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtV9p7gKBo

And if you’re into cognitive and and aural dissonance, there’s this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYRCgK85PtQ

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