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(72,300 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)malthaussen
(17,066 posts)With zither.
-- Mal
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Had to listen to the hole thing before replying.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)My sister thought "wimoweh" was "cream o wheat"
Doc_Technical
(3,504 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)One of my sisters used that at her wedding, I think. We have a JD piano songbook with all his best in it. Fun to play.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 28, 2016, 11:59 AM - Edit history (1)
Jethro Tull comes to mind right away:
That takes care of the jungle and the woods. Now let's turn our attention to the forest.
From 1977 comes this song by Todd Rundgren's Utopia. I bought the album when it came out.
Those Bearsville pressings were just wonderful - with one exception. The last stage of quality control at Bearsville consisted of spraying the surface of the record with Elmer's Glue-All. Once you removed that, you were in for a wonderful sonic treat. They way to get the glue spray out of the grooves was to run your turntable in reverse and play the record backward. No kidding. An AR turntable can be coaxed into doing this. Well, I know that the single-motor ones from the 1960s can do this. The others, I cannot say.
The stylus would flick the spray particles from the groove as the record rotated counterclockwise. This wouldn't work in the clockwise direction, as the stylus would just jump over the spray without removing it.
I'm not making this up. I did this to several bad spots on several Bearsville records. I never damaged either a stylus or a record.
Anyway, this is just astonishing on a hifi system. No mp3 file can do this justice.
Here's the album: Ra (Utopia album)
The lyrics: Singring & The Glass Guitar Lyrics
The fire-breathing dragon in search of the third key.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I had the Tull songs in miond when I started the OP.
The Utopia song is new to me - and I've never heard of the Elmers Glue thing! I liked the song a lot.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)I wish to emphasize that I am not making up that trick about running an AR turntable in reverse to clean up the surface of a record. I have done that many times.
The AR turntable is my favorite hifi component. No other device in all of hifi offered greater performance at such a low price. I have about four of them, I think. I got my most recent one, about four years ago, off the top of a trash pile.
Thanks for the thread.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)and Jungle King made me think of Jungle Boogie, which made me wonder how many "jungle" songs there might be.
I added woods & forests to expand the topic, after thinking more about Jethro Tull.
I have a B&O turntable I bought in the 1980s - I've occasionally had to track down a stylus on the internet.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)can you put anyone's cartridge on the arm?
The B&O 4002, circa 1976, had an arm that took only a B&O cartridge, unless there were a few aftermarket cartridges that could fit it that I can't recall. The arm could be modified, but it took some doing.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I played this one for my kids:
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)I was driving from Alexandria, Virginia, to Charlottesville, Virginia, on December 31, 1980. I was listening to NPR. They played that song, but it was performed by a full orchestra. That works out really well.
I have no idea who the orchestra was.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)...'cause nobody else posted it yet. Get down!
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)MH1
(17,537 posts)Okay, different kind of jungle, but ANY excuse to post Springsteen!
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Skittles
(152,966 posts)a dreadful song from the awesome movie Valley of the Dolls!
Donkees
(31,086 posts)pfitz59
(10,198 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)malthaussen
(17,066 posts)A Walk in the Black Forest
-- Mal
DFW
(54,056 posts)by Joni Mitchell