Entries tagged with “kenny rogers” from kotaraindustries.com, the helsinki branch

Should playlists be mainly around a lyrical, musical, or rhythmic theme?  I hope not.  Because most of my playlists are based around stupid concepts that have very little to do with the actual music.  Sometime I will outline some of these for you (so you can also have dumb playlists and so you can give me more ideas for mine).  But I have to skip that for now to get to the point.

I was mucking around in my iTunes today and it just so happened that two songs with the same name appeared next to each other.  This inspired my latest and possibly most worthless playlist ever which I have called "Same Songs."  I just spent about 30 minutes scrolling through my entire library sorted by song name to find ones with the same name.  As I was scanning that long list, Kenny Rogers' duet with Kim Carnes "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" appeared right above Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" and then about 4 seconds later I found myself absentmindedly singing the melody to the Kenny Rogers' song with the lyrics "Don't fall in love with the reaper..."

This gives me all sorts of ideas for what Valentines I'll send out next month!  Because Lord knows I can't reuse this one of Chris Benoit!

Picture it....

A purply lit stage with lots of gossamer and twinkling lights, butterflies, and then the silhouette of someone descending from the ceiling from a swing.

This is how every episode of "Dolly and Friends" begins. Then she brings out her aforementioned friends, they sing, they gab, Dolly changes outfits with virtually every camera angle change...then suddenly you find yourself looking at a darkened stage with Dolly saying/singing to you how she will always love you, ooh-ooh. Then it's over!

Kenny Rogers was the special friend in the episode I watched yesterday. The whole thing started off with Dolly singing that "knock three times on the ceiling if you love me, and twice on the pipes if the answer is no" song. The camera kept cutting away to what I thought was a stagehand in a closet with a wrench and a pipe, working on something. Then I realized he wasn't working, he was playing percussion. Then I realized that wasn't a stagehand, that was Kenny Rogers! Later he sang the Roy Clark hit "The Worlds Needs a Melody."

Both songs were awesome because they were sort of onomatopoeic in that the percussion/backup music features sounds/instruments specifically mentioned in the lyrics of the song, and I LOVE that. When Dolly sang about banging on the pipes, Kenny banged on a pipe. When Kenny sang about the world needing a drum, the drummer went off on a little snare solo. Other examples include:

• "Western Union" where the singers sing part of the chorus in Morse code.
• That Cake song about a phone call where part of the melody is played using phone tones. (I might be making this up, and if I am, Cake can go ahead and use it.)
• Obviously I need to work on this list, create a playlist for it, and get back to you...

Oh, and Kenny kept banging on the damn pipe.  I know that makes more noise so it's funner and all, but why the hell would you say no to DOLLY PARTON??