I saw the Who recently in Seattle. They did a composition based on Tommy with a small orchestral accompaniment. But I am not going to listen to it tonight, Happy!
I listened to most of this while doing my online crosswords and sudoku.
I didn’t listen to all of it because whoever wrote the lyrics for the character made that character a very disgusting individual and it was just too depressing to finish.
I own “MEATY BEATY BIG AND BOUNCY” on vinyl.
Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago
That is one gorgeous background for the Capt. Fantastic pinball game. With analog, gear driven scoring, back before digital scoring was available. Love those old games.
But then, what other way can you look properly at Elhound John?
Or Rodger Dogtree, either.
This image is from the film, but I’ve told here before how the arrival of the original album of the same name… the epic rock opera, “Tommy”, by The Hoowl, on which the film is based…. felt like a major event in my life…
…
It was half a dozen years before the film version.
I’d just started seeing my soon-to-be (but now, late ex) husband, at the very start of our 25-year friendship and business partnership, which includes our four year marriage… a story waaay too complicated for here….
I can’t say it’s my favorite music ever… but hearing any of it will forever evoke that time and place, when my whole world was changing.
…
We were very young… it was a double album, which means} a big expense to either of us, at the time…
But he bought it, and we played it endlessly… over and over,
absorbed in not only the music, but the lyrics, and the story, itself.
It wove pictures, created fantastic characters, told an absorbing tale in the way no previous rock album had ever attempted.
A rock opera, as it was billed,
….
I’ve probably forgotten some, but at that time, I think I knew every word to every song.
I can’t say I could ever howl any of them…. people run away if any member of the Sunshine family even tries to howl or sing “Happy Birthday”.
But the music ran through my day like a whole albumful of earworms.
…
Who could forget the trials of that poor young boy, Tommy, struck psychosomatically blind, deaf and mute by witnessing things his mind wouldn’t accept…
mistreated by relatives and others… … pushed into withdrawal from the world…
Until he discovers pinball… whereupon “He plays by intuition“….and becomes the best player ever.
…
I have to admit that when the movie came out, I didn’t want to see it.
They had added so many characters, trying to erase my mental imagery.
Much as I loved Elhound John, and Teeny Terrier, and all… they were supposed to be imaginary.
If I saw anydog as Tommy, it would have to be Roger Dogtree.
…
But over the years, I’ve watched many clips, and enjoyed them…
and finally wanted to see the whole thing, but it wasn’t available, until the revival .
If it’s back in town now, it’s time again!
Who’s coming?!
…
If you have (still have?)(can still squeeze into?) or can beg or borrow anything psychedelic that you’ve been dying for an occasion to wear, now’s your chance….
but you certainly don’t have to.
You can lose yourself in the music and the tale, let your mind swirl in the spectacle… and just enjoy!
Montana Lady… Now’s your chance to be the hippie you weren’t…
What will you wear?
PerkyCat… were you? Are you ready now?
And anybody too young to have been part of it… It’s 1969 again!
I agree that seeing the movie was and still is something I have avoided. Elton John in lift boots was never part of my visualization of this rock opera. Maybe I will rent it one of these days, but I am not anxious to do so.
dennisinseattle
Member
1 year ago
Is that Elton Hound playing that pinball? You can see where he gets his advantage, “plays by sense of smell.”
From: ; Creative Cooking DESSERTS
Published by Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. 1992
Compiled and edited by: Marian Hoffman.
Designed by: Ruth Ann Thompson.
“Chocolate Soufflé ” Serves 8
1 cup milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
6 tablespoons sugar
2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
4 large egg yolks
6 egg whites
Confectioners’ sugar, to sprinkle 1. Pour milk into saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and chocolate
Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until chocolate melts
Immediately remove pan from heat. 2. Melt butter in another saucepan. Add flour and mix well. Stir in
remaining sugar. Add chocolate mixture. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes,
stirring constantly. 3. Pour chocolate mixture into large bowl; add egg yolks one at a time,
beating constantly with whisk. 4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 5. Beat egg whites in separate bowl until stiff but not dry. With whisk,
gently stir 2 cups of egg whites into chocolate mixture. Mix thoroughly,
Add remaining beaten egg whites. Fold egg whites in gently, cutting
down to bottom of bowl with rubber spatula and scooping up egg whites
while turning the bowl. This will keep egg whites from falling. 6. Pour chocolate mixture into buttered, 2-quart soufflé dish. Bake
for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how dry you want the soufflé.
Remove from oven. Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar and serve hot.
I have used this one at Scout Camp. “Mr. Scott, it is clear that there is NO (stare pointedly at the audience) intelligent life here. Beam me a board.”
Then run screaming like a little girl to escape the 2×4.
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love it.!!!
Mom was quite enamored of this song (and the story from whence it came). Learning to play it was the condition to earn my first electric guitar.
You piqued my curiosity.
Here’s the original version from the movie it was written for; 1955’s “Unchained.”
Here is a LINK to the history of the song (third posting try, maybe I’ll get lucky).
Stel, you kept me up late again with these great musical selections!
I do my best, Dennis! (Glad you enjoyed!!)
I saw the Who recently in Seattle. They did a composition based on Tommy with a small orchestral accompaniment. But I am not going to listen to it tonight, Happy!
I miss the pre-Tommy stuff.
I listened to most of this while doing my online crosswords and sudoku.
I didn’t listen to all of it because whoever wrote the lyrics for the character made that character a very disgusting individual and it was just too depressing to finish.
I own “MEATY BEATY BIG AND BOUNCY” on vinyl.
That is one gorgeous background for the Capt. Fantastic pinball game. With analog, gear driven scoring, back before digital scoring was available. Love those old games.
Ooh… a revival of “Tommy“!!
And still was glittery as glittery can be!
So beautiful!
But then, what other way can you look properly at Elhound John?
Or Rodger Dogtree, either.
This image is from the film, but I’ve told here before how the arrival of the original album of the same name… the epic rock opera, “Tommy”, by The Hoowl, on which the film is based…. felt like a major event in my life…
…
It was half a dozen years before the film version.
I’d just started seeing my soon-to-be (but now, late ex) husband, at the very start of our 25-year friendship and business partnership, which includes our four year marriage… a story waaay too complicated for here….
I can’t say it’s my favorite music ever… but hearing any of it will forever evoke that time and place, when my whole world was changing.
…
We were very young… it was a double album, which means} a big expense to either of us, at the time…
But he bought it, and we played it endlessly… over and over,
absorbed in not only the music, but the lyrics, and the story, itself.
It wove pictures, created fantastic characters, told an absorbing tale in the way no previous rock album had ever attempted.
A rock opera, as it was billed,
….
I’ve probably forgotten some, but at that time, I think I knew every word to every song.
I can’t say I could ever howl any of them…. people run away if any member of the Sunshine family even tries to howl or sing “Happy Birthday”.
But the music ran through my day like a whole albumful of earworms.
…
Who could forget the trials of that poor young boy, Tommy, struck psychosomatically blind, deaf and mute by witnessing things his mind wouldn’t accept…
mistreated by relatives and others… … pushed into withdrawal from the world…
Until he discovers pinball… whereupon “He plays by intuition“….and becomes the best player ever.
…
I have to admit that when the movie came out, I didn’t want to see it.
They had added so many characters, trying to erase my mental imagery.
Much as I loved Elhound John, and Teeny Terrier, and all… they were supposed to be imaginary.
If I saw anydog as Tommy, it would have to be Roger Dogtree.
…
But over the years, I’ve watched many clips, and enjoyed them…
and finally wanted to see the whole thing, but it wasn’t available, until the revival .
If it’s back in town now, it’s time again!
Who’s coming?!
…
If you have (still have?)(can still squeeze into?) or can beg or borrow anything psychedelic that you’ve been dying for an occasion to wear, now’s your chance….
but you certainly don’t have to.
You can lose yourself in the music and the tale, let your mind swirl in the spectacle… and just enjoy!
Montana Lady… Now’s your chance to be the hippie you weren’t…
What will you wear?
PerkyCat… were you? Are you ready now?
And anybody too young to have been part of it… It’s 1969 again!
I agree that seeing the movie was and still is something I have avoided. Elton John in lift boots was never part of my visualization of this rock opera. Maybe I will rent it one of these days, but I am not anxious to do so.
Is that Elton Hound playing that pinball? You can see where he gets his advantage, “plays by sense of smell.”
.
MMM’s favorite breakfast!
R.i.p.
From: ;
Creative Cooking DESSERTS
Published by Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. 1992
Compiled and edited by: Marian Hoffman.
Designed by: Ruth Ann Thompson.
“Chocolate Soufflé ” Serves 8
1 cup milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
6 tablespoons sugar
2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
4 large egg yolks
6 egg whites
Confectioners’ sugar, to sprinkle
1. Pour milk into saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and chocolate
Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until chocolate melts
Immediately remove pan from heat.
2. Melt butter in another saucepan. Add flour and mix well. Stir in
remaining sugar. Add chocolate mixture. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes,
stirring constantly.
3. Pour chocolate mixture into large bowl; add egg yolks one at a time,
beating constantly with whisk.
4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
5. Beat egg whites in separate bowl until stiff but not dry. With whisk,
gently stir 2 cups of egg whites into chocolate mixture. Mix thoroughly,
Add remaining beaten egg whites. Fold egg whites in gently, cutting
down to bottom of bowl with rubber spatula and scooping up egg whites
while turning the bowl. This will keep egg whites from falling.
6. Pour chocolate mixture into buttered, 2-quart soufflé dish. Bake
for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how dry you want the soufflé.
Remove from oven. Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar and serve hot.
Do you too get the impression that somebody had too much time on his hands?
A brilliant invention, but only for the folders among us.
i love when they have bloopers!
I have used this one at Scout Camp. “Mr. Scott, it is clear that there is NO (stare pointedly at the audience) intelligent life here. Beam me a board.”
Then run screaming like a little girl to escape the 2×4.
sorry, guys. not a Elkhound John fan.
but i LOVED the righteous brothers video. i now have my ear worm for the day!!!
My husband sang in the choir with Bill Medley in Santa Ana, Calif. many years ago. Always commented on how nice a guy he was.