Vesa-Matti Loiri: Kun portin aukaisen

Vesa-Matti Loiri 1945 - 2022.

"So do your duty, boys, and join with pride / Serve your country in her suicide / Find the flags, so you can wave goodbye"

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 at 12:29

Díky Vám

"Sometimes at night the walls talk back to me / they seem to say, wasn't yesterday a better day?"

"See all the trees and lions, pretty lions / maybe witches, playing pitchy-me, spinning rainbows in light"

"Loving you is a world that's strange" * Diamanda Galás: Interlude (Time) * written by Georges Delerue & Hal Shaper for the 1968 film Interlude * recorded at Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand on Oct 25th, 2005 * arranged and produced by D. Galás * released on Apr 1st, 2008

"Her hair of floating sky is shimmering, glimmering / in the sun" * The Beatles: Julia * written by John Lennon; attributed to Lennon-McCartney * produced by George Martin * recorded on Oct 13th, 1968 * released on Nov 22nd, 1968

"Your looks intoxicate me" * The Turtles: Elenore * written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, Jim Pons & John Barbata * produced by Chip Douglas * released in Sep 1968 * uploaded by AvaRitaGrace on Jun 26th, 2011

Eleanor Parker 1922 - 2013

"Of holding hands and red bouquets / and twilight trimmed in purple haze / and laughing eyes and simple ways / and quiet nights and gentle days with you" * Elvis Presley: Memories * written by Billy Strange & Mac Davis * produced by Bones Howe * recorded on Jun 23rd and released on Nov 22nd 1968 * uploaded by doronron100

"On helppoa vaatia kohtaloltaan / mutta alistua siihen on vaikeampaa / pääteasemasi olla nyt voi mikä lie / eikä pitemmälle jatku kulku" * Tapio Rautavaara: Kiskoja pitkin (music by Jaakko Salo, lyrics by Saukki) \ footage from the 2010 rerun (Jul 27th, Jul 30th or Aug 1st on Yle Teema) of Reissumies topparoikassa (premiered on Jan 31st 1968) \ not recorded until 1973

"I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled, yeah yeah" * The Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Jack Flash (Mick Jagger & Keith Richards), released on May 24th 1968, promo film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in May 1968

Btw, 40 years since the entrance of Johnny Boy in Mean Streets

Le fontane di Roma (the movements: 1. La fontana di Valle Giulia all'Alba, 2. La fontana del Tritone al mattino, 3. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio, 4. La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto), written by Ottorino Respighi in 1916, premiered on Mar 11th 1917, performed here by London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by István Kertész) in 1968 or 1969

Otto Donner: Avaruuslaulu (from the film Vihreä leski, 1968)