le dimanche 09 août 2009 [n° 2337] Music
The Las Vegas story (1952)
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THE LAS VEGAS STORY (1952) - Music by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Harold Adamson
My Resistance Is Low was written in 1951 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Harold Adamson (lyrics) and was featured in the movie The Las Vegas Story. The song was largely ignored in the US but became a big hit in the ...
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le samedi 08 août 2009 [n° 2336] Music
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell ya
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very very mad world,
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
lyrics by Tears For Fears - interpreted by Adam Lambert ((Adam Lambert: "Mad World" ...
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le lundi 11 août 2008 [n° 2189] Cinema
The Thomas Crown affair
The windmills of your mind
Round,
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel,
Never ending on beginning,
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain,
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Spinning silently in space
Like ...
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le vendredi 25 juillet 2008 [n° 2144] China
Xiang Shui You Du by Hu Yang Lin
Album: Xiang Shui You Du
Lyrics : (in HanYu PinYin for all Chinese learners)
wo cengjing ai guo zheyang yige nanren
ta shuo wo shi shishang zuimei de nuren
wo wei ta baoliu zhe na yifen tianzhen
guanshang ai bieren de men
yeshi zhege bei wo shen ai de nanren
ba wo biancheng shishang zuiben de nuren
ta shuode mei ju ...
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le vendredi 18 avril 2008 [n° 2029] Music
Scott recorded someone singing an excerpt from the French folksong "Au Clair de la Lune" on April 9, 1860, and deposited the results with the Académie des Sciences in 1861.
Sound presentation
The World’s Oldest Sound Recordings Played For The First Time (pdf)
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source : First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and ...
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