"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat." Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777)
Seems to me that songs I don’t fall in love with *right away*, but rather grow on me over a year or two, become my favorites.
I was lucky enough to see and hear the fantastic Jeff Lynne with *his* E.L.O. in Philadelphia last month.
Seems to me that songs I don’t fall in love with *right away*, but rather grow on me over a year or two, become my favorites.
When the band played this in my wife’s home town of Philadelphia last month, SHOWDOWN was unexpectedly the song I enjoyed the most.
Respect to all,
matherton
August 9, 2019
It Was A Very Good Year is a song made most famous by Frank “The Chairman” Sinatra.
Handle With Care is a song written and recorded by the Traveling Wilburys.
It Was A Very Good Year is a song made most famous by Frank “The Chairman” Sinatra.
Handle With Care is a song written and recorded by the Traveling Wilburys.
Handle With Care, Traveling Wilburys, contemporary tempo map
The Traveling Wilburys best song in my humble opinion was HANDLE WITH CARE.
median speed charts by Tucker and Dr Stone/ matherton
It was the first song I heard when I arrived at my college in 1981, and indeed, leaving my little town of Harrington Park behind I felt I had made a mistake, I always loved the part of the song where Squeeze’s lead singer sings what I wanted in November 1981 when he sings the classic, “I said to my reflection, ‘let’s get out of this place!’.
“Tempted” plays at a speed where one usually finds songs filled with enthusiasm.
It was the first song I heard when I arrived at my college in 1981, and indeed, leaving my little town of Harrington Park behind I felt I had made a mistake, I always loved the part of the song where Squeeze’s lead singer sings what I wanted in November 1981 when he sings the classic, “I said to my reflection, ‘let’s get out of this place!’.
The song Tempted by Squeeze was measured by J Matherton and me and the diagram of its speed is shown below
Spiron/J Matherton
11/20/2017
Traveling Wilburys’ Handle With Care, speed illustrations by Matherton, BFJ and Dr. Stone.
As Jim Deluva has said – most notably at The Edge’s 35 birthday concert – “When these guys are Roy Orbison’s age, they’ll realize how young they are *now*.” Now that Jim has dropped 20 pounds and still not finished the album he came here to complete in “secrecy”, he’s taken to the Jersey Shore lifestyle. He’d make me take that sentence out bc he’s kinda closer to the age Roy was when this song was played. Knowing James, he’d say, “rub it in man, what are you saying, I can’t finish this album bc of my perfectionism and my past success?” To this, I’d get a rhetorical speech that would just bring *me* unable to help him work. There is no better engineer, no better producer, even, than James Deluva when he is optimistic.
median speed 
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