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There is a place in my heart for ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”.

Well over 10 years ago my wife and I went to the village of Katsunuma in Yamanashi Prefecture (Japan) for a special barbeque party at a hotel nestled in the wine vineyards of Katsunuma. This area is basically the Napa Valley of Japan. The party featured a cover band from Tokyo that played oldies. The band was good, they had two female lead singers that sang as good as one can expect from a professional cover band. At the end of the night on their second encore (when everybody was feeling pretty good [I mean really good] on a belly full of wine) they performed ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”. The place exploded! People started dancing on their tables, people were going nuts! BTW, this was a middle aged crowd.

I clearly remember the two female singers looking at each other (almost in shock) wondering what the hell was happening. The room was like spontaneous combustion in the most euphoric way possible. It was like a scene from the movie Cocoon when the old folks were suddenly filled with youthful energy.

Anyway, it was a terrific moment in time and a wonderful memory. Prior to that night ABBA was just ABBA to me, after that night I was converted to an ABBA fan for life.

All the best,
Mike
 
Yokosuka_Mike said:
There is a place in my heart for ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”.

Well over 10 years ago my wife and I went to the village of Katsunuma in Yamanashi Prefecture (Japan) for a special barbeque party at a hotel nestled in the wine vineyards of Katsunuma. This area is basically the Napa Valley of Japan. The party featured a cover band from Tokyo that played oldies. The band was good, they had two female lead singers that sang as good as one can expect from a professional cover band. At the end of the night on their second encore (when everybody was feeling pretty good [I mean really good] on a belly full of wine) they performed ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”. The place exploded! People started dancing on their tables, people were going nuts! BTW, this was a middle aged crowd.

I clearly remember the two female singers looking at each other (almost in shock) wondering what the hell was happening. The room was like spontaneous combustion in the most euphoric way possible. It was like a scene from the movie Cocoon when the old folks were suddenly filled with youthful energy.

Anyway, it was a terrific moment in time and a wonderful memory. Prior to that night ABBA was just ABBA to me, after that night I was converted to an ABBA fan for life.

All the best,
Mike
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The ironic thing is, my only vinyl copy of this classic happens to be a Japanese Discomate LP of "Abba's Greatest Hits, Volume 2". I do own the Atlantic CD of the same title, and a late Swedish Polar CD of it, too!
 
Christian McBride's New Jawn "Prime". A bit too much free jazz for my taste but, damn, McBride can play the bass.
 
The Spastic Image said:
I am listening to the Kapp Mono LP, Jack Jones/Wives & Lovers. One of the best Space Age lounge albums from the Jet Set era!
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I'm listening to Peter Nero's 1976 LP "Wives and Lovers.

I copied it from LP to CD and then loaded it onto my IPOD.

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All the best,
Mike
 
this mashup is more than 10 ysr old by Mark Vidler, and was published

Rapture x Riders, Harry and Morrison

'Rapture' is a very interesting song lesser known by Blondie, 'Riders on the Storm' is of course, masterpiece

Sound quality is pretty good


i want to 'upgrade' my Hivi-Swans active speakers, to passive Kanto ( Canada ) or Q Audio ( UK ), but it sounds very good...
 
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an 1979 released Blondie song that made a huge hit, an iconic Blondie

this is a 2011 live DirectTV performance, at the time Debbie Harry was 66

Heart of Glass

put the Bass at 1 pm click, the song quality is very good, very good back ups too, Chris Stein ( Ms Harry's partner) did a little guitar solo there,
The song and lyrics was written by the couple, very nice song
 
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