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I didn't know Jeff Foxworthy and Oprah were in a band together???

Bernie wrote:

Wish it were true. I used to play with a guy by the name ofGrayson Hugh who has absolute pitch. The band could never be in tuneenough for him, especially when he was drunk.

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=nLSpfm6hoWE&feature=related

Bernie

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> From: Mark Pring markpringnz@ ...
> To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 6:45 pm
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
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> Being told that Mike Pinder was influenced by Mantovani ranks justbehind Mike Dixon telling me that Sandy Denny sang out of tune, in alist? of things I wish I didn't know.
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> I can no longer listen to Sandy Denny and I suspect the MoodyBlues are about to suffer the same fate.
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> --- On Sun, 9/28/08, tomdcour tomdcour@... wrote:
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> From: tomdcour tomdcour@...
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
> To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:13 AM
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> Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovanihad been an influence on his
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> mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains of "Loveis a Many Splendored
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> Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I visitedhad a clip of the music that
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> Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew Overthe Cuckoo's Nest". This
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> put me in a bad frame of mind to be open to Mr. Mantovani. IndeedI started to suspect that
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> he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60'sand 70's while my mom was
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> shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then Ibegan to read about some of
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> his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back tothe clip, I was no longer
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> sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb orthe string section doing
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> something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank ofviolins playing the melody and
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> another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet anotherand another- simulating
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> reverb. The effect, if you can bear to listen to it, is veryinteresting. Anyone know anything
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> more about cascading strings or Mr. Mantovani?
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