Christmas 2008

 

One ritual that goes right back to childhood is the process of taking what you done and drawing them together from end of terms to concluding one form and moving up into the other.

As we go out of the year, two reminders of why this blog is different from Christmas following that box set review.

Although Dandy Xtreme isn't my thing, preferring the 'classic' Dandy, this years annual is more like was when I was younger.

The Beano is pretty much bar a bit of toning down of the Menacing of Dennis as it was in the 70's and like the regular weekly comic today.

They were up in my Christmas pile because the year for me is as an adult but child so things are more child-like and Christmas is like it was in 1974 even if the tv is bigger and has different programs on.

Those programs would be similar to what I watch and as with Blue Peter, actually like the Beano, a little different but basically the same as it was back when John, Lesley and Peter were on.

Thus we look at books most of which go back to that time, look at things from the past that stick in my mind such as school and scouts and anime.

In with this years Christmas presents is this 4 cd long cd box set.

Entitled "Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia" it is a comprehensive set of hits and notable cuts of PhillySoul that for once isn't tied to a specific record label so does a better than average job of surveying the scene so we get acts like the (Detroit) Spinners and the Stylistics in with the mainstays of Philadelphia Records whose selection doesn't cut off 1976 unlike the 1997 3 cd set but goes to it's last glory days in 1983 with Patti LaBelle's If Only You Knew.
it includes a comprehensive booklet with interviews connected with the music one of which does tackle the UK's fascination of the music of Black America.

My presents this compact disc of Cello Music by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens who wrote rather more music than is given credit for.

Most people know his Organ Symphony which I bought in the mid 80's a cd of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim recording from 1976 which I loved on record and of his Samson et Delila.

He wrote a number of pieces for the Cello such as a concerto for cello and this disc adds some marvellous performances recorded ten years ago by the master Cellist Mischa Maisky with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra extremely well recorded to my collection of French music. 

Sometimes I go into what really made me the sissy gurl I am and why this LSG thing is the present rooted in the past.

Going forward, I see more of the same that might take a new like in as it did back then but the one thing that can't be ignored is I remain a a little sissy gurl, forever.