It is Saturday evening ...in a pensive mood .... Who
loves this Neil Young song ............ ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHpQFF_Et4s
clarity
I COULD LISTEN To This FOREVER!
by clarity 5 Replies latest jw friends
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talesin
*raises hand*
Me. :))
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clarity
Talesin .....
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rip van winkle
I love this song too. I preferred this one over the Springsteen song that won the Oscar for Philadelphia.
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insearchoftruth4
Beautiful, Thank You Clarity......insotr4
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talesin
ahh,,, Neil! :))
Neil Young wrote this song during the time of what was supposed to be a reunion with his 1970s band, Crazy Horse. When Neil wrote this song, the original version of the melody was more of a peaceful ode to the city. Jonathan Demme thought that this melody was "too pretty," as the ending of the film was dark and sad. So Demme asked Young to fix the melody up a bit, changing a note here and a chord there. Jonathan had to describe to Neil how the film ended, then asked him to base the changes to his melody on the film's ending. Neil was asked to portray himself as if he were Andrew, playing the melody and singing the lyrics with the dark tone of a lost boy in his voice. The original version of Neil Young's melody is among his many rarities. This version, however, is no longer forgotten, as German-born clarinetist Richard Stoltzman released it on his 1995 album, Visions. The version heard in the film and on the soundtrack is the one that Young sang at the Academy Awards in 1994, accompanying himself on a grand piano. Young gave most of the profits from this song to AIDS related causes. This was nominated for an Oscar in 1994 for Best Original Song. It lost to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia," from the same movie.