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My sincere thanks to everyone who came by to listen and vote in my BOTB's Battle Of The Booze contest which took place HERE. It was between Simon & Garfunkel's 'Hazy Shade Of Winter' & Frank Sinatra's 'It Was A Very Good Year'. It was a very good Battle and I had fun foolin' around in the comment section.
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The contest went back & forth, and with 6 votes in it was tied up at 3 to 3.
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As much as I dig Simon & Garfunkel in general, and 'Hazy Shade...' specifically, that Sinatra recording contains oodles & oodles of saudade (or what I refer to as goldenshadow - a term I invented for that feeling). So, my own "bote" went to Sinatra, leaving us with 2024's final Final Result looking like this:
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FINAL RESULT:
Simon & Garfunkel = 7 votes
Frank Sinatra = 5 votes
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Therefore, S&G will advance to the eventual Battle Of The Booze playoff rounds. For Sinatra, it was a very good year but... it's essentially over now.
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Mary (MMQE) of 'Jingle Jangle Jungle' will be rejoining us BOTBers on January 1st, 2025. And I will also be back with a boozy 'Margarita Day' battle on that same date. Please return here for that goot stuffs. Until then...
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I Wish You A Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year (to coin an expression).
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~ D-FensDogG
The Original Christmas Canine
I get what you're saying about the feeling exuded from the Sinatra song. It always moved me when I was younger, and more so now the song takes on much more meaning.
ReplyDeleteGood Battle and have a Merry Christmas. And a safe New Year.
My results are up now as well.
Lee
Thanks, R. LEE BOID!
DeleteYes, this was another goot Battle for me. I really like both songs & I think most of the "boters" did so, too.
~ D-FensDogG
I am glad you emphasized the saudade/goldenshadow aspect of "It Was A Very Good Year." I mentioned it in my comment and to me it is by far the most striking thing about the song. It has had me thinking this week about saudade songs in general.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, I re-listened to Seals and Crofts songs this week and came to the conclusion that - to me - almost ALL of their songs have a bit of saudade to them. "We May Never Pass This Way Again." "Summer Breeze." "Hummingbird." Even "Diamond Girl" and "Get Closer" feel a bit goldenshadowish.
So my question to you is: can you think of any artists to dwelt solely in the land of golden shadows? Am I right with S&C? Are there others?
Sixgun
SIR SIXY ~
DeleteYes, 'Summer Breeze' has goldenshadow in spades, and I hear it also (to a lesser degree) in 'Diamond Girl'. I don't remember well 'Hummingbird', 'Get Closer', or 'We May Never Pass This Way Again'. I will need to go listen to them.
I don't know of any musical artists who dwelt "solely" in the land of goldenshadow. But, in my opinion, the three who had it the most in their voices are discussed in this very old BigBitch.com review, which was deleted by BigBitch years ago:
[Link> SHARIN' DARIN
The most extensive writing I've ever done on goldenshadow is [Link> GOLDENSHADOW: “THE STAB, THE PANG, THE INCONSOLABLE LONGING” from 13 years ago. You commented on it, so you're already familiar with it.
I still find it extremely interesting that what the Brazilians referred to as "saudade", which I call "goldenshadow", was known as "joy" to C.S. Lewis.
Although John Mellenhead's song isn't goldenshadow to me, his title, 'Hurts So Good', describes it very well in just 3 short words.
~ D-FensDogG