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induced by music leads to ... stress reduction or [even] direct immune enhancement." -simpleology.com (Ed. note: In other words, music promotes health by reducing stress and strengthening immunity.) |
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MOVIES. Some of the best film music from the last fifty years (in our opinion, here at Annagrammatica headquarters.
First time through, we don't WATCH the video; we try to guess the movie; same for TV themes, below)
First time through, we don't WATCH the video; we try to guess the movie; same for TV themes, below)
THE VERY BEST TV THEMES. We started with Mike Post and with the fabulous Westerns of the late 1950s. You
can't go wrong with Mike Post, or Dave Grusin. Can you look away from the screen and guess the show?
can't go wrong with Mike Post, or Dave Grusin. Can you look away from the screen and guess the show?
...The essence of sound healing is the re-tuning of the human instrument, correcting at whatever level those frequencies which have become weakened or gone out of tune. This is done on the basis of resonance, be it sympathetic vibrations or the power of forced resonance. Basically, whatever part of us that is ailing can be awakened by harmonious sound sources and remember at what frequency it should be vibrating. This can occur at the physical level (from cells to muscles to organs), the subtle level (changing negative psychology) and the causal level (create permanent positive changes in one’s nature). It is no accident that doctors tell us that we are in ‘sound health’ or ‘of sound mind.’ The medical profession is, to some extent, using sound therapy. |
...At a higher level spiritual teachers initiate people into meditation through the sound of a mantra. Here the creation of vibration works in reverse. First there is the form (the mantra) which then it turns into a wave and finally into a pulse. What are the practical ways of using sound for healing? Listening to music, for there is no question that everyone who does is practicing sound therapy. People’s choices of listening depend on the very nature of their sound frequencies. Music is not just something that goes into the ear. It impinges on the entire bioenergetic field (aura) and if there is incompatibility with the music it will be rejected. * * * |
Please take quick survey at right. If
possible, we'll include your song(s) on this
page (especially if we get lots of requests for
the same music)!
possible, we'll include your song(s) on this
page (especially if we get lots of requests for
the same music)!
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FEELGOOD 2 — MOSTLY MOVIES with great dance scenes from films including Pride and Prejudice (2005), Dirty Dancing,
Footloose, Can-Can (an oldie but goody starring a young Shirley MacLaine, who, as you know, is Warren Beatty's sister...
(continued below)
Footloose, Can-Can (an oldie but goody starring a young Shirley MacLaine, who, as you know, is Warren Beatty's sister...
(continued below)
—also Juliet Prowse, a name you might know if you're enthusiastic about dance AND old movies, especially if you've been
around as long as those of us in the Annagrammatica Music Division and you actually REMEMBER when Juliet was courted by
two of the 20th century's hottest singers, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (the famous barn-
dance scene), two tap-dance numbers performed by Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire in Broadway Melody of 1940 (the "Begin the
Beguine" dance is legendary; Eleanor Powell was reportedly the only tap dancer who intimidated Fred Astaire); Gregory Hines
& Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Knights (1985); more....
around as long as those of us in the Annagrammatica Music Division and you actually REMEMBER when Juliet was courted by
two of the 20th century's hottest singers, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (the famous barn-
dance scene), two tap-dance numbers performed by Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire in Broadway Melody of 1940 (the "Begin the
Beguine" dance is legendary; Eleanor Powell was reportedly the only tap dancer who intimidated Fred Astaire); Gregory Hines
& Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Knights (1985); more....
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FEELGOOD 3—Eclectic mix with a lot of country, rockabilly, and bluegrass: Rick (Ricky) Nelson & the Stone Canyon
Band; the Sesame Street Chamber Society featuring YoYo Ma performing the Beethoven Quartet for Two Honkers, Dinger, and
Cello (by Murray Beethoven, the famous Honker); Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Shania Twain ("Any Man of Mine"), Huey Lewis
& the News, Robert Palmer, Billy Dean, Sawyer Brown, Trisha Yearwood, David Allan Coe (The Ride), Patty Loveless, Ricky
Skaggs, Rich Mullins, Amy Grant, Highway 101, Baillie and the Boys, Dan Seals ("Bop), Don Williams ("Listen to the Radio").
K.T. Oslin ("Come Next Monday"), more....
Band; the Sesame Street Chamber Society featuring YoYo Ma performing the Beethoven Quartet for Two Honkers, Dinger, and
Cello (by Murray Beethoven, the famous Honker); Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Shania Twain ("Any Man of Mine"), Huey Lewis
& the News, Robert Palmer, Billy Dean, Sawyer Brown, Trisha Yearwood, David Allan Coe (The Ride), Patty Loveless, Ricky
Skaggs, Rich Mullins, Amy Grant, Highway 101, Baillie and the Boys, Dan Seals ("Bop), Don Williams ("Listen to the Radio").
K.T. Oslin ("Come Next Monday"), more....
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difficulty with speech — aphasia — is a lingering effect.
Schlaug and other researchers have found that by
practicing to express themselves with a simple
form of singing — something that sounds almost
like Gregorian chant — aphasic stroke victims
significantly improved the fluency of their speech
compared with patients whose speech therapy did not
include singing.
Schlaug says it appears that the "melodic intonation
therapy," as it's termed, bypassed the stroke damage
done to speech centers in aphasic patients' left brain
hemisphere. Instead, it engaged and recruited areas of
their healthy right hemispheres that were capable of —
though not generally used for — word acquisition and
speech.
The patients tapped along as they sang, which also
seemed to engage a broad network in the brain involved
in detecting and reproducing rhythm. Such strategies, it
turned out, allowed aphasics' words to come out.
Movement: If you're old enough, recall John Travolta
walking down the street to the song "Stayin' Alive" in the
opening scene of "Saturday Night Fever." Now imagine
a patient with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative brain
condition that affects the initiation and smooth
completion of movement. Here's where music's
rhythmic qualities appear to get in the back door of a
patient's brain and provide a work-around to brain
functions degraded by Parkinson's. By engaging the
network of regions that perceive and anticipate
rhythm, music with a steady, predictable beat
can be used to cue the brain's motor regions to
initiate walking.
Once off the dime, a Parkinson's patient can use the
music's beat to maintain a steady, rhythmic gait, like
John Travolta.
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FEELGOOD 4—Country, rockabilly, classic rock, up-tempo, upbeat
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DANCE — Some ends, thus also odds, of video-recorded or filmed dance scenes, including Robert Palmer's Bevy o' Beauties from
the music video produced for Palmer's mega-hit "Simply Irresistible"
the music video produced for Palmer's mega-hit "Simply Irresistible"
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| At age 17, his superhot career barely six months old, Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson ("The Big Bopper") |
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| Bo Diddley's 1955 single titled "Bo Diddley," was an instant R&B hit |
Music, like emotions, seems to bridge the gap
between the material and spiritual realms.
between the material and spiritual realms.
Peptides, other ligands, and receptors in the physical world
operate ion channels which function in the same range of
frequencies that we can hear. Thus music, by bypassing the
ligand or informational substance, can directly vibrate the ion
channel through resonance.
operate ion channels which function in the same range of
frequencies that we can hear. Thus music, by bypassing the
ligand or informational substance, can directly vibrate the ion
channel through resonance.
How Does Music Therapy Improve Some
Patients' Mental Health?
Patients' Mental Health?
Research seems to be further confirming that music therapy
can help some mental-health patients when other treatments
haven't worked.
According to the American Music Therapy Association's fact
sheet on music therapy and mental health,
can help some mental-health patients when other treatments
haven't worked.
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According to the American Music Therapy Association's fact
sheet on music therapy and mental health,
Music is a form of sensory stimulation that provokes
responses due to the familiarity, predictability and feelings
of for clients with mental health concerns uses musical
interaction as a means of communication and expression.
The aim relationships and address issues they may not be
able to address using words alone. Music therapy sessions
include the use of active music making, music listening,
and discussion.
responses due to the familiarity, predictability and feelings
of for clients with mental health concerns uses musical
interaction as a means of communication and expression.
The aim relationships and address issues they may not be
able to address using words alone. Music therapy sessions
include the use of active music making, music listening,
and discussion.
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| Singer, songwriter, concert pianist, composer former NFL great (lower left & right) |
| MIKE REID |
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| ROBERT PALMER 1949-2003 |
| In our book, he was Simply Irresistible (to be continued) |
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| One of country music's best-kept secrets, MIKE REID (1947- ) was a college-football All American, playing under Joe Paterno at Penn State. College football awards
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| Left: As she looked in 1987, at the peak of her career, when she co-starred with Patrick Swayze in the box-office hit Dirty Dancing. Right: After facial cosmetic surgery. According to Wikipedia,
rhinoplasty procedure that was so botched she required a second plastic surgery to repair the damage.... The major change in her appearance negatively affected her career.... [Said Grey], "I went in the operating room a celebrity and came out anonymous...." waifish forever. |
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| ... we went to high school in the early 1960s, so OUR "feelgood music" might not be YOUR "feel-good music." Not that all our selections are from our high-school years. Far from it. One of our favorites is from Remem-ber the Titans, where the Titans make their entrance onto the field in an unusual way. We've included the scene here. We love that movie! CLASSIC ROCK Included here are the original Ritchie Valens version of "La Bamba," our favorite song; and the classic Eddie Cochran "Summertime Blues." NOT included is another Cochran classic, "C'mon Everybody." In the original, the sound quality is poor, and the covers (by U2 and what we think is a Japanese band that we think is called Balberini) are unsatisfactory for various reasons. Sorry. It's a great song. |
| THE LATE, GREAT EDDIE COCHRAN ...has been called the "father of the guitar riff." This questionable parentage hardly does justice to numerous other guitarists who were making names for themselves before or at about the same time as Cochran, notably Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. (Berry, born in 1926, toured Europe as recently as 2008. Bo Diddley was just shy of 80 when he died in 2008. He had been on tour the previous year.) All three are routinely named on "greatest guitar riff" lists* (Bo Diddley is sometimes listed first). What's remarkable about Cochran's being so distinguished is that it is primarily on the strength of one song, his greatest hit, "Summer time Blues." It does little good to speculate, though people do, on what he might have achieved had his life not been cut short. He was just 21 in 1960 when, while touring the U.K., his taxi crashed into a lamppost. Cochran died the following day. Wikipedia cites Cochran's influence on rock-and-roll, country, and rockabilly music as follows: (continued below) |
| (EDDIE COCHRAN, continued) Cochran, writes the Wikipedia author, was |
| an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else" and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A moderately attractive crooner, with a voice like Elvis Presley [sic], it was his bold attitude and confident guitar playing, that, particularly on the 1960 British tour, impressed budding rockers, such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He experimented with multitracking and overdubbing even on his earliest singles, and was also able to play piano, bass and drums.... One of the first rock & roll artists to write his own songs and overdub tracks, Cochran is credited with being one of the first to use an unwound third string, in order to 'bend' notes up a whole tone - an innovation (imparted to UK guitarist Joe Brown, who secured much session work as a result) which has since become an essential part of the standard rock guitar vocabulary. Artists such as The Clash,The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Tom Petty, Rod Stewart, Motorhead, Humble Pie, Lemmy Kilmister, UFO (band), T. Rex, The Stray Cats, Brian Setzer, Cliff Richard, The Who, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, The Sex Pistols, Rush, Buck Owens, Tiger Army, Dion, Simple Minds, Guitar Wolf, Paul McCartney, Alan Jackson, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos, and Jimi Hendrix have covered his songs.... Hendrix performed "Summertime Blues" early in his career and Pete Townshend of The Who was heavily influenced by Cochran's guitar style. Glam rock artist Marc Bolan had his main Les Paul model refinished in a transparent orange to resemble the Gretsch 6120 guitar played by Cochran, who was his music hero.... He was also a heavy influence on the nascent rockabilly guitar legend Brian Setzer from Stray Cats, who plays a 6120 just like Cochran, whom he portrayed in the film La Bamba. |
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ALAN JACKSON isn't exactly washed up, though he hasn't won a country-music award since 2003. PATTY LOVELESS was 1989's Favo- rite New Country Artist, 1996 & 1997 Top Female (Country) Vocalist, but not much since. She took two years off, resumed touring in 2008, and
country single since "On Your Way Home" reached # 29 in 2004, [her] albums still do well, usually charting in the country albums' top 40, despite the fact that she no longer has the support of mainstream country radio or a major label. (Wikipedia) probably never heard unless you're a longtime country-music fan. His smooth, rich voice earned him a few big hits ("Small Town Saturday Night," "Mama Knows the Highway") and a lot of backup and duet work. A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis slowed him down, though he still performs. BILLY DEAN ("I Miss Billy the Kid," "Somewhere in My Broken Heart") has it all — huge talent, boyish looks and charm, the ability to write and choose good material, persistence, and passion. He was the headliner at one of those firemen's-benefit concerts in the late 1990s. Always big BD fans, we went, watched, wept, wildly applauded, and wondered why he wasn't the big star he'd been only a few years earlier. REBA, GEORGE, ETC.—WHAT'S THEIR SECRET? When George Jones finally got sober, his career revived, and the revival stuck. Still packin' 'em in are Wynonna, George Strait, and, for reasons that will remain a mystery to us here at Annagrammatica Global HQ, Shania Twain and Reba McEntire. (Sorry. We've never been able to hop onto the Reba bandwagon. She's very cute, however; we'll give you that. And we think Shania is an acquired taste; you have to acquire a penis to really appreciate her "talent.") Except for Reba, these folks aren't known for versatility — unlike, say, Dinah Shore, a hugely popular Big- Band singer in the 1940s and early 1950s. When Big Band faded, Shore appeared in a few films but stayed in the public eye largely as the peppy, pretty spokes-vocalist for Chevrolet ("See--- The--- U.S.A. in your Chevrolet; America is asking you to call..."). (See photo, and more about the Big Band era, on our Mother's and Father's Day Cards page) In the late 1960s and early 1970s she was a hugely popular daytime talk- show host -- still lovely (she stayed in shape with tennis), always gracious. Audiences loved her soft southern drawl. There were no theatrics, no histrionics on Dinah, even when her guest was Burt Reynolds, with whom Shore had had a highly publicized fling (she was decades older than he). MORE TO COME... |
| Above: Patty Loveless |
| Above: Huey Lewis Center: Hal Ketchum |
James D'Angelo, in "Healing Vibrations" on Soundspirit |
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The hope of music's healing powers
March 01, 2010, By Melissa Healy
March 01, 2010, By Melissa Healy
"It works well and it works
instantaneously, and it's hard to
think of any medication that has
this effect," Schlaug says.
instantaneously, and it's hard to
think of any medication that has
this effect," Schlaug says.
The patients tapped along as they sang, which also
seemed to engage a broad network in the brain
involved in detecting and reproducing rhythm. Such
strategies, it turned out, allowed aphasics' words to
come out.
Reading: Research suggests that people with
dyslexia, or difficulty reading, also fare poorly on tests
of auditory processing. Their timing is also poor. They
have difficulty filtering out unwanted background
noise and "tuning in" to sounds — such as a teacher's
instruction — that they want to hear. Intensive music
instruction has been found to improve those skills, and
with them, some skills related to reading.
Memory: The progressive degeneration of memory in
Alzheimer's disease cannot be reversed or slowed by
any intervention. But music can temporarily unlock
memories for patients who have lost their grip on
nearly every other detail of their daily life and
relationships.
Patients in the depths of Alzheimer's and other
dementias regularly respond to — and even
play and sing — music from their distant past,
without missing a word or a note. Nursing homes
have seized upon that fact, exposing residents to the
songs of their childhoods or courtship years to help
reunite spouses in dancing and singing and try to coax
dementia sufferers from their isolation. One study
even found that dementia patients allowed to punch a
button on a robot and hear a familiar song experienced
improved mood, function and performance on musical
memory games.
Preemies' weight gain: An Israeli study, published
December in the journal Pediatrics, found that playing
Mozart quietly in neonatal intensive care units
supported the weight gain of premature infants by
slowing their rate of energy expenditure. Babies
exposed over two days to 30 minutes of music (drawn
from, yes, an Israeli "Mozart for Baby" CD) slowed
their metabolisms, helping to accelerate their growth.
Whether Mozart is worth using routinely in neonatal
care units, the researchers say, will take further study.
melissa.healy@latimes.com
Yes, yes, it hath charms to soothe a savage breast (or
beast, if you prefer to repeat a common mistake). But
researchers are finding that music may be an
effective balm for many other afflictions: the
isolation of conditions such as autism and
Alzheimer's disease, the disability that results from
stroke, the physical stress of entering the world too
early.
The hope of music's curative powers has spawned a
community in the United States of some 5,000 registered
music therapists, who have done post-college study in
psychology and music to gain certification. Active
primarily in hospitals, nursing homes, special needs
classrooms and rehabilitation units, music therapists aim
to soothe, stimulate and support the development or
recovery of abilities lost to illness or injury.
While music therapists use a mix of improvisation and
proven techniques to help patients, neuroscientists are
looking to uncover the scientific basis for music's
healing powers. They are trying to understand how
music can help rewire a brain affected by illness or
injury, or provide a work-around for injured or
underperforming brain regions.
By doing so, they hope to better identify which patients
might respond best to music and what musical techniques
might best help them to regain lost or compromised
function.
"Music might provide an alternative entry point" to
the brain, because it can unlock so many different
doors into an injured or ill brain, said Dr. Gottfried
Schlaug, a Harvard University neurologist. Pitch,
harmony, melody, rhythm and emotion — all components
of music — engage different regions of the brain. And many
of those same regions are also important in speech,
movement and social interaction. If a disease or trauma
has disabled a brain region needed for such functions,
music can sometimes get in through a back door and coax
them out by another route, Schlaug says.
"In a sense, we're using musical tools to particularly engage
certain parts of the brain and then teach the brain new
tricks — new tools — to overcome an impairment," he says.
Neuroscientists are exploring the role of music in
treatment of some of the following:
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Music Division: Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Elmer Bernstein, Ritchie Valens, The Hollies ("Long Cool Women in a Black Dress"), The Rolling Stones ("Start Me Up"), more... |
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football seasons), performing with the Utah Symphony |
| Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Songwriting career: 1984 Grammy Award for Best Country Song with "Stranger in My House" (Ronnie Millsap) Wrote for Marie Osmond, Tanya Tucker, Collin Raye, Alabama, Conway Twitty |
| 12 #1 hits, 1980s-1990s |
| Co-wrote, with Allen Shamblin, Bonnie Raitt's pop standard "I Can't Make You Love Me" |
| Solo country-music career: charted 7 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & |
| Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, including the Number One hit "Walk on Faith" Composer |
| Composed the music for the Civil War musical A House Divided |
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