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I came across this youtube video yesterday and was very surprised to see it !!!  Lady Gaga - The Sound of Music clips, Full Tribute with Julie Andrews [2015 Oscars]      It was showing up on January 2015 but I don't have habit to watch Oscar show, so I didn't know about it.  It's Lady Gaga , singing music of classic movie " the Sound of Music " !!!  It's amazing !!! When she sings her original songs, I was feeling Lady Gaga has unique voice but never knew she can sing classic songs so wonderfully. She is a fantastic singer! I really love it , so watched it several times !  It's so nice to see different part of Lady Gaga , singing the wonderful classic songs. I love the movie so much, so I'm so happy to see it.  Also very surprised to see Julie Andrews in it ! She looks very young and beautifully aging and looks healthy.  I really enjoyed her character and her humor and her singing in the movie.  My husband a

Recently we've been into oldies music, especially from 1940s to 1980s music ! Around midnight here, there is an oldies music station on TV and Ray has been enjoying watching it almost every night.  And since a few days ago, some of the music I heard from it has been spinning in my head,  and one of them is Saturday night by Bay City Rollers which was a huge hit in 1976 !   Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night ('76)      It's so great to easily be able to watch an old generation's music and the musicians singing live !    And I appreciate modern high technology which allows this. The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop music band who were often wearing checkered design with 1/8 length wide pants on the stage.  They all looked cool and adult at that time but when I watched it now,  I felt they all look so cute and young with young voices.  I only knew 1976 to 1978's members.  Ray ( my husband ) had heard this music on the radio a few

  I've been looking forward to seeing this movie about Freddie Mercury . http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/21/ben-whishaw-freddie-mercury-biopic The following is a quote from Queen guitarist, Dr.Brian May in that article, "We're very protective [of Freddie] and we're known for not hiding away from the truth. There's not going to be any pretense about this. It's going to be something very true – as true as we can make it – but also respectful to Freddie as a performer and as a man." I really love the friendship between Brian May and Roger Taylor and John Deacon to Freddie Mercury.  They are so sweet to make Freddie's movie. While many famous people are more of  "Look at me, " type , and many bands have band members who are more concerned about how much attention they themselves will get, these three decided to make a movie about Queen's biography focusing mainly on their band-mate Freddie. It's a very

Which music makes you cry, makes you feel nostalgic ?  Music which I have great memory with the generation, but haven't listened to them for a long time, almost 30 years makes me so nostalgic, and made me tears.  I love this feeling.  Recently, my husband and I enjoy listening & dancing to 1970s music.   I'm so surprised to know Abba 's songs are still on top of the sales in Sweden, and still listened to all over the world.  The two men in Abba , Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson , who composed all their music are definitely music genius.  And the two Abba lady singers, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni Frid Lyngstad have the voices of angels.  They had sold over 370 millions in album sales, and are still selling millions of CDs each year, making them one of the top selling music artists in history.  My husband's favorite ladies singers are Olivia Newton- John and Abba's Agnetha Faltskog .   I think these two have a similar type of voice and si

The Beatles are well-known as a famous music group who made one of the biggest impacts ever in world history. My husband Ray has been a big fan of the Beatles since his childhood. ( he’s also a big fan of another British rock group, Queen , as well.)   He remembers the word for “ apple “ in Japanese because it’s pronounced “ Lingo “, and this sound reminds him of the name Ringo, as in “ Ringo” Starr.   At least in my generation, everyone knows all the names of the Beatles members.  And also about their amazing popularity during 1960s to early 1970s.    My husband and I are collectors of our favorite things,  and have many videos or DVDs of our favorite movies, TV shows , figure skating and rock bands, so if we started watching all of them, we may not need regular TV in our free time.  Ray has a box of The Beatles videos which has a set of 8 videos, history of the Beatles, which he purchased a long time ago. I didn’t watch it until rec