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I’m sure everyone has heard the news that Lawrence Auster of View From The Right lost his battle with cancer on Good Friday.
There isn’t much left for me to say that hasn’t already been covered in the tributes that have been posted at VDARE and Amerika. When I was in college at Auburn, I stumbled across his book The Path To National Suicide, and it was a formative influence on my views about immigration and multiculturalism.
I would prefer to remember the Auster that I encountered in that insightful book rather than the blogger that I came to know in later years. Like Alex Linder, it would be the understatement of the century to say that Larry Auster clashed with other bloggers and far too often allowed ideological disputes to devolve into personal feuds.
As death approached, I had considered reaching out to Auster to thank him for his life’s work and to wish him luck in the next life (future historians trying to figure out what happened to America in the first decade of the 21st century will find VFR a nearly unparalleled resource), but he made it plainly clear toward the end that he didn’t want any “anti-Semites” among his well wishers.
Larry went to the grave fighting anti-Semitism. After all these years, I had come to believe that he was sincere in his desire to preserve Western civilization (no one who was faking it would blog to his deathbed), but for whatever reason (choose your explanation), he could never really bring himself to acknowledge the starring role that Jews had played in undermining that civilization. He couldn’t wrap his mind around the thought that the Jews aren’t going to take “will you knock it off, pretty please” for an answer.
Anyway, I will miss Larry’s unique take on “the passing scene and what it’s about viewed from the traditionalist politically incorrect Right.” Although I didn’t always agree with him, I still enjoyed reading his thought provoking website.
Hello Rudel! For you…as a tonic…
Thanks Denise, that certainly cheered me up! I haven’t always been this grumpy. Here’s one of my faves of her’s (backed up by Paul Weston) from when I was 8 years old.
I prefer such inspirational and manly music:
Contemporary Nashville “country” music is degraded, and Hollywood music is Talmudic and a step above “rap,” which is not music at all.
Rudel – thanks. That’s a wonderful song. The standards are simply the best! Day was a marvelous singer. This is one of my very very favorites:
You two do have excellent taste in music
“The standards are simply the best! Day was a marvelous singer.”
She certainly was. Here is another great singer from the same era. Frank is known for “owning” this song (and his version is great) but Rosie really hits it on this version from 1956 although in a slightly deeper register than Doris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGc22hf5As
I remember listening to all this stuff while riding around in our 1954 Pontiac with my mom (OMG no seat belts!) And yes, America was a far, far, better place back then.
Not to let the Johnny Rebs think we like nothing but damyankee singers (although Rosemary Clooney was born in Kentucky) here is a tune from sung by the gal from Winchester Virginia who had what was arguably *the* greatest female voice of the century:
Stonelifter – I think you are complimenting Rudel and myself. If so – thanks!
I love the traditional sort of ballads, and music that Mosin posts – but I love all sorts of other things as well. With the exception of cRap – I like all types of music. It’s the quality within the genres, that matters.
What type of music do you enjoy?
Rudel – I love Clooney. I love her Celtic face, and her smoky yet melodic timbre. As for Cline – well – she’s one of the Immortals. What a singer….
I had to listen to a bunch of her other songs, when I went to the classic “Walkin’ After Midnight”.
I’d like to offer another songstress, that is the heir of both. Canadian Kathryn Lang. Yes – I know she’s a dyke – but what a singer! She’s brilliant. Please listen to these 2 (1a) and 1b) offerings…..
First, one of my favorite compositions on the entire cannon of music, by the enchanting Son of the South, Johnny Mercer, from Savannah, GA…
1a) The brief a cappella version. Listen to the phrasing, control, and subtlety of interpretation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-o92_OI5OU
1b) The studio version, with an exquisite orchestral arrangement The joy in the beauty of the song emenates in her loving vocals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlSjd9ysbVM
2) A version of the classic Roy Orbision song, “Crying”. Orbision, a Texan with a magnifient operatic voice, recorded version of ths song with young Lang, and rather bequeathed her this classic. She keeps his memory alive, with her versions. I discovered this song a few weeks ago, when I was positively wallowing in music. she was asked to perform the song off the cuff, on an Australian talk show. She demurs at first, and then agrees. She nores that she never rehearsed with the studio band, and didn’t warm up her voice, and then she sings. Like an angel. I’m entranced with this performance because it reveals the way a real ARTIST operates. Watch as she “moves into” the song. The music and the lyric. It’s profoundly moving. She turns a pop ditty into a profound statement of grief, unrequited, yet eternal love. She prefaces this impromptu performance with a glowing tribute to Orbison.
Denise I didn’t know you enjoyed kike music so much. What percentage of great American songbook would have to be thrown out to thoroughly de-kike? Probably 2/3rd at least.
“Canadian Kathryn Lang. Yes – I know she’s a dyke – but what a singer! She’s brilliant.”
She’s terrific and so are her duets with Tony Bennett. This one can viewed in up to 1080p.
“What percentage of great American songbook would have to be thrown out to thoroughly de-kike? Probably 2/3rd at least.”
Well at least Cole Porter is White.
Of all their duets I think this my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigPkleQs5Y
Even at 80 or so Tony still has the chops.
It was toward you and Rudel.
Bluegrass and classical mostly. I am part owner of a concert box, but I listen to all White music. From Whiskey D!ck, and Rebel Son, to Bach, Glen Miller, metal of all sorts…. depends on what I am doing. There is music for drinking, music for training, music for working, driving music, pitching woo music,.. the list goes on
True story about Tony Bennett:
In 1969, my father had been stationed in Aschaffenburg, West Germany in between tours in Vietnam. One evening, Tony Bennett had been booked to give a concert at their pilot’s club. When Bennettt showed up and saw that it was a much smaller venue than what he had expecting, he refused to do his set and went to the bar and waited for his driver to bring the car around. My father and another pilot named Romano, approached Bennet and tried to get him go on with the show anyway, explaining that some of the guys in the audience were pilots who had suffered severe burns, and others who were about to be rotated back into combat, and that a few songs would really give their spirits a lift. He and Romano thought that, being from working-class Italian roots, maybe Bennett would understand and do it as a gesture of ethnic solidarity. Well, Bennett wouldn’t do it and acted like a real jerk about the whole thing, and then left. So my father has always hated Tony Bennett.
That’s a disappointing story, as I’ve always loved Tonny Bennett’s music
How about Harry Connick Jr? I cannot get a YouTube link to work, but I like his style as well
Crypto Aryan – the Jewish influence in “American” popular music, and entertainment, cannot be overestimated. Here’s the thing, from the one hundred years, when Jews immigrated en masse, up through say they last 2 decades, when their true demonic natures were given full rein, they had to accomodate White tastes. Jews have always had music. (Watch out for any demo that disdains or forbids music, like the Wahhabi muslims.) I love American Classic pop standards. Jewish talent flourished in White Christian America. White Christian standards checked their worst inclinations, and produced beautiful and excellent work. Their freedom for the past say..25 years has permitted their worst instincts to rampage unchecked, and are destroying them, as well as their hosts.
I just discovered that one of my very very very favorite icons, of all time, Fred Astaire was a Mischling. His mother was a an Aryan Austrian woman, and his father an Austrian born Jew. Astaire was born in 1899, in Nebraska, and the sensibilities of his age influenced his life. He was raised to perform to the highest of White standards, and did so throughout his entire life. How can I hate him? He elevated dance to an un-matched realm.
I don’t hate all Jews. I tend to get on well with Jews, in person, as they can be lively, funny, and very quick-witted.
I simply do not understand why, as a group, they consistently attack and destroy every civilization they infest. When left to their own devices, they treat each other as badly as they do the Goyim. They don’t NEED TO DO THIS. They seem to love inflicting misery and fomenting mayhem more than anything. This is a wholly consistent pattern. Just like the destruction that Negroes wreak. Jews NEVER learrn from their past, and instead blame every-one else for the rightful hatred they incurr. I HATE what Big Jewry has done to England, Germany, and America, and the rest of the West – and why shouldn’t I?
Chris – I’m sorry to hear that Bennett was a jerk. He’s a total Lefty. I met him after a show, years ago, and he was the essence of civility and charm. Of course, I was a very cute little sprig of girl, then, as well as a paying customer.
He’s still a great singer. When I saw perform, in a 19th century theater, with brilliant acoustics, he sang a lot of his set without using a microphone. His duets wth Lang are marvelous, and Rudel – that one is tops!
Johnny Mercer was a Gentile. He married a Jewess, though, named Ginger. She was a chorus girl he met in NYC.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Bennett was an ass, Astaire a breed. And I’ve always been impressed with his athletic ability
Stonelifter – all the types of music you mentioned, I adore as well. I got my snarky teenaged rock-loving friends turned on to the joys of Bluegrass, when we were all around 15, and I saw John Hartford perform on TV. I thought he was a revelation! As well as extremely good looking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp1VlWpNDt0
Harford nee Hartford, was born in NYC. The son of a New York City doctor, and his wife. He loved the music of the South his entire life. He died of cancer, at age 63. In his beloved Mississippi.
Pluck in Peace, for Eternity, you wonderful man!
Harry Connick Jr is yet another Jew. His mother was a Russian Jewess, family fomr Minsk, and his father, an Irish Catholic. Very wealthy, influental family. He’s that Southern Jew that you boys talk about. An all around good fellow. You can see his ancestry in his face. The nose, mouth, and jawline, pure Hebe. The height, eyes, and general merriment and joie de vivre – pure Mick. He’s a practicing Roman Catholic, which is practcally the same thing as being a Jew, these days. I saw him perform, in the beginning of his career in the very same theater that I saw Tony Bennett sing in – and Connick was wonderful. Absolutely wonderful! When I saw Bennett, I was probably the youngest person in the theater, and I remeber thinking, “Gee. I wish I was old. I love this type of music”. when I sa Connick, the theater was crammed with young, glamourous hipsters, as well as older folk, and we were all swooning and screaming in joy over his lively, elegant renditions. He’s one of the artists that almost single-handedly restored the brilliant Pop Standards back into every-day circulaton, and for this, he has my eternal gratitude and appreciation.
Stonelifter – I’m glad that you appreciate Astaire’s ability. You have to be supremely balanced, and agile, to do what the great dancers do – and it’s always supposed to appear absolutely effortless.
Rudel – I’ve seen Lang a number of times. One of the things that I adore about her, as an artist, is that she loooooooooooooooooooves the music. Much has been made of her sexual preferences, but she’s stated, in interviews, that she wants every-one to be attracted to her, men as well as women, when she’s singing, because she wants every-one to be attracted to the music she loves so very much.
You can really see how much she adores the music, in that clip you posted with Bennett. She has an amazing voice, and she’s a an astonishingly intelligent and sensitive interpreter of lyrics – but the thing that si so very appealing is the sheer, simple delight in every note. I’ve never met her, but I hear that she is a very charming, polite, humble person, by those who have. Roy Orbison was notable for being incedibly polite, kind, and well-mannered, and she loved him. He had a huge influence on her. Lang would not have treated Chris’s father, and his buddies, the way Bennett did.
“I listen to all White music. From Whiskey D!ck, and Rebel Son, to Bach, Glen Miller”
If you like Glenn Miller then this performance has the whole nine yards, although I don’t have a clue what Caesar Romero is doing at the piano as I’ve never watched the movie. You might not care for the second half of this vid as it goes a bit offtrack at 4:20. Gotta love Marion Hutton!
I have “narrow” and simple taste in music. This sort of thing “resonates” with me , makes me want to start a morris group in our area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJCBQ59v08 Learning to appreciate foreign music is like developing foreign eating habits.
The morris music is like native food. Some classic rock has the same “native” character: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGoHQ7c5I2I
When we were still ethnically homogeneous, and all still agreed what “sound” sounds right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOyqyHOzmSA
“I have “narrow” and simple taste in music. This sort of thing “resonates” with me , makes me want to start a morris group in our area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJCBQ59v08 Learning to appreciate foreign music is like developing foreign eating habits.”
Gawd! I had a sort of arty left-wing girlfriend once when I was at Berkeley who dragged me to a folk dancing group (held appropriately enough at the Girl’s Gym.)
It was just as gruesome as that video would lead one to believe…
But the “backbeat” syncopation in rock is foreign, too. The old folk music of our people is the genuine sound.
“When we were still ethnically homogeneous, and all still agreed what “sound” sounds right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOyqyHOzmSA“
You’ve got to be kidding. Gerry & the Pacemakers? Almost as bad an example of the “British Invasion” as Herman’s Hermits. I much prefer Dave Davies’ solo at 1:18 on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4DV-5d6a5g
Way ahead of its time. He used to slash the cone in his amp with a knife to get the right tone.
Or at about the same place on this:
Denise,
Of all my passions, athleticism and the science behind it is passion … tied with precision, long distance direct fire, target interdiction as passion #1. Folks complaints regarding sports in our society are legitimate but folks miss what athletic excellence signifies. The physical and the mental.
Dancers like Astaire are high on my athletic respect ladder. I see impressive athletic feats in all sorts of things, like skate boarding and big wave suffering. My sport of choice is focused on a very narrow portion of athletics, which helps appreciate the other factors more. I have nearly mastered three movements, look at all the thing others have to master. Incredible!
Think about it at the right angle, I imagine my appreciation for athleticism is a lot like you and the arts. I have my favorites, but understand and appreciate the rest.
The various factors required for Gene Kelly to run up a wall and do a back flip at the apex is astounding. And like you said to do it with style and ease adds to the effect U
Sadly this is not the time for men to dance and the like, but I will try ballroom dancing when I move. If nothing else it will be hoot just watching the ballroom dancing crowd react to me.
The decision to leave the usa has removed a huge weight and opens up possibilities I would never peruse in the usa. Not having to plan for, work out the logistics for, and train a large family to survive a race war changes everything
Somehow though, I cannot picture you at a Whiskey Dick show.
I’ll check out the video in the am, Rudel. Big band stuff reminds me of my grandparents. Nothing but happy memories there. Music elicits strong emotional reactions from me, so I tailor my play list to the task at hand. Bluegrass makes me the happiest so I listen to it the most. Even my gospel music is bluegrass
It’s not gruesome at all, Rudel. It’s the simplest style of dancing and comes naturally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlU7C3nKmrs
“Bluegrass makes me the happiest so I listen to it the most. Even my gospel music is bluegrass”
Try some Old Timey mountain music too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvUFe3Zrg04
Bluegrass is great but it is really new-fangled stuff invented in the 1940’s and 50’s.
Oh god, Morris dancing.
Morris in this context means “Darkie” in this case. Moorish dancing.
More un-bluegrass:
Morris Dancers are connected in odd ways.
Look for the hammer and sickle…
Here’s my ancestral village!
Stonelifter – we have come full circle. If you are moving to Latin America – you won’t be able to avoid ballroom dancing, nor should you. You can your girl can dance til one of you keels over. Fred Astaire, by the by, danced until he was almost 70. I know old couples who ballroom dance. They use a walker to get int the door – and then they stash the walker, and really dance.
You are dead wrong about the Whiskey Dick show. I ran through a few of their videos. They are excellent musicians – and I’d love to see them if they are still performing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihvxo3azAIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I’m ambivalent about this stuff. The left latched onto this stuff, at least there are no coons, eh?
Rudel says:
April 5, 2013 at 1:52 am
“I have “narrow” and simple taste in music. This sort of thing “resonates” with me , makes me want to start a morris group in our area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJCBQ59v08 Learning to appreciate foreign music is like developing foreign eating habits.”
“Gawd! I had a sort of arty left-wing girlfriend once when I was at Berkeley who dragged me to a folk dancing group (held appropriately enough at the Girl’s Gym.)
It was just as gruesome as that video would lead one to believe…”
No comment on the Morris dancing one way or another – but the above reaction nearly caused me to choke on laughter, and spit up my beverage all over the keyboard. For this, I thank you!
Watched the videos as I wait on my girl;
That Kinks song was the 1st thing I learned to play on the guitar.
As a rule, blondes make everything better, including music
I just call it bluegrass, the different categories gets tedious, and the differences are to small for me to pick up
I’d love to be able to claw-hammer a banjo like grandpa Jones; my favorite tune about my favorite beverage
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Qz4TODljOmo
For all of you…
That fellow was my Mom’s absolutely favorite singer.
Lol w/ Denise
I don’t do much live music anymore. My hearing problems make it difficult to enjoy. enjoy. Classical music is the expectation. For everything else I need my Bose headphones. My sister swears I enjoy kids so much because I cannot hear them.
Since you enjoy Whiskey Dick how about, Texas Hippie collation.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=zjCtHgNEcV0
I am going to Eastern Europe. My brother is already in place and acting as my agent. I do want to put together a new LLC and buy a tobacco plantation in Nic… however the hell you spell it.
I’ll need more bourbon if this moves on to Frank Sinatra
The Kinks were my favorite rock band of all time. Ray Davies is an absolute poet. He’s still my imago, as a sort of “best looking man of all time” in his long haired early 70’s era. (My hubby looks like in, in terms of coloring, and facial planes).
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoKp_Ol5Rax0AeziJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DRay%2BDavies%26n%3D30%26ei%3Dutf-8%26fr%3Dyfp-t-900-1%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D32&w=408&h=490&imgurl=celebslists.com%2Fimages%2Fray-davies-08.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcelebslists.com%2F8694-ray-davies.html&size=22.7+KB&name=%3Cb%3ERay+Davies%3C%2Fb%3E%3A&p=Ray+Davies&oid=19be8755af2fada667cd55d8e5b52f8f&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-900-1&tt=%253Cb%253ERay%2BDavies%253C%252Fb%253E%253A&b=31&ni=66&no=32&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11b0r3lme&sigb=138f00b23&sigi=11886nv9a&.crumb=S5cUt.9QXgM&fr=yfp-t-900-1
I love that craggy English face thing. I saw the kinks many many many times. First time when I was 15. I purloined an empty beer can , that Davies drank from, from the stage. His lips touched the metal, and his cand held the can. I kept that can for many years….it was known, in my circle, as the Sacred Beer Can – a relic from my Idol. I saw the Kinks countless times.
Eastern Europe! Cool!
Great. That will be wonderful.
We can save the splendors of St Francis of Sinatra for another day. I wept when he died. He was THE best. The BEST of the BEST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3B-riRbaa0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is written by a Welsh Band Super Furty Animals. Christians ignore the video please. However the song is about Rapture. It’s like Hymn. The writers misunderstand that whites in the US probably are Running from the zombies, but they are slowly learning.
Davies? That’s a slightly Jewish name I’m sorry to say. Not exclusive, but it’s like Harris.
When I was younger I always thought Deano was way too “corny” but as I have gotten older I have come to appreciate him a lot more. He was super easy going (he had to be to put up with the likes of Jerry Lewis) and also never took himself too seriously.
You don’t like the dancing? John, what sort of Englishman are you? You must know it is NOT an African but an ancient native form, whether given the name “Morris” or any other name.
The NAME Morris is probably derived from “Moresca,” the Spanish pageant celebrating the final defeat and removal of the Moors, with a native Spanish (not African) dance, originally performed with swords — a martial, sword dance! The English and Welsh dance is more ancient than that however. It has NOTHING to do with communism. It is not surprising, though, that wealthy liberals have leisure time to preserve the art, and also make wrong political use of it.