Martin Milner wrote:Anyone familiar with Rolf Harris' version of Stairway to Heaven?
It originally started as a joke, but became a massive hit.
"Stairway to Heaven" is one song that would come very close to the top of my all time hate list. Never in my life have I heard such unadulterated mawkish crap.
The Zep were a great band in their day but that song......Aaagghh.
At least Rolfs version was funny but for a real laugh,listen to Dolly Partons version - or better still, don't.
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
There's a whole section for Stairway to heaven covers including a Banjo/Tuba version.
There's even a recording of Patrick MacNee and Hounour Blackman singing about footware.
OutOfBreath wrote:
I never have understood why people use the RA format - it's not as good as either VBR MP3 or WMA and... snip...
It's because .ra is a streaming format, like .asf. This means that the file stays on the server and is squirted to your player (and discarded). In the early days of low-speed (9.6 to 14.4k modems) it made sense: It would take days to download a large audio file, but streaming meant you could listen to music "on the fly" or "live".
MP3 and WMA will also stream, you just have to set the server mime types up properly and then, in the case of MP3, link to an M3U playlist instead of directly to the MP3 file. I've been doing this on my site since 1999. Many commercial sites also stream MP3s.
John
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The Internet is wonderful. Surely there have always been thousands of people deeply concerned about my sex life and the quality of my septic tank but before the Internet I never heard from any of them.
Crime against nature. I didn't know you could do things like that with a kazoo. What orifice was involved?
Tony
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http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/newspage.htm Officially, the government uses the term “flap,” describing it as “a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions.”
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
