Dada Veda and friends will play music and lead elderly patients in gentle yoga postures
Category: Music (Page 5 of 15)
Dada Veda and friends will play music at the Champaign County Nursing Home
Dada Veda and friends will play music for the children and teachers at the Head Start center in Champaign, IL
While reading The Myrobalan Seed blog I saw an article about Sadvipran or spiritual Hip Hop music and it reminded me of the attempt that I made to mix spirituality with American Doo wop music.
Doo wop is the name given to rock ‘n’ roll vocal group music that began to emerge in the early 1950s. At the time it was called rhythm and blues and then finally rock ‘n’ roll. The genre got its name because the groups added vocalizations like doo-wop, dits, shoo bop, and other sounds which are akin to the scat singing in jazz where the vocalists sing wordless syllables to set the beat
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A good example of early doo wop is The Crow’s “Gee” recorded in 1953. It begins “Dit, dita, dit, dita, dit, dita, dita, dita” and then the lead singer launches into the lyric proclaiming his love for a girl named Gee. The critics of rock ‘n’ roll had a field day with these songs. TV variety show host Steve Allen got a lot of laughs when he would read out the lyrics of rock ‘n’ roll songs including all the dits and doo-wops. The teenagers of the day were not laughing but dancing and grooving with this new kind of music that liberated them from the crooners their parents were listening to. Continue reading
About a month ago I entered my song “No More Blood, No More Tears” in the Songs for Peace contest sponsored by the Rotary Club of Vero Beach Florida. My song was placed on their website www.songsforpeace.net and people were able to listen and vote for it. The contest will be decided by votes from Internet users as well as by a panel of judges. In the last 24 hours there has been a surge of support for my song and the song is now in second place, just a few votes behind the leader. If you haven’t done so yet go to this link and listen to the song, and if you like it please vote for it. It takes only a few seconds to vote (nothing complicated). If you have already voted, Thank You!
