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Tag: music

My views about “The Last Farewell”

June 22, 2017 Vasanth Prabakar Posts, Writing 4 comments

This song is about A soldier who goes to a war zone and leaving his girlfriend behind. In the beginning of this song, He was about to board the ship which was getting ready to sail the next day. He misses his girlfriend. I think she must be beautiful indeed because

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A love story of a person with autism.

May 30, 2017 Vasanth Prabakar Posts, Writing 9 comments

Hello Madrookers,  Last time I shared a music video with a short story in it and tried to explain it in my own words. Now I’m going to share another music video which featured the same artist from the previous video. The video link is below. For your kind information,

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‘Stand By Me’

January 5, 2017 Diana_UA Songs 13 comments

Song facts: Written and recorded in 1960, this song by Ben E. King zoomed to the top of the charts as soon as it was released in 1961. It was named the fourth most-performed song of the 20th century with about seven million performances. There have been over 400 recorded

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Music Humor

December 30, 2016 Diana_UA Miscellaneous Leave a comment

There are so many wonderful jokes about music and musicians. Here are some of them I like the most: ************************* “I’m told that Wagner’s music is not as bad as it sounds.” – Mark Twain

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Old Music

December 28, 2016 TeacherLee Technology - Old, Vocabulary Leave a comment

When I grew up, music was played on reel-to-reel recorders, record players (called ‘turntables’ today), eight-track tapes, audio cassette tapes, and radios as big as a small suitcase. If you’ve never heard of most of theses, that’s because they’ve become obsolete or are rarely seen anymore.

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