I went to bed late & I had to wake up early for a dentist appointment, I somehow did not record my dreams, so I have forgotten most of them.
This dream possibly involved Ukraine & Russia, probably the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The YouTube video Patti LaBelle: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert by the YouTube channel NPR Music.
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NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month with Tiny Desk (home) concerts featuring legends in the world of R&B, jazz, gospel, and hip-hop. Each artist in this legacy lineup has helped to define Black music as we know it and will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time.
Bobby Carter | February 23, 2022
The first song in Patti LaBelle’s Tiny Desk (home) concert sets the tone and quickly sums up the entire 15-minute performance. “Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight)” from her 1986 album Winner In You is a highlight from one of many chapters in her fabulous career. A backstage corner of a concert hall in Austin, Texas, is transformed into Patti’s world, furnished with a throne, flowers and trunks full of shoes. Options are a must, given a knack for kicking off her shoes during shows. The entire band managed to fit onto the set: thirteen people, including fierce background vocals, keys, horns and more, to recreate some of the best from the Godmother of Soul.LaBelle and company go straight into hits mode after the first number. “Love, Need and Want You” is delivered with the same vibrancy as the 1983 original, with a wink to another hit, “Dilemma,” by Nelly, who sampled it 19 years later. The ballads continue with “If Only You Knew.” She closes with the anthem “Lady Marmalade,” which was also revived in the early 2000s by Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink and Lil’ Kim.
Ms. Patti had already made Black History with Cindy Birdsong, Sara Dash and Nona Hendryx as the powerhouse group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles (later Labelle). After the group disbanded, she forged through on her own as a pioneer in music, style and entrepreneurship. Sixty years and counting. Whether big stage or Tiny Desk, the standard-bearing icon continues to exude elegance and grace as a performer.
SET LIST
“Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight)”
“Love, Need and Want You”
“If Only You Knew”
“Lady Marmalade”MUSICIANS
Patti LaBelle: vocals
Stan Lewis: keys/music director
Danny Nixon: keys
Daryl Robertson: keys
Eric Seats: drums
Alex Evans: bass
Eric Dubose: guitar
Jeff Bradshaw: trombone
Melvin Jones: trumpet
Michael Burton: saxophone
Debra Henry Ramsey: vocals
Brenda Roy: Background vocals
Anthony Williams Jr: vocals
Aja Marie Grant: vocalsCREDITS
Video Director: Whitney Thomas
Audio Engineer: Dwayne Jones
Recording Engineer: Brandon Snell
Management: Zuri Edwards
Production Manager: Joe Falcon
Road Manager: Pamela Hobson
Guitar Tech: Alfonso Perez
Backline Tech: Gabriel Santana Falcon, GearHeadz Inc.
Technical Director: Blake AddysonTINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Video Producer: Joshua Bryant
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer, Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
The YouTube video Romeo + Juliet (1996) Introduction To Romeo by the YouTube channel Andres Licari, which is a scene from the 1996 movie Romeo + Juliet.
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Romeo & Juliet (1996)
Radiohead – Talk Show Host
Movie
Romeo + Juliet
The YouTube video The Man Who Lived In Dreams by the YouTube channel Daniel Rodriguez, which is the opening scene for the Japanese anime (animated) movie, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door).
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“It was just…that he was all alone
Always by himself
Never anyone to share the game
A man who lived in dreams
that’s who he was”
The YouTube video Absent Minded Friends by the YouTube channel Moloko, which is of the song Absent Minded Friends by Moloko from their 2000 music album Things To Make And Do.
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Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Absent Minded Friends · Moloko
Things to Make and Do
℗ 2000 The Echo Label Limited, a BMG Company trading as Echo
Released on: 2000-10-31
Sound Engineer: Matt Sime
Sound Engineer, Producer: Mark Brydon
Vocals: Róisín Murphy
Composer: Mark Brydon
Composer: Róisín MurphyAuto-generated by YouTube.
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