This aired on Bill Moyers’ Journal last month. The organinzation, Playing for Change, is dedicated to promoting peace around the world through music and art. A little healing for us all….
Ben King’s lyrics:
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we’ll see
No I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin’, darlin’, stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won’t cry, I won’t cry, no I won’t shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin’, darlin’, stand by me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me-e, yeah
Whenever you’re in trouble won’t you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Darlin’, darlin’, stand by me-e, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
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wow, laura, just wow. they have a blog, too!
Thanks Laura. This is wonderful!
Did you know that we process music in more parts of our brain than we use when we process spoken language? Research is showing that people who have language impairment from strokes may be able to sing what they cannot speak. Other research shows that singing benefits the singer. Those who sing music have stronger immune systems that those who merely listen to music. The first form of magic, of healing, I’m thinking.
@Laura at 11:16 pm -
yes!
This is going viral. It’s a cd, can’t wait for the rest of the songs.
It’s everywhere in my emails, and in the blogosphere.
It’s really, really great work, and it’s worthy of all the attention . . .
Earthlings are soooooo very odd….
so are inhabitants of planet peanut butter
@Peanut Butter at 11:18 pm – Now, now, PB! My favorite night of clubbing (not that I am known–anywhere–as a party girl) was spent with a bunch of deaf friends dancing in Boston. We went to places where there were wooden floors and a strong beat and danced ourselves silly.
@Laura at 11:25 pm Heh. Music is fun. But the transports to which some *cough* go to over it…well… Doodz….just bang out a rhythm on the table! There you go!
mumble higher order brain fitzle *plop* ecstasy mumble jumbo
Although, I should point out that it seems many stroke victims who lose their speech are able to sign perfectly well, once they learn some signs (or if they already knew sign).
What a nice way to end the evening.
Just got back from my parents where we ate turkey dinner again, decorated their Christmas tree and then played Mexican Train – a fun domino game. I’ve got to open up the Habitat Re-Store in the morning at 8am, so I gotta go hit my hammock.
See ya bumz tomarra.
Hi Gnome. Sleep well.
Time for me to say goodnight as well.
See you in the morning bumz.
@Peanut Butter at 11:34 pm – Well, you raise a good point, although I’ll probably hack it up terribly, trying to put it in my own words. It’s more than sound waves, this experience that is healing–it’s harmonics and rhythm blending and improvising and flowing. Those of us who hear get it through music and maybe because of that, we over-emphasize that zone of processing….but it’s also in the visual and kinesthetic realms as well, but we don’t always recognize the links.
I remember when I was deeply involved in sign language interpreting, having a dream in sign language–and in that experience, my visual zone was so more ON than usual. Language (sign language) in the dream had a visual depth and glow and connectivity to it that I didn’t ordinarily experience. It was very exciting and deeper feeling, like you get when you are swimming in very, very clear water, looking at the underwater world. In the dream, I felt I was thinking in sign language (probably was), and it felt different than it did to me, in my ordinary hearing-person-struggling-with-another-language mode. That depth, flow, connectivity, rhythm–is like a visual version of a song, I think.
(Actually, in some ways, a really articulate signer is a singer, I think) (And the most fun way to practice sign language is to sign music…it unstiffens the arms and hands.)
Good night Gnome and Muffin.
Larue, if you’re still around, I tried out your turkey set on a bed of chopped carrots, white wine and chicken stock in the pan, butter under the skin (plus my own variations) yesterday, and it was fantastic. Thanks!
We often have our second year immigrants take a choral singing class as a way to practice English and refine pronunciation a bit. While fulfilling half of the fine arts requirement. The kids seem to like it, but aren’t ready their first year.
Hello and good night, Bumz. I’ve been offline mostly, with son and 3 grandkids for Turkey Day. They’ve co-opted my computer. And I spent most of the past two days in the kitchen.
Happy Thanksgiving/Black Friday and hugs to all of my friends here at da Beach Haus. Back tomorrow.
sleep well, dear muffin. thanks for all the lovely pictures and thoughts, and just for being here and holding us together as a community. and of course for all your work with troubled teens.
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night msmolly!
Time to walk the beasties. Good night all.
It’s very interesting actually, even if for me completely theoretical and academic. There are, did you know, a certain percentage of hearing people — whose hearing is perfectly normal in every respect — who do NOT have various areas of their brains light up on hearing music. Those “lit up areas” basically correspond to the “sound rush” many hearies get. These people don’t “get” music, either. This relationship you guys have with sound alternately fascinates, baffles, and annoys me
Anyway, I’m headed for bed. (And I’ve been preparing for upgrading the site as well, will likely do that in the wee hours.)
Oh, question. Does this song have any relationship to either the one by a similar title (I think) from the movie Boys On the Side (a gorgeous movie, go see if you haven’t) and/or the movie based on Stephen King’s novel?
@Peanut Butter at 12:15 am – Don’t know about the first movie, but yes, it’s the same song as the King film.
night, laura! thanks for the vid!
30 Years Ago Today (Nov 27, that is)
Watching From the Sidelines
Really?
Glad it worked! I MUCH prefer it all on a hard wood fire, but we can’t bbq in our apartment complex no mo due to new state laws . . .
This was the FIRST year I’ve done that on a regular oven, and it went FINE!!!
It’s a killer short cut time wise, it keeps birdie moist and you don’t have to brine over night . . . and you just can’t screw it up as all the moisture keeps it, moist. And then a while to brown it with tent foil off at the end for that classic look . . .
KEWL!!!!
Urm, did OTHERS like it also?
And umm, just what WERE yer variations he asks with a lowered voice and a disarming lowered glance over the top of his glasses . . .
Oh for god’s sake chile, Stand By Me was done by Ben E. King in 1961.
MR. King was an original member of The Drifters.
The song, and MR. King, are god like . . . as are The Drifters.
Ewe kids . . . :shakesheadicon:
@larue at 1:08 am – But the song is used in the Stand By Me movie (set, I believe, in the era when it was a hit).
@larue at 1:04 am – Not much of a variation , Larue. I just made a paste of butter, fresh ground pepper and right out of the garden rosemary, and rubbed it under the skin and inside the cavity. Then plopped it on the carrots, sloshed liquids about and tossed it in. Very moist. Everyone loved it. I don’t tent my turkeys, usually. This one was brown and yummy.
I BBQ-ed my holiday birds for years until the hubby confessed he really hated missing out on the smell in the house of turkey in the oven. More work doing it the kitchen-based way, but I like keeping the guy happy (especially since he gets to do all the dishes after!)
@Laura at 11:47 pm -
That’s just so kewl of a descrip on so many levels I got nuttin to say.
And PB, knowing you in here continues to broaden my appreciation for my hearing, and my understanding of how life is like without hearing.
And thanks for sharing all your OTHER gifts with us, as you do. It’s not just what you KNOW about code, html and such, it’s how you share it. You share it well . . . and I appreciate it.
Laura, you’ve got a very good point with the way singers process music. I ended up primarily a singer because my parents couldn’t afford instrument rentals OR lessons. I was damned lucky i had the right mix of relative pitch (and maybe a perfect pitch, i never tested it.), rhythm and vocal chords to be a very good singer. Soloist or with a choral group. I still love it to this day, but was ‘wired’ for sound almost immediately as a child. My favorite and most vivid memories are almost sound linked, and it’s the way i remember most of my regulars at work. Their faces and voices, even if i can’t really connect the names of half of them yet.
I may be a ‘hearie’ but i dream in technicolor with ’stereo sound’ as i call it. I know i’m having a lucid dream if the sound is so vivid that i can’t tell the difference!
It’s why i can do such a good job DJing too. I remember the the overall ‘tone’ of most anything i hear and can slap it into a set generally after one or two hearings of the track. If they slapped an EKG on my head and played music, i wonder what it’d look like?
Watching From The Sidelines-nice read.
But I’ll go to my GRAVE knowing exactly what Bush II was gonna do when he stole the elections . . . I KNEW he was gonna ruin the country.
And thanks for sharing those links . . .
@aliasofwestgate at 1:30 am – Very busy, I’d say. I think you’d enjoy Oliver Sacks’ book Musicophilia. He describes the science very well.
Yes it was, but that’s not the same . . .
A movie in ‘87 evokes different reactions than the original in ‘61 . . .
The movie totally changes the meaning of the song from its original intent and impact as WE heard it back then . . . . or heard it afterwards . . . but you know how us old fogies are about OUR teenaged angst ridden years . . .
@Laura at 1:16 am -
Dang, way kewl!
Ain’t fresh rosemary something wonderful?
I often will take some chicken stock, knife up REAL fine some fresh rosemary and slice some fresh garlic chives up. Bring it to a boil, and just sip it. SO good feeling for when I’m clogged up sinus wise or just in need of something.
Added fresh ginger, hot chili paste or other source of heat, and a noodle or two is killer, also . . .
Then ya get into adding the meats, other veggies and such.
Or using clam base, or bonito seasonings (really expensive to make that miso at home) and some salad shrimp and thai fish sauce . . .
Course, for the REALLY hearty winter dish, ya gotta get out yer deep dutch oven cast iron toy and make some yosenabe!!!!
A Hammond B3 Organ doing Whiter Shade Of Pale, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, John Barleycorn and Positively 4th Street . . .
@larue at 1:52 am -
Larue
More like Hybrid’s Keep It In the Family sliding into Vivaldi’s Storm with side trip to hear Loveholic’s Hru ryumi. There’s no such thing as a language i haven’t liked in song. I find it amusing that i’ve learned more japanese via song than i have through actual lesson work. Even if the learning the simple written stuff (katakana and hiragana) make me
all the time. But i WILL learn it.
@aliasofwestgate at 2:21 am -
Thanks for smilin at my silly . . .
As to YOUR endeavors, it’s all Greek to me . . .
And I used to speak Vietnamese, French, Lao, Thai and engrish, all as a child. I’ve lost it all for the most part.
I still have an ‘ear’ for some languages, but Spanish came to me from 20 years in the restaurant biz . . . and the bad words and phrases are what stand out . . . I couldn’t hold a polite conversation with good grammar if I HAD to . . I so admire those who can pursue Japanese or any of the Chinese dialects . . . brutal, like Russian and the Slav languaes . . .
Morning bumz! Gotta take the little guy to the doc this morning, he’s got a wicked cough and yucky nose. He started sounding croupy while we were gone, but now it’s deep and chesty. Best to check it out and eliminate worst case scenarios.
Today is put up the Christmas tree day
Madkiddies are beyond excited. I am too, since I finally got the skinny artificial tree I’ve been wanting for ages. I love the deocrating, but do not love vacuuming up pine needles till Easter. Plus I always worry about fire since we keep the tree up for so long. It’s supposed to rain today so the outside decorating will have to wait till tomorrow. It’s just not Christmas around here until the sattelites can see my house from outer space 
@burnspbesq at 7:48 am -
It’s fun! That and my brain seems to be in defaut DJ mode at work. When the Muzak generator plays the most impossible set i cringe. Two different songs without even the remotely same tone one after the other make my ears bleed. It’s better than it used to be last year but it still is a computer putting together sets randomly, therefore you get the most horrible things quite often.
I ignore it altogether when things are busy, but when we slow down there’s not anything in the world that can make stop cringing when that happens.
@aliasofwestgate at 8:15 am – Now that’s interesting. You’d probably cringe at my mix n match CD’s, then (yes, I do actually, despite my snark above, listen to and enjoy (in my own way) music — I just crank it up 150 db in the car when I drive). I put together songs I like and you’ll find, oh, Don’t Stop Believing right next to, oh what’s that song by deep purple, that goes BA BA BUM BA DA BUM at the very beginning? Smoke on the Water!
Ears bleeding yet??
If I discussed this topic more, y’all wouldn’t just gain an appreciation for hearing
. Trust me, you guys have NO LACK of appreciation for that 
. Y’all would realize that really the only difficulty we deafies have are the roadblocks you guys put into societal structures. It’s the same sort of deal with wheelchair accessible curbs and ramps. There’s no reason the able bodied can’t use them as usefully (think mom with a stroller for instance) and they’re as easy to build in but the insistence on stairs kiboshes that. (And once they’re in, it’s much more expensive to convert/expand). You can’t convince me y’all can hear the announcements made at the gates in airports 
and why captioning isn’t universal everywhere (you know the biggest user of captioning is? people trying to learn the language!). Signing I give a pass on, though it’s fun to use… and can be terribly useful as I mentioned above…
Anyway, I’m out for the day! I will be back either late late tonight or tomorrow morning. So clean up after yourselves and have fun on the beach…