Questions and general feedback
Sometimes I receive e-mails with questions about Czech music. While that's generally okay and I appreciate your interest in this subject, I thought it might be a good idea to make these questions publicly available in the future. Hence this post. This is the place where you can ask or comment on a topic regarding Czech and Slovak pop and jazz music, if you can't find a dedicated post for it (yet).
At some future time I might also reactivate the phpbb forum on my web server, as it would be probably the more appropriate place. But first I need to find and install some good anti-spam plug-ins...
Feel free to ask your questions or give general feedback to this blog in the comments to this post. It will have a permanent link in the sidebar, so you can easily access it after it slips off the front page.
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Lou Kash @ 15:40 CET
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A hockey team I help-out with will host a team from the Czech Rep. in March. These are youth teams and I am hoping to foster tons of international goodwill. So I wonder if you or your readers might have some suggestions for music to play between periods and between whistles. Sports music in the US is its own lexicon (Gary Glitter for a goal, Pump Up the Jam for everything else...). Would you know of anything readily available that might be good? I have some music already on file (Sto Zivrat, for example, and Plastic People...), but I don't want unwittingly to play something that would get us into trouble. More importantly, I thought there might be a set of Czech sports-music must-haves that I might look for.
Hi Anonymous, well, generally I go with the old saying "no sports" thus I have no idea about ice hockey rites in the first place except that I assume that those guys must have a flair for suffering physical pain, otherwise they wouldn't be likely doing it...
Sto zvířat are great, one of the best Czech ska combos. My wife is quite a fan of them, although she understands only very little Czech. As for the Plastic People, I think you can play a really depressive one in case those Czechs get beaten up, so they can suffer a bit more. Or if you have their song Samson, you can play it for them if they would be playing too sleepy; the lyrics go like "Samson! Wake up!" :)
I was "no sport" myself until dragged into it by my son. "Samson" it is! Maybe I'll add some vintage Lou Reed just to boost morale.
For the national anthem, Stravinski.
Flamengo was a real revelation, by the way. Thanks!
To Anonymous:
Stravinski???!!!
The Czech anthem has nothing to do with Stravinski.
- lyrics
- music (external mp3 link)
I wasn't going to pester you any more, but I see I was too cryptic for my own good (commenting on blogs while half-asleep = bad idea). My train of thought:
I have to play both the U.S. and Czech Anthems. I already have copies of the Czech Anthem (and will add yours to the list), but wanted to use the Stravinski StarSpangledBanner. But then I thought OH NO, I can't do that. Images of Russian tanks, tension, international incident. I abandoned the plan and got a copy of some military brass band's straightforward rendition of the SSB. UNTIL I found that "On May 15, 2002 The National Symphony Orchestra Washington performed [Stravinsky's] arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner at a concert dedicated in memory of the victims of 11 September 2001 at the 57th Prague Spring International Music Festival. The concert was under the patronage of the Embassy of the United States of America and U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Craig R. Stapleton, was present." Whether that would absolve me of insensitivity is another matter, but at least I might have been understood by someone able to recognize a flat seventh while standing at center-ice. THAT's what I meant. Thanks again!
(ps. a coaches daughter has been enlisted to sing the US anthem a capella. That settles that!)
Hello
It may be a little of topic but I am searching and investigating covers of Eurovision songs. And with the Czech republic entering the Eurovision stage i have been trying to find out details and songs. I found several by the likes of Judita Čeřovská, Hana Zagorova, Yvetta Simonová, Yvetta Blanarovicová and Helena Vondrackova. As for Slovak version I only know 3 by Tatjana Hubinská and Jana Procházková.
I would love to exchange music and details and try to find out more about Czech and Slovak singers who made these coverversions. So if anyone can help I'd be very thankfull. I'll gladly share my findings too of course.
I have a blogspot completely devoted to the subject of Eurocovers at http://www.eurocovers.blogspot.com
Hello Eurocovers, there have certainly been many Czech versions of various Eurovision songs, but I don't know most of the originals in the first place. :)
For sure I have the Czech version of Poupée De Cire: Vosková panenka by Eva Pilarová from 1966. As far as I can tell it hasn't been reissued on CD yet.
If you can point me to a list of those songs in question, I can "czech it out".
By the way, since I was a kid I hated "Já půjdu tam a ty tam" by Vondráčková & Korn...
Uz jsem si te zalinkoval na blogu.
Mel jsem par otazek ale radsi si to tady nejdriv vsechno proctu abych se te neptal zbytecne. Pisu cesky protoze moje anglictina je mizerna. Snad rozumis cesky.
Fuck parada blog :-) danke schön!
Ahoj Petasonicu. Česky samozřejmě mluvím. Jak jinak bych mohl shromažďovat všechny ty informace, které pak předávám dál v angličtině, že ano...? Ono i v té češtině toho je poskrovnu. Nejlépe by člověk musel mít přístup ke všem ročníkům Melodie, Gramorevue, R&P apod. (Melodii a R&P jsem sice začátkem 90. let odbíral, žel jsem to ale mezitím všechno vyházel...)
Tyjo je skvele ze tenhle tvuj blog ma mimojine velkou informacni hodnotu. Po audioblozich venujicich se hudbe 20.stoleti jsem se potuloval asi po dva roky pak jsem si dal pauzu a kdyz jsem se ted vratil tak jsem byl prekvapen jak se tenhle svet audioblogu rozrostl. Jednim z duvodu proc jsem si zalozil svuj byl i pocit ze bych nemel jen pasivne prijimat ale take prispet svou troskou do mlyna tohoto elektronickeho universa. Nebot diky nemu jsem se seznamil s hudbou krasnou i silenou ze vsech moznych oblasti planety se kterou bych jinak nemel sanci se potkat. Na ceskou hudbu jsem jeste nenarazil. Je dobre ze vyplnujes tohle bile misto na mape. Smekam klobouk a jeste jednou diky.
hello there i have lp of first beat festival if you interested
Hi Anonymous, do you mean Beat-Line Supraphon 1968, Supraphon 0130525, with Atlantis, Vulkán, Cardinals, Flamingo, Framus Five, Juventus, Prúdy and Rebels?
Thanks, I've got this one already, as well as the live album from the 2nd Beat Festival.
The only album from that era that I'm looking for is Supraphon Dance Selection 66-67 (Supraphon SUA 13848) a.k.a. Taneční melodie Supraphonu 1966-67 (Supraphon 043101).
I'm also looking for one of the 7 inch live EPs from the 2nd Beat Festival, Panton 030204.
Is there any way that you can give me the lyrics (in Czech and English) of the song Magdaléna of Marta Kubišová?
I will be grateful this is my e-mail:
chess_oakland at yahoo.com
Hi Anonymous, I've found the Czech lyrics here:
http://www.supermusic.sk/skupina.php?idpiesne=2553&sid=&TEXT=1
They are pretty strange (i.e. poetry) and I likely wouldn't be able to translate them to English even if I had time for that... ;)
Hi,
I just discovered your blog and it is really GREAT!
Congratulations!
I´d like to know if there´s a way to search articles in your blog by the name of an artist.
By the way, for me, one of the best czech jazz/funk connection in the 70´s is "Dobrovolní Nevolníci" by Jazz Sanatorium Ludka Hulana, a version on Roland Kirk´s Voluntered Slavery that appeared on Mini Jazz Klub series. Do you know about any other records from them?
Thanks.
Hi Tramp, thanks for your kind words.
To search the blog, you can use the Blogger search field at the top left. You can also search via http://blogsearch.google.com where you add "blogurl:http://blog.loukash.com/" (without the quotes) to the search words.
At a later time I might tag the articles with additional labels to make the search and the sorting more convenient. The labels weren't available at the time I've started the blog and thus they don't appear automatically on the sidebar anyway. I need to figure out how to update the layout first...
As for Luděk Hulan, unfortunately there weren't many recordings in the 1970s before his death in 1979. At first he emigrated to Switzerland in 1968 but he returned only a year later. But from then on he didn't get many jobs anymore, not to speak of recording opportunities. There's the live album "Milá společnost" from 1978 (Supraphon 1152309) and I also have another single from 1979, It's Only A Paper Moon/Bye Bye Blackbird (Supraphon 11152275). I'm not sure if there was anything else, but I'll check it out.
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