This year with Sunday being New Year’s Eve, we have a Special New Year’s Edition for you.
Unfortunately, there just aren’t that many special New Year’s musical offerings to bring you.
So we are going to bring you what we were able to find along with a selection of musical pieces that include some concerts performed on New Year’s Eve, some collections of same, and some selections of TV shows shown on New Year’s Eve including of course Guy Lombardo.
Please give a listen to Karen Carpenter’s version of the classic song “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve”. Even if you are not a fan, this version is truly a classic of this song.
We want to take this time to wish everyone on TBP a Very Happy New Year…
A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
Anthony Aaron, and Steve C.
Every Sunday morning we present selections for our TBP family to enjoy.
We present symphonies, ensembles, quartets, octets, etc.
Not all of our music is strictly ‘classical’. We may stray a little, but we strive to make all of our selections ‘classy’.
We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’ and even some selections that are a bit light-hearted and fun aimed at a younger audience. Those pieces will be so designated, and might be a good way to introduce kids to a world of music that they might not have been exposed to or think of as old and ‘stuffy’.
A full symphony will run as long as it will. We don’t want to cut a symphony short. However, we also include some shorter pieces that we try to keep under fifteen minutes in length. You can sample each and hopefully find one or more that pleases you.
We hope that you enjoy our Sunday selections.
Anthony Aaron & Steve C.
New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve: Bernstein on Broadway
The New York Philharmonic celebrates the centennial of the late Leonard Bernstein, its fabled Musical Director from 1958 to 1969.
Led by Bramwell Tovey, with special guests Annaleigh Ashford, Christopher Jackson, Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit, this loving tribute promises to become a classical music moment to remember.
Aired on PBS: 12/31/17
“CANDIDE – Overture – 1:37
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 6:14
ON THE TOWN – Taxi Number (Come Up to My Place) – 8:57
ON THE TOWN – Lucky to Be Me – 12:59
ON THE TOWN – Three Dance Episodes – 16:02
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 26:05
WONDERFUL TOWN – Ohio – 28:38
WONDERFUL TOWN – It’s Love – 32:03
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 35:29
WONDERFUL TOWN – The Wrong Note Rag – 36:15
Intermission – Friends Remember Leonard Bernstein – 40:00
FANCY FREE 3 Dance Variations – 1. Galop – 48:30
FANCY FREE 3 Dance Variations – 2. Waltz – 50:07
FANCY FREE 3 Dance Variations – 3. Danzon – 52:58
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 55:57
PETER PAN – Dream With Me – 57:31
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 1:01:19
West Side Story Symphonic Dances – Mambo – 1:06:35
WEST SIDE STORY – Cool – 1:09:06
WEST SIDE STORY – Maria – 1:13:47
WEST SIDE STORY – Balcony Scene (Tonight) – 1:17:02
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 1:22:10
A QUIET PLACE – Jazz Trio “Mornin’ Sun” – 1:23:38
ON THE TOWN – I Can Cook Too – 1:27:12
Remarks by Bramwell Tovey – 1:31:28
CANDIDE – Make Our Garden Grow – 1:33:46
TRADITIONAL – Auld Lang Syne” – 1:40:12
Karen Carpenter – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve
Beautiful rendition of this classic by Karen Carpenter.
I absolutely love her doing this song. – Steve C.
It was written in 1947 by Frank Loesser.
Even if you’re not a Karen Carpenter fan you should give this a listen. Maybe your loved one will like it.
We provide the music for you.
You provide the drinks.
The rest is up to you…
Vintage New Year’s Eve Music
This starts out with a much older version of the song performed above by Karen Carpenter.
Back in the day when people really knew how to throw a NYE party…
00:00 What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve – Kay Kyser
02:57 Auld Lang Syne Boogie – Freddie Mitchell
05:58 Let’s Start the New Year Right – Bing Crosby
08:28 Sorry to See You Go – June Christy
10:56 Roll Out the Barrel (Beer Barrel Polka) – Guy Lombardo
13:17 Happy New Year – Spike Jones
15:58 Twelfth Street Rag – Pee Wee Hunt
19:00 A Hundred Years From Now – Jack Hylton, recorded 1928 🙂
22:01 Sing Until the Cows Come Home/The Gang’s All Here/Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight – Guy Lombardo
23:42 Happy Days Are Here Again – Guy Lombardo
26:13 Auld Lang Syne – Guy Lombardo
ABBA – Happy New Year
A New Year’s tradition.
Vienna New Year’s Concert
Johann Baptist Strauss II also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as “The Waltz King”, and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
Some of Johann Strauss’s most famous works include “The Blue Danube”, “Kaiser-Walzer” (Emperor Waltz), “Tales from the Vienna Woods”, “Frühlingsstimmen”, and the “Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka”.
Among his operettas, Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron are the best known. Strauss was the son of Johann Strauss I and his first wife Maria Anna Streim. Two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss, also became composers of light music, although they were never as well known as their brother.
00:00:00 The Blue Danube Op.314
00:08:01 Vienna Blood Op.354
00:16:50 Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka Op.214
00:19:27 Wine, Women And Song Op.333
00:25:39 The Gipsy Baron – Entry March Op.327
00:28:30 Emperor Waltz Op.437
00:36:00 Vienna Sweets Op.307
00:45:33 Light Blood Polka Op.319
00:48:17 Roses From the South Op.388
00:56:52 Tales From Vienna Woods Op.325
01:06:19 Morning Papers Waltz Op.279
01:16:36 Long live the Magyar! Op.332
01:19:21 Voices Of Spring Op.410
01:25:28 Treasure Waltz Op.418
01:33:20 Radetzky March Op.228
01:36:13 Artist’s Life Op.316
01:42:58 Annen Polka Op.137
Is it new years yet?
Is it new years yet? · Sabrina Carpenter
Must be something about her name…
New Years Eve, Humor & Party Music Compilation – The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra Music
Have a look at our beautiful live video performances from productions filmed worldwide, some of our other clips and community
This Clip:
00:00 – Sing-Along Medley 2013
05:10 – Bella Ciao
08:45 – Alte Kameraden March
15:35 – Euphoria
19:09 – Florintiner March
24:32 – Wake Me Up
28:44 – Solo Piece 2014
35:25 – Mazeltov!
Retro New Year’s Eve 50s & 60s Music from Classic TV Show Specials | New Years Eve Vintage Playlist
Enjoy this musical selection of scenes from New Year’s Eve TV Specials from the 1950s and 1960s. Featuring Dinah Shore, Ginger Rogers, Guy Lombardo and many more! This playlist features the top hits of a retro New Year’s Eve to help you celebrate the end of the year.
Edited to focus on the music, with little dialogue and no plots – just familiar and comforting faces, songs and settings – this playlist has been specially created for people living with dementia, and their care partners, to enjoy together.
Featuring a carefully curated selection of clips from:
The Jack Benny Program (1953)
Your Hit Parade (1955)
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (1957)
The Dinah Shore Show (1961)
Georgs Pelēcis – New Year’s Music
Georgs Pelēcis – New Year’s Music (1979 / 1996)
Georgs Pelecis was born in Riga (Latvia) in 1947. He studied composition with Aram Khatchaturian at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Since 1970 he has been teaching polyphony at the Latvian Academy of Music. Recently he was appointed President of the Riga Centre of Early Music. Moreover he has a vast oeuvre to his credit as an important composer of this century.
Georgs Pelecis – one of the leading contemporary composers who writes new consonant music with an amazingly clear positive spirit and fresh harmonies. We can hear the reverberations of Renaissance and Baroque music in his compositions mixed with the minimalistic aesthetic.
New Year’s Eve With Guy Lombardo, 1994
This is a video of a 1994 PBS television special titled “New Year’s Eve with Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians”. The program included Gavin MacLeod as emcee, vocalist Rosemary Loar, and Al Pierson directing the modern Lombardo band, interspersed with archival clips of the original Lombardo band. For most of the 20th Century, Guy Lombardo and New Year’s Eve were synonymous with each other. It just wasn’t New Year’s Eve without Guy Lombardo!
Relaxing New Year Jazz Music – Cozy Coffee Shop Ambience with Warm & Smooth Piano Jazz Music to Relax
We’ll finish with this twelve hour long collection of some sweat jazz.
Relaxing New Year Jazz Music – Cozy Coffee Shop Ambience with Warm &Smooth Piano Jazz Music to Relax
Forget the pains, sorrows, and sadness behind. Let us welcome this New Year with big smile.
Wish you Happy New Year
Looking for a peaceful way to end your day? Check out this piano-relaxing jazz music in a cozy coffee shop with a fireplace to fall asleep to. This video is perfect for those winter days when you want to de-stress and relax.
In this video, you’ll get to experience the soothing sounds of jazz piano in a cozy coffee shop with an ambient winter atmosphere. This coffee shop is the perfect place to wind down after a long day.
Plus, the fireplace and warmrome add an extra layer of cozyness to the experience. Enjoy this peaceful video and fall asleep to the sounds of beautiful music!
The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.
Heaven help us…
Hmmmm….,have to admit this Friday Classic Music thing from the Sunday Music Crew starting unsettle me a bit,two weeks in a row?!
Anyhow,this song includes new year and just going with it!
Thanks as always,but…..,that’s it ,out of here till Sunday!
Thank you Steve!
One for after the party.
“Nothing matters and everything hurts”
The Eagles – Funky New Year
The difference between a violin and a fiddle …
What?? No Twelve Days of Christmas??
Who knows the meaning of the Twelve Days of Christmas? First one to say wins a prize. AND NO LOOKING IT UP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYbVmE3GTnk
A short story: When I was 7 or 8 my Dad believed himself to be quite the Tenor. He sang while in the shower or shaving. He was mediocre at best. Then he progressed to telling me, my two bothers and sister that he actually taught Perry Como how to sing. At first, we didn’t question him, but as time progressed and he told that canard for a few months, well, his claim drew a large round of rolling eyeballs. Even my Mother would snort, chortle and smirk when he told his story.
Well, the following song was one that he sung, but only the chorus, as his Italian was just mumbling, bumbling jibberish. The song I speak of is “Finiculi Finicula”. It was composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics penned by Peppino Turco.., yes two good Irishmen. The song was written to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway to ever operate on Mount Vesuvius.
Over the years it has been performed by the likes of Mario Lanza, Andrea Bocelli, Rodney Dangerfield, The Mills Bothers, Connie Francis, The Grateful Dead, Annette Funicello, Alvin and The Chipmunks, and of course my late, great Pappy.
Anyway, I don’t know why, but I found myself singing this song the other day, and butchering the Italian language just as Pappy did. It was a hoot.
So let’s get to the music…
Neapolitan lyrics
Aissera, oje Nanniné, me ne sagliette,
tu saje addó, tu saje addó
Addó ‘stu core ‘ngrato cchiù dispietto
farme nun pò! Farme nun pò!
Addó lu fuoco coce, ma se fuje
te lassa sta! Te lassa sta!
E nun te corre appriesso, nun te struje
sulo a guardà, sulo a guardà.
(Coro)
Jamme, jamme ‘ncoppa, jamme jà,
Jamme, jamme ‘ncoppa, jamme jà,
funiculì, funiculà, funiculì, funiculà,
‘ncoppa, jamme jà, funiculì, funiculà!
Né, jamme da la terra a la montagna!
Nu passo nc’è! Nu passo nc’è!
Se vede Francia, Proceta e la Spagna…
Io veco a tte! Io veco a tte!
Tirato co la fune, ditto ‘nfatto,
‘ncielo se va, ‘ncielo se va.
Se va comm’ ‘a lu viento a l’intrasatto,
guè, saglie, sà! Guè, saglie, sà!
(Coro)
Se n’è sagliuta, oje né, se n’è sagliuta,
la capa già! La capa già!
È gghiuta, po’ è turnata, po’ è venuta,
sta sempe ccà! Sta sempe ccà!
La capa vota, vota, attuorno, attuorno,
attuorno a tte! Attuorno a tte!
Stu core canta sempe nu taluorno:
Sposamme, oje né! Sposamme, oje né!
(Coro)
English translation
I climbed up high yesterday evening, oh, Nannina,
Do you know where? Do you know where?
Where this ungrateful heart
No longer pains me! No longer pains me!
Where fire burns, but if you run away,
It lets you be, it lets you be!
It doesn’t follow after or torment you
Just with a look, just with a look.
(Chorus)
Let’s go, let’s go! To the top we’ll go!
Let’s go, let’s go! To the top we’ll go!
Funicular up, funicular down, funicular up, funicular down!
To the top we’ll go, funicular up, funicular down!
Let’s go from here below up to the mountain,
A step away! A step away!
You can see France, Procida, and Spain,
And I see you! And I see you!
You rise, pulled by a cable, quick as a wink,
Into the sky! Into the sky!
We’ll rise up like a whirlwind all of a sudden
Knows how to do! Knows how to do!
(Chorus)
The car has climbed up high, see, climbed up high now,
Right to the top! Right to the top!
It went, and turned around, and came back down,
And now it’s stopped! And now it’s stopped!
The top is turning round, and round, and round,
Around yourself! Around yourself!
My heart is singing the same refrain:
We should be wed! We should be wed!
Blast from the past – Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics. Saw them on NY Eve in Beantown 1984. It was a hoot. Who cares about the music? The crowd was wild, and most fun I ever had at a concert. Chained, fire, smoke, guitarist diving into the crowd, Wendy O virtually naked. Oh to be young and wild.
Plasmatics…weren’t they a NC tribe, or maybe Georgia…Good to see you posting again, Chief…
Thanks nkit
A Sunday without Yuja smoking hot on a favorite piece is like a day without sunshine!!
Ursel,have had rain/grey weather for four days,if I play the video will the sun come out?
Asking for a friend.
Two most important words for life and the weather: “It depends.”
I think either Lennon or Harrison said Karen had the voice of angels and liked her version of TTR. She has grown on me and really has few equals. And she even beat out Bonzo of Led Zeppelin as top rock drummer. That put him over edge and he lost confidence of himself and wanted to quit.
Great performance of Vivaldi’s “Gloria”.
Happy New Year to the Sunday Music Crew/the folks here,and……,why not,even the world!
In the immortal words of a epic band:
“It was a new day yesterday
But it’s a old day now”
See ya all in 2024(I hope!).
I prefer Guy Lombardo.