Record Cover of the Week

A trio of Canuck soundtracks.

Music of the N.F.B.

Brilliant 2 LP set of electroacoustic-ish music from National Film Board of Canada films. Cover drawing by Norman McLaren.

Michael Conway Baker, The Chieftans: The Grey Fox

François Dompierre: Les portes tournantes

The Culling XVIII: The Sound of Musics

I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since the last Culling update. Sorry. I’ll endeavor to be more conscientious in the future.

I’m nearing the end of the soundtrack section where I have this nice little selection of Sound of Music movie soundtracks in other languages:

French. La mélodie du bonheur translates literally as “the melody of happiness”

German. Meine Lieder, meine Träume means “my song, my dream”

Korean (just the cover, not the music, alas). Perhaps someone who speaks the language can provide a literal translation.

Does anyone have any other language versions of this album? Spanish maybe? Italian?

Curiously, all four of my copies of this version are badly scratched and I’m culling them all.

Stampin’ Tom

I haven’t collected stamps since I was a lad, but today I went to the post office to pick up some of Canada Post’s new Stompin’ Tom Connors stamps. I would have bought a whole roll and sent postcards to all my friends – but it only comes in a set along with 3 other Canuck recording artists I’m less enthusiastic about – Édith Butler, Robert Charlebois and Bryan Adams.

I also picked up a few sets of this series featuring some well-known roadside attractions of western Canada and the Territories:

Mr. PG (Prince George, B.C.), the Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon, the Inukshuk of Hay River, Northwest Territories, and the giant Ukrainian Easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta. There’s more sets coming with attractions from other parts of the country.

Words to live by

Go-go with all your heart.