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Markus 07:30 am UTC 06/29/12 |
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re: How many Jim songs did you hear before knowing Jim did them? - Jan 12:34 pm UTC 06/28/12 |
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Great! :-) One tiny little thing that youŽll never forget.
Markus
> I remember being 9-years old in the summer of 1983 and
> visiting my grandparents with my family. I was sitting on
> the bed watching the adults and children mingling. The
> radio was on and slowly I started to listen the song
> playing on the radio more closely and really liking the
> song. When the music starts to end there is still a voice
> singing 'turn around bright eyes' with a sound like a wind
> blowing in the background...It goes on about a minute and
> when I'm listening to this I'm thinking "That's an angel
> singing". The voice sounded angelic to me. That's what I
> imagined an angel singing would sound like. First time I
> ever thought any religious imagery when hearing a song on
> the radio. I was totally mesmerized, thinking of an angel
> singing and then slowly disappearing to somewhere when the
> song ended... A really magical moment that I still
> remember vividly from my childhood.
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> Later I found out that the voice belonged to Rory Dodd,
> not to an angel who as a child I thought came down from
> heaven for a minute to sing the fade out in 'Total Eclipse
> of the Heart'. :)
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> In 1993 I discovered Steinman properly when 'Bat out of
> Hell 2' became a big hit...and also realized that the fade
> out I heard as a child in 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'
> wasn't written by God but Jim Steinman. :)
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