Music
By: Barbara Kestler
Our cofounder, George Feigley, was finally released from prison after more than 30 years (what have you been doing since 1975?) in the worst places in the worst state in America. The experience left him not simply old, but also very sick, using a wheelchair and on continuous oxygen. Certainly that must make someone very happy.
He'd spend years in Frackville, Smithfield, Laurel Highlands, Huntingdon, Graterford, Rockview, Dallas and, of course, Pittsburgh which was then called Western. Each of the hellholes wore the prisoner down. In his behalf, we must say that he fought the system and the injustices everyday and in every way. Still, for some persons it wasn't enough - the good Christian sorts!
Those wise types who, like tarot readers, see patterns and meanings in every omen may find the list revealing. Using YouTube, we found versions of much of the music. We've embedded the YouTube renditions into the list. They aren't Mr. Feigley's favorite versions of the music, but they give you an idea about what it sounds like. You probably won't recognize the titles of about half of these tunes. I mean, "Mares e'Oats?" |
One of the things that Mr. Feigley did soon after returning to his wife and home and after eating some decent food (he'd lost 80 pounds in the last years), was to jot down the music that was still going around in his old, white head. His list was more or less in order of how he preferred the music. The psychologists and other crackpots think that one can read a lot about a person by his preferences, his likes and dislikes. For that reason, We're publishing the list of music that Mr. Feigley said he likes.
Old Prisoner's Head
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"Brother Can You Spare a Dime" Yip Harburg | "Country Roads" John Denver - 1971 | "Jessy"
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| "Somewhere" Lenord Bernstein | "I Don't Get Around Much Any More" Duke Ellington | "Someone to Watch Over Me"
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| "Taccata and Fugue" J.S. Bach | "Buy the World a Coke" (1971 Commercial) | "Always" Irving Berlin | |
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Aleksandr Borodin "Nocturne #5" | "What'll I Do?" Irving Berlin | "These Foolish Things"
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| "What a A Swell Party This Is"
| "Scarboro Fair" Garfunkel (from The Gradguate) | "Sealed With a Kiss"
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"This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie | Palladio (Diamond Music) Kart Jankins | "September Song" Kurt Weill | |
| "It Ain't Necessarily So" George Gershwin (from "Porgy and Bess") | "Requiem" Wolfgang Amades Mozart | "I'll Be Seeing You"
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| "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" George Gershwin (from "Porgy and Bess') | "Piano Concerto #1" Tchaikovsky | "Fanfare for the Common Man" Aaron Copland | |
| "Music for the Royal Fireworks" George Frideric Handel | "Typewriter Music" Leroy Anderson | "Piano Concerto #2" Rachmaninov | |
| "The Train They Call the City Of New Orleans" Steve Goodman | "Camalot"
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"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" Burton Lane & Alan Jay | |
| "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" Benjamin Britten | "The Italian Symphony" Felix Mendelssohn | "Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" Gordon Lightfoot | |
| "Water Music" George Frideric Handel | "Figaro" Wolfgang Amades Mozart (from "Barber of Saville") | "Tammy"
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| "Pink Panther Theme" Henry Mancini | "There's a New World Coming" "the Great" Mamma Cass Elliott | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (from Roberta 1935 | |
| "Academic Festival Overture" Johannes Brahms | "Eleanor Rigby" The Beatles / 1966 | "Grandfather's Clock" Henry Clay | |
| "Strawberry Fields, Forever" The Beatles |
"The Black Bear" (Tattoo Closing March) |
"Stars and Stripes Forever" John Philip Sousa | |
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"I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight" | "Greensleeves" "What Child is This by King Henry VIII | "Grandma's Featherbed" John Denver | |
| "Laura's [Lara's] Theme" (from Dr. Zhivago) | "Bolero" Maurice Ravel | "Stardust" Hoagy Carmicharl | |
| "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" (from "My Fair Lady") | "Winchester Cathedral" 1966 | "Mare e' Dotes"
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| "Live and Let Die" Paul McCartney | "Leberstram" | "He's My Friend" Meredth Willson | |
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"John Henry" Woody Guthrie / c 1939 | Halleluja Chorus George Frideric Handel | "Entrance of the Boyars" Halvorsen | |
| "Lullaby" Johannes Brahms | "Maple Leaf Rag" Scott Joplin | "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis | |
| "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" ("Murder the Bugler") Irving Berlin | "Over There" George M. Cohan | "Big Bad John" Jimmy Dean | |
| "Casey Would Waltz with the Strawberry Blonde"
| "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
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"I Don't Want to Play In Your Yard"
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| "Ebony and Ivory"
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"What's New Pussy Cat?"
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"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Richard Strauss |
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