27th Nov - Wellington XMAS BBQ

[Hitcher]

Mrs H and I are looking forward to this.

[Blakamin]

Have a beer for me..... I'm off to hastings via wanganui on friday

[MOTOXXX]

Hey Paul
could you pm your address. I have a 21st to go to but would still like to stop by and meet some more of yall.
ill be good i swear

[StoneChucker]

I have a feeling this is going to be a good'un.

[merv]

Yep I'm finally back in town having had 5 of the last 6 weeks away so I'll have to see if I can make it.

[Paul in NZ]

We have put up the xmas tree to make it more festive...

I will refrain from xmas music however.

Please read the first part of the thread and if you are bringing stuff like extra BBQ and helping with set up, feel free to arrive earlier to suit your self. Catching me out in my Y fronts has been known to strike people blind so use some common sense OK!

Paul N

[mangell6]

I have a feeling this is going to be a good'un.

A memory came rushing to the fore reading this, back in the seventies my Mum would make whom ever placed the carrots on the lawn to clean them up. This always occured the following morning.

Now the start time is 4 ahem, to see the why frontal and associated paraphanalia - correct????

Have the neighbours been invited?????

Mike

[FROSTY:Me]

Baby Bikie is as of now counting down the sleeps. I'm threatening him t=with the big bad mean man thatll tie him up and put him in a lil room full of wetas if hes trouble.--Paul -dont be suprised if he looks at you and screams blue murder lol

[Ms Piggy]

I have a feeling this is going to be a good'un.

I hope you have your Air Hostess outfit pressed! I'll make sure and bring the hand cuffs

[Velox]

Have fun guys - don't know if I'll end up making it out there in the end (def. can't earlier on anway). Behave so you can all ride over the hill the next day.

[Paul in NZ]

The weather is pretty friggin dire at the moment but it should be OK tomorrow (which means it will be shite).

Don't stress though! It will all be good to go.

I dusted off all my old mantovani '78's especially for the night and the tuba is all polished up!

Paul N

[Jamezo]

...and the tuba is all polished up!

Paul N

I hope I never understand what you are implying with that, but I wish you the best of luck with it...

[riffer]

I hope I never understand what you are implying with that, but I wish you the best of luck with it...

http://www.spaceagepop.com/mantovan.htm says:

Mantovani was a cornerstone of the easy listening business for over 30 years. His father was the principal violinist at La Scala under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. Moving with his family to England in 1912, Mantovani eventually studied music at Trinity College and, after graduation, formed his own orchestra, starting out in theaters in and around Birmingham. By the the start of World War Two, Mantovani's was among the most popular groups on the BBC and the theater circuit. Mantovani served as musical director for a number of long-forgotten British musicals and plays, inlcuding several by Noel Coward.

After the war, he began to focus on recording, and eventually abandoned live performances entirely. Working primarily with arranger Ronnie Binge, he developed a big cascading string sound that as featured on his first big hit, "Charmaine," in 1951. Mantovani spent hours working in the studio with microphone placements and other techniques to perfect the lush feeling and dramatic effects.

Mantovani recorded on Decca through the mid-1950s, when he switched to London, for who he cranked out over 50 albums, many of them charting in the Top 40. He also had a string of best-selling singles with such space age pop staples as "The Song from Moulin Rouge," "Swedish Rhapsody," and "Exodus." He is reputed to have been the first act in the music business to sell over one million stereo recordings, and as a quick look at most thrift store music sections will tell you, he pushed out an incredible volume of product. His album of music from Exodus stayed in the Top 40 for the better part of a year in 1961, and the same year, London bundled 5 of his albums together in a special promotional deal and together they all reached "Gold Record" status. Virtually all of Mantovani's music is unexceptional and uninteresting, however, regardless of the enticiveness of the tunes covered.

[MOTOXXX]

http://www.spaceagepop.com/mantovan.htm says:

Mantovani was a cornerstone of the easy listening business for over 30 years. His father was the principal violinist at La Scala under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. Moving with his family to England in 1912, Mantovani eventually studied music at Trinity College and, after graduation, formed his own orchestra, starting out in theaters in and around Birmingham. By the the start of World War Two, Mantovani's was among the most popular groups on the BBC and the theater circuit. Mantovani served as musical director for a number of long-forgotten British musicals and plays, inlcuding several by Noel Coward.

After the war, he began to focus on recording, and eventually abandoned live performances entirely. Working primarily with arranger Ronnie Binge, he developed a big cascading string sound that as featured on his first big hit, "Charmaine," in 1951. Mantovani spent hours working in the studio with microphone placements and other techniques to perfect the lush feeling and dramatic effects.

Mantovani recorded on Decca through the mid-1950s, when he switched to London, for who he cranked out over 50 albums, many of them charting in the Top 40. He also had a string of best-selling singles with such space age pop staples as "The Song from Moulin Rouge," "Swedish Rhapsody," and "Exodus." He is reputed to have been the first act in the music business to sell over one million stereo recordings, and as a quick look at most thrift store music sections will tell you, he pushed out an incredible volume of product. His album of music from Exodus stayed in the Top 40 for the better part of a year in 1961, and the same year, London bundled 5 of his albums together in a special promotional deal and together they all reached "Gold Record" status. Virtually all of Mantovani's music is unexceptional and uninteresting, however, regardless of the enticiveness of the tunes covered.

[riffer]

Confused... really?

I thought it was easy to understand.

Mantovani is, I guess, the pioneer of easy-listening music.

Paul was just alerting us to the possibility of an easy listening jam session...