You can’t buy that phone, but can you name that tune?

Brandenburg anyone?

As it’s 70s TV commercial Sunday, I remember a ten-year-old me wanting to be this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBeP8yc5P64

Who wants some ’70s feminism and stinky perfume with their earworm this morning?

Explanation: I was pulling some bacon out of the freezer and started singing the song. Mr. SFL had absolutely no idea what I was singing, and even after showing him these two clips, he has no memory at all of this commercial from the late ’70s. I remember watching it and being absolutely transfixed by all the opportunities out there for women.

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We interrupt the serious and worldly for what has been charitably described as the worst song ever sung.

This probably has already hit you across the face with a claw hammer. (10m Youtube hits in the space of a week. No words are adequate for that.) But, if not… I proudly give you… Rebecca Black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Resolved: that whoever put this girl (age 13 if Twitterstan is correct) up to this — her parents, an unscrupulous producer, whoever — should (1) fork over every dime earned off this song, from whatever source, to the American Red Cross, and (2) be banned for life from the music industry.

Discuss.

Leave it to John Eliot Gardiner and a bunch of Brits to nail this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37jWFm3FV8

Missing Christmas for some reason …. Note the perfect combination of a Bach-sized orchestra with a not-so-big SATB chorus, and one harpsichord. Amazing.

He was Mozart’s teacher, and he was probably the greatest orchestrator the world has known.  Oh, and he was Beethoven’s teacher as well. Here’s his Symphony 100 (!) finale, played at about the correct tempo (in my mind):