This #TuneTuesday 's theme is #MyGoldenOldie - the oldest song on your personal playlist.

Shamefully, even I can't weeb this one up!

I am going to count "things that there could have been an album of when they came out" because otherwise I'd have to spend a lot of time chasing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers_by_era 😝

Considering when the phonograph came out and commercial recordings could start being sold, it seems likely to be a John Philip Sousa or Scott Joplin?

I'll give it here, as I used to listen to Joplin basically on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2rMET4MVw&list=RDND2rMET4MVw

Apparently this #TuneTuesday theme is #NonLexicalVocals

Oh no! Another excuse to post Yoko Kanno and a track from some of the best OST of all time in Macross Plus? Heaven forfend!

https://youtu.be/gywJOEBpsuc?si=Zdwm4718G7AWCefS

For a #TuneTuesday that is #WideOpenSpaces I, for once, am compelled to start non-weebishly. (Which does not mean I will ONLY...)

A composer I leaned into heavily as a young'in, and basically "equates to wide open landscapes" is Aaron Copland. And while everyone knows at least a little from cultural osmosis (like Fanfare for the Common Man), I'm here to convince you to take in a ballet. (Well, the orchestral arrangement of a ballet he composed.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Qt0AIRK-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxd1cmenki8

It's only 25 minutes, what else you got going on? 😝

First link has marvelous wide-open imagery, and the second has Copland conducting, which is super-cool.

It is overall... a lot to take in. Mountains' worth! And well worth it.