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Thomas Dolby – One of Our Submarines

An evening pause: Performed live 2012. Dolby sings and plays keyboards. Mat Hector is on drums and Kevin Armstrong is on guitar.

Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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3 comments

  • wayne

    Brian Eno –
    “Ambient 1: Music for Airports” (1978)
    https://youtu.be/vNwYtllyt3Q
    (48:24)

    “as ignorable as it is interesting”
    Brian Eno

  • Thomas Wilson

    Also can not forget Dolby’s classic tune “She Blinded Me With Science”

    Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9SbCeFcMPI

  • Doubting Thomas

    Robert – Great selection. Say some prayers for Dolby’s uncle, Lt. Stephen E. Spring Rice, RNVR second in command of P48 lost in 1942. The song honors him.

    Say some prayers for all the men (and women now) who go to sea in submarines.

    Thanks, from one of your submarine qualified readers.

    One of our submarines is missing tonight
    Seems she ran aground on manoeuvres
    One of our submarines
    A hungry heart
    To regulate their breathing
    One more night
    The Winter Boys are freezing in their spam tin
    The Baltic moon
    Along the northern seaboard
    And down below
    The Winter Boys are waiting for the storm

    And I can trace my history
    Down one generation to my home
    In one of our submarines
    One of our submarines
    One of our submarines

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