Van Halen – “JUMP” – A Meanspeed® Free School Analysis with speed measurements, contemporary tempo maps in 2 & 3 dimensions, videos.
The year the song “Jump” was popular was the first year I to drive. At the time I was addicted to the ABC® dramatic series called ALL MY CHILDREN (“AMC”). Many who were in that cast are still thriving actors.
For me the man for whom I have the most respect is Peter Bergman. At the time, the plot of AMC featured Peter as Dr. Clifford Warner, the young husband of heiress the blond and gorgeous Taylor Miller as Nina Courtland. Peter Cooney who still portrays Business magnate Palmer Courtland, the most fun character I ever disliked knowing that it was all “just” a “soap opera.”
These were the days of Greg Nelson and Jenny Gardner (Laurence Lau and Kim Delaney), Liza Colby (Marcy Walker), Liza’s best friend Amanda (Amanda Bearse), Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter (Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan) and a now-grown-up Tad Martin (Michael E. Knight), who was now legally Ruth and Joe’s son, enter the scene.
Lesley Wilson who played Dr. Langley Wallingford was a customer during a year in which I was retail man in Manhattan. To coin a phrase: I have never met a kinder man. When I said “My friends and I would eat lunch in high school sitting around the television, you were such a favorite that a best friend when earned the nickname “Langley.” It definitely was not my brother who does not do translations at the United Nations, or , a bold multi-world traveler for a good photo as B.B. King said about same brother , “You mean, you took these photos for the Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Eeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhn? The Yuuuuuuniiiiited Naaaaaaaaations!” Followed by a B.B. (only in New York) pregnant pause that I could never time. Another photo. Another: “The U.N. [Indefinable pregnant pause]…the United Nations!” Heck, it was my birthday and B.B. was there to please his clientele.
Lest I digress: One day my brothers and a friend of mine decided to go see all the actors on All my Children which filmed when in Manhattan in a building which is now replaced by a gentrified building, and described with gutsy, bold emotion by Pete Bergman in last year Soap Opera Digest®, which goes well in the bathroom along with Newsweek,® Time® , and, yup, the CBS® Soaps In Depth™.
Peter, who played squeaky clean Cliff Warner now plays the Angel on the right shoulder, Devil on the left shoulder business magnate and family patriarch of the Abbott family of television’s best drama, The Young And The Restless®. Night television is now dominated by Reality and Comedies, with American Idol®, or FOX®, Survivor® of CBS®, The Office® originally written by Ricky Gervais of the BBC® of ABC®, and last and best and for sure the most brazen 30 Rock® of NBC®. Peter talks about passing his old digs at ABC® – the days when he was the “good solid doctor” only to see that the demolished building, destroyed only the day before his visit.
I think he was only in New York for the Daytime Emmy® Awards, and he turned to his wife and said: “It’s true what they say. You can never go home again.” Was that too much information about my family reading material’s locale? My email box is quiet on the most active among you. Don’t worry, I won’t blow your cover!
Ok: My high school friend was so exuberant about seeing the cast, especially Jenny and Nina that at a stoplight at 4:30 AM, as these actors show up at 5 AM an d leave in the night
The thing I remember the most about that day was the friend in the car psyching the rest of us up at 4:30 by getting out of the car on a dead street on a long red light as JUMP was blaring from my car. “George Parks” got out of the car and did a David Lee Roth meets George Bush 43 as his cheerleading days at Yale. George made the day – Tad was cool, he was wearing a radio Walkman™ before anyone thought it “stylish,” the actor who played Erica Cane
played by the dazzling lovely Susan Lucci , & the character BRANDON KINGSLEY was cordial. Mainly: it was Jump.
The song just fit the times, just like Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day defined its times and the way Halloween, especially the live GORGE version, a known John Edward’s favorite according to a source close to the Kerry 2012 camp, by the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND defined Clinton’s times, the way Let’s Roll dominated Bush 43’s early years and the way that U2 played on the Lincoln Memorial after racism by law and in fact had been stamped out, from the law, singing IN THE NAME OF LOVE. Frankly when, James Manning-san and I thought Bono’s relaxation upon the monument was disrespectful. Then I reminded myself: he’s celebrating freedom.
And of course Harold Loomis who, with Every Breath You Take in the background had kidnapped everyone’s secret crush, I know she was mine: Brooke English as portrayed by Julia Barr! My Harold Loomis Halloween costume.
Halloween, I’m late, I know. I saw the Jets play live, so please understand.
Meanspeed/Spencer/Carlton Summary
Song title=Jump
Performer=Van Halen
Album=’1984’
Bit Rate=128 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
File type=Protected AAC audio file
File extension=M4P
Intellectual Property=(p) Warner Brothers, Incorporated
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
Fair Play Version=2
Genre according to iTunes® by Apple®=’Rock’
Composer=Edward Van Halen & David Lee Roth
Arithmetic mean speed / average expected tempo =130.0 beats per minute, 0.4615 seconds per beat
Whole note=1.85 seconds
Tempo surveying and chart synthesis=Meanspeed® Free School
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/Ian Andrew Schneider/
Meanspeed® Free School
November 2, 2009
HEART OF GOLD – Neil Young (The Johnny Cash of Canada?) – Tempo mapping the speed of renewal by the New Jersey Free School. Public information by wikipedia.
“Heart of Gold” from the 1972 album Harvest is Neil Young’s only number one hit single in his long musical career. Rolling Stone ranked it #297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.[1] It features the back-up vocals of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
The song is one of a series of soft, acoustic pieces which were written partly as a result of a back injury. Unable to stand for long periods of time, he could not play his electric guitar and so returned to his acoustic guitar, which he could play sitting down.[2] [3]
The song was taped during the initial sessions for Harvest in early 1971 at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Ronstadt and Taylor were in Nashville at the time for an appearance on Johnny Cash’s television program, and the album’s producer Elliot Mazer arranged for them to sing backup for Young in the studio. [4] [5]
Originally, this song was meant to segue with the song “A Man Needs a Maid”, and was therefore played on piano. It was played in this manner during Young’s solo shows in 1971, but he abandoned this approach midway through the tour and began to play it on guitar as it is now known. Additionally, one line that was cut when the two songs became separate entities was “Afraid/A man feels afraid” [6] An example of the segued version appears on Young’s Live at Massey Hall 1971 release.
Young wrote in the liner notes of his compilation album Decade: “This song put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there.” This statement was in response to the mainstream popularity that he gained as a result of “Heart of Gold”‘s number-one status.
In 1985, Bob Dylan admitted that he hated this song, despite always liking Neil Young:[7]
The only time it bothered me that someone sounded like me was when I was living in Phoenix, Arizona, in about ’72 and the big song at the time was “Heart of Gold.” I used to hate it when it came on the radio. I always liked Neil Young, but it bothered me every time I listened to “Heart of Gold.” I think it was up at number one for a long time, and I’d say, “Shit, that’s me. If it sounds like me, it should as well be me.”
The song has been covered by Tanya Donelly, Matchbox Twenty, Tori Amos, Free Dominguez, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Richard Lloyd, Bettye Lavette, Birds and Batteries, Zakk Wylde (with Black Label Society), Boney M, Carla Cook, Lawrence Gowan, Stereophonics, Rockapella, Roxette, Backburner, Hanah, Ossifar, the James Last Orchestra, Five for Five, Sally Dworsky, Channeling Owen, Stoney LaRue, The Bad Plus, Dave Matthews and Jimmy Buffett (with the Coral Reefer Band), and as a Karaoke backing track. It is also heard briefly in the film Iceman.
In 2005, “Heart of Gold” was named the third greatest Canadian song of all time on the CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version. It ranked behind only Barenaked Ladies’ “If I Had $1000000″ and Ian and Sylvia’s “Four Strong Winds”.
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Meanspeed-Carlton Speed Summary
song=Heart of Gold
performer=Neil Young
composer=Neil Young
average expected tempo/weighted median speed=85 2/5 bpm
calibrations, charts, measurements, tempo graphics=Ian Andrew Schneider
average beat=~0.7026 seconds
emotive expression as predicted by the meanspeed® music hypothesis=renewal/rebirth/healing
KEEP ON ROCKING IN THE FREE WORLD, MR. YOUNG! LONG MAY YOU RUN!
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
New Jersey Free School/Meanspeed® Music Trust
1/12/10
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MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR – “Amazing Grace”- favored by @OGochoCinco Chad Ochocinco – Average BPM=100 1/5 BPM, the Universal Speed of Sexual Climax
On twitter the fine wide receiver, Star of the television program “The Ultimate Catch”. @OGochoCinco a/k/a Chad Ochocinco _ This waltz time of 100 1/5 beats per minute indicates the speed of the natural truth.
Is it because Chad is associated with his 38 million dollar hands that I call 100.1 BPM “the Universal Speed of Sexual Climax”? No, my mom would kill me if I joked about this – anyone who knows me knows this as true. Rather, where until 2004 it was considered by the medical community and the science community in general axiomatic that the ONLY rhythm of ANY part of the body of a man or a woman during sex that is predictable was the speed of climax, insofar as spasms of the genitals and pelvic area in general was the same. People used to think this because of the work of Masters & Johnson. Turns out: this is EXACTLY CORRECT. However, during such time as Masters & Johnson measured the speeds, instruments for finding same were, as Dr. Masters *personally told me*, were too crude to know if the accepted 1/2 century 800 milliseconds or 75 beats, or orgasmic spasms, per minute, specifically 6 to 7 and then a few more, slowing down then to a stop. The German scientists after the century went to more precise work on this and validated every element of Masters’ work. However, with the body measurement technology, it was determined through experiments that the orgasmic contractions were in fact a universal 100 beats per minute.
I am NOT suggesting that Amazing Grace is being sung intentionally, at least in this song (!) as expressing sexuality. Every piece of music has thousands if not millions of elements. In this song, such as, the syncopated waltz time, the African-American choir tones, the melody, the harmony are all FAR more important than the tempo. Tempo is to a song as the weather report is to the news. So: you stop and think, sometimes a waltz piece can be as The Skater’s Waltz or Happy Birthday or an especially quick version of the Merry Widow’s Waltz. As far as weather? I am about to go see the Somerset Patriots play against the Southern Maryland Bluecrabs: last night, the temperature was 72 degrees, a non factor. TODAY? Over 90 degrees! So as you can see, or feel: sometime the tempo is all you want to know from the news.
I picked the song and the YouTube clip as a direct recommendation of Chad. Requests are starting to come in to meanspeed® music nonprofit music education, as more people realize that in this wildly changing economy that school programs for music for students is considered “nonessential” – so Juliette Lewis‘ favored Life In The Fast Lane comes next – and *you*???? Please keep the requests coming.
8/29/2010
Barry Manilow Tempo Secret REVEALED! Joe Deluva’s Shocking Explanation with bpm charts, tempo scans and video of Sir Barry Manilow’s DAYBREAK, the tempo *broken down* in beautiful bathroom-worthy freely downloadable bathroom art* as THE opening song has kept BARRY RELEVANT FOR DECADES. VIDEO ON GMA with Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos (Γιωργος Στεφανοπουλος) featured!!!
Some come, some go. Then there is the man the Rolling Stone Magazine called the “Showman of Our Generation”: MR BARRY MANILOW.
Quite candidly, I was surprised that Joe Deluva talks about Barry’s *continued* success, despite being the man others like to bully because he *understands* the REAL TRUE BLUE Barry, a/k/a Alan Pincus, is too kind and above the fray to get involved in the surroundings jealousy.
I recently talked to Joe about this
James Manning-san: So Joe, you have been to 11 Barry Manilow concerts? Seriously!?
Joe Deluva: Oh yeah. The man knows his music, plays in perfect tune and tone, is at home in any harmonic sequence, but lemme tell ya something Manning-SAN, if that’s what you are going by these days!
James Manning-San [interrupting]: “Going by’? Joe, that’s my name: use it and don’t wear it out! Just joshing my brother.
James Manning-san: Uh, that’s, uh, why you’re here…that and your “inside the music business” rectitude with your perspective…or rectitiditivity [sic], as you call it
Joe Deluva: Okay, Manning-san, it’s as simple as it is effective. Here it is: Barry opens up literally *every* show with the song I’m sure you know it, Manning, called DAYBREAK. The song, the tempo are pop music genius. The average expected tempo is a perfect 119.5 bpm. Talk about the speed of GETTING OVER IT (!) and coming away with a sweet *victory*! Take a look at a short list of songs at that speed which emote, to me anyway: I MADE IT, WE WON, AN OBSTACLE HAS BEEN OVERCOME! ‘We Are Family,’ BY SISTER SLEDGE, ‘Are You Going With Me,” by the PAT METHENY GROUP, ‘Borderline,’ by the queen of Let It All Hang Out Pop, Madonna Ciccone, or MADONNA for short.
James Manning-san: Ok – So what happens? When The Showman of Our Generation, as Jan Wenner of the Rolling Stone has stated, open a concert with Daybreak?
Joe Deluva: Perect question, Jimmy-Boy! Let me just put it this way: by the time the first chorus is over, and the entire audience is singing, ‘and it’s DAYBREAK, and of you’ll only believe,’ now here’s the key, Manning-san: quarter note rest on a four and a huge Togetherness on the ONE: “AND LET IT SHINE – SHINE – SHINE! ALL AROUND THE WORLD!!!!” Let meeee [sic] tell you: the audience has been sucked, literally and figuratively, into the World of Manilow. You think I joke, young man?
Go to one of Barry’s concerts, his regular Vegas appearances: Let me know if that song ever fails to be the Barry-Candy that makes the man, his songs, his hair – and yes – that voice and GROOVE ever fails to simply, yeah man, really ‘whew’ an audience. I know you know what I mean. It’s all these songs that transport people back in time for a moment, Sure James, everyone seems to brag “I HATE Barry Manilow.” I have heard the normally humble PHIL COLLINS say exactly that. What I say is: listen to the 119 1/2 BPM groove grab your heart, your spirit, the depth of your soul. I dare You!
James: As suggested, so tried! That’s very bold of you, Joe, to expose that which people have ignored because they are “too cool” – Deluva, man: that’s why you are welcome everywhere you go! You just love the rhythm, the beat, the tone, the melody, REGARDLESS of the Q-rating of the artist. Got a light dude? This DOES rock! You stay, THE DELUVA! Come back again soon!!! Thanks.
wikipedia relevant PUBLIC INFORMATION - "Daybreak" is a pop song performed by Barry Manilow in 1977. It was composed by Manilow and Adrienne Anderson. The single version was recorded live with the female backup group Lady Flash, reaching #23 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song first appeared on Barry's 1976 album This One's for You in a studio version. It is also prominently featured in the John Waters film Serial Mom (1994), starring Kathleen Turner.
For MUSICIANS FOR *PERSONAL USE ONLY* – ARTIST: Barry Manilow
TITLE: Daybreak
Lyrics and Chords
[Capo 3]
I’m singin’ to the world
It’s time we let the spirit come in
Let it come on in
I’m singin’ to the world
Everybody’s caught in the spin
Look at where we’ve been
We’ve been runnin’ around, year after year
Blinded with pride, blinded with fear
/ Cmaj7 – / – C Gm7 – / – - / C – / – - Gm7 – / – - /
/ Fmaj7 – C – / D7sus4 – D7 – F#m7 B F#m7 B /
{Refrain}
But it’s daybreak, if you wanna believe
It can be daybreak, ain’t no time to grieve
Said it’s daybreak if you’ll only believe
And let it shine, shine, shine
All around the world – Sing it to the world, singin’, singin’
Sing it to the world, singin’, singin’
/ Em – Fmaj7 – / / Am – Am7 D7 / Dm7 Em F – /
/ Cmaj7 Dm Cmaj7 – / /
Singin’ to the world
What’s the point in puttin’ it down
There’s so much love to share
I’m singin’ to the world
Don’t you see it all comes around?
The feeling’s everywhere
We’ve been closin’ our eyes, day after day
Covered in clouds, losin’ our way
{Refrain}
Yes, and it’s daybreak if you wanna believe
It can be daybreak, ain’t no time to grieve
Said it’s daybreak, if you’ll only believe
And let it shine, shine, shine
All around the world
Let it shine, shine, shine
All around the world – Sing it to the world, singin’, singin’
Sing it to the world, singin’, singin’
It’s day-ay-ay-break, can you feel it
Sing it to the world, singin’, singin’
It’s day-ay-ay-break, can you feel it
/ Em – Fmaj7 – / / Am – Am7 D7 / Dm7 Em F – /
/ Am – - – / Dm7 Em F – / Cmaj7 Dm7 Cmaj7 Dm7 / / /
(Barry has approved the music as PERSONAL USE ONLY status. We at meanspeed® music say: Thank you Mr. Manilow! A million blessings ion your head!!!!!†††††††)
JAMES RONAN MANING-SAN
IAN ANDREW SCHNEIDER
Meanspeed® Music NONPROFIT Public Education
July 21, 2010
LOVE TO BARRY!!!!





































































