Jim Adams is the music-touting host of Song Lyric Sunday. This week, Jim says: This week we have the oxymoron related prompts of Different/Same and hopefully this will fit for everyone. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does…
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#MM Music Challenge — “Your Best American Girl,” by Mitski
Jim Adams is the every-other-Friday, music-loving host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [Smooth Operator, by Sade] and use it for a short story, a piece of flash fiction, or a poem that you can share with the WordPress writing community. When I thought about songs with…
Novelty Song Friday #19 — “Shanty,”by Jonathan Edwards, aka The Friday Song
Up until I was about 15-16 years old in the 1970s, besides listening to albums of my mom and grandparents and my own meager collection, I listened exclusively to AM Top 40 radio. I have no idea how I learned about FM radio, but listening to 97 WLAV FM out of Grand Rapids, MI, who…
Thursday Inspiration 66 — Leaves of Joy
When I watched the Ginger Baker documentary, “Beware Mr. Baker,” I learned that after Cream disbanded, Eric Clapton and Ginger went to join Steve Winwood and Rick Grech to form the group Blind Faith. Blind Faith’s self-titled album was their only one, released in 1969. As I looked outside today, the sun was shining through…
#SLS — “Savoy Truffle,” by The Beatles
Jim Adams always cooks up something tasty with his prompts on Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have the food and cooking and eating related prompts of Baking/Bread/Cake/Pie/Picnic and hopefully this will fit for everyone. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the…
Novelty Song Friday #18 — “The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin,” by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
Per wikipedia: Domingo “Sam” Samudio (born February 28, 1937, in Dallas, Texas, United States), better known by his stage name Sam the Sham, is a retired American rock and roll singer. Sam the Sham was known for his camp robe and turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains….
dVerse — MTB — I, Ginger Baker
I, Peter Edward Baker, was born in South London on August 19, 1939, the son of me mum, Ruby, who worked in a tobacco shop and me da, a bricklayer son of a bricklayer – until the Royal Signal Corps put him on the front lines. Blitzkreig bombings started when I was a wee lad…
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