Another one of those randomly happened across things that brought joy to me. The whole video is more than 30 minutes, but even watching the first 10 minutes will do it. Now that I know this series exists, I need to try to get both seasons. Cmon library, please open (when the time is right,…
Category: music
Novelty Song Friday #10 — “Upminster Kid,” by Kilburn and the High Roads
Per wikipedia: Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He died from colorectal cancer. Kilburn and the High Roads were a British pub rock band formed by Ian Dury…
Light of Day #3 — “Take Me,” by George Jones
Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound. His collaborations…
Light of Day #2 — Chase the Light
This may be an old song or a new one, not sure, but it’s my first time hearing it today. The song is encouraging and the video makes me smile.
Tick Tock Tuesday #32 — “Stranger on the Shore,” by Mr. Acker Bilk
Mr. Bump, your song selection with the clarinet made me think of a song I remember fondly as a child that was written for clarinet. My aural memory must be good because I was only a toddler when it came out! from wikipedia: “Stranger on the Shore” is a piece for clarinet written by Acker…
dVerse — quadrille — Unfixed
Unfixed show me how to live! the day I tried… fell on black days [a]live to rise my wave hunted down outshined head down burden in my hand heaven’s dead black rain rusty cage the last remaining light nothing left to say but goodbye goodbye Today is the three-year deathversary of Chris Cornell,…
#SLS — “One More Cup of Coffee,” by Bob Dylan
Jim Adams is the accountable host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have the somewhat different prompt of finding a song that includes a number and hopefully this will work out for us. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme…
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