Tag Archives: music
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
Rose Royce – Wishing On a Star
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan – Don’t Lie To Me
TruthSurge – Open Arms
An evening pause: He admits to doing some audio manipulation to his voice to get it to sound as it does, but no matter, it sounds really good.
Hat tip Cotour.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man
B. J. Thomas – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
An evening pause: Performed live in 2011. Somehow this seems appropriate at the moment.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Celtic Woman – Faith’s Song
Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
Santana – Soul Sacrifice
An evening pause: Performed live, August 8, 1970. A nice way to energize for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Idina Menzel – Tomorrow
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Our House
An evening pause: A hit in 1970, this song to me was one of the nicest songs from that time, and in many ways signaled the end of the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Looking Glass – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)
Bucky Covington – Different World
A evening pause: Performed live in 2014.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who notes that the song probably “resonates far more to you and me than the performer. The lyrics trigger vibrant memories of my life as a kid in the 1960s going to Redeemer Lutheran grade school.” I agree, as someone who also grew up in the 1960s going to public school in Brooklyn, New York. Yet, I also suspect that Covington’s childhood, born in 1977 in North Carolina and growing up in the 1980s, was not that much different. No computers, and as a kid you played outside.
And most important of all, you grew up with a mother and a father, who were committed to staying together to raise their kids. That time is sadly long gone, and the children since have suffered terribly because of it.
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Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
Spandau Ballet – True
Teddy Swims – I can’t make you love me
a-ha – Take On Me
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
An evening pause: Here what counts is the audience. From the youtube webpage:
Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest. His body shape is deformed through hard labor, he lost his right eye and tusk in this brutal logging practice. Mongkol was rescued and brought to Elephants World to spend the rest of his days relaxing peacefully in freedom by the River Kwai. I discovered Mongkol is an extremely gentle, sensitive elephant who enjoys music, especially this slow movement by Beethoven which I play to him occasionally in the day and night.
I think he listens with as much rapt pleasure as anyone who loves Beethoven.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The B52’s – Love Shack
Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
An evening pause: Performed live in Los Angeles in 1983. Somehow, everything about this song symbolizes to me the entire sixties generation.
Hat tip Cotour.
Brazilian Orchestra medley
An evening pause: This appears to be a youth orchestra, but unfortunately everything on the webpage is in Portuguese, so I’m not sure.
Hat tip David Nudelman.
Yuval Salomon – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Whitney Houston – Didn’t We Almost Have It All
The Temptations – Just My Imagination
An evening pause: I should have scheduled this for January 27. Diane will understand why.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
John Cougar – Ain’t Even Done With The Night
An evening pause: Performed live 1981, with what I think is one of the strangest background dance line-up ever.
Hat tip Cotour.
Brendan Kavanagh – Mums, Kids, & Boogie Woogie
Rhiannon Giddens – Wayfaring Stranger
An evening pause: My brother Jon sent this to me today as a birthday present. I like it so much that I decided to reschedule my pauses to air it tonight.