Tag: music
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love
An evening pause: His live performances of this song are wonderful, but I still prefer the original movie version from Blue Hawaii (1961) for its simplicity. The film work might be uninspiring, but the clarity of the song easily makes up for this.
Idea of North – But not for me
The Dillards – The Whole World Round
An evening pause: I especially like the banjo player, as it almost appears like magic how he produces the sound from his instrument.
The Byrds – Turn. Turn. Turn.
An evening pause: The words, except for the very last line (inserted by Pete Seeger), are from the book of Ecclesiastes.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Read it all, especially the King James version. It is one of the most profound and beautiful poems ever written.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Man on Fire
Neil Diamond – I Am, I Said
Julie Andrews – Auld Lang Syne
Skeeter Davis – the End of the World
An evening pause: I gotta tell ya, this song is far more believable than those Mayan calendar tales.
Such Great Heights
Mnozil Brass – At the Movies
Mean Mary James – Ding Dong Day
An evening pause: From Mean Mary James, a Christmas song.
Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy / Peace
Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Sinéad O’Connor – Danny Boy
An evening pause: One of the most beautiful songs ever written, sung by one of the world’s best singers.
Eddi Reader – Charlie is my darlin
Sharon Shannon & Natali McMasters – Celtic electric
Lianne La Havas – No Room for Doubt
Mountain Man – Play It Right
Of Monsters And Men – Mountain Sound
Kseniya Simonova – To Norway
An evening pause: More story-telling with sand, by Kseniya Simonova. This time she tells a northern fantasy, based on the Norwegian epics.
Katherine Jenkins – Requiem for a Soldier
An evening pause: On this anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I give thanks to the past generation that gave me freedom.
I wish you’d lived to see
All you gave to me
Your shining dream of hope and love
Life and libertyWe are all one great band of brothers
And one day you’ll see – we can live together
When all the world is free.