Friday Forgotten Song: Superwoman by Noel Pointer
Cover version (AKA cover song, or simply cover) – a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song. Forty…
Merry Christmas
I would like to wish everyone the Happiest of Holidays. Joy and peace to you and yours, my friends. Since many who celebrate Christmas have a…
Friday Forgotten Song: Zorba the Greek
Sometimes, life has a way of simultaneously bringing a wistful smile to your face while throwing you for the proverbial loop. So it was with me…
Friday Song: A Couple for Steve Jobs
[image by way of the hubze blog site] “I don’t remember yesterday. Today it rained.” ~ Three Days of the Condor (1973) Those who know me…
Miami Vice: Definitely Miami and ‘Cry’
Note: I’m re-tasking this old song post for the Weekly Writing Challenge: Moved by Music over at The Daily Post. Miami Vice Episode Title: Definitely Miami Episode #:…
Friday Song: A Real Hero
This one has been in my head ever since I took in Nicolas Winding Rehn’s Drive last Saturday night. It’s curious what music sticks in your…
Reprise – Scene & Song: An American Werewolf in London and Bad Moon Rising
In commemoration of my all-time favorite werewolf film, released 30 years ago today, I send a shout-out to writer Damian Arlyn as he spotlighted this landmark…
Six That Keep Coming Back
A couple of years ago, I discovered a wonderful post titled Six Songs, by Moondancer on her blog, Just…..a wee bit. It was a sublime and eloquent piece speaking…
The Ever Popular Old Song: Theme from A Summer Place
Ah, here we are in the midst of summer. A time I often notice my song listening habits stray back to old warm weather hits. It goes…
A Song For This Day and the Next
As my kids get taller, I’ve begun to recognize their personal music tastes diverging. While they remain undeviating Beatlemaniacs (these are of course, my children), the…
A Happy Father’s Day to Music
Well, it’s Father’s Day here in the U.S., and I wish all of the dads out there a great day. Here’s hoping they get and dole…
Friday Song: Goodnight Moon
Sometimes, there are songs that simply catch me off-guard with the oddness in their melody. Perhaps, a ballad garners consideration merely by its unexpected presence in…
Friday Forgotten Song: Touch by John Klemmer
On the eve of the L.A. Times Festival of Books (this year the event is on my wife’s university stomping grounds on U.S.C.’s campus), the subject…
Friday Song (& Dance Sequence): Chaiyya Chaiyya
Back in 2006, noted director Spike Lee brought forward a really fine cast in one of the better heist flicks of recent years, Inside Man. I’m…
Our Man Goldsmith
Having been introduced to the James Bond series at the tender age of 10 with the release of Goldfinger in 1964, you could say I was…
Friday Forgotten Song: Don’t Send Nobody Else
Way back in the day (which means either in the 60s or 70s for folks my age), I once had a portable record player. [BTW, those…
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