Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 3
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of the…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 2
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 1
I’ve had an iPod in my life since Steve Jobs released the dang thing in late-2001. Coming up on a number I always note, 13, as in…
Friday Forgotten Song: Watch Your Step by Anita Baker
Having run across this LP at last week’s Pasadena City College Flea Market and Record Swap, and added it to my vinyl collection, seemed a good…
Friday Forgotten Song: Everything That Touches You by The Association
Admittedly, many I’ve spotlighted in this forgotten song series, which honestly began on a lark, are of the way-back-when variety. Rarely heard by later generations. I’ve stuck with those that somehow clicked…
Friday Song & Cover: Crying by Roy, Glen, Don, K.D. y Rebekha
My hometown colleague Sal Gomez reminded me that the great Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) celebrated a birthday this week. He’d have been 78, so I…
Scene & Song: Jackie Brown and Strawberry Letter 23
There’s a reason the above movie poster is affixed to my closet door. Well, two actually. The second is it covers a crack on said door…
Reprise » Friday Forgotten Song: Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
There are songs, if I happen to catch them on the radio or the web, that can instantly transport me back to another time. To begin…
Reprise » Music & Art: Tatooine
Just so readers don’t get the idea that I’m all about the old and forgotten music, I submit the following:
Reprise » Play Me
Many moons ago, I made a friend online, simply by the effortless act of starting a weblog. His name being Corey Wilde and he was the founding…
Same Song, Different Movie: Don’t Worry Baby by Brian Wilson & Roger Christian
Sharing similarities in key and melody with the famous Phil Spector-produced work, Don’t Worry Baby was primarily about duos. The singer about to race a rival, drag racing in relevance to his girlfriend, and the heart and soul relationship existing between the girl and singer. It’s why, after a good number of years, the song continues to work well with lovers. In this case, Wilson’s longtime hit from 1964 was used in a tender, harmonious context for two different movies, song versions, and the manner deployed in a pair of scenes.
Friday Song: Michael Franks’ Now You’re In My Dreams
I, for one, fully understand that not all readers of this post will appreciate smooth jazz as a musical genre in general terms, or this artist in particular. If you’re not into one and/or the other, it’s quite alright. For those who are, or are at least a little curious, please, read on.
Reprise » A Musical Valentine for My Bride
* My marriage to this lovely woman will soon reach a quarter century this year. It’s funny how life obliges you to realize the things that…
Guest Post » Car Passin’ Music
Greetings all and sundry! Having successfully gotten the Holiday and New Year season safely ensconced in my rear view mirror. I’ve decided to take a little…
Reprise » The Greatest Song of the 60s?
Some years ago, while channel surfing one Saturday night, I stumbled upon a local station in these parts, probably one of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), showing…
Reprise » A Spanish Guitar Rip For Those Cold Days
“The fresh sounds revealed on Life in the Tropics are sure to please you because of their melodic elements, rhythms, brass, and great guitar of Russ Freeman.”
A Song For This Day (and year): Wake Up Everybody
In honor of the New Year now upon us, I selected another song from the Ye ‘Ol Decade of the 1970s to christen 2014. Wake Up Everybody (1975) was Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes’ last Top 40 hit. The smooth and soulful lead vocal was performed by none other than Teddy Pendergrass, in one of last numbers with the group.
A Song for This Day: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Through the years I’ve gravitated to different songs for the holiday season. I even have a playlist I spring on my family members when I have…
Reprise » Friday Forgotten Song: Bobby Fuller Four’s Let Her Dance
I thought I’d end the holiday week with a forgotten song post for the last Friday in November. Since I mentioned it on Thanksgiving Day, I’ll…
Reprise » “It Is Believing”
Back to the vital things in life. Besides movie-watching and reading, it’s music for me. A shared facet that my colleague Kevin highlighted last week. Though I’ve put a turntable back into my life (thereby forcing me to re-collect those LPs I thoughtlessly let go more than two decades ago, to my wife’s consternation), listening to my Compact Disc collection has taken up much of my non-work-movie-book listening time.
