tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437482762164560592012-02-16T04:13:49.876-08:00Jamienoreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143748276216456059.post-10576178580555758652011-03-27T00:01:00.000-07:002011-03-27T00:01:00.849-07:00

Would You Lay With me (In A Field of Stone) WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME IN A FIELD OF STONE IF MY NEEDS WERE STRONG, WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME SHOULD MY LIPS GROW DRY, WOULD YOU WET THEM, DEAR IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR, IF MY LIPS WERE DRY WOULD YOU GO AWAY TO ANOTHER LAND WALK A THOUSAND MILES THROUGH THE BURNING SAND WIPE THE BLOOD AWAY FROM MY DYING HAND IF I GIVE MYSELF TO YOU WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME IN

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This is a beautiful but terribly sad song about two girls with dreams.  One made hers come true.  The other completely lost her way.  Your challenge is to Take This Tune and tell us about choices and outcomes. Important Notice:  This will be the last "Take This Tune" I do on this site.  I will continue to do them every once in a while on my regular site:  Durward Discussion. Me and my

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This video below is a little strange as You Tube was being difficult about the copyrights involved. If you don't have the Modern Times album in your collection, it is well worth adding to Mr. Dylan's wealth and buying it. It is one of the best examples of his poetry with all the layered meanings. Take This Tune and have fun. As I walked out tonight in the mystic garden The wounded

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One of my favorite movies and soundtracks is "The Big Chill" with its window on a generation. It featured 14 great songs that acted both as music for the film and commentary on the interaction of the characters. This week you get your choice of two songs to use for your Take This Tune prompt. Hope you have as much fun as the cast did in the kitchen. Don't forget to sign in when you post your

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Whew! Almost forgot to put up a song. Now if someone other than Travis would join in, I would appreciate it. Just sign in any time this week if you have a story about what made you you. The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert I know they say you can’t go home again I just had to come back one last time Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam But these handprints on the front steps

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In case you haven't figured it out yet, I love story songs, slice of life songs, places that will never come again songs. Here is one of the best. Guy Clark's picture of the South Coast of Texas, his youth and the people he knew whose way of life is disappearing in favor of the tourists who don't know what they missed. So do you have a story of a place and time now gone. The South Coast

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Cocktails and Broken HeartsJack Vettriano This week's Take This Tune is a little different.  About 30 years ago, Barry Manilow made a jazz album with some of his favorite musicians and singers.  There is a whole video of the making of 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe on You Tube and well worth watching to see how musicians and singers come together to create a theme album.  Since it goes back to his jazz

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I asked Travis of Trav's Thoughts for a song suggestion and he came up with Nightswimming by REM which I had never heard. This one may stir up all sorts of images for you to write about next week, so sign in and Take This Tune. Nightswimming Nightswimming deserves a quiet night The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago, Turned around backwards so the windshield shows Every

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My all time favorite Sondheim show is "Into The Woods" where in telling familiar fairy tales a musical is created about almost the whole of human experience which is everything but a fairy tale. Trav has suggested this week's Take This Tune in one of the most powerful songs in the production sung by the Witch: Children Will Listen. Here it is sung by the original star, Bernadette Peters.

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Nobody has sent any suggestions and I'm still all wrapped up in the new "The Union" album from Elton John and Leon Russell with Bernie Taupin throwing in his song writing abilities. Rolling Stone declared it the third best album of 2010. I'm declaring it number one. When it comes to vocals, musicianship and incredible lyrics, I simply cannot decide which one I like best, every single song is

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This wonderful song by Mary Chapin Carpenter is about all the small towns that we once knew that now are dying or changing beyond recognition.  We flee from them, remember them, hope to find them again as imagined, and miss them when they disappear.  They are hopes and dreams both fulfilled or dashed. So next week take this tune and tell a story about one of your cities or towns.  Don't forget

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It's the time of year when we pull boxes down from the shelves in preparation for the year end holidays.  I'm bringing back Take This Tune to see if it will fly and if nothing else, have some great music for the holiday.  What better song than one about friends, family and most of all LOVE.  So pull up a warm computer and have a go at showing us your Seasons of Love. Don't forget to sign in below

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There are certainly more than enough issues that you might want to hit with this Eagles song ... have fun!!! Get Over It The Eagles I turn on the tube and what do I see A whole lotta people crying don't blame me They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else Spend all their time feeling sorry for themselves Victim of this, victim of that Your momma's too thin; your daddy's too

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Blues the way it should be with Mark Knopfler's biographical song about Sonny Liston. For the non fight fans and those too young to remember, click on the link for the Wikipedia about this troubled man.  Both his life and death are still filled with mysteries and still being discussed.  He attained the greatest height in his field but never the love or acclaim he desired and whose headstone

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This time around, Linda the wonderful photographer with the unbelievably talented artist daughter has requested this week's Take This Tune. Visit her on Are We There Yet The Things We Do For Love 10 CC Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea, You lay your bets and then you pay the price The things we do for love, the things we do for

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One of our regular participants, Travis of Trav's Thoughts picked this week's Take This Tune song.  Whistle Down the Wind is a musical based on the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Jim Steinman.  This is one of Webbers few unsuccessful musicals despite the wonderful music.  The Broadway opening was cancelled after poor reviews of the out of town

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This week we are giving you three songs that are all about home towns, small towns, and places you leave behind on the way to somewhere else.  First up Mary Chapin Carpenter's "I Am A Town" then  Iris Dement with "My Town" and finally, Bruce Springsteen's "My Hometown".  They are the places where we are from or just pass by on the way to somewhere else.  Do you have a story to tell? I Am A

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Awhile back we played with Vince Gill's "Some Things Never Get Old". One of the lines about things that never get boring in that song reads "Eatin' watermelon down to the rind, any song by Brother John Prine". If you aren't familiar with John Prine, seek him out. His songs can be hilarious, sad, angry, or sweet. What they will always be is powerful in some way.  Prine doesn't cheat.  He

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This is a two for one Take This Tune. I first heard "He Rode All The Way to Texas on the Trio album featuring Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton. Unfortunately, You tube doesn't have that video, but you might want to go hunting on I Tunes to download. It is a song about a love 'em and leave "em man who happens to be an entertainer.  The sentiments are similar to those of The

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The ladies of Take This Tune seem to be in a bit of a mood with Elvis last week and now the very risque lyrics of Red Staggerwing. Spring must be coming in. This video features one of the best guitarists living, Mark Knopfler, in duet with the incomparable Emmylou Harris from their album, Real Live Roadrunning which you really must have.  You can get either the CD or the combination CD and DVD

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This is as we first saw him.  There is a song to go with the legend. Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for Black velvet and that little boy's smile Black velvet with that

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With the current state of politics and predictions of imminent disaster for 2012, it would seems things are gearing up for some cataclysmic event. So where you gonna go when the volcano blows? What is your idea of the ultimate place to spend your final years (or hours)? Chorus: Now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow Chorus: Well let me

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This week we are taking a different kind of trip - the ones you take at night or in your daydreams. Here's a beautiful German lieder (English translation below) courtesy of Fairweather to remind you that Spring will be coming around again eventually and maybe, just maybe the return or beginning of love. Such colorful flowers I dreamed of, All blooming and lovely in May A fantasy of fresh

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More driving. This time it's down a lonely road. Some of the best shows on television are now on cable. This will be the last season starting at the end of March for Saving Grace. Your job, write about your favorite non network show, your favorite TV theme song, the lyrics to Saving Grace, or the lonely roads you might have traveled. . As always, go where it takes you. One time around the

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Linda of  "Are We There Yet" requested this driving music favorite of hers with the following comment.   "Before you could send a text message or call someone in their car, there was no way to communicate to a driver - unless you had a certain telepathic love that could convey from a distance your desire to be with that person, something you might call - Radar Love. In this song, the guy has

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We are heading out on the road for awhile with songs that take you places to see wonderful things.  To kick it off tell us all the wonderful things you have seen.  What experiences have you had that you could repeat over and over again?  Start writing and tell us all about them. Have you ever watched the sunset Disappear in the water down in Mexico The sky on fire melting into the ocean

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"It will come to you, this love of the land. There’s no gettin’ away from it, if you’re Irish." Mr. Gerald, Scarlett O’Hara’s father, in Margaret Mitchell’s GONE WITH THE WIND (1936) It’s not just an Irish thing. I suspect that, no matter what one’s nationality or ethnicity is, there is one place where our hearts put down roots—one place we call home. It isn’t necessarily the place we happen

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Ah, the romance of a lover thought lost who finally comes home! One such, of course, is the Greek hero Odysseus, whose return to his wife Penelope after twenty years away (first to the Trojan War, then on wanderings brought on by having offended a god) is recounted, in Nigel Spivey’s 2005 book SONGS ON BRONZE, in a few brief sentences of such sensuality that—ahem. Let’s just say they’re very

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Enough with as Linda says, "Grape Stomped Hearts". Now it's time for the funny side of love. Take your pick this week as both songs are gifts of clever lyrics to take an Oscar home courtesy of Bob Hope. First up a Frank Loesser lyric and Oscar winner about how to have a happy divorce with "Thanks For the Memories". Sung with Shirley Ross in The Big Broadcast of 1938, it became Hope's signature

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Last night I was warbling along with the studio recording of Emmylou's "Heartbreak Hill" (which is much more energetic than this live version) and thinking about heartbreak as a theme in music. Now as you know, my field of preference is classic country and bluegrass, and we've got a blue goodelin' of songs about heartbreak--but it's also a constant theme in other genres, from jazz, blues,

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Your wacky hosts at Take This Tune have had a severe attack of the sillies. Maybe last year was just a bit too serious. Old man 2009 has left and baby new year 2010 has appeared which put us in mind of relatives, descendants and the family trees that go with them. 

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Die Fledermaus - Im Feuerstrom der Reben The link above will explain this light hearted operetta by Johann Strauss II.  Often performed on New Years Eve because the count does like to party and  "The Campagne Song" that closes Act II is a wonderful salute to the bubbly. Despite the German, I'm sure you can figure out that all these folks had one whale of a ball. So What did you do for

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Only one song would be appropriate for today. Whether you choose to do a Take This Tune this week or not, kick back for a moment and enjoy this salute to a wonderful day written for the musical "SCROOGE" December The 25th Of all the days in all the year that I'm familiar with There's only one that's really fun December the 25th Correct! Ask anyone called Robinson or Brown or Jones or

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One of my favorite Advent carols is "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." Its Latin lyrics date to the 9th century, its melody to the 13th. The familiar English lyrics we sing today were composed by John M. Neale in 1850, and the tune adapted and harmonized by Thomas Helmore in 1854. Here it's sung by Loreena McKennitt: O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lowly exile here

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Tonight is the First night of Chanukah which lasts through next Friday evening. So Take This Tune this week is Peter Paul and Mary's "Light One Candle" Light one candle for the Maccabee children Give thanks their light didn't die; Light one candle for the pain they endured When their right to exist was denied; Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice Justice and freedom demand; light

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We are now headed into the winter holidays. I'll try to give some time to all the traditions in some fashion, but to kick it off, a great spiritual with many variations that draws on both the Old and New Testaments sung by the incomparable Audra McDonald. Children, go where I send thee How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee one by one One for the little bitty baby Born, born, born in

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A little late getting this up due to an after Thanksgiving jaunt to Mount Ranier, but this is one of my favorite Joan Baez songs. We have all had that other important person on the line after years. So take this tune and tell me a story. Well, I'll be damned Here comes your ghost again But that's not unusual It's just that the moon is full And you happened to call And here I sit Hand

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I was informed that there was only one song I could put up for Thanksgiving. So here it is. I hope you are all happy, healthy, and surrounded by those you love and are having a wonderful holiday. This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, That's just the name of the song, and that's why I

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To get us all in the mood for Thanksgiving, an old hymn from the Netherlands sung by Celtic Women with a message of thanks and the joining together of those we love. We Gather Together We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; He chastens and hastens His will to make known; The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing, Sing praises to His name: He forgets not his own. Beside us

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Written by James Taylor as a lullabye for the baby nephew named for him, Sweet Baby James has in many ways become Taylor's signature song.  Today you get two versions of the same song almost 40 years apart by the same artist. Have fun and take this tune. Sweet Baby James 1970 Sweet Baby James 2008 There is a young cowboy he lives on the range His horse and his cattle are his

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Sunset Boulevard As If We Never Said Goodbye From Sunset Boulevard I don't know why I'm frightened I know my way around here The cardboard trees, the painted seas, the sound here... Yes, a world to rediscover But I 'm not in any hurry And I need a moment The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways The atmosphere as thrilling here as always Feel the early morning madness Feel the

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It's not too late to go get your own peace globe to post at Peace Globes or to take this tune and sing a song of peace.  To view other Participants, visit Peace Globe Central at: Mimi Writes While you are here:  Take This Tune and sing loud enough for the whole world to hear.

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There is only one reason for this song and it is a totally selfish one: I love it. It is not only my favorite October or Fall song, but it is one of my favorite forever songs. Johnny Mercer wrote some magnificent lyrics but this one was just laying around in box after his death when Barry Manilow .... yeah yeah that Barry Manilow, got permission to set it to music. When October Goes ended up

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I was driving down a lonely road on a dark and stormy night When a little girl by the road side showed up in my head lights I stopped and she got in the back and in a shaky tone She said my name is Mary please won't you take me home She must have been so frightened all alone there in the night There was something strange about her cause her face was deathly white She sat so pale and quiet

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Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) The Highwayman PART ONE THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding — Riding — riding The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his

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I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash He did the mash It caught on in a flash He did the mash He did the monster mash From my laboratory in the castle east To the master bedroom where the

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If you ever go back into Wooly Swamp son you better not go at night There's things out there in the middle of them woods That'd make a strong man die from fright There's things that crawl and things that fly And things that creep around on the ground And they say the ghost of Lucias Clay gets up and it walks around. CHORUS: But I couldn't believe it, I just had to find out for myself And I

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The Unquiet Grave (traditional ballad circa 1400) The wind doth howl today m'love And a winter's worth of rain I never had but one true love In cold grave she was lain Oh I adored my sweetest love As any young man may So I'll sit and weep upon her grave For twelve-month and a day One true love is eternity for two Three four nevermore Will I see my love true The twelve-month and a day foregone

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Gravedigger Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913 Made his great grandchildren believe he could live to a 103 A hundred and three is forever when you’re just a little kid So, Cyrus Jones lived forever Gravedigger When you dig my grave Could you make it shallow So that I can feel the rain Gravedigger Muriel Stonewall 1903 to 1954 She lost both of her babies in the second great war Now, you

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Hank Williams He was only 29 on New Year's Day 1953 when he passed away, but the influence of Hank Williams and his songs have been so pervasive in Country Music that almost 60 years later when the song says, "The whole world calls me Hank", it  only means one man. Two great ghost songs have been written about performers meeting up with him when they were looking for direction, and one great

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This is Cole Porter at his wittiest and most urbane. It is probably the "happiest" song about being miserable that anyone has ever been written. You are in love, you've been dumped. Unfortunately extreme wealth dripping with diamonds and furs has a hard time proving that "money can't buy happiness" particularly in well educated three syllable words, so you might as well swing out while you

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No real explanation this week, just a great bluegrass song that's been around nigh onto forever that got a new lease on life thanks to a blockbuster movie set in 1930s Mississippi. The Movie  "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" featuring "The Soggybottom Boys" The Real Group - Union Station with Alison Krauss I AM A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW I am a man of constant sorrow I've seen trouble all my

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A change of pace this week. This is the most famous aria from Gianni Schicchi. She's a teenager.  She's in love.  She's being dramatic at the top of her lungs.  It's opera so you know things are going to get very, very complicated. Before it all goes to the hell in a hand basket, there is this glorious song pleading for daddy to understand. Unfortunately for her, daddy understands all to

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Running out of month, so here is the last of the September Songs. In this one, Spring is here but the love affair is still remembered.  From 1937 the music was written by Harry Warren, the lyrics by Al Dubin. Winners of Oscars and Tonys, this team was responsible for hundreds of songs and are in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. It was introduced by James Melton in the film Melody for Two in which

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September Morn Paul Chabas You may be noticing a theme to this month. It seems that September just has its own special muse when it comes to songwriters. With just three songs we have covered four decades and the month isn't over yet. So here is Neil Diamond's contribution to the September genre: September Morn. Stay for just a while Stay, and let me look at you Its been so long, I

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I had planned another song for this week and will put it up tomorrow.  You may use it any day in the coming week, but I couldn't let the passing of Mary Travers go by without a tribute. We will keep it simple. Pick the Peter Paul and Mary or just Mary Travers song that speaks to you. Mary Travers: Follow Me It's by far the hardest thing I've ever-done, To be so in love with you and so

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I thought it was time to rock out a bit with a September song that many might not know, even if they know Earth Wind and Fire formed in 1969 and still going strong.  You might enjoy hitting their "Official Site" for some of their more contemporary music and truly unique sound. In the meantime love found in September and gone by December:  Old story, simple lyrics, and a wild horn section.

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For the younger folks who may not know Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of this classic, a visit is in order to the Hoagy Carmichael pages totally dedicated to the man and his music. This song has been recorded by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Willie Nelson, but I chose the man most associated with it's earliest years.For those who only know Jimmy Durante from old movies, a little investigation

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I have no idea what you folks will make of this one, but I wanted a fun sound to close out the summer. The band is Rascal Flatts. If you aren't familiar with them, check out the link above and some of their other videos on You Tube.The video is the race scene from the cartoon movie "Cars". You can have a great deal of fun on the official movie web site including building and racing your own

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I can still remember the very first time I heard this song. The very first words "Starry, starry night" grabbed me and I thought, "that is the name of Van Gogh's painting" only to realize that the song actually was about Vincent Van Gogh. My favorite painting has always been the last one at the bottom, "Cornfield with Crows" completed on the same day he committed suicide. There is a disorder and

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You have all probably heard this aria though many attending the show probably didn't know its source. It was played during one of the best scenes in a wonderful movie: The Shawshank Redemption.Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding: "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were

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If this doesn't prove we will be mixing eras and genres, nothing will. I love the Outlaws. When in the mood, bring on Waylon or Willie and Merle. Then there is nothing for the blues that Hank Williams and "I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry" won't improve. Charlie Daniels just keeps getting better and better with Midnight Wind or David Allen Coe and the ghostly "The Ride". When it comes to Country in

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It is the season of county and state fairs, one of the great family traditions. Most of us have seen some version of the Rodger's and Hammerstein musical, State Fair, either in motion pictures (1945 and 1962) or on stage (1995).The joyous song sung as the Ferris Wheel whirls against the night sky has been sung by virtually every glee club ever constituted. So go with long summer nights, families,

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As many of you know, Manic Monday has come to an end. This was a wonderful weekly meme and our buddy Mo of It's A Blog Eat Blog World was a gracious and generous host. I am going to start a meme to act as a writing prompt to fill the void of something so many of us enjoyed.The idea is simple. I will post a video and the lyrics that go with it. Take the title or any part of the lyrics to tell a

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