Blogs are so passe and pretentious. Oh well, here's my blog about music that's stuck in my head when I wake up in the mornings along with adventures of the Cash family and wacky wacky crazy wacky shenanigans.
Every once in a while I'll have to make a blog post about a song that's stuck in my head and I'm totally unaware what the song is. This one took me some time, but I finally figured it out, and now that I know I hang my head in shame as I share this post with you.
So, some time ago I went through a brief love affair with Thomas Dolby, the English singer-songwriter who you'd likely know because of a bizarre hit he had in the 80's called "She Blinded Me With Science"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWGXt979yg
I ended up buying and downloading Dolby's 1984 album called "The Flat Earth" with some bonus feature tracks. One such track was performed by his alternate ego Dolby's Cube, and featured on.....wait for it..... the Howard The Duck film soundtrack.
So here, my friends, is the song stuck in my head
from December 17th (wow I'm getting behind) by Dolby's Cube (Thomas Dolby) called "Don't Turn Away" a tender little love ballad weaseled in the depths of my subconscious, and now here on this blog for the world to love:
I'm getting tired of all the emails*/texts*/phone calls* of people complaining about my not blogging regularly on Sundays as I used to do.
*I am not getting any emails texts or phone calls
So, to appease your hungry appetite for blog posts about songs stuck in my head on Sunday mornings, here are the last few songs.
The first one comes from my girlfriend, Tori Amos- and I think this song is a pure example of what the lady does so well. It's called "Muhammad my Friend" and it's from Amos' ambitious 1996 album "Boys For Pele."
Don't try to understand too much if you're going to delve into Amos' lyrics, but this song sort of illustrates her idea that Christ could have been a woman. It's a bold, daring statement, whether Amos takes it literally or not doesn't matter to me, perhaps it's just a feminist statement- whatever it is, I find it interesting and different and totally and utterly Tori Amos, always pushing barriers.
Here's the song, even if the lyrics trouble you, I hope you'll listen to the feeling of the music, which is lovely and brilliant.
Alrighty then, on to the next song, which also features a strong female.
(Side note, women are rad, you should get to know one if you have some free time)
This one comes from the beloved 1964 musical "Hello Dolly!" If you've seen the show, you'll know that Dolly Levi is a sort of adored busy-body/wheeler-and-dealer kind of character. The song stuck in my head features the very song that sets up her character, which is in the opening number of the show. The song is called "Just Leave Everything To Me" and here's what it sounds like:
I hope you enjoyed these songs and this blog post, which I have to believe is literally the only blog post on the planet about Tori Amos and Dolly Levi. Maybe not. If you can find another post about both of these lovely ladies, I'll give you a dollar next time I see you.
Here's another song from this production of "Forever Plaid" that is stuck in my head. I sort of have to eat, sleep and breathe these songs since some of these arrangements I'm learning to sing are the hardest I've ever done.
Today's song is called "Shangri-La" which was first written in 1946 and made popular in the 50's by some of the groups I'm now mimicking in this production.
Man, am I in trouble- I've gotten involved a local production of Forever Plaid and man, oh man, are these songs catchy.
Plan on the majority of the blog posts for the next two months dedicated to these songs, which have perpetually been stuck in my head since we started rehearsals two weeks ago.
First from a few weeks ago is "Crazy Bout Ya Baby" which was first made popular by the Crew Cuts in 1954:
Next, is a song I learned from the same production, is called "Undecided" and I'm gonna be lazy and copy what it says about the song on Wikipedia-
The first recording was made by John Kirby and The Onyx Club Boys on October 28, 1938, and released by Decca Records as catalog number 2216,[1] with the flip side "From A Flat to C".[2]
It was also recorded by Chick Webb and his Orchestra with vocal by Ella Fitzgerald on February 17, 1939 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 2323, with the flip side "In the Groove at the Grove".[2]
I'm behind a bit- which I suppose is consistent to the blase approach I have lately to my blog.
Anyway, here was the SSIMH from Sunday October 29th- the fantastick (pun intended) "Try To Remember" from the 1960 musical "The Fantasticks" This is one of those melodies that just sticks with you- very catchy but lovely the same:
Ok, the following Sunday, the 5th of November, I had this gem from Phil Collins in my head- Like him or not, Collins is a songsmith in his own right.
Here's "Don't Lose My Number" from Collins' 1985 album "No Jacket Required"
*FUN FACT* my Aunt Shanna bought this album for me on cassette tape. It was nice to be spoiled by a favorite Aunt at the age of 6.
