Music Monday: Golden Brown
Oops–so I accidentally posted this a day early. Oh well. It’s Monday in South Korea and Australia… 🙂 “Golden Brown” is a song by The Stranglers that got to number 2 on the British...
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Music Monday: Starman
The entertainment world is still reeling from the death of David Bowie on Sunday, January 10th at age 69. He had been battling cancer for 18 months. I can’t say I was ever (or am)...
Music Monday: Long the Night
For our Christmas Music Monday, I want to present a little-known song of Ukrainian origin set to English words, and here sung by Hereford Cathedral Choir. According to the CD notes, Dr. Roy Massey (who...
Music Monday: In Dulci Jubilo
To help get into the Christmas mood here on the blog, this Music Monday is brought to you by Mike Oldfield and his rendition of the old Christmas carol, “Good Christian Men, Rejoice.” If...
Analog vs. Digital: A Thought for the Ongoing Debate
Since storage space and conversion technology has made digital media and digital storage a viable commercial option, a debate has raged (at least among some) as to the relative merits of old analog forms...
Music Monday: (Just Like) Starting Over
This past Friday (October 9th) was John Lennon’s birthday. Had he lived, he would be celebrating his 75th year. When I began my Beatles fandom (see “Hey Jude” for more about that), John started...
Music Monday: Hey Jude
Sad to say, I became a Beatles fan as a result of John Lennon’s assassination in 1980. Of course I knew who The Beatles were. I’ve always known. I recall a German boy coming...
Music Monday: While You Wait
The music bug caught me seriously in 1979. I was interested before then, but it was in 1979 that I started listening to the radio for myself, and expressing an interest in actually owning some...
Music Monday: Dancing Girls
It’s 1984. Imagine, if you will, an old classroom, not particularly large, with high ceilings, and walls painted light blue on the upper half, dark blue on the lower. There are posters depicting ancient Greece...
Music Monday: Boom Bang-a-Bang
This odd-titled song was the UK entry in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest. Sung by young Scottish sensation Lulu, it ended up joint winner along with three other songs–the first (and, I believe, last) time...
