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...
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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...
Music Monday: Question
In last week’s comments, Carolynnwith2Ns–2Ns as I call her–asked if I had featured The Moody Blues on a Music Monday. My response: not yet! I probably would get to The Moodies at some point,...
Music Monday: The Boxer
This is the second Music Monday to feature a Simon and Garfunkel song, and it won’t be the last. “The Boxer” is from their fifth, final, and arguably greatest album, “Bridge over Troubled Water.”...
Music Monday: Ommadawn
I can’t say I’m a big Mike Oldfield fan, though I have a lot of respect for him as a musician and composer. Of all the work he’s done over the last 40+ years, however,...
Music Monday: Interlude No. 1
For the past however-many months, I’ve been writing about songs that have been a part of my life, and talking a bit about my own history with music and playing over the past 30+...
Music Monday: The Friends of Mr Cairo
Since I recently finished THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett, I thought this would be an appropriate song to share for Music Monday this week! Jon Anderson, former lead vocalist for the band Yes,...
Music Monday: Ashes to Ashes
This week we give Music Monday a big kick up the Eighties with this unforgettable song from David Bowie. Released in August, 1980, it reached number one in the UK and made the top...
Music Monday: Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush was about nine years old when she caught the last ten minutes of a BBC adaptation of Emily Bronté’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS on television. The image of Katherine’s ghost outside the window pleading...
Music Monday: The Logical Song
The first Supertramp song I remember hearing, liking, and knowing who sang it, was probably “Breakfast in America.” Their 1974 hit, “Dreamer,” was somewhere in my musical subconscious, but in 1979 I hadn’t made...
