Tuesday Tunes 195: Celebrity Revisited
Continuing my run through further selections of songs for previous themes, today it is the turn of Celebrity, for which I first played a set last September in #166 of this series. Looking back at it, that was a pretty good set, but as the desire for celebrity, and the disillusionment it can sometimes bring, are common themes in music I’m sharing a second set today. And they’re another good…
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Song Lyric Sunday: Fire, Fire, Burning Higher
In the seventh part of her ten week residency, songs with the lyrics “hot, burning, fire or blazing” has been suggested by Nancy aka The Sicilian Storyteller. Read all about it in Jim’s post – Inferno. The field for this was very wide: I thought of Johnny Cash and Eric Burton doing two very different versions of the same song, The Move and their bonkers Fire Brigade, and several others, but…
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Friday Funnies 6
It’s been a couple of months since my last post in my occasional Friday Funnies series, so it feels about time for a few more clips to amuse you ahead of the weekend. There is no particular theme to these: they are just a random selection of things which I’ve seen on YouTube and which have made me laugh. Let’s face it, we all need something to laugh about these days, don’t we! This might look a…
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Tuesday Tunes 194: Birds The Third
Wondering what to choose for this week’s theme I was trawling through my notes on previous posts in this series, and realised that there were many for which I had created lists but only played a few. A lot of these were themes I enjoyed doing, and the ‘leftovers’ were all pretty good, so I thought I’d revisit some of those themes for another go round. I played two weeks of bird songs last…
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Tuesday Tunes 194: Birds The Third
Wondering what to choose for this week’s theme I was trawling through my notes on previous posts in this series, and realised that there were many for which I had created lists but only played a few. A lot of these were themes I enjoyed doing, and the ‘leftovers’ were all pretty good, so I thought I’d revisit some of those themes for another go round. I played two weeks of bird songs last…
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Song Lyric Sunday: Cold Day And Night
For this week, Jim’s post Without Warmth tells us that the challenge for Song Lyric Sunday is to play songs that include the lyrics “cold, frozen, frigid or icy”, suggested by Nancy aka The Sicilian Storyteller, in her ongoing run of great ideas. For once, I didn’t have to look too far for this, as I had used this as a theme for one of my Tuesday Tunes posts just over three years ago. Rest…
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That Was March
It seems hard to believe but we are already in April, which means it is about time for my monthly recap of what I did on the blog. The overall picture was amazing: in terms of page views, it was the biggest score for well over a year, two of the posts are now in my all time top ten for likes, and four others passed fifty. I’ve had worse times here!
There were fourteen posts in total, the first of…
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Tuesday Tunes 193: Lightning
If you recall, last week’s tunes were themed around thunder, following a suggestion from Carolyn, aka joyroses. The second part of that was to play some lightning songs: I admitted that I had only recalled five at that point, and sought your help. A number of you came up with some ideas, and two of your suggestions have made it into this week’s set at the expense of two that I had thought of:…
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Song Lyric Sunday: Pick Up Your Crazy Heart
Today’s Song Lyric Sunday theme, as set out by Jim in his post Movies Need Music, is to play a song which was written for a movie, another great suggestion from Nancy. I’m playing you two from a movie I bought on DVD when it came out, and loved it. The movie is Crazy Heart, which starred Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duvall, among others. It won an Oscar for Jeff as…
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🐇🐣Easter-ish Songs🐰🌷
For the past couple of years I have played some songs for Easter. I am not particularly religious but that doesn’t stop me recognising its significance: we were all brought up here learning the story of the crucifixion of Jesus and his subsequent resurrection. My stepmother is an ordained (now retired) priest in the Church of England, so I’m always reminded of what this weekend means, and I hope…
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Tuesday Tunes 192: Thunder
I haven’t had many suggestions for themes for this series but today’s is one such. A couple of weeks ago in a comments chat Carolyn, who blogs under the name joyroses (don’t ask me, I’ve no idea either), said that her husband Brad had suggested that I do one of these on thunder and lightning, as it would give me an excuse to play an AC/DC track. Carolyn hates AC/DC, so of course I immediately…
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Song Lyric Sunday: Princesses And Pirate Ships
It’s Sunday, so that must mean that it’s time for some SLS. This week, in his post Perks of Having Kids, Jim outlines the theme of playing songs about children and families. Much to my great surprise this theme was suggested by Nancy, the Sicilian Storyteller – who knew? There is a rumour that Nancy’s suggestions will be keeping this going until Christmas – or maybe not. In any event Nancy’s…
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Leaving On A Jet Plane
I’ve had a couple of attempts in recent weeks at contributing to the Writer’s Workshop, run by John Holton. These have been tolerably successful so I thought I’d give it another go. John’s post outlining this week’s prompts can be found here, and I’m going with #6 – my first airplane trip – with a little side order of #3 – foods I would gorge on if the calories didn’t count.
This wasn’t my first…
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Tuesday Tunes 191: How Two
Just when you thought it was safe to come out, as I had brought my Five Ws And H mini-series to an end, I am reprising it for this week. I have another theme in the works, suggested by one of you good people, but it isn’t quite there yet, so I’m returning to the mini-series for another week. You may recall that last week, when I played How songs, I said I had another set ready for that. It…
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Song Lyric Sunday: Give Us Peace In Our Time
For this week on Song Lyric Sunday Jim has set us the task of playing songs about war and/or peace, again at the suggestion of Nancy, aka The Sicilian Storyteller. His post War And Peace gives the background to this but, unusually, he hasn’t made any suggestions this week for possible bands or songs – I guess the field was too wide! As the song I’m featuring wasn’t a hit single in the US and the…
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R.I.P. Karl
Sadly, the time has come for me to pay my tribute to a musician of whom I have been a fan for more than forty years. He may well be unknown to many of you, but I hope to show you what you might have been missing. I’ve played several of his songs before, and they and a few others are coming up. The artist in question is Karl Wallinger, born Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger on 19 October 1957, who was…
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Tuesday Tunes 190: How?
Today marks the conclusion of my six week mini-series based on the Five Ws And H of journalism. It is the turn of the outlier – that H – to feature, and here is a set of songs with How in their title. This one was very difficult for me: having made a long list I whittled it down and there were still ten songs I could have played. So maybe I’ll revisit this at some point, as it would be a pity for…
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