This week Jim wants us to truffle out a song that was specifically written for a movie. I featured one of the more obvious choices, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, a few years ago for a different prompt, and although there are some other classic Bee Gees songs on that soundtrack, I decided to look elsewhere. For…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is children and/or families and Jim has entitled his post ‘Perks of having kids’. It’s not all good news though, and while not all families have a black sheep, this one clearly did. This is a Merle Haggard song that, not being a particular fan of Country music,…
Song Lyric Sunday this week covers the pretty heavy themes of war and/or peace. It’s not too difficult to think of quite a few songs that would fit either of those briefs, but I’ve gone for what I think is a rather deeper cut, to be found on The Zombies’ second studio album, ‘Odessey And…
This week, we seek songs about God or the afterlife. Personally, I don’t believe in either of those things but, as Martin Luther reportedly said (although he probably didn’t): “why should the devil have al the best tunes?” The short-lived supergroup Blind Faith released their only – eponymous – album in 1969, when I was…
This week, Jim is looking for a song based on true events. My tertiary education alma mater is the University of Kent at Canterbury, where I studied (among other things) from 1970 to 1973. During my first year, a fellow student was an American who was doing a one-year masters course in Philosophy. I remember…
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