Jim at A Unique Title For Me has now taken over stewardship of Song Lyric Sunday from the much-missed Helen and has set the theme of ‘Occupation’ for this week. This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw what the theme was. Madame and I used to listen to this much-covered…
A pretty broad theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, being hosted by Jim at A Unique Title For Me: ‘Harmony, Melody. Music’. Plenty of possibilities there. If I hadn’t drunk from the almost inexhaustible well that is the Grateful Dead’s songbook only two weeks ago, I would probably have plumped for ‘The Music Never…
‘Hills or Mountains’ is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday Challenge currently being hosted by Jim at A Unique Title For Me. This is another case of choosing a song where one of the keywords appears in the lyrics rather than the title. In this case it’s ‘mountain and the song is ‘I…
It had to be this one. Jim at newepicauthor has set the theme of ‘River’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. So here we have the ultimate elegy for Jerry Garcia: the last song he sang with the Grateful Dead at their last show in July 1995. Three weeks later and he was gone.…
With this week’s theme being ‘Ocean/Sea/Lake/Bay’, my choice may seem a bit left-fieldish. However, the lyrics of this stupendous Doors song do indeed feature the word lake and, bizarrely, it was the first song that came to my mind when I saw the prompt, so I make no apologies for using it. This is the…
This week’s theme is, to put it bluntly, ‘No’. This is another of those where I was able to go with the first song that popped into my head. Led Zeppelin, from ‘Houses of the Holy’. Another example of allusions to Nordic mythology (cf ‘The Immigrant Song’). You couldn’t describe the lyrics as particularly profound,…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt from Jim at newepicauthor is the rather downbeat (nothing wrong with that) ‘Crying/Sadness’. This is the first song that came into my head. It’s by The Yardbirds, one of the seminal sixties UK rock bands who, at various times, could boast Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and, in this instance,…
First of all, best wishes to Helen while she takes a break from hosting Song Lyric Sunday and thanks to Jim at newepicauthor for stepping into the breach. Definitely the right man for the job. This is the first song that came to my mind when I saw this week’s prompt. I note that other…
Helen’s theme for the final Song Lyric Sunday of the year is the appropriate one of ‘New’. This was one of those where the first song that came to my mind just seems to fit the theme perfectly. Can’t you hear that rooster crowing? Rabbit running down across the road Underneath the bridge where the…
Well, this has been fun, hasn’t it? And now the final instalment of the 30-Day Song Challenge. 26 A song that makes you want to fall in love: ‘You Wear It Well’ “You made me feel a millionaire” Personal reasons. Nothing to add….oh, except that this comes from the album ‘Never A Dull Moment’. How…
