When I looked at the list of winners of the Grammy Album of the Year Award (an action that I choose to describe as ‘research’) there was, for me, only one standout candidate for my contribution to this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. It had to be Carole King’s 1971 winner ‘Tapestry’. The fact that…
Jim’s cue words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are full of possibilities: ‘could’, might’, ‘would’ and ‘should’, This early sixties (1962 to be exact) classic doesn’t need any introduction. It was Carole King’s first hit as a singer rather than a songwriter. What shall I write? What can I say? How can I tell…
Helen’s theme of ‘Plan’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday didn’t turn out to be as tricky as I feared it might on first glance. That’s because this song, from Carole King’s ‘Rhymes and Reasons’ album, is all about having a plan. And it means a lot to the lovely Madame and me. On the…
Looking back at my music lexicon so far, it’s pretty obvious that I’m a child of my time – more specifically from about the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies.That isn’t an apology: I suspect that most people’s musical tastes are largely defined by their formative years. Lucky me. As we reach the letter ‘K’, however, while…
‘So tell me now and I won’t ask again’ Further exploring February’s theme of love, Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time wants us to look more specifically at the doubts and insecurity that I guess are an integral part of any love affair. Even when everything is going well –…
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