“Someone left a cake out in the rain” Baking is the broad theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Nobody knows why – but then again, why not? Anyway, seeing that prompt took me straight back to this compelling oddity from 1968: Richard Harris singing Jimmy Webb. Anything was possible back then. On a more…
The four elements of the ancient world provide the prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. This song by Bob Dylan, in conjunction with Rick Danko of The Band, appeared on The Basement Tapes in the mid-seventies, but is probably more familiar – at least in the UK – in the 1968 version by Julie…
Jim’s looking on the positive side with the keywords for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. And if you’re looking for some good old raucous fun, there were none better than The Faces. Thought I was lookin’ good So I cycled ‘cross the neighbourhood Was invited by a skinny girl Into her high class world Left…
Hot or cold is the overarching theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week, so here is a hot version of a ‘cold’ song. What a live performer is Bruce Springsteen. Teardrops on the city Bad Scooter searching for his groove Seem like the whole world walking pretty And you can’t find the room to move…
In much the same way as last week’s Song Lyric Sunday threw up a multitude of possibilities for John or Jack, this week’s prompt of Mary and its various derivatives offers no shortage of potential offerings. I toyed with The Who’s ‘Mary Ann With The Shaky Hands’ ‘and Hendrix’ ‘The Wind Cries Mary’, but finally…
Unusually, I was almost spoilt for choice this week in finding a song to fit Jim’s latest Song Lyric Sunday prompt. There are quite a few titles featuring ‘John’ or its diminutive ‘Jack’. My first choice – ‘Jack straw’ by the Grateful Dead – had to be ruled out because I used it for another…
It’s not often I have to go down as far as my fourth choice to find a suitable song in response to Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday, but this is one of those times. The theme this week is looking ahead to better times (‘This too shall pass’), but I’ve already used ‘The End’, ‘It’s Over’…
There’s no shortage of songs featuring numbers to meet Jim’s criteria for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. When spoilt for choice I’m particularly likely to go for the first thing that popped into my head… ….but ‘Revolution #9′ off the Beatles’ White Album doesn’t really have lyrics. However, John Lennon’s ‘#9 Dream’ is much more…
I must admit I was almost stumped by Jim’s Mexican-themed, Day-of-the-dead marking prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. The Eagles’ ‘Tequila Sunrise’ was what came immediately to mind, but I suspect there will be a few posts featuring that. Accordingly, I did a bit of research and was pleased to find this, which –…
This week’s prompts for Song Lyric Sunday are suitably downbeat signs of the times, relating to confinement, isolation and loneliness. Which reminded me of this ultra-heavy blues from The Beatles’ white album. Somewhat ironically, it was recorded with all four Beatles together in a very small room at Abbey Road: confinement perhaps, but certainly no…
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