“She’s got everything delightful, she’s got everything I need” Here’s a joyous Grateful Dead second-set closer to light up your sunny Sunday and match with Helen’s theme for this week of ‘dream’. The coda, ‘Sunshine Daydream’, was often performed separately from the main body of the song. I would also point out that ‘Sugar Magnolia’…
This week, Helen has specified ‘seconds/minutes/hours’ as her theme for Song Lyric Sunday. I found this rather more challenging than the broader concept of ‘time’, particularly when I discovered that my first choice, ‘In The Midnight Hour’, had already been snapped up by that man of impeccable taste, newepicauthor. However, this is a worthy substitute,…
“And your smile is a thin disguise” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘Smile’. We’re definitely spoiled for choice with this one. In fact, a whole playlist of ‘smiley’ songs came to mind straight away: lots of uplifting songs from the fifties and even earlier, Cockney Rebel, even Barry Manilow (‘I Can’t Smile…
This week, Helen’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘Let Go’. So, just to be awkward, here’s a song entitled ‘Don’t Let Go’. It’s the first song that came to my mind when I saw the prompt, which is entirely due to the fact that it was a long-time staple of the Jerry Garcia Band.…
Helen’s theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday is going to pose a dilemma for quite a few people, I suspect. That’s because she’s called for a song written and/or performed by an artiste who shares your name. Like many other bloggers, my own name(s) is not something I either care or choose to disclose.…
There’s no denying that Helen has given us plenty to choose from in setting the theme of ‘Heart’ for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Rather like the recent topic of ‘Angel’, though, it would probably be necessary to issue a Category Seven schmaltz alert. No such problem with this choice, however: a defining point in…
Thanks to Helen for the heads-up that this edition of Song Lyric Sunday would be the opposite of last week’s ‘Angel’. Not that I needed much notice, as this Grateful Dead classic was the very first thing that came to mind. Ironically, it’s a lot less devilish than my ‘Angel’ offering from last Sunday. In…
This week Helen’s taken ‘Angel’ as her theme for Song Lyric Sunday. Hmmm – schmaltz alert. There are certainly hundreds, and probably thousands, of songs about angels. Indeed, there are quite a few simply titled ‘Angel’. All the ones that I can think of are, to varying degrees, saccharine-coated. Except this, by the Velvet Underground.…
‘Siblings’ is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, set by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time. This song isn’t about actual sisters but it still fits the brief – as well as transporting me straight back to my 1970 university bedsit. Oh the sisters of mercy, they are…
This week for my response to Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge of ‘Stay’, I’ve strayed a little further from my usual modus operandi. My first, instinctive, thought was the raucous ‘Stay With Me’ by Rod Stewart and The Faces. However, they featured in this category not so long ago. The second tune that came to…
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