Song Lyric Sunday: Noir – ‘Black Magic Woman’

For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim asks us to present a song whose title contains the word ‘black’. Well, fair enough, there’s a lot of them about, including many that I wouldn’t be ashamed of putting forward for the challenge. However, for various reasons I settled on ‘Black Magic Woman’. Although this was written…

Song Lyric Sunday: Mobile – ‘At The Hop’

Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about mobility. I first encountered this 50s classic in the version shown in the video below, as performed by Sha Na Na at Woodstock in 1969. Talk about high energy….and certainly no lack of mobility. This is probably one of the seminal pieces of mid-fifties rock and roll,…