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Posts by deedee
oh! streetcar!
canciones del amor
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Album:Mi Sueño
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walk on
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Artist:Gerry and the Pacemakers
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Album:Golden Legends : Gerry & The Pacemakers
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Track:You'll Never Walk Alone
Last Tuesday's Idol had me thinking about "You'll Never Walk Alone." (Jordan's performance could have been more solid, but I think she sold it.) The song is more than 60 years old (as Simon noted), it's only eight lines long, it includes the words "sweet silver song of the lark" (yeeesh!), and it still packs an emotional punch, transcends all genres, and is the all-purpose modern spiritual. (I...
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baby, you are going to miss that plane
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Track:Waltz for a Night
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read your box of cheerios
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Just read a brief obit about Tupper Saussy. Now, there's a name you don't hear a lot. Tupper Saussy was the songwriter/keyboardist for the Neon Philharmonic, best known for the pop-opera The Moth Confesses (which I find has been rereleased on Rhino and is on iTunes). Its centerpiece (and hit) was a bouncy-yet-wistful song called Morning Girl, which even now evokes my dorky-folkie adolescence as...
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every time we say goodbye
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I know an extraordinary 12-year-old. She's already been to see Company and Sweeney Todd, and when I said of the latter, "That's a little gruesome," she looked at me, deadpan, and said, "I'm a morbid child." I was one, too, and can be a fairly morbid adult. One of our fellow moggers has recently experienced a very sad loss, and that got me thinking about the very first playlist I made. (It's bee...
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Some other world has all the sunshine
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Artist:Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard/Ray Price
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Album:Last of the Breed
Last of the Breed has got to be the most reassuring new music I've heard in a long time. Singing, for these guys, is the job they've clocked into for their entire lives and they're so plain good at it, in the most unassuming and relaxed way, like Chuck Yeager flying. You know the structure of the songs--every note, every phrase lands where it ought to. Steel guitars, check. Saloon piano, check....
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the tide at its ebb
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I know the topic of pop songs in commercials has been raised here before and, depending on the song/band/product, we've all rolled our eyes, shrugged our shoulders, or clutched our heads, and we've discussed juxtapositions and demographics. But this is serious.Here I am, puttering around, half-watching repeats of The Office (marathon night!), when I suddenly hear Al Green's "Let's Stay Together."
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inevitable Idol post
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Album:20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
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Brit Invasion night! Could be this is the first Idol show of the season in which I actually know all the songs, as I usually tend to live in a musical past. This makes it more fun but, alas, more painful when the songs are shredded to shrill, shrieky little bits. It's nice to see Peter Noone and Lulu. Peter looks so much better than when he was a Hermit; he's got that twinkly-shaggy-aging-Brit...
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thank the lord
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Album:Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
Every now and then I show up at synagogue. There's always much music and singing there (that is, on the part of both the synagogue's cantor and musicians and the congregation) and it's lovely and fun and deeply felt. The music differs greatly from shul to shul, some of which are more formal and some of which are, well, less orthodox (http://www.theshulofnewyork.org/music.php). But I have to sa...
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