JGalanos Posted August 4, 2007 Posted August 4, 2007 Have always loved this song. Can't seem to help singing along as I type this. Just a big kid at heart. 8) It's hard to explain how a few precious things Seem to follow throughout all our lives After all's said and done I was watching my son Sleeping there with my bear by his side So I tucked him in, I kissed him and as I was going I swear that the old bear whispered "Boy welcome home"
JGalanos Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=yRivBUOuKCM (1) A lil sumpin' for us Lost fans who must wait until 2008 for new episodes. (2) An appropriate theme song for us gentlemen who dare to wear fur. 8) You gotta make your own kind of music Sing your own special song Make your own kind music Even if nobody else sings along
JGalanos Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=x5rDRXEunJM Carole King has written and performed many great songs over the years ... But this may be my favorite.
JGalanos Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=JBSodK6WO_k I put in this CD last night on the way home from a brief road trip. Had not heard this song in months. One of my favorite songs. The first time I heard it was when Oleta performed it on The Oprah Show ~15 years ago -- It was love at first note. When Oleta sat down at the keyboard what followed were some magical moments. I don't normally watch Oprah, so I have always considered being home that day and having the TV on at that time serendipitous -- Kinda like when I happened to be home in '93 on Clinton's inauguration day and had the TV on and heard Maya Angelou read her epic poem "On The Pulse Of Morning".
Guest Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Very good JG. Always loved Carol King and Oleta is a very fine revelation to me. Thanks Speaking of 'originals' and song writers. Laura Nero was also incredible but died truly untimely. One of my all time favorites, Joan Armatrading And her more recent 'clones' TRacy Chapman: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ISSTz1xxdRw&mode=related&search= http://youtube.com/watch?v=IMsqyns5eBM&mode=related&search= The classic 'Stand up' musician. OFF
JGalanos Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 "Fast Car" is a terrific, touching song. It put Tracy on the map. So I remember when we were driving driving in your car speed so fast I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
JGalanos Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Always loved Carol King and Oleta is a very fine revelation to me. Thanks Glad you liked Oleta. When she performed the song "live" on Oprah she simply blew me away. The song was very popular during the Gulf War (as you can imagine). You can windsurf into my life, take me up on a carpet ride You can make it in a big balloon, but you better make it soon You can reach me by caravan, cross the desert like an Arab man I don't care how you get here, just - get here if you can
JGalanos Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=eRaieyN77UI Another favorite song. I had never seen the music video until I ran across it on youtube. And when the night wind Starts to sing a lonesome lullaby It helps to think we're sleeping Underneath the same big sky
JGalanos Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1nv-lsdag Another favorite from the 70's ... When Country frequently crossed over to Pop.
JGalanos Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=wK3lRZSEa4o This version of "Somewhere" has grown on me since I first heard it at her concert in DC last October. A few moments before she sang the song she quoted a poem by William Saroyan that I had never heard before, but impressed me immensely: "In the time of your life, live - So that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. In the time of you life, live - So that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."
JGalanos Posted October 14, 2007 Posted October 14, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=bkBm023s5DI One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite singers. Karen, who had one of the world's greatest voices in my book, looks almost painfully thin in this video ... Foreshadowing things to come.
White Fox Posted October 14, 2007 Posted October 14, 2007 AH yes... The Carpenters. Now you are talking my kind of music! You are exactly right though. Even today, I might be working at someone's horse or something and see the kids come home. Teenage girls are either a hundred pounds too heavy. Or they are so thin that you can almost miss seeing them. I do not know how their parents cannot see what is going on with them! W
JGalanos Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Sometimes awesome movies include awesome songs. Love it when that happens.
JGalanos Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=uO_vFuzPJvc I heard this song tonight for the first time in months. Simply wonderful.
White Fox Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 You mentioned songs in movies. An interesting movie that way is an old Harrison Ford movie called "Six Days and Seven Nights" I believe. No one song in there is that spectacular. Not even close. However, if you have a good audio system and turn it up and watch the movie you will realize the way it all fits together. The audio people did a fantastic job on that one! W
JGalanos Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 I'm a Harrison Ford fan (loved him in Witness, Indiana Jones trilogy, Star Wars trilogy, and several other films), but have not seen that movie. I'll have to check it out. Thanks fur the heads up.
JGalanos Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=iLi0yBmPe0k Heard this on the way to work this morning. The original American Idol rocks.
JGalanos Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=_rCPwhC6R8A&mode=related&search= Speaking of music and movies and Harrison Ford ....
JGalanos Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=YqAt8cC2vXY I love youtube. I keep finding great 80's music videos that I missed way back.
JGalanos Posted October 28, 2007 Posted October 28, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=hkbdP7sq0w8 Classic soft rock song. Had never seen this video before. Gotta love the 70's. Same old song Just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see Dust in the wind All we are is dust in the wind
JGalanos Posted October 28, 2007 Posted October 28, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=fZrOfn_eg-4 Kimberly Locke's 8th World Wonder. Great song. I caught Kim at the local mall on her promotional tour.
JGalanos Posted October 28, 2007 Posted October 28, 2007 One of my all time favorite songs. Vocals are not as good as the studio version ... But that was pre-MTV.
JGalanos Posted October 29, 2007 Posted October 29, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTQfERb9HVk Totally awesome song. I had never seen the video before. I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean, Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens, Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, Dance ... I hope you dance ...
JGalanos Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Heard this on the radio on the way home from work ... One of those songs that demand that you sing along at the top of your lungs ... So I did. Oh yeah, life goes on Long after the thrill of living is gone, Oh yeah, life goes on Long after the thrill of living is gone
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