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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"

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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

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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".

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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.

 

 

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"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

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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

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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."

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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!

 

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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!

 

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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.

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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 ...

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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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