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Your "song of the day/week" thread.....

 
Rocky Mountain High

 
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

 
Gorgeous arrangement. At core though, this Bono song does follow the constructs of a southern gospel classic.....


[video=youtube;Owlg7SU2Mfk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?Owlg7SU2Mfk[/video]

U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Live) · featuring The Oslo Gospel Choir
 
Jeff Lynne and ELO cover Del Shannon's 1963 hit record.....


[video=youtube;20FDKjGIQqs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?20FDKjGIQqs[/video]

Electric Light Orchestra - Little Town Flirt
 
Very often, near daily, music just shows up in my brain when I wake up. Most days it sets my mood for the day. Why? How? Who feckin knows? I'm not that deep.

I am not a musician. The only thing I can play is a car radio. But I might be some kind of twisted musical rain man. For reasons unknown and of very limited value, very limited, after hearing the first five notes of a popular song from over the last 4+ decades I am able to name it, the band who recorded it and, a bit less often, the person who wrote it.

WTF? I have no idea.

The only value I have found in the whole thing is that once at a Club Med a thousand years ago, during a name that tune contest, I won so many drinks one afternoon that I was fairly ****ed up and giving drinks away to everybody around me. (Contact me for my book: How to make fast friends, if only for a day, in several languages, when you've reached the point that no one who speaks your native language can understand a damn thing you're saying.)

In fact, the next day a woman in awe of my talent (I suspect she was still drunk from the day before, or it could have been that she was British ;)) introduced herself and asked me how was it possible that I could have nailed every damn song and won so many drinks the day before.

"You flatter me, ma'am. I must be honest, but please don't tell anyone. I grew up next door to Dick Clark." :lamo (I grew up in Georgia and cannot hide from my accent, not that I would.)

"Oh", she said, "that must have been amazing."

"It was actually. Excuse me, please. I have to go to the bar and have a drink."

This morning I woke up thinking of the Mariner's Song by the Cowboy Junkies. I haven't heard it in about 25 years. Can't get it out of my head. It's a grand song. In fact, if it is possible to fall completely in love with someone because of the way they sing then I'm guilty.

The Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian band. I've always liked Canada and Canadians. It's a fine country and the Cowboy Junkies are another reason to appreciate Canada and its fine contributions to the world.

 
[video=youtube;uqUa_G1h3pw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?uqUa_G1h3pw[/video]

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
 
[video=youtube;tZM7T3-48y0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?tZM7T3-48y0[/video]

Jay Black - Cara Mia
 
Jay Black's voice is still going strong at age 74, good for him, liked it then and now. Thanks for posting that one! :cool:
 
[video=youtube;wanJQC5KAfo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?wanJQC5KAfo[/video]

Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
 
[video=youtube;y-ImE55VY2A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?y-ImE55VY2A[/video]

Sarah McLeod & Angry Anderson - Highway To Hell (Live)
 
Sade - King Of Sorrow



I seen Sade live at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA back in the early 90s. I didn't realize at the time how beautiful and amazing her voice truly is. I was fortunate to have seen her perform.
 
Celia Cruz - Por si acaso no regreso

 
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