Me too... with several of his songs. He was a legend in my parents' generation
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Me too... with several of his songs. He was a legend in my parents' generation
I remember an album my parents had called Themes for young lovers. Some of his melodies are unforgettable 🎶 🫶
I didn't know (until looking up Percy Faith for this Challenge) that he is one of only 3 artists, along with Elvis Presley & The Beatles to have the best selling single of the year twice
👏 👏 nice one 🎶 :)
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12-🏝 Barry and Olivia 🤩 - Islands in the in the stream
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3/12: A perfect song for background listening
Percy Faith - Theme from a summer place
...the real world can unreasonably interrupt music challenges sometimes 😏
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Day 11: A song with subtle meaning
Weyes Blood - A lot’s gonna change
“we... still have hope in times that feel really dismal... And I think now it might be a little more existential and complicated, but I think there should always be hope.” Natalie Mering
Excellent.... they must have had fun writing and performing this little gem :)
👏 👏 I like this song a lot, and the lyrics made me think 🎶
👏 👏 💃 🕺 nice pick and Kinky boots 👌
👏 👏 👏 my life is like high heels on the beach 😄
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3/11: Song with subtle meaning
or maybe not 😆
Bernie Taupin:
"I used to be the main express
All steam and whistles headin' west
Pickin' up my pain from door to door
Ridin' on the storyline furnace burnin' overtime....
But this train don't stop there anymore
Headline says "Covid tactics 'could have been better' with a photo of Jacinda Ardern with Key findings Auckland lockdown too long, testing requirements not 'necessary or practical' Labour Govt ignored Treasury advice on spending NZ remains weak for future shocks: Pressing need to reduce public debt Too slow to remove mandates, while some were excessive Covid test approach increased disruption
This misrepresentation of the findings of the Covid report is on the front page of today's NZ Herald. It may as well have been written by Simeon Brown, and the journalist who put her name to it should be deeply ashamed #nzpol
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11-🍕 ...diet coke and a pizza please
Mika - Big girl you are beautiful
The story behind this song is so moving, and it's a lovely lullaby...
Finn's recording is on The Veils album on Bandcamp...
'And out of the void came love'
We went to the show after watching the movie and it was a heck of a lot of fun :)
"We saved people, and people didnt starve to death" was like top 2 items on the get through a pandemic list
Under Jacinda Arden’s leadership the Labour Government’s Covid response was one of the best in the world in the circumstances, and likely saved over 20,000 lives.
The second Covid inquiry concludes:
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3/10: A song that feels like a memory replaying
Daft Punk & Paul Williams - Touch
🎶 I remember touch
Pictures came with touch
A painter in my mind
Tell me what you see
A tourist in a dream
A visitor it seems
A half-forgotten song
Where do I belong?
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10-👠 Sex is in the heel - Kinky boots
I didn't hear JCM until 1990!
I almost stopped listening to any new music in the 80s while parenting young children 😄
As you can imagine the 90s were huuuge in my music education 🤗
music added ✅
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9- A song about young people
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOY...
According to Mellencamp biographer David Masciotra "Paper in Fire is a ferocious song" that is the "aural equivalent of a wild beast breaking out of its cage."
[Wikipedia] 🐺 💥
Thanks... 👌
She is
...such a unique voice (in all the meanings of this)
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A song about insecurity
Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
Indeed... 👌
love the song (the 🎻 too!) and the paths this music challenge leads me down 🙃
Thanks... I'm loving the research, music and music history equally :)
I'm only just discovering her music! 🙃😊