Ave Maria is one of the world’s most recognisable songs. It was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825. It was composed as a setting of a song (verse XXIX from Canto Three) from Walter Scott’s popular epic poem The Lady…
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Deciding Not to Be a Bitch – The Sun Also Rises (Final)
Americans were drawn to Paris in the Roaring Twenties by the favorable exchange rate, with as many as 200,000 English-speaking expatriates living there….Many American writers were disenchanted with the US, where they found less artistic freedom than in Europe. (For…
Autumn Leaves (2015) – Bob Dylan
According to Bob Dylan, a singer has to have lived a little to get to the song’s meaning. “You sing that and you have to know something about love and loss and feel it just as much,” Dylan told AARP…
29/10 – 4/11/19 Bartholomew Baggins, The Lighthouse and UFOs
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Feet in the Shire Article by Bruce Goodman at Weave a Web: I suggested to Bruce the opening sentence of this story. It still…
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Autumn Leaves (1998) – Eva Cassidy
This mournful minor-key melody was written by the French-Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma for the ballet Le Rendez-vous, performed in Paris at the end of the second world war. The song transcends genre and has been covered hundreds of times in…
Ida (2013) – Pawel Pawlikowski (Friday’s Finest)
Ida is a Polish movie which won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is set in Poland in 1962. It tells of the story of a young woman is about to take her vows as a…
Aubury (1972) – Bread
Keep the tissue box handy because we are going to visit this soft love ballad hit released by the band Bread on their 1972 album Guitar Man. David Gates wrote and composed the song after watching Breakfast at Tiffany’s which…
Camino Real (Royal Road) – The Road Between Barichara and Guane
For this Wednesdays’ literature quote we are going to take a different route again. Years ago I wrote an article for a travel web site which described 5 relatively obscure places to visit in Colombia. My introduction was as follows:…
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Arthur McBride (1992) – Bob Dylan
Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBrideAs we went a-walkin’ down by the seasideNow mark what followed and what did betideFor it bein’ on Christmas mornin’Now, for recreation, we went on a trampAnd we met sergeant Napper and corporal…
22/10 – 28/10/19 Rick Danko, Freeze, Blog-Notes and Adam Scott
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Album : Rick Danko – Rick Danko Article by Cincinnati Babyhead: I think you all know that CB is a big fan of The…
