This movie currently sits at No. 8 on my all-time list of favourite movies. Songs from La La Land have featured here before and I will exhaust the soundtrack by the time this music project is over. Apart from Remains…
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Endless Love (1981) – Lionel Richie
Today’s song is about as commercial as it gets, but I always liked it. It was written by Lionel Richie and recorded with Diana Ross. It was recorded for Motown and it became the second biggest single that year behind…
6/12 – 12/12/21 Painting of Trees, Making the Beach Boys & Stewart Francis
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Painting of Trees in Moonlight Poem by Theodora Goss I am painting the trees.For whom am I painting the trees?The trees say, this is…
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Posted in Movies and TV, Music, News, Reading
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, News, Reading
The End of the Innocence (1989) – Don Henley
This is simply one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. It made such a huge impression on me as an adolescent that I tried writing the lyrics of it to give to a girlfriend. My first ever girlfriend was…
Muriel’s Wedding (1994) – P.J. Hogan (Friday’s Finest)
Someone asked me the other day, who are your favourite actresses? Last week’s protagonist Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine is one and the Swedish blonde lass with sunglasses who heads this blog – Bibi Andersson in one of the all…
Emotionally Yours (1985) – Bob Dylan
(In the year this song was written..a singer-songwriter steadfast in their conviction and humble in their manner, see above) This is the second song to appear from Dylan’s maligned 1985 record Empire Burlesque. I reviewed the last track Dark Eyes…
El Niágara en Bicicleta (1998) – Juan Luis Guerra
El Niágara en Bicicleta (Niagara Falls on a Bicycle) is a song written and performed by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra. It is the fifth song to appear here so far from this immensely popular Latin music-artist. El Niágara en…
El Mismo Cielo (2009) – Marcela Gandara
El Mismo Cielo (The Same Sky / Heaven) is from the outstanding Mexican – Christian singer Marcela Gandara who has featured here twice before. Marcela’s music is so popular here, I hear people singing it outside my door in the…
The Marriage of Figaro Act III – Ecco la Marcia (1786) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
With the French Revolution looming Pierre Beaumarchais wrote the French comedy “The Barber of Seville” in 1773. It was conceived as an Opera comique and not performed until much later due to political and legal problems with the author. Mozart…
Easy’s Gettin’ Harder Every Day (1994) – Iris DeMent
This song reminds me in texture and voice of Australia’s country artist Kasey Chambers who has featured a lot here. Iris’s album My Life which this song was included is described by Spin as ‘unbreakable gentleness as a modern epiphany…
