Heaven (1984) – Bryan Adams

Posted on April 16, 2024 by observationblogger — 15 Comments

Yesterday I heard a rebooted, or better stated ‘hijacked’ version of Heaven by Bryan Adams on the gym’s speakers. Once my disgust subsided I reminisced how much I liked this song when I was at the Academy in my early adulthood. I had a ‘section under-officer’ called Hilly whose musical tastes aligned with mine which was a blessing. Our core adoration was in Springsteen and over time we unpeeled the layers to reveal to the other, songs that we dug. Heaven and another by Adams Summer of 69 were part of the procession of music we played prior to heading out on the town. I’m not nearly as attached to them now, but sometimes I like to rekindle songs here which previously burned bright.

Heaven was released as the third single from Adams’ album Reckless (1984). It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in June 1985 (his first number one), over a year and a half after the song first appeared on record. Heaven was heavily influenced by Journey’s 1983 hit Faithfully, which is uncanny since fellow blogger Nancy (The Elephant’s Trunk) and I were just talking about Journey in relation to her post Embrace the Journey. Adams had played over 100 dates with Journey during 1983, serving as the opening act on their Frontiers Tour. Initially Adams was unconvinced that Heaven was suitable for Reckless since he considered it too ‘light’, but at the last minute he changed his mind.

[Verse 1]
Oh, thinkin’ about our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free
Now nothin’ can take you away from me
We’ve been down that road before
But that’s over now
You keep me comin’ back for more

[Chorus]
Baby, you’re all that I want
When you’re lyin’ here in my arms
I’m findin’ it hard to believe
We’re in Heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn’t too hard to see
We’re in Heaven

Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, placing him on the list of best-selling music artists. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in the US, UK, and Australia.

I would have assumed this iconic ballad had a version on You tube with Spanish subtitles so I could share it here in Bogotá, but alas not to be. I was less than impressed with the original official video so I went with the ‘classic version’…… A blast from the post folks.

References:
1. Heaven (Bryan Adams song) – Wikipedia
2. Bryan Adams – Wikipedia

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Que Hay de Malo (1993) – Jerry Rivera

Posted on April 15, 2024 by observationblogger — Leave a comment

Que Hay de Malo (What’s Wrong) inaugurates the ‘Q’ songs in the Music Library Project. Hurray!
However it will be short-lived (aww) since just 4 songs exist starting with ‘Q’. Funnily enough, two of them are by Puerto Rican Salsa artist Jerry Rivera starting with today’s featured track.

When I came to Colombia back in 2009, I remember taking an instant liking to Jerry Rivera. Even when I hear his music now; if not on my music player then on Colombian radio, I feel so nostalgic because they are some of the first songs I remember enjoying and are emblematic of the allure of Latin Festivity. What I think distinguishes Jerry’s ‘Salsa Rosa’ music from your pro typical Salsa (‘real’ salsa) are his infectious melodies that remain with you long after hearing and warrant reengaging, at least for me. Most ‘Salsa’ music to my ears, like ‘Vallenato‘ music sounds the same, but there are some exceptions including today’s featured track Que Hay de Malo (What’s Wrong) and another by Jerry presented here in June 2023 – Me Estoy Enloqueciendo Por Ti (‘I’m Going Crazy For You‘).

Que Hay de Malo is Salsa romántica which garnered notoriety in the mid-1980s. It is softer and more delicate Salsa which raise emotions of romance and sex. So, it is a mix between ballada style and slower tempo orchestral music that is adorned with sensual, sexual, flirtatious and romantic lyrics.
Critics of salsa romántica called it a “commercialized, watered-down” form of Latin pop in which formulaic, sentimental love ballads were simply put to an Afro-Cuban beat—leaving no room for classic salsa’s brilliant musical improvisation, or for classic salsa lyrics that tell stories of daily life or provide social and political commentary.

Que Hay de Malo is about a boy who is in love with a girl, but his father doesn’t approve of him and wants her to forget about him. However, he can’t help her feelings and wonders what’s wrong with loving someone and wanting to be with them. He asks why it is bad to dream, laugh and love, and why it is bad to be young and alive. The boy begs her partner not to forget him and questions why her father thinks he’s not good enough for her.

A loose English translation of the first stanzas of Que Hay de Malo follows:

Your father, as usual, has taken to making you forget me.
He says I am not good for you.
He has forbidden you to mention my name
Even if you suffer everything you suffer, when you move away from me he is happy

[Pre-Chorus]
What’s wrong with loving you the way I love you?
Give yourself a flower and live for you
Comfort your soul if it seeks comfort in me?
What’s wrong with loving you like I love you?
Walk hand in hand or die for you
Take refuge in a world of love invented by me?
Could it be that he never fell in love
That at my age he never had a love?

[Chorus]
What’s wrong with dreaming, what’s wrong with laughing?
What’s wrong with being young and living?
What’s wrong with loving, what’s wrong with feeling?
What’s wrong with singing just for yourself?
What’s wrong with loving you like I love you?
What’s wrong with being young, singing and living, love? (Read the remainder here)

Que Hay de Malo is the second song and lead single from Jerry Rivera’s fourth studio album Cara de Niño (Baby Face). The album was nominated at the 37th Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Latin Album. Que Hay de Malo, became Rivera’s first single to reach on the top ten peaking at number-four.

Reference:
1. Jerry Rivera – Wikipedia

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Dry Your Eyes (1976) – Neil Diamond (The Last Waltz)

Posted on April 14, 2024 by observationblogger — 16 Comments

In my youth I watched The Jazz Singer which was a starring vehicle for Diamond and played the soundtrack to death. It was Neil Diamond’s biggest selling album in the United States, selling over 5 million copies reaching No 3 on the albums chart. Neil Diamond took part in The Band’s send off concert The Last Waltz singing today’s featured track – Dry Your Eyes. In the midst of performers like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, and Van Morrison, Diamond’s appearance as a glitzy entertainer wearing a light blue suit; an outfit more befitting a Las Vegas show, seems to have surprised some.

Looking deeper, it was clear that the Band were gathering different types of music, or as guitarist Robbie Robertson mentioned, the spokes of a wheel. So, Neil seemed to represent the New York Songwriters part of the wheel. Neil’s song is side-by-side with Helm and Robertson talking about NYC. In 1975-76, Robertson had recorded the LP Beautiful Noise with Diamond, using the Shangri-La Studios, shown in the film. The final song on that LP was Dry Your Eyes.

Dry your eyes and take your song out
It’s a newborn afternoon
And if you can’t recall the singer
You can still recall the tune

Dry your eyes and play it slowly
Like you’re marching off to war
Sing it like you know he’d want it
Like we sang it once before

And from the center of the circle
To the midst of the waiting crowd
If it ever be forgotten
Sing it long and sing it loud
And come dry your eyes (read the remainder here)

Diamond was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Jewish family. All four of his grandparents were immigrants, from Poland on his father’s side and Russia on his mother’s. He was a member of the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club, along with classmate Barbra Streisand. Diamond recalled they were not close friends at the time: “We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. We hung out in the front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes.” Later on in this music library project a song duet by Barbra and Neil will feature called You Don’t Bring Me Flowers which my mother cried to every other day after I came home from school.

Sadly, I read here that 81 year old Diamond announced in 2021 that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease which is affecting his speech and movement- the disease is currently incurable.
Diamond has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.

References:
1. Neil Diamond – Dry Your Eyes (featuring The Band) – Reddit
2. Neil Diamond – Wikipedia

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Penny Returns (Interlude) 2022 – Hans Zimmer, Michael Tucker, Stefani Germanotta (Top Gun ‘Maverick’ Soundtrack)

Posted on April 13, 2024 by observationblogger — 7 Comments

Penny Returns (Interlude) is the second piece of music from the Top Gun ‘Maverick’ soundtrack after the previous entry – Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga. I have remarked about my fascination with this movie a few times. I saw it again last night and I found myself in awe all over again. Today’s featured music Penny Returns (Interlude) appears in the initial Darkstar ‘hypersonic’ sequence. One might have expected more ‘gung-ho’ cerca Top Gun ’86 music at this point, but this is where this sequel deviates and supersedes the original. This music spectacularly captures the beauty of the moment of a freed man in the tranquillity of the skies; dreaming to go beyond the limits of aeronautics.

This scene also sets us up with the themes that will follow through the rest of the film. As Maverick comes so close to touching the heavens, and quietly calls out ‘talk to me Goose,’ watching the sun breaking over the horizon, we see Maverick once again pushing the limits, and looking for his friend [seeking redemption]. How could the audience member not become a well of emotions? This piece also reminds me of the music “Tienes que darle cuerda” composed by Sergio de la Puente for the film Sin Fin which I presented in December, 2023.

In June 2017, the original Top Gun composer Harold Faltermeyer returned to score for the sequel. Later, in October 2018, Hans Zimmer (Dark Knight and Dune fame) joined Faltermeyer to score for the film. Zimmer produced a new original theme for the film that was featured in the February 2022 trailer, and was played by guitarist Johnny Marr who has featured here prominently with The Smiths. Marr claimed that the theme was “completely accidental” and did not watch the preview of the film before scoring. Speaking in an interview to Marr said “I think there was some issue with how the theme was sounding, and I was around and I have a guitar. It really was as simple as that.”
It’s said the director confirmed that today’s track for Penny and Maverick was incorporated from the Lady Gaga song and its a more calmer and slower version of the song.
Overall, thank god for this movie..there is still hope in Hollywood.. It’s a passionate effort to translate this good feeling of pure cinema to the audience.

References:
1. Top Gun: Maverick (soundtrack) – Wikipedia

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Propuesta Indecente (2013) – Romeo Santos

Posted on April 12, 2024 by observationblogger — 1 Comment

This Bachata track Propuesta Indecente ‘Indecent Proposal‘ was intended to follow-up the last Bachata track here Darte un Beso by Prince Royce, but I was hesitant to post it due to the vulgarity of the lyrics. During much of its history, Bachata music was disregarded by middle-upperclass Dominican society and associated with rural underdevelopment and crime. As recently as the 1980s, Bachata was considered too vulgar and crude to be broadcast on television or radio in the Dominican Republic. Up to now I have presented a modern form of ‘refined’ Bachata music with softer lyrics, but today’s track Propuesta Indecente is an exception. Despite all that musically it appeals to me a lot as it mixes the sound of Dominican Bachata and Argentinean tango. Bachata is played with guitars and percussion (bongos, maracas amongst other instruments).

A crude English translation of part of the song follows (and warning it could offend some readers):

[Intro]
Hello, they call me Romeo
It’s a pleasure to meet you

[Verse 1]
How well you look
I’m ahead of you, I don’t care who he is
You tell me
If he has ever done anything naughty

[Pre-Chorus]
An adventure is more fun if it smells of danger

[Chorus]
If I buy you a drink and get close to your mouth
If I steal a kiss from you, let’s see, are you mad at me?
What would you say if I seduced you in my car tonight?
Let the windows fog up and the rule is that you enjoy
If I disrespect you and then blame the alcohol
If I lift your skirt, would you give me the right to measure your sanity?
Put your body into play
Does this indecent proposal seem prudent to you?

The following is cherry picked from the Wikipedia references below:
Romeo Santos released Propuesta Indecente on his second studio album Formula, Vol. 2. I did not enjoy the depiction in the ‘award-winning’ official video with 2.1 billion views, so I have presented the audio version below. The song reached Number 2 in Colombia, 1 in Mexico, 16 in Spain and 79 on the Billboard Hot 100. As of 2021, Propuesta Indecente is the second best-performing Latin song of all-time on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart following Despacito.

Santos was born and raised in The Bronx, New York City on July 21, 1981, to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. He had a humble upbringing, with his father, who worked in construction, being underpaid but being able to make ends meet for his family. His mother was staying at home and taking care of the children in the family. Santos attended public school in the Bronx, and Santos began his career by singing in a church choir at a young age. Romeo was exposed to Latin genres of music including salsa, merengue, and bachata, listening to it at a young age because of his parents’ love for it.

References:
1. Propuesta Indecente – Wikipedia
2. Romeo Santos – Wikipedia

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Puro Veneno (2020) – Nathy Peluso

Posted on April 11, 2024 by observationblogger — 3 Comments

“Salsa is the music that has saved me so many times. It has shown me powerful ways of dealing with life. Wherever I go, I listen to salsa. It’s the soundtrack of my days. ‘Puro Veneno’ is the story of an intoxicated love. Salsa provides the perfect way to communicate a feeling of pain, while at the same time escape it. The genre’s natural melodrama and the imagery it invokes have always inspired me. Its strength and spirit are unique. I made ‘Puro Veneno’ because I want to learn from that and stay close to salsa wherever I go, and I want my audience to know the energy that this amazing genre transmits.” – Nathy Peluso

Puro Veneno (Pure Venom) is the third song to feature here from Argentinian Spain based artist Nathy Peluso after her previous entries La Violetera and Nasty Girl. Nathy is so theatrical, and I think there’s a vulnerability in expressing yourself and sometimes creates awkwardness. But when she does it well, she nails it, like here. I could watch her performance of Puro Veneno on repeat and never grow tired of it. Also the Colorsxstudios set below is a unique aesthetic music platform which provide a clear, minimalist stage that shines a spotlight on Peluso giving her the opportunity to present their music without distraction.

Puro Veneno is the penultimate song on the album Calambre recorded with a full Puerto Rican salsa band during the COVID-19 pandemic while Nathy was in Spain.

The song Puro Veneno tells the story of a relationship and how Nathy has fallen in love with a man, while during the course of the relationship she has become somewhat toxic. During the story it can also be understood that, although this relationship is toxic, Nathy continues to feel love for this man, even comparing this infatuation with a poison from which she wants to escape.

Below is a raw translation of some of the lyrics:

[Intro]
I came to tell the story
How that man poisoned me
Rra!

[Verse 1]
Bad wishes, no hope
Knife dances in my throat
I want to believe, my sister, that this is not the end
I still feel the corashe to live (Corashe, corashe!)
Between the branches of your body
That night a snake bit me
And its poison has stunned me
So addictive that the pleasure is now pain (Hey!)

[Pre-Chorus]
You are poison, pure poison (It hurts me)
Inevitable (That burns me), like your kisses
I have no brake or antidote, dad (Rra!)
So go away, I have no more mercy (Cramp, ha!)

[Chorus]
Oh me, that man poisoned me
What to suffer, sanity took me away
Oh me, that man poisoned me
Someone tell me how I can fix it
I need a remedy

Nathy was born as Natalia Beatriz Dora Peluso and is an Argentinian singer (of Italian Ancestry), songwriter, dancer. Peluso worked in Spain and is distinguished for her theatrical personality onstage, and her fusion of hip hop, soul, and world music. She sings drama, salsa, jazz, reggaeton, boleros, tango, soul, trap, and hip – hop.

References:
1. Serenade for Strings (Dvořák) – Wikipedia

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Darte un Beso (2013) – Prince Royce

Posted on April 8, 2024 by observationblogger — 10 Comments

My two children when they were ‘chikis’ can be seen in the foreground at a resort in Giradot in the Tolima department of Colombia

My children put Darte un Beso (Give You a Kiss) on one day and I knew I had to add it to the Music Library Project. This is one of the most popular songs I have heard played in Colombia in the last decade. I distinctly remember hearing it on family vacations in Giradot and at the gym in group classes. When I hear Darte un Beso it embodies a certain ambience of the elusive serenity of young love –Latina style. It’s not ordinarily the music I would find appealing, but if I just let it wash over me, it evokes a certain warmth and tranquility of an elusive sub-culture I still feel unaccustomed, but somehow drawn to.

It comes from Prince Royce’s third album Soy el mismo (I am the same). It reached number 1 on the Hot Latin Songs de Billboard. In the music video below it shows Prince on a beach where he falls in love with a young woman and sings to her about how he feels. The video ends with the woman who ends up turning out to be a mermaid. How can you not be drawn to that story? The video currently has 1.4 billlion views and I can see why.

A crude English translation follows:

[Verse 1]
Loving you as I do is very complicated
Thinking how I think of you is a sin
Staring the way I stare at you is forbidden
Touching you how I want is a crime (Uh)

[Pre-Chorus]
I do not know what to do
For you to be fine
If turning off the sun to turn on your dawn
Falar in Portuguese, learn to speak French
Or lower the moon to your feet

[Chorus]
I just wanna kiss you
And give you my mornings
Sing to calm your fears
I want you to not miss anything
I just wanna kiss you
Fill your soul with my love
Take you to know the sky
I want you to not miss anything (Read more here)

The single became an international hit for Prince Royce in the United States, Latin America and Spain. At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2014, the song received three nominations and is recognized as one of Prince Royce’s signature songs. Darte un Beso is ‘Bacahata‘ music as far as the genre goes. I have written about Bachata in other articles especially the music of one of Latin America’s most recognisable artists – Luis Guerra.

References:
1. Date un beso – Wikipedia

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Plush (1993) – Stone Temple Pilots

Posted on April 6, 2024 by observationblogger — 17 Comments
Scott Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots during 1993 MTV Movie Awards at Sony Studios in Culver City, California

The Stone Temple Pilots (STP) were one of pioneering grunge / alt-rock groups that arose in the early 1990’s and coursed a new path for music. As I mentioned in other posts; in my new found independence of young adulthood, my league of friends and I burrowed our way into this scene with such fervor like there was no turning back. There existed at the time in the CBD of Canberra, Australia, these shabby dives (if you looked hard enough) which only played and supported alt rock music. That’s where we went on the weekends to watch local garage bands emulate this ‘Seattle’ – alternative rock sound forged by groups like STP, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Alice in Chains & Live.

Today’s featured song Plush was one of the principal songs of this new movement which we devoured. Plush, sounded, looked, tasted and felt more Grunge than just about any other song we could think of. For me at least, this song sits as one of ‘archetypal’ music exhibits for this newly forged genre. Also this song became the number-one song of 1993 in the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
Other followers of this music may have their own ‘exemplars’ which embody their fascination of the scene. Songs from Nirvana, for example might consist of the most cited for a lot of people.

[Verse 1]
And I feel that time’s a wasted go
So where you goin’ till tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
So would you even care?

[Pre-Chorus]
And I feel it
And I feel it

[Chorus]
Where you goin’ for tomorrow?
Where you goin’ with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel when the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

[Verse 2]
And I feel so much depends on the weather
So is it rainin’ in your bedroom?
And I see that these are the eyes of disarray
So would you even care?

Plush was released as the second single from the band’s 1992 debut studio album, Core, in August 1993 and became their first single to top the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart; and as aforementioned it went on to become that listing’s number-one song of 1993. According to the Wikipedia article below: the lyrics were loosely based on a newspaper article by the late Scott Weiland (lead singer) who read about a girl who had been found dead after having been kidnapped in the early 1990s. Weiland had also said that the song’s lyrics are a metaphor for a failed relationship.

Below is the award-winning music video, directed by Josh Taft, which was released in 1993. It had a heavy rotation on MTV. ‘It combines a visual interpretation of the song’s lyrics with footage of Weiland singing with the band as a lounge act in an empty bar‘. 

References:
1. Stone Temple Pilots’ ‘Plush’ Tops LyricFind Chart After Scott Weiland’s Death – Wikipedia
2. Plush (song) – Wikipedia

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The Road (2009) – John Hillcoat (Friday’s Finest)

Posted on April 5, 2024 by observationblogger — 7 Comments

  • The Man: Listen, we have to talk. That man back there… There’s not many good guys left, that’s all. We have to watch out for the bad guys. We have to just… keep carrying the fire.
  • The Boy: What fire?
  • The Man: The fire inside you.

Many years ago, I read the Cormac McCarthy novel from which today’s featured movie The Road was adapted. Cormac McCarthy is the author of No Country for Old Men which the Coen Brothers adapted for the screen in their Best Picture Oscar winning masterpiece. I’m not a buff of the ‘post-apocalypse movie’ so I had been holding off to see The Road. When I had nothing else better to do, I saw a recent viewing of it on the Film & Arts channel.

Movie Info:
A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified catastrophe results in an extinction event which caused the death of all plant life and virtually all animal life. The man and boy travel on a road to the coast in hope that they can find safe haven, scavenging for supplies in their journey, and avoiding roaming cannibalistic rape gangs armed with guns.

I’m happy to write I was very impressed by The Road. It is a relatively faithful adaption of the novel although not as bleak and that’s a good thing since a 100% faithful adaptation would have been too heavy to watch. It focuses more on the emotional impact of the unspecified Armageddon; and while at times remaining very upsetting, it is shot through a lens of hope rather than despair. Mortensen is a given to be an actor embedded in his character, so much so that when he takes off his shirt we see his bony torso as being really that, and watching him is magnetic.

The name of the game is Survival, although none can say what the point of it is. The food is gone, and clearly no more will be growing. Humans are apparently the only animals to survive the unnamed global disaster, so they represent the sole remaining, rapidly dwindling source of protein. The voices you hear approaching are not the ‘Red Cross’. There is one scene described below which I found especially creepy, yet gripping and what I consider the pinnacle of the movie experience…Spoiler Alert!:

Exploring a mansion, the father and the boy discover people locked in the basement, imprisoned as food for their captors. When the cannibals return, the man and his son hide. With discovery imminent, the man prepares to shoot his son, but they flee when the cannibals are distracted by the escaping captives.

The circumstances of the apocalyptic event are never explained. Director John Hillcoat said “That’s what makes it more realistic, then it immediately becomes about survival and how you get through each day as opposed to what actually happened.”
The film had a budget of $20 million. Hillcoat preferred to shoot in real locations, saying “We didn’t want to go the CGI world.” Pennsylvania, where most of the filming took place, was chosen for its tax breaks and its abundance of locations that looked abandoned or decayed: coalfields, dunes, and run-down parts of Pittsburgh and neighboring boroughs.

References:
1. The Road (2009 film) – Wikipedia
2. The Road (2009) – IMDB

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Leap of Faith (1992) – Bruce Springsteen

Posted on April 4, 2024 by observationblogger — 21 Comments

Bruce is in a spiritual frenzy on Leap of Faith which was released on the latter of his double release albums Human Touch / Lucky Town. He goes the extra yard and is in full -gusto as he celebrates entering a new phase of his life. I always agreed with the Rolling Stone‘s review of the double release which argued ‘the aims of the two albums would have been better realized by a single, more carefully shaped collection‘.
There at least ten songs from both albums that could have been combined to form one classic Springsteen album to rival his best ever. Lucky Town on its own contains the following 6 songs (from 10) I have included in my Music Library Project; all but today’s song remains:

It would never have occurred to me when I undertook this project (and it seems revelatory to me now based on this 0.6 percentile inclusion of music from this record), that according to my musical appreciation, Lucky Town is a top-tier Bruce release. Also how the magnificent Happy was left off the record is anyone’s guess. And yet still, a lot of Bruce fans loath this era. Springsteen said in the 90’s ‘ I tried to write happy songs & the public just didn’t like it ‘ But I think Lucky Town has aged gracefully!
The only other records (for mine) by Bruce which could rival that inclusion rate are:

[Verse 1]
All over the world the rain was pourin’
I was scratchin’ where it itched
Oh, heartbreak and despair got nothing but boring
So I grabbed you, baby, like a wild pitch

[Chorus]
It takes a leap of faith to get things going
It takes a leap of faith, you gotta show some guts
It takes a leap of faith to get things going
In your heart, you must trust

[Verse 2]
Now your legs were heaven, your breasts were the altar
Your body was the holy land
You shouted “jump,” but my heart faltered
You laughed and said, “Baby, don’t you understand?”

[Bridge]
Now you were the Red Sea, I was Moses
I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses
The waters parted and love rushed inside
I was Jesus’ son, yeah, sanctified

[Verse 3]
Tonight the moon’s looking young, but I’m feelin’ younger
‘Neath a veil of dreams, sweet blessings rain
Honey, I can feel the first breeze of summer
And in your love, I’m born again

The other astounding little known Springsteen fact are that the ten songs on Lucky Town were derivatives of the initial Human Touch project. He shelved the project in early 1991 and came back to it in September of the same year intending to record one more song for the Human Touch album (“Living Proof“), but he ended up with 10 new songs. Once he completed the sessions, he decided to put the 10 new songs on a separate album, which became Lucky Town. Lucky Town peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for over one million copies sold in the US.

I have chosen below the effervescent live MTV plugged version of today’s song Leap of Faith which demonstrates everything that is great about Springsteen, and a Springsteen concert – at least according to those I have spoken to here who have seen him live.

References:
1. Lucky Town – Wikipedia

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