Cher, thank you

what is it about Cher that cheers me up so much? Rhetorical question really, kind of, since it doesn't matter much to me why....just glad it does.

And as soon as I hear "If I Could Turn Back Time" the video runs in my head......I love it, I love it. I don't car that it's kitsch and camp and tacky, I just.......love it. Brightens me up.

and that is A Good Thing :)

The Eagles

listening to "One of These Nights"........instant flashback to college, and freedom for the first time; free from him, free from them, free to be me, to find out about other music, other people...... the whole feeling brought back just on hearing that song.....really good to feel it again.....

thank you, Phyllis, for introducing me to The Eagles(and blowing a raspberry at 'him'...... who was irritated at my liking something he hadn't introduced me too.........)

absent friends

just got the cd of the soundtrack to 'Brokeback Mountain' and one of the songs, sung by Willie Nelson, is 'He was a friend of mine'. Just made me think about H., and another friend who passed a few years back; bitter sweet memories, sad to feel, but glad to have known them and remember them.

so, here's to absent friends......

in loving memory of H.

I never intended to be much of a 'big blogger'......my blog(s) being more for my own information, a place to keep links and things of interest to me, and posting sometimes on the other one(the Midden). This one I didn't intend posting much on at all, but it's my music blog, and something musical and personal is relevant which I want to say.

(also feel that the actual blog entries are really more like a journal for and to myself than anything of much interest or information to others.......I do feel chuffed to bits when anyone does send a post!)

anyway.....I mentioned over on the other one about the recent death of my friend, and I suddenly thought of how he was the one who introduced me to opera years ago, and we used to kid one another on because I loved Wagner(the music, not the man) and he hated him, and he'd say, "Vomit, vomit!!!!!!" whenever I mentioned Wagner.....

so here's to you, dear friend, and I'm sure you're enjoying a glass of fine wine with your heroine Maria Callas......

....and another......

"Be My Number Two" by Joe Jackson
the original possible(but as likely as winning the lottery) fantasy......just for me...love it.......

song memories

I find songs trigger very vivid memories of things - have been meaning to make a list for ages, and right now I'm listening to a random favourites selection while surfing, and one just came on which was so strong: might as well start now.

"You'll Never Find" by Lou Rawls
straight back to when me and A. were first going out together.....this one and
"Every Kinda People" by Robert Palmer
make me think of sitting in that park, on the hillside, soft breeze blowing past, looking down over the city; sitting like you do on a sledge, me in front, just gazing across the landscape, and such a feeling of happiness........lovely memory.......1976......

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.....for music links, blogs, information ...... especially mandolin, guitar and recorder, and favourite musicians and composers........