It's a Newman/Nilsen day

"Broken windows
In empty hallways
Pale dead moon
And the sky streaked with grey
Human kindness overflowing
And i think it's gonna rain today"

Wednesday....Humpday....

Today we are listening to Harry Nilsen and Randy Newman...

Let me explain!

Wheelie listens to music, that you already know.

He/we have a large CD collection. Well...we used to...before we sold most of it, about 80%, on Ebay, but...we still have a pretty generous collection left.

Lately, Wheelie has been using a system for listening to his music. He picks two pop CDs, two classical CDs and two Jazz/Blues CDs, goes alphabetically.
This way he has been covering everything he has. When he's gone through the whole shebang he's going to go back and just pick out and listen to his favorites.

So today we're having Harry Nilsen and Randy Newman, along with Keith Emerson and The Nice. Hmm...interesting combination. No classical or Jazz in the pile today I noticed.
Go figure

Both Nilsen and Newman are some of my favorite song writers. Many songs they wrote are made famous by other artists.
Dusty Springfield had a hit with I Think It's Going To Rain Today. Of course it was also done by Judy Collins, Bette Midler. Such a pretty song, such a lovely melody...

It just got me thinking about all the songs that have meant something in my life, at certain times, for certain reasons. Not in the least at times when I was (or thought I was) in LUV...

It runs the gamut from Sandy Shaw's: "Always Something There To Remind Me," when I broke up with my very first boyfriend (the one in my father's story), "Any Day Now" by Joan Baez, my first husband, "Brahms' 4th Symphony-3rd movement," someone in between, Willy Nelson's Stardust, a 'friend' in Minnesota, John Denver's Dreamland Express and Alan Jackson's Tall Tall Trees, another "friend' in Minnesota, Sibelius' Karelia Suite, and many other 'tunes', Wheelie.......and the incredibly proud feeling washing over me listening on stage to my son pounding on his drums...'doing'..."Roots Radicals".....an amazing experience...to watch a mass of tangled arms and heads bopping in front of the stage, singing along, frantically jumping up and down...
And not in the least my daughter's tears at her last high school orchestra concert, playing the viola, while performing Led Zeppelin's "Stairways to Heaven," arranged by her very talented and very cool orchestra teacher.....
And lastly...the joy on Boo-Boo's face, listening and bopping to the tunes of Sesame Street....

If we did not have music, life would be drab indeed.


There are so many pieces of music, and songs, when I hear them it instantly takes me back to a certain time, when it meant something special to me, and the memories come back...

Music seems to keep us sane, it seems...

Damn, now I am crying....

SGMKJ!