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Social Distancing2020-05-09 22:23h
Now we have more knowledge than at the beginning. But we won't know everything until the end. Maybe with today's knowledge, a different decision would have been made then. Between hysteria and denial, we are now at a masquerade. The best idea right now.
Now I hum 'This Masquerade' while shopping ...
As usual2020-03-06 23:10h
'Comme d'habitude' - published in 1967 by Claude François, became a world wide hit sung by Frank Sinatra.
Initially David Bowie wanted to release the title for the English-speaking market with his own lyrics. But Paul Anka
had already the international rights, so Mr. Bowie wrote and published 'Life on Mars', which is similar in the first chords.
Merry Cristmas2019-12-24 23:14h
For decades I believed Feliz Navidad is a native Latin American Christmas carol that was written in primeval times. But way off the mark: It was written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer and guitarist José Feliciano.
But on Christmas at 30 degrees under palm trees everyone sings it.
Warm-up Tune2019-09-22 23:08h
From a piano exercise to an hit with lyrics at the edge again:
Believed to be an order from Gilbert O'Sullivan to his dog ("Get Down!"), the singer is actually referring to a girl in the song behaving as a dog jumping on him, hence the request to "get down". [Wikipedia]
Listen to the Choirs!2019-09-01 23:05h
Eternal Flame Eternal Flame was one of three world hits of the girls band Thr Bangles. The song has three parts: the verse, (instead of a chorus) a B-part and the probably most senseless guitar solo in the entire history of mankind. Interesting is the arrangement and how after the changes the verse/A-part is 'enhanced' especially by the use of the voices to the chorus.
find out more ...'Clair' without an 'e'2019-06-30 17:15h
Clair was the then three-year-old daughter of Gilbert O'Sullivan's manager. At that time, this was obviously not a problem - today such lyrics would be stopped at the latest in the administration of the record company.
But the carefree, from today's perspective: naive handling of the subject also suggests the presumption of innocence.