As Time Goes By

I had a terribly difficult time choosing which song to blog about today, but I settled upon this one. I have been amazed over the last few days at how many people have never seen Casablanca!!! Seriously, if you're reading this and you haven't seen it, get it RIGHT NOW!! Borrow it from your local library, steal it from your mom, or get it at Amazon, (it's less than ten bucks!!) and I PROMISE you'll love it! This clip is from one of my favorite parts:


GAAAAAH!H!H!H!H!H!H!!!! FINE!! I GIVE UP!!!!!! THERE'S NOT A SINGLE CLIP OF THE SONG THAT WILL LET ME EMBED IT IN MY BLOG!!!!!!!! Stupid copyright laws! can't they see I'm endorsing here! bah!


ok. I'm done now. CLICK HERE to see the video. Enjoy!

What'll I Do?

No, What'll YOU do??? hehe. Just kidding. Written in 1923 by America's Minstrel (Irving Berlin), this masterpiece has been covered by 34 notable artists like Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, and many others. It's one that everybody must have known in my parents time, but seems to have been forgotten by Generation X, or whatever we call ourselves.  I learned a few lines of this song for a choral variety show, along with many other war-related songs like 'Over There', 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' and the classic 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' (GO ANDREWS SISTERS!!!!).  We performed that show for several audiences in Washington DC, which I think is pretty spiffy. I cant decide which version I like most, but I think I'll go with the Nat King Cole Trio's version from the late 1940's :

Enjoy!

Mi Mancherai

This is one of those songs that attracted me just because of the sheer awesomeness of the vocals. It may also have something to do with my obsession with Italian :) Its a fun one to sing :) It's not until you see the translation that the tragedy of it hits you.

"I’ll miss you, if you go away
I’ll miss your serenity
Your words like songs in the wind
And Love, that you take away.

I’ll miss you, if you go away
Now and forever I don’know how to live
And joy, my friend, goes away with you

I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you, because you go away
Because the love in you is dead
Because, because...
Nothing it’s gonna change, I know

And inside of me I feel you
I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you, because you go away
Because the love in you is dead
Because, because...
Nothing it’s gonna change, I know
And inside of me I feel you

I’ll miss the immensity
Of our days and nights,us together
Your smiles when it’s getting dark
Your being naive like a little girl
I’ll miss you, my love
I look at myself and I find emptiness inside of me
And joy, my friend, goes away with you"

I love it!

Bus Stop

I'm noticing patterns in the songs I post about: Either it's old, or its Irish. and sometimes its old AND Irish. Anyway, here's another one that I don't know how I heard or where or why, but it's got a nice love story and a funky beat. Let's hear it for the Hollies!

The Hollies are an English band. They started in Manchester back in the early sixties and as you can tell they have a very unique harmony style :) A cool tidbit is this: The Hollies have never actually broken up! They still play! I found a video of them playing a live concert in 2007! cazy huh? that would make some of them like 70! I hope I'm that active at 70...

Da Lyrics:
"Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella

All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August, she was mine

Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same

That's the way the whole thing started
Silly but it's true
Thinkin' of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queue

Came the sun the ice was melting
No more sheltering now
Nice to think that that umbrella
Led me to a vow

Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same

Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella

All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August, she was mine."

Sweet Huh?

China Roses

Hi everybody! sorry it's been so long! There have been some medical issues going on in the family so I've not been able to post.... BUT I"M BACK NOW! So, here's one of Enya's least popular songs. Enya is great. I'll say that again, for effect... Enya is GREAT! and I love this song. So here's the lyrics, for your enjoyment, and I'll give you some of my interpretation afterward, since Enya lyrics can be a little cryptic :)

"Who can tell me if we have heaven,
who can say the way it should be;
Moonlight holly, the Sappho Comet,
Angel's tears below a tree.

You talk of the break of morning
as you view the new aurora,
Cloud in crimson, the key of heaven,
one love carved in acajou.

One told me of China Roses,
One a Thousand nights and one night,
Earth's last picture, the end of evening:
hue of indigo and blue.


A new moon leads me to
woods of dreams and I follow.
A new world waits for me;
my dream, my way.

I know that if I have heaven
there is nothing to desire.
Rain and river, a world of wonder
may be paradise to me.

I see the sun.
I see the stars."

So, the basic jist of the song is that the world is perfect already, embodied by several things, including China Roses and other flowers

-Moonlight holly: "has attractive gold-variegated emerald green foliagewith hints of yellow" "One of the most distinctive variegated broadleaf evergreens you'll ever find"

-Sapphos Comet is an absolutely beautiful humming bird.

-Angel Tears probably refers to the plant, though it's also te name of a global fusion musical do based in Tel Aviv (who knew!)

-Acajou is the French name for both cashew and mahogany trees.

I hope you like it as much as me!