“The Singing Rage”, 1950The only thing lovelier than Patti Page was her voice. Her signature song Tennessee Waltz is one of my very favorites of all time.
If you are unfamiliar with her dreamy voice, I once recommended a great collection that would be a great introduction.
She passed away on New Years Day.
by Peter and Gordon (1965)There’s something so day dreamy about sad British invasion ballads. In some way, they meld together in a golden oldie station haze but when you stop to listen to one, like the Peter and Gordon hit I Go To Pieces, it’s easy to feel like teen nursing a broken heart (in a good way).
by Shudder to Think featuring Jeff Buckley (1998)Jeff Buckley makes me sigh. Has since I was in 8th grade getting my heart constantly broken.
Today I sighed anew after finding I Want Someone Badly, a song by him I’d never heard before. It reminds me of Terence Trent D’arby (in a great way).
Thanks to Daily Sound Fix for introducing me. A look through the site, which features forgotten music, promises more gems are waiting to be found. Too bad it hasn’t been updated for a year.
by Debra Law (1981)Debra Laws’ Very Special sounds like young girls’ smiles when they first fall in love . It’s a very nice thing.
by Julie LondonI am really into the holidays this year, just ask anyone that drops by and finds Christmas classics playing in our apartment all day.
Van is a huge fan, but for those that aren’t I’m recommending Holiday songs anyone would love all week.
Starting with the sultry voiced Julie London and her lonely I’d Like You For Christmas. It’s underplayed and hasn’t been covered a million times which is refreshing.
Plus it will make you feel like a heartsick pin up girl, staring out her window on Christmas eve.
And since I’m in the generous spirit, below are a few of this sexy singers amazing album covers.
30 Day Song Challenge – Day Twenty Five: Best Song to Accompany a Corsage:Sincerely by The Moonglows (1958)
by Frank LoesserBaby, It’s Cold Outside!! So warm up with the season’s best lovey time song.. but make sure to do it with one of the many good renditions (Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, etc) and not, say, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
I really don't want to live my life begrudging Rupert Everett anything, but I'm afraid he's the one mainly responsible for the renaissance of popularity behind the grating Dionne Warwick hit “I Say A Little Prayer”. A friend recently purchased an unusually long-limbed teddy bear clad in a ladies hat and a tank top emblazoned with the phrase 'Grandma's Favorite' (at Mohegan Sun, no less) that, upon squeeze, 'sang' it which didn't help matters in terms of my angry feelings towards this obnoxious song.
I know it may seem like an odd one to feel passionately hateful towards, especially since I'm no hater of Warwick or Burt Bacharach, but there you have it.
Isn't it amazing how different a song can sound when it's performed by two different artists? Not a fan of Sheryl Crow (even if we do go to the same Starbucks sometimes), I never enjoyed the radio hit The First Cut is the Deepest, but while reading about Steve Marriott I learned about the nearly forgotten original sung by dynamic and gorgeous PP Arnold and written by Cat Stevens (whose own version is also pretty great).
The artist, who counted Mick Jagger among her champions and played next to Jimi Hendrix and The Who, had a huge hit with the song and continues to record.