Orinoco Flow - Enya

Happy Birthday to Enya!

Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul

R.I.P. Billy Paul

After Taxes - Johnny Cash

The Day the Music Died

The Day the Music Died: Rock’s Great Tragedy

Referenced in Don McLean's American Pie
 

Need the meaning of the lyrics? They have a website of their own.

You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey

R.I.P. Glenn Frey

Lazarus - David Bowie

Off of Bowie's last album "Blackstar".

R.I.P.

All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople

Auld Lang Syne - Josh Turner

Hello, Goodbye

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman." It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there'). As in addition to hello, halloo, hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels

"Goodbye" came from the Middle English "godbwdye", which is short for "God be with ye."

Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles

The Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

You Were On My Mind - We Five

Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

On this day in history in 1967, Otis Redding and members of the Bar-Kays band died when their plane crashed into Lake Monona, just a few miles from the Madison, Wisconsin airport. Weather was thought to be a factor in the crash, but the exact cause was never determined.

Four months after his death at the age of twenty six, Redding's ("Sitting on the) Dock of the Bay", the last song he ever recorded, reached the top spot on the pop music charts. It was his first No. 1 hit as well as being the first posthumous single to top the charts in the U.S.

Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots

Born To Raise Hell - Motörhead

Featuring Ice T & Whitfield Crane

Chicken Train - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Originally posted on Nov. 3, 2007 but I noticed that the video had been taken down.

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Diamonds Are Forever

And a lot of the time they last longer than the marriage.

The average size of an American diamond engagement ring is 0.8 carats.

This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys

Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker

Lots of Licks

It takes somewhere between 144 and 411 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop^TM

For your musical enjoyment, a topical video:

Us and Them - Pink Floyd

I love saxophone music, so when I saw today's Google doodle celebrating the birthday of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, it made me think about my favorite songs which use that instrument. Maybe it's my advancing age and failing memory, but I couldn't think of any. Thank goodness my senility hasn't prevented me from remembering how to use Google, so I did a quick search and was reminded of this Pink Floyd tune with some great sax solos.

Let The Mystery Be - Iris DeMent

I've been watching "The Leftovers" and really enjoying it, but am behind a few episodes and a couple of weeks ago while reading a review of the 2nd season, saw a comment that stated they didn't like the new theme song.  I finally got around to watching the first couple of episodes of the new season and immediately knew who the singer was.   Here's the new opening theme, followed by the full version of the song:

I like it just fine (love Iris DeMent!), but the theme to the first season is hauntingly beautiful and still used in parts of these newest episodes. I plan on doing a review of "The Leftovers", but will wait until I catch up on the couple of episodes I've not yet seen.