Day 106: 4th of July by Amy MacDonald
Happy birthday USA. Not looking so well at the moment.
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Covid Island Discs
Day 105: The cowman and the farmer should be friends, Oklahoma
OK so why have I included this song?? Well my late Dad had this song in one of his amateur plays and I remember him practising this song over and over again in our house. Now that he is no longer with us, whenever I hear it I do remember a very clear image of
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Day 104: The Phantom of the Opera
Get that organ warmed up!
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Day 103: One night in Bangkok, Chess
Over the years I have had a love/hate relationship with chess. A game I would love to be good at but alas stuck at a rating of about 1200. Great musical though.
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Day 102: One day more, Les Misérables
I fell in love with this musical in my twenties when I first saw a performance of it out doors in Sydney. It even stimulated me to read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables which is a very loooong book and is much darker than even the musical.
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Day 101: Gethsemane, Jesus Christ Superstar
This week the theme is going to be musicals. The first musical I fell in love with was Jesus Christ Superstar. As I have alluded to elsewhere, it was through this musical that I was first drawn to Christ even though most Christians would recognise that the musical portrayal of Jesus is not really Biblical
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Day 100: And I would 500 miles, The Proclaimers
Made it to the big 100. To celebrate here is a Proclaimers song which is only 5x more in value ????.
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Day 99: American Pie, Don Mclean
I spent some time learning every verse to this song. Again brings back very pleasant memories of lovely holidays at Barrington Guest house (see Covid Island Discs Day 2). This song was now written a long, long time ago.
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Day 98: Tell me why I don’t like Mondays, The Boomtown Rats
Bob Geldof is such an interesting character. Certainly his work with Band Aid to help those starving in the third world is something to be applauded. Sadly it seems he has had his fair share of tragedy in his life. Must confess his voice is this live version is a little rough.
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Day 97: How do you sleep at night?, John Lennon
Such an angry song sadly directed against his former band mate Paul McCartney. However it is a great tune that I can re-purpose for a much more deserving recipient, our current Prime Minister and charlatan Boris Johnson. On the night I write this it looks as if Britain is moving inexorably to crashing out of
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