Day 96: Father and Son, Cat Stevens
I remember doing this song with one of my best mates Simon beard. I sang the father part he sung the part of the son. Such a beautiful song.
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Day 95: Don’t let me down, The Beatles
Let’s stay in the 60s for a little longer. This is getting towards the end of the Beatles career as judged by Paul McCartney’s beard. What a great little clip to find on Youtube. Love the guys in the background standing around watching one of the greatest rock bands of all time having a jam
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Day 94: The House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
And now to go right back to before I was born. The house of the rising song, what a classic. Interestingly you can take this tune and put it to the classic hymn Amazing Grace.
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Day 93: Where do you go to my lovely, Peter Starstedt
So my centre of gravity appears to be songs of the seventies and eighties right? I have occasionally ventured into the 21st century but now it is time to go even further back to 1969 and this timeless classic. This song has such classic lyrics. I particularly like you get an even suntan on your
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Day 92: Oliver’s army, Elvis Costello
OK here is another funny memory. I guess I have slipped into a musical theme of great concerts I was blessed with as a young “twenty something year old” living in the vibrant city of Sydney, at the time when the Sydney Entertainment Centre (now no longer with us) was in its prime. The video
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Day 91: The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
Speaking of Paul Simon (see yesterday’s post). Such a beautiful and haunting duet.
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Day 90: You can call me Al, Paul Simon
So I remember going to see Paul Simon at the Sydney entertainment centre back in the 1980s. It was one of those concerts which was truly better than anything I could have expected. At the time his “Rhythm of the Saints” album had just been released so the hits from that dominated the play list
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Day 89: Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler
At around the same time Prince released “When Doves Cry” (see yesterday’s post) this song also made it into the Aussie charts. Again this song is strongly associated with my time at Sydney University. Looking back, they certainly were some of the happiest days of my life. I wonder if Bonnie needed some throat sweets
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Day 88: When Doves Cry, Prince
This song was released when I was in first year at Sydney University. Still have such a distinct memory of listening to it with my biology class mates in the Carslaw building. I wonder what became of all those folks? Sadly my guess is that probably like Prince, some of them are no longer with
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Day 87: I’m not in love, 10CC
This hit led me to buy my very first record back in the early 70s. Sadly at that age I didn’t really relate well to the rest of the album but now it is one of my favourites.
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