This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.
OK, I have no qualms about Simon and Garfunkle. Art has the voice of an angel and Paul is a great lyricist. But I never realized the strength of this song until I heard it sung by David Draiman. Disturbed covered this song in a way no one else ever could.
This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.
This is one prompt I especially love because 1) I finally met and married the man of my dreams (after waiting 35 years) and 2) I got to have the wedding day of my dreams.
When it came to my wedding day I needed to find an organist, one who could give me the grandeur I wanted at the ceremony. I “auditioned” a stranger recommended by a friend, at his church, on his organ. I told him I wanted a grandiose processional. He played a few pieces, beautifully performed, but cliché. I came out with it and said, “I want something like the processional in The Sound of Music.” To my amazement, he played the exact piece for me then and there.
Since I was a child I thought the wedding processional in The Sound of Music was perfect for such an occasion. Who would’ve thought I’d have it in my own wedding!
I hired him on the spot. Right now I can’t even remember any of the other pieces he played on our wedding day, but the procession was wonderful. My dad thought, as we walked down the aisle, that my shaking arm was from nervousness. But it was only because all of my dreams had come true, that moment and for the rest of my life.
The song I dreamed to be played at my wedding was played at my wedding, and majestically. (Sans the “Maria” part.) I was every bit as pretty a bride as Maria. And my groom was every bit as handsome as Captain Von Trapp.
, This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.
I’ve loved this song since I first heard it. I was introduced to Jean Michel Jarre by a dear friend who was in the music business. These days I couldn’t survive without the many albums by Jean Michel Jarre. His music inspires meditation, recollection, and spinning to worlds I’ve never known.
This particular piece takes me back to a New Year’s Eve night with Dede and Diggy. It had something to do with newspaper hats and bean dip. RIP Dede and Diggy. I think of you both when I hear this song. And also Grandpa Mike, cuz of Diggy in his newspaper hat.
This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.
I’ve always loved this song. Willie Nelson depicts such sorrow with this withered face and sad voice, and his “younger sister” (two years his senior) pulls at my heart with her talent on the piano. Irving Berlin has a masterpiece here, written in 1923, and it was done by several musical talents over the years. This rendition is my favorite, and always brings a tear to my eye for so many different reasons.
This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.
This song is done by one of my most favorite musicians, Cat Stevens. His songs made me think, made me feel passionate, and most of all made me happy. To add to the happy feeling is the fact that his music was the soundtrack for my most favorite movies of all time, Harold & Maude. Find meaning. Find purpose. But most of all, find joy.
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