Roger Whittaker (1971)
(Featuring Chet Atkins)
I always prefer to post live versions, but this version set to Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), featuring Brando's wife, Tarita Teriipaia, is spectacular.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2024
Van Morrison
Moondance (1970)
Bright Side of the Road (1979)
I always prefer to post live versions, but this studio version is my personal favorite.
Have I told You lately (1989)
Brown Eyed Girl (1967)
Sweet Thing (1968)
Domino (1970)
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Merry Christmas from the Philippines
From Manila: Gigi De Lana channels Karen Carpenter
Bumped from last year...
In his lyrics, Frank Pooler uses Christmas as a verb: ...in my dreams I'm Christmasing with you. We don't see this use much today. But I'm rather fond of it. For instance: This year, we'll be Christmasing in Vermont or We always Christmas in Vermont. Surely that sounds like something Katharine Hepburn would say. Anyway, today, Christmas Day (2022), the OED Word of the Day just happened to be the verb Christmas (Christmas, v. – see entry below). Personally, I think they should add Pooler's lyrics as one of their sample quotations. Certainly it is one of the most notable and enduring contemporary examples of this use.
Sadly, most modern dictionaries do not even include an entry for Christmas as a verb. Not Merriam-Webster, not Cambridge, not Collins, not Macmillan. And I'm not sure any of these ever included it. The 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary does not include it. This is why there is the OED, and there is everything else.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Dave Loggins: Please Come to Boston
My friend and blogging mentor, Craig Newmark, posted this to his blog yesterday. I cannot resist reposting it here. I'd prefer a live version. But the sound on this is better than any live version I've found. 1974.
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