As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Hit song in the making?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

I fell in love with the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams when I first heard it on WXPN a week or two ago. Its recent Oscar nomination for Best Song (from Despicable Me 2) seems to have brought it quite a bit of attention. It’s now among the Top 10 downloads in iTunes, and Billboard columnist Sean Ross speculates that it soon may be getting heavy airplay on a variety of radio formats.

It will be interesting to see whether it comes out on top on Oscar night, since it will have formidable competition from U2’s “Ordinary Love” (from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), another great song, from an excellent movie that apparently got lost in the Christmas shuffle in terms of box office success.
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