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.)

Saturday, April 12, 2014

#73 Beyond the Sea -- Bobby Darin (1960)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8OlDPqYBLw

Great swingin’ summer song, which also provided the title for Kevin Spacey’s 2004 Darin biopic. The movie wasn’t a bad effort, but had the misfortune of opening just a few months after Ray (better movie, more influential musical figure), which probably contributed to its grossing only around $8M worldwide (according to IMDb).

 
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