Runnin’ Around – Colbie Caillat (2009)
Put the Message in the Box – World Party (1990)
Both heard 2/7/2014 shortly after 1:00, Wegman’s in
Germantown
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Serendipity #6
Legend in Your Own Time – Carly Simon (1972)
Hospital Food – David Gray (2005)
Passionate Kisses – Mary Chapin Carpenter (1993)
A tripleheader, heard 2/6/2014 shortly after 6:00 at
Jerry’s Subs in Rockville (Fallsgrove)
#83 This I Swear -- The Skyliners (1959)
Although
some (including Wikipedia) would call them a doo-wop group, “harmony group” or “vocal
group” seems like a more appropriate term. Regardless, the Skyliners were
great, whether doing material they wrote themselves such as “Since I Don’t Have
You” and this classic, or standards such as “Pennies from Heaven.” Picking one
favorite from these three was not an easy task. According to the liner notes
from manager and lyricist Joe Rock from their Greatest Hits CD, the “very
creative vocal arrangement [made] the bridge of [This I Swear] too difficult
for other groups to copy. With the several later remakes of the song, no one
had been able to figure out who goes where vocally in the bridge…”
#84 Anchorage -- Michelle Shocked (1989)
2013 was
not a particularly good year for Barack Obama. It was a bad year for just
about everybody associated with Washington’s NFL team. But it may have been
even a worse year for singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked.
Not
following either Michelle or entertainment world news all that closely, I didn’t
become aware of this until recently, when I was trying to find “Anchorage” on
YouTube. (Michelle apparently doesn’t like to have her material out there, so
no link to the song from here.)
So maybe
there is something to GrooveLily’s “Screwed-Up People Make Great Art.” It’s a
shame, because she put out some great music in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Serendipity #5
Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy (1976)
Heard 2/1/2014 around 12:15, outside the National Museum
of Crime & Punishment, 7th Street NW (Washington DC)
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