Rambling Rhoads: 2022-11-27

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.)

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Christine McVie

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/christine-mcvie-dead-fleetwood-mac-singer-songwriter-1235445846/

Trivia note from Variety’s obituary: “Between her 1976 divorce from McVie and her 1986 marriage to [Eddy] Quintela, she was engaged for three years to the Beach Boys’ drummer-songwriter-vocalist Dennis Wilson.”

I have to admit that I didn’t know that “Perfect” was her given surname; I had always assumed that it was something that she adopted for professional purposes.

Favorite songs:

Heroes Are Hard To Find

Over My Head

Say You Love Me

Little Lies

Everywhere

And, although she didn’t write it, be sure to give a listen to her take on “I’d Rather Go Blind”, with her first band, Chicken Shack, which reached #14 in the UK. Despite the song’s ubiquity – it was originally released by co-writer Etta James and covered by B.B. King and Rod Stewart, among many others – no one ever had a hit with it on this side of the Atlantic.