Archive for the 'Just Because Music' Category

Just Because — Elvis laughing

Just Because — Bing singing “You Belong to My Heart”

When my daughter heard this recording on XM’s 40s radio, her comment was, “I’m really sorry I don’t live in an age of romantic love songs.”  It’s not the best song in the world, but it certainly exemplifies a lost romance when it comes to music.

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An even better Slim Whitman recording of “I remember you”

This is a more mature Slim, singing “I Remember You” at a slower, richer pace than in the last video I posted of the same singer, same song, with an absolutely stunned Andy Kaufman (at 1:25) drinking in the beauty of Slim’s performance:
And here’s the original recording, from The Fleet’s In, with Dorothy Lamour (and, [...]

Just because — Janis Joplin

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose….

Just Because — Sousa’s own interpretation of Stars & Stripes Forever

This is Sousa’s own band, under his direction.  I find interesting how different his interpretation is from modern approaches, which tend to be brassier, crisper, faster, and a little more bombastic.  This is almost relaxed compared to modern interpretations, with a stronger reed presence and less brass and percussion:
Just by way of comparison, here’s a [...]

Just Because — Ella Fitzgerald singing Mack the Knife

It doesn’t get better than this:

Just Because — Heart and Soul

Hoagy’s original of Heart and Soul:
Cleftone’s doo-wop cover of Hoagy’s song:
Huey Lewis’ Heart and Soul:
T’pau’s Heart and Soul:

Just Because — Sam Cooke

One of my absolute, all-time favorite songs, by one of my favorite singers:

Lesley Gore’s anthem seems like an appropriate protest to the Nanny State

One of my favorite songs, sung by one of my favorite singers

Ella Fitzgerald, singing Cole Porter’s “From this Moment On,” which he wrote for Kiss Me Kate:

Just Because — Ella Fitzgerald with Sleigh Ride

Just Because — You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch

Just Because — the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby

Open thread (and a little music)

I’ve been reading the news assiduously today, but just don’t feel as if I have a coherent message or analysis in my own brain that’s worth passing on.  I know it’s late in the day for some of you, but consider this an open thread.
Meanwhile, a little Christmas music from Marin County, which as been [...]

Just Because — Dion and the Belmonts

One of the best sung Christmas songs

Yesterday I blogged about the way in which businesses, bowing to political correctness, erase Christmas from the holiday shopping season.  My personal, Jewish, opinion, is that I like the Christmas season, especially the music.  One of my personal favorites is Josh Groban’s O Holy Night.  I think there are few, if any recordings, better than [...]

Just Because — It’s Johnny Mercer’s 100th birthday

I couldn’t find the absolutely exquisite Dorothy Lamour/Jimmy Dorsey version from the film The Fleet’s In (starring a ridiculously young Bill Holden), but I enjoyed this Slim Whitman kind-of-funky version of one of the most beautiful love songs ever written:
Incidentally, Mark Steyn is paying tribute to Johnny Mercer this month.  You can read about Johnny [...]

Just Because — Lifehouse’s Chapter One

Just Because — Trying to be sanguine about yesterday’s vote *UPDATED*

It’s Sunday and there’s nothing I can do to change yesterday’s vote at this moment.  I need to relax.
Jennifer Rubin is also sanguine, bless her heart.
UPDATE:  The Anchoress urges us to be not afraid, even in the shadow of the jackboot.

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Just Because — a song about hitting rock bottom (and an open thread)

With the House of Representatives having gone insane, it seemed like an appropriate time for a song about hitting rock bottom:
Please feel free to make your comments about the bill here.  I probably won’t be blogging tomorrow until later in the day, Pacific time.

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Just Because — Bee Gees singing Tragedy

No doubt about it — when the news gets depressing, I retreat to the music of my youth.  And while the lyrics are not apposite, the title and chorus — Tragedy – seem right, whether I’m thinking about the Fort Hood massacre or the ongoing White House debacle:

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Just Because — I’m Yours by Jason Mraz

The lyrics are incoherent, but I still like the song’s feel:

Just Because — I wanna go dancing

My husband is a man of many and varied virtues, but he has a significant flaw:  he doesn’t like to dance.  I do.  I love to dance.  And songs like this make me really, really want to dance:
This too:

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Just Because — Girl from Ipanema

When I was a little girl, thanks to a wealthy grandmother, we’d spend every summer in the mountains, a situation that lasted from 1964 to 1974.  This song provided a perpetual backdrop to those lovely days:
This song too, from the Kingston Trio:

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Just Because — two of the most maudlin songs ever written

Heard the first on the radio and it reminded me of the second.  Talk about self-pitying — but for reasons probably related to the teenage part of my brain, I like both of these songs a great deal:

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