Tag Archive 'music'

A very witty musical joke

A lovely, lovely song to wish our military friends a Merry Christmas

You know what the number one song in Britain is this Christmas?  “Wherever You Are” a beautiful choral song, with lyrics based upon a poem drawn from letters between British service men and their wives, sung by those wives: By the way, if you buy the song, not only will you have beautiful music to [...]

The dangers of rock and roll music — or why we at the Bookworm Room like Madison Rising

A couple of weeks ago, I brought to your attention a rock group called Madison Rising.  It has the distinction of playing classic guitar rock, with conservative, pro-American lyrics.  (Sadly, my 14 year old daughter still prefers LMFAO, but there’s only so much one can do as a mother.) A conservative cartoonist caught one of [...]

I knew I liked the guy

Regular readers now that I have a fatal weakness for ABBA.  I can’t help it.  Sometime back in the 70s, during my formative years, they left an imprint on my brain, and I just get fizzy happy when I hear their bouncy music and beautiful harmonies.  It turns out that I’m not alone.  John McCain [...]

More music from the 1980s

It seems I’m not the only one who looks back on the early 1980s as a good era musically.  So, for fun, here are a few other songs. First, Philip Bailey and Phil Collins with 1985′s Easy Lover: Second, Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called to Say I Love You from 1984: Third, and last, in [...]