July 13th, 2011

This story of a convict who told his love to tie a ribbon to a tree is an American folk tale, dating to before 1959. In October 1971, newspaper columnist Pete Hamill wrote a piece for the New York Post called “Going Home”. In it, he told a variant of the story. The [...]

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May 22nd, 2011

Do You Believe In Magic   •   This Magic Moment   •   Magic Moments
There is magic in music, and you can find magic in the moments that make up the memories of a lifetime. (Especially when those magic moments are filled with love.)
Here are some magic oldie moments from [...]

May 6th, 2011

Gulf Coast Hideaway         Bolivar Ferry
Ever since my children were young our family has endeavored to have an annual beach week vacation on the Texas Gulf coast. At first it was just our immediate family. Then as the girls grew older, some of their friends were included in the [...]

April 26th, 2011

Here are two songs that were inspired by listening to the rhythm of the rain. The first song—a lonely boy’s lament for a lost love—was a number three pop hit in early 1963. The second—a celebration of the simple joys of love at hand—was a country chart-topper in the summer of 1986.

Little does [...]

She was a goddess of love and beauty.                 Venus         Venus In Blue Jeans         Venus (x2)                

In mythology, Venus was the Roman goddess of love, beauty, and fertility.
In art, she [...]

I will admit that I have mentioned some old songs here before. (The fact is, there are mostly old songs on this site.) One was especially old: “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (a #1 hit for Mitch Miller in 1955) has words and music dating from the 1850s. But the song I present today has [...]

When your children play games…                 Skip a Rope         Playground In My Mind         Rebecca Lynn                

Henson Cargill had been a deputy sheriff in his native Oklahoma before establishing himself as an [...]

Here are some spring-inspired hit songs from the late fifties and early sixties that come to us from motion pictures. The two songs (with similar opening sequences) celebrate young people in the spring. One was a world-wide favorite from a movie about students on spring break. The lesson from the other song is that [...]

For all April fools…

Send In The Clowns · Judy Collins · 1975
  Play the song.       Lyrics   (Read the lyrics while you listen to the track.)
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Where are the clowns?
(aka: Fools)

Judy Collins sang contemporary folk songs in the late sixties and and in [...]