A Song in My Heart (and Blood on my Lips?)
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
- Catherine Aird -
I stole this quote from ChrisB's blog . Check out her wonderful stories about American Internet marketers and most inspiring quotes about aging as a woman!
Her friend Lisa at the food snob has a meme going on the three songs that you would choose if you could never hear music again. That is SO hard -and one is tempted to choose really long pieces so that one could stretch out the time before one had to do without.
I know that one of my "songs" would be Beethoven's Ninth symphony (or the Ode to Joy movement" if we can't have the whole thing as a song. (Or maybe the second movement from the Fifth or the first movement formthe seventh - that is three right there!!)
The next song would be "Let it Bleed" by the Rolling Stones
...and finally I would choose a Billie Holiday song 
- either Gloomy Sunday or Maybe Georgia on My Mind.
(Sorry no Youtube connections - I am still learning the essentials of a simple html blog! ;-} )
8 comments:
Much as I'm delighted to have you mention me you actually took the quote from my Mums blog (Chrisb). It was funny reading it because I knew I hadn't written it.
I love the diversity of your choices. I did this last week and I'm sure I would choose at least one different track this week!
Hi thanks for the link but to save any confusion you might want to change the name to Chris (beccy is my daughter at peppermint tea).
I don't listen to much Beethoven but my hubby listens to a lot of classical music which I enjoy. I went over to you tube and found some extracts on video. I'm not a Stones fan but Billie Holiday has a beautiful voice ( love georgia on my mind) and we have several of her~CD's.
And I see you've done what I should have done and researched the quote- I'll amend mine so thank you.
Speaking of Billie Holiday, There is a great group on Yahoo called Billie Holiday And The Disciples Of Swing that salutes the art of vocal jazz. During February they were celebrating Girl Singers Month and this weeks playlist includes several tracks by Billie that were recorded in 1957 at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival. You should check them out. Here is the link to the group and the current playlist:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BillieHoliday_And_The_Disciples_Of_Swing/01
01 And This Is My Beloved.mp3 Gloria Lynne at Basin Street 912 K
01 As Long As I Live.mp3 Peggy Lee (rehearsal, 1962)
01 Darktown Strutters Ball.mp3 Alberta Hunter, 1978
01 I Didn't Know What Time It Was.mp3 Sarah Vaughan, 198X
01 Manhattan.mp3 Lee Wiley
01 S'Wonderful.mp3 Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis Jr.
01 They Raided The Joint.mp3 Helen Humes at the Pasadena Auditorium, 1952
02 Loud Talkin' Woman.mp3 Helen Humes at the Pasadena Auditorium, 1952
02 The More I See You.mp3 Keely Smith, studio session, 6/20/1985
02 Willow Weep For Me.mp3 Billie Holiday, Toronto, 8/57
03 Flying Home.mp3 Ella Fitzgerald, Carnegie Hall, 9/18/1949
03 I Only Have Eyes For You.mp3 Billie Holiday, Toronto, 8/57
03 I'll Get Along Somehow.mp3 Nancy Wilson
03 Mood Indigo.mp3 Lena Horne and Tony Bennett
04 Billie's Blues.mp3 Billie Holiday, Toronto, 8/57
04 Lucky Day.mp3 Annie Ross,1959
04 One Night Stand.mp3 Janis Joplin, 1970
04 Why Don't You Do Right.mp3 Linda Hopkins, 6/18/82
05 After You've Gone.mp3 Kay Starr, 1975
05 Azure-te.mp3 Ernestine Anderson, studio session, 1958
05 Lover Come Back To Me.mp3 Billie Holiday, Toronto, 8/57
05 Miss Brown to You.mp3 Carmen McRae, studio session, 6/29/1961
06 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby.mp3 Ann Richards, studio session, 1960
07 I'd Rather Go Blind.mp3 Etta James live at Memory Lane, 1986
07 Influences.mp3 Billie Holiday
07 The Way We Were.mp3 Peggy Lee (1974 Academy Awards)
08 My Funny Valentine.mp3 Anita O'Day at Carnegie Hall, 1986
08 No Ways Tired.mp3 The Barret Sisters, 1983
08 You've Changed.mp3 Shelby Lynne, studio session,
09 But Not For Me.mp3 Gladys Knight
09 Influences part 2.mp3 Billie Holiday, Toronto, 8/57
09 Porgy.mp3 Nina Simone at Westbury Music Fair, 1968
09 Skylark.mp3 Aretha Franklin, Detroit Music Hall 1986
10 Mean Way Of Loving.mp3 Helen Humes at the Pasadena Auditorium, 1952
13 He Brought Us.mp3 The Barret Sisters, 1983
13 My Funny Valentine_The Gentleman is a Dope.mp3 Peggy Lee and Lena Horne, 1978
15 I Wish You Love 1.mp3 Barbra Streisand, JFK Stadium 1966
15 More.mp3 Baby Jane Dexter
15 Only The Lonely.mp3 Aretha Franklin, studio session, 7/16/64
17 I Cried For You.mp3 Helen Humes at the Pasadena Auditorium, 1952
17 You Turned The Tables On Me.mp3 Anita O'Day on the BBC, 1964
18 Medley.mp3 Anita O'Day and Chris Connor at Michaels Pub, 1989
19 If I Were A Bell.mp3 June Christy Live At The Dunes
20 It Don't Mean A Thing.mp3 June Christy Live At The Dunes
21 Jeepers Creepers.mp3 june Christy Live At The Dunes
22 Too Marvelous.mp3 June Christy Live At The Dunes
25 Mixed Emotions.mp3 Dinah Washington Live At Basin Street, 7/10/55
26 Come Rain Or Shine.mp3 Dinah Washington Live At Basin Street, 7/10/55
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BillieHoliday_And_The_Disciples_Of_Swing/
12:10 PM
oh, my dear, how wonderful to visit you here.
so exciting is your work.
thank you, dear one.
Billie has always been near and dear---she was the only one who could sing my now-16-yr-old to sleep!
talk to you soon...
Gosh...No more music? I'd just have to hear some Bobby Pickett!!
Apologies to both Chris and Beccy for confusing your names. I went to both web sites today and although I knew who was the Mom and who the daughter, I had a mental lapse! It was CHRIS whose site I was responding to!!
purpleworms that's really odd because I see beccy's comment was done before mine but it was not there when I posted my comment so at the time I thought mine to be the only one.
Billie Holiday. Amen, sister.
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