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Music Monday – Top 5 Songs – The Police

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There were five Police studio albums released between 1978 and 1983.  I know this because I owned them all.  For Music Monday, let’s take a trip down memory lane and name my favorite track from each of these studio albums. Outlando D’Amour was the first album released by The Police.  They “broke out” with the hit “Roxanne”.  I don’t need to go into the whole story now, everyone knows what the song is about.  However, while I did like Roxanne, my oh-so-favorite track from this album is “So Lonely”.   Reggatta de Blanc Released in 1979, the hot “hit” from this album was Message in a Bottle. While I do love Message in all its iterations (the acoustic version is especially stirring), here’s my go to from this album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ   Zenyatta Mondatta The song “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” hit the U.S. charts with a bang and spent… Continued

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Seventies Folk Favorites

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Music is important to me.  I listen to every type, every kind from hither to thither all the way over to yon.  You get the picture.   This is going to be a simple post.  Maybe you’ll sing along with me, maybe you’ll snicker at how old I am. I’m not going to wax poetic about how the songs of my childhood and teen years were so much better than the songs of today because I believe that there’s good music in all eras.  You just have to look for it.  And there were some pretty crappy songs when I was growing up, believe me. No.  This post is about listening to AM radio in the 70s and the songs that came out of that mono speaker that still inspire me today.  So fluff out your Afros, get your love beads and granny skirts and take a walk with me down

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Love and Lyrics

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Don’t they just go together?  Not quite like a horse and carriage, but humans have been writing love songs to each other since…forever, right? Love songs are the glue that keeps us connected to the love in our souls. “I look at you all…see the love there that’s sleeping….” (George Harrison)  A good love song can bring that love to the surface, allow it to blossom and flow. You see that one person and suddenly…”Zing! Went the strings of my heart!” (James F. Hanley) Coming from a musical background, from piano lessons at five to playing in the high school band to singing lessons, I’ve heard a ton of varied music in my life.  Some of it was by choice, other times, not so much.  (Contrary to what my piano teacher wants me to believe, Bartok is just….ugh.  But I digress.) Because of this background, I’ve heard a ton of

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