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I've seen this around but honestly I don't recognize most people's five songs and so I don't have any idea what they're like. So I'm going to include descriptions, and where possible, links to more information.
They are in the order I thoguht of them, and the only other thing I can say about them is that they have all been on my mind lately.
Beale Street Blues: currently, the Nat King Cole version from the Oxford American annual Southern Music CD, though my favorite is a western swing version. This song is a perennial for me. For many years all I had in my mind was the line "I'd rather be here than any place I know" -- and I had made up several songs of my own to go with it. It was written by W.C. Handy in 1917 and it celebrates shady old Memphis and laments prohibition. Here's Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderlla Roof Orchestra doing it. I think I like it because it is from my childhood and also because it has the blind man on the corner singing that Beale Street Blues which turns out to be that "I'd rather be here" bit and then "I'm going to the river" which is a phrase which has so many meanings, some of them scary, that a person could sit and wonder about ti for hours. I have done so on occasion.
Gajde su Gajde (a bagpipe is a bagpipe) It's a song on the "Gift of the Elves" CD about Carpathian bagpipes and their influences. The part that's on my mind a lot is a bunch of guys with burly voiuces singing in unison, and I don't know what the words mean, but I suspect it's the source of the "gift of the elves" title of the CD. It's not the prettiest tune you ever heard -- it's sort of a chant, almost monotonous -- but it has that kind of cheery earnestness that raises the hair on my neck sometimes. I also like the nonsense song, "Dil, Dil, Du, Da" which is song by Marta Sebesyen or maybe Kati Szvorak. It has a line that seems to say "dlitdlit di,dlitdlit di, dlitdlit dudl duda."
This has taken too long and I'm on dialup so the other songs will come at other intervals.
They are in the order I thoguht of them, and the only other thing I can say about them is that they have all been on my mind lately.
Beale Street Blues: currently, the Nat King Cole version from the Oxford American annual Southern Music CD, though my favorite is a western swing version. This song is a perennial for me. For many years all I had in my mind was the line "I'd rather be here than any place I know" -- and I had made up several songs of my own to go with it. It was written by W.C. Handy in 1917 and it celebrates shady old Memphis and laments prohibition. Here's Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderlla Roof Orchestra doing it. I think I like it because it is from my childhood and also because it has the blind man on the corner singing that Beale Street Blues which turns out to be that "I'd rather be here" bit and then "I'm going to the river" which is a phrase which has so many meanings, some of them scary, that a person could sit and wonder about ti for hours. I have done so on occasion.
Gajde su Gajde (a bagpipe is a bagpipe) It's a song on the "Gift of the Elves" CD about Carpathian bagpipes and their influences. The part that's on my mind a lot is a bunch of guys with burly voiuces singing in unison, and I don't know what the words mean, but I suspect it's the source of the "gift of the elves" title of the CD. It's not the prettiest tune you ever heard -- it's sort of a chant, almost monotonous -- but it has that kind of cheery earnestness that raises the hair on my neck sometimes. I also like the nonsense song, "Dil, Dil, Du, Da" which is song by Marta Sebesyen or maybe Kati Szvorak. It has a line that seems to say "dlitdlit di,dlitdlit di, dlitdlit dudl duda."
This has taken too long and I'm on dialup so the other songs will come at other intervals.
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