BB, three strikes for you with which I could not agree more if I tried - Danny Boy for all of us with Irish ancestry, New York New York for those of us who love that city, and Wichita Lineman because it's one of the greatest songs of all time (though my favourite Glen Campbell song is Galveston, which I cannot believe I didn't include in my list).
And as you mentioned New York New York at Yankee Stadium (what a thought)! I suppose I should say that even watching on TV, You'll Never Walk Alone, when sung by the Liverpool faithful at Anfield, is one of the most mesmeric sounds of all time, and I cry at it every time I hear it.
"Galveston" was really the first anti-war song on Country Radio back in the day... I did that song with a little tiny (physically, she was about 4'9") girl at a talent show in college... a couple of years after the withdrawl and you could have heard a pin drop.
She didn't win (our regular band won with an original about a specifically interesting character on campus... we called it the 'suc' song) but, I may still have a recording of it... I have a recording of another guy I backed... it was (at the time) a really great song... I can still sing it (even with some pretty awkward lyrics) so, it must have made an impression... the same girl used to sing "Silver Dagger" and "Circle Game" and just kill me, I couldn't speak when she was done... Andy was a cutie!
I hope your daughter never has to find out how funny rape is. -Sodascouts
I thought of another song that makes me cry, "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. I had just seen Jim in concert about a month before his tragic plane crash. Every time I hear that song I think about how much I enjoyed that concert, and what a terrible loss that was. His beautiful songs will live on forever...
Stars,
Have you heard "Stars" by Dan Fogelberg... that one and "Be on your way" by him just kill me! To the Morning is usually the one people go with or the dreaded "old lang syne" but the first two are ones to make your heart swell...
as they say in the old Tom Waits song "emotional weather report"... 'rain is expected.'
I hope your daughter never has to find out how funny rape is. -Sodascouts
Stars, it sounds to me as if you got to see the exact same people in concert that I would have liked to - first John Denver, now Jim Croce.
You lucky girl!
~ Cathy ~
And I dream I'm on vacation 'Cause I like the way that sounds,
It's a perfect occupation for me.
BB, I have not heard "Stars" and "Be on your way" by Dan Fogelberg-I'll have to check them out! Thank you. I have heard "Longer", and that is another one that makes me cry. That song just cropped up the other day in a movie I was watching, "About Schmidt".
PM, I feel so blessed to have seen both John Denver and Jim Croce in concert. They were both so wonderful, and I still enjoy their music so much. There is an Eagles connection with Jim Croce-he was opening for Poco!! I remember feeling so lucky to see two wonderful performances that night. I don't recall if Timothy was with Poco that night though. This was 1973. Do any of the Tim fans know if he was still with the band in August or September 1973?
Yep. Tim was in Poco in 73.
I hope your daughter never has to find out how funny rape is. -Sodascouts
Birds - Neil Young
you better put it all behind you, baby, 'cause life goes on
you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside--