Category Archive: Modern Music
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Songs in Our Heart # 24 Maggie Mae (Rod Stewart) (Written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton; released August 1971) [Rod gets some points for this one, every schoolboy’s dream. We like the Greensleeves-style start, too.]
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Peasants in a Tavern (by Adriaen van Ostade) c. 1635
Songs in Our Heart # 23 Common People (William Shatner version)(Written by Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Russell Senior; released October 2004) [Somehow, the witty, literal value of this song is accentuated by Shatner’s spoken, over-the-top, staccato delivery. They go to supermarkets…]
Continue Reading →Both Sides, Now
Songs in Our Heart # 22 Both Sides, Now (Joni Mitchell) (Written by Joni Mitchell; released May 1969) [“It’s life’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know life at all…]
Continue Reading →Fire and Rain
Songs in Our Heart # 21 Fire and Rain (James Taylor) (Written by James Taylor; released February 1970) [The great anthem of loss…”I always thought I would see you again…”]
Continue Reading →Edge of Seventeen
Songs in Our Heart # 20 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks) (Written by Stevie Nicks; released July 1981) [Incomprehensibly divine nostalgia.]
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