The lockdown means we must be…
Category: Music
Springtime Cabin Fever Music
A 70’s collection of songs about avoiding crowds, either by choice… or not. I played all of these, except for ‘Isolation’, during my AM radio DJ days on an Adult Contemporary station.
Eric Carmen’s ‘All By Myself’ is based upon Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Piano #2, featured 30 years earlier in the superb David Lean film, Brief Encounter. Written by Noel Coward, this deftly nuanced, devastating study of two married, middle-aged people who fall crashingly in love is the finest example of a truly adult film in the best sense of the term. Celia Johnson is beyond wonderful in this role.
Thinking Out Loud
Self-reflection by someone with years of experience in social isolation.
https://youtu.be/B8A1dqsiNSI
Whole Lotta Wrecking Goin’ On
Something that I thought I’d posted last year I now realize I didn’t, so here it is now. The Wrecking Crew movie.
Billet Ballet
For Prue, on her birthday. Something Prue once said, that made me laugh out loud was, “I assure you, Douglas, not all men who are ballet dancers are gay!”
Armstrong-Jones had a distinctive approach to his casual photos of women, having them wear one of his shirts, it seems. Here is one he took of Prue…
… and one he took of another friend, who Prue says, “wasn’t Tony’s type.”
Repeating Myself
Somebody (you know who you are!) really liked my recent post with Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Fakin’ It’. This one is another favorite of mine that I have featured previously. Here there be musical magic.
Hard to believe that’s been five-and-a-half years already since I happened to cross paths with Donovan, as recounted here.