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What’s in a Song: I Get Along Without You Very Well (Part 1)
[Another in an occasional series on popular songs with appeal across the generations. This post will be broken into two parts; Part 2, about this song's composition, appears tomorrow [edit to add:] or...
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What’s in a Song: Fever (1)
[This is another in an occasional series on popular songs with appeal across the generations. This post will be broken into two parts; Part 2 will appear in a few days is here.] As a kid, I once read a...
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Weird Week… and a Music-Language Mystery
Boy, does this feel like a long time between posts or what?! An insane week at work. Busy early mornings. A week of fascinating blog posts t0 read from all my usual haunts (ha ha, no pun intended) —...
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Midweek Music Break: Jo Stafford, “You Belong to Me”
As a generation, Baby Boomers are notorious for imagining that the world started, revolved around, and ended with them and their peers. The first hit recording we ever heard of a given song thus became...
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Midweek Music Break: Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Suzie Q”
Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded this song for their self-titled debut album of 1968. It had originally been written (as with-an-s-not-z “Susie Q”) in 1956 by a rockabilly star named Dale...
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