Brandy of the Damned - Musical Musings and Mental Venting

Monday, December 3, 2012

Christmas Advent Calendar December 1st, 2012

Time for my Musical Christmas Advent Calendar. The tunes I post are ones I find many places on the interweb or my own personal collection.

I have to start out this year with a post from 2010

Chree-See-Mus - Commander Shea School Boys - 1959

Commander Shea is a school in NYC.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Year's Wishes

Let The Good Guys Win, Murray McLaughlan, Paul Hyde, Tom Cochrane,1989

This is from McLaughlan's 1991 Album The Modern Age.

These three guys are all amazing musicians. Tom Cochrane (Life is A Highway), Paul Hyde (The Payola$), Murray McLaughlan (Farmer's Song).

This song is the best wish for a new year. My favorite song for a new year celebration.

May I get what I want, not what I deserve
May the coming year not throw a single curve
May I hurt nobody, may I tell no lies
If I can't go on, give me strength to try

Chorus:

Ring the old year out, Ring the new year in
Bring us all good luck, Let the good guys win

Ring the old year out, Ring the new year in
Bring us all good luck, Let the good guys win

May the one you love be the one you get
May you get some place, you haven't been to yet
May your friends surround you, never do you wrong
May your eyes be clear, may your heart be strong

Chorus

May the times to come be the best you've had
May peace rule the world and make us glad
When you see something wrong, make it right
Put a shadowed world into the bright sunlight

Chorus

Friday, December 31, 2010

Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne, Guy Lombardo

See NPR story. Go to links at bottom for some great versions.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

All That Jazz/Three on Theme

December 30, 1927, The Jazz Singer, first successful feature film with sound debuts in Seattle (Blue Mouse Theatre). It has quite a soundtrack including:

Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (although not sung by Jolson in the film)

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In 1980 The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond was released. It had a best selling soundtrack including: