Music Meme #2

[fauxklore]

To prove that there are plenty of songs I like (but they just happened not to be popular when I was in high school), here's another meme.

Playing the song game, for which cahwyguy assigned me the letter “M.”

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs you like that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

I got carried away and added some commentary.

1. My Funny Valentine. My third favorite Gershwin song, behind "Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "Embraceable You." Like all standards, it has been recorded too many times for me to recommend one performance. Ella Fitzgerald is usually safe, as is Frank Sinatra.

2. Moondance - Van Morrison. One of those songs I just feel compelled to sing along with.

3. More I Cannot Wish You - from "Guys and Dolls." A lovely song from the best musical ever written.

4. My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors - Moxy Fruvous. For anybody whose partner knows that a menage a trois means the two of you and a good book.

5. Mary Ellen Carter - Stan Rogers. The most cheerful song ever written. If you are depressed you can either throw yourself on your bed and cry along to Leonard Cohen or put this on and rise again.

Comments

[slymongoose.livejournal.com]

OMG!
#3 - I LOVE that song, too. I'm so glad you picked it! I think it gets overlooked in the rest of the show, but I've always considered it a sweet little musical gem. Although, licorice? Yeeech!

#5 - w00t! Again, I love it! When I'm feeling down, I sometimes put this on. I have it on my MP3 player that I take with me to my infusions. My only fear is that I might start singing along with it at the top of my lungs and startle the other patients and nurses. It makes me cry with joy.
I was lucky enough to almost marry into a family whose sons could play and sing this and other Stan Rogers hits.
I'm trying to get Groot to sing "White Collar Holler" - can't you just see him doing it? Hee!

[fauxklore]

Actually, there is no licorice in "More I Cannot Wish You." The word is "lickerish," which the dictionary tells me is from a variant of "lecherous" and means "greedy" or "desirous." (And, by the way, I pronounce "licorice" with a soft "s," not a "sh" anyway.)

As for Groot, yeah, he'd be great at that "Oh, boys, can you code it" part (with a chorus of grunts from pretty much every man we know). The lyrics are a bit out of date now, but "White Collar Holler" is still fun.