Posted on 04/22/2022 3:56:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9
I admit I saw this elsewhere but I thought it might be a good thing to put here because honestly I look and listen to songs people post. I am always entertained and it opens my mind to many different avenues of musical tastes I have not known before. I hope ones like this column.
Some great picks that I agree with, but seriously, over 187 posts and the City of New Orleans hasn’t been mentioned yet? Great song -
Good morning America how are ya
Don’t you know I’m your native son?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1lqEQFVUo
Two songs about the Miami hurricane of 1926
The Miami Storm--Vernon Dalhart (1936)
The Storm that Struck Miami--Fiddlin' John Carson (1934)
LOL. I don’t think I’ve ever made it to the end of that song.
The Night they drive ole Dixie Down. I’m not from the south, but I always thought that song captured the sadness of what was lost due to the civil war…..
And please…. I’m not talking about slavery for any haters out there. I’m talking about a unique southern culture that was destroyed…. in part because of slavery.
99 bottles of beer on the wall
I went home with a waitress
the way I always do.
How was I to know
she was with the Russians too.
Lawyers Guns and Money
I’m not a big fan of Billy Joel, but his song “Summer, Highland Falls” is a great one.
My favorite band RUSH has LOTS of songs that are stories. Most of them are I guess.
Of course my name-sake 2112 which tells the story of a guy finding a guitar and wanting to play it, but he is refused by the elders.
Manhattan Project about the development of the atom bomb in WWII is good, and with no judgement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkicdO_64w
Imagine a man
Where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick
But this was something more
Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne.” Makes me remember an old unrequited love.
Two albums:The Eagles “Hotel California” & Neil Young’s album he did with Nicolette Larson. Both heartbreaking in their own way.
Whiskey Lulliby, Alison Krauss
That’s a good one.
“Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston”
Glenn Campbell
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