'90s FAVORITES--
Mariah Carey~One Sweet Day
Posted on 05/19/2022 6:01:26 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
You did the same thing I did. Post to the wrong darn thread. LOL!
One of the greatest songs of the era!
Funny story: I was traveling with my adult son from our home in the urban North East to a destination in the South. We decided to follow a mountain road through the Appalachians, for extra interest. After driving through pine forest for many miles at one point, we stopped in a very remote area at a little "country store" in a ramshackle cabin. Inside was an older white guy in a plaid flannel shirt and overalls, with ruddy skin and a shock of long white hair.
I picked out some jars of honey and jam and we went up to the worn wooden counter to pay. The guy rose from his stool to approach the cash register, and for some reason, he started whistling "Take It Easy" — and I began singing the lyrics, and he joined me, and my urbane, highly educated son stared at us wide-eyed. How to feel old—my adult son had no idea what the song was, and wanted to know. It was a bittersweetly funny moment.
Turns out the proprietor guy was not some grizzled old descendent of a passel of squirrel huntin', moonshinin' hillbillies, but a former computer guy who finally packed it all in and crafted this "authentic" Amurrican life for himself in the boonies. And my son made a note of the song title in his phone so that when we got back to digital civ he could look it up on Spotify!
Great story! Thanks for sharing.
I’m so sorry for your irreplaceable loss, frank ballenger. Go ahead and let it rip; cry all you want. It takes time. God will hold you up and lead you on, whether you realize it or not.
Kathy, have you ever seen the movie "Love Actually"? I was a great fan of Joni Mitchell back in the day and memorized all her albums; even performed some of the songs.
In this scene, the Emma Thompson character had inadvertantly felt in her husband's pocket of a coat hanging in their hallway—looking for a tissue or some such—the week before Christmas and had found a jewelry necklace in a small box. Thinking it was her Christmas present from him (Alan Rickman), she of course put it back. Unbeknownst to her, he had given it to one of his slutty employees whom he was fooling around with. Then on Christmas morning with the children, this is the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y-8vxObugM
Not only had I been in her character's place some decades ago; but to hear for the first time Joni's cigarette-ruined voice in this version just slayed me. It was the perfect song to make you feel how unkind life can be at moments.
Like many RUSH fans, they are the soundtrack of my life in many ways.
Off the top of my head I think “Bravado” would be one song that rises above the others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ka_oevW2sc
Excerpt:
And if the music stops
There’s only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory
All the sacrifice in vain
If love remains
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost.
Thank you so much. The caring from people here means a lot to me. God bless you.
You, as well, FB.
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