Belated happy birthday Irving. Today’s musitorial is a brief one but does offer you two for the price of one.
Composer Irving Berlin’s (1888-1989) birthday is/was May 11 but this musitorial is really about a song by Ian Tyson.
“Irving Berlin is 100 Years Old Today” has nothing to do with Irving Berlin per se, it’s just a really, really great song about how life passes us by as we go about our business (with horses, of course). People’s pain goes largely unnoticed by the world passing by. It’s from Tyson’s album I Outgrew the Wagon (1989). Link below.
I suppose it would also be fitting to play something by the composer himself, “Blue Skies” (1926). But Willie Nelson’s 1978 version, on his album Stardust (link below) is lovely.
Enjoy.
Mike Hunter, West Bay, CB
link to YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0earQ2wCf0
link to Wikipedia Ian Tyson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tyson
link to Wikipedia Irving Berlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin
link to YouTube version “Blue Skies” rendition by Willie Nelson (CBS, 1978): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI4ZTXOi6Ew
