Musitorial - Happy birthday Irving

 

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

 

Musitorial greeting - Happy Mothers Day

On this special observance day, a special musitorial highlighting Frank Zappa’s (1940-1993) awesome band, The Mothers of Invention – frequently referred to back in the day as, simply, The Mothers.

The group was a delight, never failing to lead their audiences on an oddball journey through Zappa’s mind. The album I was most familiar with was We’re Only in it For the Money (1968).

Favourite songs that still favour my mental playlist include: “What’s the ugliest part of your body?” (answer: your mind), ”Let’s Make the Water Turn Black” and one lament from “Mom and Dad” that went, “...mama, mama, someone said they made some noise, the cops have shot some girls and boys.” Sadly, that refrain comes to mind rather frequently these days.

Okay, so that last one is a bit macabre, but it does mention moms and it is by The Mothers, and so it qualifies for a Mothers Day listen.

Enjoy

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Link to Wikipedia entry for Frank Zappa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

Link to a YouTube entry of We’re Only in it For the Money:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U56sGInCQec

Link to a complete playlist from the album: https://tinyurl.com/2vk5mjyz