If you could only hear 5 more songs what would they be and why? – the question posed by Shackman this week for our LBC group.
Why?
You might well ask. I want to.
- Am I being dispatched to a desert island with only a comb and piece of tissue from
a cigarette packeta shoe boxmy underwear drawer, with which to make a tune? - Will I go deaf as soon as this post goes live and have to depend on the tunes in my memory box?
- Is it time for me to float on a cloud with my wings spread like an elegant butterfly?
Well here goes… In for a penny, in for a pound, my five penny worth:
I began early by trying to Catch A Falling Star
Then a fella put his hand on my shoulder and I was like a Pussycat, happily purring away
We were like Islands In the Stream
Pledging – Forever and Ever
He promised to Dance me to the end of love, and he did!
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love…….
Now, I am what I am
A Wandering Star
I am ready to see what pulls the heart strings and sets the toes-a-tapping for my fellow LBCers. Coming with me? The links are all over there in the side bar.
You could be my mother!
I am old enough! 😛
I love your list. You’re as much a romantic as I am – Leonard Cohen and Lee Marvin in the same list. You are also as eclectic as me.
Romantic me ❓ I am listening to nature’s music as I type:- Pounding rain for a drumbeat and crashing thunder in tune with it, thankfully no lightening to go with it. I am glad I went for a walk before lunch.
I began this post last night but when I looked at it in draft this morning, I changed my tune(s). I was trying to stay away from music I had chosen in the past….. not very successfully!
Nice with all the old favorites (mine). Dianne
My era too. Modern music does not have the same appeal for me.
I can picture you dancing around singing all those songs! All of them are very likeable and one that features in my choice also.
I am singing as I type to drown out the thunder! I often dance about with my duster, my feet seldom stay still.
I have over 4,000 songs on my playlist, I’d find it very hard to choose indeed. No rock???
XO
WWW
WWW, rock never held any appeal for me. As for the modern migraine music….. I’ll say no more!
This is a lovely list! I always feel particularly nostalgic whenever I hear Perry Como. I have at least one old LP and I treasure it. I will probably be thinking all day about what songs I would put on my own list. I think that would be a hard one! 🙂 (Belated welcome to WordPress).
Catch a Falling Star, by Perry Como takes me right back and I am ten years of age when I hear it. it was difficult cutting the list down to five songs. Thanks for the welcome.
Good question. Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Bonnie Raitt’s version of “Nick of Time,” Helen O’Connell’s “Green Eyes,” Beausoleil’s “Atchafalaya Pipeline,” and pipe and drum band playing “The Gael.” Just five, too hard!
Interesting mix, Celia!
You asked: Cohen’s “Dance me to the end of Love”, Waylon Jennings “Storms never last”, Jimmy Buffett “Trip Around the Sun”, Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, and Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe. But that could all change tomorrow. Celia is right too hard to just choose five…
I bet if I wrote a list in the morning, it would have a few changes too.
I have so many favourite songs, it would be impossible to choose just five. But certainly I’d have The Pretenders’ Stand By Me. And they’d all be rock!
Nick, I agree, it was very difficult to tie it down to five songs.
I would have an impossible time trying to pick 5 songs . . . but there’d probably be a Dave Matthews, a Sarah McLachlan, an Enya, a George Harrison, and maybe a reggae tune.
Nice selection, Nancy.