My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
It’s Burns’ Day, so I decided to play the beautiful song My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. I hope you enjoy this one.
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It’s Burns’ Day, so I decided to play the beautiful song My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. I hope you enjoy this one.
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The John Legend song – not the rather tricky Jon Schmidt piece which I’ll need to practise a bit if I’m going to include that in my 365 songs! All of me (John Legend) was released in August 2013 and quickly reached #1 in the US and #2 in the UK.
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Apparently today is National Pie Day in the USA (!), so I felt that the most appropriate song to play would be Don McLean’s 1971 song American Pie! The lyrics of this song are a bit cryptic, although McLean admitted that “the day the music died” referred to the death of Buddy Holly. At 8 minutes and 33 seconds, it’s one of the longest songs to reach #1, but was beaten by Oasis: All Around the World ran for 9 minutes and 38 seconds!
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I’ve always loved this song, either in the slow jazzy version as performed by Nat King Cole, or the more upbeat version by Chris Montez. I’ve gone with the slower version – hope you like it.
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Today I’m playing the Joni Mitchell classic Big Yellow Taxi. She told a journalist about the origins of the song:
I wrote ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart… this blight on paradise. That’s when I sat down and wrote the song.
I hope you enjoy my version (though personally I prefer the Counting Crows’ version, or the original!)
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This is an interesting song today. It’s a well-known melody, probably most familiar to us as the melody of song Lord of the Dance. However, it appears that its origins are as a Shaker dance song. The words of this song are as follows:
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come ’round right.
The melody was used by Aaron Copeland in Appalachian Spring. My version is based on a lovely recording by American singer Jewel. I hope you enjoy this piece today!
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Today I’m playing Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud. It probably loses something on the piano as I really like the guitar of the original, but I hope you like it anyway.
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Following my attempt at making the Theme from the Flintstones into a piano ballad, I decided to try something similar with another children’s TV Theme. This time I’m trying to make the Theme from Mr Benn into something of a piano bar jazzy number. No idea if it works or not – and anyone younger than 35 probably won’t have a clue what this is all about anyway! Here’s the title sequence for a bit of nostalgia for anyone who grew up in the 70s!
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When we woke up to a covering of snow this morning – quite a rare event where we live – there was only one song I could play today for my 365Songs challenge, Do You Want To Build A Snowman from the film Frozen.
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And the tree, and the fish, and the bird, and the bell…
I decided to play this Michael Marra song today when I heard that some friends were going to be involved in a new recording of the song to raise funds for those affected by the George Square bin lorry tragedy. There’s more information about this here and the new recording featuring Tom Urie and the Glasgow Philharmonia Orchestra will be available in February. The first time I heard the song was on the Hue and Cry Bitter Suite album. Here’s a video of Hue and Cry performing the song in 1990. I hope you enjoy my version of Mother Glasgow.
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