Music We Love - A place to share our favourite music/songs

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[Peter S]

Well, it's February 14th, so here's one of my very favourite songs, to bring cheer to anyone whose figure is less than Greek, or whose looks are unphotographable...  take your pick, Sarah Vaughan or Matt Damon

   

[Jill]

      Strokin’
      All right, well,  hmmm-mm….

      I see that Peter, being Peter, went ahead and posted a sappy, rather more serious piece of music to serenade you all on this Valentine’s Day.  That’s good.  Nice song.  And I especially like Matt Damon singing it, because I’d probably like Matt Damon doing just about anything.

      But for those who just might be in need of something a little “peppier,” maybe for a bit earlier in the evening than when you're ready to lullaby yourselves to sleep with Peter’s selection, I thought I’d offer you Strokin’.

      Once, years and years ago, there was someone I'd deeply cared about, an older African American teacher friend of mine, whom I’d learned had had a stroke and was in the hospital.  He and I had shared our love for all kinds of music and a rather sideways way of looking at the world, some time before.   

     When I heard what had happened to him, I wanted him to know I was “there” with him; I wanted, so much, to give him hopefulness, to make him smile.  So, I made a cassette with this song on it for him, hoping he might play it, envisioning him, actually, blasting this music throughout the Stroke Unit at the hospital.  I don’t know if he ever was able to do that, but it makes me happy thinking maybe he did.

STROKIN’

[Odette]

Thank you Peter for the Valentine morning music.  It was a great way to start the day!

[Kay]

And now for something even peppier...

I Fell in Love -- Carlene Carter

[Jill]

     Yes!   Alll-ll Right!  And I'd always been wondering what you looked like, Kay!
KF Kay C. -- aka Carlene Carter, wow! 

     For one of the "old dogs," (see, Kiva pre-Oprah thread, http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,1734.10.html , Oli's Post #10 and following for the allusion), you sure have a spectacular amount of energy, KF Kay!  Great song!  Great dancing!

     It occurred to me, just now, that the Valentine's Day choices of music, hmmm--mm, perhaps all the choices of music that have been posted here in this thread, offer an interesting window into the "innards" of some of these, y/our Kiva Friends.  I think it's very fun.
If you're not listening to them, at least to the first 20 or 30 seconds of them to get the flavor of them, you're really missing out!


P.S. Hey, my KFriend, Odette.  The fact that you specifically highlighted Peter's soft, pretty Valentine's Day musical gifts and not mine, might I take that to mean you'd rather be near croakin' than listening, again, to that little ditty of mine, Strokin'?

[Kay]

     Yes!   Alll-ll Right!  And I'd always been wondering what you looked like, Kay!
KF Kay C. -- aka Carlene Carter, wow! 

Well, I can assure you I don't look like that!

[Odette]

LOL, Jill.  I did listen to Strokin' but must confess at 6 a.m. I prefer a softer voice and smoother tune!

The Edith Piaf piece brought back memories of my childhood when the aroma of my mother's spaghetti sauce  permeated our house from being on the stove all day.  My Parisian-Italian father would come home from work, have a shower, change and put on his one-and-only Edith Piaf record.  We would sit and watch our parents dance while the pasta cooked.  Dad usually got quite amourous with our mother and his hand would invariably move down from her back to her derriere.....at which point she would say, 'dinner's ready!'  We ate with Piaf singing in the background.  It was a happy time!

[Kay]

That's a great story, Odette!

[i Live 4 Kiva]

My wife once worked in retail jewelry sales at an independent location in South Carolina.  The only male in the place was the owner, who often had to retreat to the back when the ladies engaged in more mature conversations.  I knew nothing was sacred when one day, I went in to pick her up for lunch and one of the girls yelled "Hey Shari, Clarence Carter is here to pick you up"   

[Natasha]

Vanessa Amorosi - Perfect