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MY WAY my way

May 4, 2014 – 1:46 pm

I love Frank Sinatra’s MY WAY, which was reprised from the French song “Comme d’habitude” composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. The American words were written by Paul Anka and blisslessly adapted by Sid Vicious. At 61 I’m ready to do my version. I FUCKED IT UP MY WAY And now I’m no longer […]

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ONLY A FEW REGRETS by Peter Nolan Smith

May 4, 2014 – 1:39 pm

“Regrets I have a few, but not too few to mention.” Frank Sinatra sang in MY WAY. I myself only have regrets about the things I have not done for I can live with those I have done; the good, the bad, and the in-between, however other people are not so self-forgiving. The other day […]

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Jobim AGUAS DE MARCO

May 4, 2014 – 12:21 pm

Some music never goes out of fashion. TOM JOBIM & ELIS REGINA – AGUAS DE MARÇO The inventor of the Bossa Nova avoided collaborating with Elis Regina for years until this amazing duet. I love the words to this song. Here are the English lyrics Waters of March It is wood, it is stone It […]

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Jesse Winchester RIP

April 14, 2014 – 1:43 pm

Back in 1970 I found an LP by a folksinger named Jesse Winchester. I loved this LP, especially the songs YANKEE LADY, SNOW, and THE BRAND NEW TENNESSEE WALTZ. Jesse Winchester never played in Boston or Cambridge or anyplace in the USA, since he had fled the USA to avoid the Draft in 1967 after […]

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Luk Thung Garage Funk

April 2, 2014 – 12:57 pm

Modern Thai music is dominated by Pop bands churning out hits, however a purer form of music is Pleng Luk Thong or ‘music from the children of the fields’. The folk songs telling the stories of the poor became popular in the first half of the 20th Century and blossomed in the 1960s with the […]

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