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Thread #52919   Message #812208
Posted By: Genie
27-Oct-02 - 12:17 AM
Thread Name: songs about music
Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing

"...and the doctor said, 'Give him JUG BAND MUSIC. It seems to make him feel just fine." (Lovin' Spoonful)

Jim Kweskin's "Jug Band Music," too.

"It's one of those songs that you hear now and then, ... one of those crazy old songs..."

OK, here's a really obscure one. There was a musical in the 1950s called "Adam and Athena" (Debbie Reynolds, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, etc.) that actually had a pretty good score. One song that Jane Powell sang was called "Vocalize" - in which she incorporated some vocal exercises. I think the composer may have been Harry Warren. (It was one of the well-established popular music and movie songwriters of the '30s, '40s, '50s.)

Then there was a '60s/'70s song called "Look What They've Done To My Song." And Janis Ian wrote one called "Would You Like To Sing My Sing," and there was one that both Maria Muldaur and Olivia Newton-John sang called "I Never Did Sing You A Love song."

Of course Mark Graham's "Zen Gospel Singing" is a treasure!