Help: Songs that make us happy

Subject: RE: Help: Songs that make us happy
From: Banjer
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 07:50 PM

Ah, Crowhugger likes them threefold!!!....Very Good... I agree with Amos, this is a hard category to list in. Many songs make me happy. Anything from silly songs to good old foot stomping, knee slapping country gospel tunes.

Subject: RE: Help: Songs that make us happy
From: Crowhugger
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 07:39 PM

Amos,

it was easy to answer but hard to keep a lid on it. For me and my big mouth anyhow.

I love Drill ye Tarriers too. And absolutely, the randy-trads. And great gobs of Stan Rogers, and Grandfather Clock. Making up goofy verses to The Cat Came Back is a gas.

Subject: RE: Help: Songs that make us happy
From: Crowhugger
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 07:39 PM

Amos,

it was easy to answer but hard to keep a lid on it. For me and my big mouth anyhow.

I love Drill ye Tarriers too. And absolutely, the randy-trads. And great gobs of Stan Rogers, and Grandfather Clock. Making up goofy verses to The Cat Came Back is a gas.

Subject: RE: Help: Songs that make us happy
From: Crowhugger
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 07:39 PM

Amos,

it was easy to answer but hard to keep a lid on it. For me and my big mouth anyhow.

I love Drill ye Tarriers too. And absolutely, the randy-trads. And great gobs of Stan Rogers, and Grandfather Clock. Making up goofy verses to The Cat Came Back is a gas.

Subject: RE: Help: Songs that make us happy
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 07:32 PM

Hoo what? Where? A lot varies on mood but I love rousing chanties and other songs of the sea (Eddystone Light is one, another favorite is Oh, You New York Girls, the Irish Rover, even some sadder ones like Three Score and Ten, Farewell to Carlingford. I love fighting back songs, like Kelly, the Boy from Killairn, the RIsing of the Moon, and a dozen others of the ilk. I love songs of celebration. I agree with Chevaliers, a family favorite, moonshining songs, and randy tunes like Finnegan's Wake, O'Reilly's Daughter and the Gathering of the Clans (whatever you choose to call it).

I love full blooded songs like many of Dylan's tunes, a good trad working song like John Henry or Drill Ye Tarriers, and dramatic ballads like King Brady and the Golden Vanity -- two very different kinds of drama...y'know I don't think you're gonna find the end of my list either.

Maybe this is not a category that can be readily answered, since almost all music is made to make someone feel good.

Subject: RE: Help: Songs that make us happy
From: Crowhugger
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 05:00 PM

Oh, Hoolet, that's easy:

King of the Road / Sunny Side of the Street Sittin' Back Lovin' You /? Chelsea Morning /Joni Mitchell(not that I can play it!) Lookin' Out My Back Door /John Fogarty Long Hot Summer Day /John Hartford Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister /Dory Previn Frozen Logger Don't Fence Me In /Cole Porter The Waitress /Jane Siberry Extra Executives / " " Song of the Soul /Cris Williamson Dark Hollow /?Garcia & co? Let It Be a Dance /Ric Masten The Keeper of the Eddystone Light -- I LOVE this one! Uncle Reuben (Caught a 'Coon, done gone...) Big Rock Candy Mountain Squid-jiggin' Ground Old Grand-mere Chevaliers de la table ronde (goutons voir si le vin est bon...) Me Monkey Why and Why? There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

...and on and on...

It's someone else's turn!

Great thread, Hoolet. Does that mean "little Hoo?"

Subject: Songs that make us happy
From: Hoolet
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 04:24 PM

Having just scanned through the songs to cry by and agreed with many. What about songs that make us feel good.

The Bonnie ship the Diamond, John Munro's "Were you there in the beginning" lets hear what raises your sertonin levels.