Songs for an eclipse

Subject: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 07:57 AM

Not the obvious! But one doom-laden one could be "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" (Walker Brothers) and an optimistic post-totality one could be "Here Comes the Sun" (Beatles). Mentions of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" not allowed!

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: G-Force
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 08:05 AM

"You're So Vain" mentions a total eclipse of the sun.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 08:38 AM

I remember one partial eclipse while we were in Nottingham. Someone was wanting to know if a particular short-wave radio station would be audible in Britain during the totality elsewhere: it was on a frequency where there were no audible stations during sunlit hours. Sadly, the receiver I was using for this picked up a signal on the image channel* throughout, which ruined the experiment for me.

I remember Here Comes The Sun being played on the interfering station just after, let's say, peak darkness, but I never did hear the results of the experiment. This was in the days before "crowd-sourcing" was coined, and the crowd in question was presumably all outside, watching the show.

* As far the "wrong" way from the local-oscillator frequency as the desired signal is the "right" way from it.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GerryM
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 08:47 AM

After the eclipse of 7 March 1970, "Here Comes the Sun" was heard pouring out of student accomodations at Winthrop House at Harvard.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 09:25 AM

I guess Dark Side of the Moon might qualify.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 09:48 AM

Brain Damage, that is.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 10:13 AM

Would Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love count .... ?

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 10:18 AM

That reminds me of the last line of Pink Floyd's "Embryo". "I will see the sunshine show".

Robin

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 10:31 AM

Also from "Dark Side", Eclipse

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 10:34 AM

Sticking with the Beatles, Good Day Sunshine. What a song!

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: David C. Carter
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 11:04 AM

In 1919 I think it was,there was an eclipse here in France.We drove about 40 or so klms north of Paris,parked a the the top edge of a prarie.I took a tape of Also Sprach Zarathustra and played it full blast in the car just at the right moment,with a glass of wine for everyone present.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 11:41 AM

"Moon Shadow" would seem appropriate

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 12:00 PM

It's Alright Ma by Dylan starts out "Darkness at the break of noon...".

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 12:01 PM

Fade to Black by Dire Straits.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: Rex
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 12:34 PM

Yeah, as Guest says, Moon Shadow by The Cat of cats.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 02:14 PM

Blimey, David, good to see you posting so coherently at your great age!

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: David C. Carter
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 02:40 PM

Yeah Steve,we Londoners are amazing that way.It's this bloody French vino!

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: Neil D
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 06:00 PM

"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" by Gerry and the Pacemakers

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 09 Apr 24 - 05:18 AM

ELP "Black Moon".

Robin

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Apr 24 - 05:43 AM

Should the eclipse have caught you unawares, "Bad Moon Rising." Another great song!

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Apr 24 - 04:10 AM

French one from 1932:

Song of Madame Bolduc

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 10 Apr 24 - 04:37 AM

“Hello Darkness, my old friend…”
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
She Taught Me to Dance in the Shadows
Ribbon of Darkness
Shady Grove
Etc, etc.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: oldhippie
Date: 11 Apr 24 - 10:35 AM

Dark Moon - Bonnie Guitar

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: NightWing
Date: 12 Apr 24 - 07:02 PM

I drove six hours to Franklin, IN (~20 miles south of Indianapolis), to see it. Fantastic!

We came up with two you've missed: Black Hole Sun, by Soundgarden.

And Corey Hart, "I Wear My Sunglasses At Night" *LOL*

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Apr 24 - 08:08 PM

On August 11 1999 we drove 20 miles to Sharp Tor on Bodmin Moor to see the total eclipse. Where we lived in Bude the eclipse was going to be 99%. I'd known about the 1999 eclipse since I'd been a little boy. After a sunny morning that day, the clouds rolled in, and most people in the south of England in the path of totality were frustrated. But, on Sharp Tor, at just after 11 o'clock, the clouds miraculously parted momentarily, and we saw the diamond ring, Baily's beads and the corona. And because we were "on high," we saw the moon shadow racing across Cornwall towards us, then casting us into chilly darkness, then racing away to the east. What a day that was. The cheese and piccalilli sandwiches in the car park below Sharp Tor were equally memorable!

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: Jack Campin
Date: 13 Apr 24 - 07:43 PM

I saw that eclipse in Edinburgh High Street. Partial, but everything went weirdly gloomy - too overcast to see the sun. And the street was full of Oriental tourists in mostly-white clothes and wearing masks (as they and nobody else did at the time). It felt like being in an apocalypse movie and the tourists were the cleaning-up-zombies team.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 08:01 AM

The 1999 eclipse was total in the UK only in parts of Cornwall and the Channel Islands. Thousands of people (us included) headed for the several Bodmin Moor hilltops that were to experience the full Monty. We could hear singing and New Age-iferous chanting from nearby tops as well as our own as the shadow raced towards us. I think that we on Sharp Tor and some people on Alderney were almost the only people to see it from the ground. All the cliches were there: birdsong stopped, the wind dropped and it went very chilly. It went much darker than I'd expected and it was eerie to see all the surrounding countryside in bright daylight at the same time.

Patrick Moore was doing a live broadcast from Falmouth and the clouds stopped him from seeing any of it.

Subject: RE: Songs for an eclipse
From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 01:36 PM

Different vibe…. Soundgarden. Black Hole Sun